Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems Visualization System for Shopping Path

The purpose of this research paper is to render the customer-shopping path and customer existence probability visible such that people in the marketing field can easily grasp customer behaviors in store. To achieve this, we introduced the customer existence probability, which provides a visual of how long customers stay in each sales floor zone. The visualization system was then applied to customer-shopping path data to provide separate and concurrent displays of customer-shopping paths and the customer existence probability. Concurrent display of customer-shopping paths/customer existence probability is suitable for visualization of longer customer stays in-store, where the customer moves a great deal. This display enables easy assessment of in-store customer rounds including length of time. It also incorporates to the maximum the information volume of customer-shopping path data. c © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of KES International.
KATNAL 1 regulation of sertoli cell microtubule dynamics is essential for spermiogenesis and male fertility

Spermatogenesis is a complex process reliant upon interactions between germ cells (GC) and supporting somatic cells. Testicular Sertoli cells (SC) support GCs during maturation through physical attachment, the provision of nutrients, and protection from immunological attack. This role is facilitated by an active cytoskeleton of parallel microtubule arrays that permit transport of nutrients to GCs, as well as translocation of spermatids through the seminiferous epithelium during maturation. It is well established that chemical perturbation of SC microtubule remodelling leads to premature GC exfoliation demonstrating that microtubule remodelling is an essential component of male fertility, yet the genes responsible for this process remain unknown. Using a random ENU mutagenesis approach, we have identified a novel mouse line displaying male-specific infertility, due to a point mutation in the highly conserved ATPase domain of the novel KATANIN p60-related microtubule severing protein Katanin p60 subunit A-like1 (KATNAL1). We demonstrate that Katnal1 is expressed in testicular Sertoli cells (SC) from 15.5 days post-coitum (dpc) and that, consistent with chemical disruption models, loss of function of KATNAL1 leads to male-specific infertility through disruption of SC microtubule dynamics and premature exfoliation of spermatids from the seminiferous epithelium. The identification of KATNAL1 as an essential regulator of male fertility provides a significant novel entry point into advancing our understanding of how SC microtubule dynamics promotes male fertility. Such information will have resonance both for future treatment of male fertility and the development of non-hormonal male contraceptives. Citation: Smith LB, Milne L, Nelson N, Eddie S, Brown P, et al. (2012) KATNAL1 Regulation of Sertoli Cell Microtubule Dynamics Is Essential for Spermiogenesis and Male Fertility. PLoS Genet 8(5): e1002697. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen. 1002697 Editor: Wayne N. Frankel, The Jackson Laboratory, United States of America Received December 29, 2011; Accepted March 20, 2012; Published May 24, 2012 Copyright: 2012 Smith et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This work was funded by independent UK Medical Research Council Programme Grants to LBS and JP (www.mrc.ac.uk). MKO and LO were funded by a project grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (www.nhmrc.gov.au) of Australia. MKO is the recipient of an NHMRC Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. * E-mail: Lee.Smith@ed.ac.uk
Managing the Order Picking Process in for Click and Collect in Grocery Stores

Many grocery stores offering a service called “Click and Collect,” where customers can submit an order online and pick up the order at the store or have it delivered. To offer this service in an efficient way while still meeting customer expectations, stores can adapt methods used in warehouse order picking. One strategy is the method used to group the orders into batches as they are received. We have examined two strategies for batching: order-based batching and time-based batching. From testing these two approaches, time-based batching produces a slightly lower average picking time, but order-based batching has orders ready for the customers sooner. Store managers can choose the approach that better meets their store’s objective. Keywords—click and collect, order picking, batching, retail
Associations between historical redlining and birth outcomes from 2006 through 2015 in California

Background Despite being one of the wealthiest nations, disparities in adverse birth outcomes persist across racial and ethnic lines in the United States. We studied the association between historical redlining and preterm birth, low birth weight (LBW), small-for-gestational age (SGA), and perinatal mortality over a ten-year period (2006–2015) in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco, California. Methods We used birth outcomes data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2015. Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) Security Maps developed in the 1930s assigned neighborhoods one of four grades that pertained to perceived investment risk of borrowers from that neighborhood: green (grade A) were considered “Best”, blue (grade B) “Still Desirable”, yellow (grade C) “Definitely Declining”, and red (grade D, hence the term “redlining”) “Hazardous”. Geocoded residential addresses at the time of birth were superimposed on HOLC Security Maps to assign each birth a HOLC grade. We adjusted for potential confounders present at the time of Security Map creation by assigning HOLC polygons areal-weighted 1940s Census measures. We then employed propensity score matching methods to estimate the association of historical HOLC grades on current birth outcomes. Because tracts graded A had almost no propensity of receiving grade C or D and because grade B tracts had low propensity of receiving grade D, we examined birth outcomes in the three following comparisons: B vs. A, C vs. B, and D vs. C. Results The prevalence of preterm birth, SGA and mortality tended to be higher in worse HOLC grades, while the prevalence of LBW varied across grades. Overall odds of mortality and preterm birth increased as HOLC grade worsened. Propensity score matching balanced 1940s census measures across contrasting groups. Logistic regression models revealed significantly elevated odds of preterm birth (odds ratio (OR): 1.02, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.00–1.05), and SGA (OR: 1.03, 95% CI: 1.00–1.05) in the C vs. B comparison and significantly reduced odds of preterm birth (OR: 0.93, 95% CI: 0.91–0.95), LBW (OR: 0.94–95% CI: 0.92–0.97), and SGA (OR: 0.94, 95% CI: 0.92–0.96) in the D vs. C comparison. Results differed by metropolitan area and maternal race. Conclusion Similar to prior studies on redlining, we found that worsening HOLC grade was associated with adverse birth outcomes, although this relationship was less clear after propensity score matching and stratifying by metropolitan area. Higher odds of preterm birth and SGA in grade C versus grade B neighborhoods may be caused by higher-stress environments, racial segregation, and lack of access to resources, while lower odds of preterm birth, SGA, and LBW in grade D versus grade C neighborhoods may due to population shifts in those neighborhoods related to gentrification.
1 NON-TOXIC , NON-BIOCIDES-RELEASE BASED ANTIFOULING COATINGS BASED ON MOLECULAR STRUCTURE DESIGN FOR MARINE APPLICATIONS

Marine biofouling generally refers to the undesirable accumulation of biological organisms on surfaces in contact with sea water. This natural phenomenon represents a major economic concern for marine industries, e.g. for ships and vessels, oil and wind-turbine sea-platforms, pipelines, water valves and filters, as it limits the performance of devices, materials and underwater structures and raises the costs related to transport delays, hulls maintenance and repair, need of cleaning and desalination units, corrosion and structures break-down. In the last decades, many efforts have been spent into developing efficient anti-fouling (AF) surfaces (coatings) combining advances in materials science and recent knowledge on marine chemistry and biology. However, the extensive use of toxic and harmful compounds in the formulations raised increasing health and environmental concerns leading to stricter regulations which pushed marine industries to search for new AF strategies. This review presents the recent research progress made on green strategies for AF coatings using non-toxic, non-biocide-release based principles for marine applications. The two main approaches, detachment of biofoulants or preventing biofoulants attachment, are reviewed in detail and new promising routes based on amphiphilic, (super)hydrophilic, and topographic (structured) surfaces are highlighted. The chemical and physical aspects of the AF mechanisms behind the AF strategies reviewed are emphasized, with special attention to the early stages of biofoulants adhesion, keeping the focus on the materials chemical structure and properties which allow obtaining the final desired anti-fouling behaviour. Page 2 of 61 Journal of Materials Chemistry B Jo ur na lo fM at er ia ls C he m is tr y B A cc ep te d M an us cr ip t Revised-Review paper for J Mat Chem B 2 CONTENTS 1. Marine biofouling . 4 2. Evolution of marine coatings towards ‘green’ antifouling approaches . 6 3. Principles for preventing biofoulants adhesion or promoting biofoulants detachment . 10 4. Non-toxic, non-biocide-release antifouling coatings . 14 4.1. Detachment of biofoulants . 14 4.1. 1. Silicone-based materials . 17 4.1. 2. Fluorine-based materials . 23 4.1. 3. Combined fluorine-silicon based materials . 27 4.2. Prevention of attachment of biofoulants . 29 4.2. 1. PEG-based materials . 30 4.2. 2. Self-assembled monolayers (SAM) . 33 4.2. 3. Other approaches . 34 4.3. Recent and future approaches . 38 4.3. 1. Amphiphilic approach . 38 4.3. 2. Topographic approach . 42 5. Final Remarks . 45 Page 3 of 61 Journal of Materials Chemistry B Jo ur na lo fM at er ia ls C he m is tr y B A cc ep te d M an us cr ip t Revised-Review paper for J Mat Chem B
Within and Across-Language Comparison of Vocal Emotions in Mandarin and English

This study reports experimental results on whether the acoustic realization of vocal emotions differs between Mandarin and English. Prosodic cues, spectral cues and articulatory cues generated by electroglottograph (EGG) of five emotions (anger, fear, happiness, sadness and neutral) were compared within and across Mandarin and English through a production experiment. Results of within-language comparison demonstrated that each vocal emotion had specific acoustic patterns in each language. Moreover, normalized data were used in the across-language comparison analysis. Results indicated that Mandarin and English showed different mechanisms of utilizing pitch for encoding emotions. The differences in pitch variation between neutral and other emotions were significantly larger in English than in Mandarin. However, the variations of speech rate and certain phonation cues (e.g., CPP (Cepstral Peak Prominence) and CQ (Contact quotient)) were significantly greater in Mandarin than in English. The differences in emotional speech between the two languages may be due to the restriction of pitch variation by the presence of lexical tones in Mandarin. This study reveals an interesting finding that occurs when a certain cue (e.g., pitch) is restricted in one language, other cues were strengthened to take on the responsibility of differentiating vocal emotions. Therefore, we posit that the acoustic realizations of emotional speech are multidimensional.
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA ALLOCATION IN SUPPORT OF C 3 SYSTEMS

The allocation of data in a distributed database system can significantly affect the response time of the system. This is particularly important when the database supports an operational command, control, and communication C3 system. There are several methods for determining where to store the data in a distributed . system. These include various optimization algorithms which use linear programming to minimize some cost function, as well as numerous heuristic methods. This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) that rank-orders various allocation methods based on the relative importance given to such factors as response times in the communication network, resources needed, and execution time of the allocation algorithm. To demonstrate this DSS, the Army Maneuver Control System (MCS) was simulated using SLAM. Two optimal allocation schemes (using linear programming) and three heuristics were implemented to assign data location among the MCS nodes. The results from these simulations were then input to the DSS, along with several scenarios to provide importance weights to the decision factors. The results show that these weights do affect the choice of allocation scheme, including some scenarios where neither of the optimal techniques were selected.
A survey of arabic text classification models

There is a huge content of Arabic text available over online that requires an organization of these texts. As result, here are many applications of natural languages processing (NLP) that concerns with text organization. One of the is text classification (TC). TC helps to make dealing with unorganized text. However, it is easier to classify them into suitable class or labels. This paper is a survey of Arabic text classification. Also, it presents comparison among different methods in the classification of Arabic texts, where Arabic text is represented a complex text due to its vocabularies. Arabic language is one of the richest languages in the world, where it has many linguistic bases. The research in Arabic language processing is very few compared to English. As a result, these problems represent challenges in the classification, and organization of specific Arabic text. Text classification (TC) helps to access the most documents, or information that has already classified into specific classes, or categories to one or more classes or categories. In addition, classification of documents facilitate search engine to decrease the amount of document to, and then to become easier to search and matching with queries.
Modelling Organic Gel Growth in Three Dimensions: Textural and Fractal Properties of Resorcinol–Formaldehyde Gels

Tailoring the properties of porous organic materials, such as resorcinol–formaldehyde gels, for use in various applications has been a central focus for many studies in recent years. In order to achieve effective optimisation for each application, this work aims to assess the impact of the various synthesis parameters on the final textural properties of the gel. Here, the formation of porous organic gels is modelled using a three-dimensional lattice-based Monte Carlo simulation. We model growth from monomer species into the interconnected primary clusters of a gel, and account for varying catalyst concentration and solids content, two parameters proven to control gel properties in experimental work. In addition to analysing the textural properties of the simulated materials, we also explore their fractal properties through correlation dimension and Hurst exponent calculations. The correlation dimension shows that while fractal properties are not typically observed in scattering experiments, they are possible to achieve with sufficiently low solids content and catalyst concentration. Furthermore, fractal properties are also apparent from the analysis of the diffusion path of guest species through the gel’s porous network. This model, therefore, provides insight into how porous organic gels can be manufactured with their textural and fractal properties computationally tailored according to the intended application.
Fluxes of total reactive atmospheric nitrogen (ΣNr) using eddy covariance above arable land

ABSTRACT The amount and timing of reactive nitrogen exchange between agricultural land and the atmosphere play a key role in evaluating ecosystem productivity and in addressing atmospheric nitrogen budgets and transport. With the recent development of the Total Reactive Atmospheric Nitrogen Converter (TRANC) apparatus, a methodology has been provided for continuous measurement of the sum of all airborne nitrogen containing species (ΣNr) allowing for diurnal and seasonal investigations. We present ΣNr concentration and net flux data from an 11-month field campaign conducted at an arable field using the TRANC system within an eddy-covariance setup. Clear diurnal patterns of both ΣNr concentrations and fluxes with significant dependencies on atmospheric stability and stomatal regulation were observed in the growing season. TRANC data were compared with monthly-averaged concentrations and dry deposition rates of selected Nr compounds using DELTA denuders and ensemble-averages of four inferential models, respectively. Similar seasonal trends were found for Nr concentrations from DELTA and TRANC measurements with values from the latter being considerably higher than those of DELTA denuders. The variability of the difference between these two systems could be explained by seasonally changing source locations of NOx contributions to the TRANC signal. As soil and vegetation Nr emissions to the atmosphere are generally not treated by inferential (dry deposition) models, TRANC data showed lower monthly deposition rates than those obtained from inferential modelling. Net ΣNr exchange was almost neutral (~0.072 kg N ha−1) at the end of the observation period. However, during most parts of the year, slight but permanent net ΣNr deposition was found. Our measurements demonstrate that fertilizer addition followed by substantial ΣNr emissions plays a crucial role in a site's annual atmospheric nitrogen budget. As long-term Nr measurements with high temporal resolution are usually cost and labour-intensive, field application of the TRANC helps improve the understanding of ecosystem functioning, atmospheric transport and revising definitions of ecosystem-specific critical loads at a relatively moderate operational cost level.
Impact of Owner-Occupied Property Valuation by Historical Cost on Fixed Assets Value at Bankruptcy Risk

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present the findings of the author’s own studies on the influence of owner-occupied property valuation by historical cost on fixed assets value of entities at risk of bankruptcy. Methodology: As part of the implementation of the study, objective desk research was carried out. Empirical research was carried out on a group of 100 companies on which the courts had declared bankruptcy. The study sample constituted 14% of all bankruptcy cases in 2011 and was a significant representation of the national phenomenon. Findings: The findings indicated that historical cost values of owner-occupied properties in most cases are significantly lower that estimated fair value when business activities continuation is threatened. The historical cost valuation also does not provide useful information about the market value of property, plant and equipment of entities at risk of bankruptcy that do not possess real estate. Research limitations/implications: Information about market value of fixed assets of entities at risk of bankruptcy is essential in making the decision to begin bankruptcy proceedings and estimating the ability to repay debts to creditors. Originality/value: The results are a part of the author’s own study concerning assets valuation when business activities continuation is threatened. The results emphasize the role of fair value estimation of property, plant and equipment when an entity is at risk of bankruptcy
On the existence and convergence of pseudomoments for variables in the domain of normal attraction of an operator stable distribution

Integrals are constructed to replace absolute moments for variables in the domain of normal attraction of an operator stable law. These integrals, called pseudomoments, improve on the geometric information contained in absolute moments. Existence and convergence to appropriate values of these integrals are shown for the variables and their affine normalized sums.
Riding In Cars With Robots : Opportunities for Exploring Group Interactions with Robots in Cars

Paste the appropriate copyright statement here. ACM now supports three different copyright statements: • ACM copyright: ACM holds the copyright on the work. This is the historical approach. • License: The author(s) retain copyright, but ACM receives an exclusive publication license. • Open Access: The author(s) wish to pay for the work to be open access. The additional fee must be paid to ACM. This text field is large enough to hold the appropriate release statement assuming it is single spaced in a sans-serif 7 point font. Every submission will be assigned their own unique DOI string to be included here. Abstract As social robotics become more imbued in everyday life, situations will surely arise when robots will interact with groups of people. Given this, interaction designers should begin to consider how robots can influence interactions with and between multiple people. One area for future exploration of group interactions with robots will be the autonomous vehicle. In this workshop paper, I review my previous work exploring how robots can interact with teams of people and suggest that work in human-robot interaction can be transferred to and help explore robots mediating interactions with groups in cars.
Induced pluripotent stem cells as a platform to understand patient‐specific responses to opioids and anaesthetics

Recent advances in human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology may provide unprecedented opportunities to study patient‐specific responses to anaesthetics and opioids. In this review, we will (1) examine the advantages and limitations of iPSC technology, (2) summarize studies using iPSCs that have contributed to our current understanding of anaesthetics and opioid action on the cardiovascular system and central nervous system (CNS), and (3) describe how iPSC technology can be used to further develop personalized analgesic and sedative pharmacotherapies with reduced or minimal detrimental cardiovascular effects.