Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Evaluation of Existing Online Learning and Teaching Resources for the Socio-Centric Aspects of Sustainable Design

This paper fits into the topic of eco-design education and explores questions related to the modern student’s perspective on design education and how we should consider the curricula from a future perspective. This paper first confirms the state of the art by reviewing the literature on the socio-centric dimension of sustainable design. This will determine the component sections required of a learning and teaching resource which focuses on the implications of human expectations and aspirations for the development of solutions to sustainable design problems. The paper then presents an evaluation of the existing learning and teaching resources, including well regarded resources such as the ‘Toolbox for Sustainable Design’, part of the larger Information Inspiration Ecodesign web based resource at www.informationinspiration. org.uk. The paper also considers the outputs of groups such as the Product Life Spans Network, based at Sheffield Hallam University and the Sustainable Design Network, based at Loughborough University. The paper concludes with some suggestions for a new learning and teaching resource which is specifically aimed at assisting with the socio-centric aspects of sustainable product design.
An Interactive Tool for Mutual Funds Portfolio Composition Using Argumentation

This paper presents the PORTRAIT (PORTfolioconstRuction based on ArgumentatIon Technology) tool for constructing Mutual Funds investment portfolios. This work, from the field of finance, uses argumentation-based decision making that provides a high level of adaptability in the decisions of the portfolio manager, or investor, when his environment is changing and the characteristics of the funds are multidimensional. Argumentation allows for combining different contexts and preferences in a way that can be optimized, thus, resulting in higher returns on the investment. It allows for defining a set of different investment policy scenarios and supports the investor/portfolio manager in composing efficient portfolios that meet his profile. Moreover, the tool employs a hybrid evolutionary method for forecasting the status of financial market. This seamless merging of the investors profile, preferences and the market context is a capability which is rarely addressed by portfolio construction methods in the literature. The PORTRAIT tool is intended for use by decision makers such as investors, fund managers, brokers and bankers.
On the Deformations and Derivations of -Ary Multiplicative Hom-Nambu-Lie Superalgebras

We introduce the relevant concepts of -ary multiplicative Hom-Nambu-Lie superalgebras and construct three classes of -ary multiplicative Hom-Nambu-Lie superalgebras. As a generalization of the notion of derivations for -ary multiplicative Hom-Nambu-Lie algebras, we discuss the derivations of -ary multiplicative Hom-Nambu-Lie superalgebras. In addition, the theory of one parameter formal deformation of -ary multiplicative Hom-Nambu-Lie superalgebras is developed by choosing a suitable cohomology.
A SAMPLING ESTIMATOR OF THE BONFERRONI INEQUALITY INDEX

A sampling estimator ( "B" ) of the Bonferroni inequality index based on the Bonferroni curve, is presented. "B" is compared through a simulation study with the percentile estimator and "B" , the estimator that uses weighted observations. It is shown that the "B" estimator, that decomposes the area between the Bonferroni curve and the line of perfect equality in trapezoids, has better performance than the other two, especially for small samples.
Comparison of polymers and ceramics in new and discarded electrical insulators: reuse and recycling possibilities

The expansion and maintenance of electricity distribution networks generates large amounts of waste, much of it in the form of discarded insulators that are not reused or recycled. This paper describes the results of tests on used and new ceramic and polymeric insulators to verify if their exposure to weathering justifies their replacement. In new and used ceramic insulators, properties such as contact angle, relative density, porosimetry, dilatometry and X-ray diffraction patterns showed no differences or the differences that were found could not be related to their use. The discarded ceramic material showed high thermal stability, an interesting characteristic for application as chamotte. It can also be reused to replace gravel used in substations. In polymeric insulators, thermogravimetry, differential scanning calorimetry and relative density test results suggest degradation of used material compared to new. This would justify their replacement and discard as waste, but they show little recycling potential.
The Importance of Facilitating Critical Reasoning in the New Millennium: Some New Evidence. Working Paper.

A study investigated the critical reasoning skills of a group of 111 Australian adult tertiary students who were practicing adult vocational and further education teachers and trainers, using the recently developed Critical Reasoning Test (CRT). It examined some variables that might be expected to affect critical reasoning scores. These tertiary teachers' mean CRT score was found to be only at or below the "average" levels of other professional, non-teacher normative samples. No significant between-group CRT mean differences were found for these students' year of course, graduate/non-graduate status, age, or gender. In conclusion, the effective teaching-learning of the skills and dispositions underlying critical reasoning does not appear to be progressing well in at least some areas of tertiary education. Such evidence suggested that more attention should be given to facilitating this important area of student learning in universities in the new millennium. (YLB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.
Identification of main issues affecting the growth of graduates’ small and medium enterprises (SMES) in Yogyakarta

After the economic crises hit Indonesia in 1997 and 2008 and contributed to downfall of a large number of big businesses in various industries. However, the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) sector has managed to survive from the crisis by showing a significant growth and rising contribution to the economy of Indonesia. Yogyakarta which is known as a city of student has acknowledged the important role of SMEs sector to improve the economic activity of the region and push the income of the people. Rising paradigm at universities and colleges in Yogyakarta about creating entrepreneurship from their graduates has contributed to the rise of graduates’ business in this place. The aim of the paper is to take a fresh look into graduate’ entrepreneurship on SMEs’ scale and competences in Yogyakarta. This paper focuses on a detailed study into the entrepreneurial activities of graduates in Yogyakarta and principally examines issues affecting their business development. Seven main issues were investigated: business establishment; location; premises (size, cost, tenure); concerns; advice utilization; education and training; and support requirements. The sample of the study was assembled from the ministry of department industry and KADIN Yogyakarta branch as formal sources. Other sample sources considered are entrepreneurship associations such as Konsultan Pengembangan Ide dan Usaha ARN of Yogyakarta. Data collecting methods used in this paper are in depth interviews and structured and semi structured questionnaires. Research method will relied mostly on ethnographic techniques.
Extension of Object-Oriented Metrics Suite for

Software developers require information to understand the characteristics of systems, such as complexity and maintainability. In order to further understand and determine characteristics of object-oriented (OO) systems, this paper describes research that identifies attributes that are valuable in determining the difficulty in implementing changes during maintenance, as well as the possible effects that such changes may produce. A set of metrics are proposed to quantify and measure these attributes. The proposed complexity metrics are used to determine the difficulty in implementing changes through the measurement of method complexity, method diversity, and complexity density. The paper establishes impact metrics to determine the potential effects of making changes to a class and dependence metrics that are used to measure the potential effects on a given class resulting from changes in other classes. The case study shows that the proposed metrics provide additional information not sufficiently provided by the related existing OO metrics. The metrics are also found to be useful in the investigation of large systems, correlating with project outcomes.
Characterization of coatings on magnetic metal using the swept-frequency eddy current method

A measurement technique using the swept-frequency eddy current (SFEC) method for determining the thickness, conductivity, and permeability of metallic coatings on metal substrates for the case when either coating, substrate, or both are magnetic was developed. This technique involved using the empirically determined permeability of the metals as input to the model calculation. This technique is demonstrated for nickel layers (25–200 μm) over copper substrates, copper layers (25–200 μm) over nickel substrates, and zinc layers (50–400 μm) over steel substrates. The electrical impedance was measured for air-core coils in the presence and absence of the layer using a 4194A Hewlett–Packard impedance analyzer. An analytic closed-form solution for calculating the impedance of a cylindrical air-core probe over a layered metallic half-space is presented. The determination of coating thickness and conductivity and permeability of the metals is based on the comparison of the data taken with air-core coils and theore.
Integrating and extending the distributed approach in cognitive science.

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The effects of fly‐bys on planetary systems

Most of the observed extrasolar planets are found on tight and often eccentric orbits. The high eccentricities are not easily explained by planet-formation models, which predict that planets should be on rather circular orbits. Here we explore whether fly-bys involving planetary systems with properties similar to those of the gas giants in the Solar system can produce planets with properties similar to the observed planets. Using numerical simulations, we show that fly-bys can cause the immediate ejection of planets, and sometimes also lead to the capture of one or more planets by the intruder. More common, however, is that fly-bys only perturb the orbits of planets, sometimes leaving the system in an unstable state. Over time-scales of a few million to several hundred million years after the fly-by, this perturbation can trigger planet-planet scatterings, leading to the ejection of one or more planets. For example, in the case of the four gas giants of the Solar system, the fraction of systems from which at least one planet is ejected more than doubles in 108 yr after the fly-by. The remaining planets are often left on more eccentric orbits, similar to the eccentricities of the observed extrasolar planets. We combine our results of how fly-bys affect Solar-system-like planetary systems, with the rate at which encounters in young stellar clusters occur. For example, we measure the effects of fly-bys on the four gas giants in the Solar system. We find, that for such systems, between 5 and 15 per cent suffer ejections of planets in 108 yr after fly-bys in typical open clusters. Thus, encounters in young stellar clusters can significantly alter the properties of any planets orbiting stars in clusters. As a large fraction of stars which populate the solar neighbourhood form in stellar clusters, encounters can significantly affect the properties of the observed extrasolar planets. (Less)
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER Dendroica virens

The Black-throated Green Warbler is part of a superspecies complex with closely related Dendroica warblers (Hermit, Golden-cheeked, and Townsend’s) (AOU 1983). Hybridization between Black-throated Green and Townsend’s Warblers (Dendroica townsendi) has been reported from the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia where the breeding ranges of these two species overlap (Rohwer 1994). Two subspecies of Black-throated Green Warblers are recognized, of which only the nominate race, D. virens virens, occurs in British Columbia (Morse 1993; Cannings 1998). The other race, D. virens waynei occurs in the southeastern United States (Morse 1993).
Diet and feeding ecology of the little tunny, Euthynnus alletteratus (Pisces: Scombridae) in the central Colombian Caribbean: changes in 18 years

Trophic ecology and diet of the little tunny (Euthynnus alletteratus) in central Colombian Caribbean is described. The little tunny is a pelagic top predator but not a voracious fish (trophic level of 4.49, Q/B of 10.8). Its diet seems impoverished when compared with a study conducted in 1986 in the same general location and with studies in other locations. Moreover, the main diet item has changed, new items have appeared and other have disappeared in the time interval between 1986 and the present study (2003/2004, 18 years). Lack of monitoring of pelagic fish populations precludes the identification of tendencies but a regime change hypothesis is worth investigating. The little tunny eats more in the dry season than in the rainy season and diet items change with seasons in line with findings of other studies that signal correlations between seasons and diet. Likewise, local little tunny eats more in the afternoon than in the morning which suggests it eats in daylight not in the night contrary to what has been found in studies somewhere else.
WATER SORPTION BEHAVIOUR OF EXTRUDED CASSAVA BIOPLASTICS ADDED OF CO-PRODUCTS OF BIODIESEL INDUSTRY

This work comparatively studied the water adsorpt ion and stability of cassava flour extruded with different concentration of micr onized castor bean cake and sunflower cake powder and glycerol by extrusion under the same operational parameters. The water adsorption isotherms were determined by using the gravimetric method. The samples were placed in varied relative humidity (RH) environment s. The experimental data were well adjusted to the GAB isothermal. The experimental data showed that the extruded bioplastics were less hygroscope than those of non mixture. According to GAB isothermal model, the bio-plastics can be safely stored from 5 8 to 70% RH and temperature of 25°C.
Prion Properties of Alpha-Synuclein

The prion properties of alpha-synuclein, a key aggregating protein involved in the pathogenesis of so-called synucleinopathies, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy, and its various conformers are discussed. It is shown that alpha-synuclein may be transferred between cells by prion-like propagation. Similarly to other prions, alpha-synuclein aggregation develops from the initial lag-phase (nucleation) to the subsequent growth phase (elongation), and to the stationary phase where the aggregates and monomers exist in equilibrium. Similarly to prions, alpha-synuclein undergoes conformational changes from an alpha-helix to its beta-folded structure. However, there is currently no evidence that alpha-synuclein-dependent PD can be transmitted from person-to-person. This review describes the prion properties of alpha-synuclein, possible ways of its intercellular propagation, and novel approaches to PD diagnostics.
The RIT SDN Testbed and GENI

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an innovative approach to network construction, configuration and monitoring. While it is relatively new (most of the ground work was completed in Stanford circa 2008) it is transforming our thinking regarding communication architectures. SDN leverages several other technologies such as virtualization and integrates virtual and traditional networks. It is critical that researchers in the communication and networking spaces understand, utilize and finally experiment with SDN based topologies, whether they be local testbeds or remote general computing facilities. RIT does not possess many non-production switches or routers capable of communicating via OpenFlow, the devices must be virtualized. As with many compute resources, the RIT systems are typically geared towards providing processing power, not experimentation with connection technologies. For this reason, and because it provides an excellent educational opportunity, a testbed would be built. This paper includes a general description of the process and milestones but that complete build is documented in . A smaller version of the testbed would be attempted by students later on. This project experimented with SDN topologies through the construction of a local testbed. The same experiments were run on the Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) in order to determine the practicality of the two approaches for SDN experimentation and education. Students would then be given an opportunity to try the same builds. While the experiments can be run successfully in both venues, there are definite pros and cons regarding each approach. In addition, student success is highly dependent on their previous hands on experience. This paper documents this project and it’s findings.
Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis: A Rare Presentation

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is an uncommon chronic destructive disease process of renal parenchyma, associated with recurrent urinary tract infection. It is seen predominantly in females with no age specificity. The most common symptoms are flank or abdominal pain, fever, palpable mass, and gross hematuria. The common laboratory findings are leukocytosis and anemia. Urine cultures most often reveal Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis. Computed tomography is the mainstay of diagnostic imaging for xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis. Histologically, xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis presents a granulomatous inflammatory infiltrate mainly composed of lymphocytes, plasma cells, foamy histiocytes, and multinucleated giant cells. The differential diagnosis includes clear cell renal cell carcinoma, sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma, leiomyosarcoma, malakoplakia, tuberculosis, and interstitial nephritis. Treatment includes antibiotics and surgery. In this article, we report a case of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in a 38-year-old male patient with recurrent urinary tract infection.
BERE: An accurate distantly supervised biomedical entity relation extraction network

Automated entity relation extraction (RE) from literature provides an important source for constructing biomedical database, which is more efficient and extensible than manual curation. However, existing RE models usually ignore the information contained in sentence structures and target entities. In this paper, we propose BERE, a deep learning based model which uses Gumbel Tree-GRU to learn sentence structures and joint embedding to incorporate entity information. It also employs word-level attention for improved relation extraction and sentence-level attention to suit the distantly supervised dataset. Because the existing dataset are relatively small, we further construct a much larger drug-target interaction extraction (DTIE) dataset by distant supervision. Experiments conducted on both DDIExtraction 2013 task and DTIE dataset show our model's effectiveness over state-of-the-art baselines in terms of F1 measures and PR curves.
Approximate normalization for gradual dependent types

Dependent types help programmers write highly reliable code. However, this reliability comes at a cost: it can be challenging to write new prototypes in (or migrate old code to) dependently-typed programming languages. Gradual typing makes static type disciplines more flexible, so an appropriate notion of gradual dependent types could fruitfully lower this cost. However, dependent types raise unique challenges for gradual typing. Dependent typechecking involves the execution of program code, but gradually-typed code can signal runtime type errors or diverge. These runtime errors threaten the soundness guarantees that make dependent types so attractive, while divergence spoils the type-driven programming experience. This paper presents GDTL, a gradual dependently-typed language that emphasizes pragmatic dependently-typed programming. GDTL fully embeds both an untyped and dependently-typed language, and allows for smooth transitions between the two. In addition to gradual types we introduce gradual terms, which allow the user to be imprecise in type indices and to omit proof terms; runtime checks ensure type safety. To account for nontermination and failure, we distinguish between compile-time normalization and run-time execution: compile-time normalization is approximate but total, while runtime execution is exact, but may fail or diverge. We prove that GDTL has decidable typechecking and satisfies all the expected properties of gradual languages. In particular, GDTL satisfies the static and dynamic gradual guarantees: reducing type precision preserves typedness, and altering type precision does not change program behavior outside of dynamic type failures. To prove these properties, we were led to establish a novel normalization gradual guarantee that captures the monotonicity of approximate normalization with respect to imprecision.
Knowledge Sharing Dynamics in Emergent Economies

The purpose of this paper is to present the determinant factors in shaping the dynamics of knowledge sharing in organizations, in emergent economies, like the former socialist countries. Knowledge sharing is one of the most important components in organizational learning. In the former socialist countries there is a strong inertial force of the organizational culture according to which knowledge sharing has been reduced dramatically. There are many barriers coming from the fear of losing the relative importance in organization, or even, at the limit, losing the job. In the socialist organizational culture there was no transparency and no trust among workers. The transition toward the free market economy changed some of the socialist values but not all of them. We investigated these changes and we will present our research results concerning these new determinants of the knowledge sharing dynamics.