Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigating the influence of servicescape on customer loyalty at a fine - dining restaurants in Jaipur

Restaurant owners and indeed all the personnel need to create a pleasant servicescape and provide service quality excellence in all their encounters with their customers. Servicescape is the physical environment of a service business where service is delivered to paying or non-paying customers. Servicescape has a very strong effect on all consumption experiences where service is delivered. In India the service sector contributes nearly half of the GDP. Restaurant owners, managers and all the personnel need to be servicescape oriented in order to increase a restaurant’s performance and improve its sustainability prospects. Servicescape is thus the physical facility and services which are considered to enhance customer satisfaction and sustain business. The purpose of the present study was to establish the relationship between Servicescape and customer’s loyalty towards fine dine restaurants in Jaipur. A total of 436 subjects who visited fine dining restaurant of Jaipur, age from 21 to 60 years of age, were selected for the study. To measure the servicescape parameters, a scale established by Mehrabian and Russell (1974) was adopted. To find out the relation between servicescape and customers’ loyalty, the Pearson product minute correlation was used. To develop a model for customers’ loyalty, linear regression was employed. Results revealed that there was a strong relationship between servicescape and customer’s loyalty and this allowed a significant model for customer’s loyalty to be developed. Hence, it is concluded that the loyalty of the customers can be predicted by using the proposed model.
CIRCULATING CURRENT MINIMIZATION IN LOW-VOLTAGE DC MICROGRID BASED ON DROOP CONTROL STRATEGY

This paper addresses load current sharing and circulating current issues of parallel-connected dc–dc converters in low-voltage dc microgrid . microgrids can help overcome power system limitations, improve efficiency, reduce emissions and manage the variability of renewable sources.Droop index (DI) is introduced in order to improve the performance of DC micro grid, which is a function of normalized current sharing difference and losses in the output side of the converters.The proposed fuzzy based droop control method minimizes the circulating current and current sharing difference between the converters based on instantaneous virtual resistance . This results shows difference between pi and fuzzy and it is implemented using MATLAB/SIMULINK
Responses to MARAM / IWS / DEC 14 / Peng / B 10

This document provides responses to a number of reservations which have been raised locally over the past year to the GLM approach for analysis of the island closure feasibility study, and conclusions inferred from the results. The issues covered range from whether catch provides an index of local fish abundance, the Clark model of a relation between shoal size and predation, comparisons with what occurred in Namibia, the appropriate period for which islands need to be closed, an argued need to apply model selection methods when developing the basis for a power analysis, whether a step-function relationship is appropriate for describing the different results from closure vs non-closure of an area around an island to fishing, and what the default conclusion about the impact of fishing near to penguin colonies should be.
A hardware accelerator implementation for real-time collision detection

Fredy Augusto M. Alves1, Lucas Bragança da Silva1, Ricardo S. Ferreira3, Peter Jamieson2, José A. Miranda Nacif1 Institute of Exact Sciences and Technology, Federal University of Viçosa, Campus UFV-Florestal, Brazil College of Engineering and Computing, Miami University, USA Departament of Informatics, UFV, Brazil fredy.alves@ufv.br, lucas.braganca@ufv.br, ricardo@ufv.br, jamiespa@miamioh.edu, jnacif@ufv.br
Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kemampuan pemecahan masalah mahasiswa setelah dibelajarkan dengan pembelajaran guided inquiry berbantuan PhET. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan mixed method dengan desain embeded eksperimental model. Subjek penelitian terdiri dari 35 mahasiswa pendi

Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kemampuan pemecahan masalah mahasiswa setelah dibelajarkan dengan pembelajaran guided inquiry berbantuan PhET. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan mixed method dengan desain embeded eksperimental model. Subjek penelitian terdiri dari 35 mahasiswa pendidikan fisika Universitas Negeri Jambi yang sedang menempuh mata kuliah Fisika Dasar II. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terjadi peningkatan skor kemampuan pemecahan masalah mahasiswa setelah dibelajarkan dengan pembelajaran guided inquiry berbantuan PhET dengan N-gain dalam kategori sedang dan effect size dalam kategori kuat. Jika dilihat dari daya beda pretest dan posttest didapatkan nilai t sebesar 12,48 dengan signifikansi 0,000. Hasil ini menunjukkan kemampuan pemecahan masalah sebelum diajarkan dan setelah diajarkan guided inquiry berbantuan PhET berbeda secara signifikan dengan nilai posttest lebih baik dari pretest.
In Vitro Antimycobacterial Activity of New 7-Chloroquinoline Derivatives

Abstract : The antimycobacterial activity of new 18 7-chloroquinoline derivatives, obtained from 4,7-dichloroquinoline, was evaluated against 15 Mycobacterium spp among standardized and clinical isolates using the MTT susceptibility test to obtain minimum inhibitory concentration values (MIC, g/mL). The results suggested that 7-chloroquinoline compounds are useful leads for new anti-TB drug development. The most active compounds exhibited moderate activity with 16 g/mL MIC values for all tested microorganisms. Keywords: 7-Chloroquinoline derivatives, synthesis, MDR-TB, antimycobacterial activity. INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death among different infectious diseases, second behind human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [1]. One-third of the world population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ) and hence at risk of developing active TB [2]. There were an estimated 9.27 million new cases of TB worldwide in 2007 [3]. The rapid spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has fueled the TB epidemic [2]. Cost of diagnosing and treating of these cases was estimated at $16.9 billion, with annual costs increasing from $700 million in 2009 to $4.4 billion in 2015 [3]. There are several major problems associated with the currently available TB treatment. First, the duration and complexity of the treatment result in no adherence to treatment. Second, adverse events in response to anti-TB drugs are common and contribute to the problem of no adherence and third, the increasing incidence of multidrug-resistant TB [MDR; resistance to at least rifampin (RMP) and isoniazid (isonicotinylhydrazine, INH)] and extensively drug-resistant (XDR; MDR resistance plus resistance to a fluoroquinolone and an aminoglycoside) is a serious concern [2]. Alarmingly, there were an estimated 500,000 cases of MDR-TB in 2007 (including 289,000 new cases); in addition, 55 countries reported cases of XDR-TB by the end of 2008 [3]. There is an urgent demand for new anti-TB drugs possessing novel modes of action. Furthermore, the retrovirals commonly used in AIDS/HIV treatment are usually not compatible with the current TB treatment, particularly due to the CYP3A induction by rifampin [4].
Challenges of Flipping a Course in Geomatics Engineering

In recent years, the flipped classroom teaching and learning approach has attracted the attention of many educators, but in general, its use remains obscure in engineering disciplines. The main goal of this new approach, which is framed by Bloom’s revised taxonomy of knowledge categories, is to enhance and enrich the student classroom experience by transforming lecture modules or even individual lectures into online course content. At the same time, this approach frees classroom interaction for active, face-to-face interactions between a teacher and students. The flipped classroom approach may be suitable in project-based and design courses, where the expertise and self-example of the teacher form the foundation of teacher-student interactions in the traditional face-to-face classroom, which is somehow lost in online courses.
Femur boyun koruyucu (FBK) protezlerin yol açtiği komplikasyonlarin analizi

Amac: Bu calismanin amaci femur boyun koruyucu (FBK) protez kullaniminin, total kalca artroplastisindeki (TKA) klinik ve radyolojik sonuclarini ve komplikasyonlarini degerlendirmekti. Calisma plani: Calismada, Ocak 2004 ve Aralik 2011 tarihleri arasinda FBK protezi ile TKA uygulanan 125 hastanin (70 erkek, 55 kadin; ortalama yas: 50, dagilim: 38-60) 142 (82 erkek, 60 kadin) kalcasi degerlendirildi. Hasta skorlamalari Harris kalca skoru (HKS) ve gorsel analog skala (GAS) ile yapildi. Radyografiler protez pozisyonu, gevsemesi ve ektopik kemiklesme analizinde kullanilan Gruen bolgeleri ile DeLee ve Charnley bolgelerine gore degerlendirildi. Bulgular: Ortalama 4.72±2.16 (dagilim:1-8.4) yillik takip sirasinda hicbir hasta calismayi terk etmedi. Cerrahi oncesi 8.3±3.12 olan GAS skoru son takipte 2.1±1.54’e gerilerken, HKS’nin 51.43±4.14 puandan 90.27±6.60 puana gelistigi goruldu. Hastalarin %87.4’unde HKS iyi ve mukemmel olarak degerlendirildi. Brooker siniflandirmasina gore tamami Evre 1 olan 4 olguda (%2.8) klinik semptom olmaksizin hafif ektopik kemiklesme izlendi. Bes hastada (%3.5) proksimal femurda kemik kaybi bulundu. Stemi cevreleyen radyolusen hatlar hicbir olguda gozlenmedi. Yine hicbir olguda protez gevsemesi veya femoral protez cokmesi saptanmadi. Femoral ve asetabular komponentler icin sagkalim orani %100 olarak bulundu. Ameliyat sirasinda stem ucunda lateral femoral diyafizde olusan 10 (%7.1) kirik icin ek bir tedavi gereksinimi olusmadi. Hicbir olguda enfeksiyon, kayma ya da derin ven trombozu gozlenmedi. Cikarimlar: Femur boyun koruyucu protez ile total kalca artroplastisi degisik etiyolojileri olan genc hastalar icin iyi bir secenek olsa da, komplikasyonlarin engellenmesi icin yakin takip sarttir. Anahtar sozcukler: Artroplasti; femur boyun koruyucu protez; kalca eklemi; takip.
Comparison of FACTS Devices for Transient Stability Enhancement of Multi-machine Power System

In this paper an examination has been performed for the up gradation of transient stability limit in two area multi-machine power system using different FACTS devices. The simulation of two area multi-machine power system including FACTS devices has been carried out in the MATLAB Simulink. The performance of unified power flow controller (UPFC) for the upgradation of transient stability limit has been investigated along with Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) and Static synchronous series compensator (SSSC) respectively. The paper establishes the superiority of UPFC over STATCOM &SSSC.
QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES IN OPTRONICS

This article gives a brief overview of the military application spectrum of quantum devices. These include infrared emitters such as quantum cascade lasers as well as infrared detectors based Type 2 superlattice structures. Both technologies are based on quantum effects in solids such as tunneling electrons through potential barriers or the formation of discrete energy levels in quantum wells. By exploiting these quantum effects, lasers and detectors can be specifically optimized for military applications like missile warning and optical countermeasures for protection of airborne, naval or ground based vehicles. Further quantum devices considered in this overview include highly sensitive magnetic field sensors based on nitrogen vacancy centres ("NV centres"). This technology shows high potential for the detection of submarines and for GPS-free navigation using the Earth's magnetic field. Keywords—Quantum technology, Quantum Cascade Laser, Type II Superlattice Detector, NV centres, Quantum Magnometry
Presacral Approach for L5-S1 Fusion

Axial lumbar interbody fusion (AxiaLIF; Trans1 Inc., Wilmington, NC) offers a presacral approach to L4-L5 and L5-S1 fusions. This minimally invasive procedure has been successfully used for the treatment of degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, and spinal stenosis, among other conditions. Open anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) procedures are associated with significant morbidity and vascular and visceral complications. Open ALIF requires disruption of the annulus and sectioning of the anterior longitudinal ligament, which can weaken the motion segment. Comparison of several large-scale AxiaLIF studies with results from open fusion techniques show comparable fusion rates and clinical outcomes at 2-year follow-up. However, AxiaLIF patients show reduced estimated blood loss, hospital stay, complications, and overall decreased morbidity when compared with patients who undergo open fusion. The studies cited in this review support the safety of this presacral annulus-sparing approach and demonstrate low incidence of vascular and visceral injuries. Our clinical experience with this procedure confirms these findings. Overall, this minimally invasive, alternative approach for L4-L5 and L5-S1 fusion appears to offer several potential advantages over open techniques for lumbar fusion in appropriate patient candidates.
Design and Simulation of Novel Full Adder Cells using Modified GDI Cell

This paper presents low-power, low voltage and high speed 1-bit full adder circuits is proposed. Our approach is based on XORXNOR design full adder circuits in a single unit as well as Gate Diffusion Input techniques. Using 3transistor XOR Gate Logic style 8T,9T and 12T full adder cell are designed, which increases the speed and performance and reduces power dissipation at lower supply voltage. The design of 5 different full adder topologies using Modified Gate Diffusion Input (MGDI) Technique is reviewed in this paper. This MGDI technique allows the circuit to consume less power, less delay and to get optimized area of digital circuits, while maintaining low complexity of logic design. The simulations are carried out using 130nm CMOS Technology of Mentor Graphics. Analysis and evaluation is carried out for various adder circuit and their performances are compared by varying supply voltages. Simulation results illustrates that proposed adders have better performance, Low power, High speed against other designed adder circuits like CCMOS, CPL, TGA and Hybrid adder circuits.
High Dimensional Dictionary Learning and Applications

In this work, we show how to efficiently handle bigger dimensions and go beyond the small patches in sparsity-based signal and image processing methods. We build our approach based on a new cropped Wavelet decomposition, which enables a multi-scale analysis with virtually no border effects. Employing this as the base dictionary within a double sparsity model, and to cope with the increase of training data, we present an Online Sparse Dictionary Learning (OSDL) algorithm to train this model effectively, enabling it to handle millions of examples. The resulting large trainable atoms – trainlets – not only achieve state of the art performance in dictionary learning when compared to other methods, but it also opens the door to new challenges and problems that remained unattainable until now. In addition to reviewing the capabilities of the OSDL algorithm, we present very recent results on inpainting of large regions of face images, as well as preliminary results on full endto-end image compression.
Acceptance of Tactile Belts for Directional Information Representation in Automobiles

Tactile belts are an alternative display to present directional information in automobiles. We conducted a user evaluation in a controlled environment to investigate the acceptability of tactile belts for that purpose and circumstances. A tactile belt, consisting of six vibrators was used for continuous direction presentation in a driving simulation. The simulation consisted of a video clip showing a recorded drive from the driver’s viewpoint. This was synchronized with a tactile track providing tactile presentations of upcoming turns through a tactile belt. Information regarding front direction, right or left turns was presented on participants’ waist by activating appropriate vibrator(s). Factors of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)[1] have been evaluated with the help of questionnaires afterwards. The results show that tactile belts are acceptable by drivers for directional infor-
Technology Diﬀusion and the International System

o es world politics aﬀect the diﬀusion of technology? States overwhelmingly rely on technology invented abroad, and their diﬀerential intensity of technology use accounts for much of their diﬀerences in economic development. Some international relations scholarship suggests states adopt new technology as they seek to avoid vulnerability to attack or coercion by more developed neighbors. We argue the structure of the international system aﬀects the level of competition among states which in turn aﬀects leaders’ willingness to enact policies that speed technology adoption. We examine this systematically by considering states’ adoption of technology over the past 200 years. We ﬁnd that countries adopted new technologies faster when the international system was less concentrated, that such systemic change Granger-caused technology adoption, and that policies to promote technology adoption are related to concerns about rising international tensions. A competitive international system is an important incentive for technological change, and may underlie global “technology waves. " [150 words]
2019 SBA Fact Sheet TURKEY

Although it is acknowledged that restarters usually grow faster than newly established companies and show higher economic viability, the conditions to give entrepreneurs a second chance are not in place in Turkey. While the strength of the insolvency framework has improved recently, the time to resolve insolvency should be reduced, the recovery rate should be increased and automatic discharge should be promoted for honest entrepreneurs after liquidation. The commercialisation of R&D remains hindered by the relative low capacity of Turkish SMEs to adopt innovative means of production and related organisational measures. Turkey should therefore consider further financial and legislative initiatives to support the capacity of SMEs to implement innovative production processes.
Automated Instrument Setup and Compensation on the BD FACSLyric ™ Flow Cytometer

Summary Flow cytometry is a powerful tool for the single-cell analysis of patient samples. As clinical flow experiments increase in size and complexity, there is a need for instrument solutions that deliver both a streamlined, user-friendly workflow and exceptional performance. In this application note, we highlight key usability and performance features of the 10-color CE-IVD BD FACSLyric™ platform. We show that the BD FACSLyric, in conjunction with BD FACSuite™ Clinical software, BD™ Cytometer Setup and Tracking (CS&T) beads, and BD™ FC beads, delivers a simple and efficient user workflow from instrument startup and setup through data acquisition and analysis. We evaluated the reproducibility of median fluorescence intensity (MFI) across time and between cytometers, as well as resolution sensitivity, using BD CS&T beads and stained cells. The reproducibility of fluorescence spillover was measured using BD FC beads and stained cells. To assess accuracy and reproducibility during automated cytometer setup, the performance of three to six 10-color BD FACSLyric cytometers was measured over two months. Finally, overall performance was assessed using a multicolor assay for T, B, and NK cells in peripheral blood from HIV patients and controls. Taken together, these results show that the BD FACSLyric system provides unique tools to the clinical user to help achieve reproducible and consistent results across time and instruments.
Searching for a Genetic Relationship Between the Mitochondrial DNA and Y- chromosomal Polymorphisms

The present paper addresses the question of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between Y-chromosomal and mtDNA HVR1 distributions based on a population sample of southern Poland. Genetic independence of both polymorphisms would validate the use of the product rule in the assessment of matching probability, as is accepted for autosomal STRs. For this purpose, a total of 330 typed unrelated male samples were assigned to 17 Y-haplogroups, 32 mtDNA haplogroups, and 91 combined haplotypes (including 50 singletons). The average gene diversity for the two polymorphisms was 0.71045. The expected heterozygosity values were 0.69491 and 0.72598 for Y-chromosomal and mtDNA haplogroups, respectively. The exact test for pairwise LD indicated that there was no association between the analysed polymorphisms (median p-value=0.30781). The normalized entropy difference (NED) was 0.02. These results prove lack of association between mitochondrial and Ychromosomal markers and provide acceptable arguments for multiplying together likelihood ratios obtained from both genetic markers without any further assumptions.
A REVIEW ON RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM USING RATING DATASET

The information available in the web is increasing daily. Searching for anything from web is very difficult because of availability of huge data and the disadvantage with the searching is, it simply mines data based on the keyword given by the user. It doesn’t consider the context. The only solution for searching problem is Recommendation Systems. From the past 16 years Recommendation systems changed the way of searching the products. Products are like movies, videos, research articles, news, hotels, tours, music etc. Recommendation systems are being used in each field like Ecommerce or M-commerce, social networking, research articles, music and travel. Collaborative filtering, content based filtering, Hybrid approaches and popularity based approaches are used in Recommendation Systems. Collaborative filtering mines data based on the taste and interest of similar users. Collaborative filtering implemented on neighbourhood algorithms. Content based filtering mines data based on similarity of content. In Hybrid approaches both collaborative filtering and content based filtering together applied. Popularity based approaches provides items that are very popular (like most watched videos, most downloaded etc.).
Is Achievement a Sufficient Criterion?

We analyse university admission through a statistical discrimination model where students di¤er in ability and social groups. Universities aim to enrol the students with the best human capital, which is given by their innate ability and of the learning carried out while at school. Students and school choose their learning and teaching e¤ort based on the behaviour of universities. Interestingly, we nd that students from less advantaged groups need a lower grade to be admitted to the best universities, while less competitive universities do the opposite. If a university cannot discriminate according to social groups, all students with same grade will attend universities of the same quality, with di¤erent levels of human capital according to their social group. JEL Numbers: I21, I23, J71 Keywords: discrimination, a¢ rmative action, studying e¤ort, teaching e¤ort. I am deeply indebted with Gianni De Fraja for many discussions that lead to substantial improvements of the paper. All errors are my own. yDepartment of Economics and Business, University of Florence, email: alessandro.tampieri@uni . it