Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Optimized Wireless Transmission of Stereo Images and 3-D reconstruction on Hardware

Stereo images are captured using cameras connected to PC. These images are segmented and stored in the compressed form. The compressed segmented images are transmitted to the ARM-9 processor based system by using ZIGBEE wireless module. These images, when received at the receiver end, are recovered, and a 3-D image is generated on the TFT display. Depth levels are also estimated from segmented stereo images and transmitted through ZIGBEE module to ARM-9 processor based hardware. Depth levels received at the hardware are used to control a robot. This proposal is a prototype that can be implemented for vision based industrial applications. The present paper deals with the transmitter-receiver link for stereo images and movement of robot proportional to estimated depth levels. Keywords-ZIGBEE; Particle Swarm Optimization; Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization; Fractional Order Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization; robot; SAM-9M-10-G-
HTST Whirling Bed Hot Air Puffing of Wheat based RTE Foods: A Micro Level Case Study

The cold extrudate prepared from blend of wheat-soy flour at requisite initial moisture could be optimally steam ed at 0.70 kg/cm 2 for 10.75 min and HTST air puffed at 215 °C for 30 s fo llowed by oven toasting at 113 °C for 27 min to prepare RTE snack foods. The composition of product except the fat content was unaltered dur ing process. The study on phenomena of mass transfer and heat transfer and scanning electron microscopy revealed their stage-wise inter relation s during the process. The puffed snack foods prepared were consumer acceptable and having shelf life of more than six months.
Maternal condition and offspring sex ratio in polygynous ungulates: a case study of bighorn sheep

The Trivers and Willard model (TWM) predicts that for sexually dimorphic polygynous mammals, mothers able to provide a high level of care should bias offspring sex ratio in favor of sons. Contradictory results of empirical studies, however, suggest that selective pressures for adaptive offspring sex ratio vary with species and environmental conditions. We report the results of a 29-year study of marked bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in a population that underwent wide changes in density and where most females were weighed each year. Lamb sex ratio was independent of absolute ewe mass and yearly deviations from individual or population average mass, but there was a nonsignificant trend towards fewer males being born at high population density. Bighorn sheep satisfy all the assumptions of the TWM but not its prediction: lamb sex ratio is independent of maternal ability to provide care. Recent hypotheses to explain the lack of relationship between maternal condition and offspring sex in ungulates are unlikely to apply to bighorn sheep. We suggest that the TWM may only apply when social rank strongly affects the ability to provide maternal care. Those circumstances are likely to occur for only a few species and within a narrow range of environmental conditions. Copyright 2005.
On the origin of the warm–hot absorbers in the Milky Way's halo

Disc galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to be surrounded by massive coronae of hot plasma that may contain a significant fraction of the so-called missing baryons. We investigate whether the local (vertical bar v(LSR)vertical bar <400 km s(-1)) warm-hot absorption features observed towards extra-Galactic sources or halo stars are consistent with being produced by the cooling of the Milky Way's corona. In our scheme, cooling occurs at the interface between the disc and the corona and it is triggered by positive supernova feedback. We combine hydrodynamical simulations with a dynamical 3D model of the galactic fountain to predict the all-sky distribution of this cooling material, and we compare it with the observed distribution of detections for different 'warm' (Si iii, Si iv, C ii, C iv) and 'hot' (O vi) ionized species. The model reproduces the position-velocity distribution and the column densities of the vast majority of warm absorbers and about half of O vi absorbers. We conclude that the warm-hot gas responsible for most of the detections lies within a few kiloparsec from the Galactic plane, where high-metallicity material from the disc mixes efficiently with the hot corona. This process provides an accretion of a few M-circle dot yr(- 1) of fresh gas that can easily feed the star formation in the disc of the Galaxy. The remaining O vi detections are likely to be a different population of absorbers, located in the outskirts of the Galactic corona and/or in the circumgalactic medium of nearby galaxies.
POLYANILINE MULTI-COATED ONTO POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE AND SILICON ELASTOMER FOR PRESSURE FILTRATION MEMBRANES

In this study, silicone rubbers were used to achieve the desire absorbing properties of PANI onto polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) microporous support. Poly (methyl-vinyl ether-alt-maleic acid) (PMVEA) polymeric acid was used as acid dopant to enhance the membrane filtration performance. Initially PVDF micro-porous support was dip-coated with silicone rubber elastomer solution followed by deposition with PANI by in-situ chemical oxidative polymerisation techniques using two-compartment cell in presence of PMVEA and ammonium persulfate as the oxidizing agent. The PANI multilayer composite membranes were characterized by gravimetric for PANI content measurement namely Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and contact angle. The PANI content was found to be more than 30 %. SEM, FTIR and DSC analysis have confirmed the presence of PANI onto the multilayers membrane while the contact angle of the membrane in presence of high loading PANI was 0 o indicating the super hydrophilicity than without the PANI presence of 78.8 . The pressure filtration of PANI multilayer composite filtration membrane with a range of polyethylene glycols at different molecular weights was obtained based on the high flux up to 904.11 L/m.h and reasonable molecular weight cut off of below 20,000 g/mol were obtained for the synthesized membrane.
Underwater Bearings-Only Passive Target Tracking Using Estimate Fusion Technique

Estimate Fusion Technique (EFT) for Bearings–Only passive target tracking involves a process of estimating the state of a moving target by fusing the estimates given by different Nonlinear estimators which are driven by different Bearing measurements supplied by towed array. The estimates are fused with the help of a Weighted Least squares Estimator. This novel method has an advantage over the traditional nonlinear Estimators such as the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) in terms of estimation errors which is proved in this paper by performing simulation in Matlab R2009a for a wartime scenario.
A Compact 28-nm FD-SOI CMOS 76–81 GHz Automotive Band Receiver Path with Accurate 0.2° Phase Control Resolution

This paper presents a 76–81 GHz receiver path for automotive radar applications in 28-nm FD-SOI CMOS technology. It introduces a new accurate phase control using MOS varactors. The proposed solution implemented in the front-end low noise amplifier (LNA) allows a phase control of maximum 22° with a 0.2° resolution for minimum degradation of the LNA and the receiver performances. The receiver contains a two-stage LNA with 5.5 dB noise figure (NF), a passive mixer, a local oscillator (LO) driver and a baseband (BB) amplifier. The receiver exhibits input compression points (ICP1dB) of −25.2 dBm and −12.6 dBm with and without BB amplifier, respectively. The active area of the receiver path is only 0.057 mm2 for a total power consumption of 41.7 mW.
Developmental Changes in Postural Stability During the Performance of a Precision Manual Task

Posture becomes integrated with other goal-directed behaviors early in infancy and continues to develop into the second decade of life. However, the developmental time course over which posture is stabilized relative to the base of support during a dynamic manual precision task has not been examined. Postural-manual integration was assessed in 7-year-olds, 10-year-olds, and adults using a postural-manual task in which task precision (target fitting size) and postural difficulty (reaching distance to a target) were manipulated. The main dependent variable was postural time-to-contact (TtC). Results indicated systematic age effects in which TtC was shortest in the 7-year-olds, increased in the 10-year-olds, and was longest in the adults. Across all age levels, TtC was longer when performing a precision ft compared with a nonprecision ft and when fitting at a near target compared with fitting at a far target. Finally, TtC increased over the course of the manual fitting task, suggesting that posture became in.
Chartering Strategies for Oil Companies

This paper discusses the general chartering strategy trends for oil companies and provides a systematic approach for strategic tanker chartering decisions focusing mainly on the shipping contract mix problem. To analyze trends in chartering strategies, this thesis categorizes oil companies from an oil supply chain perspective into four main categories; integrated oil companies, oil producers, oil consumers, and oil traders in order to identify different levels of involvement in crude oil transport and composition of shipping contracts. In terms of contract mix analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory and a non-linear model are introduced as the main methodology to analyze the optimal shipping contract mix. A contract mix case from an Asian based oil company is then provided utilizing introduced theories and models to find the optimal shipping contract mix.
Challenges in Covering Innovation Topics Experiences of Journalists in the US , Japan and Finland

Journalists face plenty of challenges when covering innovation topics. Because innovation stories combine elements from several traditional beats, they are often left “homeless” in the media. The general lack of resources in the media affects specialty areas in particular. On top of that, innovation topics are often difficult to write because the issues are complicated and unpredictable. The risk of engaging in PR is particularly high when writing about innovation. Journalists can try to cope with these challenges, for instance by networking with experts, doing collaborative stories between desks, appreciating the fact that innovation stories take their time and finding a personal involvement in the topic to make it more appealing to the reader. The data in the present article consist of 69 thematic interviews with press journalists from the US, Japan and Finland.
Culture-Free or Culture-Bound? Two Views of Swaying Branches

This paper presents a brief overview of the culture-free hypothesis of cross-national organizing and the culturebound hypothesis of cross-national organizing. The first suggests that culture has no influence the way organizations are structured and is supported with significant research showing organizations within many nations around the world reflect the same relationships between size, specialization, formalization, and decentralization. The culture-bound approach is more intuitively appealing and can also be supported with many reports of how organizations differ in internal organizational features. The approaches are framed with the etic and emic perspectives of observation to show that the positions are not mutually exclusive but are complimentary. A model is posited that unifies the two hypotheses in an effort to provide future research with a framework that can extend current knowledge.
Epidemiological studies on chicken astroviruses in gout affected broiler chicken flocks

Title of thesis : Epidemiological studies on chicken astroviruses in gout affected broiler chicken flocks Name of the degree holder : Sumitra Panigrahi Admission number : 2015V62M Title of degree : Master of Veterinary Science Name and address of Major Advisor : Dr. Naresh Jindal Senior Disease Investigation Officer Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology College of Veterinary Sciences, LUVAS, Hisar-125004 Degree awarding University : Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar 125004 Year of award of degree : 2017 Major subject : Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology Total number of pages in thesis : 54 + viii Number of words in the abstract : 326
Optimal Budget and Seigniorage Targeting Policy in a Transition Economy

Targeting policy is treated as a marginal capping of seigniorage and government expenditures, respectively. Appropriate policies of stabilization might be performed by the government rather independently due to existence of a distorted and asymmetric financial market in a transition economy. Feasible strategies are represented as solutions to the Bellman equation in the optimal stopping problem for stochastic processes of budget expenditures and government borrowing on the open market. Respective options to stop spending and borrowing prescribe the optimal policy for budget expenditures as well as for seigniorage targeting. Implementation of such a policy is, in essence, an imposition of the call provisions on the government debt, the optimal value of which is equal to the value of the opportunity to borrow at the optimal point. Russian economy during its transition towards market has experienced periods of high inflation and depression, followed by a prolonged stagnation complicated with huge arrears. In fact, these persistent arrears a la Russe are not just «accounts receivable» but nothing less than bad debts in disguise, initiated by the government itself in its ultimately futile efforts to win in the uncompromized tag-of-war against inflation, inspired to a great extent by IMF. The fight against inflation, as it was appeared, had required the government to violate the basic contract - to pay on its obligations. Transformation of arrears into the major and permanent characteristics of Russian economic landscape inevitably led to a barter which accounted now of approximately 40 percent of all transactions made in Russian economy. The seemingly endless sequence of severe cuts of budget expenditures, on the fiscal side, and sharp imbalance of money supply and demand for money, on the monetary side, became possible due to barter, hence lack of competition and, in their turn, contributed to the prolonged depression.
Password-based independent authentication and key exchange protocol

This paper proposes a password-based authentication protocol suitable to certification through trustless network or key exchange. While the existing password-base protocols certify users through certification authority (CA) between client and server, in the proposed protocol of this paper, the users and the server exchange keys and perform authentication without the help of CA. To ameliorate the drawback of password-based protocols caused by the short length and randomness of password, the proposed protocol uses the signature techniques of ECDSA and the SRP protocol based on Diffie-Hellman key exchange method.
Organizational Culture and Scale Development: Methodological Challenges and Future Directions

Abstract Defining and measuring organizational culture (OC) is of paramount importance to organizations because a strong culture could potentially increase service quality and yield sustainable competitive advantages. However, such process could be challenging to managers because the scope of OC has been defined differently across disciplines and industries, which has led to the development of various scales for measuring OC. In addition, previously developed OC scales may also not be fully applicable in the hospitality and tourism context. Therefore, by highlighting the key factors affecting the business environment and the unique characteristics of hospitality industry, this paper aims to align the scope of OC closely with the industry and to put forth the need for a new OC scale that accurately responds to the context of the hospitality industry.
Microbial analysis of raw and pasteurized milk from selected areas of Dinajpur, Bangladesh -

Milk is highly vulnerable to microbial contamination and consequently is easily perishable. The aim of the present study was microbial analysis of raw and pasteurized milk. For this, a total of 32 milk samples (12 from raw milk and 20 from pasteurized milk) were collected from 8 sources. Among them three were raw (R1 to R3) sources and rest five were pasteurized milk (P1 to P5) sources. Each of the collected samples was investigated during the period from May to December, 2012. All milk samples were subjected to total viable count (TVC), total coliform count (TCC), Total Staphylococcus count (TSC) and Grams staining to determine the loads of microbes in raw and pasteurized milk. Total viable counts (TVC) range of 12 raw milk samples (R, R2 and R3) were 1.3 x10 6 to 7.4 x10 5 cfu/ml. The presence of Escherichia coli in the raw milk samples were from 2.3 x10 2 to 9.4 x10 2 cfu/ml, but the presence of Staphylococcus were from 5.9 x10 2 to 7.9 x10 2 cfu/ml. Whereas, the range of TVC for five brands of pasteurized milk (P1, P2, P3, P4, and P5) were from 1.8 x10 4 to 9.8 x10 4 cfu/ml, TSC were from 2.8 x10 to 8.6 x10 2 cfu/ml and TCC from 1.01 x10 2 to 9.1 x10 cfu/ml. Therefore, it can be concluded that high counts of bacteria were found in raw milk and pasteurized milk. The government therefore should conduct frequent inspection of the marketed milks to check whether they meet the minimum legal standards and should monitor the overall hygienic condition surrounding the production and handling of milk. Realistic standards for the raw milks need to be devised and appropriate training should be given to the raw milk producers in hygienic handling of milk. Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. June 2015, 1(2): 292-296
Molecular and isotopic indicators of alteration in CR chondrites

Abstract— The CR group of carbonaceous chondrites may represent some of the most primitive extraterrestrial materials available for analysis. However, in contrast to other chondrite groups, the CR organic fraction is poorly characterized. The carbonaceous chondrite literature shows that relatively anhydrous thermal processing results in a condensed, poorly alkylated, O‐poor macromolecular material, while for aqueous processing the converse is true. Such characteristics can be used to discern the alteration histories of the carbonaceous chondrites. We have performed bulk elemental and isotopic analysis and flash pyrolysis on four CR chondrites (Renazzo, Al Rais, Elephant Moraine [EET] 87770, and Yamato [Y‐] 790112) to determine the nature of their organic component.
Utilization of grain barley and alfalfa meal as alternative moult induction programmes for laying hens: body weight losses and egg production traits.

A total of 54 Lohman, brown egg laying hens, older than 70 weeks of age, were used in this study. The hens were randomly divided into two treatment groups and a control group (in total 18 experimental units with 3 hens each; 473 cm per bird). The hens in the first treatment group were fed 100% grain barley ration, while the second group received 100% alfalfa meal. The control group of hens received a commercial layer feed. The respective diets and water were allowed ad libitum, and the animals were housed in natural light during the 10-day moulting programme. The body weight changes of hens in the groups, moult and post-moult egg production, egg size, and mortality were determined. The most significant body weight loss (19.54%) occurred in the alfalfa fed hens, while in grain barley fed hens the lost was calculated as 17.54% at the end of moulting period. Significant differences were found for egg production and cracked egg percentage between non-moult control and moulting treatment groups. There were no significant differences between moult and post-moult average periods egg weights and mortality rates in all groups. Based on the results of the study, grain barley appeared to be the best alternative to non-feed removal moulting methods.
Cell-Free mMIMO Systems with Dynamic TDD

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CF-mMIMO) systems assume that a single central processing unit (CPU) communicates with a large number of user equipments (UEs) using the same time-frequency resources. However, allocating the same frame configuration to all the UEs makes it difficult to meet the traffic demands of each individual UE. In this paper, we propose using dynamic-time division duplex (D-TDD) in CF-mMIMO systems. To mitigate the cross-link interference (CLI), we propose a new UE-grouping algorithm. Simulation results show that the implementation of D-TDD reduces the median value of the UL packet delay and the DL packet delay by up to 75% and 30% respectively. Furthermore, the proposed UE-grouping reduces the average packet delay by 50% compared to static-TDD (S-TDD).
Experimental design for QTL trial involving New Zealand Friesian and Jersey breeds.

A F2 experiment is being undertaken with New Zealand Friesian and Jersey cattle. The objective of the experiment is to identify the underlying genetic differences between Friesian and Jersey breeds and to utilise them to understand more about the bovine genome. This information could be then exploited through marker assisted selection or sale of intellectual property eg. genotyping tests. Six F1 sires have been mated to F1 commercial cows to produce F2 calves. The F2 calves are being generated over two years with the first crop being born in 2000. It is planned to have 800 F2 cows finish their first lactation. The animals are being extensively phenotyped over their lifetime for traits such as milk characteristics, health and disease, and reproduction.
Inducing Frames in the Italian Lexicon

In this chapter we will present a computational approach to the problem of lexical access based on FrameNet and similar resources. The starting point will be FrameNet (hence FN) in its latest release 1.3, which is rightly regarded as the most reliable source of lexical knowledge for semantic and syntactic processing. FN is a lexical knowledge repository containing knowledge representation of the world allowing inference to be fired at different levels, close to a fullfledged ontology much in the same vein as WordNet. In commenting FN peculiar features we will compare it to a number of other similar lexical resources: LCS (Lexical Conceptual Structures), WordNet, Levin’s WordList, PropBank and VerbNet. Each of these publicly available lexica contains some feature that make it comparable to FN, even though they all lack in its fine-grained overall data description. In particular, even though they are all handcrafted, they all allow some type of inference to be fired directly; some contain such an induction mechanism at the level of lexical structure, some other as additional superstructure. In particular we will focus on Dorr’s Lexicon of Conceptual Structures which constitutes a valid companion to FN and other lexical resources. We will introduce the underlying theoretical framework in some detail seen that this is also what we have been using in our work on the lexicon of Italian. One feature in particular will be made object of further scrutiny: the notion of Causality and the way it is represented at a lexical level. One section of the chapter will be devoted to explore this notion in detail and the way in which it is tackled in FN and LCS. Eventually, we will describe our effort of building one such resource in late ‘80s for Italian. In that effort we tried to reconcile knowledge of the world and linguistic semantic and conceptual information needed to produce highly structured lexical entries as the ones provided by FN and LCS. Besides presenting the algorithm and its linguistic components, we will highlight those features of our approach that make it different and, in some cases, computationally more perspicuous than the others. As will be shown, the premises we adopted can lead in some cases to a more complete and richer representation.