Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Structural Health Monitoring System based on Wireless Sensor Network

Firstly, current development of SHM technology and application of WSNs technology in SHM are introduced. Secondly, based on analysis and comparison with routing protocols for WSNs, considering large numbers of nodes, individual nodes with extremely limited resource and data remotely transmission in a WSNs for large structural health monitoring. A highly efficient energy-saving routing protocol named WSPSHM (Wireless Sensor Protocol for Structural Health Monitoring) is developed, and details of routing algorithm are presented. Finally, the network simulation software NS2 is briefly introduced. Test and performance evaluation of routing algorithm with NS2 are discussed. Detailed flow and analyzing results of simulation are presented. Compared with current routing protocols, WSPSHM could effectively reduced radio frequency and ensure that the entire networks have higher throughput and longer life cycle at low level of energy consumption. Feasibility of network organizing technology for WSNs of large structural health monitoring is demonstrated.
Structural properties of graphs and eficient algorithms: Problems Between Parameters

Parameterized complexity became over last two decades one of the most important subfield of computational complexity. Structural graph parameters (widths) play important role both in graph theory and (parameterized) algoritmh design. By studying some concrete problems we exhibit the connection between structural graph parameters and parameterized tractability. We do this by examining tractability and hardness results for the Target Set Selection, Minimum Length Bounded Cut, and other problems. In the Minimum Length Bounded Cut problem we are given a graph, source, sink, and a positive integer L and the task is to remove edges from the graph such that the distance between the source and the sink exceeds L in the resulting graph. We show that an optimal solution to the Minimum Length Bounded Cut problem can be computed in time f(k)n, where f is a computable function and k denotes the tree-depth of the input graph. On the other hand we prove that (under assumption that FPT ̸= W[1]) no such algorithm can exist if the parameter k is the tree-width of the input graph. Currently only few such problems are known. The Target Set Selection problem exibits the same phenomenon for the vertex cover number and neighborhood diversity. In its specialized variabnt (Majority Target Set Selection) for neighborhood diversity and twin-cover on one side and modular width on the other side. Currently we are not aware of other result of this type.
Study of Compression Mechanism for Reducing the Data Redundancy of Sensor

Data acquisition is the most fundamental task of the wireless sensor network. This sensor data to reduce redundancy of the compression mechanism, compression module is given a concrete realization of the cost of the LTC algorithm itself. Compression mechanism of the design decisions were discussed motives, given the specific description of the mechanism, combined with the concrete realization of the system compression module analyzes its performance. Keywords-data acquisition;data redundancy;cost projections; LTC; compression judgments
Bag-Of-SFA-Symbols in Vector Space (BOSS VS)

Time series classification mimics the human understanding of similarity. When it comes to larger datasets, state of the art classifiers reach their limits in terms of unreasonable training or testing times. One representative example is the 1-nearest-neighbor DTW classifier (1-NN DTW) that is commonly used as the benchmark to compare to and has several shortcomings: it has a quadratic time and it degenerates in the presence of noise. To reduce the computational complexity lower bounding techniques or recently a nearest centroid classifier have been introduced. Still, execution times to classify moderately sized datasets on a single core are in the order of hours. We present our Bag-Of-SFA-Symbols in Vector Space (BOSS VS) classifier that is robust and accurate due to invariance to noise, phase shifts, offsets, amplitudes and occlusions. We show that it is as accurate while being multiple orders of magnitude faster than state of the art classifiers. Using the BOSS VS allows for mining massive time series datasets and real-time analytics.
Shareholder Activism and Socially Responsible Investors: Equilibrium Changes in Asset Prices and Corporate Behavior

We examine the functioning of financial markets when firms can invest in socially responsible activities that produce an externality at a cost. We examine a model in which some investors are altruistic in the sense that they internalize the assets' extra-financial performance when they value their portfolio. There are two mechanisms by which these pro-social investors can influence firm's decisions. They can vote with their feet, thereby raising the cost of capital of non-responsible firms. They can also try to get the majority of shares to impose their view to the management. We also examine a model in which there exists a large investor who can act strategically to influence the beliefs of atomistic investors about his vote. We show that an increase in the degree of pro-social motivation of the large investor may raise its purely financial profit.
Preference ranking of some temperate pasture species by sheep in pens.

The preference ranking of a range of common as well as newly-released temperate pasture plants was assessed by examining sheep preferences with fresh material harvested late in the growing season. Sheep were able to discriminate between cultivars of subterranean clover. Preference index of forages was not constant through time and long season plants improved their ranking as the season progressed. Preference index was found to be inversely related to fresh forage dry matter content in early spring only. These results are discussed with reference to diet selection from mixed swards. (
A GPU-Based Concurrent Motion Planning Algorithm for 3 D Euclidean Configuration Spaces

For existing robot motion planning algorithms, it is well understood that the computational complexity of an implementation increases exponentially as the dimensionality of the configuration space increases. This paper presents an approach to 3D motion planning in Euclidean voxelised configuration spaces that runs in near linear time. It leverages the highly parallel architecture found in modern graphics hardware to expand many edges of a configuration space concurrently — a task traditional algorithms complete sequentially and in worse than linear time. With the continual increase in computation power available on modern parallel processing architectures, many motion planning problems that were once too computationally expensive for practical application can now be run in real-time.
Generic Metamodel Refactoring with Automatic Detection of Applicability and Co-evolution of Artefacts

Refactoring is an essential operation in software engineering, with the purpose of improving the structural qualities of software. An emerging trend in software engineering is the use of model-driven approaches in which models are used as first-class entities. The problem domain concepts used in models are formalised by a metamodel. Refactoring of metamodels is an important task in increasing the extensibility and maintainability of metamodels. However, changing the definition of a metamodel comes at the cost of introducing inconsistencies in modelling artefacts that are defined relatively to the metamodel. In this report, we present a framework extension for refactoring of metamodels that allows re-establishing consistency between the artefacts and the metamodel. We also discuss how refactoring patterns can be applied automatically on metamodels. The framework has been formally defined by a deductive system.
The Natural Sounds Loudness Estimation Method Apllied to Patients with "Dead Regions" – Preliminary Study

It is a well known fact that hearing aids fitted using classic methods often does not bring expected benefit to hearing impaired people with “dead regions”, (DRs). We propose an alternative method of hearing aids fitting for such patients, based on perception of natural sounds - The Natural Sounds Loudness Estimation (NSLE) method. For patients with diagnosed DRs hearing aids were fitted using the NSLE and, for comparison, with two classic methods (NAL-NL1 and POGO). Estimated insertion gains (IGs) were different for these two classes of fitting methods. IGs estimated using NSLE were generally lower than gains estimated by classic methods. Subjective comfort of hearing aids fitting was checked by the APHAB test. Results the APHAB test have clearly shown that patients with DRs have preferred fitting based on the NSLE method. Thus, the NSLE method seems to be a good option of hearing aids fitting in the case of people with DRs.
First detection of helium emissions in RR Lyrae

Context. During the past 100 years, helium emission lines have never been observed in RR Lyrae stars, especially in RRab-type ones where strong shock waves are nevertheless present in their atmosphere. Only recently have the observation of He I emission lines in 10 RRab stars and the detection of very weak He II emission in 3 of them been reported. All these stars are Blazhko stars, while helium emission has never been detected in non-Blazhko stars. Aims. We investigate the physical origin of the presence (or absence) of helium emission in the spectra of RR Lyrae stars, using a recent explanation of the Blazhko effect based on the interplay between two shocks occurring during each pulsation cycle. Methods. From high-resolution spectra collected with ESPaDOnS at CFHT, we report for the first time the observation of He I emission lines in the brightest RR Lyrae star of the sky, RR Lyr. Our observation was done just after a Blazhko maximum. We have also very likely detected He II emission. Results. The presence of He I and He II emission lines is directly connected to the shock intensity. Helium emissions only occur during the strongest amplitude phase of Blazhko stars in which an amplification mechanism of the shock intensity arises. This kind of hypersonic shock has not yet been reported in non-Blazhko stars because in this picture the intensity of their shocks is not amplified. Conclusions. The occurrence of helium emission is a direct consequence of the Blazhko effect. The greater the Blazhko amplitude, the greater the shock intensity, and therefore emission lines of helium increase. Considering the spectroscopic features observed (or not) in the RR Lyrae stars, we can define three hydrodynamic regimes: (a) the supersonic regime in which only hydrogen emissions are visible such as in non-Blazhko stars; (b) the weak hypersonic regime where the He I emission lines are also observed; and (c) the strong hypersonic regime with the additional observation of He II emission lines. These two last regimes only occur in Blazhko stars.
DESIGN OF MICROSTRIP RADIATOR USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE

An inset feed Microstrip radiator has been designed and developed for operation at 2.4GHz frequency. The Microstrip patch antenna (MPA) parameters were designed using IE3D EM simulator (version 14.0) and optimized with an evolutionary stochastic optimizer i.e. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique. Optimized results show that the antenna has a bandwidth of 33.54 MHz (<-10dB) in the range 2.38355 GHz to 2.41709 GHz and a maximum return loss of 43.87dB at the resonant frequency of 2.4 GHz. The patch antenna is fabricated and the important parameters like return loss, VSWR etc were measured. The measured parameters match with the simulated results well within the tolerable limits.
FAUNAL COMPONENT IN THE DIET OF LION-TAILED MACAQUE. KUMARA,

The paper reports the information on the faunal component in the diet of wild lion-tailed macaques. The faunal component accounts for about 19 per cent of the total diet. There is more intake of faunal items during the dry months from December to May when fruit availability is low, as compared to the wet months from June to November. The faunal intake at different times of the day and by different age-sex classes does not differ. Invertebrates constitute the largest portion of the faunal diet. The smaller animals are captured and eaten by all age-sex classes, whereas the larger vertebrates are usually caught and eaten by adult animals, especially males. The method of capturing the prey and the parts of the body eaten are reported. Introduction Food is the most important preoccupation in an animal's life. Diet accounts for most of the ecological and behavioral differences among primate species. More attention has been paid to the study of diet than any other aspect of ecology and behavior in free living primates. Since the Order Primates includes a wide range of biological systems ranging from tree shrews to anthropoid apes, it is also characterized by a diversity of diets. Primate diets generally include fruits, leaves and fauna, and accordingly, they could be referred to as frugivorous, folivorous and faunivorous (FLEAGLE, 1988). FLEAGLE (1988) further points out that the primate species that tend to forage more on insects are smaller in size, and the larger size species usually tend to feed on leaves. The significance of body size influencing the mechanism of resource partitioning in insectivorous primates has also been emphasized by TERBORGH (1983). The dietary patterns may also influence several other behavior patterns such as ranging. Since it is difficult to exactly classify animals into categories according to dietary preferences, EISENBERG (1981) suggests that characterization be made in terms of modal strategies. The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) is a habitat specialist (SINGH et al., 1997) inhabiting only the climax rainforests of Western Ghats in southern India. Since the species is endangered, it is essential to document its complete range of dietary items in order to formulate effective conservation and management plans for the species. The lion-tailed macaque is primarily a frugivorous species, but its diet also includes a variety of fauna (GREEN and MINKOWSKI, 1977; KUMAR, 1987). The species can, therefore, be classified as frugivorous/faunivorous with a bimodal dietary strategy. Whereas in the previous studies, a detailed description has been provided regarding the plant species whose fruits are eaten by the lion-tailed macaques, a detailed species-wise description of faunal consumption is still not available. We report in this paper partial records of such details gathered over the past few years. Primate Report 58, November 2000 57 H.N. Kumara et al.: Faunal Component in Lion-tailed Macaque Diet
Applying conditional DEA to measure football clubs’ performance: Evidence from the top 25 European clubs

This paper applies a probabilistic approach to investigate how the top European football clubs’ current value and debt levels influence their performance. Specifically, a bootstrapped conditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used in order to measure the effect of football clubs’ current value and debt levels on their obtained efficiency performances. The results indicate that football clubs’ current value levels have a positive influence up to a certain point. But as the current value increases the effect is neutral to football clubs’ performance. At the same time, the empirical evidence suggests that there is no influence on football clubs’ efficiencies associated with lower and medium football clubs’ debt levels while higher debt levels appear to have a direct negative effect.
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and Default Risk

We examine the impact of cross-border mergers on acquirers' post-merger default risk using a sample of 375 US acquiring firms from 1997 to 2011. After controlling for cultural, institutional, geographic and managerial factors between the US and target firm countries, we find that on average, cross-border transactions decrease the level of default risk of the acquiring firms. Our results are consistent with the asymmetric information hypothesis that managers take advantage of the overvaluation and volatility of their stock prices. We also observe that the geographic distance and industrial relatedness play significant roles in affecting post-merger default risk but find limited evidence indicating the relevance of institutional environments and cultural factors on changes in default risk. Managers use cross-border mergers to manage the extant risk of their firms. However, their incentives to use cross-border mergers to manage risk are mitigated by option compensation.
Properties of intramuscular connective tissue in pork and poultry with reference to weakening of structure

The most common connective tissue research in meat science has been conducted on the properties of intramuscular connective tissue (IMCT) in connection with eating quality of meat. From the chemical and physical properties of meat, researchers have concluded that meat from animals younger than physiological maturity is the most tender. In pork and poultry, different challenges have been raised: the structure of cooked meat has weakened. In extreme cases raw porcine M. semimembranosus (SM) and in most turkey M. pectoralis superficialis (PS) can be peeled off in strips along the perimysium which surrounds the muscle fibre bundles (destructured meat), and when cooked, the slices disintegrate. Raw chicken meat is generally very soft and when cooked, it can even be mushy. The overall aim of this thesis was to study the thermal properties of IMCT in porcine SM in order to see if these properties were in association with destructured meat in pork and to characterise IMCT in poultry PS. First a 'baseline' study to characterise the thermal stability of IMCT in light coloured (SM and M. longissimus dorsi in pigs and PS in poultry) and dark coloured (M. infraspinatus in pigs and a combination of M. quadriceps femoris and M. iliotibialis lateralis in poultry) muscles was necessary. Thereafter, it was investigated whether the properties of muscle fibres differed in destructured and normal porcine muscles. Collagen content and also solubility of dark coloured muscles were higher than in light coloured muscles in pork and poultry. Collagen solubility was especially high in chicken muscles, approx. 30 %, in comparison to porcine and turkey muscles. However, collagen content and solubility were similar in destructured and normal porcine SM muscles. Thermal shrinkage of IMCT occurred at approximately 65 °C in pork and poultry. It occurred at lower temperature in light coloured muscles than in dark coloured muscles, although the difference was not always significant. The onset and peak temperatures of thermal shrinkage of IMCT were lower in destructured than in normal SM muscles, when the IMCT from SM muscles exhibiting ten lowest and ten highest ultimate pH values were investigated (onset: 59.4 °C vs. 60.7 °C, peak: 64.9 °C vs. 65.7 °C). As the destructured meat was paler than normal meat, the PSE (pale, soft, exudative) phenomenon could not be ruled out. The muscle fibre cross sectional area (CSA), the number of capillaries per muscle fibre CSA and per fibre and sarcomere length were similar in destructured and normal SM muscles. Drip loss was clearly higher in destructured than in normal SM muscles. In conclusion, collagen content and solubility and thermal shrinkage temperature vary between porcine and poultry muscles. One feature in the IMCT could not be directly associated with weakening of the meat structure. Poultry breast meat is very homogenous within the species.
Investigation of Shiga-like toxigenic Escherichia coli in meat products by quantitative PCR.

The aim of this study was to investigate and evaluate effectiveness of quantitative PCR (qPCR) in quantification of Shiga-like toxigenic E. coli (STEC) in artificially contaminated deli meat slices compared to plate count technique. Experiment was designed to investigate capability of qPCR using selected pair of primers amplifying rpoB household gene and serial decimal dilution of an overnight suspension of E. coli O157:H7 culture. Subsequently, slices of smoked pork loin were contaminated by respective decimally diluted dose of STEC. DNA was extracted from the samples and qPCR was run in triplicate. Mean Ct values of amplified rpoB gene were compared to each inoculum dose and standard curves were generated. Results clearly showed that the lowest detectable level of STEC in pork loin slices using qPCR was 6.8×101 CFU/g. Further optimization of method should be done in order to resolve, if possible, discrepancies at the levels of contamination less than 100 CFU/g.
(FEEDING WITH A RESTRICTED QUANTITY OF DRY MATTER OVER FOUR WEEKS IS NOT DETRIMENTAL TO HEALTH AND REPRODUCTION IN ADULT MALE KACANG GOATS)

The study was aimed to investigate the effects of restricted feeding for four weeks on some blood chemistry and seminal parameters in kacang goats. Six adult clinically healthy male kacang goats were used in this study. Each animal was kept in individual box for 12 weeks. Animal was fed with aerial part of peanut plant and concentrate with ratio of 60:40. The experiment was devided into two feeding periods, fullfeeding and restricted feeding. After four weeks adaptation (week 1-4), each animal was fullfed for maintenance plus medium activity (a quantity of dry matter at the level of 3% of body weight) for four weeks (week 5-8) and then was fed only 50% of the fullfeeding nutritional level for the following four weeks Jurnal Veteriner Desember 2016 Vol. 17 No. 4 : 492-500 pISSN: 1411-8327; eISSN: 2477-5665 DOI: 10.19087/jveteriner.2016. 17.4. 492 Terakreditasi Nasional, Dirjen Penguatan Riset dan Pengembangan, online pada http://ojs.unud. ac.id/php.index/jvet Kemenristek Dikti RI S.K. No. 36a/E/KPT/2016
Exemplification effects: responses to perceptions of risk

Exemplification theory asserts that message components that are iconic and emotionally arousing are easily accessed, and are therefore relied upon when making subsequent behavioral decisions. A reanalysis of data from three studies collected at different times, unrelated experimental stimuli (terrorism, food ingredients, and bed bugs), different media (visual and print), varying geographic locations, different experimental conditions (laboratory and online), and diverse participants suggests that these processes work differently for men and women. Results suggest that the medium through which an exemplar is presented and/or experienced may be fairly inconsequential, but there are underlying processes which may determine the extent to which individuals will modify behavioral intentions related to risks. After witnessing exemplified portrayals, women were more likely than men to express a desire to modify behavior, perceive themselves as more susceptible to the risk, and perceive the risk as being more severe across the studies. The findings are discussed in terms of directions for future research and implications for risk communication practitioners.
Cervical Lymph Nodes in CA Prostate: An Easiest Tool to Deal with Diagnostic Dilemma

Cervical lymphadepathy is very common in many benign and malignant conditions. It is not only the easiest accessible tissues for making the correct diagnosis by histopathologic examination (HPE) but also may be the only presenting feature of the disease. We herein present a case of prostate cancer that was diagnosed only by the HPE and Immunohistochemistry (IHC) of the excised cervical lymph nodes. The importance of cervical lymph node biopsy has also been discussed.
Use of Principal Component Analysis with Instrumental Variables (PCAIV) to analyse fisheries catch data

Principal Component Analysis with respect to Instrumental Variables (PCAIV) is a statistical tool for exploratory analysis combining both principal component analysis and multivariate regression analysis. This tool is used to analyse mean fortnightly catches obtained by Senegalese fishermen in two ports from 1975 to 1991. The aim of the study is to identify significant sources of variation and to present separately the impact of each of them. These descriptions are used to characterize the initial data.