Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Aerodynamic Aspects of Wind Energy Conversion

This article reviews the most important aerodynamic research topics in the field of wind energy. Wind turbine aerodynamics concerns the modeling and prediction of aerodynamic forces, such as performance predictions of wind farms, and the design of specific parts of wind turbines, such as rotor-blade geometry. The basics of the blade-element momentum theory are presented along with guidelines for the construction of airfoil data. Various theories for aerodynamically optimum rotors are discussed, and recent results on classical models are presented. State-of-the-art advanced numerical simulation tools for wind turbine rotors and wakes are reviewed, including rotor predictions as well as models for simulating wind turbine wakes and flows in wind farms.
Wheat Straw Pulping for Paper and Paperboard Production

This chapter covers relative topics on wheat straw applied as fibrous raw materials for pulping and papermaking industry, i.e., chemical components and anatomy of wheat straw, pulping process and pulping properties, paper and paperboard products from wheat straw pulps, as well as environmental protection issues. Wheat straw is a kind of annual vascular-bundled herbal arthrophyte containing cellulose fibers that are accept- able for pulping and papermaking. The chemical components and anatomy of wheat straw were discussed; practically, soda or soda-AQ chemical pulping processes are com- mon techniques often applied for chemical pulping from wheat straw, conventional and advanced bleaching sequences were introduced, and especially ECF and TCF bleaching techniques have been successfully applied in China’s paper mills. Cooking and black liquor extraction equipment and facilities are explained; chemi-mechanical pulping properties of wheat straw, corrugated medium, and linerboard products from wheat straw CMP pulps are evaluated; and chemical recovery from chemical cooking black liquor and effluent treatment processes are discussed. In this chapter, not only labora-tory research results but also some commercial operation experiences are shared. These information and knowledge described in this chapter will help readers to have a good understanding about wheat straw pulping and papermaking; they are useful for pulping and papermaking engineer as reference for design and operation management of wheat straw pulping lines.
Beating the bookmakers: leveraging statistics and Twitter microposts for predicting soccer results

In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of using collective knowledge for predicting the winner of a soccer game. Specifically, we developed different methods that extract and aggregate the information contained in over 50 million Twitter microposts to predict the outcome of soccer games, considering methods that use the Twitter volume, the sentiment towards teams and the score predictions made by Twitter users. Apart from collective knowledge-based prediction methods, we also implemented traditional statistical methods. Our results show that the combination of different types of methods using both statistical knowledge and large sources of collective knowledge can beat both expert and bookmaker predictions. Indeed, we were for instance able to realize a monetary profit of almost 30% when betting on soccer games of the second half of the English Premier League 2013-2014.
Does Economic Modeling make for Better Governance in Surface Transportation Planning? Investigating an Economic Impact Analysis Process in the Implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act

New Public Management touts the importance of Information Technology (IT) in governmental processes in order to achieve objectives, redesign processes, and enhance the capacity of government. This article examines the utilization of IT in conducting an economic impact analysis required by National Environmental Policy Act. Using a quasi-experimental design, a control economic impact analysis (EIA) is compared with a test EIA that utilized the Regional Economic Modeling Inc. (REMI) software to determine how IT altered the EIA process. The findings indicate that using REMI provided a broader unit of analysis, reduced the time associated with data collection, and the projected economic impacts changed direction. Although this research identifies positives aspects of utilizing IT, it also discovers actions that may cause suspicions of discounting democratic values when IT is available for utilization in state department of transportation agencies.
Molecular docking studies of bisazo derivatives of 4-Acetyl resorcinol against lung cancer protein EGFR

Lung cancer is one of the malignant diseases mostly caused by tobacco users. EGFR, proto oncogene plays an important role in many biological processes apoptosis, transcriptional regulation, cell differentiation, cell spreading and mobility. The mutation occurs in EGFR, the normal function of EGFR is over expressed and leads to develop lung cancer. In this present study, we have developed lung cancer drug from bisazo derivatives through molecular docking studies against EGFR using Glide. From the docking results the compound I, IV and V have a better life score when compared to other compounds. The ADME properties were carried out for five bis azo molecules. These compounds are under acceptable range with predicted ADME properties. From the In-silico docking studies, we conclude the compounds I, IV and V are good drug for lung cancer and inhibit over expression of EGFR in human.
Sex Bias in Asthma Prevalence and Pathogenesis

Sex-related differences in asthma prevalence are well established and change through the reproductive phases of life. As children, boys have increased prevalence of asthma compared to girls. However, as adults, women have increased prevalence of asthma compared to men. Many factors, including genetics, environment, immunological responses, and sex hormones, affect the sex disparity associated with the development and control of asthma and other allergic diseases. Fluctuations of hormones during puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause, alter asthma symptoms and severity. In this article, we review clinical and epidemiological studies that examined the sex disparity in asthma and other allergic diseases as well as the role of sex hormones on asthma pathogenesis.
XOR Logic Gate by Carbon/Metal Nanoinks Based on a Double-Stage Optical Kerr Gate Configuration

Two-input binary exclusive-or logic operations were presented by the assistance of multiwall carbon nanotubes in a double-stage optical Kerr gate scheme with two control beams. The samples were prepared by the aerosol pyrolysis method and decorated by platinum nanoparticles using a chemical vapor deposition technique. The nanostructures were suspended in ethanol to obtain carbon/metal nanoinks with different concentrations and then randomly distributed networks integrated in thin film form were fabricated. Polarization-selectable functions were obtained in the double-stage scheme by using nanosecond third-order nonlinear optical effects at 532 nm wavelength exhibited by the samples. Potential applications for ultrafast identification and encryption of nonlinear optical signals were discussed.
Measure to Succeed: How to Improve Employee Participation in Continuous Improvement

Purpose: Achieving employee participation in continuous improvement (CI) systems is considered as one of the success factors for the sustainability of those systems. Yet, it is also very difficult to obtain because of the interaction of many critical factors that affect employee participation. Therefore, finding ways of measuring all these critical factors can help practitioners manage the employee participation process accordingly. Design/methodology/approach: Based upon the existing literature, this paper presents a 4-Phase (9 steps) diagnostic tool to measure the main determinants associated with the implementation of CI systems affecting employee participation in improvement activities. Findings: The tool showed its usefulness to detect the main weaknesses and improvement opportunities for improving employee participation in CI through the application in two different cases. Practical implications: This diagnostic tool could be particularly interesting for companies adopting CI and other excellence frameworks, which usually include a pillar related to people development inside the organization, but do not include tools to diagnose the state of this pillar. Originality/value: This diagnostic tool presents a user’s perspective approach, ensuring that the weaknesses and improvement opportunities detected during the diagnose come directly from the users of the CI system, which in this case are the employees themselves. Given that the final objective is to identify reasons and problems hindering employee participation, adopting this user’s perspective approach seem more relevant than adopting other more traditional approaches, based on gathering information from the CI system itself or from the CI managers.
Transaksi Elektronik diberlakukan di Indonesia, banyak masyarakat khususnya pengusaha mulai memperhatikan pentingnya sistem pengawasan elektronik untuk tujuan keamanan bagi usaha yang dilakukannya. Tercantum dalam undang-undang tersebut, data elektronis yang tidak terbatas gambar dan suara dapat dij

A surveillance system with motion detection feature is a designed system to define whether there’s movement on surveillance. This system uses Raspberry Pi and webcamera as devices, private network across the internet, and multi-level users management. This system compares every captured frame to do motion detecting and recording the only frames detected motion. An application is designed on server to differentiate accessing privilege for every registered users and user interface for monitoring and archive of recorded video. To connect the remote Raspberry Pi and the server, there’s a virtual private network across the internet. After the implementation of the system, testing, and analysis over measuring, this system works well on detecting motion with some affecting factors like velocity of moving object, ratio of object and background, homogenity between object and background, webcam feature, and light fluctuation.
Time-Motion Analysis of Young Competitive Surfers: Southern Portugal

Introduction: Time-motion analysis should be an integral part of the coaching process in competitive surf to help design training programs, as well as maximize athlete performance. There are a few studies that analyzed the timemotion of surfer activities during competition. Thus, the aim of this study was evaluate each activity’s time made by surfers during the heat competition, in order to account for the time spent in each surf activity. Methods: Forty-two young Portuguese surfers, both males and females, residing in southern Portugal, participated in the championship of the “School Sport” of the Algarve region. Each surfer was individually videoed for the entire duration of the heat using a video camera. The V-Note Video Analysis Software 2.1. 2 was used to evaluate the movement´s time made by each surfer during the competition, in order to account for the time spent in each activity. The activities that the surfers were evaluated included: paddling; sprint paddle for wave; stationary; wave riding; miscellaneous (e.g. duck diving, recovery of the board, and other). Results: The surfers were paddling 58%, stationary 42%, sprint paddle for wave 3.8%, and wave riding 3.1% of the total time. The average of surfing activities were 15.2 seconds for paddling, 1.5 seconds to sprint paddle for wave, 8.8 seconds for stationary period, 4.4 for wave riding, and18.2 for miscellaneous activities. Conclusion: The data from this study revealed that, for this sample and competition analyzed, the activities that had a greater percentage of time included the paddling and miscellaneous activities. The results of this study show that surfing is an intermittent activity that is characterized by large variability of each activity that was analyzed, and these surfing activities seems to be controlled more by environmental factors than by surfer attitude.
The Research on the Economic Effect of Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments

Market-based environmental policy has many forms, including carbon trade and carbon taxes. The choice of market-based environmental policy instruments needs careful consideration of the effect on economy growth and structure. In the analytical framework of Ramsey model, carbon emissions are added into the instantaneous utility function and the problem of maximization of enterprise profits. Based on this hypothesis, the balance growth path and dynamitic changes of consumption and investment could be compared under different market-based environmental policy instruments. The conclusion shows that market-based environmental policy instruments have a negative effect on economic growth in the short run. However, in the long run, these instruments can promote economic growth and optimize economic structure by giving enterprises motivation to improve emission reduction technology. The distinction of these two environmental policy instruments lies in the difference between the price of carbon emission permit and the rate of carbon taxes. Moreover, by derivation, it is obvious that saving rate is inversely linked to carbon tax rate (or the price of carbon emission permit). Therefore, according to the current situation in China’s economic development, in order to improve consumption’s contribution on economic growth, we can choose the instrument which has higher price to reduce saving rate. In this way, consumption can be promoted and the structure of economics can be optimized.
Descriptor-based Fitting of Lysophosphatidic Acid Receptor 3 Antagonists into a Single Predictive Mathematical Model

Abstract—Sixty six diverse compounds previously reported as Lysophosphatidic Acid Receptor (LPA3) inhibitors have been used to derive a mathematical model based on partial least square (PLS) clustering of 41 molecular descriptors and pIC50 values. The preand postcross-validated correlation coefficient (R) is 0.94462 (RMSE=0.21390) and 0.74745 (RMSE=0.49055) respectively. Bivariate contingency analysis tools implemented in MOE was used to prune the descriptors and refit the equations at a descriptor-pIC50 correlation coefficient of 0.8 cutoff. A new equation was derived with R and RMSE values estimated at 0.88074 and 0.31388 respectively. Both equations correctly predicted the 95% of the pIC50 values of the test dataset. Principal component analysis (PCA) was also used to reduce the dimension and linearly transform the raw data; 8 principal components sufficiently account for more than 98% of the variance of the dataset. The numerical model derived here may be adapted for screening chemical database for LPA3 antagonism.
Uncertainty in Dynamic Process to Extinction

The investigation of perturbation experiments is important not only to forecast the effect of ecological management but also to know community interactions. So far, uncertainty has been well known for perturbation experiments: many authors has reported that long-term response of ecosystem to applied perturbations has been very difficult to predict. In the present article, however, we report the uncertainty even in short-term response. We carry out a computer experiment of extinction, and explore whether the so-called fluctuation enhancement occurs or not, where the fluctuation enhancement means that there are a variety of processes to the extinction. We apply the contact process (CP) on a two-dimensional lattice in which interaction is restricted between adjacent lattice points. We also apply the mean-field simulation (MFS) of CP, where long-range interaction is aloud between any pair of lattice points. Computer simulation reveals that for both CP and MFS, stationary state exhibits the so-called critical slowing-downwhich denotes that relaxation time diverges near the extinction. It is also found that the fluctuation enhancement occurs in the case of CP. Because of short-range interaction, there are a variety of different processes to extinction.
Macroeconomic conditions and the determinants of commercialisation.

In this paper, we focus on the effects of macroeconomic conditions on commercialisation. Using survey data on the activities of Australian inventors who attempted to commercialise 3,736 inventions over the period 1986--2005, we find evidence that macroeconomic conditions have a pro-cyclical effect on commercialisation activities. Such a finding has important policy implications since it suggests that recessions have both short-term effects (on employment, income) and long-term effects (on productivity). However, the magnitude of the supply-side effects--the cost of finance and level of public sector research--are estimated to be larger than the growth in aggregate or industry demand. Copyright The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. , Oxford University Press.
Application of Cloud Storage in the Data Bank of Teaching Resources of Plane Design Specialty

Cloud storage is a new type of concept of digital information storage. In view of its advantages in distributed storage, collaborative storage, dynamic allocation storage space, smooth migration and backup, on the basis of the introduction of related concepts and unique advantages of cloud storage, the present essay introduced cloud storage into the data bank of plane design materials, and constructed a scheme of cloud storage of the data bank of the plane design materials from the three aspects of system structure, topological structure and function module.
Impact of media violence on aggressive attitude for adolescents

The goal of this study was mainly to examine the impact of media violence on aggressive attitude among Chinese adolescents by using a modified STROOP task. 74 adolescents participated in this study, 37 were assigned to violent movie group and 37 were assigned to non-violent movie group. The results showed significant Movie Type and Trait Aggressiveness interaction, and adolescents with high aggressiveness (HA) had a significantly higher aggressive attitude than adolescents with mild aggressiveness (MA) and low aggressiveness (LA) after watching violent movies. Furthermore, the relation between significant Movie Type and Gender interaction was also found, and boys showed a significantly higher aggressive attitude than girls after watching violent movies. This implied that violent movies could effectively affect aggressive attitude for adolescents in China.
Impacts of Large Male-Selective Harvesting on Reproduction: Illustration with Large Decapod Crustacean Resources

To signal a need for caution for present large male-selective harvesting practices, negative impacts of the large male-selective harvesting on reproductive output in large decapod crustacean resources are introduced with emphasis on my own work with spiny king crab Paralithodes brevipes, coconut crab Birgus latro, and the stone crab Hapalogaster dentata. The large male-selective harvestings for several large decapod crustaceans have changed their population demographic structure by decreasing mean male size and skewing sex ratio towards females. By several field and laboratory experiments, the change of population demographic structure was anticipated to decrease female reproductive success in the resources (i.e. reproductive output of the harvested populations) through a decrease in sperm availability for females because of male size-dependent reproductive potentials and slow sperm recovery rate. Furthermore, reproductive output and stability of the large male-selective harvested resources were also anticipated to decline by a decrease in mate availability for females, attributing to combination of female mate choice for larger males with negative effects of female delayed mating and/or maternal influences. To establish the optimal management practices, the details of the mating system and reproductive ecology of each targeted species should be investigated.
Combining test day SCS with clinical mastitis and udder type traits: A random regression model for joint genetic evaluation of udder healt in Denmark, Finland and Sweden

Genetic associations during first three lactations between longitudinal test-day somatic cell score (TDSCS) and non-longitudinal udder health traits namely, four clinical mastitis (CM) and two udder type traits UA (Fore udder attachment) and UD (Udder depth) were estimated fitting a random regression model. Subsequently, a multi-trait rank reduced random regression test-day animal model was developed for the joint genetic evaluation of udder health traits in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Compared to the currently used model, the new model offers efficient utilization of TDSCS information and provides proofs for both bulls and cows as well as harmonizes evaluation models used across the three countries.
Photoacoustic observation of excited singlet state absorption in the laser dye rhodamine 6G

S1 to S3 excited singlet state absorption and two-photon absorption in Rhodamine 6G at the pump wavelengths of 532 and 1064 nm respectively are investigated. The advantages of employing the pulsed photoacoustic technique for conveniently observing excited singlet state absorption are discussed. It is shown that, since photoacoustics and fluorescence are complementary phenomena, analysis using both techniques will yield a better understanding of optical processes in molecules like Rhodamine 6G.
Manifestation of Compensatory Behavior among Preschool Children with Trust Deprivation

The article considers the problem of personal features formation among preschoolers with deprivation. The article presents the results of research aimed to reveal the peculiarities of the mental deprivation and trust deprivation among orphans, and to compare the results with the children raised in families. Many basic attitudes of the orphans are deformed, in particular, social trust relationships with the world, which are manifested in two forms of compensatory behavior. The first group comprises children with trust deprivation of passive type, characterized by anxiety, shyness, hypochondria, inability to stand up for themselves. The second group comprises children with trust deprivation of active type; these children are outwardly sociable, but they are prone to aggressive reactions, antisocial behavior and conflicts. Despite the difference in the behavior, orphans are characterized by common personal features: insecurity, inferiority, hostility, proneness to conflict, difficulties in communication.