Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Improvement in Execution Time of PSO to Find Target Object in Running Environment of A* Algorithm

: Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population based algorithm which is applied to solve many optimization problems. One of the properties of basic PSO is that when particles are spread in a search space, as time increases they tend to converge in a small area. The shortcoming of PSO is that the basic PSO cannot guarantee the global convergence of the algorithm. It means when particles explore different areas, the algorithm do not perform well at exploiting promising areas, which increase the search time. To reduce the search time, A* algorithms is applied to find the target object. This reduces the execution time of PSO. After analyzing the results, it is found that the combination of PSO & A* algorithm give better results.
An Approach on Customized Lecturing Based on a Dependency Model

This paper introduces an innovative teaching approach, which provides customized curricula for students without being too resource-demanding for lecturers. Students of several disciplines attend the lecture "Complexity Management for Industrial Application". In the past, a selection of methods has been extracted from the topic of complexity management and imparted to students. This selection represents a trade-off between the different interests and needs of students. While some of them are familiar with a specific method, the same method may overburden students from other disciplines. Some methods may even be irrelevant regarding the students’ future scope of work. Thus, the static structure of the current lecture concept and the individual student characteristics are conflicting and limit the effectiveness of teaching. We developed an approach for matching the subject matter to the specific needs of students by using “Structural Complexity Management”. This methodology is designed for acquiring, analyzing, and optimizing the dependencies within complex systems. Our approach results in an arrangement of selected teaching units in lecture blocks, group tutorials and exercises led by tutors. At first, lessons, methods and competences and their mutual dependencies are modeled. Subsequently, students’ interests and needs are linked to the model. Then we compute customized lists of lessons, which represent the individual educational objectives of students. Finally, superimposing and optimizing all customized lists result in the course arrangement.
Dormancy and germination of Annona macroprophyllata (Annonaceae): the importance of the micropylar plug and seed position in the fruits

Annona macroprophyllata (papausa or ilama) is an economically important species of fruit that is consumed in large quantities in Central America and is considered to have the finest flavour of all of the custard apples (Annonaceae). This species presents propagation problems including the six-month dormancy of the seeds, which has not been fully explained. Among the factors affecting the germination of Annona seeds are the position inside of the fruit and the presence of a micropylar woody plug. The present work addresses the importance of these factors in the germination and dormancy of this species, using a randomised design with seeds from 169 fruits of the white variety of Annona macroprophyllata . The fruits were divided into three sections (basal, middle, and apical) in which seeds were evaluated for nine months with the following parameters: the size and weight of the seeds and the viability and germination percentage considering the presence or absence of the micropylar plug. The results show no correlation between the breaking of dormancy and either the position of the seeds in the fruit or the micropylar plug, but they do establish the importance of the micropylar plug for germination. The breaking of dormancy requires storage for the length of the dry season in the tropical deciduous forest, the habitat of these plants.
Achieving acceptable structured eReferral forms

This paper reports on the implementation of electronic referrals (eReferrals) from community to public secondary services in New Zealand, with a focus on contrast and comparison of the knowledge engineering processes of two distinct regional projects with respect to eReferrals in the colorectal domain. The study data was gathered from project documentation, visits to key sites, analysis of electronic transactional records and stakeholder interviews. Both regional projects demonstrated effective processes of engaging hospital and general practice clinicians in developing investigation-specific eReferral forms: one with an iterative approach, and the other with a structured process. These negotiation processes among the participating clinicians have been effective in presenting, integrating and transferring specialised and locally contextualized knowledge. The resulting structured colorectal eReferral forms have shown sustained uptake and acceptance in both regions. The knowledge embedded in the forms clarifies referring criteria and collects appropriate information for referral triage. Involving both specialists and general practitioners in the form development and refinement has been identified as a key to success in both cases. In conclusion, it is critical to facilitate a negotiation process among secondary and community clinicians in order to achieve acceptable eReferral forms.
Efficient Stochastic Dijkstra Protocol For MobileAd-Hoc Network With Quality of Service

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) consists of a group of mobile nodes, which autonomously establish connectivity via multi - hop wireless communications. This Paper present a new protocol model, a stochastic Dijkstra Routing (SDR), for MANET. To effectively route the traffic for ever changing nodes in MANET with a constrains of less overhead and best quality end to end packet delivery ratio, a novel approach SDR will be presented which involves the technique of evenly or equally distribution of traffic through random variable for a link metrics to provide sort of load balancing. In MANET, SDR protocol shows good agreement for above mention constrains compares to AODV (Ad hoc On demand Distance Vector) routing protocols.
On Emotions as Sensory Percepts of the State of Magnetic Body

What are emotions, how emotions are created, and how are they represented - In the brain, body or somewhere else? Emotions can be divided into lower level emotions and higher level emotions. What do the levels of emotions correspond to? TGD inspired answers to the questions are that emotions are sensory percepts about the state of magnetic body (MB) and sensory-motor loop generalizes. MB decomposes to two basic parts: The part in the scale of BB formed by networks having cells and larger structures as nodes (forming a fractal hierarchy) and the part in the scales larger than BB.
Quantum phenomena modelled by interactions between many classical worlds

We investigate whether quantum theory can be understood as the continuum limit of a mechanical theory, in which there is a huge, but finite, number of classical "worlds," and quantum effects arise solely from a universal interaction between these worlds, without reference to any wave function. Here, a "world" means an entire universe with well-defined properties, determined by the classical configuration of its particles and fields. In our approach, each world evolves deterministically, probabilities arise due to ignorance as to which world a given observer occupies, and we argue that in the limit of infinitely many worlds the wave function can be recovered (as a secondary object) from the motion of these worlds. We introduce a simple model of such a "many interacting worlds" approach and show that it can reproduce some generic quantum phenomena-such as Ehrenfest's theorem, wave packet spreading, barrier tunneling, and zero-point energy-as a direct consequence of mutual repulsion between worlds. Finally, we perform numerical simulations using our approach. We demonstrate, first, that it can be used to calculate quantum ground states, and second, that it is capable of reproducing, at least qualitatively, the double-slit interference phenomenon.
CLAIMING A SACRED FACE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE ROLE OF SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN CLAIMING A POSITIVE CULTURAL IDENTITY

In recent years, there has been much discussion about dealing with culture, race, gender, class, sexual orientation in teaching for social change and greater equity in society (Guy, 1999; Hayes & Colin, 1994; Hayes & Flannery, 2000; Johnson-Bailey, 2001). There has also been some discussion of the role of spirituality in adult development and learning (English & Gillen, 2000; Tisdell, 2000), and some limited discussion on the connection between spirituality and teaching for social justice related to cultural issues ( Hart & Holton, 1993; Tisdell, Tolliver, and Villa, 2001; Tolliver & Tisdell, 2002). Most of these discussions have been conceptual in nature, and there has been only limited discussion of the role of spirituality in developing a positive cultural identity from a data-based research perspective. Thus, the purpose of this paper is (1) to discuss the results of a qualitative study where the purpose was to examine the role of spirituality in developing a positive cultural identity among a multicultural group of 31 adult educators; and (2) to discuss the implications the findings of the study have for the further development of culturally relevant teaching practices within adult and higher education settings.
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Estimates of Between-Study Heterogeneity for 705 Meta-Analyses Reported in Psychological Bulletin From 1990 – 2013

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Using internet multimedia to promote the local business: a case study of Alishan

Values created by business and individual activities, such as e-commerce, digitalized lifestyle, and online learning, have gained high expectations with the worldwide popularity of information and network technologies. As a result, the digitalized society has been vigorously created. In this study, we used the keyword "Alishan" to search related information via Yahoo and Google, and did not found any websites built by 3D digital technique. The rise of globalization has caused the reproduction of foreign culture and sightseeing areas as well as the competition of tourism in the world, which urges the promotions of tourism in Taiwan. People have become aware of the importance of tourism, and the government has started to promote local cultural and recreational activity. By using the internet and multi-language to present local history, humanities, and nature, the government can sufficiently present local county's abundant features and effectively attract tourists. This paper combines the multi-media technology to build an interactive 2D/3D website for Alishan tour guide. It offers multi-languages options, including Chinese, English, and Japanese. This website presents the sunrise by dynamics 3D technology, and provides 3D guidance of each Alishan railway station. It also offers e-book to introduce the indigenous Tsou people's festivals and particular eco-sightseeing source. By introducing Alishan to the world on the Internet, we also provide e-book that enhances the e-learning activity, and information about digital life. The richness of information will promote Taiwan in international culture development and tourist market.
A Closer Look At The Fire Extinguishing Properties Of Water Mist

Fire suppression with water mist is widely considered to be an alternative to gaseous fire suppression agents. Much commercial activity has occurredin the last 5 years to develop technology for fire suppression systems based on water mist. Although researchers in the 1950's recognized the dominant mechanisms of extinguishment, recent experimental work has improved the understanding of the extinguishing properties of water mist. This paper proposes a classification terminology for water mists to facilitate discussion of water mist systems. It describes the primary mechanisms of extinguishment, namely heat extraction, oxygen displacement, and radiation attenuation, and invokes theoretical considerations of vapourlair mixture dilution and kinetic effects at the molecular level. Evidence of an effect of invigoration of combustion caused by the introduction of water mist is presented. Not all fires are extinguished rapidly by water mist: the time to extinguish a fire is a function of fuel type, geometry and mist characteristics. An understanding of the suppression properties of water mist allows a designer to make reasonable choices in designing a suppression system for a particular fire scenario, and is essential for the development of algorithms for computer models of water mist suppression systems.
Cache-skip approach for information-centric network

Several ICN cache deployment and management techniques have since been using the Web management techniques to manage information sharing and better cache-hit ratio.Leave Copy Down, Leave Copy Everywhere and Probabilistic cache managements have gained more attention. However, with Leave Copy Everywhere being the initial design specification in ICN proposal, several research issues of content manageability have posed a threat of particularly content and path redundancy.This paper presents an extensive simulation analysis of the popular cache management techniques by subjecting the concepts into different network topologies to investigate the prospect of extending and proposing a new form of cache management in ICN known as Cache-skip. Cache-skip use the consciousness of time of request, network size and Time Since Birth (TSB) and Time Since Inception (TSI) to carefully dedicate the positions of caching to benefits hit rates and less network stress as a form to efficiently utilize the bandwidth and enhance hits.
Research on Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Trust and Customer Citizenship Behavior

The concept of Customer Citizenship Behavior is evolved from Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and the relationship between them has been researched by few scholars. To examine the effect of Organizational Citizenship Behavior on Customer Citizenship Behavior, this research adopted questionnaire investigation method to survey 208 consumers. As predicted, the results showed that, organizational citizenship behavior influenced customer citizenship behavior positively; trust acted as a mediator between the relationships of organizational citizenship behavior and customer citizenship behavior. At last，the theoretical and practical significance, limitations of the study, as well as the direction of future research will be discussed.
BOARD COMPOSITION AND DETERRENCE OF FRAUD IN NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS

The growing numbers of Non-profit Organizations (NPOs) globally show the importance of NPOs in contributing to the society in terms of its social works. By championing the need of the people through their activities, NPOs enjoy public trust. As NPOs are generally subjected to less stringent requirements, they are more vulnerable to occurences of fraud. Hence, this study aims to examine board composition as a mechanism to deter fraud in NPOs. This relationship was examined based on content analysis of annual reports of 205 societies registered with Registrar of Society (ROS) for the financial period 2010. Characteristics of board composition examined in this study are board professionalism and board with politically connected. Fraud deterrence are proxied by efficiency ratio, stability ratio and solvency ratio. This study finds that only board with professionalism has a positive significant relationship with fraud deterrence in NPOs. However, fraud deterrence indicators are only significant for insolvency ratios. In summary, this study highlights that an optimum mix of board members matters in reducing occurence of fraud in NPOs.
Evaluation of chemical composition of yoghurt made from camel and camel-sheep milk mixtures during storage.

In this study the chemical composition of yoghurt made from camel milk (40, 60 and 100%) was mixed with sheep milk using two different starter cultures were evaluated during storage. The milks were pasteurized at 63oC for 30 min and then cooled to 43°C before adding the starter culture. The incubation was carried out in plastic cups at 43°C. Longer shelf life was obtained for yoghurt samples made from pure camel milk compared to other samples. The total solids, fat, protein and acidity of yoghurt showed significantly (p<0.05) higher values for yoghurt made from camel-sheep mixtures milk compared to those made from pure camel milk. Moreover, the storage period revealed significant variations for those constituents. Hence, it is concluded that addition of sheep milk to that of camel improves the composition of yoghurt made from camel milk, which indicated the possibilities of processing and marketing of both milk especially, because the health benefits of camel milk and the fermented products are well documented.
Do (Audit Firm and Key Audit Partner) Rotations Affect Value Relevance? Empirical Evidence from the Italian Context

This research aims to investigate whether and to what extent investors place more weight on accounting amounts disclosed in annual reports issued by entities that experienced a rotation of the audit firm or of the key audit partner. Analysing a sample of 97 non-financial entities listed in the Milan stock exchange over the period 2006-2014, the paper provides evidence that rotations positively affect the value relevance of accounting amounts. In addition, the paper shows how the audit firm rotation and the key partner rotation act only in part as substitutes, as the former is more capable than the latter of positively affecting the value relevance of earnings and book value. These results provide a theoretical contribution to the literature and have significant implications for standard setters. The rotations, even though could determine a loss of client-specific knowledge, nonetheless improve the value relevance of accounting amounts. New rules that require the key partner rotation have a positive effect as long as they do not consider such rotation as an alternative to the rotation of the audit firm being the partner rotation less capable to affect the value relevance of accounting amounts than the key audit firm rotation.
An Analytical Algorithm for Delphi Method for Consensus Building and Organizational Productivity

Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a statistical-based multivariate modeling methods, Application of SEM is similar but more powerful than regression analysis; and number of scientists using SEM in their research is rupidly inereasing. This review article algorithmically discussesthe SEM methodology. SEM strategies, SEM steps and SEM stages are introduced in this article; validity tests are presented os well. Novelty of this article is in modified steps of SEM application in modeling strategies, also in its developed practical comprehensive SEM application flowchart This article is a roadmap for business advisors and those scholars trying to compute SEM for their decision making, complex modeling and data analysis programming,
Optimal infrastructure planning for EV fast‐charging stations based on prediction of user behaviour

Electric vehicles (EVs) appear to offer a promising solution to support sustainable transportation and the reduction of CO 2 emissions in the metropolitan areas. To satisfy the EV load demand of the new EV models with larger battery capacities, public direct-current fast-charging stations (DCFCSs) are essential to recharge EVs rapidly. A stochastic planning method of the DCFCSs is presented considering user behaviour and the probabilistic driving patterns in order to predict EVs charging demand. According to the stochastic method, a coordinated charging demand and storage charging demand are proposed with the objective of minimising peak load from EVs and charging-infrastructure costs. The proposed planning method can prevent additional grid-reinforcement costs due to EV demand during peak hours. In the coordinated charging demand, the peak load from EVs is managed by controlling the DCFCSs. Instead, in the battery energy storage (BES) charging demand, an optimal BES is proposed as an alternative solution to reduce the peak demand of EVs as well as DCFCSs operational costs. Finally, an economic analysis is carried out to evaluate the technical and economic aspects related to DCFCSs, the BES life-cycle costs as well as the financial performance of BES costs versus grid-reinforcement costs.
Copper Oxide Nanoparticles Toxicity on Eisenia fetida Earthworms and Bacterial Species

The extensive use of nanoparticles (NPs) in a variety of applications has raised great concerns about their environmental fate and biological effects. To investigate the role of CuO NPs in soil on microbes and earthworms, we exposed microorganisms and earthworms ( Eisenia fetida ) to different concentrations of CuO NPs E. fetida to CuO NPs is not dose related. Dose related weight loss of earthworms was noticed after 15 days of exposure. This study will be very useful in regulation of nanomaterials that are entering into the environment.
Two Bacillus species isolated from rotting wood samples are good candidates for the production of bioethanol using agave biomass.

The biorefining of crop and plant organic matter represents a promising route to produce renewable fuels and bioproducts. The high contents of cellulose and hemicellulose make Agave americana an ideal candidate to produce value-added products. In this study, two different cellulase producing bacteria, isolated from rotting wood samples, were incubated and cultivated to examine their ability to decompose agave and produce ethanol. The results showed the transparent zones called halos on the plates containing Agave as the sole carbon source after iodine staining for these two isolates and positive control Cellulomonas xylanilytica; while, no halo was observed for negative control: Escherichia coli BL21. The Bacillus species K1 and A0 displayed hydrolysis ability greater than that of positive control based on halo diameter. Moreover, the quantitative ability to decompose agave was studied for the same two bacterial strains using minimal salt media containing 5% agave biomass. Dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) method was used to detect cellulase and reducing sugars. Ethanol was detected by using micro-dichromate method. The results showed that strain K1 produced 0.435 g ethanol/g Agave biomass and the isolate A0 produced 0.397 g/g ethanol on the 4th day of incubation.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CAREER MANAGEMENT AND INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE KHULIDA

This paper looks at organizational career management and individual performance among insurance salespeople in Kedah. The objective of the paper is to determine whether there is a relationship between organizational career management and individual performance. Organizational career management comprised measure of career management policies, career development, and career information while individual performance is measured in terms of the output performance. The questionnaire was developed and distributed to the sample. The sample comprised insurance salespeople working at an insurance company in Alor Setar. A total of 169 questionnaires were sent but only 57 were returned, thereby achieving a response rate of 33.7%. The result found that there was a significant relationship between organizational career management and individual performance. Therefore, it could be inferred that organizational career management is strongly associated to individual performance.