Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EFFICIENT OPERATION OF RUNWAYS

Air traffic control (ATC) is an area in which such operations research disciplines as applied probability, queueing theory, scheduling, and network analysis can be used to good advantage. In this respect, problems related to the efficient use of the runways seem particularly suited for this type of analysis. More recently, much attention within the OR community has been given to runway problems. The relaization has dawned that, at least for the immediate future, the number of available runways at major hubs is not likely to increase substantially. In this light, modeling and analysis of runway operations can be extremely helpful in (1) understanding the capabilities and limitations of the present system; (2) anticipating potential future problems; and (3) evaluating alternatives for improvement. The remainder of this chapter, after briefly describing operations in the terminal area, will discuss some work on runway usage that has been performed by the author and will briefly identify potential problems and improvements.
BDselect: a package for k-mer selection based on the binomial distribution

Dimension disaster is often associated with feature extraction. The extracted features may contain more redundant feature information, which leads to the limitation of computing ability and overfitting problems. Feature selection is an important strategy to overcome the problems from dimension disaster. In most machine learning tasks, features determine the upper limit of the model performance. Therefore, more and more feature selection methods should be developed to optimize features. In this paper, we introduce a new technique to optimize sequence features based on the binomial distribution (BD). Firstly, the principle of the binomial distribution algorithm is introduced in detail. Then, the proposed algorithm is compared with other commonly used feature selection methods on three different types of datasets by using a Random Forest classifier with the same parameters. The results confirm that BD has a promising improvement in feature selection and classification accuracy. Finally, we provide the source code and executable program package (http://lin-group.cn/server/BDselect/), by which users can easily perform our algorithm in their research.
Co-design for System Acceleration: A Quantitative Approach

This book is concerned with studying the co-design methodology in general, and how to determine the more suitable interface mechanism in a co-design system in particular. This is based on the characteristics of the application and those of the target architecture of the system. Guidelines are provided to support the designer's choice of the interface mechanism. Some new trends in co-design and system acceleration are also introduced.
Family Business Models: Practical Solutions for the Family Business

Foreword by Ivan Lansberg Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - History of Family Business Management Chapter 2 - Family Business Management Formula Structural Management of the Family Business Family Complexity Business Complexity Effects of complexity on the family business Structure Chapter 3 - Family Business Models Captain Model Emperor Model Family Team Model Professional Family Model Corporation Model Family Investment Group (FIG) Model Comparative analysis of the models Mindset and structure: how thoughts influence deeds Chapter 4 - Family Business Management Management in the Captain Model Management in the Emperor Model Management in the Family Team Model Management in the Professional Family Model (PFM) Management in the Corporation Model Management in the Family Investment Group Model Mixed models Family business management triangle Conclusions Appendix - Details of Structure
Lifeblood

In Aristotelian-Scholastic accounts that equated life with the possession of a soul, there is no particular problem explaining the distinction between living and non-living things. Descartes makes frequent references to living things and to the distinction between life and death, equating the latter to the difference between an automaton working and one that is not. The question arises how robust is the distinction between the living and the dead for Descartes? How real is the possibility of artificial life? Should we conclude that a clock is alive? This chapter examines four attempts to give an analysis of “life” in Descartes’ philosophy and finds each wanting. It is argued that the best one can do to understand what “life” means for Descartes is to look at what death involves—the gradual silting up of an automaton through the very processes that for its duration sustain and nourish it.
Design of steel roof and wall cladding systems for pull-out failures

When thin steel roof and wall cladding systems are subjected to wind uplift/suction forces, local pull-through or pull-out failures occur prematurely at their screwed connections. During high wind events such as stom1s and cyclones, these localized failures then lead to severe damage to buildings and their contents. In recent times, the use of thin steel battens, purlins and girts has increased considerably, which has made the pull-out failures more critical in the design of steel cladding systems. An experimental investigation was therefore carried out to study the pull-out failure using both static and cyclic tests for a range of commonly used screw fasteners and steel battens, purlins and girts. This paper presents the details ofthis experimental investigation and its results.
EFFECTS OF FATIGUE ON PERFORMANCE IN A DRIVING DEVICE

CERTAIN PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MENTAL CHANGES OCCUR IN THE DRIVER WHICH COLLECTIVELY CONSTITUTE DRIVER FATIGUE. THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF FATIGUE ON SEVERAL PERFORMANCE TASKS REQUIRED IN THE OPERATION OF A DRIVING SIMULATOR TO SUPPORT THE VIEW THAT DRIVER FATIGUE RESULTS IN A PERFORMANCE DECREMENT. SIXTY MALE SUBJECTS /PAID UNDERGRADUATES, AVERAGE AGE 19/ WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO ONE OF SIX EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS AND WERE TESTED IN A DRIVING DEVICE PATTERNED AFTER THE AAA DEVICE. MEASURES OF TRACKING ERROR, SPEED MAINTENANCE, AND REACTION TIME WERE OBTAINED FOR EACH SUBJECT. TEST SESSIONS INVOLVED EITHER 4 OR 6 HOURS. PERFORMANCE DECREMENTS WERE OBTAINED IN THE TRACKING TASK FOR SUBJECTS IN SEVERAL CONDITIONS. THE MOST OBVIOUS DECREMENTS OCCURED UNDER THE 6 HOUR CONDITIONS WHERE PERFORMANCE DURING THE FIRST HOUR WAS SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN THAT SHOWN DURING THE LAST HOUR. IN SPEED MAINTENANCE TASK, PERFORMANCE DURING THE FIRST HOUR ALSO TENDED TO BE SUPERIOR TO PERFORMANCE DURING THE LAST HOUR. SUBJECTS WHO OPERATED THE DEVICE FOR THE ENTIRE 6 HOUR PERIOD AND PERFORMED ALL TASKS DURING THE SESSION SHOWED A DECREASE IN REACTION TIME DURING THE DRIVING SESSIONS. IN EACH CONDITION THE REACTION TIME WAS FASTER DURING THE LAST HOUR THAN DURING THE FIRST HOUR OF THE TASK. THE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT SUBJECTS ADJUST THEIR EFFORT TO THE EXPECTED DURATION OF THE TASK, SINCE SUBJECTS IN THE LONG SESSIONS DID NOT PERFORM AS WELL AS SUBJECTS IN THE SHORTER CONDITIONS DURING THE INITIAL PERIODS.
Transformation by example

Model transformations take as input a source model and generate as output a target model. The source and target models conform to given meta-models. We distinguish between two transformation categories. Exogenous transformations are transformations between models expressed using different languages, and the whole source model is transformed. Endogenous transformations are transformations between models expressed in the same language. For endogenous transformations, two steps are needed: identifying the source model elements to transform and then applying the transformation on them. In this thesis, we propose three principal contributions. The first contribution aims to automate model transformations. The process is seen as an optimization problem where different transformation possibilities are evaluated and, for each possibility, a quality is associated depending on its conformity with a reference set of examples. This first contribution can be applied to exogenous as well as endogenous transformation (after determining the source model elements to transform). The second contribution is related precisely to the detection of elements concerned with endogenous transformations. In this context, we present a new technique for design defect detection. The detection is based on the notion that the more a code deviates from good practice, the more likely it is bad. Taking inspiration from artificial immune systems, we generate a set of detectors that characterize the ways in which a code can diverge from good practices. We then use these detectors to determine how far the code in the assessed systems deviates from normality. The third contribution concerns transformation mechanism testing. The proposed oracle function compares target test cases with a base of examples containing good quality transformation traces, and assigns a risk level based on the dissimilarity between the two. The traces help the tester understand the origin of an error. The three contributions are evaluated with real software projects and the obtained results confirm their efficiencies. Keywords: Model-driven engineering, by example, design defects, search-based software engineering, artificial immune-system
Avaliação de desempenho do processo de terceirização da logística de distribuição: um estudo de caso

A logistica deixou de ser atividade acessoria nas organizacoes e passou a ser vista como agregadora de valor. O aumento das exigencias dos clientes impos novos requisitos as atividades logisticas, em termos de qualidade, velocidade e custos. A terceirizacao nessa area tem sido realizada com o objetivo de reduzir custos, aumentar o desempenho e evitar ou postergar necessidades de investimento. O objetivo desse artigo e avaliar o processo de terceirizacao logistica em empresa produtora de componentes para calcados, moveis, papeis e embalagens e automoveis. Para isso, foi usado o estudo de caso como estrategia de pesquisa. Os principais resultados apontam que o processo foi realizado se considerando criterios economicos, financeiros e operacionais. Houve reducao de custos de frete de 1,5% para 1,2% da receita. A contratada tem evidenciado descontentamento com a reducao do nivel contratual de atividade.
A review of the use of alcohol ignition interlocks in Aboriginal organisations in Western Australia

Alcohol ignition interlocks have proven to be effective in preventing drink driving amongst repeat drink driving offenders while the device is fitted in an offender's vehicle. Given the over-representation of Aboriginal people in road crashes in Western Australia, alcohol interlocks could potentially play an important role in reducing this trauma. In late 1999 to early 2002 fifteen alcohol ignition interlocks were fitted to vehicles in the Office of Aboriginal Health and in Aboriginal organisations in Kalgoorlie, Derby, Broome and Esperance. The aim of this study was to interview community members who had used the interlocks, however it became apparent that alcohol ignition interlocks were actually fitted in vehicles driven by staff in the Aboriginal organisations involved in the interlock program. From this experience it is recommended that future use in Aboriginal organisations be targeted towards vehicles used by community members, not staff cars, where drink driving has been a problem. Further to this they should be only used in conjunction with drink driving education.
Lifestyle and Quality of Life in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: A Propensity-Matched Comparison with a Healthy Control Group

lifestyle and quality of life after receiving acute treatment is important in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). This study aims to compare the lifestyle and the quality of life of CAD patients with those of healthy people through a propensity-matched comparison. Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of the data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted with 23,657 subjects from 2015 to 2017. A propensity-matched comparison was conducted for 472 CAD patients and 941 healthy individuals using 1:2 matching of nine sociodemographic characteristics. R program version 3.6. 2 was used for statistical analysis and an independent t-test was employed to examine the differences between the relevant variables of the two matched groups. Results: The rate of aerobic physical activity, the levels of quality of life, and the subjective health condition of the CAD patients were significantly lower as compared to the healthy group ( p < .001). The degree of perceived stress was higher in patients with CAD than those in the healthy group ( p < .001). However, no statistical difference was found in smoking and drinking behavior and body mass index. Conclusion: This study found that the CAD group's level of physical activity is lower and their emotional health conditions are worse than those of healthy people. Therefore, relevant support, including follow-up intervention programs, is required for CAD patients to prevent secondary adverse cardiac events and to maintain a healthier life.
Strategy for Sustainable Design from Application of Product Service System

”Sustainability” is a popular and hot topic today. This idea is apparently reflected in corporate management and product development. Technology development and industrial revolution not only provide human beings luxury living quality but also causes global environmental problems and natural resources crisis on earth. Therefore, quite a few environmental protection policies in the world have been made. ”Reduce, reuse and recycle” definitely becomes a new life trend. Under this concept, Product Service System (PSS) is a new way to satisfy the customers' needs by means of a complete process in products and services. It can snake resource usage become a closed loop, thus reducing total product quantity and enhancing resource usage sufficiency. PSS has a characteristic of lower environmental impacts. Therefore, the author incorporates the concept of PSS into sustainable product design strategy. This study first utilizes Analytic Network Process (ANP) to analyze both service categories from PSS and ranking priority of life cycle structure to be the foundation of sustainable product design. Secondly, this study adopts Modified Delphi (MD) method to inspect the sustainable design principles for the application of PSS on city bikes. Furthermore, the author develops evaluation guidance and cheek list to make sure the target achievement of product sustainable design. Finally, this research accomplishes an applied strategic structure of PSS' s product sustainable design. By employing PSS on sustainable product design, the study improves the impact of product life cycle on environmental quality. As a result, this study provides the PSS's design principles of sustainable products for corporations, and supplies a continuous service to create an operation mechanism with higher profit and lower risk as well.
La metodología lúdica como dinamizador de las conductas prosociales

El presente artículo de investigación tiene como objetivo presentar los avances del fortalecimiento de las conductas prosociales a través de la metodología lúdica. Se abordan referentes teóricos como Moñivas (1996), Auné y otros (2014) con relación a conductas prosociales, y Espinoza y Rodríguez (2017) en referencia a la lúdica como estrategia dentro del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje en la educación básica primaria. La metodología utilizada se enmarca en el paradigma sociocrítico, con un enfoque introspectivo vivencial, de tipo cualitativo y un diseño de investigación-acción de alcance descriptivo, con el que se pretende reconstruir la realidad partiendo del entorno social, observando los fenómenos que ocurren de manera flexible para entender, interpretar y analizar los resultados, avances y dificultades presentados por los estudiantes con relación a la caracterización inicial y final. De la ejecución de las estrategias se concluye que estas generan en los estudiantes cambios conductuales que se ven reflejados tanto en el aspecto vivencial como académico fortaleciendo su formación integral que le permitirá desempeñarse como ciudadanos de mundo.
VCSELs: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

Basic VCSEL Characteristics. - A Research Review. - Fundamentals. - Three-Dimensional Modeling. - Single-Mode VCSELs. - Device Technology and Performance. - Polarization Control. - Polarization Dynamics. - Design and Performance of High-Speed VCSELs. - High-Power VCSEL Arrays. - High-Contrast Grating VCSELs. - From Infrared to Violet Emission. - Long-Wavelength VCSELs with Buried Tunnel Junction. - GaInNAs(Sb) Long-Wavelength VCSELs. - Red Emitting VCSELs. - GaN-Based VCSELs. - Applications. - VCSEL-Based Transceivers for Data Communications. - Low-Cost Optical Video Links. - Progress in VCSEL-Based Parallel Links. - VCSEL for Optical Mice and Sensing. - VCSEL-Based Laser Printing System.
The evolution of Brazilian forest concessions

In 2006 Brazil passed legislation allowing concessions for industrial timber harvest in public forests. This decision was part of a broader effort to control deforestation, which had spiked to its second highest level, of about 25,000 km2, in 2004. Specifically, concessions were implemented as a means to control a rampaging timber industry while providing a source of accessible timber for sustainable harvest. Timber concessions, however, are not without their critics worldwide. Here we review the process undertaken to address international concerns over concessions in the policy design, we discuss the process of implementation in Brazil from 2007 to 2014 and then attempt to provide insight into the challenges that lie ahead. Our findings suggest that even though Brazil’s policy designers had the full knowledge of the difficulties with timber concessions, and attempted to design a concession framework to address those concerns, deeper structural problems within the industry and within government itself have prevented the successful scaling up of the concession model. Key hurdles include: government overlap and duplication causing unbearable transaction costs and risks to investors; an industry ill prepared and unwilling to adapt to the stringent requirements set in the policy; and little success in curtailing illegal logging beyond concession borders. While concessions remain a potentially important tool for the management of public forests, additional resources and time will need to be invested to overcome these barriers.
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Food Safety Evaluation: Hummus Spoilage and Microbial Analysis of Kitchen Surfaces in Residential Child Care Institutions (rcci) in Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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Pyogenic granuloma post OSSN excision: A case report and review of literature

Introduction: Pyogenic granuloma is an excessive fibroproliferative tissue occurring on the ocular surface after any minor injury or surgery. It is not often reported after Ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) excision. Case Report: We report a case of OSSN in a 38-year-old patient that was managed by excision biopsy and post –op mitomycin C. While on treatment patient presented with a rapidly developing fleshy mass. On excision biopsy the mass was revealed to be fibro-proliferative granulation tissue and diagnosed as pyogenic granuloma. We did a pubmed literature search for pyogenic granuloma on ocular surface and reviewed all the articles. Conclusion: Pyogenic granuloma occurring post excision of OSSN poses difficulty in diagnosis and needs an aggressive management regime to rule out recurrence of OSSN before diagnosing it as a more benign pyogenic granuloma.
DESIGN OF LPI WAVEFORMS FOR MONOSTATIC RADAR

The low probability of intercept is an important feature for the radar to survive modern warfare. In order to achieve this feature, studies show that the radar's transmitted energy should be well spread in time and frequency. However for monostatic configuration where the received echoes are blanked during the transmission, the spread in time increases the eclipsing loss, therefore declining the radar performances for the ranges in question. On another hand, the spectrum available for radar use is subject to restrictions and often shared with other applications. Hence, in this study, the transmit receive/strategy was first optimised in order to manage the eclipsing loss while achieving high duty cycle waveforms. Then, a new, simple and yet efficient coding technique was proposed for the radar to adapt its transmissions to a congested and rapidly changing spectral environment. Finally, the resulting waveform and coding technique were practically tested during trials of aircraft detection and localisation in HF band.
Automatisert testing av dynamisk HTML

Vi har i denne hovedoppgaven videreutviklet AutAT, som er et verktoy for a lage automatiske akseptanse tester i grafisk grensesnitt. Vi har lagt til stotte for a teste dynamiske web-applikasjoner l .
Football: Steps to Success

Climbing the Steps to Football Success The Sport of Football Key to Diagrams Step 1. Offensive Positions and Responsibilities Step 2. Defensive Positions and Responsibilities Step 3. Fundamental Skills for All Positions Step 4. Passing Step 5. Receiving Step 6. Tackling and Blocking Step 7. Running the Ball Step 8. Stopping the Run Step 9. Defending the Pass Step 10. Kicking and Punting Step 11. Offensive Strategies Step 12. Defensive Strategies Step 13. Special Teams.
The impact and effects of attempts to implement leadership for reading 'both ways': A case study in an Indigenous school

A 'both ways' leadership model underpins the design, implementation and research phases of the Principals as Literacy Leaders with Indigenous Communities project (PALLIC). The project was developed by Griffith University in partnership with the Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA) to provide support to Principals as they lead reading improvement in Indigenous schools. This paper reports on the approaches undertaken by one school located in a very remote Australian community as it begins to apply a literacy leadership learning blueprint introduced in the project. We draw on interview data from the principal, teachers and Indigenous community leaders to describe the impacts and effects associated with combining mainstream and Indigenous cultural knowledge and experiences as the foundation for meaningful literacy learning programmes for Indigenous children. In so doing, we offer some commentary on the merit of the blueprint as a way to connect leadership work with the improvement of student learning.
Development of Two Wheeled Car-like Mobile Robot Using Balancing Mechanism : BalBOT VII

This paper presents the development and control of a two wheeled car-like mobile robot using balancing mechanism whose heading control is done by turning the handle. The mobile inverted pendulum is a combined system of a mobile robot and an inverted pendulum system. A sensor fusion technique of low cost sensors such as a gyro sensor and a tilt sensor to measure the balancing angle of the inverted pendulum robot system accurately is implemented. Experimental studies of the trajectory following control task has been conducted by command of steering wheel while balancing.