Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Understanding Homelessness

ABSTRACT This paper reviews the literature on understanding homelessness. It criticizes approaches that ignore, distort or diminish the humanity of homeless people, or else, add little to our understanding of that humanity. In particular, it rejects what it calls “epidemiological” approaches, which deny the possibility of agency for homeless people, insofar as those approaches view the situation of those people largely as a “social fact”, to be explained in terms of causal variables or “risk factors” of different kinds. It evaluates the concept of homelessness pathways as a way of making sense of research findings on homelessness. It takes issue with realist approaches, insofar as these approaches purport to identify “underlying” mechanisms that “cause” homelessness, and discusses ethnographic approaches focused on “homeless culture”. Throughout, the paper emphasizes the need to understand homelessness as multidimensional and storied, and concludes with a plea for more research that looks at the whole life of a homeless person, rather than just at selected episodes of rooflessness.
Voltage-mode high-Q band-pass filters and oscillators employing single CDBA and minimum number of components

In this paper, voltage-mode second order high-Q band pass filters and oscillators which employ only single current differencing buffered amplifier (CDBA) as the active component are proposed. One of the four filter circuits and two of the four oscillators described have minimum passive component count properties, without using the internal pole of the active element. These BP filters can be easily cascaded without any recourse to impedance matching circuitry. The circuits have been analysed theoretically, simulated and experimentally tested in a laboratory. It is shown that the results of simulations and experimental work are in agreement with theoretical predictions.
Book Reviews

The Japanese housing system is now at a crossroads. As is generally known, Japan experienced a high level of economic growth after World War II that can be attributed to a significant increase in the urban population. The explosive demand for housing was met mainly through the private market. This process resulted in a rapid rise in house prices, propelled by the exceedingly high price of land. It also meant that much of the new housing stock was of poor quality for the scale of the economic growth and the workers’ average income. The situation has changed dramatically since the beginning of the 1990s, when the ‘‘bubble economy’’ finally burst. Under stagnation or slow-down of the economy, the more marketoriented housing policy has accelerated the instability and risk of the housing market. Housing and Social Transition in Japan is written by seven authors, six of whom are Japanese and one British. All the contributors are knowledgeable about the Japanese housing system. I would like to compliment them on their achievement in writing this book, which provides a valuable addition to comparative housing research. It is also timely that Japanese scholars have made connections with the wider international literature on housing policy. The main contributions of the book are set out below. First, it is worthwhile to note that a book which comprehensively illustrates the current conditions, characteristics and history of the Japanese housing system is published in English. A range of perspectives, such as tenure, finance, ageing, gender, homelessness and history, are described in considerable detail. The book enables researchers to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the key debates in relation to Japanese housing. Secondly, the book emphasizes the dynamic relationship between housing systems and the economy and attempts to analyse it from a wider theoretical perspective. Needless to say, housing has been one of the main pillars of the welfare state. However, in Japan, peculiar characteristics of the state do not necessarily fit the typologies that Esping-Andersen and others have identified. The book attempts to clarify the characteristics of Japanese society and its housing system by making links with research conducted in Western and Asian countries. In overall terms, the aims of the book have generally been addressed. I do, however, have some concerns about the approach. First, a more detailed examination of the land market would have been useful. I mention this as the central characteristic of accumulation in Japanese capitalism has often been said to be ‘‘the land standard’’. In short, the housing market and land market are separated, and that the former is subordinated to the latter is the main distinction of the Japanese property market compared with that of other advanced countries. Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 27, No. 1, 109–113, 2010
Editorial

It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of a new member to the International Journal of Electronics editorial team. Dr Zhiqiang Zhang, a colleague of mine at the University of Leeds, will be joining us as an associate editor with special responsibility for robotics. Dr Zhang has been a University Academic Fellow (UAF) in Sensor Networks for Healthcare and Robotic Control at the School of Electronic Engineering since March 2016 and is particularly interested in wearable sensing technologies and wearable robotics for applications in healthcare. We feel that robotics is an ideal area for the IJE to venture into. Along with advances in mechatronics, electrical engineering and computing, robotics has developed remarkably to perform a wide range of tasks, from surgery and rehabilitation to outer space and deep-sea exploration. There are ten grand challenges (Yang et al., 2018) where robotics may make major breakthroughs, and/or socio-economic impact in the coming 5 to 10 years. These include; new materials and fabrication schemes; biohybrid and bioinspired robots; power and energy; robot swarms; navigation and exploration; artificial intelligence (AI) for robotics; brain-computer interfaces; social interaction; medical robotics with autonomy; ethics and security. Clearly exciting developments lie ahead. We are delighted to welcome Dr Zhang as we also seek to encourage exciting new research on how electronics can advance the world of robotics. Whilst the research community continue to tackle the grand challenges we look forward to seeing the positive impact that robotics can have in our daily lives. The International Journal of Electronics, and its sister Journal, the International Journal of Electronics Letters, are always looking to give a platform to new research areas and would warmly welcome further suggestions. We would also like to extend a warm welcome to Prof Benjamin Potelon who is joining us as associate editor with responsibility for communications and microwave engineering. Benjamin is associate professor of electronics at the University of Brest, France. He is replacing our good friend Cedric Quendo who has served us well for many years. Thank you Cedric and good luck with your future endeavours! With best wishes Prof Ian Hunter FREng FIEEE FIET
A critical assessment of the modern sociotechnical approach within production and operations management

The field of production and operations management nowadays includes various concepts, theories and approaches. The theoretical background of these concepts and theories however, can be found in many different disciplines and it is therefore not surprising that still no clear body of knowledge exists with respect to the area of production control. Remarkable enough, within the field of production and operations management few comparative studies about the various theoretical perspectives exist. It is for this reason why in this article we make a comparative assessment of sociotechnical theory within the area of production and operations management. An overview is given of the seeming and apparent affinities between the modern sociotechnical approach and the traditional operations management focus. From this, the question is answered in what way sociotechnical theory can contribute to a more integrated view on operations management.
Caractérisation des cibles moléculaires de la dodonéine et de ses dérivés dans le système cardiovasculaire : le canal calcique de type L et l'anhydrase carbonique

Agelanthus dodoneifolius est une plante de la pharmacopee africaine utilisee en medecine traditionnelle pour le traitement de pathologies cardiovasculaires. Un fractionnement bioguide a permis d'isoler une nouvelle dihydropyranone : baptisee Dodoneine (Ddn), elle possede des proprietes hypotensives et vasorelaxantes chez le rat.L'objectif de la these est de caracteriser la ou les cible(s) moleculaire(s) de la Ddn dans le systeme cardiovasculaire et d'identifier un derive plus selectif.Nos resultats montrent que la Ddn bloque le courant calcique de type L des cardiomyocytes ventriculaires de rat et des cellules musculaires lisses vasculaires, d'environ 30% avec une IC50 de l'ordre du µM. La Ddn apparait comme un nouveau bloqueur des canaux calciques de type L avec des proprietes electrophysiologiques qui lui sont propres. Une etude biochimique a montre que l'anhydrase carbonique (CA) est egalement inhibee par la Ddn, et nous avons caracterise l'expression de plusieurs isoformes au sein de muscle lisse vasculaire : CA II, III, XIII et XIV. Nos travaux precisent que leur inhibition augmente le pH intracellulaire, pouvant conduire a l'activation des canaux KCa. Ainsi, la Ddn induit un effet vasorelaxant en inhibant deux proteines: les canaux calciques et l'anhydrase carbonique. Nous avons ensuite demontre que les derives de la Ddn nouvellement synthetises sont aussi vasorelaxants ; toutefois, le plus efficace, la Ddn-Bicyclique-OH, ne concurrence pas les bloqueurs calciques utilises en clinique. Cependant, l'effet vasorelaxant de la Ddn et Ddn-Bc-OH caracterise sur des arteres systemiques humaines est en accord avec l'utilisation de la plante en medecine traditionnelle.
Examining dampening effects for alternative dampening procedures to cope with system nervousness

As Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems become popular for corporate planning, one of ERP's major modules—material requirements planning (MRP)—should be carefully examined to evaluate the linkage between MRP and other operational modules. System nervousness, or scheduling instability, has been considered an important operational problem associated with MRP systems. System nervousness has serious impacts on the performance of MRP systems. These negative effects may trickle down to the other operational subsystems in ERP which, in turn, deteriorate the overall ERP system performance. Dampening procedures, considered a screening process to weed out unnecessary reschedules, have been suggested to deal with this schedule instability problem. The purpose of this paper is to examine the dampening effects of three dampening procedures to reduce system nervousness under various operating environments by a simulation experiment. The results show that a high dampening effect by a certain dampening procedure does not translate to a better system performance. The cost-based dampening procedure performs rather well in most operating environments tested in this study. However, the performance of these dampening procedures is very situation-specific, so MRP users need to examine their operating environments in order to select an appropriate dampening procedure to cope with system nervousness.
Koncentrat białkowo-ksantofilowy z lucerny w żywieniu zwierząt

„Journal of Research and Applications in Agricultural Engineering” 2013, Vol. 58(3) 137 Eliza GAWEŁ, Mieczyslaw GRZELAK Instytut Uprawy Nawozenia i Gleboznawstwa Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy, Zaklad Uprawy Roślin Pastewnych ul. Czartoryskich 8; 24-100 Pulawy e-mail: Eliza.Gawel@iung.pulawy. pl Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Katedra Łąkarstwa i Krajobrazu Przyrodniczego ul. Wojska Polskiego 38/42, 60-627 Poznan e-mail: grzelak@au.poznan. pl
SCHAIN-IRAM: An Efficient and Effective Semi-Supervised Clustering Algorithm for Attributed Heterogeneous Information Networks

A heterogeneous information network (HIN) is one whose nodes model objects of different types and whose links model objects’ relationships. To enrich its information, objects in an HIN are typically associated with additional attributes. We call such an HIN an Attributed HIN or AHIN. We study the problem of clustering objects in an AHIN, taking into account objects’ similarities with respect to both object attribute values and their structural connectedness in the network. We show how supervision signal, expressed in the form of a must-link set and a cannot-link set, can be leveraged to improve clustering results. We put forward the SCHAIN algorithm to solve the clustering problem, and two highly efficient variants, SCHAIN-PI and SCHAIN-IRAM, which employ the power iteration based method and the implicitly restarted Arnoldi method respectively to compute eigenvectors of a matrix. We conduct extensive experiments comparing SCHAIN-based algorithms with other state-of-the-art clustering algorithms. Our results show that SCHAIN-IRAM outperforms other competitors in terms of clustering effectiveness and is highly efficient.
A Cross-Layer Optimal Co-Design of Control and Networking in Time-Sensitive Cyber-Physical Systems

In the design of cyber-physical systems (CPS) where multiple physical systems are coupled via a communication network, a key aspect is to study how network services are distributed. In this letter, we first describe a cross-layer model for CPS to explicitly capture the coupling between control and networking and the time-sensitive requirements of each physical system. Physical systems processes are coupled via a shared network that provides a diverse range of cost-prone and capacity-limited services with distinct latency characteristics. Service prices are given such that low latency services incur higher communication cost, and prices remain fixed over a constant period of time but will be adjusted by the network for the future time periods. Physical systems decide to use specific services over each time interval depending on the service prices and their own time sensitivity requirements. Considering the service availability, the network coordinates resource allocation such that physical systems are serviced the closest to their preferences. Performance of individual systems are measured by an expected quadratic cost and we formulate a social optimization problem subject to time-sensitive requirements of the physical systems and the network constraints. From the formulated social optimization problem, we derive the joint optimal time-sensitive control and service allocation policies.
Hinder Blackhat’s Anonymous Threat by identifying user’s Non meticulous Traversal Behavior Patterns

: Organizations prolong to slot in the Internet as a key factor of their operations, which in turn increase the risk of cyber-threat level inside and outside an organization. The proposed system involves in identifying insider attack by identifying frequent mining pattern. Although many studies have focused on these issues with certain techniques, it fails to satisfy an organization expecting security level. Most of the technique uses simply the mining pattern, which needs maximum support to identify the mining behavior of the user to predict his abnormal behavior. Those techniques also increase the overhead in identifying the abnormal behavior pattern. To resolve this problem, the proposed system uses a novel approach which involves in monitoring both frequent mining pattern and subsequent database queries of individual user to identify the weighing factor using from which the proposed system can able to detect insider attack with less overhead and with minimum support.
2002 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METAL POWDER DEPOSITION FOR RAPID MANUFACTURING April 2002, San Antonio, Texas, USA SIMULATION OF LAYER OVERLAP TEMPERING KINETICS IN STEEL PARTS DEPOSITED BY LASER CLADDING

The application of laser cladding in multiple-layer deposition processes to build complex metal parts is attracting considerable attention. Due to the fast cooling rates in laser cladding, diffusive solid-state transformations are normally suppressed, but as successive clad tracks are overlapped, the associated thermal input is driven by heat conduction to the previously deposited layers. These layers undergo a succession of anisothermal cycles that may lead to complex phase transformations. In steels, in particular, decomposition of the metastable phases present in the material will occur. Some of these phase transformations produce changes in the material specific volume, promoting residual stress-induced deformation or even cracking of the part. Also, the properties of the deposited material are progressively modified as thermal cycles are overlapped. In this paper, the solid state phase transformations in tool steels deposited by laser metal powder deposition are modelled. Kinetic models describing non-isothermal tempering of martensite were coupled with a heat transfer model to simulate the tempering effects that result from the successive overlap of clad layers.
REVIEW OF CENTRALIZATION AND DECENTRALIZATION APPROACHES TO CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA

Abstrak: development characteristics of centralized curriculum 2013 can be traced from the imposition of the curriculum history in Indonesia, more or less the same, all centralized. This historical study goal is to see the development of the curriculum in force in Indonesia between centralized and decentralized. This study design to track the sources of the applicable curriculum, sort period of enactment, to identify the characteristics of centralized and decentralized, making categorization, and make conclusions. The results show that the Lesson Plan Formulation 1960 promulgated Decree No. MPRS II/MPRS/1960 provide that the applicable curriculum is single from central to local. Curriculum 1968 also provides that the applicable curriculum single from central to local. The same thing with curricula that apply previously 1975 Curriculum, Curriculum 1984 and Curriculum 1994 centralistic traits are not detachable and is attached via the characteristics. The centralized tail grew longer with the imposition of Curriculum 2013.
African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon) and other local Tanzanian tree species’ biological performance against subterranean termites and wood decay fungi

African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon) is known as an indispensable material for the production of musical instruments, e.g., clarinets, oboes, and piccolos. The authors focused on the biological performance of African blackwood and other local Tanzanian species in order to collect preliminary data for developing further uses for these local timbers. Five local species, including African blackwood, were exposed to both subterranean termites (Coptotermes formosanus) and two wood decay fungi (White rot fungus (Trametes versicolor) and Brown rot fungus (Fomitopsis palustris)) according to Japanese standard test methods. African blackwood heartwood had high durability against both termite and fungal attacks, as well as the highest air-dried density of all test species. Some species also indicated a higher durability, even though they had a lower density than African blackwood heartwood. The authors showed the importance of heartwood extractives in terms of biological performance for the local Tanzanian timbers. The authors findings suggested that African blackwood heartwood was clearly useful as a high-durability material in addition to current major applications. The potential of the other local species was also suggested in terms of further timber utilization. These results presented fundamental information about sustainable forest management based on the effective utilization of local timbers.
How Can Remote Operations Become More Resilient?

Remote operations of offshore Oil and Gas installation are increasing. The motivation for remote operation is increased income, cost reductions, increased resilience, and more effective support of offshore activities and reduced hazard exposure of the employees. Our goal is to identify factors and issues that can make remote operations more safe and resilient. These factors and issues are going to be included in a methodology to be used to assess remote operations and identify areas of improvement. We have based our work on a survey within the Oil and Gas industry and relevant issues and best practices from other industries. We have also based our work on theories from high reliability organisations and resilience engineering. Several findings were common across the industries, suggesting that it seems to be possible to learn from other industries about remote operations. Key issues are to develop technical solutions coordinated with organisational development and training in collaboration with the key stakeholders, focusing on robust routines and rich systems for information sharing. Scenario analysis cross organisations should be used to improve resilience. We are proposing to use the result of our work in methodologies to be used by the oil and gas industries in Norway.
Using phospholipid vesicles to assay bacterial lytic agents, examining factors and identifying virulence loci which alter toxin production in Staphylococcus aureus

Burns represent one of the most devastating forms of injury with infection complications representing the highest risk of mortality. The primary objective of the Bacteriosafe project was the development of a smart wound dressing that would respond to the presence of bacteria in burn wounds. The basis of this sensing system employed the use of phospholipid vesicles, containing a self-quenchable fluorescent dye. These vesicles mimic the eukaryotic cell membrane and as such are susceptible to bacterial cytolytic factors which lyse the vesicles, generating an observable and measurable fluorescent response. My primary role in this project was to identify the vesicle lysing agents secreted from the two most frequent burn wound colonisers, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We identified the small amphipathic alpha helical peptide toxins from S. aureus and glycolipid molecules derived from P. aeruginosa as the agents responsible for vesicle lysis. The identification of these molecules led to the development of two novel phenotypic assays designed to measure these important virulence factors, as discussed in chapter 3 and 4. In chapter 5 we examined the role of toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) in repressing global exoprotein expression. Our results demonstrate that TSST-1 does not repress toxin secretion and strains expressing TSST-1 retain their ability to lyse vesicles. In chapter 6 we explored the use of subinhibitory oxacillin in inducing the alternative penicillin binding protein 2a (PBP2a) in community-acquired methicillin resistant S. aureus (CA-MRSA) strains to down-regulate toxicity. Previous work in the Massey lab demonstrated that the expression of the mecA gene, which encodes PBP2a, resulted in reduced toxicity in hospital-acquired (HA) -MRSA. CA-MRSA strains are considered highly toxic and have a considerably lower level of PBP2a expression. Treatment of CA-MRSA strains with subinhibitory oxacillin did result in a down-regulation of some toxins but also the up-regulation of others, highlighting the pleiotropic effect oxacillin had on virulence regulation. In chapter 7 we developed an approach that uses the genome sequences of a set of related clinical S. aureus strains to identify novel virulence loci by associating genetic polymorphisms with specific virulence phenotypes using a genome wide association study (GWAS). This analysis resulted in the identification of four novel loci which when mutated lead to a reduction in toxicity. We demonstrate that the GWAS approach is an effective method in identifying candidate SNPs which may be important in altering virulence but do highlight limitations of this approach, primarily the generation of false positives