Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Study on Physiological Responses to Color Stimulation

Recently, many areas including design have been evolving from being conventionally function‐oriented to being sensibility‐oriented, and this trend has prompted an increase in the importance of sensory stimulation. Among various elements that stimulate human senses and satisfy sensibility, color is directly influenced by human sensibility and is the primary visual simulation emanating from objects. While previous research on color and sensibility has typically used a qualitative evaluation, the purpose of this present study is to examine quantitative color design through a more systematic and scientific color design approach. For this purpose, we applied systematic analysis through the subjective evaluation of sensibility and the objective evaluation of the biosignal response, and quantitatively assessed how human sensibility responds to color and each color image. The experiment was conducted with 30 healthy male and female adults in a color room (4×3.5×2.5m) of six different colors – red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple – and biosignals were measured such as heart rate variability (HRV), blood pressure, intraocular pressure, and body temperature, while color stimulation was applied for 5 minutes. Subjective sensibility was measured on the 7‐point scale of the SD method before and after the experiment using 20 emotional adjectives extracted through the KJ method, and the results were analyzed objectively. Professional papers and previous works state that, universally, warm colors help to activate the sympathetic nerve system, while cold colors affect the parasympathetic nerve system. However, this experiment shows that by adjusting color luminosities to fit preferred levels of individual test subjects rather than using the typical color luminosities and stimulating with the adjusted colors, warm colors do positively affect the parasympathetic nerve system to calm the body and mind through the emotional adjective evaluation and the physiological signal measurement evaluation. This means that physiological and psychological reactions from colors can be assessed differently through the preferred color or luminosity of the user. In addition, intraocular pressure, blood pressure, and body temperature also showed significant differences between before and after color stimulation. In the evaluation of subjective sensibility, the analysis of emotional adjectives was consistent with the objective evaluation of biosignal before and after color stimulation, and the results differed among the colors.
An empirical study of railway station access mode choice

This paper discusses residents’ preferences regarding train travel with a focus on mode choice behaviour for railway station access modes of car, bus, bicycle and walk. Train transit is perceived as a stable and punctual service, yet in low density and car oriented cities, train services are ignored by travelers. The general issue is that train stations are often too difficult to access. This paper utilizes stated preference data to help identify significant factors in train access mode choices on a case study of a rail corridor. The findings uncover that walking distance, bus access, waiting time for bus, car access and car park availability are statistically significant. When considering the choice heterogeneity, time of day is related to the walk mode, and it also impacts the choice between car and bus access modes to the station. Sociodemographic factors of age, income and gender also influence mode choice and should always be considered in policy strategy. Further policy recommendations in this paper include to provide sheltered walkways and shaded cycling paths, improve feeder bus services to railway stations and increase station services to create a safer environment that can attract more train users. This study also indicates that transit nodes adjacent to urban precinct developments that provide a shorter accessing distance would help to reduce car usage and should be a continuous focus in urban planning.
Prevalence and phenotypic characterization of ESBL producing E.coli and Klebsiella among the fecal isolates of normal population

Introduction: Prevalence of extended spectrum beta lactamase producing bacteria has been increasing worldwide despite of outbreak situations. ESBLs occupying the gastrointestinal tract are spread across other bacteria and humans through the environment. The present study is a report on the prevalence of ESBL producers among normal individuals of a rural population in south India. Materials and Methods: 1000 normal individuals were selected from the villages of Salem district. Stool samples were collected and processed in MacConkey agar plates supplemented with Cefotaxime 5ug/ml. Morphological and biochemical methods were used to identify the colonies initially. ESBL producing organisms were identified by Double Disk Synergy Test – DDST and Phenotypic Confirmatory Disk Diffusion test- PCDDT. Results: From the total number of samples, 37.9% has shown bacterial growth. The rate of ESBL producing Enterobacteriaceae was found to be 33.8% with E.coli (29.3%) being the predominant species followed by klebsiella (8.6%). Conclusion: The results of our study gives a brief information about the multidrug resistance and also the prevalence of ESBL producing bacteria in the community faecal flora. Phenotypic methods were successfully applied to screen large number of samples. The rate of ESBL producers in the community is notably high. Routine surveillance programmes and awareness of hygienic practices among the rural population are highly recommended to monitor and control the spread. Keywords: Beta lactams, E.coli, Enterobacteriaceae, Klebsiella.
Efficacy of different positions for neuraxial anesthesia in caesarean section : a meta-analysis

Background and objectives: Positions during induction of neuraxial anesthesia are related to maternal and fetus health. The aim of our analysis was to evaluate whether lateral position could make more benefit than oxford and sitting positions to both anesthesia and physical conditions of parturients and neonatus. Methods: The Pubmed, the Cochrane Library and Embase database was searched for relevant studies. The Cochrane collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias was used to assess quality of studies. Review manager and Stata were used for statistical analysis. Results: Thirteen randomized controlled trails with 702 participants were included. Lateral position was more effective on anesthesia effect compared with sitting (mean difference (MD)=-2.02, 95% confidence interval (CI): -3.38 to -0.67) and oxford position (MD=-5.36, 95% CI: -6.58 to -4.14), respectively. Sitting position had higher hypotension incidence than lateral position (odds ratio (OR)=0.53, 95% CI: 0.26 to 1.05). Ephedrine consumption among groups represented obvious heterogeneity and a conclusion could not be drawn. Result of combined side effects including nausea and vomiting and shivering was consistent with anesthesia effect between lateral and sitting positions (OR=1.59, 95% CI: 1.03 to 2.45). Neonatal status showed no significant differences among different positions. Conclusions: This study suggested that lateral position might be more beneficial to parturients and neonatus in more adequate anesthesia and lower complication incidence. Potential hemodynamics fluctuation affected by positions needed further disclosure. Positions during induction of neuraxial anesthesia may not influence neonatal status.
How does knowledge spur economic growth ? The contribution of universities and the importance of geographical space

In this paper, we test whether there is a link between the performance of universities and the economic growth where they operate. We specify a growth model where the ratio at which universities are able to convert inputs into outputs has been measured taking into account the traditional role of universities (i.e. teaching and research) as well as the knowledge transfer through which they interact with the communities. The model is estimated on panel data over the period 2006 to 2012. The evidence suggests that the presence of universities fosters local development, validating the use of university efficiency as an instrument able to capture the impact on the community of the ability of universities of making the most with the available resources; knowledge spillovers occur between areas through the geographical proximity to the efficient universities, suggesting that the geography of production is affected, mainly when all the three mission of universities are taken into account.
The Shia Revival . How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future

Alongside the fierce resistance against the occupation, another surprise of the Iraq venture of great consequence that requires explanation and assessment is the political rise of the Shia’s and their clash with the Sunni establishment, in Iraq and beyond. Vali Nasr, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a 2006 fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations is convinced not only that the development of Shia-Sunni relations is of paramount consequence for the region, but also that the public is so unfamiliar with the Shia and the nature of their so-called sectarian conflict with the Sunni, that an introduction is needed. In this engaging book he gives just that: an admirably informed and succinct introduction to a little understood aspect of Middle East politics.
A Secure Mechanism for Public Auditing and Retrieving Users Cloud Information by Means of Multiple Ranking System

Users can added various records in the form of text, image, audio, video etc. through the program by using encryption algorithm so as to it be able to stored on cloud. Thus we can secure data on a cloud. Due to this efficiency is increase and data will be secure on the cloud. Recently, some research considers the complexity of protected and ordered community information truthfulness audit for shared energetic data. But this scheme is not protected next to support of confuse storage space server. An ordered community truthfulness auditing with a protected set consumer revocation based on vector commitment and collection user revocation. A scattered key in age group algorithm is toward produce authentic user passwords diagonally many servers and remove on its own position failure. This system chain the community read-through and capable consumer revocation and also provide confidentiality, good society and traceability of protected collection customer revocation. A homomorphism encryption algorithm as well as used esigned for creatings ingle identification for the users. In this system, we apply a novel community verify technique for the truthfulness of common data with well-organized consumer revocation in a mind. Be applicability scheme of replacement re-signatures. It funding the shades to leave block on favour of obtain able user through the revocation, so as to obtainable user perform not require to download and leave blocks in themselves. In a public verify, it always able to audit the truthfulness of common data with no the fetching of whole information beginning the confuse, even if several parts of common data have been quit by cloud. This method is adept to hold batch audit by verify many audit mission simultaneously. Experimental results shows that our machine be capable of considerably recover the efficiency of consumer revocation.
Combined expression of E-cadherin and KAI 1 is associated withlymph node metastasis and poor prognosis in breast cancer

Background: Metastasis, and not the primary tumor, is the main cause of breast cancer-related mortality. E-cadherin (E-cad) and KAI1 have been shown to play crucial roles in tumor invasion and metastasis, however, the association between the expression of E-cad and KAI1 in breast cancer patients remains unclear. Methods: 96 cases were diagnosed as invasive ductal breast cancer, and forty cases as benign hyperplasia. The immunohistochemical was used to detect E-cad and KAI1 expression in cases of invasive ductal carcinomas of the breast, and benign hyperplasia. The relationship between E-cad and KAI1 was analyzed as well as the relationship between two tumor markers and potential metastasis of invasive ductal breast cancer. Results: The expression of both E-cad and KAI1 protein in breast cancer tissue was significantly lower than that in benign breast tissue. The expression rates of E-cad and KAI1 were lower for patients with axillary lymph node metastasis than for normal lymph nodes. And the expression of E-cad and KAI1 was also related to the expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors in breast carcinoma. The loss of E-cad and KAI1 function was also associated with poor prognosis in breast cancer. Conclusions: The low expression levels of E-cad and KAI1 were correlated with the malignant progression of breast cancer. E-cad and KAI1 may be considered as valuable markers for staging human breast cancer and predicting cancer prognosis.
Corpus Linguistics ( CILC 2013 ) Babel Treebank of Public Messages in Croatian

The paper presents the process of constructing a publicly available treebank of public messages written in Croatian. The messages were collected from various electronic sources e-mail, blog, Facebook and SMS and published on the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art LED facade within the Babel art project. The project aimed to use the facade as an open-space blog or social interface for enabling citizens to publicly express their views. Construction and current state of the treebank is presented along with future work plans. A comparison of Babel Treebank with Croatian Dependency Treebank and SETimes.HR treebank regarding differing domains and annotation schemes is briefly sketched. The treebank is used as a test platform for introducing a new standard for syntactic annotation of Croatian texts. An experiment with morphosyntactic tagging and dependency parsing of the treebank is conducted, providing first insight to computational processing of non-standard text in Croatian. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of CILC2013.
Natural Capital and Subjective Well-Being : A Cross-Country Multiple Regression Analysis

The paper explores whether the positive correlation between natural capital per capita and subjective well-being variables found in bivariate regressions at the country level survives in a multiple regression context. Employing a sample of fifty-eight countries, regressions are estimated that also include standard country-level determinants of subjective well-being (GNI per capita, social capital, income distribution, unemployment, inflation), as well as some regional dummy variables. We find that the positive correlation tends to remain. The role of outliers and use of alternative subjective well-being measures are explored. The findings arguably strengthen the case for a ‘new welfare economics of sustainability’ that takes subjective well-being measures into account.
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring using Artificial Neural Network

The project has been taken to perform research on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) algorithm. For training ANN, Backpropagation Lebvenberg Marquardt (LM) algorithm have been employed instead of Backpropagation Gradient Descent (GD) due to its prediction accuracy of 87.2% for sixteen different switching combinations of 4 loads. The developed system uses interactive GUI to monitor real-time energy consumed by the loads every second. The load disaggregation technique for detection of sixteen possible occurrence of four load’s events has been suggested as a suitable way of implementing NILM. The achieved prediction accuracy for the research gives, practically, a good fit countering the adverse effect of overfitting experienced in achieving high prediction accuracy in AI algorithms. Type of Paper: Conceptual.
Effects of dual-task on gait and cognition in patients with advanced Parkinson ’ s disease during ‘ on ’ or ‘ off ’ medication state

Background: In the present study, we investigated the effects of dual-task on cognitive and motor functions in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) during “on” or “off” state, and evaluated the degrees of movement disorder during dual-task performance under different status of medication. Objective: The present study was designed to investigate the effects of dual-task on cognitive and motor functions in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) during “on” or “off” state, and evaluate the degrees of movement disorder during dual-task performance under different status of medication. Methods: We evaluated motor functions including step velocity, step length, and rotation velocity in 20 patients with advanced PD in “on” or “off” state during the performance of a dual-task. Results: Both motor and cognitive task performance (i.e., correct calculation efficiency of concurrent serial addition of 3 additions or subtraction of 7) were reduced during dual-task when compared to single task (i.e., walking only). While concurrent serial addition or subtraction impaired motor functions to a similar degree in patients during “off” or “on” state after L-DOPA treatment, correct calculation efficiency of concurrent serial subtraction of 7 was reduced, relative to that of concurrent serial addition of 3, and correct calculation efficiency of concurrent serial subtraction of 7 and serial addition of 3 was reduced, relative to the single task condition. Such impairment in cognitive task performance became more severe when patients were in “off” state of L-DOPA. Conclusions: Our results suggested that neurological functions involved in gait adjustment might be different during “on” or “off” state after L-DOPA treatment. The complexity of cognitive task in dual task test can significantly impact performances of motor and cognitive tasks in patients with advanced PD.
8 Certifying the World : Power Infrastructures and Practices in Economies of Conventional Forms

Contemporary economies rest on heavy infrastructures of conventional forms. They rely on formal indicators, accounts and procedures, standards, benchmarks, good practices, etc. Formalization reaches everyday life, which, for the most part, consists of making and recombining formal statements. Yet, in contrast with centralized bureaucratic authorities, contemporary formalized objectives come close to agents. Human beings are expected to invest their energy—and even their whole personality—in achieving objectives that are made objective to be measureable. This chapter reveals the specific features of this new mode of governing through certifying standards and objectives. In a dialogue with other contributions on the renewal of economic sociology, the author offers new analytical tools at the crossroad of the “Convention School” and “pragmatic sociology,” two research orientations of which he was one of the initiators. These tools might help to strengthen critical approaches to political economy and economic sociology.
Model-Driven Middleware to Support Dynamic Applications for different Domains in Smart Cities

The concept of smart cities entails the use of information technologies to access the resources of the city in a more intelligent way providing specialized services to citizens. In this way, the city’s IT infrastructure should facilitate the development, deployment and operation of smart city applications for several different domains. Building these applications becomes a great challenge since: they are used on a large scale, have dynamic behavior, must access heterogeneous resources and must deal with the semantics of these different domains. In this work, we propose an integrated environment to assists in the construction and execution of smart city applications. To achieve this goal, we propose the use of a model-driven approach to domain-specific middleware which provides support for the development of application on top of a domain-independent smart city platform.
The action of implementing creative dance in school education in Taiwan

Since the Nine-year Curriculum’s launch in 2000, there have been an increasing number of studies on the implementation of creative dance or its related elements in the context of school education in Taiwan. Most of the researchers in creative dance were full-time teachers who, with or without a professional dance background, made efforts to solve practical problems in their work by conducting action research in their classes. This panel discusses this trend of “teachers as researchers” by investigating how teacher-researchers have brought related elements of creative dance into Taiwanese schools. First, Dr. Wu reviewed 30 Master’s theses that employed action research as the primary research method to investigate the implementation of creative dance in schools in Taiwan under the construct of the Nine-year Curriculum. She analyzed their rationales and purposes; the spiraling cycles of action research, which are planning, acting, observing, and reflecting; and research findings. The other two panelists, who are full-time teachers in elementary and junior high schools, respectively, shared their experiences of integrating dance into various learning areas for school children. Min-ping Lin presented her action research, which explored her experience of teaching street dance within the framework of creative dance. Street dance was used as the medium of creative dance teaching to stimulate the students’ motivation for learning. Sessions were arranged into a process of action research, through which the progress of students was examined and the teaching experience of the teacher accordingly reflected upon.The findings suggested that using street dance could effectively promote the learning motivation of students. In creative dance, students experienced the process of self-exploration in both body and mind. The teachers inspired students’ creativity and imagination by implementing a series of play-like activities. Conducting action research enhanced the teachers’ professional development, sharpening their vision of curriculum development of creative dance. The research results could be looked upon as a reference for curriculum design in the performing arts. Ching-lung Tseng, who is a long-time folk dance practitioner, questioned the “mimicking” teaching method in folk dance teaching. In her study, she tried to stimulate students’ creativity by guiding them to change movement elements within the original folk dance styles. In addition to being introduced to dance costumes, music, and culture, her students were taught basic dance steps and how to create a dance out of them. She applied an action research method to 15 folk
Effect of Composition on the Microstructure , Tensile and Hardness Properties of Al – x Si Alloys

hardness. Aluminum alloys have extensive application in industries. The range of physical properties that can be imparted to them is remarkable. Mixing of silicon to aluminum tends to increase its strength to weight ratio and wear resistance, and tends to decrease its density and coefficient of thermal expansion. Using Al–Si cast alloys in automotive industry also for manufacturing purposes is profitable in many aspects. These alloys are important, because reduce vehicle weight also because their good fluidity and corrosion resistance. Density test is done by measuring the mass & the volume of the alloy samples. Controlling the microstructure is very important, because intermetallic phases affecting mechanical and fatigue properties. Study of microstructure has showed the presence of primary silicon. The mechanical properties of Al–Si alloys are strongly influenced by the size, shape and distribution of Si phase present in the microstructure. Yield strength, ultimate tensile strength and harness have increased with the increase of silicon content. But, percent elongation decreases with the increase of silicon content. The hardness of the samples increases with the increase in silicon content.