Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Optimal Design of Complex Passive-Damping Systems for Vibration Control of Large Structures: An Energy-to-Peak Approach

We present a new design strategy that makes it possible to synthesize decentralized output-feedback controllers by solving two successive optimization problems with linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints. In the initial LMI optimization problem, two auxiliary elements are computed: a standard state-feedback controller, which can be taken as a reference in the performance assessment, and a matrix that facilitates a proper definition of the main LMI optimization problem. Next, by solving the second optimization problem, the output-feedback controller is obtained. The proposed strategy extends recent results in static output-feedback control and can be applied to design complex passive-damping systems for vibrational control of large structures. More precisely, by taking advantages of the existing link between fully decentralized velocity-feedback controllers and passive linear dampers, advanced active feedback control strategies can be used to design complex passive-damping systems, which combine the simplicity and robustness of passive control systems with the efficiency of active feedback control. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, a passive-damping system for the seismic protection of a five-story building is designed with excellent results.
Average output entropy for quantum channels

We study the regularized average Renyi output entropy S¯r reg of quantum channels. This quantity gives information about the average noisiness of the channel output arising from a typical, highly entangled input state in the limit of infinite dimensions. We find a closed expression for βr reg , a quantity which we conjecture to be equal to S¯r reg . We find an explicit form for βr reg for some entanglement-breaking channels and also for the qubit depolarizing channel Δλ as a function of the parameter λ. We prove equality of the two quantities in some cases, in particular, we conclude that for Δλ both are non-analytic functions of the variable λ.
The Deviation on the Determination of Microbial Biomass Carbon in Biochar Amendment Soil with Fumigation Extraction

Fumigation extraction (FE) is a well proven method to determine microbial biomass carbon. However, the underestimation is generated when FE method was used to determine the microbial biomass carbon in biochar amendment soil. In this study, the microbial biomass carbon in biochar amendment soil which was added glucose or ultra-pure water was measured with FE. The data showed the dissolved carbon which was adsorbed by the soil was increased with along the amount of added biochar. This result indicated that little effect was present on the determination of microbial biomass carbon in biochar amendment soil with FE. Under the rough assessment, the underestimation of 3% and 5% were generated when the amount of biochar was 5% and 10% respectively.
Evolution, Structure, and Seismology of Intermediate-Mass Stars

The interior structure, the evolution, and the p-mode oscillation spectra of stellar models between 2.0 and 5 M☉ are presented. Interior details, including convective core and envelope growth and decay, the development of composition gradients, and the onset of hydrogen shell burning are shown to be testable by future asteroseismology observations. The stellar age and mass dependence of the large- and small-spacing oscillation frequencies are discussed. The dependencies of the structure and the oscillation spectra on composition and mixing length are also discussed. A new oscillation diagnostic for stellar mass is introduced.
20 years of using the Noise Exposure Indicator and new strategies in effective occupational noise management

The Noise Exposure Indicator (NEI) is a risk-based tool for ranking and assessing occupational noise exposure in different parts or areas of a workplace. It was conceived by John Macpherson in about 1992 as part of the team undertaking the major revision of AS1269 -1989, and taken by the author and developed for use in occupational noise management. A paper describing the NEI was presented at the 1996 AAS conference. For some sites the method has been used to compare results and improvements over two sets of surveys 5 years apart. This paper describes its application over the long term. Information is also presented on recent observations and recommendations of how to take occupational noise management to the next level, where it is the responsibility of an accountable team from hygiene, engineering, maintenance and procurement departments at a workplace.
The Efficient Adaptive Pre-Encoded Multipliers Based on (NR4SD) Encoding for Digital Signal Processing Applications

Multimedia and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications (e.g., Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), audio/video CoDecs) complete countless with coefficients that don't change amid the execution of the application. Since the multiplier is an essential part to implement computationally concentrated applications, its engineering truly influences their execution. A committed encoding circuit is required and the fractional items age is more mind boggling. A strategy practically identical is proposed for sketching out compelling MB multipliers for social occasions of pre-chosen coefficients with a comparable imperative. Encode the coefficients disengaged in perspective of the MB encoding and store the MB encoded coefficients (i.e., 3 bits for each digit) into a ROM. New layouts of pre-encoded multipliers are researched by detached encoding the standard coefficients and securing them in system memory. We propose encoding these coefficients in the Non-Redundant radix-4 Signed-Digit (NR4SD) outline. The proposed pre-encoded NR4SD multiplier designs are a more area and power compelling stood out from the conventional and pre-encoded MB diagrams
A Study on Lean Manufacturing Practice Carried Out for Axle Housing Plant

Lean Manufacturing is a way to deal with the elimination of waste through persistent change within the system. The assembling units in India should likewise hope to take its preferences. The Industries are energetically following the Lean assembling strategies to reduce waste and cost. The present work is the study of a manufacturing process for axle housing and to decide how Lean manufacturing process carried out for axle housing plant to improve productivity. The new shot peening machine was installed in a heat treatment plant of a housing line in an automobile rear axle assembly plant and material handling time from storage to this new machine was more and this increased lead time subsequently. To reduce this Kaizens technique was employed and a direct gravity conveyor was chosen and installed between two work stations and the part was directly fed to the new machine installed and this reduces the material handling time considerably. A cost analysis was done to realize the benefits of implementing this lean technique. Therefore reducing lead time and increasing productivity is the Prime benefits of lean manufacturing practices like lean assembly.
The impact of large-scale employee share ownership plans on labour productivity: the case of Eircom

Large-scale employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) have been a distinctive characteristic of Irish public enterprise reform, with shareholdings of 14.9% being allocated to employees as part of firm restructuring and privatisation programmes. This paper presents a case study analysis of a large-scale ESOP in Eircom, Ireland's former national telecommunications operator. We identify changes in labour productivity (LP) during 8 years before and after the establishment of the company's ESOP and use a framework based on Pierce, Rubenfeld and Morgan (1991, The Academy of Management Review, 16, 121–144) and Pierce, Kostova and Dirks (2001, Academy of Management Review, 26, 298–310) to explore the role played by the ESOP. The ESOP was found to play a key role in enabling firm-level reform through concession bargaining and changes in employee relations, and thereby indirectly affecting LP. However, despite the substantial shareholding and influence of the ESOP, we find that it has failed to create a sense of psychological ownership among employees, and thereby further impact on productivity.
A Novel Approach on Key Recovery Attacks on Kids, A Keyed Anomaly Detection System

Keyed IDS (KIDS), is similar to the working of some cryptographic primitives, specifically to present a undisclosed component (the key) into the system so that certain processes are not practicable deprived of knowing it. In KIDS the knowledgeable model and the reckoning of the incongruity notch are both key-dependent, a statistic which seemingly stops an invader from making elusion attacks. In this work it is shown that recuperating the key is tremendously guileless providing that the invader can interrelate with KIDS and get feedback about searching needs. We extant realistic attacks for two unlike adversarial locales and display that refining the key needs only a minor expanse of requests, which specifies that KIDS does not meet the requested security possessions.
ROLE OF PALLIATION IN STAGE IV CARCINOMA CERVIX

BACKGROUND: Palliation reduces the severity of disease symptoms, rather than reversing its progression or providing a cure. Metastatic cancer cervix (Ca Cx) is incurable by surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, but these modalities are useful for palliation. Globally about five to six lakh new cases of carcinoma cervix are diagnosed every year. Of these, one lakh cases are diagnosed in India of which 25.0% are from West Bengal only. OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to study the role of palliation in Stage IV Carcinoma Cervix. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: During the study period of five years from January 2007 to December 2011, consecutive seventy five new cases of stage IV carcinoma cervix diagnosed at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute, Kolkata, were included in our study. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Clinical examination with relevant investigations like kidney function tests (KFT), biopsy, cystoscopy, CT scan etc were done for diagnosis & staging. Treatment was decided based on woman's age, general health and the location & type of the tumour. Treatment options were surgery, radiotherapy (RT), chemotherapy (CT) and simple palliation. In our study, combined CT+RT was done in 18.67% patients most of who presented with Stage IV disease. Radiation was given as brachytherapy following teletherapy. Chemotherapy was used as adjunct to RT or for palliation or as neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NACT), most commonly using paclitaxel (135mg/square metre), cisplatin (50mg/ square metre) and 5fluorouracil (600mg/ square metre). At times, chemotherapy could provide pain relief only. Vault smear and metastatic workup was done during follow-up visits every 8-12 weeks after treatment completion. RESULTS: Majority of patients belonged to the age group 42-69 years with a median age of 53 years. Bladder involvement was seen in 15(20.0%) cases, bowel involvement in 14(19.0%) and distant metastasis in 46(61.0%) cases. Most cases were of Squamous cell carcinoma (94.0%), clinically presenting with foul smelling vaginal discharge ± bleeding per vaginum (100.0%). In our study, significant amount (30.0%) of disease control for a substantial period (1.5 years) was observed. The overall survival rate in patients of Stage IV carcinoma cervix on various forms of palliative treatment was 18.0%. CONCLUSION: Palliation is achieved by surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, though at times, simple palliation is the only feasible option. The poor survival rate was probably due to improper reporting & lack of regular follow up in the given socio-economic background. As cure cannot be achieved in advanced carcinoma cervix, palliation is important in alleviating the distressing symptoms and improving the quality of life.
Onset of Convection in a Liquid Film Flowing

The thermal instability of a vicsious liquid film flowing down an inclined plane heated from below is studied analytically. The effects of Biot number at the free surface, the inclination, the Prandtl number and the Reynolds number on instability for· the longitudinal and traverse rolls have shown that the longitudinal rolls have priority of occurence over the transverse rolls. For small Biot numbers with Pr = 7 and 100, the thermal entry region is more unstable than the fully developed region, but for large Biot numbers this situation is reversed.
Preference description system using evatuation documents on web

In developing information systems that adopt Kansei information of consumers, it is important to describe preference of consumers by a format available for computer . In this paper, we propose a novel consumer's preference description system which is applicable to the documents on Web where impressions for various items are written by consumers. In our proposed system, preference of consumers is represented by the tree consisting of the attributes of the items, where each attributes are accompanied by the evaluations by consumers. Novelty of our system is to describe a hierarchical relation between the attributes reflecting the consumers' evaluations. The attributes for each item are extracted based on frequency of appearance of characteristic words and cooccurrence relation between words. The hierarchical relations of the attributes are estimated by using association rule mining. The words representing the evaluation of consumers for the attributes of each item are collected by syntactic parsing. In the evaluation experiment, we showed that 1) our approach could extract the attributes of the items that affect preference of consumers and 2) our approach could describe preference of consumers for the items.
ABN AMRO CLIENTS PREDICTING THE AEX-INDEX VALUE Two comparisons: how accurate are the expectations compared to the random walk model and the perspective on decisions of others?

In this study we investigate to what extent the predictions made by active banking clients of ABN Amro on the AEX value are accurate. The predicted values by the respondents of the questionnaire are compared to two different scenarios: (i) approach according to the ‘traditional’ random walk model and (ii) what they think others will predict. Each comparison is made using three methods: the mean-squared error, the mean absolute error and the mean percentage error. In the first comparison, the random walk approach finds more support. This is not to say that the AEX follows a random, it suggests in our case that the random walk model makes more accurate predictions than the respondents do. The results of second comparison recommends that respondents are better off when they predict what they think others will predict, instead of making predictions on their own.
Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection Using Remote Sensing Techniques

Change detection is the process of knowing the differences in a particular phenomenon over time at different time periods. As a result of the advances in modern techniques of remote sensing, changes in the surface of the Earth can be seen using satellite images, so remote sensing has become the best tool in the evaluation and monitoring of changes, therefore the use of remote sensing in the applications of change detection is acceptable, due to periodic imaging, comprehensive coverage and low cost compared to ground survey techniques. The main objective of this paper is to detect the changes in land use and land cover at different periods. Two LANDSAT 5 images were used in two different periods (1990 and 2006), The study area selected in the middle Euphrates Region of Iraq. The results of land use/cover assessment of satellite data between (1990) and (2006) after applying image differencing technique is shown in as differencing image in "RGB-colored".
Caractérisation d'experts dans les plate-formes de crowdsourcing Characterization of experts in crowdsourcing platforms

Le " Crowdsourcing " represente aujourd'hui une methode de travail tr es populaire qui a une grande importance. Cette methode consiste a recourir aux ressources de la foule pour accomplir des tâches , pour collecter des informations et des connaissances sous forme d'une sous-traitance vers un grand nombre de personnes. La qualite et le niveau d'expertise de ces derniers influencent lar-gement l'efficacite des plates-formes de crowdsourcing. Ceci pose un nouveau defi de controle de qualite des participants et d'identifier les experts. Plusieurs methodes ont ete proposees dans ce contexte, mais lesprobi emes d'imperfection des donnees souvent peu prises en compte influencent tous les resultats observes. Pour ce faire et afin de mieux identifier les experts nous proposons une nouvelle methode de caracterisation des experts fondee sur la theorie des fonctions de croyance. Nous validons nos techniques par des experimentations sur des donnees synthetiques. Mots-cles : Crowdsourcing, Expert, Theorie des fonctions de croyance, Exactitude. Abstract: Crowdsourcing represents a very popular working method which acquires a great importance. This method consists to recourse to the crowd to accomplish tasks, to collect pieces of information and knowledge through outsourcing the tasks to a large number of people. The quality and the level of expertise of participants strongly influence the efficacy of the crowdsourcing platforms. This raises new challenges to control the quality of participants and identifying experts. In this context, several methods have been proposed, but the problem of imperfection data is often not taken into account and this might largely influence all the observed results. We propose novel methods for identifying the experts, based on the theory of belief functions. We validate our techniques through experimentation on synthetic datasets.
Origin of clasts and matrix within the Milano and Napoli mud volcanoes, Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex

Petrographic and mineralogical studies of clasts and matrix in the Milano and Napoli mud volcanoes drilled during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 160 provide important clues about depositional processes, provenance, and the tectonic setting of deep-sea sediments that accumulated before genesis of the Mediterranean Ridge mud volcanoes. The clasts recovered from both mud volcanoes are mainly mudstone and claystone, calcareous siltstone, quartzose sandstone and siltstone, shallow-water-derived limestone, and pelagic carbonate. Biostratigraphic evidence indicates mainly early and middle Miocene ages for fossiliferous clasts, with the older microfossils being reworked. Textural evidence (grading) suggests that the clastic lithologies are turbidites. Sources of the sandstones were mainly plutonic igneous and subordinate metamorphic rocks. Sporadic, exceptionally well-rounded, quartz grains may be of eolian origin and were probably derived from the Precambrian basement of North Africa. Shallow-water-derived carbonates were also redeposited as calciturbidites, with variable admixing with siliciclastic and pelagic carbonate, which indicates shared depositional pathways. Pelagic carbonates (packstones) were redeposited basinward as calciturbidites from a deep-sea carbonate slope that formed part of the North African continental margin. During the middle Miocene, the background sedimentation was in situ pelagic carbonate. In addition, relatively rare, texturally immature, lithic sandstones include serpentinite, basalt, and radiolarian chert, of ophiolite-related origin. This material was derived from the orogenic areas to the north, possibly originally from the higher thrust sheets of Crete, before late Miocene and subsequent erosion and extensional downfaulting. The texture and composition of the mud and clay matrix provide clues about the mode of the mud volcanism. The matrix of the mud debris flows includes numerous, small, angular clasts of unfossiliferous claystone and shardlike fragments, which show pseudolamination, microshearing, and crosscutting veinlets, features that are taken as evidence for the involvement of high fluid pressure in clast and matrix formation (hyrofracturing).
Optimization and evaluation of foxtail millet ( Setaria italica ) bran oil by supercritical carbon dioxide extraction

A Box-Behnken central composite design combined with the response surface methodology (RSM) was used to optimize the parameters of a supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) of foxtail millet bran oil (FMBO). Results showed that a maximum oil yield of 7.97% was achieved under the optimal conditions with an extracting pressure of 30.03MPa, extracting temperature of 47.93 °C; and an extraction time of 2.3 h. The quality of the oil obtained from SFE and solvent extraction (SE) was evaluated by proximate analysis to include physicochemical properties, fatty acids and sterol compounds. The FBMO obtained from SFE showed a much lower phospholipid (0.188 mg/g) content and a preferable color compared to the oil from SE, while it contained a higher content of total sterols, 1.55%. The thermal gravimetric analysis results showed one major regime of weight loss over a temperature range of 300–500 °C. The results show that FBMO obtained by SFE can be a promising nutritional source for food fortification and is understood to have more potentially healthy biological properties.
Inclusive practice in higher education: feedback that breaks pedagogical barriers

Feedback provided to students on completion of an assessment task has been identified as an important source of information about teacher, course and university expectations (Pearce, 2007). It can be used to promote ongoing development and acknowledge performance in many different contexts, thus forming a crucial support mechanism in the learning and teaching process. Despite its significance, little research from the students’ point of view has been generated and feedback has largely been omitted from inclusive practice educational texts. The focus of this chapter will be inclusive feedback practices, within the context of a learning environment characterised by a high proportion of international and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students (approximately 57% and 75% respectively).
GHASP: an Hα kinematic survey of spiral and irregular galaxies – IX. The near‐infrared, stellar and baryonic Tully–Fisher relations★

We studied, for the first time, the near-infrared, stellar and baryonic Tully-Fisher relations for a sample of field galaxies taken from a homogeneous Fabry-Perot sample of galaxies [the Gassendi HAlpha survey of SPirals (GHASP) survey]. The main advantage of GHASP over other samples is that the maximum rotational velocities were estimated from 2D velocity fields, avoiding assumptions about the inclination and position angle of the galaxies. By combining these data with 2MASS photometry, optical colours, HI masses and different mass-to-light ratio estimators, we found a slope of 4.48 +/- 0.38 and 3.64 +/- 0.28 for the stellar and baryonic Tully-Fisher relation, respectively. We found that these values do not change significantly when different mass-to-light ratio recipes were used. We also point out, for the first time, that the rising rotation curves as well as asymmetric rotation curves show a larger dispersion in the Tully-Fisher relation than the flat ones or the symmetric ones. Using the baryonic mass and the optical radius of galaxies, we found that the surface baryonic mass density is almost constant for all the galaxies of this sample. In this study we also emphasize the presence of a break in the NIR Tully-Fisher relation at M-H,M-K similar to -20 and we confirm that late-type galaxies present higher total-to-baryonic mass ratios than early-type spirals, suggesting that supernova feedback is actually an important issue in late-type spirals. Due to the well-defined sample selection criteria and the homogeneity of the data analysis, the Tully-Fisher relation for GHASP galaxies can be used as a reference for the study of this relation in other environments and at higher redshifts.