Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Notion Of Artificial Labs, Slow Global Warming And Advancing Engine Studies: Perspectives On A Computational Experiment On Dual-Fuel Compression-Ignition Engine Research

To appreciate ̳clean‘ energy applications of the dual-fuel internal combustion engine (D-FICE) with pilot Diesel fuel, to aid public policy formulation in terms of present and future benefits to the modern transportation, stationary power, and promotion of oil and gas ―greendrilling‖, the brief to an engine research team was to investigate the feasible advantages of dual-fuel compression-ignition engines, guided by the following concerns: (i) Sustainable fuel and engine power delivery? (ii) The requirements for fuel flexibility? (iii) Low exhausts emissions and environmental pollution? (iv) Achieving low specific fuel consumption and economy, for maximum power? (v) The comparative advantages over the conventional Diesel engines? (vi) Thermo-economic modeling and analysis for the optimal blend as basis for a benefit/cost evaluation? Planned in two stages for reduced cost and fast turnaround of results initial preliminary stage with basic simple models, and advanced stage with more detailed, complex modeling. The paper describes a simplified MATLAB based computational experiment predictive model for the thermodynamic, combustion and engine performance analysis of dual-fuel compression-ignition engine studies operating on the theoretical limited-pressure cycle with several alternative fuel-blends. Environmental implications for extreme temperature moderation are considered by finite-time thermodynamic modeling for maximum power, with predictions for pollutants‘ formation and control by reaction rates kinetics analysis of systematic reduced plausible coupled chemistry models through the NCN reaction pathway for the gas-phase reactions classes of interest. Controllable variables for engine-out pollutants emissions reduction and in particular NOx elimination are identified. Verifications and Validations (V&V) through Performance Comparisons were made using a clinical approach in selection of Stroke/Bore ratios greater-than and equal-to one (≥1), low-to-high engine speeds, and medium to high power requirements from data of existing dualfuel engines and convertible real diesel engines applied in different industry sectors. The results obtained show that dual-fuel engines operating on limited-pressure cycle have economical and environmental advantages in terms of engine efficiency, and fuel consumption; with the engine emissions results showing promise of operating within the desired United Nations‘ guide for slow climate change, with reduced carbon dioxide (CO2).
Women’s Experiences of Sexual Problems after Cervical Cancer Treatment: Lessons from Indonesian Women

Cervical cancer remains the most common cancer among women. It is the second major cause of women’s deaths in Asia as well as in Indonesia. Cervical cancer treatment also raises issues of long-term physical, psychological, sexual, and social adaptation. The purpose of the study was to describe and to interpret the experiences of Indonesian women who have experienced sexual dysfunction after cervical cancer treatment. Thirteen Indonesian women who were participated in this study described their experiences on the first to two years after cervical cancer treatment. Data were collected through in-depth interviews. Four themes were identified (1) physical and psychological sexual complaints after cancer treatment; (2) negative effects of cancer treatment towards intimate relationship with their spouse; (3) efforts to overcome sexual problems; and (4) women’s needs for help to improve their sexual health. These study findings offer providing new insights into the experiences of Indonesian women with sexual health problems following cervical cancer treatment. This study can provide nurses and other health care providers with better understanding of the experiences, concern and needs of the cancer survivors.
In " Investing in People : A Strategy to Address America

AUTHOR Leonard, Jonathan S. ; Horrigan, Michael W. TITLE The Unemployment Experience of the Workforce. Background Paper No. 15. SPONS AGENCY Department of Labor, Washington, DC. Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency. PUB DATE Sep 89 CONTRACT 99-9-4765-75-018-04 NOTE 48p. ; In "Investing in People: A Strategy to Address America's Workforce Crisis" (CE 054 080). PUB TYPE Information Analyses (070)
The antimicrobial susceptibility and gene based resistance of Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus), in pregnant women in Windhoek (Khomas region), Namibia

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus (GBS)) amongst pregnant women in Windhoek. In addition, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and specific resistance genes present in the GBS isolates were also investigated. Methods: One hundred and seventeen GBS isolates were tested from Windhoek Central Hospital Antenatal Clinic. All isolated GBS were tested against selected antimicrobials using the VITEK 2 system. Resistance genes investigated in this study included: tet (M), tet (O), erm (A/TR), mef (A/E), aphA-3 and aad-6 by means of optimised PCR. Results: The GBS colonisation prevalence rate was 13.6%. Intermediate resistance against levofloxacin and clindamycin was 0.9% and 18.8%, respectively. Resistance against trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, tetracycline, erythromycin and clindamycin was 6%, 94.8%, 11.1% and 8.5%, respectively. Inducible clindamycin resistance (ICR) was detected in 5.1%. One hundred and fifteen (115/117) samples presented with gene tet (M), of which 110 showed tetracycline resistance. The five remaining isolates tested sensitive against tetracycline. Three isolates presented with gene mef (A/E) and showed erythromycin resistance. Three isolates presented with gene erm (A/TR) and ICR. Two isolates presented with ICR, but no erm (A/TR) was detected. Conclusion: Group B Streptococus prevalence amongst the screened women in the current study was 13.6% (80/588). A high resistance to tetracycline (94.8%) (111/117) was found. Erythromycin (11.1%) (13/117), trimethoprim (6%) (7/117) and clindamycin (8.5%) (10/117) showed low level resistance. Inducible clindamycin resistance (ICR) was detected in 5.1% (6/117) of the isolates. One hundred and fifteen (n=117) samples presented with gene tet (M), of which 110 showed tetracycline resistance when comparing the results to the Vitek analysis. Three isolates presented with gene mef (A/E) and showed erythromycin resistance when comparing the results to the Vitek analysis. Three isolates presented with gene erm (A/TR) as well as ICR when comparing the results to the Vitek analysis.
LASER SURFACE-TREATED GLASS WITH WICKING CAPABILITY FOR MICROFLUIDICS

This work presents a novel platform for microfluidics which features laser-defined wicking traces that impart rapid passive transport capabilities onto glass substrates. The platform consists of micro channels created by locally fracturing the surface of glass via laser etching. Channels with dimensions 500 μm × 10 mm were fabricated and shown to exhibit wicking and mixing capabilities. SEM and optical microscope images revealed the micro-cracks responsible for the wicking action. The wicking speed of an aqueous solution was found to depend on laser machining parameters (power and speed); with optimized parameters, a maximum wicking speed of 32 mm/s was observed.
Briquettes of plant remains from the greenhouses of Almería (Spain).

Since ancient times, plant biomass has been used as a primary fuel, and today, with the impending depletion of fossil fuels, these vegetal sources constitute a cleaner alternative and furthermore have a multitude of uses. The aim of the present study is to design a method of recycling and reuse of plant wastes from intensive agriculture under plastic, by manufacturing briquettes in an environmentally friendly manner. In Almeria (SE Spain), agriculture generates 769,500 t/year of plant remains from greenhouse-grown horticultural crops, a resource currently used for composting and for producing electricity.With the machinery and procedures of the present study, another potential use has been developed by detoxifying and eliminating the plastic wastes of the original biomass for the fabrication of briquettes for fireplaces. The results were slightly inferior to the commercial briquette from other non-horticultural plant materials (no forestry material), specifically 2512 kJ/kg, in the least favourable case. On the contrary, the heating value with respect to the two charcoals was significantly lower, with a difference of 12,142 kJ/kg. In conclusion; a procedure, applicable in ecological cultivation without agrochemicals or plastic cords, has been developed and tested to reuse and transform plant materials from intensive cultivation into a stable non-toxic product similar to composite logs, applicable in commercial settings or in residential fireplaces.
Short communication. Toxicity of emamectin benzoate to adults of Nesidiocoris tenuis Reuter, Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur) (Heteroptera, Miridae) and Diglyphus isaea Walker (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) on tomato plants. Semi-field studies

Whiteflies, the tomato borer and leafminers are among the major pests of greenhouse tomatoes in Spain. Macrolophus pygmaeus (Heteroptera, Miridae) and Nesidiocoris tenuis are polyphagous predators of whiteflies, the tomato borer and other pests. Diglyphus isaea (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) is an ectoparasite of leafminers. These three natural enemies are commonly released in the commercial horticultural greenhouses of south-eastern Spain. Emamectin benzoate is a new semi-synthetic derivative of the avermectin B1 developed for Lepidoptera pest control in vegetable crops, with requested inclusion in annex I of the EU directive 91/414/EEC. As for any new insecticide that is being introduced for its use in protected tomato, it is critical to understand the level of compatibility of emamectin in front of those major biological control agents. Potted tomato plants kept in a greenhouse were sprayed with the highest recommended field rate of emamectin benzoate (14.25 mg L ‐1 ), and the toxicity of fresh and 7-day-old residues to adults of the three biological control agents were studied to ascertain their compatibility. The results demonstrated the compatibility of both fresh and 7-day-old residues with the three species of natural enemies. Additional key words: avermectins; biological control; greenhouse; leafminers; whiteflies.
Reduction in Cogging Torque and Flux per Pole in BLDC Motor by Adapting U-Clamped Magnetic Poles

A Permanent Magnet BLDC motor is designed for reduction in cogging torque and flux per pole. The cogging torque causes direct impact in permanent magnet BLDC motor performance by causing torque ripple problems. This paper proposes a new method for reducing cogging torque by adapting to U-clamped magnetic poles. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is used to calculate the cogging torque and the flux per pole for different shapes of magnetic pole. It can be shown that the cogging torque could be greatly reduced by adapting to U-clamped magnetic poles. At the same time it is found that the flux per pole is also considerably reduced. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by comparing the cogging torque and flux per pole for various designs available in the literature. Full Text: PDF DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.11591/ijpeds.v8. i1.pp297-304
Non-local deformation effects in shear flows

Abstract. The method for detection of clusters on the basis of event space–time dependence is classically applied for foreshock–mainshock–aftershock sequences for which event connectedness is generally accepted. In the paper, this approach is used to investigate the whole event catalogue of foreshock and aftershock sequences filtered from the events with small magnitudes, in which connected events are also determined. The space scale is extended due to the inclusion of the parameter of seismic event connectedness in the direction of dislocation shift that allows us to consider the obtained connected events as clusters in a shear flow. A statistical model of the shear flow was constructed by catalogue decomposition into timescales and space scales defined analytically. A modelling algorithm of the shear flow was developed and its stability to initial condition change was investigated. Shear flow structure and arising non-local deformation characteristics which may be the criteria for dynamic process activity in the considered subduction zone of the Kuril–Kamchatka island arc were analysed.
J. Connell & P. Seville – Process-based Learning: A Model of Collaboration

Cape Breton University’s (CBU) Community Studies Department works collaboratively to design, implement, and evaluate the core courses of the Bachelor of Arts Community Studies (BACS) degree program. These core courses are called Community Studies (COMS). Unlike other departments, the COMS department is not formed around one particular discipline. The faculty backgrounds are from disciplines such as sociology, adult education, women’s studies, kinesiology, and social work. This mixture of backgrounds, along with the ability to work collaboratively, has been a source of strength for the department. The COMS courses involve process-based learning. Some of the components of these courses are group work, problem solving, critical thinking, reflective learning, self-directed learning, and experiential learning. The role of the faculty is to facilitate the learning objectives of these core courses for the students rather than lecturing on specific topics. Consultation, collaboration and the sharing of materials and ideas among the faculty are vital to teaching in this non-traditional environment. Reviewing teaching methods, course outlines and objectives as well as graduate outcomes are ongoing practices. The students in these courses also need to collaborate. They work in groups to carry out their research and other activities. This paper highlights a model of faculty collaboration and student collaboration in the COMS 300 Community Intervention courses. Students in these process-based learning courses are expected to conduct research and implement projects that address community issues.
The social sustainability as a condition for conservation:the case of Ilha do Mel – Brazil

It is a consensus that the implementation of protected areas in inhabited places should attempt to match economic development and nature conservation. The aim of this research is to assess the compatibility between the tourism model developed at Ilha do Mel (Brazil) and its conservation. The field work consisted in interviews to key informants and to a representative sample of the economic agents of Ilha do Mel. The analysis attempted to integrate various sustainability dimensions considering its inter-relationship, and having the social sustainability of the population majority as the main criterion. The results reveal that the conflict between conservation and development at Ilha do Mel is centred in the question of who receives the benefits generated by the actual development model. The natural landscape is the major attractive of the local tourism; it is proposed that the extension of the tourism benefits to the majority of the population would increase the probability of engaging them in the conservation. However, this extension of the benefits will not happen spontaneously by the market action. A conscientious and committed governmental intervention is proposed, in order to control the market and protect the majority of the population.
Interbank lending and the demand for central bank loans: A simple microfoundation

The paper presents a simple model of banking behavior where portfolio, liquidity, and liability management determine simultaneously the demand and supply of borrowed reserves on the interbank market. As the central bank is one player in this market due to its refinancing policy, it is able to determine the interest rate and henceforth the residual demand for central bank loans. Comparative static analysis shows how external or monetary policy shocks affect the behavior on the interbank market, the volume as well as the structure of the bank's balance sheet. It turns out that the banking firm behavior is non-linear and partially non-monotonous, indicating that the transmission of monetary measures is more complex when endogeneous banking behavior is taken into account.
Diabates in pregnancy: diagnosis and treatment. Practice Guidelines of Turkish Perinatology Society

While the routine approach for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes is 50-g glucose tolerance test and 100-g OGTT in cases of a positive screen, a new approach was brought to agenda after it was found in the study of Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) study that there is a linear relationship between blood glucose levels and gestational outcomes, and this was found to be closely associated with each value increase. It was shown that the approach of establishing diagnosis based on a single value at once with 75-g OGTT which is recently common in clinical practice helps 18% of pregnant population to get diagnosed, and the diet and exercise following the diagnosis improved gestational outcomes and affected gestational outcomes even in obese cases without gestational diabetes. Pregestational obesity having effect on gestational outcomes even though there is no diagnosis of gestational diabetes and finding that keeping weight gain during pregnancy under control is improving gestational outcomes reveal the importance of this matter. While 75-g OGTT procedure based on single value increases the number of cases who are established the diagnosis of gestational diabetes compared to the two-step screening and diagnosis test, dietexercise practice in cases with such diagnosis is a condition which keeps weight gain during pregnancy under control and also has a positive impact on gestational outcomes. Glycemia being above the desired range with 1–2 weeks of follow-up of the blood glucose will require medical treatment. This is an expected and desired target. Therefore, applying 75-g OGTT based on single value has become the new clinical practice and it is recommended. This clinical practice guideline was prepared by the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Group of Turkish Perinatology Society.
Mission and Vision Statements of Foundation Universities in the Context of University Roles： A Content Analysis

Higher education institutions are associated with social transformation throughout the history. In this sense, universities, as the most crucial constituent of higher education system, are known to have three main functions, teaching and training, research, and public interest. Today, it is important for these institutions to have a strategic planning with mission and vision statements in order to declare their reason for being and their future goals due to the competitive educational market. The objective of this study was to conduct a content analysis regarding mission and vision statements of foundation universities in the context of university functions. The study included 72 foundation universities from Turkey. Foundation universities do not have a long history in Turkey and strategic planning is still under development in these institutions. The study data were collected from mission and vision statements published on the official websites of the foundation universities. The results of semantic content analysis demonstrated that foundation universities put greater importance on the teaching and training function in their mission and vision messages compared to research and public interest functions. The results of the present study suggest that foundation universities should improve their strategic planning with well-defined mission and vision statements, and should not ignore the other two main functions in this process.
New use of the HITS algorithm for fast web page classification

The immense number of documents published on the web requires the utilization of automatic classifiers that allow organizing and obtaining information from these large resources. Typically, automatic web pages classifiers handle millions of web pages, tens of thousands of features, and hundreds of categories. Most of the classifiers use the vector space model to represent the dataset of web pages. The components of each vector are computed using the term frequency inversed document frequency (TFIDF) scheme. Unfortunately, TFIDF-based classifiers face the problem of the large-scale size of input data that leads to a long processing time and an increase in resource requests. Therefore, there is an increasing demand to alleviate these problems by reducing the size of the input data without influencing the classification results. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that improves web page classifiers by reducing the size of the input data (i.e. web pages and feature reduction) by using the hypertext induced topic search (HITS) algorithm. We employ HITS results for weighting remaining features. We evaluate the performance of the proposed approach by comparing it with the TFIDF-based classifier. We demonstrate that our approach significantly reduces the time needed for classification.
Sensitivity of surface temperature to radiative forcing by cirrus and contrails in a radiative-convective model

Earth surface temperature changes induced by added thin cirrus or contrails are investigated with a radiative-convective-diffusive model, basically without climate system changes, with relaxation of the temperature profile by radiation and mixing. The conceptual study shows that the surface temperature sensitivity to cirrus depends strongly on the ratio of the time scales of energy transport by mixing and radiation, where mixing may include turbulent diffusion, convection and transports by the large-scale circulation. The time scales are derived for steady layered heating (ghost-forcing) and for a transient cirrus case. The time scales are shortest at the surface and shorter in the troposphere than in the mid-stratosphere. Heat induced by cirrus in the upper troposphere reaches the surface only for strong vertical mixing. The local surface-temperature sensitivity to adjusted radiative forcing (RF) is larger for the shortwave (SW) than the longwave (LW) cirrus forcing. For weak mixing, cirrus may cool the surface even if the cirrus causes a positive instantaneous or stratosphere-adjusted radiative forcing (RF) at the tropopause. The shorter time scales near the surface indicate a potential for dominant SW surface cooling regionally where cirrus or contrails form, while weak LW warming may dominate at larger distances.
Expert Guided Adaptive Maintenance

The heavy truck industry is a highly competitive business field; traditionally maintenance plans for heavy trucks are static and not subject to change. The advent of affordable telematics solutions has created a new venue for services that use information from the truck in operation. Such services could for example aim at improving the maintenance offer by taking into account information of how a truck has been utilized to dynamically adjust maintenance to align with the truck’s actual need. These types of services for maintenance are often referred to as condition based maintenance (CBM) and more recently Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM). In this paper we explain how we at Scania developed an expert system for adapting the maintenance intervals dependent on operational data from trucks. The expert system is aimed at handling components which maintenance experts have knowledge about but do not find it worth the effort to create a correct physical wear-model for. We developed a systematic way for maintenance experts to express how operational data should influence the maintenance intervals. The rules in the expert system therefore are limited in what they can express, and as such our presented system differs from other expert systems in general. In a comparison between our expert system and another general expert system framework, the expert system we constructed outperforms the general expert framework using our limited type of rules.