Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
IOT Based Industrial Management

: Internet of Things (IOT) is rapidly increasing technology. IOT is the network of physical objects or things embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and exchange data. In this project, we are developing a system which will automatically monitor the industrial applications and generate Alerts/Alarms or take intelligent decisions using concept of IOT. IOT has given us a promising way to build powerful industrial systems and applications by using wireless devices, Android and sensors. A main contribution of this project is that it uses IOT in industries to monitor and control the Industry using various sensors and control units.
Social Transparency Through Recommendation Engines and its Challenges: Looking Beyond Privacy

Our knowledge society is quickly becoming a â€˜transparentâ€™ one. This transparency is acquired, among other means, by â€™personalizationâ€™ or â€˜profilingâ€™: ICT tools gathering contextualized information about individuals in menâ€“computers interactions. The paper begins with an overview of these ICT tools (behavioral targeting, recommendation engines, â€˜personalizationâ€™ through social networking). Based on these developments the analysis focus a case study of developments in social network (Facebook) and the trade-offs between â€˜personalizationâ€™ and privacy constrains. A deeper analysis will reveal unexpected challenges and the need to overcome the privacy paradigm. Finally a draft of possible normative solutions will be depicted, grounded in new forms of individual rights.
Development of a global model of mineral dust aerosol microphysics

Abstract. A mineral dust module is developed and implemented into the global aerosol microphysics model, GISS-TOMAS. The model is evaluated against long-term measurements of dust surface mass concentrations and deposition fluxes. Predicted mass concentrations and deposition fluxes are in error on average by a factor of 3 and 5, respectively. The comparison shows that the model performs better near the dust source regions but underestimates surface concentrations and deposition fluxes in more remote regions. Including only sites with measured dust concentrations of at least 0.5 μg m−3, the model prediction agrees with observations to within a factor of 2. It was hypothesized that the lifetime of dust, 2.6 days in our base case, is too short and causes the underestimation in remote areas. However, a sensitivity simulation with smaller dust particles and increased lifetime, 3.7 days, does not significantly improve the comparison. These results suggest that the underestimation of mineral dust in remote areas may result from local factors/sources not well described by the global dust source function used here or the GCM meteorology. The effect of dust aerosols on CCN(0.2%) concentrations is negligible in most regions of the globe; however, CCN(0.2%) concentrations change decrease by 10–20% in dusty regions the impact of dust on CCN(0.2%) concentrations in dusty regions is very sensitive to the assumed size distribution of emissions. If emissions are predominantly in the coarse mode, CCN(0.2%) decreases in dusty regions up to 10–20% because dust competes for condensable H2SO4, reducing the condensational growth of ultrafine mode particles to CCN sizes. With significant fine mode emissions, however, CCN(0.2%) doubles in Saharan source regions because the direct emission of dust particles outweighs any microphysical feedbacks. The impact of dust on CCN concentrations active at various water supersaturations is also investigated. Below 0.1%, CCN concentrations increase significantly in dusty regions due to the presence of coarse dust particles. Above 0.2%, CCN concentrations show a similar behavior as CCN(0.2%).
Handbook on World Social Forum Activism

List of Tables and Figures List of Acronyms Preface and Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: Learning from the World Social Forums Jackie Smith, Scott Byrd, Ellen Reese, and Elizabeth Smythe Part I Background and Context 1 Social Forums as Public Stage and Infrastructure of Global Justice Movements Dieter Rucht 2 (In)Fertile Ground? Social Forum Activism in Its Regional and Local Dimensions Peter (Jay) Smith and Elizabeth Smythe 3 The Political and its Absence in the World Social Forum: Implications for Democracy in the Forum and in the World Teivo Teivainen 4 Surveys of World Social Forum Participants Show Influence of Place and Base in the Global Public Sphere Ellen Reese, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Kadambari Anantram, Gary Coyne, Matheu Kaneshiro, Ashley N. Koda, Roy Kwon, and Preeta Saxena Part II Campaigns and Movements in the Social Forum Process 5 More Than a Shadow of a Difference? Feminist Participation in the World Social Forum Lyndi Hewitt and Marina Karides 6 Indigenous Peoples and Social Forums Marc Becker and Ashley N. Koda 7 Building National Labor Solidarity: Unions and Labor Activists at the 2007 U.S. Social Forum Ellen Reese, Kadambari Anantram, Linda J. Kim, Roy Kwon, and Preeta Saxena 8 The World Social Forum as a Bounded Open Space: Maintain It, Fix It, or Nix It? Evidence from Post-9/11 Global Antiwar Activism Ruth Reitan 9 Our World Is Not for Sale! The WSF Process and Transnational Resistance to International Trade Agreements Elizabeth Smythe 10 Global Environmentalists and Their Movements at the World Social Forums Matheu Kaneshiro, Kirk S. Lawrence, and Christopher Chase-Dunn 11 The Road to the World Social Forum: The Case of the Dalit Movement Peter (Jay) Smith Part III Local Places and Global Spaces 12 African Voices and Activists at the WSF in Nairobi: The Uncertain Ways of Transnational African Activism Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle and Johanna Simeant 13 Global Movements in Local Struggles: Findings on the Social Forum Process in Italy Donatella della Porta and Lorenzo Mosca 14 Diverging Visions of Another World in the Making of the Quebec Social Forum Pascale Dufour and Janet Conway 15 In the Belly of Empire: The U.S. Social Forum Process Jeffrey S. Juris and Jackie Smith with the USSF Research Collective Part IV Democratic Innovations 16 Youth Camps and the Bolivarian Revolution: A Story of Horizontalism and Blocked Diffusion Lesley J. Wood 17 Deliberative Discussion and Languages in the World Social Forum Process Nicole Doerr 18 Democratic Innovation in the U.S. and European Social Forums Jackie Smith and Nicole Doerr 19 Transnational Movement Innovation and Collaboration: Analysis of World Social Forum Networks Scott Byrd and Lorien Jasny Conclusion: The Space as Actor: The Form and Content of the Social Forum Process Thomas Ponniah References About the Contributors Index
Advancing Strategic Entrepreneurship Research: The Role of Complexity Science in Shifting the Paradigm

Five areas are identified wherein more development might enhance the current model of strategic entrepreneurship (SE): exploration–exploitation, opportunity, newness, micro–macro interaction, and dynamics. Complexity science is presented as an alternative theoretical lens for addressing these issues, and enhancing the potential of SE in a world characterized by fluctuations, irreversibility, nonlinearity, and instabilities. Using this lens, a rearticulation of SE is proposed that centers on the notion of an opportunity space and a paradigm built around forms, flows, and functions. SE's domain consists of a complex set of phenomena that cannot be neatly bundled according to disciplinary boundaries.
A 12 bit 76MS/s SAR ADC with a Capacitor Merged Technique in 0.18µm CMOS Technology

A new high-resolution and high-speed fully differential Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) based on Capacitor Merged Technique is presented in this paper. The main purposes of the proposed idea are to achieve high-resolution and high-speed SAR ADC simultaneously as well. It is noteworthy that, exerting the suggested method the total capacitance and the ratio of the MSB and LSB capacitor are decreased, as a result, the speed and accuracy of the ADC are increased reliably. Therefore, applying the proposed idea, it is reliable that to attain a 12-bit resolution ADC at 76MS/s sampling rate. Furthermore, the power consumption of the proposed ADC is 694µW with the power supply of 1.8 volts correspondingly. The proposed post-layout SAR ADC structure is simulated in all process corner condition and different temperatures of -50℃ to +50℃, and performed using the HSPICE BSIM3 model of a 0. 18µm CMOS technology.
Studies of Non-conventional Configuration Closed Electron Drift Thrusters

In this paper we review recent results obtained for segmented electrode and cylindrical Hall thrusters. A low sputtering graphite segmented electrode, placed at the exit of the annular thruster, is shown to affect the plasma potential distribution in the ceramic channel. This effect appears to be correlated with an observed plume reduction compared to a conventional, nonsegmented thruster. In preliminary experiments a 3 cm thruster was operated in the 50-200 W power range. Two operating regimes, stable and oscillating, were observed and investigated.
Cutting Assembled Carbon Nanotubes with Atomic Force Microscope for Fabrication of Nanoelectrodes

This paper first presents a new fabrication method for CNT nanoelectrode pairs by combining the DEP and AFM lithography. The single CNT is driven and electrically connected with the microeletrodes by the DEP force, and then cut into nanoeletrode pairs through the AFM tip. The fabricated CNT nanoeletrode pairs can be used as probes to detect species in micro-environment and applied in electrochemical sensors.
An investigation on the origin of regional springtime ozone episodes in the western Mediterranean

Abstract. For the identification of regional springtime ozone episodes, rural European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) ozone measurements from countries surrounding the western Mediterranean (Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Malta) have been examined with emphasis on periods of high ozone-mixing ratios, according to the variation of the daily afternoon (12:00–18:00) ozone values. For two selected high ozone episodes in April and May 2008, composite NCEP/NCAR reanalysis maps of various meteorological parameters and/or their anomalies (geopotential height, specific humidity, vertical wind velocity omega, vector wind speed and temperature) at various tropospheric pressure levels have been examined together with the corresponding satellite Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) ozone measurements (at 3 and 10 km), CHIMERE simulations, vertical ozone soundings and HYSPLIT back trajectories. The observations show that high ozone values are detected in several countries simultaneously over several days. Also, the examined spring ozone episodes over the western Mediterranean and in central Europe are linked to synoptic meteorological conditions very similar to those recently observed in summertime ozone episodes over the eastern Mediterranean (Kalabokas et al., 2013, 2015; Doche et al., 2014), where the transport of tropospheric ozone-rich air masses through atmospheric subsidence significantly influences the boundary layer and surface ozone-mixing ratios. In particular, the geographic areas with observed tropospheric subsidence seem to be the transition regions between high-pressure and low-pressure systems. During the surface ozone episodes IASI satellite measurements show extended areas of high ozone in the lower- and upper-troposphere over the low-pressure system areas, adjacent to the anticyclones, which influence significantly the boundary layer and surface ozone-mixing ratios within the anticyclones by subsidence and advection in addition to the photochemically produced ozone there, resulting in exceedances of the 60 ppb standard.
EVIDÉNCIA DE MECANISMO DE ACELERADOR FINANCEIRO

Documento recebido no dia 14 de abril de 2009; versao final aceita no dia 10 de agosto de 2009. Mediante técnicas de estimacao Bayesiana, esti¬ mamos para a economia colombiana um modelo dinámico estocástico de equilíbrio geral para uma economia pequena e aberta que se enfrenta a imperfeicoes no mercado de crédito. Mostramos que a combinacao de efeitos de folha de balado e a escolha do regime de política de taxa de cámbio provavelmente cumpre um importante papel na magnificacao e propagacao de choques iniciais á economia. Como uma aplicacao, mostramos que o nosso modelo explica a crise colombiana de 1998-1999, quando o incremento nos Spreads da dívida teve um impacto importante no crédito doméstico, pro¬ vocando uma recessao severa.
Using winter flounder growth rates to assess habitat quality in Rhode Island's coastal lagoons

We used growth rates of juvenile winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus, to assess habitat quality in 3 of Rhode Island's coastal salt ponds that had differing levels of nutrients and human development. In each pond, 1 m 2 cages were placed in vegetated and unvegetated habitats and growth rates of individually marked fish were measured in three 10 to 15 d experiments from 4 June to 7 July 1997. Water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and benthic food were also measured. Stable isotopes of C and N were measured in experimental and wild fish. Growth rates were 0.06 to 0.76 mm d -1 and decreased through the experiments. Growth rates of wild fish (0.19 mm d -1 in Point Judith Pond and 0.21 in Ninigret Pond) were similar to the average of the 2nd and 3rd experiments (0.24 mm d -1 ). Growth rates were the same in vegetated and unvegetated sites. They were also the same in Point Judith and Ninigret ponds but lower in Green Hill Pond. An ANCOVA suggested that Green Hill's lower rates were caused by its higher temperatures, particularly during the 3rd experiment. Benthic food was similar in the different ponds, different habitat types, and in cores taken inside and outside cages. Categories of food consumed by fish were not affected by the presence of vegetation in a cage, although food consumed did differ from pond to pond. Amphipods were the preferred food in all ponds; fish consumed proportionately more amphipods and fewer polychaetes in Ninigret Pond than in the other ponds. Values of δ 15 N in the fish varied with the degree of development in the watershed but not with total nitrogen in the water column. The results of this study indicate that growth rates of fish can be used as indicators of habitat quality.
A Study on Satisfaction of Internet Shopping-mall between Customer's Lifestyle

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and test hypotheses that the internet shopping customer`s satisfaction would be differences between customer`s lifestyle and a type of buying product characteristics. In addition, this study tested differences between lifestyle groups and product type in terms of customer`s transaction continuity. In result, we find that there are significant differences of customer`s satisfaction and customer`s continuity in terms of the lifestyle, but not in the product types. This study provide useful informations on market segmentation strategy to the firms which had been doing on-line shopping and will help them minimize the possible risks when firms enter into internet shopping market.
Modeling Field-Level Conservation Tillage Adoption with Aggregate Choice Data

This empirical study of conservation tillage adoption relies on the logit model applied to fieldlevel information on agents’ attributes and county-aggregated measures of agents’ choices. The methodology treats the aggregated data as an expected value—the area-weighted group average of individual probabilities of choosing conservation tillage—subject to a measurement error. Using 2002 and 2004 data for Iowa, we estimate field-level costs of the adoption of conservation tillage. The results indicate that adoption is significantly affected by soil characteristics and crop rotation and highlight the heterogeneity in adoption costs when controlling for these characteristics.
OPTIMAL SELECTION OF THRESHOLD LEVELS AND WAVELET FILTERS FOR HIGH QUALITY ECG SIGNAL COMPRESSION

Although most of the theoretical and implementation aspects of wavelet based algorithms in ElectroCardioGram (ECG) signal compression are well studied, many issues related to the choice of wavelet filters and threshold levels selection remain unresolved. The utilization of optimal mother wavelet will lead to localization and maximization of wavelet coefficients' values in wavelet domain. This paper presents an ECG compressor based on the optimal selection of wavelet filters and threshold levels in different subbands that achieve maximum data volume reduction while guaranteeing reconstruction quality. The proposed algorithm starts by segmenting the ECG signal into frames; where each frame is decomposed into m subbands through optimized wavelet filters. The resulting wavelet coefficients are threshold and those having absolute values below specified threshold levels in all subands are deleted and the remaining coefficients are appropriately encoded with a modified version of the run-length coding scheme. The threshold levels to use, before encoding, are adjusted in an optimum manner, until predefined compression ratio and signal quality are achieved. Extensive experimental tests were made by applying the algorithm to ECG records from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database [1]. The compression ratio (CR), the percent root-mean-square difference (PRD) and the zero-mean percent root-mean-square difference (PRD1) measures are used for measuring the algorithm performance (high CR with excellent reconstruction quality). From the obtained results, it can be deduced that the performance of the optimized signal dependent wavelet outperforms that of Daubechies and Coiflet standard wavelets. However, the computational complexity of the proposed technique is the price paid for the improvement in the compression performance measures. Finally, it should be noted that the proposed method is flexible in controlling the quality of the reconstructed signals and the volume of the compressed signals by establishing target PRD and CR a priori respectively.
North American Pollution Outflow and the Trapping of Convectively Lifted Pollution by Upper-Level Anticyclone

[1] We examine the major outflow pathways for North American pollution to the Atlantic in summer by conducting a 4-year simulation with the GEOS-CHEM global chemical transport model, including a coupled ozone-aerosol simulation with 1° × 1° horizontal resolution for summer 2000. The outflow is driven principally by cyclones tracking eastward across North America at 45–55°N, every 5 days on average. Anthropogenic and fire effluents from western North America are mostly transported north and east, eventually merging with the eastern U.S. pollution outflow to the Atlantic. A semipermanent upper-level anticyclone traps the convective outflow and allows it to age in the upper troposphere over the United States for several days. Rapid ozone production takes place in this outflow, driven in part by anthropogenic and lightning NOx and in part by HOx radicals produced from convectively lifted CH2O that originates from biogenic isoprene. This mechanism could explain ozonesonde observations of elevated ozone in the upper troposphere over the southeastern United States. Asian and European pollution influences in the North American outflow to the Atlantic are found to be dispersed into the background and do not generate distinct plumes. Satellite observations of CO columns from MOPITT and of aerosol optical depths (AODs) from MODIS provide useful mapping of outflow events, despite their restriction to clear-sky scenes.
Effects of Upstream Water Level on Dynamic Response of Earth Dam

The island of Taiwan is located between the boundaries of the Eurasia and the Philippines Plates and thus earthquakes occurred frequently. The excitation of earthquake affects the integrity of earth dams situated in the mountainous area of the island. A study was conducted to evaluate the dynamic response and safety of one of the earthquake dams. The computer program and soil model used were calibrated for their appropriate use for the subject dam against a well-instrumented centrifuge model. Numerical simulation was then conducted to examine the influence of upstream water storage level on the response of the earth dam. The numerical results identified three locations in the dam where attentions are required because these locations were found susceptible to liquefaction.
Strategies for regional innovation networks development

The paper presents a model for innovative networks formation, based on a consistent transformation of outsourcing into a strategic alliance, and then into an innovation network based on the strategy of innovation insourcing. Criteria for determining the innovation strategy are proposed to consider the level of organization competence and the risk of innovative rent’s loss. The paper examines the methodology for grouping regions according to the level of innovation networks development. As a grouping, it is proposed to use the criteria for innovation-active enterprises share and the returns magnitude to innovation. Based on the regions typology, a set of strategies aimed at developing individual features of network interaction in the regions is proposed.
Determinants of Outsourcing Contracts in Agricultural Mechanization Services: the Brazilian Coffee Agribusiness Case

The Brazilian Coffee Agribusiness system has been modified over the last years. An evidence is the outsourcing contracts in agricultural mechanization of harvesting services. Brazilian coffee growers have replaced their own machineries for specialized services firms. The Coase (1937)'s make or buy paradigm sheds light the decision of farmers of the coffee chain with the investment lens. The investigation analyzes the determinants of outsourcing contracts in the transaction of harvesting mechanization in the agribusiness system of coffee in Brazil based on a quantitative approach through a probit regression with 105 Brazilian coffee growers’ interviews. The results validated the path dependence aspect and the hypothesis of the asset specificity and uncertainty of the efficient alignment argument of the Transaction Cost Economics, pointing out the high level of education of the farmer and the adoption of contracts as a way of coordinating other transactions as determinants of the outsourcing contracts of the transaction of harvesting mechanization. The study brought a change in coffee grower’s profile to a modern pattern of decision-making with three different institutional arrangements for the transaction of harvesting mechanization: total vertical integration, tapped vertical integration and outsourcing contracts or only outsourcing contracts.
MICROMETEOROLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS AND BIODIVERSITY IN A CLOSED FOREST AND AT A TREE-FALL GAP IN CENTRAL AMAZONIA

Micrometeorological parameters were measured in a closed forest (CF) and at a tree-fall gap (LG) near Novo Aripuana, AM, along the Madeira River in dry season (August to September 2003) and rainy season (March 2004), and were compared to the number of species per family and the number of seedlings obtained from forest inventory. The daily averages of net radiation (W/m 2 ) between CF and LG were 9.5:168.0 during dry season and 3.6:125.9 during rainy season, and these averages were influenced by the difference in shortwave radiation between the sites (CF<LG). Likewise, the diurnal range of soil heat flux, soil temperature, air temperature, and saturation deficit were all CF<LG. These site differences were explained from the sky-view factor (CF: 14.8±3.9%, LG: 43.6±6.0%). Frequently-occurring tree-falls and recoveries resulted in increases in the numbers of colonizer species, such as Burseraseae, Cecropiaceae, Meliaceae, Myristicaceae, Simaroubaceae, Violaceae, and Sterculiaceae. From the comparison of the number of seedlings at mini-plots, some genera, which have established themselves in response to improvements in environments at gaps, were found, such as Pourouma, Parkia, Tachigalia, and Orbignya , meanwhile genera peculiar to closed forests ( Protium, Chrysophyllum, Micropholis ) were also found.