Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Studio teorico e progettazione ottica di un microscopio confocale corneale a scansione LASER

La microscopia confocale corneale rappresenta uno dei piu validi metodi di indagine delle patologie della corneali. L'elevata risoluzione raggiungibile con questa tecnica e possibile grazie alla particolare geometria confocale. Con l'obiettivo di innovare il microscopio confocale corneale Nidek Confoscan 4, e stato ideato e sviluppato un prototipo denominato Confoscan 5 con prestazioni superiori, che sfrutta una sorgente LASER blu e uno specchio MEMS risonante di nuova concezione
New Black Holes Solutions in a Modified Gravity

We present some basic concepts of a theory of modified gravity, inspired by the gauge theories, where the commutator algebra of covariant derivative gives us an added term with respect to the General Relativity, which represents the interaction of gravity with a substratum. New spherically symmetric solutions of this theory are obtained and can be viewed as solutions that reproduce the mass, the charge, the cosmological constant, and the Rindler acceleration, without coupling with the matter content, that is, in the vacuum.
Macrostratigraphy and macroevolution in marine environments: testing the common-cause hypothesis

Abstract Quantitative patterns in the sedimentary rock record predict many different macroevolutionary patterns in the fossil record, but the reasons for this predictability remain uncertain. There are two competing, but non-mutually exclusive, hypotheses: (1) similarities reflect a sampling bias imposed by variable and incomplete sampling of fossils, and (2) similarities reflect environmental perturbations that influence both the patterns of sedimentation and macroevolution (i.e., common-cause). Macrostratigraphy, which is based on the quantitative analysis of hiatus-bound rock packages, permits variation in the rock record to be expressed in terms of rock quantity and, more importantly, spatiotemporal continuity. In combination with spatially-explicit fossil occurrence data in the Paleobiology Database, it is now possible to more rigorously test alternative hypotheses for similarities in the rock and fossil records and to start distinguishing between geologically-controlled sampling bias and the common-cause hypothesis. Here we summarize results from measuring the intersection of Macrostrat and the Paleobiology Database. Our results suggest that patterns in the fossil record are not dominated by large-scale stratigraphic biases. Instead, they suggest that linkages between multiple Earth systems are driving both spatiotemporal patterns of sedimentation and macroevolution.
SEVERAL EVALUATION AND ANALYTICAL INDICATORS OF REGIONAL AUTONOMY IMPLEMENTATION IMPACTS IN INDONESIA: ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

In general, the example of case study of the energy and mining company such as PT Bukit Asam (Tbk) in South Sumatera Province and PT INCO (Tbk) in South Sulawesi Province has positive impact to the regional economy in terms of the community development and economic productivity. Coordination between central and regional governments should set up grand strategy of increasing their in- tensive exploration program to identify the distribution, locality, quality and quantity of their energy and mineral resources in every region to develop its potentials and its mineral base downstream industries so instrumental to development in the near future, especially if they have resource endowments having optimal added value and positive terms of trade (TOT) or TOT greater than 1. In overall, it indicates that the energy and mineral resources (EMR) sector could be used as one of among the catalysts to achieve interregional convergence through “cross fertilization” toward the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita index. All in one purpose is to set up of creating job and income toward a welfare society.
Tactile Typography in the New Aesthetic

Modern design communication no longer engages our tactile senses. Eighty-three percent of the sensate signals that humans process are delivered to their brain through their eyes and ears, and, perhaps because of this, the digital revolution gives preference to sight and hearing over the remaining three senses. Graphic communicators have to ask “what about the remaining seventeen percent? ” (Witham 2005, 6) If they fail to ask this question, they miss out on delivering some valuable sensory information, removing touch from the communication equation. Along with this loss of an emphasis on touch, the digital revolution, which began around 1980, has been responsible for a loss of creative freedom for many designers and typographers. Since the introduction of the desktop computer in the late 1980s, graphic design has also undergone a revolution where the need for traditional skills—such as typesetting, paste-up, and finished art—have all but disappeared. What was once a profession reserved for a few is now available to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection (Cole 2005). Royalty-free stock images, free fonts, and professional-quality templates have enabled anyone with even basic skills to create ‘designs’ as competent as any pre-computer designer (Austin 2002). As a result, graphic designers are seeking new ways to express themselves creatively and uniquely, and there are few designers who work exclusively in typography. My studio research seeks to discover whether engaging with touch is an effective way for graphic designers to reinvigorate their creativity and produce innovative communication within the digital design landscape.
Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for Minerals Analysis and for Monitoring the Change in Elemental Compositions of the Mixtures of Herbal Medicines

68 Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for Minerals Analysis and for Monitoring the Change in Elemental Compositions of the Mixtures of Herbal Medicines Yoseph Alresawum1* Hassen Ghalila2 Souad Lahmar3 A.V. Gholap1 Yvon G. Mbesse Kongbonga2 William Mbogning Feudjio2 1.Addis Ababa University, Science Faculty, Physics Department, Ethiopia 2.Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique, Moléculaire et Applications – LSAMA, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia *Postal address of the corresponding author: P.O. Box 14610, Ethiopia
Muscle growth of triploid Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)

This study has investigated the muscle growth of diploid and triploid Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) juveniles raised in replicate tanks over a period of 29 weeks and analysed at three sampling points (February, June and September). Data for weight, length, condition factor (K), muscle fibre growth and myogenic progenitor cells (MPCs) number were collected and results were analysed in relation to body growth and ploidy status. Diploids were significantly heavier than triploids throughout the trial (~10–20%) and had K in June and September samplings. Over the whole period, the rate of muscle fibres' recruitment was 318 fibres per day and 252 fibres per day for diploid and triploid cod respectively. The larger body weight of diploids resulted in a total number of fast fibre number of 114 979 compared to 91 086 in triploids. The average diameter of the 2.5% of the smallest fibres (2.5th percentile) was higher in diploids than triploids at the start of the trial, with a reversed picture for the average of the upper 2.5% (97.5th percentile) at the end of the trial. The probability density function of the estimated muscle fibre diameters showed similar fibre size distribution between size-matched diploids and triploids at all sample points. The peak fibre diameter was approximately 25 μm in February and increased to approximately 50 μm in June and September, irrespectively of ploidy. Pax 7 were used as molecular markers for MPCs. A positive correlation between Pax 7+ cells and total body length was observed only among triploid fish at the onset of the experiment.
Magnetic Properties of Carbon Chains Doped with 4d Transition Metals

The structural and magnetic properties of functionalized carbon chains doped with 4d transition metals, such as Ru, Rh, and Pd, were investigated using the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method. The carbon nanowire doped with Ru exhibited a ferromagnetic ground state with a sizable magnetic moment, while those doped with Rh and Pd had nonmagnetic ground states. For the Ru-doped chain, the density of states at the Fermi level showed large spin polarization, which suggests that the doped nanowire could be used for spintronic applications.
Review on Various Fake Review Detection Techniques on E-Commerce Website

: The advancement of Internet affected huge numbers of our everyday exercises. Web based business is one of the fast development zones in the Internet time. Individuals are anxious to purchase items from online locales like Amazon, eBay, Flipkart and so forth. Online destinations additionally give office to clients to compose review on items they purchase. These reviews help shoppers and merchants for settling on choice on showcasing procedures, and the change of items and administrations. These days’ individuals are especially intrigued to peruse reviews before obtaining any item and getting administrations. This makes territories for sentiment spammers to compose counterfeit reviews to elevate or to downgrade the two items and business administrations. This kind of exercises is frequently alluded as Review spam. Therefore recognizing counterfeit reviews has turned out to be more basic issue for clients to settle on better choice on buy and also the merchants to make their items reliable. In this paper a point by point overview is finished utilizing different machine learning strategies for identifying spam and veritable reviews.
Treatment-resistant depression: review of pharmacologic antidepressant strategies

Objetivo: Fazer uma revisão sobre oito estratégias farmacológicas de potencialização de antidepressivos na DRT. Métodos: Fez-se um levantamento bibliográfico de 1990 até janeiro de 2006, nas bases eletrônicas de busca Medline, LILACS e da Biblioteca Cochrane, utilizando-se os termos de busca treatment, resistant, refractory e depression e os descritores depression, drug resistance e augmentation, incluindo apenas ensaios controlados duplo-cegos. Foi consultada a referência dos artigos para obtenção de ensaios realizados em data anterior a 1990 e artigos originais de valor histórico. Resultados: Foram encontrados 17 estudos duplo-cegos com o lítio, seis com o hormônio tireoidiano, dois com a buspirona, seis com o pindolol, um com a carbamazepina, dois com a lamotrigina e quatro com a olanzapina. Foram favoráveis à potencialização 41,2% dos ensaios com lítio; 60% daqueles com hormônio tireoidiano e antidepressivos tricíclicos e nenhum com hormônio tireoidiano e inibidores seletivos da recaptação da serotonina (ISRS); 50% dos com pindolol; 100% dos ensaios com carbamazepina e 40% daqueles com olanzapina. Nenhum dos estudos com a buspirona foi favorável. No único estudo com lamotrigina não houve eficácia de tratamento na avaliação pelo critério principal, mas superioridade ao placebo em critérios secundários. Conclusão: Na DRT há evidência de eficácia apenas em relação ao lítio na potencialização de várias classes de antidepressivos e ao hormônio tireoidiano na potencialização de tricíclicos. A olanzapina foi razoavelmente estudada e sua eficácia não foi estabelecida. Os poucos estudos realizados com a buspirona e o pindolol não comprovaram sua eficácia. A carbamazepina foi muito pouco estudada, e a lamotrigina ainda não foi adequadamente avaliada. Palavras-chave: depressão, resistência a drogas, potencialização. Abstract
Performance Evaluation and Lubrication Mechanism of Water-Based Nanolubricants Containing Nano-TiO2 in Hot Steel Rolling

Hot rolling tests of a low-alloy steel were conducted at a rolling temperature of 850 °C under different lubrication conditions, including benchmarks (dry condition and water) and water-based nanolubricants containing different concentrations of nano-TiO2 from 1.0 to 8.0 wt%. The effects of nanolubricants on rolling force, surface roughness, thickness of oxide scale, and microstructure were systematically investigated through varying nano-TiO2 concentrations. The results show that the application of nanolubricants can decrease the rolling force, surface roughness and oxide scale thickness of rolled steels, and refine ferrite grains. In particular, the nanolubricant containing an optimal concentration (4.0 wt%) of nano-TiO2 demonstrates the best lubrication performance, owing to the synergistic effect of lubricating film, rolling, polishing, and mending generated by nano-TiO2.
NGC 300 X‐1 is a Wolf–Rayet/black hole binary★

ABSTRACT We present VLT/FORS2 time-series spectroscopy of the Wolf-Rayet star #41 in the Sculptorgroup galaxy NGC300. We conﬁrm a physical association with N GC300 X–1, since radialvelocity variations of the He II λ4686 line indicate an orbital period of 32.3 ± 0.2 hr whichagrees at the 2σ level with the X-ray period from Carpano et al. We measure a radial velocitysemi-amplitudeof 267±8kms −1 , fromwhicha mass functionof 2.6±0.3 M ⊙ is obtained.Arevised spectroscopic mass for the WN-type companionof 26 +7−5 M ⊙ yields a black hole massof 20 ±4 M ⊙ for a preferred inclination of 60−75 ◦ . If the WR star provides half of the mea-sured visual continuum ﬂux, a reduced WR (black hole) mass of 15 +4−2.5 M ⊙ (14.5 +3−2.5 M ⊙ )would be inferred.As such, #41/NGC300 X–1 represents only the second extragalactic Wolf-Rayet plus black-hole binary system, after IC10 X–1. In addition, the compact object respon-sible for NGC300 X–1 is the second highest stellar-mass black hole known to date, exceededonly by IC10 X–1.Key words: (galaxies:)individual:NGC 300– Stars: Wolf-Rayet – X-rays: binaries – X-rays:individual: NGC300 X–1
ECR and category management - supplier's and distributor's joint effort to understand the empowered customer

working paper) In this paper the main focus is on understanding the importance of supplier - retailer partnerships as an enabling factor for the continued implementation of ECR ("Efficient Consumer Response") and category management. Based on this approach category management is seen as an opportunity to manage the relationship between customers, retailers and suppliers where all three parties interact and a win-win-win situation is obtained. The paper focuses also at analysing the impact of ECR and category management in the changed business environment in order to better understand the customer, who nowadays is accepted as an equally important actor in the distribution process. The customer is sometimes even seen as an empowered actor compared with the traditional players' suppliers and retailers. One of the main goals of category management has been to call off the war between suppliers and retailers. However, the collaboration has become a clear obstacle for many companies. Organisational changes and collaborative partnerships are closely related to the phenomenon. By changing the organisational structure it has become possible to change unproductive historical boundaries. The change gives an opportunity and a challenge to create more open and trusting relationships. This study will therefore, emphasise that there is a correlation between companies' abilities to co-operate in the supply chain and in their success of implementing category management, and that category management is a phenomenon that has come to stay in business.
Comparison Of Cascaded H-bridge Inverters for Harmonic Mitigation Considering Various Loads

This paper compares the reduction of harmonics in various level cascaded H-bridge inverters. The switching angles for the cascaded H-bridge inverter were calculated by evolutionary optimization technique. Fourier analysis is used to determine the switching angles for the desired electrical parameters. Lower order harmonics such as third, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh order harmonics were taken into consideration to reduce the total harmonic distortion. Simulation was done for thirteen, fifteen and seventeen level cascaded H-bridge inverters using Matlab. Total harmonic distortion of voltage and current for R, RL and Motor load were analyzed. Full Text: PDF DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.11591/ijpeds.v8. i1.pp10-19
Crossability between cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) and common wild rice (O. rufipogon ) and characterization of F 1 and F 2 populations

Gene flow between cultivated and wild rice is considered to be the origin of weedy rice, a threat to rice production in Thailand since 2001. The present study determined the degree of cross compatibility between four cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) varieties, namely, two high yielding varieties, CNT1 and SPR1 and two pure lined traditional varieties, KDML105 and RD6, and two common wild rice biotypes (O. rufipogon) from Kanchanaburi (KC) and Nakorn Nayok (NY). The hybrid progeny in the F1 and F2 generations were characterized for selected traits. The cultivated and wild rice cross fertilized with different degrees of compatibility between different parents, with higher seed set in crosses involving the high yield varieties than with the traditional varieties. The F 1 hybrids were mostly fertile, exhibiting wild traits of spikelet awning, seed shattering, and red pericarp with hybrid vigour in panicle size from crosses between cultivated and NY wild rice, followed by transgressive segregation in the same characteristics in the F 2's. Genotypic effects of the cultivated and wild rice parents were shown in segregation of flowering time, culm length, and seed shattering of the F 2 plants. Segregation of seed shattering pattern in the F 2 differed between the wild rice parents; offspring of NY shattered their seed completely, while some of those of KC did not all shatter their seed. Genotypic effects of the wild and cultivated rice parents, especially in those traits important to survival and dispersal, suggest a range of possible recombinations that may need to be considered in effective control of the weedy rice and for the conservation of wild rice in situ.
The Geography of Innovation in the Luxembourg Metropolitan Region: An Intra-Regional Approach

The main objective of the paper is to analyse the local determinants of innovation in the Luxembourg metropolitan region. We are particularly interested in the impact of the local milieu and characteristics of firms. Our paper addresses two specific research questions. Firstly, we examine the extent to which geographic space is a determinant of innovation for five intra-regional units based on an aggregation of municipalities. Secondly, we investigate whether innovation is dependent on accessibility to the mean centre. In both cases, we examine innovation propensity and innovation output using microdata from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2006) carried out in Luxembourg. The paper shows that space matters both in terms of spatial units and accessibility within the intra-regional context of Luxembourg. It provides, in particular, first evidence of a close link between the effects on innovation at the intra-regional level of firms? profiles and agglomeration externalities. Both favour innovation for firms from Luxembourg-City and, to a lesser extent, from the Suburban Area.
The impact of university reforms on dropout rates and students'status: Evidence from Italy

Following the Bologna declaration, the Italian government began in 1999 the process of reforming in depth the higher education system. The main actions implied by the Bologna process are the adoption of a university system of degree essentially based on three cycles, the establishment of a system of credits and the European cooperation in quality assurance to ease quali…cation comparisons across Europe. This large process of university reforms is in progress throughout Europe and so
Access to financial services : measurement, impact, and policies

In many developing countries less than half the population has access to formal financial services, and in most of Africa less than one in five households has access. Lack of access to finance is often the critical mechanism for generating persistent income inequality, as well as slower economic growth. Hence expanding access remains an important challenge across the world, leaving much for governments to do. However, not all government actions are equally effective and some policies can even be counterproductive. This paper sets out principles for effective government policy on broadening access, drawing on the available evidence and illustrating with examples. The paper concludes with directions for future research.
PROBIOTIC THERAPY , IRRITABLE BOWEL Probiotic Therapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

iii PROBLEM STATEMENT 1 LITERATURE SEARCH STRATEGIES 3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 4 LITERATURE REVIEW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MICROORGANISMS AND IDS SYMPTOMS 4 THE EFFICACY OF TREATING IBS SYMOTOMS WITH PROBIOTCS 6 DISCUSSION 12 SIGNIFICANCE TO NURSING PRACTICE ' 12 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 14 TABLE 1: MICROBIOTA WITH POSSillLE ASSOCATION WITH illS SYMPTOMS 16 TABLE 2: PROBIOTCS FOR illS SYMPTOMS 18 REFERENCES 22
A Taxonomical Account Of Knowledge Creation In Organizations: Research Directions

The global knowledge economy could become the next booming economy. This point can be buttressed by the flood of literature on knowledge management. New job roles have emerged in many firms to handle the challenge of the global knowledge economy. But despite the developments, there are still gaps in literature and divergent views about the subject of knowledge and how it can be created. Knowledge is an abstract term that captures the art of knowing and what is being known, is difficult to study (Davenport and Volpel 2001). Knowledge management, the application of knowledge in organizations can be broken down into knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer (Alavi and Leidner 2001, Alavi and Leidner 1999, Nonaka 1994b). These three elements are difficult to separate in practice(Argote et al. 2003), but this article focuses on presenting a taxonomical review of Knowledge creation in organizations, highlighting challenges involved, methods, approaches and directions for research.
Heart rate variability analysis of pre and post awakening of 10 years children

The main objective of the work described in this paper is to develop an algorithm to detect the start and the end of sleep stage of 10 year old children and to compute the frequency domain heart rate variability (HRV) measure before and after wake up. These measures are low frequency (LF), high frequency (HF) and the ratio of LF/HF (LF/HF). These measures are used to compare between normal and intrauterine growth restricted children (IUGR) at the age of 10 (IUGR are believed to be more prone to heart diseases in adulthood). Another comparison in this work is between boys and girls. The one hour analysis before and after wake up showed that IUGR children have higher frequency domain measures before and after wake up. Girls showed significantly higher values of LF/HF ratio than the boys. These significant differences between IUGR and normal might suggest underdevelopment or deficiency in the autonomic nervous system in IUGR and in girls at 10 years of age.