Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Priyambadha dan Sarno — Pengelompokan Model Proses Berdasarkan Matrik Similaritas dengan Pendekatan Semantik 171

Currently, the use of a process-oriented information system in an organization is very commonplace. Process-oriented information system aims to improve the performance of an organization. In a large-scale organization, process models are used to support the business does not amount to little, but can reach hundreds or even thousands. Repository model of the process is a medium for storing models of processes in an organization. There are problems in the management repository process models, among others the similarity calculation process models are still using syntactic similarity approach. Such an approach makes the process of grouping the process model to less than optimal. To answer these problems, in this research grouping mechanism process models based on the proximity degree of similarity that was owned by the process model. Calculation of the degree of similarity is based on some similarity matrix, among other similarities point (node), the similarity of structure, and the similarity of behavior. As well as the degree of similarity calculation is done using the similarity meaning (semantics). The use of semantics similarity method in can increases the value of compactness in the group resulting from the process of clustering.
The Role of justice and organizational citizenship behaviour in the relation between measurement diversity and managerial performance

Abstract Many companies are adopting performance measurement systems(PMS) in order to acquire competitive advantage the promote long-term growth in Coping with the rapidly changing business environment. Prior research has focused on the relation between PMS and organizational performance. However, there is limited empirical research that examines the behavioural consequences of PMS. Further, there is little empirical research that examines whether measurement diversity have direct and/or indirect effects on work performance. As such, I examine how the relation between measurement diversity and managerial performance can be explained by the intervening variables of justice and organizational citizenship behaviour. This study is summarized as follows: this study finds that measurement diversity affect managerial performance indirectly through justice and organizational citizenship behaviour. Key Words : Measurement diversity, Justice, Organizational citizenship behaviors, Managerial Performance
Wave propagation theory in offshore applications

A frequency-wavenumber-domain formulation is presented in this paper for calculation of the Green's functions and wave propagation modes in a stratified fluid body underlain by a layered viscoelastic soil medium. The Green's functions define the solid and fluid displacements and fluid pressures due to uniform disk loads acting in either the soil or fluid media. The solution is in the frequency domain and is based on a Fourier expansion of the displacements in the azimuthal direction together with Hankel transform in the radial direction and analytical solutions in the vertical direction. The presented formulation uses the notion of layer stiffness matrices for the solid and fluid layers. Derivation of the expressions for the fluid layer matrices is presented, and a simple procedure for numerical integration of the Green’s functions is proposed. Two examples of the use of the presented model are presented. The first example deals with computation of the dynamic impedances of seabed foundations, and the second example concerns computation of fundamental modes of surface waves at the solid-fluid interface. This mode is often used in characterization of the seabed material from the direct seismo-acoustic measurements underwater.
Effects of Work-Life Balance Policies on Female Commitment towards the Same Company

This paper explores the relationship between work-life balance (WLB) policies and three indicators—job tenure, turnover rates, and new graduate retention rates in Japan—focusing on the careers of female employees. Cross-sectional analysis shows that firms with WLB policies, such as a full amount of maternity pay, are positively associated with female employee job tenure. Additionally, panel data analysis shows that the practices of family-care leave, family-care benefits, and flextime system, have an effect on the turnover rate of female employees. Moreover, the full amount of maternity pay has an effect on the retention rate of female new graduates. Finally, a first-differences analysis also finds a positive relationship between the maternity pay system and female job tenure. These results suggest that WLB policies, such as the full amount of maternity pay, family-care leave, family-care benefits, and flextime system, could produce positive outcomes for the careers of female employees.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Comparison of Care by Specialists and Generalists in an Inner-City Hospital

The goal of the study was to determine whether care for COPD patients was more consistent with guidelines when a specialist rather than a generalist provided care to the patients. We used the Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease guidelines as a standard. Results: Eighty patients, forty in each group were identified. Care was more consistent with guidelines when specialists were the usual source of care; specialists were significantly more likely to use pulmonary function tests and bronchodilators. There was a trend for generalists to do better in smoking cessation, and vaccine prophylaxis compared with specialists. Conclusions: Care of COPD patients was more likely to be consistent with guidelines when specialists were the usual source of care. Strategies should be developed to either increase the use of the pulmonologists or to increase the awareness and education of generalists and patients regarding new guidelines for the diagnosis and management of COPD.
Analysis of Two-Echelon Perishable Inventory System with Direct and Retrial demands

In this paper, we consider a continuous review perishable inventory system with Markovian demand. The operating policies are (s, S) and (0,M). The life time of an item has an exponential distribution. The ordered items are received after a random time which is assumed to be exponential distribution. The demands that occur directly to the distribution centre are called direct demands. The arrival process for the direct demand follows Poisson process. The demand process to the retailer node is independent to the direct demand process and follows Poisson process. The demands that occur during stock out period are enter into the orbit of finite size. These orbiting demands retry for their demand after a random time, which is assumed to be exponential distribution. The joint probability distribution of the inventory level at lower echelon, higher echelon and the number of customer in the orbit is obtained in the steady state case. Various system performance measures in the steady state are derived and the long run total expected cost rate is calculated.
Phase-plane Representation and Visualization of Gestural Structure in Expressive Timing

Abstract For the past few decades there has been considerable scientific interest in expression in music performance (Gabrielsson, 2003). A particularly relevant aspect of music performance is expressive timing, that is, the intentional fluctuations of tempo during a performance. Accordingly, expressive timing has been one of the major topics in music performance research. As an expressive parameter, timing is used to clarify the musical structure of the piece (Clarke, 1988), among other things. The problem of explaining expressive timing in music performances can be regarded as a special case of a very wide range of problems where we want to learn experimentally about the temporal behaviour of some dynamical system based on limited observation. A common way of studying data in dynamical systems theory is by phase-plane representation. In this paper we argue that phase-plane representations of expressive timing provide a useful way of visualizing data, and furthermore, we show that such representations are promising in the context of performer characterization and identification.
Low Prognostic Nutritional Index Before Radiotherapy is a Poor Prognostic Factor for Rectum Cancer Radyoterapi Öncesi Düşük Prognostik Nutrisyonel İndeks Rektum Kanseri için Kötü Prognostik Faktördür

DOI: 10.4328/JCAM.4796 Received: 02.09. 2016 Accepted: 29.09. 2016 Printed: 01.05. 2017 J Clin Anal Med 2017;8(3): 185-9 Corresponding Author: Neslihan Kurtul, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, University of Sütçü İmam, Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. GSM: +905067872841 F. : +90 3442803409 E-Mail: drneslihankurtul@gmail.com Özet Amaç: Bu çalışmada cerrahi sonrası kemoradyoterapi uygulanan rektum kanserli hastalarda prognostik nutrisyonel indeks (PNI) değerinin sağkalım üzerine etkisi araştırıldı. Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışmaya adjuvan kemoradyoterapi alan 65 hasta alındı. Hastalara 5040 cGy radyoterapi ve eşzamanlı 5-FUFA kemoterapisi uygulandı. Hastalar ROC analizine göre ≤46 düşük grup, 46< yüksek grup olarak 2 gruba ayrıldı. Gruplar arası sağkalım farkı log rank testi ile hesaplandı. Tek değişkenli ve çok değişkenli faktörlerin sağkalıma etkisi cox regresyon analizi kullanarak hesaplandı. Bulgular: Hastaların 22’si (%33,8) kadın 43’ü (%66,2) erkekti. NPI düşük grupta 28 (%43,1), yüksek grupta 37 (%56,9) hasta vardı. Kaplan-meier analizine göre PNI düşük grupta ortalama sağkalım 59 (%95 GA:44.95-73.08) ay iken yüksek grupta 80 (%95 GA:66.53-94.82) aydı (p=0.036). 5 yıllık sağkalım PNI düşük grupta %49, yüksek grupta %65 olarak bulundu. Tek değişkenli analizde T evre, N evre, tümör çapı ve PNI genel sağkalım üzerinde etkili idi (p<0.05). Çok değişkenli Cox regresyon analizinde T evre (p=0.014), tümör çapı (p=0.023) ve PNI (p=0.045) diğer değişkenlerden bağımsız olarak genel sağkalım üzerine etki eden prognostik faktörler olarak bulundu. Tartışma: Çalışma sonucunda radyoterapi öncesi PNI değeri rektum kanseri için kötü prognostik faktör olarak bulundu.
Developing a system for walnut husking to reduce wastewater formation andits comparison with industrial husking system for environmentalperspective.

This was the first study aimed to determine possibility of use modified vegetable peeling machine for green husk removing from walnut without water consumption at different working time and walnut loadings. Also its success and waste water production were compared with industrial husking machine. Husking success of both machines were statistically at same group. Modified industrial husking machine produced only 0.14-0.34 L wastewater (which was a juice of husk) whereas industrial husking machine produce 3.7-5.7 L wastewater according to their working conditions. These result indicated that walnut husk can be removed successively without water consumption and wastewater production. Husk can be obtained at rich content especially water soluble phenolic and phytochemicals. According to previous literatures these wastewater and husk as a by-product of modified machine was valuable source for agriculture, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS: A TOOL FOR COASTAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Different methodologies have already been applied in different countries to teach Coastal Engineering (CE) trying to improve the learning process due to their inherent difficulty [1]. The large number of academic failures has been reduced [2] by the use of new and old technologies like audio/visual resources [3] or “rules of thumb” [4] respectively. CE has experienced a rapid growth in the last fifty years. And though it has a high mathematical and physical load, understanding the coastal processes through empirical observation is of great help for learning. The new Information Technology (IT) tools have allowed advancing both in the field of theoretical investigation as in the practical application of easily observable phenomena. Especially important is the possibility of using visors of aerial photographs, which allow not only to study a specific situation at a given date, but also the time evolution over the years. The use of Internet applications such as Google Earth opens up many possibilities of study in a very simple way [5]. Therefore, with a basic knowledge on maritime works, it is possible to obtain expressions or mathematical models through free available information, which serve to realize pre-designs of possible solutions or to analyze the certainty of a final solution. These easy-to-apply methodologies let also to evaluate the success or failure of maritime works already executed, and is useful in cases of inability to conduct complete studies of coastal dynamics. Application of these free tools is fundamental to carry out the monitoring of already built maritime works. A suitable treatment of this information allows the realization of new designs in an easier and intuitive way. Moreover, it facilitates the interpretation of coastal processes by engineering students who come for the first time to this topic. Prof. Iribarren, one of the foremost exponents of CE in Spain, based much of his findings on the observation of the sea with a high degree of intuition. For those who do not have that ability to intuit, the tools described previously may be a way to achieve an easier and better understanding of the Coastal Engineering subject.
The Disturbance of Resident Populations of Field Voles (Microtus agrestis) by Immigrants

The introduction of immigrants into resident populations may disturb the social organisation of the latter. It is often stated that males compete with males for access to mates, while females compete with females and/or males for limited resources (e.g., nest sites, food). Therefore, the impacts of introductions on residents should depend on the immigrant's sex. To test this hypothesis, we experimentally introduced either male or female immigrants into field vole (Microtus agrestis) populations, and observed the consequences in terms of space use and survival of both residents and immigrants. Our results showed intra-sexual competition: (i) resident females responded to the introduction of females by reducing their home range size and their interactions with neighbours; (ii) immigrant males suffered high mortality, probably due to contests with resident males for access to females. We conclude that the role of social interactions should not be underestimated when releasing unfamiliar individuals into small populations.
Consumer Choice Tactics for Common, Repeat Purchase Products: Using Tissues and Deodorant to Predict and Understand Consumer Behavior

Currently there is limited research on the consumer decision-making process for low involvement products. The purpose o f my study was to beller understand the consumer decision-making process for common, repeat purchase products. Specificall y, I was looking at how gender and generational differences impacted the decision-making process when purchasing two low-involvement products, tissues and deodorant. One hundred and ten students, staff and faculty were asked to look at a constructed store aisle and purcha e both a box of tissues and sti ck of deodorant and complete a questiol1J1ai re responding to questions regarding their decis ion choice. The questiOl1J1ai re collected information regarding six dependent variables including brand loyalty, involvement level, and four choice heuristics : performance, price, affect, and normati ve. Through openended and closed-ended questi ons as well as observational data that was collected, I developed a better understanding of each participant 's decision-making process. There was support for my hypothesis that Millel1J1i als would be more influenced by normati ve and affective choice tactics than Baby Boomers or Gen Xers. Overal l we found that Millel1J1ials tended to be the most inOuenced by the choice heuri stics while Baby Boomers were the least inOuenced. Data suggested that this might have occurred because the decision-making of Baby Boomers was more inOuenced by brand loyalty, There were also few stati ticall y significant differences found between the dependent variables measured based on gender.
Oblique versus transverse anastomotic stricture in gastric pull up: an open-label controlled trial Skośne vs poprzeczne zespolenie żołądkowo-przełykowe w aspekcie zwężenia w miejscu zespolenia: badanie prospektywne, z randomizacją po resekcji przezrozworowej przełyku typu gastricpull-up

Background: Survival in esophageal cancer can be improved by surgery. In the palliative surgery for esophageal cancer, the fundus is anastomosed to the esophageal remnant, which is routinely transverse after esophagectomy. Developing stricture at the anastomosis precludes recovery from dysphagia. One study on esophageal cancer showed that the occurrenceof stricture formation in transverse esophagogastric anastomosis was 13.6%. Due to high prevalence of stricture formation in transverse anastomosis, we introduced a new technique (oblique anastomosis) and compared it with routine transverse anastomosis in a prospective randomized clinical trial. Materials and methods: This clinical trial was carried out in Imam Hospital (Tabriz, Iran) between 2003 and 2008. Two hundred subjects with biopsy-proven esophageal cancer entered the study in two groups of equal size. All patients underwent transhiatal esophagectomy (THE) and gastric pull-up. Cervical esophagogastric anastomosis randomly constructed in a transverse (T) and oblique (O) manner was completed in the two groups. In addition, two-layer handsewn anastomosis was done in both groups.Similar suture materials were used: non-absorbable for the posterior layer and absorbable for the inner layer. Results: There were 117 males (58.5%) and 83 females (41.5%) with a mean age of 60.47 years (range, 28–81 years). In the six-month follow-up period, 25 (12.5%) patients had dysphagia [20 (20%) cases in group T vs. 5 (5%) cases in group O (p = 0.001, 95% CI: 0.076–0.586, OR = 0.211]. Nineteen cases (9.5%) had structural anastomotic strictures 16 (16%) cases in group T vs. 3 (3%) cases in group O (p = 0.002, 95% CI: 0.046–0.577, OR = 0.162). Conclusion: This study showed that stricture formation was significantly lower in oblique esophagogastric anastomosis
Traffic maps and smartphone trajectories to model air pollution, exposure and health impact

In this study, we explored to combine traffic maps and smartphone trajectories to model traffic air pollution, exposure and health impact. The approach was step-by-step modeling through the causal chain: engine emission, traffic density versus traffic velocity, traffic pollution concentration, exposure along individual trajectories, and health risk. A generic street with 100 km/h speed limit was used as an example to test the model. A single fixed-time trajectory had maximum exposure at velocity of 45 km/h at maximum pollution concentration. The street population had maximum exposure shifted to a velocity of 15 km/h due to the congestion density of vehicles. The shift is a universal effect of exposure. In this approach, nearly every modeling step of traffic pollution depended on traffic velocity. A traffic map is a super-efficient pre-processor for calculating real-time traffic pollution exposure at global scale using big data analytics.
Discretization Of A Non‐Linear, Continuous‐Time Control Law With Small Control Delays

This paper considers time‐discretized, non‐linear, continuous‐time control laws with small computational time‐delays. The discretized control is not initiated immediately after the sampling instant ti. Small variable computational delays ∞ are assumed to be present. Provided the sampling time ∞ is small and the maximum ratio ∞ is known, then the main theorem provides a stability result. In contrast to a former result, the theoretical framework considers robust control problems allowing a class of uncertainty and disturbances to be investigated. The different techniques are compared numerically for a discretized continuous‐time sliding‐mode based state‐feedback control.
Multidimensional big data processing for damage detection in real pipelines using a smart pig tool

The history of the hydrocarbons business in Colombia dates back to the early twentieth century where mining and energy sector has been one of the principal pillars for the its development. Thus, the pipelines currently in service have over 30 years and most of them are buried and phenomena like metal losses, corrosion, mechanical stress, strike by excavation machinery and other type of damages are presented. Since it can generate social and environmental problems, monitoring tools and programs should be developed in order to prevent catastrophic situations. However, the maintaining of these structures is very expensive and it is normally developed by foreign companies. In order to overcome this situation, recently the native research institute “Research Institute of Corrosion - CIC (Corporacion para la Investigacion de la Corrosion)” developed an in-line inspection tool to be operated in Colombian pipelines (especially gas) to get valuable information of their current state along of thousand kilometres. The recorded data is of big size and its processing demand a high computational cost and adequate tool analysis to determine a certain pipeline damage condition. On other hand, the author from UPC and UIS have been bringing its expertise in processing and analysing this type of big data by using mainly Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as an effective tool to detect and locate different damages. In previous papers, multidimensional data matrix was used to locate possible damages along the pipeline, however most of activated points were considered false alarms since they corresponded to weld points. Thus, in this paper it is proposed no considering piecewise weld points (tube sections) and an extension of PCA named Multiway PCA (MPCA) is applied for each each one of the tube sections that form the pipeline. Therefore, if a tube section is found outside from overall indices found by using the MPCA model, an alarm activated in that section and a precise location can be obtained by analyzing only data from that specific tube section.
Effect of crude oil on germination, growth and seed protein profile of Jojoba (Simmodsia chinensis).

A pot experiment was carried out to determine the effect of crude oil on Jojoba (Simmodsia chinensis ). The soil was treated with different levels of crude oil: 0% (control), 1, 2, 3 and 4% v/w. Seed germination and growth parameters like plant height, root length, fresh and dry weights of shoots and roots, number of leaves and leaf area. The mean values obtained were higher for control and progressively decreased from 1- 4%. The 4% concentration was lethal to Jojoba. The results obtained, showed that, the crude oil caused a decrease in IAA and an increase in phenol. Hence it was concluded that number of new proteins were synthesized in stressed plants for their adaptation in the stressed conditions. These proteins could be used as markers in identifying the stressed plants . The elevated protein content in Jojoba seedlings was the result of de novo synthesis of 2-5 specific polypeptides with apparent molecular mass range of 58.3- 23.0 kDa. In general, the total number of protein bands and de novo synthesis of protein in Jojoba seedlings growing in crude oil contaminated soil with inorganic fertilizers were higher than that under crude oil contaminated soil.