Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Review on Tensor Factorization with Recommender Systems

: In the world of the internet, social media is referred as an important section of technological backgrounds. Each user has its own content on social media which represents its participation and involvement in information system development. Participation anticipates involvements which further established a relationship of the user with the system. Prediction and analysis of user activities from various domains have become a significant part of our system accounting their credibility, security, and other issues etc. for upcoming decisions. Predicting user activity is important and so on is the challenging and recommended task to analyze social media based on current technical terms or means in just a blink of an eye time period. Various techniques and methods have been outlined that predicts user activities in accordance with the maintenance of its credibility in every cyber norm. Recommender systems and Tensor Factorization are among one of those techniques that are used to predict, the higher-order relationships among various user activities. Both the techniques have managed to mark their virtue in predicting accuracy, ambiguity, scalability, flexibility, interpretability, speed, etc. This paper is a briefly reviewed survey of various works implicated in and thorough knowledge of this field.
A Hybrid Simulation Based on Multi-Objective Algorithm for Manufacturing Cells Optimization

This paper presents a hybrid simulation based on multi-objective algorithm for creation and optimization of manufacturing cells; these cells are created by using the principle of group technology with binary matrices. The algorithm used in this paper is the NSGA-II using a seed made by a modified ART neural network, the NSGA-II algorithm is used to maximize the final inventory, minimize the WIP, and minimize the movement time in order to create an optimized cells, after that, the best solution is compared using simulation against the original matrices, the cell formation given by and modify ART neural network and the NSGA-II algorithm without the seed. The solution given by the hybrid NSGA-II algorithm gives superiors solutions when the seed is used.
An Approach to Develop Handwritten Signature Verification System Using Genetic Algorithm

The fact that signature is widely used means of person authentication emphasizes the need for automatic verification system. This paper presents a new approach for signature verification. The proposed system aims to collect representative and unique features to distinguish between digital signature images. The comparison process between testing signature and the stored signatures is optimized using Genetic Algorithm. Our experimental results give a good balance between False Acceptance Rate (FAR) and False Rejection Rate (FRR).
CHARACTERIZING FIRM NONEXPANSIVENESS OF PROX MAPPINGS BOTH LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY

The prox mappings for convex functions that were introduced by Moreau have achieved wide importance as a tool in optimization theory and numerical methodology, but what can be said about prox mappings for nonconvex functions? Can the key property of being firmly nonexpansive carry over to some degree in the absence of convexity, if not globally at least locally? Such questions are answered in a framework of finite-dimensional variational analysis in which proximal subgradients can be utilized. On the global level convexity turns out to be essential, while on the local level variational convexity is sufficient but not necessary unless the function is prox-regular.
STEPPER MOTOR DRIVEN INVERTED PENDULUM CONTROLLED BY MATLAB/SIMULINK

Mathematical modeling of scientific and technical problems is very suitable tool for analysis and design of real plants or devices. But there can appear many additional problems in construction of a real device which we are not able to consider in advance when we use only mathematical model. This paper shows shortly the design of Matlab/Simulink mathematical model of an inverted pendulum and construction of low-cost real device, controlled by Matlab/Simulink. Authors compare differences between theory and real plant and describe basic control system designed for real inverted pendulum
Resistance to Glyphosate in Junglerice (Echinochloa colona) from California

Abstract A suspected glyphosate-resistant (R) junglerice population was collected from a glyphosate-R corn field near Durham in northern California where glyphosate had been applied at least twice a year for over 6 yr. Based on the amount of glyphosate required to reduce growth by 50% (ED50), the R population was 6.6 times more R than the susceptible (S) standard population. Based on the glyphosate concentration that inhibits EPSPS by 50% based on shikimate accumulation (I50) in leaf discs, R plants were four times more R than S plants. By 3 d after treatment with 0.42 kg ae ha−1 glyphosate, the S population had accumulated approximately five times more shikimate than the R population. No differences in [14C]-glyphosate uptake and translocation were detected between R and S plants. However, partial sequencing of the EPSPS gene revealed a mutation in R plants causing a proline to serine change at EPSPS position 106 (P106S). Our results reveal the first case of a P106S target site mutation associated with glyphosate resistance in junglerice. Nomenclature: Glyphosate; junglerice, Echinochloa colona (L.) Link.
Quartz Transducer Modeling for Development of BAW R esonators

Transducer optimization is a key aspect for successful development and deployment of advanced sensors, especially when designing 3D structures for harsh environments. For piezoelectric transducers, plate thickness determines the operating frequency of the resonator, which is frequently tuned in the shear thickness vibration mode. Quartz has been the material of choice for the fabrication of bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices, which are used for measurement of many quantities, such as, temperature, pressure, acceleration, mass. All the required steps to simulate the shear thickness vibration mode for quartz bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices are presented in both, two and three dimensions. Different crystal cuts are analyzed, including the AT-cut. The simulation was carried out with COMSOL Multiphysics version 4.2a.
Growth and Hematological changes of commercial birds fed on blood meal supplement with water

The experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of blood meal supplement on growth performance and hematological parameters changes in broiler chicks. The experiment was carried out with 40 selected homogenous sex and weight broiler chicks having 10 for each group. The lay out of the study was conducted with control group A, fed only with standard commercial broiler ration and other groups viz. B, C, and D were fed with standard commercial ration in addition to 2.5 %, 5.0 %, and 7.5% blood meal supplement with water respectively for 15 days (21 st to 35 th days of age). The activities of broiler chicks, growth performance, weight loss or gain and any kind of abnormalities were closely observed in every day and the body weight was recorded at 7 days interval. During feeding of blood meal all treated groups were found increased body weight at different level.The blood meal supplied to the broiler chicks increased the growth performance that was directly proportional to the rate of blood meal supplement with water, because the ration was fixed for every group. In hematological observations, TEC, Hb concentration and PCV were decreased but rapid decreasing occurs in group (B) that was statistically significant (P<0.05). In this experiment during feeding of blood meal no clinical symptoms were found markedly. But slight symptoms occur when fed 7.5 % blood meal.The data were analyzed by least significance difference (LSD) with a compute program SPSS-11.50 (Statistical packages for social sciences). Keywords: Blood meal; Hematological parameters; Growth performance DOI: 10.3329/jbau.v6i2. 4829 J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 6(2): 321-326, 2008
The Sequence Prediction Model of Latent Variable Conditional Random Fields

—This paper concentrates on the labeling of sequences and introduces a latent model of CRFs. The latent variable conditional random ﬁeld uses a latent variable encoding scheme to record the latent structure of hidden variables and observation data. Our proposed model is evaluated on three tasks of sequence prediction, including recognition of the name (NER), chunking, and reference parsing. Experimental results indicate a latent variable in the proposed model and provide competitive and solid performance on all three sequence predictions.
THE MITOTIC APPARATUS

The major 22S protein of the hexylene glycol-isolated mitotic apparatus has been characterized from spindle isolates and extracts of whole eggs and acetone powders of eggs from the sea urchins Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, and Arbacia punctulata. The protein is free of nucleotide, lipid, and ATPase activity. Essentially identical in amino acid composition, proteins from these species show a relatively high content of glutamic and aspartic acids and are fairly rich in hydrophobic amino acids. Optical rotatory dispersion studies indicate a helical content of about 20%, a value consistent with the proline content of the protein. The purified proteins have sedimentation rates in the range of 22–24S, diffusion constants of 2.4–2.5F, intrinsic viscosities of 3.7–4.3 ml/g, a partial specific volume of 0.74, and an average molecular weight of 880,000. Electron microscopy indicates a globular molecule with dimensions of approximately 150 by 200 A; such size and symmetry are consistent with hydrodynamic measurements. The 22S protein yields 6–7S, 9–10S, and 13–14S subunits below pH 4 or above pH 11. The 13–14S component has an estimated molecular weight of 600,000–700,000. A 5–6S particle is formed in 8 M urea or 5 M guanidine hydrochloride, while at pH 12 the 6–7S subunit is seen; each particle has a molecular weight of 230,000–240,000. In 8 M urea plus 2% mercaptoethanol or at pH 13, the molecular weight becomes 105,000–120,000; under these conditions the particle sediments at 2.5–3S and 4S, respectively. On the basis of these molecular weights, the 6–7S, 9–10S, 13–14S, and the parent 22S particle should be dimer, tetramer, hexamer, and octamer, respectively, of the 105,000–120,000 molecular weight subunit. The various subunits will reform the 22S particle when returned to neutral buffer, with the exception of the mercaptoethanol-treated urea subunit where breakage of disulfide bonds results in a polydisperse aggregate. The 22S particle itself is not susceptible to sulfhydryl reagents, implying either that the disulfide bonds are inaccessible or that they are unnecessary for maintenance of tertiary structure once the 22S particle has formed from subunits.
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Macrovascular Invasion.

BACKGROUND In patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), macrovascular invasion (MVI) is associated with a poor prognosis. The purpose of this study is to describe long-term outcomes of patients with HCC and MVI treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). METHODS Patients with HCC and MVI who were treated with SBRT from January 2003 to December 2016 were analyzed. Patients who had extrahepatic disease or previous liver transplant were excluded. Demographical, clinical, and treatment variables were analyzed. RESULTS 128 eligible patients with HCC and MVI were treated with SBRT. Median age was 60.5 years (39 to 90 years). Baseline Child-Pugh (CP) score was A5 in 67%, A6 in 20%. Median SBRT dose was 33.3 Gy (range: 27 to 54 Gy) in 5 fractions. Local control at 1 year was 87.4% (95% CI 78.6 to 96.1%). Median overall survival (OS) was 18.3 months (95% CI 11.2 to 21.4 months); ECOG performance status >1 (HR:1.85, p=0.0138) and earlier treatment era (HR: 2.20, p=0.0015) were associated with worsening OS. In 43 patients who received sorafenib following SBRT, median OS was 37.9 months (95% CI 19.5 to 54.4 months). Four patients developed GI bleeding possibly related to SBRT at 2 to 8 months, and 27% (31/112 evaluable patients) had worsening of CP class at three months after SBRT. CONCLUSIONS SBRT was associated with encouraging outcomes for patients with HCC and MVI, especially in those patients who received sorafenib after SBRT. Randomized phase III trials of SBRT with systemic and/or regional therapy are warranted and ongoing.
ICT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH – NEW EVIDENCE FROM INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS –

This paper follows up on previous OECD work for the 2001 and 2002 OECD Ministerial meetings. It was concluded that information and communications technology (ICT) was among the key factors explaining growth differentials in the OECD area in the 1990s, and that ICT had the potential to contribute to more rapid growth in the future. The current paper examines whether ICT is still important now the hype of the new economy is over. It differs from previous OECD work as it considers, firstly, a range of questions that were not explicitly addressed before. For example, why have some OECD countries invested more in ICT than others? What factors help firms in seizing the benefits from ICT? How precisely does ICT affect firm performance? And what policies should governments undertake to help firms benefit from ICT? The paper also differs from previous work as it is based on a broad set of new data and empirical studies. The study incorporates new evidence from official statistics on the use of ICT by firms, which were not available before. It draws on new empirical results with official firm-level statistics that was carried out through an OECD-led team of researchers and statistical offices in 13 OECD countries, thus complementing the sectoral and aggregate analysis undertaken previously. And it draws, to the extent possible, on the latest available data to examine the contribution of ICT to growth performance in recent years.
LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF A TRANSIENT SPOILER DEPLOYMENT IN A NACA0012 PROFILE IN SUBSONIC AND TRANSONIC SPEEDS

Spoilers can be used in airfoils to control the lift and drag forces at different speed ranges. In aircrafts, they can be used at low subsonic speed for landing or also to produces controlled stall conditions at transonic fighting speeds. Spoilers are also used as active systems of load control for wind turbines. The immersed flow conditions, the spoiler and airfoil geometry and the relative movement are important variables to be considered in such situation. The lift and drag forces acting along the deployment can achieve a higher pick value than the full deployed condition or a distinct aerodynamic phenomenon can take place, highlighting the need of investigating the transient motion. Particularly, turbulence, compressibility and the motion are the main difficulties of such simulations. For the consideration of turbulence and compressible effects, Large Eddy Simulation (LES) combined with the Characteristic-Based Split scheme (CBS) is used in this work. A compressible dynamic Smagorinsky model is employed for the compressible LES model and the CBS scheme is employed in a Finite Element Method (FEM) context for space and time discretization using unstructured meshes. The relative movement of the spoiler is performed using Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation techniques. An accurate mesh adaptation scheme is frequently applied along the simulation including mesh refinement, mesh coarsening, edge or face swapping and a vertex smoothing technique in order to control the interpolation error and the mesh size. A feature-based error estimation is employed considering multi-scale and multi-metric intersection in order to capture turbulence effects. The combined use of mesh adaptation allows the control of the mesh quality along the simulation and the capture of local transient effects such as shock waves and eddies. The transient spoiler deployment in a NACA0012 profile is studied in this work for a Reynolds number of 350000. The subsonic case is compared with available experimental incompressible data and other numerical investigations. The transonic case is also here investigated, showing distinct aerodynamic effects such as buffeting and the presence of shocklets. The transient evaluation of the lift and drag coefficients are presented for the two cases and are important for the correct understanding and quantification of the developed aerodynamics effects.
Cuckoo Search Algorithm based Dynamic Parameter Adjustment Mechanism for Solving Global Optimization Problems

Cuckoo search algorithm CSA is a recent optimization algorithm of swarm intelligence, which has demonstrated powerful outcomes on many optimization issues. nevertheless, it has some limitations such as stuck in local optima and premature convergence especially When solving complicated problems of optimization. Also, the CSA parameters are static during generations time which lead to stuck in local optima and couldn’t find the best solutions. In this paper we proposed an improved standard cuckoo search algorithm based dynamic parameter adjustment mechanism called (CSDPA). The CSDPA presents two equation to update the parameters values of steps size and discovery probability during search process. The experiments are tested on ten conventional benchmark functions. Outcomes demonstrate the new CSDPA approach is outperform of the CSA and another CSA variants.
Unbalanced Voltage Compensation of Grid Integrated PV System with Fuzzy based Novel Seven Level Inverter

This paper describes a novel 7 level converter based PV grid integration during unbalanced grid condition. The proposed 7 level converter can reduce no. of power electronic devices required and power consumption also. The distorted components of +ve and –ve sequences are regulating by controlling the power injected by the PV in to grid to maintain voltage under balance. A fuzzy based controller is used to control the PV inverter. The combination of multi-level converter with fuzzy controller can reduce the voltage stresses and switching losses of devices. The proposed fuzzy logic controller (FLC) can reduces the time delays compared with proportional plus resonant controller during the dynamic conditions. The proposed 7 level converter with fuzzy controller reduces filtering requirements it can improves system performance to a greater extent.
Compact crossover based on artificial transmission line

This paper studies such microstrip device as crossover. The dimensions of this device were reduced by simple substitution of quarter-wave segments with an artificial transmission line consisting of a microstrip line with open-circuit stubs of various lengths connected to it. The entire design process was performed in AWR Design Environment 12 three-dimensional electrodynamic simulation software. A prototype with central frequency of 1000 MHz was produced based on the obtained calculations. Using the vector network analyzer, experimental dependencies were obtained. The obtained crossover surface area was reduced by 71% as compared to standard design.
A Comparison Study for Channel Capacity of MIMO Systems with Nakagami-M, Weibull, and Rice Distributions

-The growing interest in improving the performance and capacity of wireless communication systems has led to new approaches and solutions to solve the problems countered many operation scenarios and environments. Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) is one of these approaches which aimed to increase the spectral efficiency of the communication system besides numerous other advantages comparing to the traditional single antenna systems. This paper offers analyses and simulations to the behavior of MIMO system and its expected capacity for various channel distribution under flat fading. Several types of distributions (Nakagami-m, Weibull, and Rice) are considered with different parameters to generate the channel matrix and determine the capacity for several cases of antenna numbers in both transmitter and receiver sides.
PREPARATION OF ALUMINA (Al2O3) THIN FILMS BY SOL-GEL DIP COATING AND CHARACTERIZATION

Aluminium oxide (Al2O3) thin films are an outstanding ceramic material due to its excellent properties. Al2O3 thin films are deposited on Si (100) and quartz substrates using sol-gel dip coating technique. The films are deposited with 15 dips and the films are annealed at different temperatures such as 100°C, 200°C, 400°C and 6000C. The films are analysed using X-ray diffractometer (XRD) and double beam UV-Visible spectrophotometer to study the structural and optical properties. The XRD studies of the films deposited on Si (100) substrates annealed at 200°C, 400°C and 600°C showed the sharp peaks indicating the polycrystalline θ-Al2O3 of cubic structure, whereas the films deposited on quartz substrates indicated the formation of polycrystalline γ-Al2O3 of cubic structure with less intensity. The optical studies of the films on quartz substrates showed the absorbance ~ 265-205 nm wavelength indicating the bandgap of ~ 4.68 eV, 4.82 eV, 5.37 eV and 6.1 eV in the annealed temperature of 100°C, 200°C, 400°C and 600°C respectively. The transmittance of the films is ~90-95% depending on the annealed temperature. The effect of annealed temperature on the structural and optical properties of the Al2O3 films is investigated.
Design Low-Power and Area-Efficient Shift Register Using SSASPL Pulsed Latch

A shift register is the basic building block in a VLSI circuit. Shift registers are commonly used in many applications, such as digital filters, communication receivers and image processing ICs. This paper proposes a low-power and area-efficient shift register using pulsed latches. The area and power consumption are reduced by replacing flip-flops with pulsed latches. This method solves the timing problem between pulsed latches through the use of multiple non-overlap delayed pulsed clock signals instead of the conventional single pulsed clock signal. The shift register uses a small number of the pulsed clock signals by grouping the latches to several sub shifter registers and using additional temporary storage latches. A 128-bit shift register using pulsed latches was fabricated using a 65nm CMOS process with V DD = 1.0V. The proposed shift register saves area and power compared to the conventional shift register with flip-flops.
The Relationship between Creativity Domains and Academic Environment

An increasing awareness of the importance of fostering creativity in higher education is increasing. Universities have recognized the benefits of creativity to individuals and societies in the information age. Based on the psychometric approach and building on the creativity domains theory and the filed theory, this study developed a model to investigate the relationship between creativity domains and academic environment using structural equation modelling (SEM). The measurement model survives the validity and reliability test and the structural model has shown acceptable goodness of fit tests. The instruments were administered to 415 Malaysian undergraduate students. The study concludes that academic environments have a significant relationship with creativity domains and can theoretically enrich the current research of creativity assessment in higher education. This is an essential skill for students to develop, with implications both for their personal futures and for society as a whole.