Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Using Structural Equation Modeling Approach on the Role of Teacher Religion on High Performance Work System and Teacher Performance

The Integrating the strategic human resource management research with teachers views of their performance. In this study, it proposed that the human resource management practices of a high-performance work system enhance teacher performance in the school context. However, the introduction of Teacher Religion as a mediator between HPWS and Teacher performance which encourages teachers to engage in cooperative behaviors with the student which is essential in achieving its superior performance. The results were based on the data collected from six education district in Lagos State Nigeria of 264 teachers largely supported the proposed theoretical framework and shed light on the influence teacher religion mechanism on high-performance work system and teacher effectiveness in their performance using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. Results of the analysis revealed that collective Teacher Religion mediated the relationship between HPWS and Teacher Performance indirectly; consequently, HPWS directly influenced the performance of the teacher.
INFLUENCE OF BLANCHING AND DRYING TEMPERATURES ON SELECTED PROPERTIES OF SWEET POTATO ( Ipomoea batatas ) FLOUR

Influence of blanching and drying temperatures on selected properties of sweet potato flour was investigated. Sweet potato samples were washed, peeled and sliced. They were then divided into five samples A, B, C, D and E. Samples A, B and C were treated by blanching at three different temperatures (55, 70 and 85C) for 5 min and dried at temperatures of 55, 70 and 85C. Sample D was sun dried slightly to reduce the moisture content while E was left in its fresh state. All the samples were milled and sieved. They were then analyzed for proximate and functional properties (water absorption, bulk density and swelling capacity). The study showed that both blanching and drying temperatures affected all the proximate properties of sweet potato except for crude fibre which was not significantly different (p<0.05) among treatments. Carbohydrate levels were generally higher for all the blanched samples compared to the untreated samples but values did not vary significantly among treatments. Moisture content of sweet potato flour, reduced with both drying and blanching temperatures, while protein content and fat increased with increase in blanching and drying temperatures. The effect of both parameters (blanching and drying temperatures) on the bulk density was also significant (p<0.05). The values of sweet potato flour samples varied significantly and positively from the untreated ones (fresh and sun dried). Thus, since the heat-treated samples had improved protein and carbohydrate contents and also better water absorption and swelling capacities, their flour have more desirable qualities.
Digital communication receivers - synchronization, channel estimation, and signal processing

From the Publisher: Digital Communication Receivers offers a complete treatment on the theoretical and practical aspects of synchronization and channel estimation from the standpoint of digital signal processing. The focus on these increasingly important topics, the systematic approach to algorithm development, and the linked algorithm-architecture methodology in digital receiver design are unique features of this book. The material is structured according to different classes of transmission channels. In Part C, baseband transmission over wire or optical fiber is addressed. Part D covers passband transmission over satellite or terrestrial wireless channels. Part E deals with transmission over fading channels. Designed for the practicing communication engineer and the graduate student, the book places considerable emphasis on helpful examples, summaries, illustrations, and bibliographies. Contents include basic material, baseband communications, passband transmission, receiver structure for PAM signals, synthesis of synchronization algorithms, performance analysis of synchronizers, bit error degradation caused by random tracking errors, frequency estimation, timing adjustment by interpolation, DSP system implementation, characterization, modeling, and simulation of linear fading channels, detection and parameter synchronization on fading channels, receiver structures for fading channels, parameter synchronization for flat fading channels, and parameter synchronization for selective fading channels.
Fellowships for the advancement of large-eddy simulation

In many complex flows, large-eddy simulation is difficult due to the simulta¬ neous presence of a variety of flow features, often with quite different resolution requirements. For example, a typical flow over an airfoil near maximum lift in¬ cludes laminar, transitional, and turbulent boundary layers, flow separation, unstable free shear layers and a wake. In such situations, unstructured-grid methods can gain great efficiencies over structured-grid methods (factor of 27) by placing points based on local resolution requirements, rather than along lines (as is required with structured-grid methods). For this reason, unstructuredgrid large-eddy simulation techniques are being developed using the finite ele¬ ment method to solve the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with a dynamic model of the subgrid-scale stresses. As the purpose of this report was to sup¬ port graduate student education, the bulk of this report is taken from the work of the student supported by this research (Andres Tejada-Martinez) . That student has focused on the characterization of filters used within the dynamic subgrid-scale model for large eddy simulation. Though he is not quite finished, this report clearly shows that much was learned under the three years of support by the AFOSR. This grant also allowed partial support for Michael Yaworski. He is currently finishing his masters in RANS simulations and will go on to link Andres work to combined LES/RANS models. We have decided to present only Andres work here in the interest of completeness and compactness.
PIAS 3 ( protein inhibitor of activated STAT3 ) modulates the transcriptional activation mediated by the nuclear receptor coactivator TIF 2

PIAS3, a member of the protein inhibitor of activated STAT family, was found to interact in vivo and in vitro with TIF2, a previously described coactivator for nuclear receptors. The interaction is mediated by two distinct non-contiguous regions of TIF2. We found that TIF2^PIAS3 interaction occurs through a unique domain of PIAS3, very rich in acidic residues and conserved throughout the PIAS family. PIAS3 modulates the ability of TIF2 to mediate ligand-enhanced transcription activation positively or negatively, for di¡erent steroid receptors. Taken together, our results indicate a potential role of PIAS3 as transcriptional modulator of TIF2-mediated signalling. & 2002 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Formal methods in computer-aided design : third international conference, FMCAD 2000, Austin, TX, USA, November 1-3, 2000 : proceedings

Applications of Hierarchical Verification in Model Checking. - Applications of Hierarchical Verification in Model Checking. - Invited Talk. - Trends in Computing. - Invited Paper. - A Case Study in Formal Verification of Register-Transfer Logic with ACL2: The Floating Point Adder of the AMD Athlon TM Processor. - Contributed Papers. - An Algorithm for Strongly Connected Component Analysis in n log n Symbolic Steps. - Automated Refinement Checking for Asynchronous Processes. - Border-Block Triangular Form and Conjunction Schedule in Image Computation. - B2M: A Semantic Based Tool for BLIF Hardware Descriptions. - Checking Safety Properties Using Induction and a SAT-Solver. - Combining Stream-Based and State-Based Verification Techniques. - A Comparative Study of Symbolic Algorithms for the Computation of Fair Cycles. - Correctness of Pipelined Machines. - Do You Trust Your Model Checker? - Executable Protocol Specification in ESL. - Formal Verification of Floating Point Trigonometric Functions. - Hardware Modeling Using Function Encapsulation. - A Methodology for the Formal Analysis of Asynchronous Micropipelines. - A Methodology for Large-Scale Hardware Verification. - Model Checking Synchronous Timing Diagrams. - Model Reductions and a Case Study. - Modeling and Parameters Synthesis for an Air TrafficManagement System. - Monitor-Based Formal Specification of PCI. - SAT-Based Image Computation with Application in Reachability Analysis. - SAT-Based Verification without State Space Traversal. - Scalable Distributed On-the-Fly Symbolic Model Checking. - The Semantics of Verilog Using Transition System Combinators. - Sequential Equivalence Checking by Symbolic Simulation. - Speeding Up Image Computation by Using RTL Information. - Symbolic Checking of Signal-Transition Consistency for Verifying High-Level Designs. - Symbolic Simulation with Approximate Values. - A Theory of Consistency for Modular Synchronous Systems. - Verifying Transaction Ordering Properties in Unbounded Bus Networks through Combined Deductive/Algorithmic Methods. - Visualizing System Factorizations with Behavior Tables.
Distributed Decomposition of Block-Angular Linear Programs on a Hypercube Computer

Abstract : Algorithms based on the Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition principle for linear programs are implemented on an Intel iPSC-2 Hypercube computer with 64- processors. Computational results with block-angular linear programs from diverse applications are reported. They indicate that the approach of distributed computation on relatively inexpensive multiple processor computers may be very cost-effective for large, structured linear programs. It is also shown that by studying certain characteristics of the interaction among the master and subproblems, one can select algorithms that best exploit the parallel processing environment. Keywords: Large-scale systems; Linear programming decomposition; Parallel processing.
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN COMPUTER USE SKILL AMONG STUDENTS OF SCHOOL OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY , UFUOMA , DELTA STATE

Gender differences in computer use skill among students in School of Health Technology, Ufuoma, Delta State was examined in this study. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. A sample of 200 students was selected from Health Technology Ufuoma, Delta State and used for the study. A two part questionnaire was used in eliciting information from the sample. The stated research questions were analyzed with the use of the simple percentage method. Based on the analysis, the following findings emerged, that; there was difference in computer use skill levels among students; that there was gender difference on the frequency with which students make use of computers; that there was no difference between the attitude of male and female students towards the use of computers; and that male students had a higher level of computer software use than female students and finally, that there was gender difference on the problems faced by students in the acquisition of skills and use of computer.
Revisiting Visual Odometry for Real-Time Performance

Visual Odometry (VO) is a key component in modern driver assistance systems and robotics. Meeting the real-time requirements is mandatory for VO in such applications. Previous works have primarily focused on improving accuracy at the cost of longer runtime. In this work, we propose novel strategies for feature correspondence setup, outlier removal and robust pose optimization in the VO pipeline to achieve real-time performance of close to 30 frames-per-seconds (fps) on a dual-core 3.5 GHz CPU while maintaining high accuracy. In particular, computationally efficient strategies are introduced to obtain an initial set of good features and rapidly filter out the outliers to minimize the computational overhead in later stages. In addition, we propose a depth based weighting and saturated-residual scheme during pose optimization to increase the robustness of VO. Experimental results show that the proposed VO achieves the fastest speed among all the top-ranked OV and SLAM systems on KITTI leader-board. Specifically, the proposed VO is 47% faster than state-of-the-art ORB-SLAM2 with comparable accuracy on KITTI dataset.
Long-term outcome data for patients with HER 2-positive early-stage breast cancer treated with adjuvant trastuzumab : Benefit outside clinical trial setting 1

Background: Adjuvant treatment options for HER2positive Early-Stage Breast Cancer (EBC) have grown in recent years. The addition of adjuvant trastuzumab therapy for one-year to standard chemotherapy has been shown in several Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) to improve Disease-Free Survival (DFS) and Overall Survival (OS) in patients with high-risk HER2-positive EBC. This study aimed to review the long-term outcome data for patients with HER2positive EBC who were treated with adjuvant trastuzumab therapy in a designated cancer centre.
Preparation of a nanoscale liposomal CD 22 ΔE 12-siRNA formulation

B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BPL) is the most common form of cancer in children and adolescents. Our recent studies have demonstrated that CD22ΔE12 is a characteristic genetic defect of therapy-refractory clones in pediatric BPL and implicated the CD22ΔE12 genetic defect in the aggressive biology of relapsed or therapy-refractory pediatric BPL. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the biologic significance of the CD22ΔE12 molecular lesion in BPL and determine if it could serve as a molecular target for RNA interference (RNAi) therapy. Here we report a previously unrecognized causal link between CD22ΔE12 and aggressive biology of human BPL cells by demonstrating that siRNA-mediated knockdown of CD22ΔE12 in primary leukemic B-cell precursors is associated with a marked inhibition of their clonogenicity. Additionally, we report a nanoscale liposomal formulation of CD22ΔE12-specific siRNA with potent in vitro and in vivo anti-leukemic activity against primary human BPL cells as a first-inclass RNAi therapeutic candidate targeting CD22ΔE12. Contact: Fatih M. Uckun, M.D., Ph.D., 4650 Sunset Boulevard, Smith Research Tower Suite 300-316, Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, CHLA Mailstop 160, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Phone: 323-3614328, FAX: 323-660-7128. fmuckun@chla.usc. edu. Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The authors declare no competing financial interests. Contribution: All authors have made significant and substantive contributions to the study. All authors reviewed and revised the paper. F.M. U. was the NIH-funded Principal Investigator who designed, directed and supervised this study and wrote the final manuscript. S.Q. performed the bioinformatics and statistical analyses. H.M. performed multiple experiments with siRNA and siRNA formulations and collected data. In addition, H.M. performed PCR and RT-PCR on blood samples, splenocytes and BPL cells from CD22ΔE12-Tg mice. J.C and D.E. M contributed to the characterization of the LNF. HHS Public Access Author manuscript Br J Haematol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2016 May 01. Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2015 May ; 169(3): 401–414. doi:10.1111/bjh.13306. A uhor M anscript
Differential object marking in contact-influenceD russian speech : eviDence from the corpus of contact-influenceD russian speech of russian far east anD northern siberia

The paper deals with differential object marking in the Russian Speech of Nanai-Russian bilingual speakers, namely the variation such as принес рыбу ~ принес рыба (‘{he} brought fish-acc ~ fish-nom’). The puzzle is that this peculiarity can result from a number of different processes: morphosyntactic borrowing from Nanai, penetration of dialectal features into the speech of bilinguals, under-acquisition or reinterpretation of the Standard Russian system. The data of a small corpus of contact-influenced Russian Speech is used to test all these hypotheses. The results are following. Nominative forms are used in DO-position in quite a systematic way and such uses cannot be estimated as occasional “errors”. The main factors that influence the NOM~ACC distribution are a) information structure and b) the accentual type of noun stem. The latter fact supports the hypothesis of a systematic reinterpetation of the Standard Russian system in the situation of incomplete acquisition. No significant correlations with animacy, definiteness, verb form and word order were attested. DOM pattern of Nanai Russian differs from those of Russian dialects and reveals some similarity to those of Nanai. However it cannot be considered as a full morphosyntactic calque.
Determination of calcium and phosphorus utilization in various hatchery by-products for broiler chickens

The objective of the current study was to determine calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) utilization in 4 different hatchery by-products (HBPs) for broiler chickens. The four different HBPs included infertile eggs (IFE), unhatched eggs (UHE), low grade and dead chicks (LDC), and a mixture (MIX) of 55% IFE, 10% UHE, and 10% LDC with 25% hatched eggshells. A total of sixty four 50-day-old Ross 308 broiler chickens were randomly allotted to 1 of 4 dietary treatments with 8 replicates per treatment. Two birds were placed together in one metabolic cage. Additional 16 birds were used to measure the endogenous losses of Ca and P. A forcefeeding procedure (i.e., crop intubation) was used to measure the apparent and true total tract retention (ATTR and TTTR, respectively) of Ca and P in the 4 HBPs. The results showed that the TTTR of Ca in the UHE was less (p < 0.05) than that in the IFE, LDC, and MIX. The amounts of available Ca in the MIX were greater (p < 0.05) than those in the IFE and UHE, which were greater (p < 0.05) than those in the LDC. The TTTR of P was not different among the 4 HBPs. However, the amounts of available P in the LDC were greater (p < 0.05) than those in the IFE and UHE, which were greater (p < 0.05) than those in the MIX. In conclusion, HBPs contain high amounts of available Ca and P because of high concentrations of total Ca and P with a high utilization rate. Therefore, the use of HBPs in broiler diets can reduce costs on Ca and P supplements.
Electromagnetic Compatibility for Space Structure Design E3 numerical assessment in aeronautics

Miguel R. Cabello, Sergio Fernandez, Marc Pous, Enrique Pascual-Gil, Luis D. Angulo, David Poyatos, Mireya Fernandez, Guadalupe G. Gutierrez, Amelia R. Bretones, Manuel Añón, Ferran Silva, Jesus Alvarez, Mario F. Pantoja, Borja Plaza, Luis Nuño, Rafael G. Martin, David Escot Pere J. Riu, Rafael Trallero, Ricardo Jaúregui, Salvador G. Garcia University of Granada (UGR), Spain National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Spain Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain AIRBUS, Spain Ingeniería de Sistemas para la Defensa de España S.A. (ISDEFE), Spain Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain
A LITERATURE REVIEW ON IMPACT OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS ANNOUNCEMENT

An extensive review of various literatures has been carried out in order to get a better considerate in the topic of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) announcement effect on stock price and profit. Literature review has been prepared from journal, books, articles, student‘s paper published, websites etc. The issues covered include share value addition, motives, financial position status, announcement effect, abnormal return. These studies have been reviewed extensively and presented in the study. The Literature review has been reviewed from both India and outside the Indian context.
PARBIT: A Tool to Transform Bitfiles to Implement Partial Reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can be partially reconfigured to implement Dynamically loadable Hardware Plugin (DHP) modules. A tool called PARBIT has been developed that transforms FPGA configuration bitfiles to enable DHP modules. With this tool it is possible to define a partial reconfigurable area inside the FPGA and download it into a specified region of the FPGA device. One or more DHPs, with different sizes can be implemented using PARBIT.
2 VW Iris Recognition : Summary of Research Works

One of the most challenging goals in biometrics research is the development of recognition systems to work in unconstrained environments and without assuming the subjects’ willingness to be recognised. This has led to the concept of non-cooperative recognition, which broaden the application of biometrics to forensics / criminal seek domains. In this scope, one active research topic seeks to use as main trait the ocular region acquired at visible wavelengths, from moving targets and large distances. Under these conditions, performing reliable recognition is extremely difficult, because such real-world data have features that are notoriously different from those obtained in the classical constrained setups of currently deployed recognition systems. This chapter discusses the feasibility of iris / ocular biometric recognition: it starts by comparing the main properties of near-infrared and visible wavelength ocular data, and stresses the main difficulties behind the accurate segmentation of all components in the eye vicinity. Next, it summarises the most relevant research conducted in the scope of visible wavelength iris recognition and relates it to the concept of periocular recognition, which is an attempt to augment classes separability by using apart from the iris information from the surroundings of the eye. Finally, the current challenges in this topic and some directions for further research are discussed.
Small Polarons In Cadmium Sulphide A First Principles Study

A small polaron is a localized state in a material where a charge induces a potential well by perturbing adjacent ions from equilibrium, and getting trapped. A search for small hole polaron states in defect free cadmium sulphide is attempted using iterative density functional theory calculations, with the hybrid functional HSE06. No small polaron states are found to be stable, the hole state is completely delocalized. When an electron is removed to induce a hole, the system gains more energy by spin-splitting the highest state of cadmium sulphide, to an unoccupied state at higher energy and an occupied state at lower energy, than by deforming the lattice and localizing the hole. Because of the sp3-bonding structure this indicates that small hole polarons are unstable in other sp3-bonded materials, with no defects.
Wavelet neural networks employing over-complete number of compactly supported non-orthogonal wavelets and their applications

This paper proposes two types of new neuron models, WS neuron (wavelet synapse neuron) and WA neuron (wavelet activation function neuron), which are obtained by modifying a traditional neuron model with non-orthogonal wavelet bases, while Boubez et al. (1993) employed orthonormal wavelets. Four types of typical wavelet neural networks employing WS and/or WA neurons are discussed. The simplest wavelet neural network exhibits much higher ability of generalization and much shorter time for learning rather than a three-layered feedforward neural network. Furthermore the wavelet neural network is guaranteed to give the global minimum. Other three wavelet neural networks are examined for predicting chaotic behaviour of a nonlinear dynamical system. The performance in learning speed and prediction of wavelet neural networks are more significant than a four-layered feedforward neural network. <<ETX>>