Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Incorporation Of Run-time Simulation-powered Virtual Sensors In Building Monitoring Systems

The present contribution describes an approach to implement simulation-powered virtual sensors in a building information framework. Measurements from physical sensors are used to calibrate simulation models. Subsequently, virtual sensors can derive information on parameters that are either difficult or expensive to measure. The presented building data service provides a uniform interface to virtual and physical sensors.
Gender Equality in the Labor Market: Women's Employment and Earnings

This chapter presents a cross-national portrait of gender equality in the labor market in the early 1990s, based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data from fifteen countries. Cross-country comparisons are analyzed in the context of variation both across, and within, the three welfare state regime types that have dominated recent theoretical and empirical scholarship on the welfare state. The social democratic welfare states are represented in this analysis by Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden; the conservative (or corporatist) welfare states, by Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Spain; and the liberal (or residual) welfare states include, here, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The question as to whether these three regime types shape gendered labor market outcomes -- in other words, the extent to which variation across the regime types is greater than variation within them -- anchors the presentation of empirical findings. In the next section, three central concerns about the meaning of gender equality in the labor market are raised, and resolutions discussed. The following section traces major trends in gendered labor market patterns since 1960. Two subsequent sections present empirical results for the 1990s on gender differences across various labor market outcomes. Policy implications are presented in the final section, followed by conclusions.
Effect of low protein diets and lysine supplementation on growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing pigs

The present study was to assess the effect of feeding low protein diet with or without supplemental lysine to meet NRC (1998) requirement on growth performance, carcass trait, meat composition, and meat quality of pigs. An experiment of 126 days was conducted on 21 crossbred Landrace pigs (average weight 11.72 ± 0.57 kg, average age 7.59 ± 0.14 weeks). Animals were randomly assigned to three dietary treatment groups T 0 , T 1 and T 2 each comprising 7 animals. A basal diet (T 0 ) was formulated as per NRC (1998). Basal diet (T 1 ) reduced crude protein by 10% with supplemental lysine identical in T 0 ; while without supplemental lysine in T 2 (that is, reduced protein by 10% and lysine by 15%). All the diets were iso-caloric and offered in phases according to change in body weight (10 to 20, 20 to 50, 50 to 80 and >80 kg). Growth performance, carcass parameters, meat composition and meat quality were evaluated at the end of the trial on four animals per group. The results show no significant difference on growth parameters and carcass and meat quality traits among the groups. Thus, it was concluded that the crude protein and lysine concentration can be reduced safely by 10 and 15%, respectively to that of NRC (1998) in diet of crossbred Landrace pigs without any compromise on performance during growing and fattening stage of production. Keywords: Carcass trait, low protein, lysine, meat quality, pigs
Histopathological changes in testes of house sparrow (Passer domesticus )

To detect the effect of heavy metals such as lead, nickel, cadmium, copper and zinc in the testis tissue, we used the house sparrow ( Passer domesticus ) as a bio-indicator of pollution by metals. The house sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) were caught in the city of Mitrovica (contaminated area, the "Trepca" foundry is closed since the year 2000), in the town of Drenas (the area near the Ferronickel smelter, also a contaminated area) and in a rural area - control (the village of Ujmire, a non-contaminated area). In these localities, along the month of May, a total number of 60 sparrows were caught and isolated. After isolation, the sparrows testes were cut by microtome and then tissues were inserted into the staining procedure. Results showed major histopathological changes in the testes of sparrows which were caught in the city of Mitrovica and Drenas compared to the testes histology of the control group (Ujmire). The testes histopathology includes degenerative changes such as apoptosis and necrosis of the testicular tubes, karyopyknosis and desquamation of the spermatogen epithelium, depletion of the seminiferous tubules, some seminiferous tubules exhibit some small numbers of spermatozoids - an indication of the lack of active spermatogenesis in the testes. From our results we can conclude that the areas in which the study was carried still pose a danger to the living world (biota) and to the people’s health.
Smart Home Implementation Techniques: A Survey Approach

Smart Home technology is the integration of technology and services through home networking for a better quality of living. This paper provides a comparative review of the traditional smart home system; embedded M2M and mobile IP based smart home system and Smart house control using LabVIEW. Embedded gateway is an intermediary device for traditional smart home system.M2M technology has without human intervention, and realizes the data to upload, improve information processing efficiency; real-time control of advantages, for industrial intelligent control, information life has the extremely vital significance. Whereas Mobile IPv6 is a version of Mobile IP that allows users with mobile devices whose IP addresses are associated with one network to stay connected when moving to a network with a different IP address. KeywordsSmart home, M2M, MIP based smart home, mobile
Tillage and nutrient management in wheat with different plant geometries under rice- wheat cropping system: A Review

Maintaining the food security of about 127 crore populations is the hard challenge for Indian agriculture where 10 million hectare land is occupied by rice- wheat cropping system. In most of the rice cultivating region the climatic, resource input and management factors forces to adopt the lowland raising of paddy with puddling, which is describes as the boon for paddy; but curse for succeeding upland wheat crop because of disturbed soil physico- chemical and biological properties. Tillage and nutrient management may become as the solution for maintaining the productivity of both the crops with sustainability.
School sector variation on non-cognitive dimensions: are non-public but publicly supported schools more effective?

Denominational schooling makes up an important part of European educational systems. Given its specificity, denominational schooling can be expected to place a greater weight on values teaching and moral education. It also may be more successful in creating a warm and caring atmosphere, thus helping students to better emotionally connect to the school community. We compare public and publicly supported private (as a proxy to denominational) schools on 2 dimensions, namely the emotional integration with the rest of the school community and the concern and feelings of responsibility towards the environment. Except for Austria, Belgium, and Spain, no evidence could be found that the type of the school has any impact on the reported psychological adaptation to the school. In these 3 countries, publicly supported private schools tend to be more successful in integrating their students. Also, students in public and private dependent schools were equally environment oriented.
Thermal Magnetic Behavior of Nanocrystalline Fe 73 . 5 Cu 1 Nb 3 Si 13 . 5 B 9 Ribbons

Abstract. Thermal magnetic behavior and microstructure of Fe73.5Cu1Nb3Si13. 5B9 ribbon annealed at different temperatures were investigated. It was indicated that the onset crystallization temperature of the ribbon was around at 530 C and its Curie temperature can be enhanced from 320 C to 385 C by annealing. X-ray diffraction structural analysis showed that a single a-FeSi crystalline phase with grain size about 12 nm was precipitated from amorphous matrix for FeCuNbSiB ribbons annealed between 530 C and 580 C. The α-FeSi phases were octahedral shape confirmed by the morphology simulation and the AFM method. The thermal magnetic behaviors were complicated, as the μi can be divided into two modes during increasing temperature, but for the Bs and Ms shown a normal decrease with increasing temperature. The coercive force Hc and remanence ratio α have shown a continuous monotonic decline in single-phase ribbon with increasing temperature, and increased to a max value or a peak and then decreased to zero in biphase ribbons. The thermal behaviors of magnetic properties were controlled by the exchange coupling interaction between the α-FeSi grains and the intergranular amorphous phase. It is important to maintain an efficient exchange coupling interaction between α-FeSi grains and the residual amorphous matrix, and it is necessary to sustain the higher Curie temperature for the application of the FeCuNbSiB ribbons in high temperature by controlling the size and crystallization degree of α-FeSi grains.
Antioxidant Activity and Phytochemical Composition of Aqueous Extract of Markhamia lutea (Benth) K. Schum. Leaves

Various systems of medicine namely Ayurveda, Siddha and Uunani were evolved using plants as the major components in their drug formulations. Plants synthesize a wide range of phytochemicals, which have an important therapeutic and preventive role against diseases and thus forming a base for drug formulations. Even-though many plants have been investigated for their medicinal efficacy, there is always a need for natural and novel source of drug to prevent / cure oxidative stress which causes several chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases etc. Various species belonging to the family of Bignoniaceae have been claimed to have high medicinal importance and many potential drugs were derived from Bignoniaceae members to manage anti-cancer, antipyretic and analgesic conditions. Unexplored members of Bignoniaceae are good sources for investigation and for developing new herbal drugs to manage various diseases and disorders. Some of the members of Bignoniaceae family, Markhamia acuminata, M. caudafelina, M. obtusifolia have been evaluated for antioxidant activity . Markhamia lutea (Benth). K. Schum (Bignoniaceae), commonly known as Nile trumpet, has its origin in South Western Uganda and also found in
Enhancing Protoporphyrin IX induced Photodynamic Therapy with a Topical Iron Chelating Agent in a Normal Skin Model

Protoporphyrin IX (PpIX)-induced photodynamic therapy (PDT) is being utilised within dermatological practice as a topical method of localised ablation of nonmelanoma skin cancer/precancer. Standardised protocols have been implemented to good effect when the disease remains superficial but improvement is required to widen the application of this light activated drug therapy to treat thicker or acrally located conditions. As innate haem biosynthesis is exploited to accumulate the light sensitive PpIX from a topically applied inert prodrug (aminolaevulinic acid; ALA), this pathway can be further manipulated through the concurrent administration of an iron chelating agent to hyper-accumulate PpIX by temporarily reducing its iron dependent conversion to haem. A topical preparation of ALA was applied to normal rat skin with or without the hydroxypyridinone iron chelator, CP94. Image analysis quantification of tissue fluorescence following excision indicated that ALA plus CP94 produced 29.0% more fluorescence than ALA alone (p < 0.09), peaking at 5 hours. Furthermore, fluorescence spectroscopy of frozen skin samples from each treatment group were characteristic of PpIX (maxima 636 +/- 2 nm), indicating that topical CP94 administration elevated PpIX levels without significantly producing any other fluorescent species. When PDT efficacy was considered post irradiation, a substantial three-fold increase in effect was observed 4 days after treatment when the iron chelator CP94 was co-administered topically with the prodrug (p < 0.07). It has therefore been established that the hydroxypyridinone CP94, is topically active within normal rat skin, effectively chelating iron to elevate PpIX accumulation and thus improve PDT efficacy.
A Systemic Method for Measuring Quality of Information on Weblog

The vast amount of information on the World Wide Web is created and published by many different types of providers. Unlike books and journals, most of this information is not subject to editing or peer review by experts. This lack of quality control and the explosion of web sites make the task of finding quality information on the web especially critical. Meanwhile new facilities for producing web pages such as Blogs make this issue more significant because Blogs have simple content management tools enabling non-experts to build easily updatable web diaries or online journals. On the other hand despite a decade of active research in information quality (IQ) there is no framework for measuring information quality on the Blogs yet. This paper presents a framework for calculating and ranking quality of information on the Weblog. The current framework includes qualitative and quantitative criteria. The quantitative criteria were calculated automatically and the qualitative criteria were obtained by voting in the framework. The results of data analysis collected by system log files revealed high correlations between the criteria.
Radiation Hardness Test of GaN Diode for Irradiation with High Energy Electron Beam

The GaN is expected to be a new material for the particle detector with radiation hardness, as substitution of Si. We have developed the GaN Schottky diode which is a prototype of the ionizing detector. In this study we performed the test of radiation tolerance for the diode we fabricated, irradiating a high energy electron beam. As the result, we found that the performance of the diode was not changed significantly even after irradiating 10 16 /cm 2 electrons.
Toward Defect Engineering Strategies to Optimize Energy and Electronic Materials

The technological requirement to optimize materials for energy and electronic materials has led to the use of defect engineering strategies. These strategies take advantage of the impact of composition, disorder, structure, and mechanical strain on the material properties. In the present review, we highlight key strategies presently employed or considered to tune the properties of energy and electronic materials. We consider examples from electronic materials (silicon and germanium), photocatalysis (titanium oxide), solid oxide fuel cells (cerium oxide), and nuclear materials (nanocomposites).
Performance of Multi-flow Wireless Multimedia Transmissions

Wireless multimedia services are major applications of next generation wireless networks In wireless network, an efficient utilization of network resources are necessary for its increasing performance. The major goal of the efficient utilization of network resources is to increase the number of performance guaranteed concurrent multimedia flows. The concurrent multimedia flows are attained by two theoretical policies: Flow scheduling policy and Channel aggregation policy. A novel algorithm is designed to attain maximum concurrent multi-flow transmissions (MCMT) which applies to the above two theoretical studies in order to improve multicasting network's ability to admit performance guaranteed concurrent multimedia communications.
THE INFLUENCE OF MULTI-LEVEL COVERAGE ON EFFICIENCY OF AMBULANCES RELOCATION OPTIMIZATION PROCESS BASED ON THE AVL DATA

The implementation of emergency vehicles relocation, as part of the overall optimization process, looking for some in advance adopted guidelines. One of the most important issues is to decide between single, double or other multiple coverage of service points. A comprehensive algorithm based on the data extracted from huge archive of vehicle moving history is used to analyze the influence of different types of coverage to the efficiency of obtained solutions. In order to perform comparison and evaluation of the quality of semi-optimal solutions, a parameter named savings ratio is used.
An Investigation of Effective Elements on Investment Behavior of Cooperative Members (Tybad Livestock Production Cooperatives)

Rural production cooperative is one of the advanced stages of cooperative that has an important role in sustainable rural development and the government has spent a lot to encourage it. The aims of these cooperatives are: 1) Integrating all pieces of lands possessed by cooperative members. 2) Providing the condition to maximize the use of water and soil resources. 3) Expanding the methods of working and livelihood. 4) Appropriate use of agricultural machines. 5) Barren farms reproduction. 6) Increasing production and income of farmers and villagers. The current research aims at evaluating the effective elements on investment behavior of members of Tybad Livestock production cooperative. The data was gathered using questionnaire and making use of random sampling, from 50 cooperative members in 2011. In order to evaluate investment behaviour of members, logit model and shazam software was used. The results show that the distance between habitancy and cooperative, and average monthly income and members' fund were statistically significant and that average income had negative effect while the other two had a positive effect on the desire to invest on a cooperative. Thus, for promoting the level of cooperatives such as production cooperative, the government aid is essential for cooperatives to help them represent good services. Moreover, cooperatives should prepare members with all the facilities and services to promote their participation and farmers as well as ranchmen's condition and to increase others' tendency toward membership.
Carbon Dioxide Transfer with Chemical Equilibrium Reactions: An Alternative Mathematical Approach

Problem statement: Despite intensive research efforts on CO2 transfer, mathematical models that describe the dependence of the CO2 transfer rate on the pH and the degree of rate enhancement due to CO2 chemical reactions remain unavailable. Approach: Such models are essential for assessing and accurately describing the progress of the CO2 transfer process. Results: In this study, an alternative view of CO2 transfer with chemical reactions was used to develop simple mathematical models to describe the pH dependence and degree of enhancement of the CO2 transfer rate. In the alternative view, the driving force for CO2 transfer was described in terms of the differences in the concentrations of the various carbonic species in the bulk liquid (i.e., ΔCΔt(H2CO*3), , ΔCΔt(HO-3) and ΔCΔt(CO2-3) ) in time (i.e., between time, t, and the time when equilibrium is achieved, tEq) rather than in terms of the concentrations gradients across the liquid film. Using the concentration differences in time, simple mathematical models describing the pH dependence of the CO2 transfer rate and the contributions of the various carbonic species to the rate were formulated. Furthermore, the degree of CO2 transfer rate enhancement due to CO2 reactions in water was considered proportional to the sum of the rates of HCO-3 and CO2-3 transfer. Conclusion/Recommendations: The mathematical models were tested using data from batch and continuous-flow CO2 transfer experiments, and the results revealed that the mathematical models explained the experimental data in an excellent manner.
Study on rumen and reticulium foreign bodies in cattle slauthered at Wolaita Sodo municipal Abattoir, Ethoipia

A cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2015 to March, 2016 at Wolaita sodo Municipal Abattoir, with the objectives of assessments of foreign bodies in rumen and reticulum and associated risk factors for the occurrences of foreign bodies. From the total of 600 examined cattle, 103 (17.16%) were found positive for the occurrence of indigestible foreign bodies in rumen and reticulum. From wich 495 male examined 85 (17.15%) and 105 female examined 18 (17.12%) were found Positive respectively. Prevalence of foreign body occurrence recorded in adult 30 (9.57%) and old 73 (25.6%) respectively while the prevalence rate recorded in thin, medium and fat cattle were 61 (46.9%), 29 (20.84%) and 13 (3.91%). The types of foreign bodies encountered in rumen and reticulum were plastic, nails, wires, needle, clothes and ropes. Out of 103 positive cases of foreign body, 65(63.72%) were occurred in rumen while 38 (36.27%) in reticulum. These aforementioned factors were considered as potential risk factors and found highly significantly associated (p < 0.05) with the occurrence of foreign bodies. The prevalence of rumen and reticulum foreign bodies was lower in local breed cattle (16.29%) than that of the cross breeds (22.78%). There was not spastically significant difference (p= 0.432) between local and cross breed. The highest frequencies of rumen and reticulum foreign bodies observed in cattle originated from Humbo (22%) while the lowest from Sodo (7.84%). There was not statistically significant differences (p= 0.169) among the origin of animals. Thus, appropriate solid waste disposal system need to implement in the study area to prevent health risk of ruminants and environment.
Cultural determinants of corporate responsibility - as determined by the implementation of the organizational culture of CSR

Corporate social responsibility is a multidimensional concept with a wide range of effects, and is identified with the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society. These actions in companies are manifested not only in the care about the environment, labor and working conditions, but above all, it is the kind of activity on the basis of similar values, perceiving the needs of people in production processes, distribution and consumption, as well as the implementation of the principles of corporate social responsibility in all areas of company. It may be understood as the trend of social inclusion within the scope of responsibility of daily business operations, and its effective compliance becomes an important criterion for assessing the credibility of the company by its suppliers, customers, or employees. More and more often it is perceived by managers as a factor of strategic nature, which defines the ability to achieve economic goals. The aim of this article is to present the cultural conditions of the implementation of the CSR concept in economic practice, to indicate the key role of organizational culture for the successful implementation of activities in the field of responsible business.