Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Characteristic Polynomial Realisation of Positive 2D Hybrid Linear Systems

In this paper, the new method of the determination of entries of the state matrices of the positive twodimensional hybrid linear systems using multidimensional digraphs theory D(n) has been presented. For the proposed method parallel computing algorithm was constructed. Algorithm is based on GPGPU (General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units) computing method to gain needed speed and computational power for such solution. Proposed method discussed and illustrated by numerical examples. Proposed solution allows digraphs construction for any positive twodimensional system, regardless of their complexity.
Development and studies on a gluten free, liquid suspension based on quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)

The aim of this project was to develop and make studies on a liquid suspension based on quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa). Quinoa is an Andean pseudo-cereal from South America that is considered to be gluten free. A screening was set up to standardize the method for making a beverage. The standardization included trying different quinoa grains, mixing techniques, heat treatment, additives, enzyme treatment and types of filtration. As a reference, a plant based beverage from oats was used in order to achieve the same viscosity, pH, dry matter and palatability in the quinoa beverage. Another pseudo-cereal, canahua (Chenopodium pallidicaule) was also used for preparation of beverage, however the main focus was on the quinoa beverage. Quinoa beverage was analyzed chemically and with other meas-urements such pH, viscosity and dry matter. A scale up was performed and the palatability of the beverage was evaluated with a sensory test of acceptance with 61 untrained participants. The results showed that making a quinoa beverage has potential and it is possible to achieve, same parameters as the reference beverage, the oat beverage. The high protein content was confirmed. Result from the scale up showed that the enzymes increased the sugar formation and the sweetness of the beverage. The test of acceptance showed that the quinoa beverage had a score of 5.5 on the hedonic scale, which is between, Neither like nor dislike and Like slightly. This is lower than the score for the oat beverage which received a score of 7.3. Due to this the taste can be improved in order to produce a product that is accepted by consumers.
Pengaruh Ekstrak Daun Bungur (Lagerstroemia speciosa) terhadap Penurunan Glukosa Darah pada Tikus Putih Strain Wistar. Latar Belakang : Jumlah penderita diabetes melitus di Indonesia mengalami peningkatan yang nyata. Saat ini berkembang pengobatan dengan bahan-bahan alam salah satunya daun bungur. D

The Effect of Bungur Leaves Extract (Langerstroemia speciosa) to Decrease the Blood Glucose Level of White Rats Strain Wistar. Background : The number of diabetes mellitus patients in Indonesia has noticeable increase. Nowadays, the treatment using herbal materials is developing, one of them is bungur leaf. Bungur leaf contains carosolic acid and ellagitanis that are able to decrease the blood glucose level in diabetic patients.Objective : Proved the effect of Bungur leaf extract (Lagerstroemia speciosa) to decrease blood glucose level of white rats strain wistar that induced by streptozotocin and nikotinamide.Method : True experiment with The Pre Post Control Group Design. The strain wistar samples were divided into 3 groups. Group I: positive control with streptozotocin and nikotinamide injection, group II: injected streptozotocin and nikotinamide and 0,3 mg/150 gr bw/day bungur leaf extract, and group III: injected with streptozotocin and nikotinamide and 1,5 mg/150 gr bw/day bungur leaf extract. Data were analyzed by one way Anova and linier regression test. Result and Discussion : One way Anova test showed significant effect among treatment group. The 5% tukey test result showed there was different notation from each groups which meant each group had the differences at blood glucose level. Correlation test showed pearsons correlation = 0,914. Regression test showed R2 = 0,835 Conclussion : Bungur leaf extract (Lagerstroemia speciosa) administration influences the lowering of blood glucose level.
Research on a Method and Case of Users' Participation in Product Innovative Design

According to the features of abundance, diversification and short-period in consumer product innovative design, an efficient method of users’ participation in product innovative design was put forward: Percolating the professional users by analyzing online comments to products; Requiring the experiences and recommendations from professional users by online interaction; Promoting the efficiency and competitiveness of product innovative design by the online collaborative design between enterprise R&D staffs and professional users. Finally, the existing cases are analyzed. Keywords-product innovation; design methodology; user screening; online interaction
Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiac Preventive Care: Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceived Barriers

Metabolic syndrome (MetSyn), a clustering of specific risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, is considered a growing worldwide epidemic. Effective cardiac preventive care requires nurses to know about the risk factors, assessment components and management of MetSyn. This study aimed to examine the metabolic syndrome knowledge level of registered nurses and explore their attitudes and perceived barriers towards related cardiac preventive care. Three hundred and twenty four nurses completed the questionnaires. Findings suggested that while nurses possessed an understanding of MetSyn risk factors and management goals, knowledge on its diagnostic components and therapeutic lifestyle intervention was insufficient. Nurses’ positive attitudes towards their role in providing MetSyn related cardiac preventive care were revealed. However, nurses generally felt that the major barrier to fulfilling this intended role is their inadequate knowledge.
Directional Pattern Analysis of a Linear Phased Antenna

An antenna array is a system compound from simply radiators (dipoles, microstrip antennas), that together form desired radiation pattern. Phased array antennas consist of multiple stationary antenna elements, that are fed coherently and use variable phase or time-delay control at each element to scan a beam to given angles in space. Variable amplitude control is sometimes also provided for antenna pattern shaping.
The interface between bilingual development and specific language impairment

ABSTRACT Research at the interface of bilingual development and child language disorders has increased greatly in the past decade. The purpose of this article is to highlight the theoretical and clinical implications of this research. Studies examining the similarities in linguistic characteristics between typically developing sequential bilingual children and monolingual children with specific language impairment (SLI) the same age are reviewed in light of predictions from a maturational model of SLI. Studies examining the linguistic characteristics of bilingual children with SLI compared to monolinguals with SLI and their bilingual peers with typical development are reviewed in light of predictions of limited processing capacity theories of SLI. It is shown that data from bilingual children pose interesting challenges to both theoretical perspectives, although in different ways. Finally, the findings from this research are discussed in terms of their relevance for assessment of SLI in bilingual children.
Durham E-Theses Randomised Algorithms on Networks

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING SCIENCES Doctor of Philosophy Randomised Algorithms on Networks by Sepehr Meshkinfamfard Networks form an indispensable part of our lives. In particular, computer networks have ranked amongst the most influential networks in recent times. In such an everevolving and fast growing network, the primary concern is to understand and analyse different aspects of the network behaviour, such as the quality of service and efficient information propagation. It is also desirable to predict the behaviour of a large computer network if, for example, one of the computers is infected by a virus. In all of the aforementioned cases, we need protocols that are able to make local decisions and handle the dynamic changes in the network topology. Here, randomised algorithms are preferred because many deterministic algorithms often require a central control. In this thesis, we investigate three network-based randomised algorithms, threshold load balancing with weighted tasks, the Pull-Moran process and the coalescing-branching random walk. Each of these algorithms has extensive applicability within networks and computational complexity within computer science. In this thesis we investigate threshold-based load balancing protocols. We introduce a generalisation of protocols in [2, 3] to weighted tasks. This thesis also analyses an evolutionary-based process called the death-birth update, defined here as the Pull-Moran process. We show that a class of strong universal amplifiers does not exist for the Pull-Moran process. We show that any class of selective amplifiers in the (standard) Moran process is a class of selective suppressors under the Pull-Moran process. We then introduce a class of selective amplifiers called punk graphs. Finally, we improve the broadcasting time of the Cobra walk analysed in [4], for random regular graphs. Here, we look into the Cobra approach as a randomised rumour spreading protocol.
Search for Supersymmetry in Final States with a Single Lepton , B-jets and 6 E T at CMS

Searches for new physics in states with third generation quarks at the Large Hadron Collider are motivated by various extensions of the Standard Model (SM). Among these, supersymmetric models are regarded as attractive as they resolve the hierarchy problem and may yield the unification of the electroweak and strong interactions. Supersymmetry (SUSY) (see e.g. [1]) predicts that for each Standard Model particle there exists a partner particle (sparticle) with identical gauge quantum numbers, but a spin differing by 1/2. Assuming R-parity conservation, sparticles are produced in pairs and their decay chains terminate with the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), which is stable. In proton-proton collisions predominantly colored sparticles will be produced. In scenarios with light top and bottom squarks this may result in an excess of events with a large b-jet multiplicity. The analysis outlined in the following is based on data recorded at the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of of √ s = 7TeV during 2011, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.96 fb. The complete CMS publication and a description of the CMS detector can be found elsewhere [2, 3].
Factors Affecting Susceptibility of the Coral Montastraea faveolata to Black-Band Disease.

Black-band disease affects many species of tropical reef-building corals, but it is unclear what factors contribute to the disease-susceptibility of individual corals or how the disease is transmitted between colonies. Studies have suggested that the ability of black-band disease to infect coral is enhanced by different stressors. We examined the effect of both water temperature and mechanical injury on the ability of this disease to infect the reef coral Montastraea faveolata, and investigated the possibility of an interaction between the 2 stressors. Under laboratory conditions, Phormidium corallyticum was able to successfully invade all injured fragments but no uninjured fragments of M. faveolata, irrespective of temperature regime. We also determined whether the local coral-feeding butterflyfish Chaetodon capistratus was involved in the inter-colony transfer of black-band disease. In aquaria, the presence of C. capistratus increased the rate at which the disease spread from infected to non-infected fragments of M. faveolata. Both corals that were protected from and those that were exposed to fish predation contracted the disease. Hence, either direct oral transmission of the pathogen from colony to colony and/or indirect fecal transmission could be occurring. Variables such as potential stressors and/or disease vectors on a reef could contribute to the patterns of black-band disease observed in the field.
Pedagogical Review of Quantum Measurement Theory with an Emphasis on Weak Measurements

The quantum theory of measurement has been with us since quantum mechanics was invented. It has recently been invigorated, partly due to the increasing interest in quantum information science. In this partly pedagogical review I attempt to give a self-contained overview of non-relativistic quantum theory of measurement expressed in density matrix formalism. I will not dwell on the applications in quantum information theory; it is well covered by several books in that field. The focus is instead on applications to the theory of weak measurement, as developed by Aharonov and collaborators. Their development of weak measurement combined with what they call post-selection - judiciously choosing not only the initial state of a system ( pre-selection ) but also its final state - has received much attention recently. Not the least has it opened up new, fruitful experimental vistas, like novel approaches to amplification. But the approach has also attached to it some air of mystery. I will attempt to demystify it by showing that (almost) all results can be derived in a straight-forward way from conventional quantum mechanics. Among other things, I develop the formalism not only to first order but also to second order in the weak interaction responsible for the measurement. I apply it to the so called Leggett-Garg inequalities, also known as Bell inequalities in time . I also give an outline, even if rough, of some of the ingenious experiments that the work by Aharonov and collaborators has inspired. As an application of weak measurement, not related to the approach by Aharonov and collaborators, the formalism also allows me to derive the master equation for the density matrix of an open system in interaction with an environment. An issue that remains in the weak measurement plus post-selection approach is the interpretation of the so called weak value of an observable. Is it a bona fide property of the system considered? I have no definite answer to this question; I shall only exhibit the consequences of the proposed interpretation. Quanta 2013; 2: 18–49.
The ectomycorrhizal fungus Tricholoma matsutake is capable of facultative saprotrophy.

We studied carbon acquisition in Tricholoma matsutake by combining morphological, chemical and enzymatic experiments conducted both in the laboratory and natural setting. Associations between host plants and isolates of T. matsutake from Finland (2) and Japan (1) were confirmed via in vitro formation of ectomycorrhizae (ECM). Chemical properties and enzyme-activity rates were determined for samples of mycelia-soil aggregation (shiro) collected from sites of sporocarp formation and nearby control spots. Annual growth and seasonal changes in tissue and ECM health were monitored in a natural population of matsutake. Finally, several organic substrates were evaluated as the sole carbon source for T. matsutake growing in vitro and according to the most active enzymes in the shiro. Matsutake formed typical ECM with the conifers Pinus sylvestris and Picea abies but did not form associations with Silver Birch (Betula pendula). Finnish isolates formed ECM on both conifers but the Japanese strain was less compatible, with only a partial Hartig net being observed in P. sylvestris. Saprotrophic feeding of the Japanese isolate was observed in culture with P. abies. Preferred organic carbon sources and enzyme activities in vitro corresponded to those observed in the shiro. Enzyme assays confirmed the presence and increased production of organic carbon degradation related enzymes during sporocarp formation, when ECM root tips were necrotic. Mycelial growth on culture media consisting of complex polysaccharides was similar to that composed of simple sugars (e.g., glucose). In addition to its typical life strategy as an ECM symbiont, results suggest that T. matsutake can exist as a saprotroph.
Rehabilitation Programme to Promote Task Relearning and Generalisation after Stroke: A Review of Literature

Background and Purpose: The relearning of functional skills following a stroke is an essential part of the rehabilitation process. Rehabilitation post stroke may facilitate an individual to return to independent living. However, the skills learnt during this process do not necessarily transfer to the skills required for daily functioning. This review addresses the issue of generalisation of skills learnt by discussing the connectionist model. Summary of Review: Connectionism models how the human brain functions and stipulates that the units in an input layer feed their activations forward to the units in the hidden layer for interpretation and then to the output layer for execution. These units are connected and distributed in a connectionist network. The activation of clusters of units in retrained tasks will provide signals to other different but connected tasks that have not been retrained. Adopting the concept of the connectionist model, the relearning of tasks after brain damage enhances the relearnt skills by transferring them to other tasks that share similar units within the same connectionist network, resulting in generalisation. Research evidence has shown that the strategies of self-regulation and mental imagery further enhance the relearning and generalisation of skills among people with brain damage. By identifying a list of daily tasks that fall within a connectionist network and the appropriate use of training strategies, the skills developed during the rehabilitation process could lead to effective task generalisation to suit the needs of independent living and community re-integration of the individual. Conclusions: The Connectionist Model provides a theoretical base for developing evidence-based interventions throughout the acute, rehabilitation and community phases. The Connectionist Model is the theory by which the cognitive skills learned to perform one particular behaviour, or skill, are transferable to executing other similar skills or beahviours without specifically relearning those skills or behaviours.
A Brief History of Curating New Media Art: Conversations with Curators

This book of interviews tracks the work of curators in the field of new media art in order to consider the massive changes and developments over a relatively short period of time. They are also a celebration of the ten years that the online resource for curators of new media art, CRUMB, has been publishing interviews and other research. The curators featured in this book range across the contemporary arts. They have been working away, not in the centre or the periphery, but in the nodes of this networked field of new media art. A Brief History of Curating New Media Art - Conversations with Curators was edited by Sarah Cook, Beryl Graham, verina Gfader and Axel Lapp. It contains interviews with Sarah Cook & Beryl Graham; Peter Weibel; Barbara London; Christiane Paul; Larry Rinder; Kathy Rae Huffman & Julie Lazar; Benjamin Weil; Liliane Schneiter, Yves Mettler & Anne-Julie Raccoursier; Liane Davison; Nathalie Angles & Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria; Matthew Higgs; Magdalena Sawon & Tamas Banovich; Steve Dietz; Rudolf Frieling
Declaring, shepherding, managing: The welfare state ethos in Finnish government programmes, 1950-2015

This study is concerned with the Finnish government’s political programmes (N=42) from the 1950s to the present. Its objective is to examine how conceptions of the welfare state have changed over the past 65 years. The analysis concentrates on the social and health care sectors as indicators of the content and nature of the ambitions set for the welfare system by the highest political leadership. The programmes were examined for their aims, character and concepts. The governments’ changing position towards its welfare political mandate emerges in three distinct periods: 1) 1950 through the 1970s, when the welfare state was being constructed; 2) the 1980s and 1990s, as the concept was further developed and internally synchronized; and 3) 2000 to 2015, a time of increasing estrangement from universal notions. The study shows that as late as 2014, the welfare state’s aims of inclusion and universalism were dramatically toned down to an absolute minimum in the government programmes. The article shows that in contemporary times, the coalition government system may have strengthened the welfare state ethos. This is a finding of great significance for a structural-political perspective on the support of welfare state ideas.
Middle Paleozoic subduction belts: The leading factor in the formation of the Central Asian fold-and-thrust belt

The Paleozoic fold-and-thrust belt, confined between the European, Siberian, Tarim, and North China Precambrian continents, results from a complex evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. At the end of the Ordovician, the Kazakhstan-Kyrghyz continent, originating from the accretion of island arcs and Gondwanan continental fragments, divided the Paleo-Asian Ocean into four oceanic basins, Uralian, Turkestan, Junggar- Balkhash, and Ob-Zaisan. The Middle to Late Paleozoic history of these oceanic basins, which closed completely in the terminal Carboniferous to Permian, is portrayed in eight detailed, 1:10,000,000 scale, palinspastic reconstructions for the Early Silurian (430 Ma), Early Devonian (Emsian, 390 Ma), Middle Devonian (Givetian, 380 Ma), Late Devonian (Famennian, 360 Ma), Early Carboniferous (late Visean to Serpukhovian, 330 Ma), early Late Carboniferous (305 Ma), Early Permian (280 Ma), and Late Permian (255 Ma) time slices. These reconstructions draw on 1:2,500,000 scale sedimentologic-paleogeographic maps and paleomagnetic measurements from ancient continents and Variscan orogenic zones of the Urals, Kazakhstan, Tien Shan, Junggaria, and Altay. The shrinking and collision-induced closure of the oceans were ensured by the three large and long-lived (100- 130 m.y.) Urals-Tien Shan, Junggar, and Siberian subduction belts, spanning thousands of kilometers, whose polarities remained stable. The belts were represented by systems of roughly parallel and branching subduction zones, each with a 10-30 m.y. lifespan, plunging beneath the Kazakhstan-Kyrghyz and Siberian continents. Taken together, they constituted a system that diverged in a southwesterly direction and ensured dierential rotations of the European, Siberian, and Kazakhstan-Kyrghyz continents. The Urals-Turkestan belt began to form at the beginning of the Silurian, and the Siberian and Junggar belts, at the beginning of the Devonian. The subduction belts ceased to exist as they were crushed between continents during a general collision that set on in the second half of the Devonian and in which the Junggar belt became involved prior to the beginning of the Permian. Geologic and paleomagnetic evidence points to oblique motions of oceanic plates being consumed in the subduction belts and, accordingly, to an oblique collision in the Urals and South Tien Shan foldbelts that propagated through time and space to finally give rise to large-scale post-collisional lengthwise strike slips. We believe the subduction belts to be surface manifestations of descending mantle convection flows that drove the long-lasting sinking of oceanic plates into the mantle.