Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dijital İletişim ve Küresel Kültürel Etkileşimin Homojenleşme, Kutuplaşma ve Melezleşme Süreçleri

Modernitenin yeni bir gorunumu olarak degerlendirilen kuresellesme, toplumsal hayatin butun alanlarini standartlastiran bir fonksiyonu da yerine getirmektedir. Kuresellesmenin standartlasmaya zorladigi son alan ise kulturdur. Kuresel duzeyde toplumsal degisim ortaminin hazirlanmasini saglayan dijital cagin nimetleri, kulturel kuresellesmenin lokomotifini olusturmaktadir. Dijital yasamin ayrilmaz parcalari bilgisayar, akilli telefon ve tablet gibi ileri teknoloji kullanan cihazlar internet alt yapisiyla birleserek kulturler arasinda geciskenligi saglayan kulturel ag toplumunu insa etmektedir. Ag toplumu ise elektronik iletisim hatlariyla tasinir hale getirdigi kulturu tarihten ve cografyadan soyutlayarak yakindan etkilemektedir. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube gibi sosyal medya uygulamalari, medyanin kuresel agina eklenerek bu dinamigi gelistirmeye devam etmektedir. Yayginlasan kitle iletisim araclari ve sosyal medya uygulamalari, kuresel kulturel akisin ve Bati tipi kulturel degisimin tasiyicilaridir. Dunyanin farkli bolgelerinde ozgun formlar gelistiren kulturleri etkilesime acik hale getiren kuresellesme sureci, toplumlarin dis kaynaklardan farkli formlari kabul etmesini ve icsellestirmesini saglamaktadir. Gorunurde butun kulturlerin yasam tarzlarini ve toplumsal pratiklerini ic ice geciren bir benzesme sureci yasanmaktadir. Ancak ekonomik ve teknolojik gelismeler farkli ve ozgun kulturlerin gelisimini zorlastirirken, bir merkezden yonlendirilen kulturun yayilmasini kolaylastirmaktadir. Kitle iletisim araclarinin daha cok butunlestirici surecleri hizlandirmakta rol aldigi kulturel kuresellesmenin homojenlesme, kutuplasma ve hibritlesme etkileri bu makalenin konusunu olusturmaktadir. Calisma, dijital iletisim caginin yerel kulturlerle etkilesimini ve kulturel kuresellesmeyi medya baglaminda tartismaya acmaktadir.
ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIOCINOGENIC LACTIC ACID BACTERIA FROM INDIGINOUS DAIRY SOURCE AND ITS ANTIMICROBIAL POTENTIAL

Food-borne infections are globally midst the utmost critical and inflated public health issues, as a main cause of morbidity. The reported numbers of food-borne diseases and intoxications still increased over the past decade because all the food safety techniques and food handling processes cannot overcome the risks relevant to food spoilage and food pathogens. Campylobacter, Salmonella, Listeria and viruses caused the most common food-borne infections in the European Union and affect more than 380,000 citizens per year (EFSA, 2009). Fresh-cut lettuce from more than a decade has been one of the major concerned raw material which accounts for 80% of the total production of fresh cut. The salad bars now became popular and demand of freshly cut lettuce also increased, hence available in convenience stores, supermarkets, and introduced new environment that favors the growth of food spoilage and food-borne pathogenic bacteria like Listeria monocytogenes (Gombas et al., 2003). Global food market now introduces novel foods and ready to serve, minimal processed or fresh cut foods. Hence these foods may need a longer and more complicate food chain which increase the chances of microbial contamination. So, there is always a gap for continuous innovative food preservation techniques that fulfill the demand from “farm to fork”. Recently special courtesy has been given to bioprotection/biopreservation of food products to enhance the hygienic quality and shelf-life of food products. Biopreservation also improves the sensory and nutritional characteristics of fresh cut vegetable products. Bioprotection/biopreservation with use of naturally existing microorganisms and their metabolic products has an excellent history of benign use with high antimicrobial potential. Bacteriocins are produced proteins or peptides having greater antibacterial potential towards closely related strains. Many of the bacteriocins have relatively high molecular weight (>80 kDa) which destroy food spoilage and food pathogenic bacteria (Cascales et al., 2007). Recently, small, heat-stable cationic peptides produced from Gram positive bacteria are defined as bacteriocin, which have a broad antimicrobial inhibition spectrum (Cotter et al., 2005). Many LAB bacteriocins have excellent antibacterial spectrum for food spoilage and food-borne Grampositive bacteria. External membrane protects the Gram-negative bacteria intrinsically. Nevertheless, recent techniques applied in freshcut vegetable processing manufacturers have enhanced shelf Pak. J. Agri. Sci., Vol. 55(1), 175-182;2018 ISSN (Print) 0552-9034, ISSN (Online) 2076-0906 DOI: 10.21162/PAKJAS/18.6105 http://www.pakjas. com.pk
International Joint Ventures: Implications for Organisation Development

Amidst the diverse forms of international direct investment, the international joint venture (IJV) appears to have become the fastest growing, most popular type of operation. An IJV may be defined as “a separate legal organizational entity representing the partial holdings of two or more parent firms, in which the headquarters of at least one parent firm is located outside the country of operation of the joint venture. This entity is subject to the joint control of its parent firms, each of which is economically and legally independent of the other”.
Blocking estrogen-induced AMH expression is crucial for normal follicle formation

ABSTRACT In mammals, primordial follicles assembled in fetuses or during infancy constitute the oocyte resources for life. Exposure to 17beta-estradiol and phytogenic or endocrine-disrupting chemicals during pregnancy and/or the perinatal period leads to the failure of normal follicle formation. However, the mechanisms underlying estrogen-mediated abnormal follicle formation and physiological follicle formation in the presence of endogenous natural estrogen are not well understood. Here, we reveal that estrogen receptor 1, activated by estrogen, binds to the 5′ region of the anti-Mullerian hormone (Amh) gene and upregulates its transcription before follicle formation in cultured mouse fetal ovaries. Ectopic expression of AMH protein was observed in pregranulosa cells of these explants. Furthermore, the addition of AMH to the culture medium inhibited normal follicle formation. Conversely, alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) produced in the fetal liver reportedly blocks estrogen action, although its role in follicle formation is unclear. We further demonstrated that the addition of AFP to the medium inhibited ectopic AMH expression via estrogen, leading to successful follicle formation in vitro. Collectively, our in vitro experiments suggest that upon estrogen exposure, the integrity of follicle assembly in vivo is ensured by AFP. Highlighted Article: An in vitro study inferring that successful follicle assembly under the circulating physiological level of estrogen in the mouse fetus is achieved by liver-produced alpha-fetoprotein.
Modeling multi-type information propagation based on multi-layer networks

Information propagation in the real world is a complex system interacting in a multi-dimensional space. Information propagation networks are diverse and coupled, and existing research cannot meet the needs of actual interaction situations. The multi-layer complex network model provides a suitable framework to model multiple types of information propagation. Previous research on information propagation networks focused on single-layer networks. However, in the real world, different types of information propagation will affect each other, and the network structure of each type of information is different. In this article, we have established a multi-layer complex network model for multi-type information propagation. We first considered the transfer and interaction process of various types of information on the multilayer network, and modeled and analyzed its topology and dynamic behavior. In addition, we provide a multi-layer network model framework. It can reflect the key attributes of network information transmission capabilities. Based on the micro-Markov chain method, we analyzed and deduced the information propagation threshold and balance point of the network, and obtained the influence of each parameter in the model on the information propagation process of each layer of the network. Our work proves that deleting nodes or edges in the network will increase the information propagation threshold of the multi-layer networks, and then provide a method to weaken the ability of multi-type information propagation on the network.
Effects of Different Parameter Settings for 3D Data Smoothing and Mesh Simplification on Near Real-Time 3D Reconstruction of High Resolution Bioceramic Bone Void Filling Medical Images

Three-dimensional reconstruction plays a vital role in assisting doctors and surgeons in diagnosing the healing progress of bone defects. Common three-dimensional reconstruction methods include surface and volume rendering. As the focus is on the shape of the bone, this study omits the volume rendering methods. Many improvements have been made to surface rendering methods like Marching Cubes and Marching Tetrahedra, but not many on working towards real-time or near real-time surface rendering for large medical images and studying the effects of different parameter settings for the improvements. Hence, this study attempts near real-time surface rendering for large medical images. Different parameter values are experimented on to study their effect on reconstruction accuracy, reconstruction and rendering time, and the number of vertices and faces. The proposed improvement involving three-dimensional data smoothing with convolution kernel Gaussian size 5 and mesh simplification reduction factor of 0.1 is the best parameter value combination for achieving a good balance between high reconstruction accuracy, low total execution time, and a low number of vertices and faces. It has successfully increased reconstruction accuracy by 0.0235%, decreased the total execution time by 69.81%, and decreased the number of vertices and faces by 86.57% and 86.61%, respectively.
EDGE Downlink Throughput Performance : In a Forest Environment

Mobile Telephony has witnessed considerable growth over the past few years. Since the dawn of the first analogue systems, the volume of subscribers was constantly increasing. In recent years GSM networks have witnessed an unparalleled growth and today they are available in almost all countries and regions around the globe. Although EDGE technology has been available sincesome time, it has not witnessed considerable spread among operators. However, as a step towards complying with regulators, operators need to cover rural areas with 3G services. From hence, EDGE was the technology of choice since it provides coverage and high data rates ina scenario where the population is scarce and high throughput is wanted. This thesis investigates the throughput coverage performance of recently deployed EDGE networks in rural forest areas. Thereby providing an insight as to what bit rates to expect on the downlink in a scenariowhich is to be carried out in the 3 GSM rollout plan for several operators. A case study is carried out in the forest areas around Jonkoping where EDGE capabilities are being deployed. A selection of typical forest environments and different sites have been chosen so as to provide asample of forest areas across Sweden. Measurements in those test areas have been carried out and later extracted and analyzed. The results reveal that the throughput in those areas was below expectations and thatthe main reason lied in the high block error rate experienced even when the signal to interference-noise ratio is high. The MCS selection was alsonot the same as anticipated by simulations, due to the high Block ErrorRate which forced the base station to choose lower Modulation Coding Schemes than the ones perferred at a specific signal level. In the end a rough expectation of the throughput coverage is concluded from theresults acquired by this thesis and those provided by a thesis carried in parallel, which involved a parallel study of the propagation model in the same areas.
Educational Facilities: Planning, Modernization, and Management

Preface. I. THEORY AND PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING. 1. The Evolution of Educational Facilities. 2. Educational Practices and Technological Developments. II. PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA FOR LONG-RANGE PLANNING. 3. School Surveys. 4. The School Building Survey. 5. Summary of Planning Procedures: Step by Step. 6. Foundations and Principles of Educational Facility Planning. III. FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITY PLANNING. 7. Leeway for Change. 8. Adequacy, Efficiency, and Economy. 9. Planning for Energy Conservation and Management. 10. Safety, Health, and Comfort. 11. Acoustical and Visual Environments. IV. PLANNING AN EDUCATIONAL FACILITY. 12. Planning Elementary and Middle Schools. 13. Planning Secondary School Buildings. 14. Planning College and Universities. 15. Planning Child Care Facilities. 16. Postplanning Procedures and Construction Costs. V. MODERNIZING, MAINTAINING, AND OPERATING AN EXISTING FACILITY. 17. Modernization of Educational Facilities. 18. Maintenance and Operation. Index.
Rancang Bangun Aplikasi Smart Touring Berbasis Android Design and Build Smart Touring Application Based on Android

Perkembangan teknologi saat ini begitu cepat. Teknologi membuat perubahan pada peradaban manusia. Telah banyak kegiatan manusia yang didukung oleh kemajuan teknologi. Tak terkecuali kegiatan touring yang dilakukan bersama-sama. Touring adalah kegiatan berkendara dari suatu tempat ke tempat lain secara bersama-sama. Saat ini komunitas touring terus meningkat, namun masih memiliki beberapa permasalahan saat melakukan aktifitasnya. Saat ini salah satu permasalahan yang ada pada aktifitas touring adalah pengendara satu dengan yang lainnya tidak bisa mengetahui lokasi semua teman touring mereka. Oleh karena itu sangat dimungkinkan ada anggota touring mereka yang tertinggal jauh atau salah jalur. Dengan teknologi smartphone yang sangat pesat, dimungkinkan dibangun sebuah sistem yang dapat mendukung kegiatan touring tersebut. Pada penelitian ini telah berhasil dibangun sistem yang dapat mendukung kelancaran aktifitas touring menggunakan metode waterfall. Metode waterfall terdiri dari analisis, desain, implementasi, dan pengujian. Pada tahap desain digunakan metode Unified Modeling Language (UML). Fokus penelitian ini adalah membangun sistem touring yang dapat mendeteksi keberadaan semua member touring ketika sedang melakukan kegiatan touring. Sistem yang dibangun adalah berbasis contextual awareness, yaitu sistem yang mampu memberikan informasi kepada pengguna dengan data yang didapat dari lingkungannya. Berdasarkan hasil pengujian yang dilakukan menggunakan metode black box testing dihasilkan akurasi sebesar 94.44%.
A Robust Receiver Based on Chaos Modulation for the Industrial Internet of Things

Industrial wireless channels feature rich multipath components and strong noise. Massively deployed nodes in an industrial network are often cheap devices. Under such circumstances, the received packets are prone to errors. The conventional method for guaranteeing data quality relies on the MAC layer approach, such as retransmissions. However, this approach creates a data misalignment problem that degrades the performance of multidevice cooperation. Therefore, we propose a robust quadrature ergodic chaotic parameter modulation (QECPM)-based receiver to avoid retransmission. The proposed method does not require timing synchronization. This method eliminates the possibility of cycle slipping, which has a major effect on performance. The bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed receiver in the Nakagami-m channel is derived and verified by simulation. Using the proposed receiver, the multipath effect can be mitigated using a single scalar. We use software-defined radios (SDRs) to show that the proposed method is robust against timing synchronization errors in practice. Furthermore, we show that as long as there are retransmissions, misaligned packets are to be expected; however, when using the proposed receiver, the error bits are sparse enough to utilize the non-retransmission mode to maintain stable link rates. Our results show that the proposed receiver is robust to multipath, timing synchronization errors and data misalignment.
Introduction: American Game Studies

In 2017, the American game designer Momo Pixel released the single-player, browser-based game Hair Nah. In this game, you play as Aeva, a Black woman taking trips to locations that include Osaka, Havana, and the Santa Monica Pier. As you move through levels on your journey—a taxi ride, airport security, sitting on the plane—you must slap away increasingly aggressive white hands that reach into the frame to touch your hair. Though Hair Nah taps into the genre of a casual button-mashing game, this interactive experience also explores the topic of microaggressions via unwanted hair touching. If you slap away enough hands on your travels, you reach a screen welcoming you to your destination with the message “YOU WIN! ” but the caveat, “The game is over, but this experience isn’t. This is an issue that black women face daily. So a note to those who do it STOP THAT SHIT. ” How did video games move from a medium oriented toward adolescent male consumers and characterized by violent actions, such as shooting or fighting, to one that could also accommodate a playfully serious and cathartic exploration of a Black woman defending herself against racist bodily intrusions? Though video games still privilege violent mechanics and are far from diverse, especially in terms of designers and developers in the industry, the early twenty-first century has seen an expansion of the form of, and the culture surrounding, games. This has included a proliferation of game genres: puzzleplatforms (a hybrid that combines spatial or cognitive puzzles with jumps across platforms as in Super Mario Bros. [Nintendo, 1983]); survival horror games (action-adventure games in which the player must persist in a threatening environment without adequate resources);
Software defined infrastructures : implications for technology and business strategies for competing in the era of hyper-scale computing

The adoption of Cloud Computing and the emergence of new Cloud services pioneered by Amazon (AWS) have brought the importance of agility and flexibility of infrastructure to the forefront. Companies ranging from small to large Enterprises today have a Cloud Strategy. Their Cloud Strategy ranges from being all-in with respect to moving their internal IT infrastructure to the Cloud to moving only specific low SLA workloads to the cloud. However, not everyone can or is comfortable letting their sensitive data leave their infrastructure and reside on third party infrastructure that is not in their control. This has led to customers building Private Clouds, which however don't give them the scale or the flexibility that Public Clouds provide. So customers are now looking at ways to replicate the success of Public Clouds in their own environments. What they find is that the existing IT infrastructure and its architecture is inadequate to provide those benefits. To achieve the Public Cloud characteristics, customers have started looking at the infrastructure built by Hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and the benefits that they have been able to achieve as a model to build their own IT data centers. The infrastructure of these Web giants consists of commodity hardware components managed and driven by intelligent Software. This has given rise to various Software Defined technologies like Software Defined Networking and Software Defined Storage. As the customer interest and adoption of these technologies increase it presents a huge business challenge to existing IT equipment vendors. Not only are they faced with technological challenges as the architecture moves in a different direction than they were charting to but it also presents a business model change which if not navigated carefully can lead to significant erosion of their revenues. This thesis identifies the impact of Software Defined Infrastructures on the enterprise equipment vendors and proposes strategies for successfully competing in the age of Hyper-scale Computing. Thesis Supervisor: Patrick Hale Title: Director, System Design and Management Fellows Program. Senior Lecturer, Engineering Systems Division
Recovery of Distributed Iterative Solvers for Linear Systems Using Non-Volatile RAM

HPC systems are a critical resource for scientific research and advanced industries. The increased demand for computational power and memory ushers in the exascale era, in which supercomputers are designed to provide enormous computing power to meet these needs. These complex supercomputers consist of numerous compute nodes and are consequently expected to experience frequent faults and crashes.Mathematical solvers, in particular, iterative linear solvers are key building block in numerous large-scale scientific applications. Consequently, supporting the recovery of distributed solvers is necessary for scaling scientific applications to exascale platforms. Previous recovery methods for iterative solvers are based on Checkpoint-Restart (CR), which incurs high fault tolerance overhead, or intrinsic fault tolerance, which require extra computation time to converge after failures.Exact state reconstruction (ESR) was proposed as an alternative mechanism to alleviate the impact of frequent failures on long-term computations. ESR has been shown to provide exact reconstruction of the computation state while avoiding the need for costly checkpointing. However, ESR currently relies on volatile memory for fault tolerance, and must therefore maintain redundancies in the RAM of multiple nodes. This not only incurs high memory overhead but also prevents ESR from being fully resilient, that is, resilient against a full system crash.Recent supercomputer designs feature emerging non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) technology, for example, the exascale Aurora that is planned to consist of Intel Optane™ DCPMM. This paper investigates how NVRAM can be utilized to devise an enhanced ESR-based recovery mechanism that is more efficient and provides full resilience. Our mechanism, called in-NVRAM ESR, provides full resiliency while significantly reducing both the memory footprint and the time overhead in comparison with the original ESR design (in-RAM ESR). In-NVRAM ESR is based on a novel MPI One-Sided Communication (OSC) over RDMA implementation, which was optimized and applied for using NVRAM to store recovery data for iterative linear solvers. The source code used in this work, as well as the benchmarks and other relevant sources, are available at: https://github.com/Scientific-Computing-Lab-NRCN/In-NVRAM-ESR.git.
ISSN 2320-5407 International Journal of Advanced Research (2016), Volume 4, Issue 4, 1055-1066

Ola A. Harb 1 , Lubna O. Abdel–Salam 2 , Dina A. Khairy 3 , *Rasha Haggag 4 . 1. Department of pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Sharkia, Egypt. 2. Department of pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. 3. Department of pathology, Faculty of Medicine , Beni Sueif University, Beni Sueif, Egypt. 4. Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Sharkia, Egypt.