Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The increase of aircraft noise annoyance in communities . Causes and consequences

Field research data indicate an ongoing increase of aircraft noise annoyance in communities at given LpAeq levels. The paper discusses several potential causes of this process: 1. Methodological changes in the studies, 2. Contextual changes reflected in the studies, 3. General increase of the number of aircraft movements, 4. Changes in the composition of aircraft fleets, and 5. Attitudinal changes in the residents. At present, several consequences can be drawn: 1. Recommendations with respect to intolerable levels of continuous noise for aircraft and railway traffic should be adjusted. Within this process, it seems recommendable to distinguish between low rate and high rate change airports. 2. Since the increase of the number of flight movements, as well as the change in fleet mix seem to be systematically related to the annoyance increase, assumptions of the energyequivalent long-term continuous sound pressure should be re-evaluated and amended or supplemented by additional acoustic variables. 3. We should keep an eye on the development of socially shared values and attitudes related to personal autonomy, as well as to the evaluation of airports, and their noise policy.
s physical activity possible and beneficial for atients with hepatitis C receiving pegylated nterferon and ribavarin therapy? ’activité physique est-elle possible et bénéfique hez les malades atteints d’hépatite chronique irale C traités par interféron pégylé et ribavirine

ummary The great majority of patients with chronic viral hepatitis C are treated with pegyated interferon-ribavirin therapy. The aim of this study was to demonstrate that these patients ere able to have some form of physical exercise, and that this activity can lead to an improveent in their quality-of-life. Twelve volunteer patients with hepatitis C, who were either edentary or had become sedentary and who had been treated by combination therapy for the ast few weeks, were recruited at hepatology clinics in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France arly in 2006. All patients attended a sports medicine consultation for an initial evaluation: aximal aerobic power and maximal oxygen consumption tests, maximum heart rate (MHR), earch for contraindications for participation in the proposed program of physical exercise. The atients were given a heart rate monitor so they could measure their heart rate during physical xercise and check that they exercised under safe conditions and remained within the so-called ‘endurance’’ zone. The patients came to a sports facility daily for 5 days for the exercise rogram. The activities were divided into four sessions each day: an individual physical exercise elected by the patient, team physical exercise, recreational physical exercise, lectures on the ifferent types of hepatitis and their treatment, on nutrition and on sports medicine assessents. Data on hepatitis, results of the cardiorespiratory examination and personal history nd record of past physical activity were collected for each patient. Quality-of-life (SF36) was ssessed at enrolment in the study and one month after the training sessions. At the initial ∗ Corresponding author. E-mail address: jl.payen@ch-montauban.fr (J.-L. Payen).
Orientation distribution and mean width determination in micro X-Ray CT images of fibrous materials

Fibrous nano-materials can be imaged using high resolution X-ray computer tomography (XCT). Some important parameters that are often manually estimated from this imaging data include the orientation distribution and the thickness of the fibres. Automation of this process is hampered by the close proximity of the fibres even with sub-micron voxel sizes. An automated sampling methodology has therefore been developed that can detect points in the imaging data where fibres are present and well separated. Polycaprolactone (PCL) electrospun fibrous material was prepared and imaged with a Zeiss Xradia Versa 510 Microtomography XCT. Automated measurements were then determined and further summarised using a single parameter measure.
Incidental Detection of Wuchereria Bancrofti on Cytology in a Subcutaneous Swelling in Medial Aspect of Arm: A Case Report

Filariasis is a common parasitic disease posing major health problem in South East Asian countries including India. It is transmitted by bite of mosquito. Lymphatic filariasis is a common presentation in Indian subcontinent. The usual form presentation of the disease is as hydrocele, acute or chronic lymphatic disease or subclinical microfilaremia. Finding of Wuchereria Bancrofti in a cytological smear from upper arm swelling is a rare presentation. We discuss here a case of 40 year male with a subcutaneous swelling on the medial aspect of upper limb. Cytology smears revealed sheathed microfilaria without any nucleus in the tail end confirming the species as Wuchereria Bancrofti. Wet mount preparations also showed microfilaria. The case is highlighted to ascertain the role of fine needle aspiration cytology in diagnosing filariasis as an incidental finding from subcutaneous swelling and for early institution of therapy.
Diagnostic Procedures in Ophthalmology

Determining the cause of intraocular inflammation has important implications both for the treatment and prognosis of uveitic diseases. This chapter describes ocular di‐ agnostic procedures and their indications while mainly focusing on diagnostic vi‐ trectomy. The chapter discusses the history of elective diagnostic procedures; main indications for invasive procedures in the diagnosis of uveitic disease; surgical prin‐ ciples and techniques for each of the diagnostic procedures; descriptions of the vari‐ ous laboratory techniques being used; and selected examples of conditions that may require the use of such techniques.
The Blue Tit

Sporting a mix of blue, yellow, white, green and black, the unmistakable Blue Tit reflects the colours of a planet affected by a burgeoning human population. Fortunately, Blue Tits are adapting well to modern humanity, taking advantage of our propensity to feed birds in our gardens and provide boxes for them to nest in. In turn, this feisty little species provides an excellent model for biological research. This book is the result of a personal quest by author Martyn Stenning to bring together a range of discoveries into one accessible volume. The Blue Tit begins by inviting readers into the intimate lives of these birds as they attempt to reproduce, describing the many challenges they face when rearing their offspring. The story moves on to the fluid state of Blue Tit classification across the native Palearctic range, before progressing into population structure, lifetime ecology and an exploration of factors that determine breeding success. It culminates with an in-depth look at research over the years, followed by a selection of personal anecdotes and an overview of Blue Tit appearances in folklore and poetry. This book provides a definitive record of the biology and ecology of one of our most popular, intelligent and charismatic birds.
Privacy Concerns and Online Behavior – Not so Paradoxical after All? Viewing the Privacy Paradox Through Different Theoretical Lenses

This contribution provides a new avenue to the privacy paradox -- the divergence between attitudes and behavior when it comes to online privacy. Our approach rests on research in online trust and on the theory of public value as well as Tonnies' duality of "Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft". We show with representative data from 2012 that the very providers of Internet and mobile services – web companies and telecommunication providers – enjoy very low levels of trust in terms of privacy protection. Even before the PRISM scandal Swiss people distrusted these organizations. By contrast, financial institutions, the public service, and government enjoy high levels of (data protection) trust. We find that the privacy paradox in Switzerland is a trust problem rather than a concern problem. Implications for theory and practice are derived.
Addressing Moral Distress in Critical Care Nurses: A Pilot Study

Background: Moral distress can affect critical care nurses caring for complex patients. It can result in job dissatisfaction, loss of capacity for caring, and nurse turnover, resulting in a negative impact on quality care. Aim: This study purpose was to determine how moral distress impacts critical care nurses (adult and pediatric) and to implement improvement strategies to reduce moral distress, improve job satisfaction, and retention. Theoretical framework: Nathaniel’s Theory of Moral Reckoning was the grounded theory used to show the application of the improvement interventions. Methods: Phase 1 was a cross-sectional design using the 26-item Hospital Ethical Climate Survey (HECS) and the 21-item Moral Distress Scale-Revised (MDS-R). Phase 2 consisted of a mixedmethod design employing focus group interviews, interventions, and pre- and posttest. Results: Pediatric nurses reported lower mean moral distress composite scores 21.71 (15.47) as compared to the adult nurses 88.75 (64.7). For adult nurses, a strong correlation existed between ethical climate and moral distress (r s = -0.62, n = 10, p = 0.05), with high levels of ethical climate associated with lower levels of moral distress. The cohort group identified personal and professional impact of moral distress with some differences between the pediatric and adult nurses related to the source of moral distress responses to suffering. The 3-month post survey showed a total moral distress score for one adult critical care nurse decreased from 158 to 74. The remaining three nurses’ scores were unchanged. All four nurses were not considering leaving their position now. All participants either agreed or strongly agreed the education and action plan reduced their moral distress. Conclusion: A blended-learning training to include American Association of Critical Care Nurses’ (AACN) 4As, communication and ethical reasoning skills, and personal action plans helped manage moral distress, aided retention, and improved satisfaction of critical care nurses.
Strategic Partial Outsourcing in the Presence of Bottleneck Components January 21

We study the sourcing decision of a manufacturer for an intermediate good, with multiple sources available under different efficiency levels, in choosing between sole sourcing and multi-sourcing. In our model, the manufacturer can produce in-house or outsource the intermediate good, and in-house production is more efficient. There is no demand uncertainty or ex-ante capacity constraint with in-house production. We find that the manufacturer may establish only limited in-house capacity to create ex-post capacity constraint, and eventually outsource to less efficient external providers. Such partial outsourcing is purely strategic and is due to the existence of bottleneck components, with which the manufacturer solely relies on key suppliers with great market power. Partial outsourcing enables the manufacturer to mitigate the pricing power of key suppliers, and is optimal to the manufacturer so long as the associated efficiency loss is not too pronounced. Moreover, an increase in outsourcing cost may lead the manufacturer to outsource a larger proportion and may boost the manufacturer’s profitability.
Intake and Profile of Plant Polyphenols in the Diet of the Czech Population

Abstract Nowadays, a great attention is paid to the biological activity of plant polyphenols and their potential importance for the human health. Therefore knowledge regarding the dietary intake of polyphenols and their particular subclasses has gained interest. In this report, the results of a pilot study evaluating the average polyphenol content in the Czech diet have been presented. Knowledge of the average intake of plant polyphenols is an important contribution to the evaluation of the dietary pattern from the aspect of its health impact. An annual average consumption of the main foods of plant origin (a total of 80 commodities) was estimated, using data from the Czech annual statistical report, in the entire Czech population in 2013. These values (kg/y) were multiplied with the contents of plant polyphenols in the same items as presented in the in the database Phenol Explorer. The average intake of plant polyphenols was 426 mg/d. The prevailing polyphenols were chlorogenic acid, 82 mg/d (most important sources were potatoes, coffee, plums), followed by apigeninflavone, 79 mg/d (wheat), heneicosylresorcinol, 38 mg/d (wheat), ferrulic acid, 17 mg/d (wheat) and anthocyanin malvidin, 13 mg/d (red wine). These values are below the intake of polyphenols in the most EU countries. These differences reflect – inter alia – the fact that beer having low content of polyphenols is a dominant commodity in Czech dietary pattern while fruit and vegetables as well as teas and coffee consumption is relatively low.
Pluripotent stem cells and their use in hearing loss

Yarim yuzyillik gecmisi boyunca kok hucre arastirmasi iki ana alanda gelismistir. Embriyonik kok hucre (ES) ve vucut somatik hucresinin reprogramlanmasi.Bu calismada kok hucre reprogramlanmasi ve kulak burun bogaz sahasiyla baglantilarina odaklanilmistir.Insan vucut somatik hucresi, pluripotent hucrelere uc metodla cevrilir. Somatik nukleer transfer metodu, somatik hucre fuzyon metodu (tekrar programlamayla hucresel pluripotent kapasiteyi elde etmek ve tekrar programlanmis induklenmis pluripotent hucre (iPS) elde etmek icin vucut somatik hucrelerine etki eden transkipsiyon faktorleri. ES ve iPS hucreleri pluripotense sahiptirler ve uc germ tabakasindan gelisen hucrelere farklilasirlar; hucresel tedavi, ilac gelistirilmesi ve hastalik model arastirmasi icin tercih edilirler. ES elde etmek icin etik sinirlamalar bulundugundan, IPS hucreler alternatif pluripotent hucre kaynagi olup hasta spesifik otolog pluripotent hucreler bu metodla elde edilir. Pluripotent hucrelerle hucresel tedavi ve regeneratif tip gunumuzde gelisim halindedir. Biz KBB’de onemli bir arastirma alani olan, IPS hucre teknolojisiyle duyu kaybinin biyolojik tedavisi konulu calismamizda bu konuya dikkat cekmek istedik.
Small wetlands designed for phosphorus retention in Swedish agricultural areas

This thesis examined retention of particles and phosphorus (P) losses from agricultural clay soils in small wetlands with an initial deep area followed by a shallow area with emergent plants. Two long, narrow wetlands (Bergaholm and Nybble) specially designed for P retention (P-wetlands) were constructed, and their efficiency in sediment accumulation were compared with those of six existing wetlands with a different design. Monthly area-specific P retention was positively correlated with P load in the Ber P-wetland, though outflow P concentrations were occasionally higher than inflow concentrations during extreme flow events or low flow periods with ice cover. However, seasonal sediment deposition was not correlated with hydraulic load (HL), particle load or concentrations, as deposition was mostly higher than particle load in spring-summer. Annual P accumulation was positively correlated with HL (up to a possible maximum) and negatively with an index for fast flow variations (FFI). Similar annual P retention (mean 89 kg P ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹) in Bergaholm P-wetland was estimated with two independent methods. In contrast, inflow-outflow studies indicated P and particle release in the Nybble P-wetland, while results from sediment plates indicated major sediment accumulation. Measurements of water quality at a point after the deep section indicated that the discrepancy may be attributed to erosion and resuspension in that section. However, further studies are needed to confirm this, and to determine whether it was a temporary phenomenon that will disappear as the wetland bottom stabilises. In three wetlands with different depth sections, sediment accumulation was higher in deep than in shallow areas. Annual sediment and P accumulation was generally higher in the two P-wetlands than in the other six studied wetlands, and was positively correlated with wetland length to width ratio. Overall, the results suggest that P-wetlands can efficiently retain P lost from agricultural clay soils, provided that HL is not too high or peak-based.
Aalborg Universitet Autonomous Power Management in LVDC Microgrids based on a Superimposed Frequency Droop Peyghami,

In this paper a novel droop approach for autonomous power management in low voltage dc microgrids based on a master-slave concept is presented. Conventional voltage-based droop approaches suffer from poor power sharing due to line resistance effects on a virtual resistance, which is solved a by introducing a communication system to increase the current sharing accuracy. In this paper, a virtual frequency is superimposed by the master units, and slave units determine their output power according to the corresponding frequencybased droop characteristics. Unlike the voltage-droop methods, the proposed virtual frequency-droop approach can be applied for proportional power management among the energy units and loads in the microgrid without utilizing any extra communication system. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is evaluated by simulations and further validated by experiments.
Prevalence of Freshly Generated Particles during Pollution Episodes in Santiago de Chile

A winter campaign was carried out in Santiago de Chile the year 2012 in two urban sites that can be considered representative for most of the city in order to characterize formation of primary and secondary PM_(1.0) during episodes. One site is located in the campus of the University of Santiago and measurements were carried out with an Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor and a black carbon monitor. Another site is located in a large park, about 2 km south-east of the first site, measurements of CO, NO_x, SO_2, O_3 were done in this site. A noticeable increase in most of the primary components of PM_(1.0) (black carbon and organics) and primary gases (CO and NO) was observed during days in which the average PM_(1.0) concentration was higher than 50 μg m^(-3) (episode). A small increase or no change was observed in the secondary pollutants (NH_4, NO_3, SO_4 and NO_2) at night during these episodes. Positive Matrix Factorization was used to extract four components from the ACSM data: hydrocarbon-like organic aerosol (HOA), biomass burning OA (BBOA), low volatility oxygenated OA (LV-OOA) and semi-volatile oxygenated OA (SV-OOA). The freshly generated components (HOA and BBOA) showed a clear increase at night during episodes, while the aged fraction of organic aerosol (LV-OOA and SVOOA) showed a smaller increase or a decrease at night during episodes. Correlation of HOA and BBOA components with primary pollutants was also high, indicating that freshly created aerosols (HOA, BBOA and BC) are in large part responsible for the increase in pollution at night during episodes in Santiago de Chile.
Global climate change and soil carbon stocks; predictions from two contrasting models for the turnover of organic carbon in soil

Enhanced release of CO2 to the atmosphere from soil organic carbon as a result of increased temperatures may lead to a positive feedback between climate change and the carbon cycle, resulting in much higher CO2 levels and accelerated global warming. However, the magnitude of this effect is uncertain and critically dependent on how the decomposition of soil organic C (heterotrophic respiration) responds to changes in climate. Previous studies with the Hadley Centre's coupled climate–carbon cycle general circulation model (GCM) (HadCM3LC) used a simple, single‐pool soil carbon model to simulate the response. Here we present results from numerical simulations that use the more sophisticated ‘RothC’ multipool soil carbon model, driven with the same climate data.
Chapter 2 Stochastic Stability of Semi-Markovian Jump Systems

This chapter is concerned with the stochastic stability for a class of S-MJS with time-variant delays. By the Lyapunov function approach, together with a piecewise analysis method, sufficient conditions are proposed to guarantee the stochastic stability of the S-MJS. As more time-delay information is used, our results are much less conservative than some existing ones in literature. Finally, two examples are given to show the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed techniques.
Study on Factors for Improving The Effectiveness Of ERP Within Korea Agricultural Products Processing Center

ERP implementation issues have been given much attention as the size of Agricultural Products Processing Center (APC) in Korea gets bigger and bigger. The goal of this study is to find the factors that influence the effect of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) adoption to help improve the business environment of the ERP users, especially in agricultural industry. This study tries to apply traditional IS theory into agricultural industry. By testing multiple aspects in different stages, the study derives more comprehensive factors that positively influence the adoption of ERP. By conducting a survey, the study observed hands-on ERP operators who work at APC which had previously adopted ERP. The study categorizes independent variables into three stages such as pre-adoption, adoption, and post-adoption. Satisfaction, system utility, work efficiency, professionalism, and standardization are examined as dependent variables. Cronbach’s alpha is used to test the reliability of the survey questionnaires in each category and multiple regression analysis is used to derive factors that have an effect on ERP adoption. Discussions on the results of data analysis are made.
Development of Surface-EMG Based Single Finger Movement Identification and Control for a Bionic Arm

Bionic arm is a robotic arm that offers many of human arm features such as hand grasp and release, flexionextension, elbow flexion-extension, supination-pronation etc. which is integrated with the nervous system and controlled by Electromyogram signals. Invasive and non-invasive methods are used to collect the EMG signal from amputees. In spite of difficulty caused by invasive methods, non-invasive methods are being opted in today's recent Bionic Arms. To overcome the some drawbacks of non-invasive methods proper classification algorithms has to be chosen for controlling individual finger movements in Bionic Arm. In this paper, initially various feature extraction; reduction and classification algorithms are implemented on EMG data of different subjects which is available from Ninapro database. From the results obtained, MAV algorithm for feature extraction, PCA algorithm for feature reduction and KNN algorithm for feature classification are chosen since they gave more accuracy compared to others after implementing on EMG data of different subjects. By employing this algorithms 95% accuracy is achieved for controlling individual finger movements in Bionic Arm. Response time between grasp and release actions of fingers in Bionic Arm obtained after implementing on processor is less than 1ms.
Non-Newtonian Mathematical Model and Numerical Simulations for the Blood Flow in Capillary Vessels

In this paper, taking into consideration the rheological Cross type non-Newtonian model, we elaborate an axial-symmetric mathematical model for the blood flow in capillary vessel with adequate numeric algorithms. We take into account the elastic and porous behavior of the vessel wall which leads to a more realistic approach of the problem. We also accept that the change of substances through these vessels complies with the Starling hypothesis. This hypothesis states that the mass debit through the capillary wall is proportional to the pressure difference between outside and inside the capillaries. The existence of a slip condition along the permeable surface is also accepted using the results of Beavers and Joseph. The numerical experiments are made using COMSOL Multiphysics 3.3. Some numerical results with respect to the velocity field, pressure variation and the wall shear stress are presented.