Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE LEANNESS MEASUREMENT ESSAYS IN THE LOGISTICS LITERATURE

 The term “lean” is firstly coined in the literature by Krafcik to describe the Toyota production system, then has been started to study as a familiar subject in the beginning of the 90’s after Womack, Jones and Roos published the distinguished book about the automobile industry. In previous researches there are several supply chain performance measurement instruments; on the other hand there are only a few improvements specifically about the lean supply chain scale. In the 90’s and 2000’s the studies about lean production or leanness are mostly examined on the work processes and implementations in the manufacturing firms. The degree of the leanness of a firm or measuring the lean principles’ outputs has not widely examined. The purpose of our research is to introduce a literature review about “the lean production and the leanness measurement approach” and their findings to support our perspective. These kind of conceptually lean framework studies can investigate an empirically leanness model, because unfortunately the literature hasn’t yet witnessed a most-widely accepted model about leanness. We consider all possibilities in many manufacturing industries other than automobile industry, so the lean production system or philosophy can also be implemented to the other industries as well as services sector. An empirically validated and a reliable leanness measure model need to be introduced fit to several areas.
A Practical Study on WCET Estimation on Multicore Processors for Avionics Applications

On the early 2000's, avionics systems started to be employed as integrated software modules embedded in a same hardware, as an evolution of previous concept of having a same base hardware with several hardware cards, each one performing a dedicated task. This concept, defined as Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA), was standardized in (RTCA 2005) and brought a consistent improvement on avionics system design.
No-reference quality assessment of DIBR based synthesized images

Nowadays, companies are exploring a new set of video based applications, such as free viewpoint video, to provide the consumers with more engaging, immersive and tailored experiences. Free viewpoint video is a video experience where the viewer selects any viewpoint to observe the visual scene, and it is even possible to provide a smooth transitioning between viewpoints. However, it is not realistic to produce and transmit views for every possible viewpoint that the user may choose. Therefore, only a limited number of views is transmitted and, based on depth image based rendering (DIBR) methods, new views are synthesized at user side. However, this synthesis process may result in some artifacts in the synthesized view, reducing the overall quality of experience (QoE). Accordingly, the quality of the synthesized views should be evaluated, using an objective quality assessment metric. Some solutions have been already proposed in the literature for synthesized image quality assessment, most of them being full-reference methods (i.e., the original view is required). In this work, a novel noreference quality metric to evaluate synthesized images is proposed, i.e., a metric that evaluates the quality of a synthesized image without its original version being available. This metric relies on extracting image features at different phases of the synthesis process, which are fused through support vector regression (SVR), a machine learning tool. A dataset which contains synthesized images with compression and rendering artifacts was built and used to develop and assess the proposed metric. The metric performance is compared with conventional full-reference 2D image quality assessment metrics and with two state-of-the-art image quality assessment metrics developed specifically for synthesized images. The experimental results showed that the proposed solution outperforms the state-of-the-art metrics, being able to predict the images subjective scores with a Pearson correlation coefficient close to 0.9. Keywords— image quality assessment, multiview video-plusdepth, depth image based rendering, view synthesis, image features, synthesized image dataset.
The modality effect in a mobile learning environment: Learning from spoken text and real objects

The finding that under split-attention conditions students learn more from a picture and spoken text than from a picture and written text (ie, the modality effect) has consistently been found in many types of computer-assisted multimedia learning environments. Using 58 fifth-grade and sixth-grade elementary school children as participants, we investigated whether the modality effect can also be found in a mobile learning environment (MLE) on plants' leaf morphology, in which students had to learn by integrating information from text and real plants in the physical environment. A single factor experimental design was used to examine the hypothesis that students in a mixed-mode condition with real plants and spoken text (STP condition) would pay more attention to the real plants, and achieve higher performance on retention, comprehension, and transfer tests than the single-mode condition with real plants and written text (WTP condition). Whereas we found that participants in the STP condition paid more attention to observing the plants, and achieved a higher score on the transfer test than participants in the WTP condition, no differences were found between the conditions for retention and comprehension test performance.
Developing Autonomous AI Planning and Scheduling Technologies for Remote Planetary Exploration

Remote planetary exploration has much to gain from the availability of advanced robotic technologies. Missions such as JPL’s Pathfinder and the forthcoming Mars Express/Beagle 2 Lander demonstrate how discrete applications of robotic technology can enable comprehensive planetary science activity. The Aurora programme presents the space community with a significant set of technical challenges on a much larger scale. Aurora’s objective of a manned mission to Mars in 2030 will require a series of co-ordinated complex, robotic pre-cursor missions. The longevity and magnitude of the programme will impose a need for highly advanced technologies, particularly in the area of autonomy.
Anti-discrimination and privacy protection in released datasets

Unfairly treating people on the basis of their belonging to a specific group (race, ideology, gender, etc.) is known as discrimination and is legally punished in many democratic countries. Automated data collection and a plethora of data mining techniques such as classification rule mining have been designed and are currently widely used for making automated decisions, like loan granting/denial, insurance premium computation, etc. If the training datasets are inherently biased in what regards discriminatory attributes like gender or other sensitive attributes, discriminatory decisions might ensue. Then, similar to privacy, discrimination also has a negative impact on the social perception about data mining. It is obvious that most people do not want to be discriminated because of their gender, religion, nationality, age and so on, especially when this information is going to be used for making decisions about them. In this paper, we tackle discrimination discovery and prevention in data
An Analysis of the Eurosystem/ECB Projections

The Eurosystem/ECB staff macroeconomic projection exercises constitute an important input to the ECB's monetary policy. This work marks a thorough analysis of the Eurosystem/ECB projection errors by looking at criteria of optimality and rationality using techniques widely employed in the applied literature of forecast evaluation. In general, the results are encouraging and suggest that Eurosystem/ECB staff projections abide to the main characteristics that constitute them reliable as a policy input. Projections of GDP - up to one year - and inflation are optimal - in the case of inflation they are also rational. A main finding is that GDP forecasts can be substantially improved, especially at long horizons. JEL Classification: C53, E37, E58
Moving Technology Infrastructure into the Future : Value and Performance through Consolidation

With a global economic environment that remains challenging and uncertain, mid-market businesses (those with 100-999 employees) continue to strive to reduce costs and increase productivity. Unfortunately, neither of these two very important pursuits is easy to accomplish. On the cost side, firms are faced with obstacles such as inefficient processes and bloated infrastructures that no longer adequately support operations. On the productivity side, most midmarket businesses struggle with empowering employees with secure, anytime, anywhere access to critical company data and information.
A COMPARISON OF STRATEGY BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE DURING SPIKE LANDING

The purpose of this study was to investigate the kinematics differences between male and female players after a volleyball spike, in order to understand the mechanism of volleyball spike landing. Eight males and eight females university volleyball players were participate in this study. The kinematic and kinetic data were collected by ten Vicon cameras (300Hz) and two force plates (1500Hz). The Visual 3D software was used to analyze the kinematic and kinetic variables. The results indicated that male players exhibited greater hip flexion angle than female players at peak VGRF and maximum joint angle. Female players exhibited greater maximum ankle dorsiflexion and knee valgus angle than male players. These differences demonstrated that male and female players performed different strategies during volleyball spike landing.
Neuron Perspective The Neuron Identity Problem : Form Meets Function

Gord Fishell1,* and Nathaniel Heintz2,* 1Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Neuroscience Institute, New York University, New York, NY 10016, USA 2Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA *Correspondence: fisheg01@nyumc.org (G.F.), heintz@rockefeller.edu (N.H.) http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.neuron. 2013.10. 035
SLAM Localization Using Stereo Camera

This work deals with an application of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods for a stereo camera for the purpose of a mobile robot or human localization. First, research of available method implementation is conducted and selected methods are evaluated with the comparison. Based on results from previous steps a system for a mobile robot localization is proposed and tested.
6 From KPI Dashboards to Advanced Visualization

New technologies are being developed towards Industry 4.0 such as the establishment of smart factories, smart products and smart services embedded in an internet of things and of services. As a result, the development of prognostic and collaborative technologies have become a necessity. New technological solutions that can make the best use of existing physical assets while following company’s important metrics to provide a quick overview of business performance are now starting to be developed. Examples of such solutions include the development of dashboards that can show the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for processes involved in the production site and Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) that allow the visualization of data collected directly from the machine in different formats such as graphic, table
Implementation of image analysis techniques in gastric cancer cell motility analysis

Gastric cancer research studies are focusing on early detection of cancer, screening, and metastatic indicators, and monitoring therapeutic responses. Previous studies on gastric cancer research have shown that the regulation of biological processes, molecular mechanisms and signaling ways in cancer cells are altered when compared to healthy cells. Migration of cancer cells is a feature, considered as important, reflecting metastasis formation process and contributes to the whole process of gastric cancer. The aim of this reaserch was to develop a method for evaluation of cultured cell migration, based on long-term continuous cell imaging. We investigated cultured gastric cancer cells MKN28. The series of phase-contrast cell culture images were taken during a period of 3-4 hours every 30 seconds. Mathematical morphology methods and structural analysis of image series was used to determine estimates reflecting individual and generalized cell motility estimates. Cell migration, Long term cultured cell imaging, mathematical morphology, gastric cancer cell line
Round Immature Spermatogenic Cells in Semen Fluids of Infertile Men with Diagnosis “ Migrating Testis ” . Two Casuistic Cases in Adults

The spermatological analysis of ejaculates from two patients suffering of low male fertility and with diagnosis “migrating” testis syndrome (casuistic cases in adults), reveals cytological characteristics of different immature spermatogenic cells (“round cells”) as precursors of spermatozoa. The high quantity of undifferentiated spermatocytes/spermatides in ejaculates is important for early diagnoses of andrological diseases related to male fertility (sub-fertility, infertility). The results from semen assays showed a high percent (7.3% and 13.5%) of immature (“round”) spermatogenic cells in the ejaculates of patients – in correlation with the elevated number of abnormal spermatozoa in probes. The morphological analysis of sperm samples in patients with ascending testis could serve as additional diagnostic and prognostic tool in the routine everyday andrological practice.
Simulation of Effects of Nafion Loading in Catalyst Layer on Performance of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

The present study is concerned with the influence of Nafion loading in the catalyst layers on the behavior of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). Numerical simulation is performed to predict the Nafion loading effects. Meanwhile, change in the performance of the PEMFC accompanying the variations of geometric parameters is also investigated. In this study, a self-developed code, which is used to deal with the volume fractions of Nafion loaded, solid catalyst particles, and void space inside the catalyst layers, is incorporated with a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics code, which is capable of dealing with the three-dimensional mass, momentum, and species transport phenomena as well as the electron-transfer process taking place in the PEMFC. Part of the numerical results is compared with the experiments, and a close agreement between the predictions and the experiments has been found. Key-Words: Nafion loading, PEMFC, Parametric study, Prediction, Experiment
First record of Dendrodoris atromaculata ( Alder & Hancock , 1864 ) from West coast of India

Present study reports the first record of nudibranch Dendrodoris atromaculata (Alder & Hancock, 1864) from west coast of India. The last known record of this species from the Pulicat Lake of Bay of Bengal, India. The species is rare in the Indian waters. A single specimen was observed in seaweed (Spatoglossum asperum) at 0.5-meter depth. Description, Geographic location and Photographs of live specimen are given.
A Concept of Context Computing -- Methodology about Information sharing and Personalization

This report provides a concept model of context computing as a part of a white paper on Context Computing Research Group of Advanced IT Consortium to Evaluate, Apply and Drive (AITC). Details of our approach concentrating on the semantic content of concerns are given from a stand point about a hybrid system of search engines and social networking systems. Especially, check-in and check-out function about users' concerns enables shared social contents semantically organized and structured, as a detailed mechanism of the Semantic Web in the environment of cloud computing and smart phones. Keyword Context Computing,Information Sharing,Information Personalization, 1. はじめに 近年,コンピュータ等の情報通信技術の発展は,イ ンターネット環境の整備により加速され,結果として, いつでもでもどこでも,多種多様な情報へのアクセス が可能となり,情報取得という課題は問題視されなく なっている. 同時に,個人に適した情報をいかに適時・ 適所で活用できるかという新たな課題が明確化される ようになった. このような社会的な文脈から,最近,専門家の情報 を重要視するだけではなく,自分自身の主観や身近な − 65 − 一般社団法人 電子情報通信学会 信学技報 THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS, IEICE Technical Report INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERS Copyright ©2014 by IEICE This article is a technical report without peer review, and its polished and /or extended version may be published elsewhere. KBSE2013-76 (2014-01)
Formation Control of Rigid Graphs with a Flex Node Addition

This paper examines stability properties of distance-based formation control when the underlying topology consists of a rigid graph and a flex node addition. It is shown that the desired equilibrium set is locally asymptotically stable but there exist undesired equilibria. Specifically, we further consider two cases where the rigid graph is a triangle in 2-D and a tetrahedral in 3-D, and prove that any undesired equilibrium point in these cases is unstable. Thus in these cases, the desired formations are almost globally asymptotically stable.
Price Discrimination and Trade in Intermediate Goods ( Preliminary Draft )

In this paper, I document the existence of price discrimination in firm-to-firm crossborder transactions. First, using firm-level Customs data from Chile, I find that larger buyers of the same inputs are charged lower input prices. To rationalize this finding, I build a novel model of trade in inputs featuring two-sided heterogeneity. Heterogeneous input suppliers compete in prices a la Bertrand and internalize the effect of their decisions on market aggregates. Final goods producers also differ in exogenous productivity, but can reduce the costs of production by integrating backwards into input production. In equilibrium, to discourage entry in the upstream market, input producers charge lower prices to larger final goods producers and thus engage in third-degree price discrimination. I also study the implications of price discrimination for entry and exit of firms, trade and consumer welfare. ∗I would like to thank my advisors: Andre Boik, Robert Feenstra, Alan Taylor and Deborah Swenson, for their invaluable guidance and support. All errors are mine.
Satisfiers and Dissatisfiers in the Destination Selection Process : A Cultural Demographic Approach

This paper investigates the influence of cultural demographics on destination selectionsatisfiers and dissatisfiers. Customer satisfaction has been linked to destination choice and global destination competitiveness. Literature identified satisfiers and dissatisfiers as influential in destination selection but no specific information about the role of cultural demographics to connect to potential travel markets. A quantitative research design was utilised and data was collected via an on-line survey. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Two valid destination selection constructs were extracted through an exploratory factor analysis, namely satisfiers and dissatisfiers. Twelve valid and reliable items were retained for satisfiers and seven valid and reliability items were retained for dissatisfiers. This study identified which items are considered satisfiers and which items are considered dissatisfiers. To detect specific mean differences based on the cultural demographics investigated in this study, MANOVA tests identified if there are differences while post hoc Tukey test revealed the specific differences and Cohen D tests if it can be considered as practical significant. There were five practical significant mean differences when considering citizenship, continent of origin and ethnic affiliation within the two identified destination selection constructs.
Profiling visitors at the strawberry festival at the Redberry farm in George , South Africa

The identification and appropriate understanding of customers by tourism marketers and event organisers is significant for market segmentation. The profiling of tourists provides an opportunity for segmentation to be done on the basis of the characteristics of tourists making the trip. The main aim of the study is to identify the characteristics of the visitors of the annual strawberry festival held at the Redberry farm in George, South Africa, as a basis for informing marketing and management recommendations aimed at improving the festival experience of visitors. On-site data were collected using convenience sampling method from a sample of the visitors to the two days festival. The study also analysed if there was significant differences in spending patterns between first-time visitors and repeat visitors as well as differences in spending patterns based on the travelling party to aid in future understanding of the festival segments and their spending patterns. The results of the study show that the festival was mainly attended by first-time visitors, females and those aged between 18 – 25 years and attended only one day and they were overall satisfied with the services and facilities provided during the festival. The results further revealed that there was a small significant difference between spending patterns at the festival between first-time and repeat visitors as well as small significant difference in spending patterns based on the type of travelling party. The study also found that there were no significant differences between spending patterns based on how many days the attendees will attend the festival.
D Hydrogenated graphene-like borophene as a high capacity anode material for improved Li / Na ion batteries : A fi rst principles study

Fast-growing electronics industry and future energy storage needs have encouraged the design of rechargeable batteries with higher storage capacities, and longer life times. In this regard, twodimensional (2D) materials, specifically boron and carbon nanosheets, have garnered enthusiasm due to their fascinating electronic, optical, mechanical and chemical properties. Recently, a hydrogen boride (HB) nanosheet was successfully fabricated showing remarkable stability and superior physical properties. Motivated by this experimental study, we used first principle electronic structure calculations to study the feasibility of this nanosheet to serve as an anode material for Li/Na/Ca/Mg/Al ion batteries. Most active adsorption sites for single adatoms were evaluated and next adatoms were gradually inserted into the anode surface accordingly. The charge transfer, electronic density of sates, storage capacity, structural stability, open-circuit potential and diffusion energy barriers were explored. Our theoretical study predicts that HB shows outstanding electrode properties for Li and Na ion batteries. The intercalation of both Li and Na adatoms into the HB monolayer can lead to a high identical storage capacity of 1133.8 mAh/g which is promising compared to the capacities of the traditional anode materials; such as graphite (372 mAh/g) and TiO2 (200 mAh/g), and other 2D materials; such as germanene (369 mAh/g), stanene (226 mAh/g), and phosphorene (432.8 mAh/g) nanosheets. These results may open a new horizon for the design of rechargeable batteries with higher storage capacitates. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A Quantitative Comparative Analysis of a Novel Flux-Modulated Permanent Magnet Motor for Low-Speed Drive

A novel low-speed flux-modulated (FM) permanent magnet (PM) motor that breaks the traditional design rule, which stipulates that the number of stator pole pairs and the number of rotor pole pairs must be the same, is proposed. The FM motor has a special physical structure with iron segments in the airgap to modulate the magnetic field. In the design, the free space between adjacent stationary iron segments also acts as ventilating ducts to help improving the heat dissipation and ventilation of the motor. Its cogging torque is very small. In this paper a rule for comparing the power density of electric motors is proposed. The performance of the FM motor is compared with those of a magnetic-geared PM motor, a traditional PM motor and a fractional-slot PM motor by using magnetic field finite-element analysis.