Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
En lyckad inskolning

Syftet med denna studie ar att synliggora vad som leder till en lyckad inskolning pa forskolan ur pedagogers och foraldrars perspektiv men aven vad forfattare skrivit i amnet. I arbetet ligger stort fokus pa pedagogers och foraldrars roll under inskolningsprocessen men aven pa barns trygghet vid inskolning. Jag vill ta reda pa hur pedagoger och foraldrar kan underlatta inskolningen for ett litet barn. Som metod har jag anvant mig av kvalitativ intervju och kvalitativ analys. I studien deltog fem forskollarare och fem foraldrar. Forskollararna och foraldrarna ar fran den forskola som jag genomforde min VFU (Verksamhetsforlagd utbildning) inom Malmo kommun. I resultatet redovisas foraldrars och pedagogers perspektiv om inskolning. Bade foraldrarna och pedagoger ar rorande overens om trygghetens betydelse. Aven i den litteratur jag last har betydelsen av trygghet under inskolningen starkts betonats. Pedagogerna och foraldrarna lyfte ocksa fram pedagogers bemotande och foraldrars delaktighet som viktiga aspekter vid inskolningen.
Generic Benchmarking and Performance of Commercial Banks in Bungoma County, Kenya

of service vision, actual output an organizationas measured against its intended It three specific areas of firm but not to financial performance Abstract: The past recent years have seen changes in the Kenyan economy and commercial banks have not been spared from the impact of these changes which includes: interest rate capping; increasing competition from financial technology companies and increased Consumer expectations as well as political interference. These challenges possess financial pressure to the bank hence losses and create risk to Kenya’s financial stability if allowed to persist in the long term. Majority of commercial banks have experienced decline in return on equity for the period 2014 to 2017. Management theories and practice suggest comparison (benchmarking) as the key tool for evaluating and improving organization performance and therefore minimize risk. This study therefore sought to investigate the influence of generic benchmarking on the performance of commercial banks in Bungoma County. The study used descriptive survey design. The target population was 133 which was the total number of managers in Bungoma County commercial banks. This used census approach, as it utilised the entire population in the research. To ascertain the reliability of the instruments, a pilot study was done in Nakuru County. Quantitative data collected using questionnaires was analysed by the use of descriptive statistics and inferential analysis using SPSS (Version 24) and presented through percentages, means, standard deviations and frequencies, percentages and correlation analysis. Tables and figures were used to present data. The findings indicated that there was an effective ICT system adoption in the majority of the commercial Banks and that ICT adoption affected commercial banks performance. Majority of the commercial banks had improved their market share as a result of ICT adoption. The relationship between generic benchmarking and performance of commercial bank was found to be positive and significant. They should aim at attracting customers, satisfying customers and retaining customers through strategic alliances. The study recommended that commercial banks should ensure that there is effective use of up to date ICT system to enhance performance of commercial banks.
Evaluating Management Strategies for Automated Test Systems/Equipment (ATS/E): An F-15 Case Study

Abstract : The management of United States Air Force ATS/E presents a variety of issues that affect the long-term capability and mission readiness of weapon systems. Traditional procurement processes suggest that individual aircraft platform System Program Offices (SPOs) developed, improved and replaced ATE on an "as-required" basis. Increased obsolescence, however, and a concern for maintaining longer-term viability provided the necessary inertia for a movement towards the procurement and development of consolidated, common test equipment that would support multiple weapon systems. In 1998, the Air Force Chief of Staff directed HQ AFMC to establish a Common Support Equipment office to facilitate the combination of similar legacy ATE into common equipment. Today, some ATE continues to be managed by individual SPOs, while other ATE is primarily managed by the Automated Test Systems Division at Warner-Robins Air Logistics Center. This research examines the differences of these two approaches. Specifically, this research focuses on the management of two pieces of ATE for a mature aircraft system - the F-15.
Resynthesis of Sound Scenes on Wave-Field Synthesis from Stereo Mixtures Using Sound Source Separation Algorithms

Spatial sound reproduction systems are capable of enhancing the perceived sound quality of reproduced scenes by using specific loudspeaker setups. Of all the spatial reproduction systems, wave-field synthesis (WFS) has been shown to be the one that comes closest to creating realistic sound fields in an extended area. Despite some practical constraints, WFS noticeably enhances stereophony in terms of the spatial reproduction of sound scenes. However, most of the recorded material is intended for stereo reproduction and, therefore, adapting this material to WFS is a challenging issue. Blind audio source separation techniques can be used for extracting the sources present in a stereo mixture, obtaining separated tracks which can be used for reconstructing spatially enhanced scenes. However, timbral distortion and intersource residuals are limiting factors that can degrade the perceived quality. The quality of several acoustic scenes (music and speech) is evaluated in three different situations: stereo image, WFS scene with original sources, and WFS scene with separated sources from stereo mixtures. The change of perceptual attributes between the different cases is discussed using listening tests.
Air Base Attacks and Defensive Counters: Historical Lessons and Future Challenges

Abstract : In the past decade, U.S. national security policymakers and defense analysts have given increasing attention to the problem of adversary anti-access and area-denial strategies. These strategies are intended to inhibit U.S. political and operational access to and disrupt U.S. operations in key regions. A central feature of adversary anti-access strategies is capabilities designed to disrupt the operation of U.S. and partner-nation forward air bases. Although emerging systems, such as precision standoff systems, present new challenges to air base operations, attacks on air bases are nothing novel, dating back to the opening months of World War I. In the past century, air base attacks have been common in both small and large wars; specialized tactics and systems have been developed for offensive operations against adversary bases and for the defense of friendly bases. To better understand this policy problem and explore the relative effectiveness of potential solutions, RAND Project AIR FORCE has conducted a series of assessments over recent years exploring historical, political, and operational aspects of the access problem. This report is designed to complement these more-operational and technical analyses which are generally not available to the general public, media, and academic communities. The objective is to better inform the public debate on this important policy problem. This report is also intended as a reference for those military planners, strategists, war-college students, and other defense professionals who have not yet had an opportunity to delve deeply into the topic. It presents an overview of the problem, describes the history of air base attacks and defensive counters, and broadly explores emerging challenges and options to enhance the future operability of air bases.
ISFET-based chemical Schmitt trigger

Ion sensitive field effect transistors (ISFETs) are pH sensors that have generally been used in the analogue domain. It is possible to use them in the digital domain for chemical thresholding applications. To facilitate small pH change detection where a simple switch suffers from ripple and distorted output, a chemical switch with input noise immunity is needed. Reported are first measurements of an ISFET-based chemical Schmitt trigger. It provides a more stable output with better noise immunity. It can be used in applications where the digital detection of small pH changes is required.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT: ADVANCED PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES

Introduction, D.G. Rao, R. Senthilkumar, J.A. Byrne, and S. Feroz Solar Photo-Fenton as Advanced Oxidation Technology for Water Reclamation, Sixto Malato Rodriguez, Nikolaus Klamerth, Isabel Oller Alberola, and Ana Zapata Sierra Solar Photocatalytic Treatment of Wastewater, J.A. Byrne and P. Fernandez-Ibanez Advanced Oxidation Processes: Basics and Applications, Rakshit Ameta, Anil Kumar, P. B. Punjabi, and Suresh C. Ameta Impinging-Jet Ozone Bubble Column Reactors, Mahad S. Baawain Biological Treatment of Wastewaters: Recent Trends and Advancements, K. Vijayaraghavan Removal of Heavy Metals by Seaweeds in Wastewater Treatment, R. Senthilkumar, M. Velan, and S. Feroz Microbial Treatment of Heavy Metals, Oil and Radioactive Contamination in Wastewaters, Sourish Karmakar, Arka Pravo Kundu, Kanika Kundu, and Subir Kundu Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment in Tapered Fluidized Bed Reactor, R. Parthiban Treatment of Effluent Waters in Food Processing Industries, D. G. Rao, N. Meyyappan, and S. Feroz Removal of Lower-Molecular-Weight Substances from Water and Wastewater: Challenges and Solutions, V. Jegatheesan, J. Virkutyte, L. Shu, J. Allen, Y. Wang, E. Searston, Z. P. Xu, J. Naylor, S. Pinchon, C. Teil, D. Navaratna, and H. K. Shon Treatment and Reuse Potential of Graywater from Urban Households in Oman, Mushtaque Ahmed, Abdullah Al-Buloshi, and Ahmed Al-Maskary Anaerobic Fixed Bed Reactor for Treatment of Industrial Wastewater, Joseph V. Thanikal Index
Adaboost Cascade Classifier for Classification and Identification of Wild Animals using Movidius Neural Compute Stick

Deep learning has gone deeper and has been utilized in almost all the applications like object recognition, image classification, speech recognition and much more. Most of the real-time applications rely on deep learning for accurate results. But one downside to the deep learning is its demand for GPUs (Graphical Processing Unit) or TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) for faster execution. There was no one-stop-shop hardware and software for deep learning applications, until recently Intel launched the Movidius Neural Compute Stick (NCS). This sleek device provides the power of GPU in a CPU based system. In this work, we have modeled an animal detection system using NCS and AdaBoost classifier powered by Multi-Block Local Binary Pattern (MB-LBP) features. The model has been built upon AlexNet and has achieved an average accuracy of 96.8% and a false rate 2.3% in classifying the animals as wild and non-wild. Furthermore, the model has a speedup of 467% when compared to the execution in the CPU based system.
A 528 channel system for the acquisition and display of defibrillation and electrocardiographic potentials

A 528 channel data acquisition and display system has been developed which allows the authors to study electrical therapies of the heart. The acquisition system records defibrillation shock potentials and electrograms from the heart. The display system presents animated sequences of potentials or their derivative on a two dimensional projection of the recording array. Using the system, the authors measured the distribution of potentials on the heart during transvenous defibrillation shocks in pigs. For failed defibrillation shocks near threshold, the authors studied the post-shock activation sequences that led to reinitiation of fibrillation. The earliest epicardial activation following failed shocks was in the region of the heart opposite and inferior to the right ventricular electrode. The first few beats were organized and rapid. The rapid activation led to unidirectional block and reentry after 3 or 4 beats. This mapping system provides a comprehensive tool for studying electrical therapies of the heart. <<ETX>>
Mechanical characterization of low-K dielectric materials

The implementation of materials in device interconnect structure is being driven by shrinking device geometries. In order to meet customer demands for increasing electrical performance, the industry is adopting a solution that provides both lower resistance and lower capacitance. Lower resistance is accomplished by switching from Al(Cu) to Cu interconnect and the capacitance is reduced by replacing SiO2 in the inter-level and inter-metal dielectric layers with lower dielectric constant materials (low-K materials) [1,2]. A change in materials in a process as complex as IC manufacturing is inherently accompanied by an increase in reliability risk. A thorough understanding of the low-K dielectric candidates is necessary for selection of the best candidate that has sufficient mechanical integrity to survive thermal stresses, CMP, packaging, and test, as well as allows for maximum extendibility to next generation devices. Towards this end, the industry has adopted methods and tools to measure mechanical proper.
On slotted waveguide antenna design at Ka-band

This paper deals with the design of slotted waveguide arrays at Ka-band (38 GHz). Practical machining tolerances are considered. In order to achieve low sidelobes throughout it is critical that the centre line of the waveguide broad wall is determined very accurately. An error in this position results in systematic errors in the excitation of the slots. This leads to grating lobe like side lobes, the level of which depends on the amount of misplacement. However, the angle at which the side lobe occurs is independent of the position error.
Health and Human
 Services

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assures delivery of a full array of services to address the somatic and behavioral health, economic and housing security, and other emergent needs of Montgomery County residents. To achieve this, the Department (directly and/or via a network of community partners) develops and implements policies, procedures, programs, and services that: 1) offer customer-focused direct care and supports; 2) maximize financial and staffing resources to deliver services through effective management, coordination and pursuit of strategic funding opportunities; 3) pilot and evaluate innovative approaches to service delivery and systems integration; and 4) develop, enhance, and maintain a broad network of community-based organizations, public, and private agencies to promote and sustain partnerships, which increase the availability of needed services.
Educational development units: the challenge of quality enhancement in a changing environment

Reviews the role of the Educational Development Unit and suggests that such units should focus primarily on building a learning environment appropriate to its host university, rather than paying a disproportionate amounts of attention to externally imposed targets. A unit should not of course ignore those targets, rather it should endeavour to manage them in a way that meets the work patterns of its own institution.
Applications of Nondestructive Evaluation Techniques in Concrete Inspection

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) and infrared thermography (IRT), as two nondestructive evaluation-civil engineering (NDE-CE) technologies, are introduced in this paper to facilitate building inspection under the Mandatory Building Inspection Scheme (MBIS), as well as public housing blocks and government buildings in Hong Kong. Recognition of anomaly signal by GPR can be used for compliance check with design drawings by mapping embedded objects, and to distinguish variation of material properties such as wet or dry concrete. Post-image processing of IRT images by gradient computation provides an estimate of boundary and size of debond over external wall envelop of high-rise buildings. Both techniques are promising in MBIS because these techniques see through the ‘unseen’, and are completely nondestructive, rapid, relatively low-cost and offer data in very high resolution.
Design of an ultra-wideband monopole antenna with WiMAX, C and wireless local area network

A compact ultra-wideband (UWB) coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed printed monopole antenna with single and double band-rejection characteristics are investigated. The antenna has is staircase shaped and is fabricated on a FR4 substrate with an area of 19.5×21×1 mm3. To generate single- and dual-band-notched characteristics, two symmetric and asymmetric quarter wavelength spiral slits cut at the patch are utilised. The simulated and measured results including impedance matching, radiation patterns and gain results are investigated. The measured frequency results show an impedance bandwidth of 8.4 GHz over 2.6–11 GHz for a voltage standing wave ratio less than 2 with two eliminated bands centred at 3.8 and 5.5 GHz to reject the wireless local area network band (5.15–5.85 GHz) and the WiMAX band (3.3–3.6 GHz), along with a major part of the C band (3.7–4.2 GHz). The omni-directional radiation patterns of the fabricated antenna are presented, which show that this design antenna is a good candidate for various UWB applications. The measured gain variation is less than 3 dB over the operating frequency band.
ANIMAL WELFARE IN AIR TRANSPORT

From an economic point of view, the care and wellbeing of animals during air transport is becoming an increasingly important factor for air carriers, in part because of the impact on the public image of the carrier. Airlines are being held to a high standard of care by their passengers traveling with pets, especially the business and first class passengers, and by shippers transporting valuable animals such as race horses, zoo animals, and the like, as commercial cargo on cargo aircraft. Despite the advantages of speed, air transport may pose a threat to the health and welfare of animals because it is a significant multifactorial stressor. It causes cardiovascular, endocrine, and metabolic aberrations, affects the immune response of the animal, and increases susceptibility to infection. Therefore, strict conditions for air transport of every animal species have been imposed. Transport of only healthy animals is approved, as it is necessary to prevent the spread of disease during transport and to provide a satisfactory environment for animals to be transported.
Sustainable Development in Nano-Perspectives – An Innovative Student Initiative

This paper describes and discusses a novel class for sustainable development at the faculty of engineering at Lund University, Sweden. Based on personal experience and student questionnaires, the study discusses applied pedagogical approaches (case study, role play, matrix approach) and suggests improvements to the structure of the class. The project is a student initiative, making student involvement and its effects on learning for sustainable development central topics of this paper, thereby challenging the notion of engineering students as passive receivers of education for sustainable development.
Emergent engineering design: design creativity and optimality inspired by nature

For a long time, engineering design research has been focused on the development of various design theories, methodologies, methods, tools, and procedures. The design methods have been subsequently used by engineers to more efficiently design artifacts. However, as the artifacts have grown in complexity, the need for new methods has become obvious. Also, in a nowadays world, increased competition and globalization require organizations to reexamine traditional product development strategies. Traditional methods focused exclusively on the numerical optimality of produced artifacts, or their manufacturing processes, are no longer adequate. Creativity and innovation of designed artifacts provide organizations not only with a competitive advantage but are, in fact, a matter of their survival. This dissertation addresses this problem by posing and answering the question: “How can one construct an effective method for designing engineering systems that would support development of novel/creative designs and their efficient optimization? ” It proposes a new and conceptually coherent design method, called Emergent Engineering Design. The proposed design method is inspired by the fundamental processes occurring in nature, which has arguably created the most fascinating designs known to humankind. All major phases of Emergent Engineering Design are represented by complex systems, including cellular automata and evolutionary algorithms, which have been successfully used to model the processes governing the complex behavior occurring in nature. In order to facilitate the development of the proposed design method, Emergent Engineering Design was implemented in a computer system called Emergent Designer. It is an integrated research and design support tool which applies models of complex systems to represent engineering systems and analyze design processes. Emergent Designer was used to conduct the empirical validation of the proposed design method for two classes of conceptual design problems in structural engineering. The extensive design experiments reported in this dissertation have shown that Emergent Engineering Design not only generates novel design concepts exhibiting remarkable structural shaping patterns but it also efficiently optimizes them.
Commercial action based on information management in a small IT company

Nesta pesquisa, sao propostas definicoes de modelos de gestao da informacao para orientar a estrategia de acao comercial de uma pequena empresa de TI. O foco em pequenas empresas se deve ao grande percentual de empresas deste porte no ramo de TI, e a consequente necessidade de compreender seu perfil e suas necessidades de gestao. Foi feita a proposicao de um conjunto de novos modelos de gestao da informacao, com interfaces de saida de dados e de consulta com base em filtros para auxilio no melhor uso das informacoes. Foi utilizado o metodo da pesquisa-acao, pois havia interesse em implementar na pratica o conjunto de modelos propostos. Os usuarios avaliaram o uso dos modelos como sendo algo que agrega valor e agilidade as tarefas, da empresa viram agregacao nas atividades de tomada de decisao.
The preliminary study of herbal rice plants in Pulau Tioman, Pahang, Malaysia.

The herbal plant status in Pulau Tioman is unknown, and may be reduced due to extensive recreational activities in Kg. Tekek Waterfalls. The main objective of this preliminary survey is to assess the varieties of herbal plants that are found at Pulau Tioman, Pahang. Herbal plant survey was carried out in a transect of 5-meter width on both side of the 1 km main track connecting Kampung Tekek Jetty to Kampung Tekek Waterfalls. A total of seven species namely, Dracaena umbratica, Flagellaria indica, Selaginella willdenowii, Ixora javanica, Lygodium microphyllum, Melastoma malabathricum and Cassia alata which belong to seven (7) families namely Asparagaceae, Flagellariaceae, Selaginellaceae, Rubiaceae, Lygodiaceae, Melastomataceae and Leguminosae were collected, identified and reported. The list of plants recorded could be included in a datasheet for the study of plants with medicinal value and the distribution data could be used to update the IUCN and CABI database.