Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Power optimization in partially shaded photovoltaic systems

Power-Volt characteristic of solar photovoltaic (PV) array exhibits non-linear behavior when exposes to uniform solar irradiance Maximum power point (MPP) tracking is challenging due to varying climatic conditions in solar photovoltaic (PV) system. Also, the tracking algorithm becomes more complicated due to the presence of multiple peaks in the power voltage characteristics under the condition of partial shading. This research is devoted to Stochastic Beam Search (SBS) based algorithm and Variable neighborhood search (VNS) for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) at partial shading condition in PV system. To give partial shading effect over the entire array of PV system, a mast is placed in front of the modules. The modules in the array are connected in such a way that one do not need to rewire the electrical connection during rearrangement of modules. It is validated that the power generation performance of array under a moving shading condition is increased. Also, it is observed that SBS method outperforms than VNS method in MMP tracking.
Farmacogenómica: búsqueda de la terapia personalizada

Objetivo. Los pacientes presentan una gran variabilidad en la forma en que responden a los medicamentos. Las diferencias individuales en la respuesta a los farmacos dependen de factores ambientales, asi como de determinantes geneticos. En particular, las diferencias hereditarias en el metabolismo y la disposicion de los farmacos pueden tener una gran influencia en la eficacia o toxicidad de los medicamentos, por lo que en este articulo nos centraremos en la farmacogenetica del metabolismo de los farmacos. Desarrollo. Las primeras observaciones clinicas de diferencias hereditarias en la respuesta a los farmacos se realizaron en los anos cincuenta, lo que llevo a la farmacogenetica. A estas observaciones les siguieron estudios poblacionales y bioquimicos del fenotipo metabolizador y, eventualmente, la elucidacion molecular del defecto genetico asociado con la caracteristica hereditaria. Se han descrito polimorfismos geneticos de varias enzimas metabolizadoras de farmacos de fase I y fase II, incluyendo varios citocromos P450, N-acetiltransferasas, y la tiopurina S-metiltransferasa. Los avances en la genomica humana han dado lugar a la farmacogenomica, una disciplina emergente que utiliza un enfoque amplio para estudiar todos los genes que participan en la respuesta a los farmacos. Las tecnologias genomicas serviran de base para implementar una terapia personalizada. Conclusiones. El conocimiento de la variabilidad genetica de un individuo puede ser clinica y economicamente importante, y podria proporcionar las bases para una farmacoterapia racional en los trastornos neuropsiquiatricos.
Which components of heart failure programs are effective? A meta-analysis of the outcomes of structured telephone support or telemonitoring as the primary component of heart failure management in 9,560 patients (Abridged Cochrane Review)

Aims--Telemonitoring (TM) and structured telephone support (STS) have the potential to deliver specialised management to more patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), but their efficacy is still to be proven. Objectives To review randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of TM or STS on all- cause mortality and all-cause and CHF-related hospitalisations in patients with CHF, as a non-invasive remote model of specialised disease-management intervention. --Methods and Results--Data sources:We searched 15 electronic databases and hand-searched bibliographies of relevant studies, systematic reviews, and meeting abstracts. Two reviewers independently extracted all data. Study eligibility and participants: We included any randomised controlled trials (RCT) comparing TM or STS to usual care of patients with CHF. Studies that included intensified management with additional home or clinic visits were excluded. Synthesis: Primary outcomes (mortality and hospitalisations) were analysed; secondary outcomes (cost, length of stay, quality of life) were tabulated. --Results: Thirty RCTs of STS and TM were identified (25 peer-reviewed publications (n=8,323) and five abstracts (n=1,482)). Of the 25 peer-reviewed studies, 11 evaluated TM (2,710 participants), 16 evaluated STS (5,613 participants) and two tested both interventions. TM reduced all-cause mortality (risk ratio (RR 0•66 [95% CI 0•54-0•81], p<0•0001) and STS showed similar trends (RR 0•88 [95% CI 0•76-1•01], p=0•08). Both TM (RR 0•79 [95% CI 0•67-0•94], p=0•008) and STS (RR 0•77 [95% CI 0•68-0•87], p<0•0001) reduced CHF-related hospitalisations. Both interventions improved quality of life, reduced costs, and were acceptable to patients. Improvements in prescribing, patient-knowledge and self-care, and functional class were observed. --Conclusion: TM and STS both appear effective interventions to improve outcomes in patients with CHF.
SVEIKATOS PRIEŽIŪROS VADYBOS RAIDA LIETUVOJE: POKYČIAI, TENDENCIJOS, KRITINIS POŽIŪRIS, TARPTAUTINIS KONTEKSTAS

Darbo tikslas: įvertinti sveikatos priežiūros vadybosraidą ir esminius pokycius Lietuvos sveikatos apsaugossistemoje ir jos organizacijose.Analizuota įvairių salių mokslinės publikacijos sveikatospriežiūros vadybos klausimais, statistiniai duomenys,teisės aktai. Visa tai sisteminta ir vertinta.Darbe atskleisti profesionalios sveikatos priežiūrosvadybos ir bendrosios vadybos esminiai skirtumaibei parodytas sveikatos priežiūros vadybos sudėtingumas. Pateikta sveikatos priežiūros sistemos ir josorganizacijų vadybos bei vadybos mokslo raida, atskleistiesminiai jos vystymosi trikdžiai. Daroma isvada, kad nepaisant įvairių trikdžių ir neigiamųmomentų, sveikatos priežiūros vadyba salyjevystėsi ir tobulėjo, dėl to gerėjo ir pati sveikatospriežiūra.
Validation Odyssey: From big data to local intelligence : Validity of case-finding algorithms and of measures of quality of care for chronic diseases in Italian Administrative Databases

The main objective of this thesis is advancing the methodology of validation studies of case-finding algorithms that exploit diversity across available data, rather than collecting new data. The case study that led us to this advancement was the assessment of the capacity of the Italian administrative database to capture cases of chronic disease to get estimates for the compliance with standards of care. Primary care medical records were the main comparative source. Part I of this thesis is focussed on this topic. In Part II we exploited the results and extended the methodology of Part I to the context of multi-database, multi-national studies.
Women, Work and Caregiving: How Much Difference Does a Great Job Really Make?

This paper examines whether type of job makes a difference in (a) the likelihood that individuals are providing assistance to elderly relatives, (b) the 'costs' associated with this provision, in terms of both job-related and personal costs, and (c) whether observed relationships differ for men and for women. Data are derived from a sample of Canadian employees who participated in a study of work/family balance conducted by the Work and Eldercare Research Group of CARNET: The Canadian Aging Research Network, based at the University of Guelph. The analysis compared full-time employees in three job categories: managerial/professional (n = 1,996); semi-professional (n = 1,270) and clerical, sales, service, craft and trades (n = 2,112). The data indicate no differences between the three occupational groups in the likelihood of providing assistance to elderly relatives. The relationship between job type and both job and personal costs was found to vary in relation to the extent of involvement in the caregiver role. Job costs include lateness, absenteeism, foregoing promotions, missed meetings, and so forth, while personal costs include the perception of work interference with family life, and perceived levels of stress. Among employees providing between 1 and 4 hours of assistance on average per week, gender is associated with significant differences in job and personal costs. This is not true for those providing more hours of care. For both men and women, there appears to be a threshold (5 or more hours of care on average per week) beyond which neither gender nor job type makes a difference in terms of job and personal costs.
A Design of 10-b 100-MS/s Pipelined Folding ADC with Distributed Track-and-Hold Preprocessing

This paper presents a 10-b ADC designed in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology. The ADC achieves 10-b resolution by using the cascaded folding technique in both the fine and coarse converters. Folding stages are pipelined to improve the settling time. As a result, this ADC can achieve the sampling rate up to 100MS/s. Moreover, instead of using a costly single track-and-hold circuit, a distributed track-and-hold circuit is used to reduce the chip area and the power consumption. This also allows utilizing the open-loop architecture of the folding technique, thus improving the performance of the system. The simulation results show that with a 49 MHz sine-wave input, the ADC consumes 66 mW and the effective number of bit (ENOB) is 9.28-b. Taking into account of process variations by using a Monte Carlo simulation, the DNL varies from ±0.45LSB to ±0.25LSB. The layout of the ADC occupies 1.2 mm 2 die area.
Design of a JML Documentation Generator

JML is a behavioral interface speci cation language designed to specify Java classes and interfaces. In JML, a Java class or interface inherits speci cations from its superclass and/or superinterfaces. JML speci cations for a class or module can also be re ned or augmented in non-source les. As a result of this, the complete speci cation for a class or interface may be split over several les. To facilitate viewing of these speci cations in a user-friendly manner, some documentation tools are needed to combine these speci cations. This thesis gives a semantics of speci cation inheritance and re nement and describes an implementation of JMLDoc | a tool for generating HTML pages from the speci cations. It combines speci cations from inheritance and re nements and presents the complete JML speci cation to the user. Chapter 1 OVERVIEW JML [12], which stands for \Java Modeling Language," is a behavioral interface speci cation language (BISL)[15] designed to specify Java [2, 7] modules. JMLDoc is a tool that allows the users of these modules to view the speci cations in a convenient manner, as HTML[8] documentation. This chapter discusses the need for such a tool. the motivation behind this thesis, and an overview of JMLDoc. 1.
Efecto de dosis de fertilizante de liberación lenta en producción de pimiento

A 50% nitrogen (N) loss is estimated when using conventional N fertilizers in vegetable production. Slow release fertilizers (SRF) are an alternative to the use of conventional N fertilizers. SRF restrict their nutrient release by a physical coating or a chemical modification in their structure. Nutrient loss reduction when using SRF could reduce applied N rates in vegetable production. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of two N rates and SRF as a substitute to fertirrigation in greenhouse production of bell pepper. Treatments were based on two factors (rate and source). N rates used were 169 and 225 kg/ha. N sources used were ammonium nitrate (AN) as a conventional fertilizer and Optic-Set 38N as a SRF, both used in different proportions of 25, 50, 75 and 100% of the total rate. Evaluated variables were foliar and radicular biomass, pH and electric conductivity of the substrate, N concentration in substrate and foliar tissue and commercial and non-commercial yield using US Grading. Results showed an effect in foliar biomass production and total yield between treatments, where treatments using 100% AN, 25% SRF + 75% AN and 50% SRF + 50% AN resulted in a greater foliar biomass production of 131 gr/plant and a total yield of 9,533 kg/ha. Application rates had an effect on average fruit weight, where 225 kg/ha resulted in a 9% greater weight compared to 169 kg/ha.
Design of a superscalar processor based on queue machine computation model

The queue machine computation model is an evaluation scheme for expression trees, in which the input operands of operations are taken from head of a queue, and its result is put onto tail of the same queue. A series of operations for this model are generated by traversing the expression tree(s) from its leaf nodes in reverse of the breadth-first ordering. Since nodes with the same level in an expression tree can be processed concurrently, the generated operations can also be processed in parallel without reordering. In this paper, we describe a design of superscalar processor using this computation model.
'The language of business cases' - an interdisciplinary approach to teaching language at HKUST

Business Studies (SBM) students are required to read and analyze Case Studies from their first year at the university. Faculty throughout the School of Business and Management (ISMT, ECON, MGTO, MARK, ACCT, FINA) often require students to read and produce written analyses of cases specific to the courses being taught. Indeed, cases may range from a simple one-page content-related article to a 20+ page Harvard Business Case often used in internationally recognized MBA programs. Due to the linguistic demands of such texts, therefore, it is not surprising that L2 students often experience a considerable amount of difficulty in coping with the reading and writing tasks set for them in content-related courses. Reading for specific information, understanding subtle linguistic clues, extrapolating and synthesizing essential facts for use in academic writing are just a few of the areas where students need more communication skills support.
OECD 'Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems"

These Guidelines apply to all participants in the new information society and suggest the need for a greater awareness and understanding of security issues, including the need to develop a "culture of security" – that is, a focus on security in the development of information systems and networks, and the adoption of new ways of thinking and behaving when using and interacting within information systems and networks. The Guidelines constitute a foundation for work towards a culture of security throughout society.
Minería de texto como una herramienta para la búsqueda de artículos científicos para la investigación

RESUMEN Por medio de la extraccion de datos tanto precisos como no relevantes sobre un texto o estructura de datos textual, se es posible generar nueva informacion y conocimiento, este analisis es realizado con la mineria de texto. Si bien esta practica puede conducir mas apropiadamente hacia la generacion y/o descubrimiento de nuevos datos, tambien es viable para la verificacion y elaboracion de datos a referenciar. Ya que su uso yace en el analisis de la informacion arrojando datos de manera indiscriminada, esto resulta util a la hora de rectificar la compatibilidad de la informacion, entre dos o mas medios de contenido textual. Se expondran y explicaran las diversas maneras como a traves de la mineria de texto, ayuda en la elaboracion de un articulo de investigacion o un estado del arte, teniendo en cuenta el topico a explicar en dicho texto, se utilizaran diferentes metodologias para implementar la mineria de texto con el fin de analizar otros diferentes articulos potenciales referencias, teniendo asi, un mejor enfoque sobre el material cimiento de un nuevo proyecto o articulo. Adicional a esto se mostraran pruebas realizadas en la herramienta de software Weka donde se evidencian los resultados que arroja el software de los articulos que se analizan por medio de este. ABSTRACT By removing both accurate as irrelevant on a text or textual data structure, data is possible to generate new information and knowledge, this analysis is performed with text mining. While this practice can lead to more appropriately the generation and/or discovery of new data, it is also viable for verification and processing of reference data. Since its use lies in the analysis of information indiscriminately throwing data, this is useful when rectifying the compatibility of information between two or more modes of textual content. Will be presented and explained the various ways through text mining helps in the development of a research paper or a state of the art, given the topic to explain in this text, different methodologies are used to implement mining text in order to analyze potential references other than items, thus having a better approach to the material foundation of a new project or item. In addition to this testing in software Weka tool where translations of the software items are analyzed by this it is evident be shown.
Where is the person in symptom cluster research? : the experience of symptom clusters in patients with advanced lung cancer

conceptualisation of the symptom experience. All focus in some way on factors that influence the symptom experience: the symptom experience itself and the outcome of symptoms. They all highlight the complexity of the symptom experience; how this experience manifests itself at many different levels from the cellular to the societal level but ultimately occurs at the level of the
Estimation of Vector Autoregressive Parameters and Granger Causality From Noisy Multichannel Data

Objective: The objective of this paper is to estimate the parameters of a multivariate autoregressive process from noisy multichannel data. Methods: Using a multivariate generalization of the Cadzow method, we propose a new method for estimating autoregressive parameters from noisy data: the nonlinear Cadzow method. Results: We show that our method outperforms existing multivariate methods such as higher order Yule–Walker method and Kalman EM method on simulated data. We apply our method to estimation of Granger causality from noisy data and again obtain superior results compared to previous methods. Finally, when applied to experimental local field potential data from monkey somatosensory and motor cortical areas, our method produces results consistent with cortical physiology. Conclusion: The proposed nonlinear Cadzow method outperforms existing methods in obtaining denoised estimates of multivariate autoregressive parameters. Significance: Since multichannel recordings have become commonplace in biomedical applications ranging from discovering functional connectivity in the brain to speech data analysis and these recordings are inevitably contaminated by measurement noise, we believe our method has the potential for significant impact.
Beyond problem solving: Evaluating intro-ductory physics courses through the hidden curricu-lum

Title of Dissertation: BEYOND PROBLEM SOLVING: EVALUATING INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS COURSES THROUGH THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM Jeffery M. Saul, Doctor of Philosophy, 1998 Dissertation directed by: Professor Edward F. Redish Department of Physics A large number of innovative approaches have been developed based on Physics Education Research (PER) to address student difficulties introductory physics instruction. Yet, there are currently few widely accepted assessment methods for determining the effectiveness of these methods. This dissertation compares the effectiveness of traditional calculus-based instruction with University of Washington’s Tutorials, University of Minnesota’s Group Problem Solving & Problem Solving Labs, and Dickinson College’s Workshop Physics. Implementation of these curricula were studied at ten undergraduate institutions. The research methods used include the Force Concept Inventory (FCI), the Maryland Physics Expectation (MPEX) survey, specially designed exam problems, and interviews with student volunteers. The MPEX survey is a new diagnostic instrument developed specifically for this study. Instructors often have learning goals for their students that go beyond having them demonstrate mastery of physics through typical end-of-chapter problems on exams and homeworks. Because these goals are often not stated explicitly nor adequately
Study on Dynamical Behavior in Complex Network with Community Structure

The synchronization process of large populations of weakly coupled oscillators often appears in various systems, and it has been extensively studied in different scientific communities such as physics, biology, sociology, etc. [1]. Power network is generally formed by a large number of oscillators with the purpose is to deliver power from generators to final consumers [2-4]. A node in power network is defined to be a point at which power is injected by a generator or extracted by consumers, or to other points. A link is then defined as a connection between any a pair of such nodes. It has been demonstrated that many real world networks show community structure, such as power network [5], communication networks [6], and so on. To the best of our knowledge, synchronization of power network with community structure has not been previously investigated. So it is interesting to study the synchronization of power network with community structure.
Reconstruction monoculaire 3D de scènes agronomiques

Pour aller plus loin dans l'analyse des parametres (taux d'infestation, rendement, couverture foliaire.) d'une scene agronomique, l'apport de l'information tridimensionnelle grâce a une acquisition 3D d'une telle scene est une solution pertinente. Dans cette communication, nous proposons l'adaptation de la methode du "Shape From Focus" au domaine macroscopique, et nous explicitons les raisons d'un tel choix.
Hemorragia fetomaterna masiva como causa de hidrops en gestación a término. Reporte de caso y revisión de la literatura

Objective: massive fetomaternal hemorrhage is a rarely occurring complication during pregnancy which can cause severe fetal anemia and intrauterine fetal death. A clinical case is presented here to review the pertinent pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment. Materials and methods: the case of a 39 weeks pregnant woman admitted to La Paz Hospital in Madrid is reported; this hospital is the center for perinatal and maternal attention. The patient was referred due to sonographic signs of hydrops and right heart failure. Cardiotocographic records showed a sinusoidal pattern. The newborn presented metabolic acidosis and severe anemia. Pathologic examination of the placenta was suggestive of chronic fetal anemia. The Kleihauer-Betke test revealed a 90-100 ml fetomaternal hemorrhage. A literature search was made in Medline via Pubmed, EMBASE, LILACS and SciELO and the Cochrane Library. Conclusion: intrauterine diagnosis is difficult; massive fetomaternal hemorrhage should be suspected when a woman refers to reduced fetal movements and when the record shows a sinusoidal pattern in cardiotocography. Ultrasound is usually bland and Doppler of the middle cerebral artery may help in identifying cases of fetal anemia, revealing an increased systolic peak. Such cases must be identified early on to start symptomatic treatment of anemia.
Available bit rate congestion control in ATM networks: developing explicit rate control algorithms

We present a control-theoretic approach to designing available bit rate (ABR) congestion control algorithms. ATM networks deal with different types of traffic. Among the several services offered by ATM, the ABR service plays a central role in regulating the network traffic, as it is the only service category that uses explicit feedback from the network. We present several algorithms for ABR congestion, which can adapt to the variations in the number of sources sharing a switch. These properties make this algorithm easier to apply in volatile networks, where both the network delay and the number of active sessions are not known or cannot be predicted accurately beforehand. In summary, we strongly believe that control theoretic design tools can be effectively used in designing high-performance algorithms in the context of ATM ABR congestion control.