Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CONSTRUCTING IMAGE-RATING SYSTEM FOR MATERIAL RECLAMATION

Content-basis image retrieval is important option to prevail within the difficulties of previous works and contains attracted an excellent concentration in past decades. The models according to graph-based ranking were mostly analysed and extensively functional in file recovery area. Within our work we concentrate on the novel in addition to efficient graph-based model for content based image retrieval, designed for out-of-sample recovery on extensive databases. We advise a scalable graph-based ranking representation referred to as effective Manifold Ranking, which address weak points of Manifold Ranking from two most significant viewpoints for example scalable graph construction in addition to effective ranking computation. We concentrate on a famous graph-based model known Manifold Ranking that is a well-known graph-based ranking representation that ranks data samples relevant to intrinsic geometrical structure uncovered with a huge data. The suggested model includes two separate stages just like an offline stage for structuring of ranking model plus an online stage for controlling of recent query. Using the suggested system, we are able to handle database by a million images and perform online retrieval inside a short instance.
Unlocking the potential of process innovation : A conceptual framework for the exploitation of advanced manufacturing technologies

This paper aims at providing a holistic understanding of the determinants that influence the realization of benefits of new manufacturing technologies. Based on findings from operations management and strategic decision-making literature, we propose a framework that explicitly distinguishes between the phase of decision-making and the phase of implementation of advanced manufacturing technologies. Based on a broad literature review, contingency factors are presented and related to each phase of the process model.
Rationality of Self and Others in an Economic System

In this paper, I want to disentangle some of the senses in which the hypothesis of rationality is used in economic theory. In particular, I want to stress that rationality is not a property of the individual alone, although it is usually presented that way. Rather, it gathers not only its force but also its very meaning from the social context in which it is embedded. It is most plausible under very ideal conditions. When these conditions cease to hold, the rationality assumptions become strained and possibly even self-contradictory. They certainly imply an ability at information processing and calculation that is far beyond the feasible and that cannot well be justified as the result of learning and adaptation. Let me dismiss a point of view that is perhaps not always articulated but seems implicit in many writings. It seems to be asserted that a theory of the economy must be based on rationality, as a matter of principle. Otherwise, there can be no theory. This position has even been maintained by some who accept that economic behavior is not completely rational. John Stuart Mill (1909, bk. 2, ch. 4) argued that custom, not competition, governs much of the economic world. But he adds that the only possible theory is that Standard economic doctrine makes assumptions of rationality that have very strong implications for the complexity of individuals' decision processes. The most complete assumptions of competitive general equilibrium theory require that all future and contingent prices exist and be known. In fact, of course, not all these markets exist. The incompleteness of markets has several side consequences for rationality. For one thing, each decision maker has to have a model that predicts the future spot prices. This is an informational burden of an entirely different magnitude than simply optimizing at known prices. It involves all the complexity of rational analysis of data and contradicts the much-praised informational economy of the price system. It is also the case that equilibria become much less well defined. Similar problems occur with imperfect competition. * This research was supported by the Office of Naval Research grant ONR-N00014-79-C-0685 at the Center for Research in Organizational Efficiency, Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Multimodal Feedback in Human-Robot Interaction: An HCI-Informed Comparison of Feedback Modalities

A major area of interest within the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and human-robot interaction (HRI) is user feedback. Previous work in HCI has investigated the effects of error feedback on task efficiency and error rates, yet, these studies have been mostly restricted to comparisons of inherently different feedback modalities, for example auditory and visual, and as such fail to acknowledge the many possible variations within each of these modalities, some of which being more effective than others. This chapter applies a user-centered approach to investigating feedback modalities for robot teleoperation by naïve users. It identifies the reasons why novice users need feedback when demonstrating novel behaviors to a teleoperated industrial robot and evaluates both various feedback modalities designed to prevent errors and, drawing on document design theory, studies different kinds of visual presentation regarding their effectiveness in the creation of legible error feedback screens.
A natural example of the disequilibrium breakdown of biotite at high temperature: TEM observations and comparison with experimental kinetic data

Abstract Transmission electron microscopy has been used to investigate the mechanism of natural biotite breakdown under pyrometamorphic disequilibrium conditions. Biotite in a xenolith of pelitic gneiss collected from a Tertiary dolerite sill, Isle of Mull, Scotland, shows evidence of an incipient reaction, characterised by a darkening in colour and the appearance of areas of fine-grained reaction products. TEM and analytical electron microscope data show that the reaction can be described as: The orientations of the product phase are controlled by the crystallography of the reacting biotite, demonstrating that the transformation proceeds by a topotactic mechanism. An empirical method, based on the Mg/(Fe2+ + Fe3+) ratios of coexisting spinel and biotite from experimental data, is used to deduce that the reaction occurred above ∼ 770 °C. A comparison of the natural reaction microstructures with those produced experimentally suggest that the xenolith was probably above 800 °C for less than 48 hours and cooled to temperatures of 770 °C after ∼ 150–200 hours.
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of a Farsi Version of the Impulsive Behavior Scale-Short Form in Iran

Background: The aim of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Impulsive Behavior Scale-Short Form (IBS-SF) among undergraduate Farsi-speaking Iranian students. In this study, 201 individuals (95 men, 106 women) answered to the IBS-SF and the Problematic and Risky Internet Use Screening Scale‎ (PRIUSS). Methods: The confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency methods were used to compute the factorial validity and reliability of the IBS-SF, respectively. In order to examine the construct validity of the IBS-SF, the correlation of different dimensions of IBS-SF with PRIUSS was determined. Results: The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that a 5-factor structure of the negative urgency, lack of perseverance, lack of premeditation, sensation seeking, and positive urgency was replicated in the Iranian sample. The IBS-SF convergent validity was confirmed by a correlation between different features of impulsivity trait and problematic and risky internet use behavior. The internal consistency of the different subscales of impulsivity trait ranged from 0.67 to 0.80. Conclusion: The present study revealed that the IBS-SF is a valid and reliable scale for measuring impulsivity trait among undergraduate Farsi-speaking Iranian students.
Liquid Assimilation in Havana Spanish.

There has been a consensus among linguists that laryngeal and superlaryngeal nodes are located under the root node and place node is under the superlaryngeal node. However, there is very little consensus on where manner of articulation features belong. A phonological analysis of the spreading and delinking process occurring in the educated Spanish of Havana (Cuba) suggests that: (1) the continuant feature should be located under the superlaryngeal node; (2) continuant and place features form a natural class node (oral cavity); and (3) manner features and place features do operate together in the delinking and spreading operations. (Author/MSE) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES tNFORMATION CENTER (ERIC). " U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTEP (ERIC) document hes been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it O Minot changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stalso in this docu . mint do not necessarily represent official OER1 position or policy Cr.1 LIQUID ASSIMILATION IN HAVANA SPANISH Fenfang Hwu AbAtriket: There has been a consensus that Laryngeal and Supralaryngeal nodes are located under the Root Bode and Place node I. under the Supralaryngeal node (Clements 1985, Sagey 1987, Archangeli and Pulleyblank 1988). There is, however, very little consensus on where manner of articulation features belong. It will be argued in this paper, basing on spreading and delinking process occurring in Liquid assimilation in Havana Spanish, that 1) the [continuant] feature should be located under the Supralaryngeal node 2) [continuant] and place features form a natural class node: Oral Cavity as proposed in Clements (1987) 3) manner features and place features do operate tc.gether in the delinking and spreading operations. According to Cuitart (1978, 1980) and Zamora & Guitart (1982), in the educated Spanish of Havana, the distinction between Ill and Ir] in syllable final position is lost. The following data show this phenomenon. (1) (Guitart 1976, 1980; Zamora & Guitart 1982; Harris 1985) a.L + Labial ser bobo, ellobo serpobre, eLpobre ser mata, tal mats Beano, eljno b.L Coronal arde, falda ser te, eLW ser nata, taLtata farsa, falsa combo, cokildn ser rojo, eojo Carlos, estar lejos ser droga, tal droga (1)14 [bp] [min] BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1991, Volume 16, pp. 59-75
Application of Sparse Coded SIFT Features for Classification of Plant Images

Automated system for plant species recognition is need of today since manual taxonomy is cumbersome, tedious, time consuming, expensive and suffers from perceptual biasness as well as taxonomic impediment. Availability of digitized databases with high resolution plant images annotated with metadata like date and time, lat long information has increased the interest in development of automated systems for plant taxonomy. Most of the approaches work only on a particular organ of the plant like leaf, bark or flowers and utilize only contextual information stored in the image which is time dependent whereas other metadata associated should also be considered. Motivated from the need of automation of plant species recognition and availability of digital databases of plants, we propose an image based identification of species of plant when the image may belong to different plant parts such as leaf, stem or flower, fruit , scanned leaf, branch and the entire plant. Besides using image content, our system also uses metadata associated with images like latitude, longitude and date of capturing to ease the identification process and obtain more accurate results. For a given image of plant and associated metadata, the system recognizes the species of the given plant image and produces an output that contains the Family, Genus, and Species name. Different methods for recognition of the species are used according to the part of the plant to which the image belongs to. For flower category, fusion of shape, color and texture features are used. For other categories like stem, fruit, leaf and leafscan, sparsely coded SIFT features pooled with Spatial pyramid matching approach is used. The proposed framework is implemented and tested on ImageClef data with 50 different classes of species. Maximum accuracy of 98% is attained in leaf scan subcategory whereas minimum accuracy is achieved in fruit sub-category which is 67.3 %.
Determination of moisture content and water activity in algae and fish by thermoanalytical techniques

The water content in seafoods is very important since it affects their sensorial quality, microbiological stability, physical characteristics and shelf life. In this study, thermoanalytical techniques were employed to develop a simple and accurate method to determine water content (moisture) by thermogravimetry (TG) and water activity from moisture content values and freezing point depression using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The precision of the results suggests that TG is a suitable technique to determine moisture content in biological samples. The average water content values for fish samples of Lutjanus synagris and Ocyurus chrysurus species were 76.4 ± 5.7% and 63.3 ± 3.9%, respectively, while that of Ulva lactuca marine algae species was 76.0 ± 4.4%. The method presented here was also successfully applied to determine water activity in two species of fish and six species of marine algae collected in the Atlantic coastal waters of Bahia, in Brazil. Water activity determined in fish samples ranged from 0.946 - 0.960 and was consistent with values reported in the literature, i.e., 0.9 - 1.0. The water activity values determined in marine algae samples lay within the interval of 0.974 - 0.979.
2016 WHO GLOBAL GUIDELINES FOR THE PREVENTION OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION: A NEW STEP TO IMPROVE PATIENT'S SAFETY BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER SURGERY

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are among the most preventable health-care-associated infections and are a substantial burden to health-care systems and service payers worldwide in terms of patient morbidity, mortality, and additional costs. SSI prevention is complex and requires the integration of a range of measures before, during, and after surgery. No international guidelines are available and inconsistencies in the interpretation of evidence and recommendations of national guidelines have been identified. Given the burden of SSIs worldwide, the numerous gaps in evidence-based guidance, and the need for standardisation and a global approach, WHO decided to prioritise the development of evidence-based recommendations for the prevention of SSIs. The guidelines take into account the balance between benefits and harms, the evidence quality, cost and resource use implications, and patient values and preferences. On the basis of systematic literature reviews and expert consensus, we present 23 recommendations on preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative preventive measures. The WHO recommendations were developed with a global perspective and they take into account the balance between benefits and harms, the evidence quality level, cost and resource use implications, and patient values and preferences.
Incorporating fungal community ecology into invasion biology : challenges and opportunities

Associate Professor Ashley E Franks is head of the Applied and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory at La Trobe University. He conducted his doctorate research as part of the Centre of Marine Biofouling and Bioinnovation at the University of New South Wales by investigating antifungal compounds produced by marine bacteria in biofilms. During his PhD he spent 4 months at the University of Exeter in the UK on an Adrian Lee Fellowship to develop dual bacterial/yeast biofilm systems. On graduating he moved to theBiomerit ResearchCentre in Cork, Ireland towork on bacterial plant interactions as a Government of Ireland Fellow in Science Technology and Engineering. This research looked at how to use bacteria to help plant growth. He then took a position as a Senior Scientist and Research Professor within the Geobacter Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the USA where he worked on microbes that make electricity. He currently serves as the Chair of the Awards Committee for the International Society of Microbial Electrochemical Technology and was previously the Secretary of Synthetic Biology Australasia.
Active learning approach in Moodle for the organization of student’s self-study practice-based learning activities

Nowadays e-learning tools and delivery methods have been constantly expanding. Employs use e-learning to train their employees more often and often. New and experienced employees have the opportunity to improve upon their knowledge base and expand their skill sets. At home, individuals are granted the access to the programs that provided them with the ability to earn online degrees and enrich their lives through the expanded knowledge. The paper focuses on the analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of e- learning. The ways of applying on-line training used by employers are demonstrated. The experience of implementing active methods of e-learning is described as well as the conclusion about the possibility of their application is made. The paper also presents the results of the survey conducted among TPU teacher and students concerning the advisability of e-learning usage.
A DETERMINISTIC METHOD FOR THE MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES AND ITS APPLICATION TO POSE DETECTION FOR MAGNETIC-ASSISTED MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

In this work we present a Pattern Search optimizer, which being a deterministic method enjoys provable convergence properties. Furthermore, we develop alternatives and extensions of the standard deterministic method, and innovative hybrid algorithms merging the the Pattern Search with some stochastic approaches. Finally, we apply this method to a real case problem for the pose detection for magnetic-assisted medical applications in order to optimize the performance of the device
Studies on the interaction between substances derived from pathogens and an antimicrobial peptide tachyplesin I

5 General Introduction . 7 Part I : Interaction between tachyplesin I, an antimicrobial peptide derived from horseshoe crab, and lipopolysaccharide. 28 I-1 Abstract. 29 I-2 Introduction . 30 I-3 Materials and Methods . 32 I-4 Results . 35 I-5 Discussion . 41 I-6 References. 44 Part II : Chitin-binding site of tachyplesin I, an antimicrobial peptide of horseshoe crab. 58 II-1 Abstract . 59 II-2 Introduction . 60
Effects of nanowire coalescence on their structural and optical properties on a local scale

The effects of GaN nanowire coalescence have been investigated on a local scale by combining high-resolution transmission electron microscopy imaging with spatially resolved cathodoluminescence measurements. Coalescence induces the formation of a network of boundary dislocations, above which I1-type basal-plane stacking faults are nucleated. The former contributes to the reduction in the crystalline quality at the bottom of coalesced nanowires while the latter leads to intense excitonic radiative transitions at 3.42 eV in their center. Despite coalescence, the top of coalesced nanowires presents a very high crystalline quality, resulting in strong radiative recombinations of donor bound excitons at 3.47 eV.
Holographic k -string tensions in higher representations and Lüscher term universality

We investigate a holographic description of k-strings in higher representations via D5 branes with worldvolume fluxes. The D-brane configurations are embedded in supergravity backgrounds dual to confining field theories in 3 and 4 dimensions. We compute the tensions and find qualitative agreement for the totally symmetric and totally anti-symmetric representations with the results of other methods such as lattice as well as the Hamiltonian approach of Karabali and Nair. A one-loop computation on the D-brane configurations yields the Luescher term and allows us to confirm a previously proposed universal expression following from holography.
Simulation of electromagnetic fields scattered from arbitrary shaped electric conductors

A. Marek, K.A. Avramidis, S.M. Copplestone, N.S. Ginzburg, S. Illy, J. Jelonnek, J. Jin, S.V. Mishakin, A. -S. Müller, P. Ortwein, M. Thumm IHM, IHE, IBPT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technoloy (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, alexander.marek@kit.edu Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (IAPRAS), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Institute of Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Supporting Web Search by Using Zoomable Interface to Present Relativity

Web search is important in information retrieval applications, which is widely supported as online service by some well known search engines, such as Google and Yahoo! However they are only running following the traditional interface which is not visualizable. To focus on this weak point, we proposed a visualized Web search supporting method and implemented a nice interface to suggest user related words to search keywords.
Consumers preferences towards meat and meat products with traceability systems in Klang Valley, Malaysia

Nowadays, consumers’ concerns towards food safety have significantly increasing and they tend to generally aware about their health. This concern has become particularly serious because of food scandal and countless cases that happened around the world. These scandals lead to negative effect and perception to consumers, food companies and also both supply and demand chain. There are a lot of strategies by agriculture food industries to increase food safety such as developed and implemented traceability systems among consumers. However, the awareness level towards traceability system among Malaysian consumers was low. The aim of this research is to determine consumers’ preferences towards meat and meat products with traceability systems in Klang Valley, Malaysia. This study was based on a quantitative approach and the primary data were collected using structured questionnaire via face to face interview with 503 respondents. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive analysis and chi square analysis. The results of the study indicated that majority of the consumers prefer to use traceability systems and they think traceability systems are important when buying meat and meat products. In addition, the results of chi-square analysis revealed that socio-demographics profile such as gender, race, marital status, educational level, income and household size has an association with respondent’s preferences towards meat and meat products with traceability systems. Traceability systems have the potential to be implemented if the government, meat producers, marketers, and retailers have a better understanding towards preference of consumers towards meat and meat products with traceability systems . It also allows them to start planning for the implementation of traceability system in near future as a strategy to improve their service which in line with the increasing of food safety awareness among consumers.