Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
AFFORDABLE COMFORT A Challenge for Low Energy Architecture and Urban Planning

The increasing importance of sustainability in urban and architectural design progressively influences the conception of urban neighborhoods. Among the multiple aspects of this evolution, the reduction of global energy consumption plays a crucial role. Its full achievement involves carrying out different complementary strategies in a structured approach at the territorial, urban, architectural and constructive levels. Analyses made during the realization of the Ecoparc neighborhood in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) provide the opportunity to illustrate these multiple issues.
Emotion Recognition using Autonomic Nervous System Responses Emotion Recognition

Recently in HCI research, emotion recognition is one of the core processes to implement emotional intelligence. There are many studies using physiological signals in order to recognize human emotions. The purpose of this study is to recognize emotions using autonomic nervous system responses induced by three different emotions (boredom, pain and surprise). Three different emotional states are evoked by emotional stimuli, physiological signals (EDA, ECG, PPG and SKT) for the induced emotions are measured as the reactions of stimuli, and 27 features are extracted from their physiological signals for emotion recognition. The stimuli are used to provoke emotions and tested their appropriateness and effectiveness. Audio-visual film clips used as stimuli are captured originally from movies, documentary, and TV shows with the appropriateness of 86%, 97.3% and 94.1% for boredom, pain and surprise, respectively, and the effectiveness of 5.23 for happiness, 4.96 for pain and 6.12 for surprise (7 point Likert scale). Also, for the three emotion recognition, we propose a Fuzzy c-means clustering based neural networks using the physiological signals. The proposed model consists of three layers, namely, input, hidden and output layers. Here, fuzzy c-means clustering method, two types of polynomial and linear combination function are used as a kernel function in the input layer, the hidden layer and the output layer of neural networks, respectively. To evaluate the performance of emotion recognition of the proposed model, we use the 10-fold cross validation and a comparative analysis shows that the proposed model exhibit higher accuracy when compared with some other models that exist in the literature. Keywords-emotion; recognition; stimuli; physiological signal; autonomic nervous system responses; neural networks.
The variation of total phenolics agents in exotic goldenrod species

Worldwide Canadian goldenrod (Solidago canadensis L.) belongs to Asteraceae and spreads across Lithuania. Ability of the species to tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions and rapid spread by different means are often outlined as characteristics determining ability to quickly colonize existing communities and become pervasive outside its native ranges. The main aim of this research was to assess the biochemical parameters of Solidago canadensis associated with its invasion success. In its aqueous extracts, the total phenolics content (TPC) ranged between 0.968 mg ml-1 and 23.591 mg ml-1 depending on the plant ontogenetic stage, part of the plant and extract concentration (r= -0.7). The extract significantly inhibited the germination of rapeseed (r= -0.8) and ryegrass (r= -0.5) across different levels of TPC. Thus, due to accumulated allelochemicals, the invasive S. canadensis might acquire distribution advantage in new territories outside the native habitat range, through the inhibitory effects on germination of native plant species.
Incremental Route Refinement for GPS-enabled Cellular Phones

This paper proposes significant route identification; the concept is to combine the locations acquired by the GPS module of the user’s cellular phone. Significant routes are those that the user most frequently passes along. The proposal overcomes the two main weaknesses of cellular phones. One is that GPS data is acquired infrequently in order to reduce the phone’s power consumption, and the other is the poor spatial accuracy of the cellular phone’s commercial GPS module. In order to overcome these weaknesses, the proposed approach incrementally refines the stored routes whenever the user passes along them. In more detail, the system compares the newly acquired GPS points to the stored points and appends the new data so as to decrease route ambiguity. A experiment with 6 subjects over periods of 6-14 months demonstrates that the more often a user passes along a significant route, the more precisely the proposed approach can identify it.
ersatile antitumor potential of isoxanthohumol : Enhancement of aclitaxel activity in vivo

Isoxanthohumol (IXN), a prenylated flavonoid from hops, exhibits diverse biological activities, e.g. antitumor, antiinflammatory, antioxidant and antiangiogenic. In this study, the effect of IXN is evaluated on two melanoma cell lines with dissimilar molecular background, B16 and A375. The treatment of both cell lines with IXN resulted in dose-dependent decrease of cell viability. Abolished viability was in correlation with changed morphology and loss of dividing potential indicating phenotypical alteration of both tested cell lines. While modified B16 cells underwent the process of non-classic differentiation followed by tyrosinase activity without enhancement of melanin content, inhibition of Notch 1, -catenin and Oct3/4 was observed in A375 cells indicating loss of their pluripotent characteristics. In parallel with this, distinct subpopulations in both cell cultures entered the process of programmed cell death—apoptosis in a caspase independent manner. The described changes in cultures upon exposure to IXN could be connected with the suppression of reactive oxygen (ROS) and nitrogen species (RNS) induced by the drug. Despite the differences in which IXN promoted modifications in the upper part of the PI3K/Akt and
AREA COVERAGE STUDIES FOR AN AUTONOMOUS DEMINING ROBOT

This work presents the autonomous area coverage with a lightweight mobile robot equipped with a mine detecting sensor head attached to the end-effector of a two degrees of freedom (2 DOF) actuator arm. Two coverage techniques were employed in this work, line-sweeping (LS) and spacial cell diffusion (SCD). The problem of improving the motion of the platform and the arm, in terms of: number of maneuvers, traversed distance, percentage of area covered and time was addressed. The feasibility and effectiveness of both algorithms are demonstrated by simulation results for coverage work of target area.
The role of occupational motivation and job procrastination in predicting job burnout the employees of Ahar city hospital

Abstract Background and aims : Job burnout is the person's reaction to interpersonal stressors in the workplace. This research has been conducted to examine the role of occupational motivation and procrastination in predicting of job burnout the employees of Ahar city hospital. Methods : The research conducted with the correlational method on 126 staffs' of the hospital that selected by random sampling. The questionnaire of staffs' occupational motivation, procrastination and Maslach's job burnout used in order to collect the data. The collected data analysed by Pearson correlation and multiple regression. Results : There is a significant negative relation between occupational motivation and job burnout (p<0.05). Also, there is a significant positive relationship between procrastination and job burnout (p<0.05). The results of multiple regression analysis showed that the scores of occupational motivation and procrastination can predict the job burnout scores. Conclusion : Occupational motivation, procrastination and job burnout are the important and effective issues in every organisation. Considering the close relation these features together in any planning for research and reform, it is necessary to be considered this relation.
Enhancing the Resolution Limits of Spectral Interferometric Measurements with Swept-Wavelength Interrogation by Means of a Reference Interferometer

An approach for compensating the influence of the interrogator noises on the readings of interferometric sensors, interrogated by means of spectral interferometry with wavelength tuning is proposed. Both theoretical analysis and a proof-of-principle experiment were performed for the example of extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometers (EFPI). Two schemes, comprising of a signal and a reference interferometers, switched in different optical channels of the interrogating unit, were proposed. The approach is based on the fact that the fluctuations of some of the interrogator parameters produce correlated fluctuations of the reference and signal interferometers’ optical path differences’ (OPD) measured values. The fluctuations of the reference interferometer’s measured OPD can be subtracted from the measured OPD of the signal interferometer. The fluctuations of different parameters of the interrogator are considered, the correlation properties of the produced noises of the measured OPD values are demonstrated. The first scheme contains two interferometers with similar parameters and enabled a three-fold resolution improvement in the performed experiments, when the difference of the interferometers OPDs was varied within about 10 nm. The second scheme contains two interferometers with OPDs difference such that all interrogator fluctuations, except for the dominating one produce uncorrelated OPD errors. With the second scheme a two-fold resolution improvement was experimentally demonstrated, when the interferometers’ OPDs difference was varied within more than 1 μm. The proposed approach can be used for improving the resolution of interferometric sensors with relatively large OPDs (greater than 200-300 μm), which can be advantageous for remote materials and surface inspection. The other potential application is the use of relatively simple and chip interrogators with poor wavelength scale repeatability for high-precision measurements.
ELECTRO CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF PROCION BLACK-5B USING CYLINDRICAL FLOW REACTOR- A PILOT PLANT STUDY

Water is the best resources in nature and is essential for animal and plant life. Pollution of water bodies is gradually increasing due to industrial proliferation and urbanization. Nowadays, the worldwide production and use of chemical compounds have increased tremendously and many of them find their way into the environment. Many of these compounds are non-bio-degradable. Therefore, the major concern is to treat the wastewater before it is discharged into environment [1]. The textile and dyeing industry has drawn the attention of environmentalist of worldwide because of its high resource consumption profile in terms of water, chemicals, energy and release of highly contaminated coloured effluent at the end of process leading to intense water pollution. The existing wastewater treatment technology is often inadequate to control the colour of effluent to minimize the toxicity of wastewater having impact on aquatic organisms [2-3]. Aerobic treatment of industrial effluents typically removes most of the biological oxygen demand (BOD) and 60-80% of COD in wastewater [4-6]. However, these treatments are ineffective for colour removals from the textile industry wastewater because most of the synthetic dyes that are non-biodegradable. In aerobic process, the azo bonds can be used
eu CONTINUOUS ATTRACTORS IN HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORKS

In this paper, we demonstrate periodic motion, 3-chaos and 4torus in a five-dimensional Hopfield neural networks for some weight matrices. This purpose is achieved by using Matlab code for computing the Lyapunov spectrum. AMS Subject Classification: 37L30, 37D45, 92B20
Construction of luxCDABE reporter plasmids to investigate regulation of the acrAB and acrEF operons by the AcrS repressor in Escherichia coli BW 25113

The acrAB and acrEF operons of Escherichia coli encode multidrug efflux pumps capable of efficiently exporting a wide variety of antibiotics. The repression of acrAB and acrEF by regulator, AcrS, has not yet been completely elucidated. In order to investigate the role of AcrS in the regulation of the acrAB and acrEF operons, reporter plasmids containing the promoter sequences of these operons were constructed. Promoter regions of acrAB and acrEF were first amplified and stored in the pCRTM2.1-TOPO® vector. Sequencing confirmed that the complete promoter regions of both acrAB and acrEF were successfully cloned. In order to assess regulation of this system in future experiments, the PCR-amplified promoters were cloned into pCS26. The pCS26 vector contains a promoterless reporter luxCDABE operon. Here, we report that we successfully cloned the acrAB and acrEF operon promoter upstream of the luxCDABE operon in pCS26 using Gibson assembly. These constructs can be used in future experiments monitoring change in acrAB and acrEF gene expression in response to AcrS.
Understanding Sino-Zambia Trade Relations : Determinants and Policy Implications ( Conference ID : CFP / 298 / 2017 )

In the context of increasing Sino-Zambia trade and investment relations and the controversy surrounding China’s engagements in Africa, this paper tried to examine the determinants of Zambia’s trade with China. To achieve this, the traditional augmented Gravity Model of International Trade was used for the analysis over a period of 15 years (2000-2014). The results indicate that Sino-Zambia bilateral trade is significantly determined by Zambia’s GDP, such that when other factors are held constant, a unit increase in GDP will lead to Zambia’s exports to China rise by 27%. Further, Sino-Zambia trade is determined by Zambia’s population and the stock of investment as well as China’s GDP per capita and the stock of investment. The paper recommends urgent investments in infrastructure development, especially transport and communications and power generation as well as the formulation of consistent and appropriate policies aimed at reducing trade barriers. Further, a detailed study on how to promote Zambia’s agricultural trade with China is recommended.
University of Birmingham Twisting fatigue in multilayer films of Ag-alloy with indium tin oxide on polyethylene terephthalate for flexible electronics devices

Twisting monotonic and fatigue experiments were conducted on multi-layered films of Ag-alloy based indium tin oxide (ITO) deposited on polyethylene terephthalate (PET). In the twisting tests, crack development and electrical resistance were monitored in situ . Cracks initiated at an angle of 39° ± 1.7° and propagated towards the direction of the sample length. Two sets of experiments were performed; the first set of experiments was conducted to study the effect of twisting angle and temperature on the film’s electromechanical performance. The other set of experiments was conducted to study the effect of temperature in the absence of cyclic twisting deformation. The change in electrical resistance increased with number of twisting cycles and twisting angle. In addition, the highest change in electrical resistance was observed for samples subjected to cyclic fatigue at 100 °C, which is attributed to crack growth and oxidation of the Ag-alloy layer. The cracks were observed to initiate not only from coating defects but also from edge defects. Development of cracks is accelerated due to the combined effects of the external repeated stress with temperature. Therefore, it is suggested that controlling temperature when using ITO/Ag-alloy/ITO thin film under mechanical stress is important for electrical device performance; temperatures in both fabrication and use should not exceed 50 °C.
Interactive comment on “ Can pH and electrical conductivity monitoring reveal spatial and temporal patterns in wetland geochemical processes ? ” by P

General Comments: This manuscript attempts to infer the main controls on hydrochemical/hydrologic conditions in a study area in Minnesota from pH and EC measurements. This is a laudable goal given that field electrochemistry allows large surveys of pH and EC to be performed relatively quickly and affordably in contrast to many other types of analyses. The methods draw from simple reaction stoichiometry and some hypothetical equilibrium reaction models. While a reasonable approach in general, the current manuscript is unconvincing because it includes some weak assumptions and poor supporting evidence at critical junctures, and it arrives at rather equivocal conclusions. And while I understand the motivation to keep the analysis as simple as possible, there is a missed opportunity to use the scarce available ion data to their greatest possible
Privacy authentication using key attribute-based encryption in mobile cloud computing

Mobile Cloud Computing is becoming more popular in nowadays were users of smartphones are getting increased. So, the security level of cloud computing as to be increased. Privacy Authentication using key-attribute based encryption helps the users for business development were the data sharing with the organization using the cloud in a secured manner. In Privacy Authentication the sender of data will have permission to add their receivers to whom the data access provided for others the access denied. In sender application, the user can choose the file which is to be sent to receivers and then that data will be encrypted using Key-attribute based encryption using AES algorithm. In which cipher created, and that stored in Amazon Cloud along with key value and the receiver list.
Environmental and Social Sustainability in UK Construction Industry: a Systematic Literature Review

Research on sustainability in the construction industry is common in construction journals addressing the potential adverse effects conventional practices have in the construction community. Sustainability is addressed through the environmental, social and economic impacts in literature and researchers and practitioners always drive the need for an equal attention on these three dimensions, but not so successfully at present. Sustainability covers a broad content with various suggested approaches arising from different countries all over the world. Previous studies have investigated sustainable construction issues as a global concept and in individual developed countries such as the US, Australia, and China. The aim of this research is to investigate the extent of coverage, by academia, of the sustainability concept in UK construction industry, with a focus on the environmental and social aspects of sustainability, based on the Triple Bottom Line framework. The researchers conducted a systematic literature review, searching relevant articles with predefined criteria in two major bibliographical databases, which offer great coverage of the existing academic journals in social sciences. The study utilised the PRISMA reporting approach and the search resulted in thirty-one suitable articles. The findings revealed that environmental sustainability receives much more attention than social sustainability. Added emphasis is given to green buildings and materials used. Government regulations seem to be the leading driver for adopting sustainable practices, while lack of knowledge/awareness of sustainable best practices is the leading challenge.
Dynamic Systems and Applications 26 (2017) 1-10 EXISTENCE AND ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY OF AN IMPULSIVE STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

Stochastic differential equations have been widely applied in science, engineering, biology, mathematical finance and in almost all sciences. In the current literature, there are many papers on the existence and uniqueness of solutions to stochastic differential equations see [9,5,6] and references therein. More recently, Fu and Liu [4] discussed the existence and uniqueness of square-mean almost automorphic solutions to some linear and nonlinear stochastic differential equations, the asymptotic stability of the unique square-mean almost automorphic solution was established in the squaremean sense.
oping with resettlement : A livelihood adaptation analysis in the ekong River basin

A major driver of change in the Mekong River basin relates to hydropower development and the consequent changes in landscape and natural resource access regime that it induces. In this paper, we examine how the livelihoods of resettlers evolve following resettlement, and examine the determinants of that process. The study takes place in the context of the Theun Hinboun Expansion Project in Lao PDR. Based on longitudinal household surveys conducted before resettlement as well as 1, 2, and 3 years after reset-
Optimization of the Four Most Effective Factors on β-Carotene Production by Dunaliella salina Using Response Surface Methodology

During recent years, there was growing demand in using microalga valuable products such as β-carotene in health care. β-Carotene has anti-cancer and anti-aging properties for human. In Dunaliella salina cells, β-carotene has a major protecting role for biomolecules, when the production of reactive oxygen species is elevated. In the present study, we investigated the influence of the four most effective factors (light intensity, temperature, nitrate and salinity concentration) and their interactions on the β-carotene production and the total chlorophyll/β-carotene ratio in low light adapted D. salina cells. Box-Benken design and response surface methodology (RSM) were used for this purpose and optimization of the factor levels. Two models were developed to explain how β-carotene productivity and the total chlorophyll/β-carotene ratio may depend on the stress factors. Among the four stress variables for β-carotene production, light intensity was stronger than the others. Meanwhile, interaction between light intensity and salt concentration exhibited the most important effect on the total chlorophyll/ β-carotene ratio. The predicted optimal conditions for maximum β-carotene productivity and minimum total chlorophyll/β-carotene ratio were derived from the fitted model in 200 µmol photons m-2s-1 light intensity, 25 ºC, 0.9 mM nitrate and 3.8 M NaCl. When the predicted condition was tested experimentally, the expected results were observed. This suggests that overproduction of β-carotene in D. salina under certain conditions depends on used light intensity for preadaptation. The step-wise manner applying of stresses may act as a beneficial strategy to β-carotene overproduction.
HUOM! Tämä on alkuperäisen artikkelin rinnakkaistallenne. Rinnakkaistallenne saattaa erota

This chapter augments consumer culture theorizing around subject-object relations with a feminist intervention into how materiality is conceptualized. It introduces the material-semiotic concept of carnal-singularity, drawing on the work about singularity in consumer culture research (Epp and Price 2010; Belk and Coon 1993; Kopytoff 1986) to recover the body as a significant materiality in analyses of object agency in the context of chocolate gift giving. Materiality and chocolate has a long, complex and interesting history, and chocolate is inextricably semiotically linked with carnality. We develop that understanding by exploring the processes by which the body of the woman (gifter or recipient) imbues the chocolate, in order to enhance our understanding of the giving and consumption of chocolate. This process is re-conceptualized as the carnal-singularity of chocolate. By using online data in three languages, French, Finnish and English, we demonstrate how the carnal-singularity of chocolate shifts across language contexts, and how this reflects gendered and sexualized cultural and societal structures.