Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Balancing Character of a Policy Instrument

This paper demonstrates how the choice of instrument facilitates acceptance of a new accountability requirement in the Ontario university sector as it helps balance the government’s need for control with the universities’ need for independence. The instrument, conceptualized as an agreement, embodies the negotiated character of the relationship between government and universities, and conveys the idea to different actors that their needs are met. Despite the promises of the instrument, when objectives are ambiguous, uncertainty is pervasive, and negotiation is limited, the increase in government control is minimized and the changes in university autonomy are negligible, thus suggesting that symbolic and rhetorical compliance may be the sustainable equilibrium between governments and governed. Nonetheless, some level of transformation is observed in the sector as the new tool contributes to strengthening priority alignment, highlighting the value of sharing stories, and increasing acceptance of reporting requirements. Résumé Cet article montre que le choix des instruments de politique publique facilite l'acceptation d'une nouvelle exigence de responsabilité dans le secteur universitaire en Ontario en assurant l’équilibre entre le besoin de contrôle du gouvernement et la nécessité d'indépendance des universités. L'instrument, conceptualisé comme un accord, symbolise le caractère négocié de la relation entre le gouvernement et les universités et donne l’impression que les besoins des deux parties sont satisfaits. Toutefois, malgré les visées de l'instrument, lorsque les objectifs sont ambigus, l'incertitude est omniprésente, la négociation est limitée, le contrôle du gouvernement est minimisé et les changements dans l'autonomie des universités sont négligeables. Cela suggère qu’un respect symbolique et rhétorique peut assurer un équilibre durable entre gouvernants et gouvernés. Néanmoins, certaines transformations sont observées dans le secteur alors que le nouvel outil contribue à renforcer l'alignement des priorités, à faire valoir l’importance de partager des récits, et à accroître l'acceptation des demandes de reddition de comptes.
Metody prowadzenia testów jednostkowych w standardzie C++14 z wykorzystaniem biblioteki GMOCK

W artykule przedstawiono jeden z problemów występujących podczas korzystania ze standardu C++14 wraz z biblioteką Google Mock. Na podstawie wprowadzonego problemu omówiono możliwe rozwiązania, a także zaprezentowano poprawiony schemat dla podejścia TDD.
Modelo de valoración financiera de proyectos especializados en ingeniería de la construcción

La evaluacion financiera de proyectos de construccion es una herramienta clave antes de tomar cualquier tipo de decision de inversion. La forma como se evaluan este tipo de proyectos en el ambito colombiano, no es el adecuado desde el punto de vista financiero y analitico. Lo que se propone en esta investigacion es una forma mas precisa de realizar un analisis financiero por medio de un modelo que permita involucrar el comportamiento de las variables macroeconomicas y microeconomicas que afectan el sector, a traves de la proyeccion de un flujo libre de caja, el cual se descuenta al weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Como resultado se tiene el Valor presente neto y la Utilidad neta, utilizando la simulacion de Monte Carlo con el programa Crystal Ball, obteniendo un intervalo de confianza de los resultados esperados y analizando las variables que mas afectan el valor en este tipo de negocios.
15-(111-117) Woo-Jin Choi 외.hwp

PURPOSE: To determine the effect of weight ball throw training as a preparatory exercise before golf practice for 8 weeks on back muscle strength, weight shifting of lower body, head speed of club, and driving distance of amateur golfers. METHODS: A total of 18 subjects were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n=9) and the control group (n=9), respectively. For the experimental group, Weight ball throw training was provided to the height of waist and shoulder similar to golf swing with the following schedule: 3 kg weight ball throw training from the first week to the 4th week; 5 kg weight ball throw training from the 5th week to the 8th week. Before and after 8 weeks of training, back muscle strength, weight shifting of lower body, head speed of club, and driving distance of subjects in the two groups were measured. RESULTS: The experimental group showed significant differences in rotational back extension torque, weight shifting of lower body, head speed of club, and driving
CUNY Academic Works CUNY Academic Works

Used as a non-invasive and remote sensor, the laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) has been used in many different applications, such as inspection of aircrafts, bridge and structure and remote voice acquisition. However, using LDV as a vehicle surveillance device has not been feasible due to the lack of systematic investigations on its behavioral properties. In this thesis, the LDV data from different vehicles are examined and features are extracted. A tone-pitch indexing (TPI) scheme is developed to classify different vehicles by exploiting the engine’s periodic vibrations that are transferred throughout the vehicle’s body. Using the TPI with a two-layer feed-forward 20 intermediate-nodes neural network to classify vehicles’ engine, the results are encouraging as they can consistently achieve accuracies over 96%. However, the TPI required a length of 1.25 seconds of vibration, which is a drawback of the TPI, as vehicles generally are moving whence the 1.25 second signals are unavailable. Based on the success of TPI, a new normalized tone-pitch indexing (nTPI) scheme is further developed, using the engine’s periodic vibrations, and shortened the time period from 1.25 seconds to a reasonable 0.2 seconds.
THEEFFECTS OF PERCEIVED LEISURE CONSTRAINTS AMONGKOREAN UNIVERSITY

: This study is based on Crawford, Jackson, and Godbey's model of leisure constraints (1991), and examines the relationships between the influences of perceived constraints, frequency ofparticipation, and health status in the context of leisure-time outdoor activities. The study was based on a sample of 234 Korean university students. This study provides further support for this model of leisure constraints: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural. The results indicated that the higher interpersonal constraints, the lower the frequency of activity participation. Moreover, the results demonstrated that highly interpersonally constrained participants tended to rate themselves lower with respect to mental heath. In addition, respondents who participated more frequently in these activities tended to give higher self-reports concerning their mental health.
Disentangling the costs of male harassment and the benefits of 1 polyandry for females 2 3

16 Many studies quantify how polyandry affects female fitness by allowing females to either 17 mate with one or several males. But even if the number of matings is standardised, such 18 studies conflate any costs of interacting with males with the potential benefits of receiving 19 sperm from several males, obscuring the benefits of polyandry. We conducted a 2x2 factorial 20 experiment on the mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki to quantify the independent effects of 21 male harassment and polyandry. We artificially inseminated virgin females with sperm from 22 either one or five males (monandry versus polyandry). Females were then housed in the 23 presence or absence of reproductively ablated males who could harass, but not mate with 24
Electrode fall voltage of arc between deion plates during direct-current interruption period

A direct-current low-voltage circuit breaker has an arc chute that consists of a stack of several metallic deion plates. The deion plate is also called a splitter plate. The function of the deion plates is to split the arc into several series short-gap arcs. This phenomenon leads to the emergence of electrode fall voltages in the arc chute, eventually contributing to rise in the total arc-voltage in the circuit breaker and to successful current-interruption. The electrode fall voltage therefore plays an important role for successful current-interruption. The present paper describes the estimation result for the electrode fall voltage vele of the arc between steel deion plates. The estimation is performed by using a newly devised method. This method utilizes the voltage vchute measured across the arc chute and eventually derives vele on the basis of the statistics: a correlation coefficient between an arc-column electric-field strength Ecol and an arc current i. Adopting the devised method enabled us to derive 19 V as vele. Verification is furthermore made to show the validity of the determined electrode-fall voltage, 19 V.
CHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON HONEY PRODUCED IN BINGOL AND SURROUNDINGS

Bingol and the surrounding vicinity with its climatic conditions and rich flora is a convenient area for beekeeping. In this region, beekeeping activities are increasing day by day. In this study, by analyzing saccharose, invert sugar, pH, moisture and diastase enzyme activity, it is aimed to determine the conformity of the flower honey with standards that are produced in Bingol and its surrounding area. For this purpose, 7 honey samples were collected from seven distinct areas of Bingol and its surrounding (Bingol Central, Kigi, Solhan, Karliova, Yayladere, Genc, Adakli) and analyzed. The average contents of sucrose, invert sugar, pH, moisture and amylase enzyme activity in honey samples were determined to be 1.65%, 80.23%, 2.81, 15.43% and 0.074 units mL-1, respectively. When the biochemical analysis average of all the regions was taken into consideration, the honey was found to comply with the Turkish Food Codex, and TS 3036 criteria in terms of the examined parameters. In order to develop the beekeeping industry and high quality honey production in this region, educational activities and financial support -with various projects should be increased. The next step is to announce the findings obtained here about Bingol honey to the whole country and even abroad, with adequate advertising activities.
CLONALITY ANALYSES OF ADRENAL MEDULLARY PROLIFERATIONS

Genetic analyses of different molecular markers, specially those of polymorphic DNA regions, have provided valuable information on the pathogenesis of endocrine neoplasms, both sporadic and familial. Those polymorphic DNA areas allow reliable allele identification and, therefore, DNA loss would be expressed as reduction to hemizygosity. According to Knudson's hypothesis, DNA loss would explain neoplastic development and progression if tumor suppressor genes are involved (23, 24) A relatively common pattern for most PCC's came from those studies, showing genetic deletions (demonstrated by loss-of-heterozygosity analyses) at several loci, particularly at 1p, 3p, 11p, 11q, 17p, 17q, 22q (25-31). Those interstitial DNA deletions mainly involve both known tumor suppressor genes, such as von HippelLindau gene locus (3p25) (30), neurofibromatosis 1 locus (17p) (25), or p53 locus (17p) (26), and unknown tumor suppressor genes at 1p (at 34-36, distal to D1S73 and proximal to D1S63), 11p, 11q, 22 q (distal to D22S24 and proximal to D22S1) (2931). Additionally, activating point mutations of genes involved in other endocrine tumors have been demonstrated in both sporadic and familial PCC's, including ret proto-oncogene (32) and the G protein gene encoding for Gs alpha (19).
Transcriptional Regulation of an hsp 7 O Heat Shock Gene in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains three heat-inducible hsp7O genes. We have characterized the promoter region of the hsp70 heat shock gene YGI00, that also displays a basal level of expression. Deletion of the distal region of the promoter resulted in an 80% drop in the basal level of expression without affecting expression after heat shock. Progressive-deletion analysis suggested that sequences necessary for heat-inducible expression are more proximal, within 233 base pairs of the initiation region. The promoter region of YGI00 contains multiple elements related to the Drosophia melanogaster heat shock element (HSE; CnnGAAnnT TCnnG). Deletion of a proximal promoter region containing one element, HSE2, eliminated most of the heat-inducible expression of YGI00. The upstream activation site (UAS) of the yeast cytochrome c gene (CYCI) can be substituted by a single copy of HSE2 plus its adjoining nucleotides (UASHS). This hybrid promoter displayed a substantial level of expression before heat shock, and the level of expression was elevated eightfold by heat shock. YGI00 sequences that flank UASHs inhibited basal expression of UASHS in the hybrid promoter but not its heat-inducible expression. This inhibition of basal UASHS activity suggests that negative regulation is involved in modulating expression of this yeast heat shock gene.
Dual Mechanism for the Control of Inducible-type NO Synthase Gene Expression in Macrophages during Activation by Interferon-y and Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide

Production of nitric oxide (NO) by macrophages is enhanced upon activation by bacterial endotoxins and cytokines mainly via an increase of the intracellular content of the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase (i-NOS). We have studied in detail the effect of several modulators of macrophage activity on steady state levels of i-NOS mRNA in the mouse macrophage-like cell line RAW 264.7. Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interferon-y (IFN-y) were found to be eff ctive inducers of i-NOS mRNA, in accordance with their known ability to stimulate both i-NOS activity and NO production in macrophages from different sources, while TNF-a, IL-1, or IL-6 was ineffective in this regard. Accumulation of i-NOS mRNA in response to either LPS or IFN-y stimulation was accompanied by increased i-NOS gene transcription, as detected both by using a nuclear “run-on” transcription assay and by transient transfection of the cloned gene promoter in RAW 264.7 cells. Co-stimulation of the cells with both inducers resulted in higher steady state levels of i-NOS mRNA in the absence, however, of a corresponding potentiation of the rate of gene transcription. This was due primarily to a considerable effect of LPS on i-NOS mRNA stability, with prolongation of its half-life from 1-1.5 h, in the presence of IFN-y alone, to 4-6 h in the presence of both LPS and IFN-y.
Microfluidic platforms for cell analysis : applied to study cell mechanics and high-throughput screening

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A Musical Genre Classification Method Based on the Octave-Band Order Statistics

This paper presents a study on the effectiveness of using the spectral and the temporal octave-band order statistics for musical genre classification. In order to represent the relative disposition of the harmonic and non-harmonic components, we utilize the octave-band order statistics of power spectral distribution. Experiments on the widely used two music datasets were performed; the results show that the octave-band order statistics improve genre classification accuracy by 2.61 % for one dataset and 8.9 % for another dataset compared with the mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and the octave-band spectral contrast. Experimental results show that the octave-band order statistics are promising for musical genre classification.
Exploring the challenges to housing design quality in China An empirical study

The housing problem in China has shifted from a quantity to a quality problem, and it is time to take into consideration design quality in addition to housing delivery. This paper aims to explore and understand the challenges to improving housing design quality in China, helping to identify areas for future improvement and necessary corrective measures to be taken. A series of critical factors in housing design quality are identified by using a triangulation of a comprehensive literature review, qualitative interviews and a questionnaire survey administered to experienced practitioners in the Chinese housing industry. It is substantiated by a case study of two real-life housing projects, conducted to manifest the hindrances and the benefits achieved. This study has identified seven critical challenges: inadequate building technologies, lack of design accuracy, insufficient time and uncertain high cost, lack of consideration for end-users, insufficient collaboration, lack of public facilities, and insufficient incentives of quality design. Some key benefits related to housing design quality are also summarised in this study, including, but not limited to, enhanced brand recognition, regulatory incentives, improved customer satisfaction, reduction in operation and maintenance costs, and less construction time.
THE MOST USEFUL MARKER FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE APPENDICITIS: SERUM AMYLOID-A AKUT APANDİSİT TANISI KOYMADA EN DEĞERLİ BELİRTEÇ: SERUM AMİLOİD-A

Objective: Leukocytosis and high CRP levels which are used in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis may be insufficient to support the diagnosis of recurrent infections in children. The objective of our study was to evaluate the Serum Amyloid A protein (SAA) levels in children with confirmed acute appendicitis and to compare the sensitivity and specificity of this marker of inflammation with WBC and CRP. Methods: Sixty nine children (27 girls, 42 boys) who were admitted to the emergency service with abdominal pain were included in the study. Patients were divided into three groups as follows; Group­I: Patients with acute abdomen was operated with pre­diagnosis of acute appendicitis; Group­II: Patients who were hospitalized with the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain, but not operated; Group C: Patients who applied to emergency service for reasons other than acute abdominal pain, and cared for amyloid levels. The blood serum SAA, ESR, CRP and WBC at first admission, 6 hours, and 24 hours were measured and compared. Results: In first admission, at the 6 and 24 hours SAA and CRP levels were significantly higher in Group­I when compared with Group­II and Group­C (p<0.001, p<0.05, respectively). There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of the WBC (p>0.07). Conclusion: SAA levels have better discriminatory value than WBC or CRP in the assessment of acute appendicitis in children. Thus, this test appears to be of higher value than the current standards of care in the diagnosis of this condition.
SlobozhanSkyi herald of Science and Sport

Now, according to data of WHO, more than 1,5 billion people have excess weight and more than 500 million have obesity [1; 2]. One of vulnerable categories for emergence of excess body weight is the student’s youth. It is connected with the fact that the lifestyle of students is sated with factors, which can have potentially negative effect on health, provoking emergence of excess body weight. Among them – irrational ratio of work-rest schedule; decrease in physical activity; the considerable academic and emotional loads, which are connected with examination stress factors; chronic sleep debt; insufficient and irregular food, hobby for fast food and highcarbohydrate food [3; 4; 5]. It was defined in our researches of the structure of pathology, which is revealed during annual medical examinations at students of the I course that the most widespread is pathology of therapeutic profile among which the gastrointestinal diseases, which are followed by the excess body weight and obesity, rather often meet [6; 7]
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF A BIONIC ADHESIVE FOOT FOR GECKO ROBOT

Most of geckos can climb the ceiling smooth surface easily. This amazing ability in locomotion of geckos depends on the plenty setae of gecko’s foot. Some researchers found the structure function of gecko’s setae and produce different dry adhesive materials. We selected the dry adhesive material, which had mushroom-shaped adhesive microstructure (MSAMS), and tried to apply it in climbing ceiling experiment of a bio-inspired gecko robot with four legs. In this paper, a novel bionic adhesive foot was designed by studying on the structures and locomotion of gecko’s foot. To apply novel bionic adhesive foot in ceiling locomotion successfully, the mechanical property of MSAMS with different structures of gecko-inspired robot was tested and analyzed. We selected the optimal structures of gecko-inspired robot and applied it in the ceiling locomotion. Bioinspired gecko robot with the novel adhesive foot climbed the ceiling smooth surface stably, and it showed the rationality and feasibility of the bionic foot structure design.
Glycogen synthase kinase-3 b regulates cyclin D1 proteolysis and subcellular localization

The activities of cyclin D-dependent kinases serve to integrate extracellular signaling during G 1 phase with the cell-cycle engine that regulates DNA replication and mitosis. Induction of D-type cyclins and their assembly into holoenzyme complexes depend on mitogen stimulation. Conversely, the fact that D-type cyclins are labile proteins guarantees that the subunit pool shrinks rapidly when cells are deprived of mitogens. Phosphorylation of cyclin D1 on a single threonine residue near the carboxyl terminus (Thr-286) positively regulates proteasomal degradation of D1. Now, we demonstrate that glycogen synthase kinase-3 b (GSK-3 b ) phosphorylates cyclin D1 specifically on Thr-286, thereby triggering rapid cyclin D1 turnover. Because the activity of GSK-3 b can be inhibited by signaling through a pathway that sequentially involves Ras, phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase (PI3K), and protein kinase B (Akt), the turnover of cyclin D1, like its assembly, is also Ras dependent and, hence, mitogen regulated. In contrast, Ras mutants defective in PI3K signaling, or constitutively active mitogen-activated protein kinase-kinase (MEK1) mutants that act downstream of Ras to activate extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases (ERKs), cannot stabilize cyclin D1. In direct contrast to cyclin D1, which accumulates in the nucleus during G 1 phase and exits into the cytoplasm during S phase, GSK-3 b is predominantly cytoplasmic during G 1 phase, but a significant fraction enters the nucleus during S phase. A highly stable D1 mutant in which an alanine is substituted for the threonine at position 286 and that is refractory to phosphorylation by GSK-3 b remained in the nucleus throughout the cell cycle. Overexpression of an active, but not a kinase-defective, form of GSK-3 b in mouse fibroblasts caused a redistribution of cyclin D1 from the cell nucleus to the cytoplasm. Therefore, phosphorylation and proteolytic turnover of cyclin D1 and its subcellular localization during the cell division cycle are linked through the action of GSK-3 b .