Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Perception and Its Modalities

About the Editors About the Contributors New Models of Perception 1. Perceiving as Predicting Andy Clark 2. Active Perception and the Representation of Space Mohan Matthen 3. Distinguishing Top-Down From Bottom-Up Effects Nicholas Shea Multimodal Perception 4. Is Consciousness Multisensory? Charles Spence and Tim Bayne 5. Not all perceptual experience is modality specific Casey O'Callaghan 6. Is audio-visual perception 'amodal' or 'crossmodal'? Matthew Nudds The Non-Visual Senses 7. What Counts as Touch? Matthew Fulkerson 8. Sound stimulants: defending the stable disposition view John Kulvicki 9. Olfactory Objects Clare Batty 10. Confusing Tastes with Flavours Charles Spence, Malika Auvray, and Barry Smith Sensing Ourselves 11. Inner Sense Vincent Picciuto and Peter Carruthers New Issues Concerning Vision 12. The Diversity of Human Visual Experience Howard C. Hughes, Robert Fendrich and Sarah E. Streeter 13. A crossmodal perspective on sensory substitution Ophelia Deroy and Malika Auvray 14. The dominance of the visual Dustin Stokes and Stephen Biggs 15. More Color Science for Philosophers C. L. Hardin Relating the Modalities 16. Morphing Senses Erik Myin, Ed Cooke, and Karim Zahidi 17. A Methodological Molyneux Question: Sensory Substitution, Plasticity and the Unification of Perceptual Theory Mazviita Chirimuuta and Mark Paterson 18. The Space of Sensory Modalities Fiona Macpherson 19. Distinguishing the Commonsense Senses Roberto Casati, Jerome Dokic, and Francois Le Corre Index
Molecular mechanism of neuropathogenesis and current therapeutics for neuroAIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) penetrates into the brain at initial phase of infection. Transmigration of HIV into the brain can be explained as “Trojan Horse” mechanism where infected CD4 T cells, monocytes and macrophages cross the blood brain barrier via cell independent manner. HIV infection to the brain may result in neuroAIDS with several neurological complications like dementia, mylopathy and neuropathy. Key barriers for the effective drug delivery to the brain are the complex structure of brain barriers which limit the transmigration of drugs, weak pharmacokinetic profile and bio-distribution of antiretroviral drugs. In addition, conventional therapeutics available for the treatment of HIV have a potential to reduce the mortality and morbidity in infected individuals by decreasing the plasma viral load and modulating the immune system but still there is a great need to develop the novel strategies for the effective drug entry to the CNS. In this article the role of viral proteins (Tat, Nef) in neuropathogeneis, crucial transporter systems (GLUT-1 glucose carrier and efflux transporters like P-glycoprotein) for limited drug delivery and current approaches for the treatment of neuroAIDS have been emphasized. Furthermore, the future perspectives talks about on the recent advancement in the novel drug delivery systems and strategies for the treatment and cure of neuroAIDS.
Calculation of Excitonic Absorption Spectrum of GaAs Quantum Wire Free-Standing in Vacuum

The electron-hole interaction in a thin ( 10 nm) GaAs quantum wire free-standing in vacuum is strongly enhanced by the image charge due to the abrupt permittivity drop at the wire surface. As a result, the exciton binding energies are much 1arger and the exciton wave functions much more localised than those of the GaAs quantum wire surrounded by the AlGaAs. The absorption spectrum of the free-standing wire shows besides the s exciton peak also the 3s and 5s exciton peaks, even if the peaks are 15 meV broad. The continuum absorption edge shows a 1arge blue shift due to the renormalization of single-particle energies by the image charge.
SOFT FRINGE MAPS OF A QUADRUPOLE

The analytic linear and nonliner zero-length fringe maps are calculated explicitly for a normal quadrupole up to 6-th order generators. A very simple leading term is found for the linear fringe map. The 4-th order leading term is the L. Whiting’s hard edge result as expected. No significant leading term at the 6-th order are found. Our results should be useful to estimate the significancy of the soft fringe of a quadrupole to beam dynamics. The method used in this calculation can be used to compute the soft fringe maps of various magnets.
ISSN 2320-5407 International Journal of Advanced Research (2015), Volume 3, Issue 3, 712-714

Nada A. Rasheed An automatic reconstruction of ancient artifact fragments is of great interest in archaeology, and is considered important because it helps archaeologists make inferences about past cultures and civilizations. Therefore, numerous researches proposed various methods to put together and restore the fragments of a piece of pottery to its original form. The aim of this paper is to present an in-depth review of the most important available publications in computer applications related to the area of the classifying and reconstruction of three-dimensional model for archaeological pottery objects over the epoch in the early eighties until the end of 2013. This task classified according to the feature extraction, the classification process and the matching techniques implemented for the purpose of restoration of the fragments of pottery object to its original form. Moreover, this paper focused on review and analyze the results that they have achieved.
Research on Performance Improvement of Enterprise Management Efficiency Based on Organizational Behavior

The enterprise management history can be traced back to the late 20th century. At that time managers in some large enterprises were considering various management models, income levels, incentive mechanisms, job designs and organizational structures which might increase flexibility and competitiveness of enterprises. It is destined to be a lifelong career for managers. It is also normal to find all sorts of problems in the development of enterprises. The key point seems to be what we should do when problems arise. What kind of organizational behavior and causes behind the problems? Analysis of such things I mentioned above is crucial to find out root of the problems so that we can constantly adjust organization structure and way of working to positively cope with them.
PERFORMANCE OF SUPERPLASTICISED FIBROUS CONCRETE BY RCPT TEST UNDER THERMOSHOCK

This experimental investigation is about the chloride ion penetration of concrete by the effect of thermoshock on superplasticised fibrous concrete at 200 degree celsius. As reported in previous studies, concretes made with purely Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) showed evidence of a steady decline in residual strength when subjected to thermoshock under elevated temperatures. Hence in the present study, tests were conducted to minimize the reduction of residual strength of OPC concrete by using chemical admixtures like superplasticiser and with different individual fibers and was examined by conducting compression and the chloride ion penetration test. This paper exposes the details of the test procedure, test results and were compared with earlier reports. The presented test results will help in assessing the residual strength of concrete after thermoshock. Also encouraged test results showed that the residual properties of concrete with its admixtures were not getting affected.
MODELLING PRICE DYNAMICS IN TURKISH ELECTRICITY MARKET: LESSONS FROM GARCH ESTIMATES

In this paper, we estimate electricity market volatility in Turkey using various GARCH-class models. Spot price in Turkish electricity market exhibits significant variation and therefore, conditional modelling of the volatility can make us better understand the price dynamics of this important market. We estimate volatilities of weekly prices over the period of January 2010 to April 2017 and compare the performance of various GARCH models that take into account the asymmetric effects, possible mean effects of the volatility, fat-tails of the distribution and persistence of the volatility series. We found time varying volatility is an important feature of the price dynamics in Turkish electricity market and additionally, in modelling volatility, paying attention to the extreme price changes via heavy tailed distributions improves the model fit substantially.
Stomatal conductance in relation to xylem sap abscisic acid concentration in H. odorata and M. elengi seedlings

Introduction Stomata impose a critical control over water loss and exchange of gases between the atmosphere and leaf cells (Liang et al., 1996). Effective control is important for plant growth and survival especially when water supply is limited especially in the harsh urban environment. Accumulated evidence has shown that inhibition of leaf growth and stomatal conductance are perhaps the first responses when root systems are exposed to stress conditions, such as drought, flooding and soil compaction (Passioura et al., 1988; Davies et al. and Zhang et al. 1991; 1992a; Tardieu et al., 1993; Hartung et al.,1994). Under these conditions, roots may respond by synthesising and exporting chemical signals through the transpiration stream to shoots where physiological processes are regulated (Davies et al. and Zhang et al., 1991). Much evidence has indicated that rootderived abscisic acid (ABA) in the xylem is involved, and ABA is the most likely candidate as the chemical signal involved in communication between root and shoot and in the regulation of leaf growth and stomatal conductance, especially under conditions of soil drought and compaction (Zhang et al. and Davies et al. 1989; Gowing et al., 1993). Tardieu et al., (1992) found that the abscisic acid (ABA) content of root tips increased when maize (Zea mays L.) was grown in compacted soil, whilst the application of 1u'M ABA to unstressed seedlings promoted the growth of short thick roots similar to those produced in response to mechanical impedance (Hartung et al., 1994). Stypa et al. (1987) also observed increases in ABA content in both the stunted roots and shoots of maize plants grown in compacted soil under laboratory conditions. In contrast, Lachno et al., (1982) and More et
Proactive Repairs and Incentives for Content Availability in P2P Overlay Networks

Summary Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable access to shared distributed resources across the Internet. However, the availability of these resources is hindered by the members' transient participation (i.e., churn) and uncooperative behaviors (e.g., free-riding). Content redundancy using the idle storage space of nodes can be used to improve content availability. Maintain the scalability and self-organization properties of a P2P system, however, requires (i) minimizing the redundancy repair traffic (caused by churn), (ii) self-organizing mechanisms to balance the load and (iii) mechanisms to promote cooperation and enforce fair exchange of resources. In this paper, we take a holistic approach to content availability and propose a framework centered on efficient content redundancy, low- overhead maintenance and repair and incentives to mitigate the impact of churn. To this end, we propose a redundancy scheme that requires reduced repair bandwidth to improve content availability. The scheme is augmented with an efficient redundancy maintenance process to automate repairs. We also introduce a novel incentive- based mechanism to ensure a sustained and fair participation of peers and fair content sharing. The proposed redundancy scheme, referred to as Proactive Repair (PR), is studied analytically. The analysis shows that its repair bandwidth outperforms that of erasure coding and exact-MBR network coding. The proposed algorithms and mechanisms are implemented in an experimental testbed to evaluate their performance. The results indicate that our proposed solution is feasible and that it can improve content availability in P2P networks significantly.
A transferência de conhecimento no interior das empresas multinacionais a operar em Moçambique

O surgimento de oportunidades de negocio na Africa Austral tem provocado o interesse crescente de investidores estrangeiros em mercados como o de Mocambique. O objectivo deste trabalho e compreender melhor o fenomeno de transferencia de conhecimento para as subsidiarias mocambicanas. Nos estudamos tres casos de sucesso com actividades no sector industrial. Os resultados obtidos indicam que a transferencia de conhecimento eficiente a partir da sede da EMN resulta da (1) assimilacao de conhecimento, (2) amplitude do conhecimento transferido e (3) melhoria de performance da subsidiaria, onde a intervencao de expatriados conhecedores da realidade africana e fundamental na superacao de dificuldades sentidas localmente mediante a criacao de um clima de confianca que motive os individuos na aquisicao, assimilacao e exploracao de novo conhecimento no mercado local.
AN PROFICIENT AND SCALABLE ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK DATA IN THE CLOUD COMPUTING

A unusual technique construction to serve exquisite RDF dissolutions in sizable. Novel data arrangement strategies to co-locate semantically associated bits of data. Within this report, we recount RpCl, a decent and expandable dispersed RDF data supervision technique yet perplex. Unlike soon approaches, RpCl runs a corporeal evaluation of both proof and dummy instruction fronting separationing the science. The machinery keeps a sliding-window w tracking the modern good position for the load, counting associated data nearby in spite of joins that necessary ultimate performed and also the convicting edges. The structure combines join along pruning via RDF linear representation portrayal having a locality- stationed, even dissolutioning from the triples correct into a grid like, shared ratio organization. The Important Thing Index is a basic indicant in RpCl it utilizes a lexicovisual representationical tree to inspect each elect URI or accurate and select it a weird product key quality. Sharding such data applying understated techniques or separationing the chart accepting conventional min-cut conclusion gravitate very sloppy shared operations and also to a larger than volume of joins. Many RDF arrangements depose hash-subdivideing farther on appropriated selections, projections, and joins. Grid-Vine technique was by the whole of the first techniques act this poor massive decentralized RDF supervision. Within this script, we recount the construction of RpCl, its fundamental data organizations, better the new method we use to segregation and donate data. We assemble an considerable skim RpCl display our commodity is usually two orders of magnitude quicker than condition-of-the-art arrangements on test tasks at hands.
Passive lossless snubbers for DC/DC converters

Passive lossless snubbers are proposed to improve the turn-on and turn-off transients of the MOSFETs in PWM DC/DC power converters. Switching losses and EMI noises are reduced by restricting the di/dt of the reverse recovery current and the dv/dt of the drain-source voltage. The MOSFET operates at ZVS turn-off and near ZCS turn-on. The freewheeling diode is also commutated with ZVS. As a demonstration, operation principles, theoretical analyses, relevant equations and experimental results of a boost power converter equipped with the proposed snubber are presented in detail. An efficiency of 96% has also been measured in the experimental results reported for a 1 kW, 100 kHz prototype in the laboratory. Six basic nonisolated PWM DC/DC power converters (buck, boost, buck-boost, Cuk, Sepic and Zeta) equipped with the proposed passive lossless snubbers are also shown in this paper.
The role of ICEVs, HEVs, PHEVs, BEVs and FCVs in achieving stringent CO2 targets: results from global energy systems modeling

A modified GET model version was used to investigate long-term, cost-effective fuel and vehicle technologies for global passenger transport. The aim was to quantify the potential impact of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and low CO2 intensity electricity from renewable sources, such as concentrating solar power (CSP), on cost-effective passenger vehicle fuel and technology options necessary to achieve stabilization of atmospheric CO2 at 450 ppm. In addition, the model was used to assess the sensitivity of future vehicle cost assumptions. For all cases investigated, there is no single technology and fuel that dominates throughout the century; instead a variety of fuels and vehicle technologies are important. The availability of CCS and CSP have a substantial impact on cost-effective fuel and technology choices, in general: (i) the introduction of CCS increases the use of coal in the energy system and conventional vehicle technology, (ii) the introduction of CSP reduces the relative cost of electricity in relation to hydrogen and tends to increase the use of electricity for transport, and (iii) the introduction of both CCS and CSP reduces the economic incentives to shift to more advanced vehicle technologies. Varying cost estimates for future vehicle technologies results in large differences in the cost-effective fuel and vehicle technology solutions. For instance, for low battery costs ($150/kWh), electrified powertrains dominate and for higher battery costs ($450/kWh), hydrogen-fueled vehicles dominate, regardless of CCS and CSP availability. The results highlight the importance of a multi-sector approach and the importance of pursuing research and development of multiple fuel and vehicle technologies.
THE RELATIONSHIP OF COGNITIVE EMOTION REGULATION STRATEGIES AND OPTIMISM WITH DEATH ANXIETY AMONG NURSES IN URMIA CITY

Background & Aims: Death anxiety in staff nurses can influence their communication with and the quality of their care delivery for dying patients. The aim of the current study is to investigate the relationship and predictability of death anxiety by cognitive emotion regulation strategies and optimism in nurses working in critical care and general wards. Materials & Methods : In this descriptive correlational study, 300 nurses (227 females, 73males) were selected by stratified random sampling method from hospitals in Urmia city. The participants were assessed using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies Questionnaire (CERS-Q), Templer Death Anxiety Scale and revised life- orientation Test. The data was analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression analysis. Result: The findings showed that there was significant relationship between death anxiety with subscales of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and optimism (p<0/01). It was found that catastrophizing, other-blame, positive refocusing, rumination, positive refocus on planning, acceptance and optimism accounted for 41% of variance of death anxiety. Conclusion: The findings emphasized on the need to recognize the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and optimism in predicting nurses’ death anxiety.
Periodic microstructures fabricated by multiplex interfering femtosecond laser beams on graphene sheet

We fabricated successfully microstructures on graphene sheet by using multiplex interfering femtosecond laser beams. The symmetry, period and the fabrication depth are all influenced by the amount of interfering femtosecond beams. Using this method we fabricated grating-like microstructures and square lattice. In addition, we developed double-exposure technique with 2-beam interference and achieved square and rhombus lattice on graphene sheet.
Contract of vertrouwen : het spanningsveld tussen de prijsvorming en de samenwerking in een bouwteam

Het bouwteam is een samenwerkingsverband tijdens de ontwerpfase van een bouwproces.Kenmerkend is dat de opdrachtgever samen met de uitvoerende discipline (de opdrachtnemer)zitting heeft in het bouwteam. De samenwerking in de bouwteamfase heeft als doel om te komen tot een ontwerp waarbij er rekening is gehouden met de gevolgen van ontwerpkeuzes voor de uitvoeringsfase. Dat vereist het ontstaan van een cooperatieve samenwerking tussen de opdrachtgever en de opdrachtnemer. Deze samenwerking kenmerkt zich onder andere door het gezamenlijk oplossen van problemen en het rekening houden met elkaars belangen.
Estimasi Parameter Model Generalizedspace Time Autoregressive (GSTAR) Menggunakan Metode Generalized Least Square (GLS)

Data time series atau data runtun waktu merupakan suatu data terurut berdasarkan waktu. Dalam beberapa kasus, terdapat data yang tidak hanya dipengaruhi waktu namun juga dipengaruhi kondisi lokasi disekitarnya (pengaruh spasial). Model ruang waktu merupakan suatu model yang digunakan untuk menggambarkan dan meramalkan data runtun waktu yang memiliki pengaruh spasial. Salah satu model ruang waktu adalah model space time autoregressive (STAR). Model STAR memiliki asumsi yang harus dipenuhi yaitu lokasi amatan harus memiliki karakteristik homogen. Pengembangan model STAR adalah model GSTAR yang dapat diterapkan pada karakteristik lokasi amatan yang heterogen dengan parameter autoregressive dan parameter space tidak harus sama pada setiap lokasi. Estimasi parameter model GSTAR dengan respon multivariate dan sesatan yang saling berkorelasi menggunakan metode ordinary least square (OLS) menghasilkan estimator yang tidak efisien. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan lakukan estimasi parameter model GSTAR dengan metode GLS. Metode GLS merupakan generalisasi dari metode OLS, dimana metode GLS mempertimbangkan matriks variansi-kovariansi dalam estimasi parameter. Penelitian ini merupakan kajian teori, dengan menurunkan dan mengkaji ulang model GSTAR, mengkonstruksi dalam bentuk matriks dan melakukan estimasi parameter dengan GLS. Hasil kajian diperoleh estimator dengan metode GLS yang lebih efisien dari pada OLS dan ditunjukkan ketidakbiasan estimatornya.
Determination of flavonoids and total polyphenol contents in commercial apple juices

Pavun L. , Đurđević P., Jelikić-Stankov M. , Đikanović D. , Uskoković-Marković S. (2018): Determination of flavonoids and total polyphenol contents in commercial apple juices. Czech J. Food Sci., 36: 233–238. We propose a sensitive and selective spectrofluorimetric method for the determination of flavonoids as expressed in ‘quercetin equivalent’ in apple juices. The method is based on the strong emission of the aluminium(III)-quercetin complex at 480 nm with excitation at 420 nm, and it is successfully applied for the determination of flavonoids in commercial apple juices and compared with results obtained in reference spectrophotometric determination. The flavonoid content in commercial apple juices was found to range from 5.53 to 15.55 mg/l quercetin equivalent. The very good agreement between the two methods indicates the suitability of the proposed spectrofluorimetric method for the precise and accurate determination of flavonoids. In addition, the total polyphenol content was determined spectrophotometrically using the Folin-Ciocalteu (FC) method and the antioxidative activity of the tested juices was tested in a DPPH assay and these values were correlated with each other. The obtained profiles of compounds with antioxidative ability lead us to conclude that fruit juice labels based only on fruit % might sometimes misinform consumers.
Black hole entropy and the renormalization group

Four decades after its first postulation by Bekenstein, black hole entropy remains mysterious. It has long been suggested that the entanglement entropy of quantum fields on the black hole gravitational background should represent at least an important contribution to the total Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, and that the divergences in the entanglement entropy should be absorbed in the renormalization of the gravitational couplings. In this talk, we describe how an improved understanding of black hole entropy is obtained by combining these notions with the renormalization group. By introducing an RG flow scale, we investigate whether the total entropy of the black hole can be partitioned in a "gravitational" part related to the flowing gravitational action, and a "quantum" part related to the unintegrated degrees of freedom. We describe the realization of this idea for free fields, and the complications and qualifications arising for interacting fields.