Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy ?

This paper’s aim is to critically analyze Wittgenstein’s arguments against traditional philosophy. It is possible to identify three arguments against it in Wittgenstein’s work: (1) The tractarian critique of the metaphysical necessary propositions, (2) the critique of the conception of real definition in the PI and (3) the problem of the role of the ideal, or the problem of dogmatism. By analyzing these three arguments we intend to show that none of them implies necessarily that we should abandon any positive conception of philosophy and stick to a negative analytical one as Wittgenstein understands it.
An Analysis of Cascaded Binary Communication Links

The performance of cascaded binary communication links in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise is investigated for the cases of constant and Rayleigh-distributed signal levels. An exact expression is derived for over-all error probability for any number of links with constant signal levels. The reliability of five modulation techniques is examined when independent or dependent Rayleigh fading is present on the cascaded system. It is shown that for any modulation technique the reliability is higher when the fading is dependent than when it is independent. It is also seen that the presence of Rayleigh fading affects reliability more than the degree of correlation of the fading, provided the number of links is small. The results of these analyses afford the designer a basis for a suitable trade-off between the number of relays and individual link reliabilities for a specified over-all system reliability.
Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystems: Responses to Environmental Change

1 Abstract: The consequences of climate change are exciting considerable concern worldwide. Parts of Antarctica are facing the most rapid rates of anthropogenic climate change currently seen on the planet. This paper sets out to introduce contemporary ecosystems of the Antarctic, and the factors that have influenced them and their biodiversity over evolutionary timescales. Contemporary climate change processes significant to terrestrial biota, and the biological consequences of these changes seen to date, are described. In general, many Antarctic terrestrial biota, when considered in isolation, possess biological features that will permit them to take advantage of the levels of change currently being experienced. However, many organisms and communi- ties are extremely vulnerable to the colonisation of new taxa with greater competitive abilities or representing higher trophic levels than are currently present amongst the indigenous biota. In this context, direct human impact in the form of accidental transfer of non-indigenous species is probably the greatest threat currently facing Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems and their biota, while climate change will also act synergistically to reduce the colonisation and establishment hurdles faced by incoming organisms. Zusammenfassung: Die Konsequenzen des Klimawandels erregen weltweit betrachtliche Bedenken. Teile der Antarktis stehen dem schnellsten, vom Menschen verursachten, Klimawandel gegenuber, der bisher auf der Erde beobachtet wurde. Dieser Artikel will eine Einleitung geben in das derzeitige Okosystem der Antarktis, in die Faktoren, die dieses beeinflusst haben, und in die Biodiversitat im Wandel der Zeit. Derzeitige Prozesse des Klimawandels, bedeutend fur terrestrische Lebewesen, und die bisher sichtbaren biologischen Konsequenzen dieses Wandels werden beschrieben. Im allgemeinen besitzen antarktische Lebewesen biologische Merkmale, die es ihnen erlauben, Vorteile aus dem derzeitigen Stand des Wandels zu ziehen. Viele Organismen und Gemeinschaften sind jedoch extrem verwundbar in Hinblick auf die Besied- lung durch neue Arten, die entweder grosere Durchsetzungsmoglichkeiten haben oder einen hoheren Platz in der Nahrungskette einnehmen als die derzeit vorkommenden einheimischen Arten. In diesem Zusammenhang ist der direkte menschliche Einfluss durch die ungewollte Einschleppung fremder Arten die groste Bedrohung des antarktischen terrestrischen Okosystems und dessen Lebewesen, wahrend der Klimawandel zusatzlich die Hurden redu- ziert, die eine erfolgreiche Besiedlung und Etablierung eindringender Orga- nismen behindern.
Sustainable Electric Power System: Is It Possible? Case Study: Croatia

This paper analyzes the reality of sustainable energy supply (SEPS) from renewable energy sources (RES) as a totally green strategy of electric energy production. The paper is based on the Advanced International Policies (AIP) scenario of the European Renewable Energy Council agency forecast by the year 2040, which foresees the share of 82% of RES, extended to 100% of RES. The key element that creates conditions for achieving this ambitious scenario is an innovative solution of the so-called solar hydroelectric power plant (SHE) which is basically combined photovoltaic (PV) power plant and pump storage hydro (PSH) which can provide continuous supply of electric power and energy to consumers. Therefore, SHE is presented in this paper as the main building element of the future SEPS. For covering unit consumption of electric energy of 1 GWh in a power system, the paper calculates unit values of the SHE system: 0.73 MW of PV generator; 4,545 m2 of PV generator; 0.36 hm3 of reservoir volume, 0.21 GWh of PSH .
Associations Between Behavior Change Techniques and Engagement With Mobile Health Apps: Protocol for a Systematic Review

Background Digitally enabled care along with an emphasis on self-management of health is steadily growing. Mobile health apps provide a promising means of supporting health behavior change; however, engagement with them is often poor and evidence of their impact on health outcomes is lacking. As engagement is a key prerequisite to health behavior change, it is essential to understand how engagement with mobile health apps and their target health behaviors can be better supported. Although the importance of engagement is emphasized strongly in the literature, the understanding of how different components of engagement are associated with specific techniques that aim to change behaviors is lacking. Objective The purpose of this systematic review protocol is to provide a synthesis of the associations between various behavior change techniques (BCTs) and the different components and measures of engagement with mobile health apps. Methods The review protocol was structured using the PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols) and the PICOS (Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome, and Study type) frameworks. The following seven databases will be systematically searched: PubMed, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, APA PsycInfo, ScienceDirect, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science. Title and abstract screening, full-text review, and data extraction will be conducted by 2 independent reviewers. Data will be extracted into a predetermined form, any disagreements in screening or data extraction will be discussed, and a third reviewer will be consulted if consensus cannot be reached. Risk of bias will be assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration Risk of Bias 2 and the Risk Of Bias In Non-Randomized Studies - of Interventions (ROBINS-I) tools; descriptive and thematic analyses will be conducted to summarize the relationships between BCTs and the different components of engagement. Results The systematic review has not yet started. It is expected to be completed and submitted for publication by May 2022. Conclusions This systematic review will summarize the associations between different BCTs and various components and measures of engagement with mobile health apps. This will help identify areas where further research is needed to examine BCTs that could potentially support effective engagement and help inform the design and evaluation of future mobile health apps. Trial Registration PROSPERO CRD42022312596; https://tinyurl.com/nhzp8223 International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) PRR1-10.2196/35172
Numerical Analysis of Backscatter Radiography for Prediction of Pipelines Situation: Their Bursting and Casing Failure Consideration from inside

Backscatter radiography as a technique can successfully be applied for predicting the pipeline bursting and casing failure. A valid numerical technique will allow predicting these issues without needing to access the outside of the pipelines. Furthermore, this technique has the ability to estimate the shape and depth of damages. It is normally preferred to apply non-destructive testing (NDT) methods which can monitor the status of a pipeline from the internal surface of it without needing to access both sides of it depending on various locations of pipe such as underground or submarine. In the current study, backscatter radiography as an applicable and NDT method to detect locations with potential for pipeline bursting or casing failure was carefully investigated using the Monte Carlo simulation tool. The data obtained by the simulation process showed that backscatter radiography could detect deformations, corroded areas, depositions, creation of load on the casing, lacking proper cementation, excessive pressure inside the pipelines, and other factors which may increase the risk of pipelines bursting or casing failure (in-situ and online) with an acceptable accuracy.
Early nutritional influences of cardiovascular health

ABSTRACT Introduction Increasing evidence shows that nutritional choices during children’s formative years, including prenatally, impacts the development of adult onset cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), such as hypertension, myocardial infarction, or stroke. Areas Covered This literature review aims to synthesize the current body of evidence on nutritional factors, from conception through adolescence, which may influence a person’s risk factors for future development of CVD. Expert Opinion Given the escalating healthcare costs associated with CVD, it is imperative that medical professionals and scientists remain steadfast in prioritizing and promoting early CVD prevention, even within the first few years of life. Though not the only contributing risk factor, diet is a modifiable risk factor and has been shown to have a profound impact on the reduction of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in adult literature. Nutritional choices should be targeted on multiple levels: prenatally with the mother, individually with the patient, in conjunction with their family unit, and also within the broader community wherein they reside. Healthcare providers can play a key advocacy role for local and national food environment policy changes.
Override Parade

Tourism today has a problem. It is addicted to growth, which is incompatible withsustainability goals. Despite three decades of discussing pathways to sustainable tourism,tourism authorities worldwide has continued to promote tourism growth despite the ecologicaland social limits of living on a finite planet. Looking to it’s case to an island destination inIndonesia overtourism and tourism leakage are two major problems the industry arefacing. Therefore this article argues that tourism must be understood and managed with awider context of sustainability. Additionally, strategic approaches to transitioning to asufficiency approach to tourism and leisure is essential if sustainability is to be secured.Recommendations include Sustainable Mobilities, fostering diverse approaches to tourismstrategies for development and regulating and managing tourism. An upgraded reseach insustainable mobility through big data is recommended to further diverse tourism strategiesfrom approach, that be analyzed in real-time and directly targeted at tourism and destinationproblems
Perceived Discrimination and Students’ Behavioural Changes: The Role of Cultural Background and Societal Influence

Discrimination among students in educational institutes is one of the key reasons for their behavioural changes. Research has increasingly recognized the discriminating behaviour of teachers, but the impact of perceived discrimination by teachers on students’ behavioural changes has not been investigated enough. Applying a theoretical model based on Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST), the present study aimed to investigate the manner in which students’ behavioural changes were determined by their teachers’ perceived discrimination, after knowing family background and how this relationship was moderated by societal influence and cultural background. A sample survey of 215 class 8 to class 10 students studying in rural and urban schools located in Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu, India was administered through questionnaires and partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to evaluate the gathered data. Overall, perceived teacher discrimination of students based on their caste, creed, and financial background significantly influenced students behaviour. The association between students’ behavioural changes and perceived discrimination was significantly influenced by cultural background. However, societal influence did not significantly change the effect of perceived students’ discrimination on their behavioural changes.
Study on the Methodology of Diagnosis for Transformer Winding Insulation Defects

Power transformer is the important equipment in power system, once the occurrence of faults may bring serious harm to power grid, and even cause great losses. This paper proposes a transformer winding insulation defect detection method. The method only uses the impulse voltage test. It can obtain the diagnosis signal source which contains a lot of harmonic. This paper can judge the insulation defects in the location according to compare the extreme value distribution of every winding voltage and currents correlation coefficient . and can determine the coordinate values. The method does not need large or complex additional equipment, can realize the detection and diagnosis of transformer winding insulation defect location. It is image, intuitive, convenient and practical. This paper studies the insulation defects and the severity of transformer winding, puts forward the method for changing winding current and voltage detection winding insulation defects. And it uses a large number of experiments to verify the insulated and reliability of transformer winding according to different position, different types of insulation defects.
Development of robust Özkale–Kaçiranlar and Yang–Chang estimators for regression models in the presence of multicollinearity and outliers

The ordinary least‐squares estimator is commonly used to estimate the parameters of a linear regression model but gives unreliable and unfavorable results when two problems occur together: multicollinearity and outliers. This article proposes two different robust estimators of the regression parameters to cope with these problems together. The proposed estimators are a robust version of the Özkale–Kaçiranlar and Yang–Chang estimators. Theoretical calculations, numerical simulations, and real‐life data on manufacturing production are presented to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed robust estimators to existing estimators at dealing with multicollinearity and outliers at the same time.
Monotonic and fatigue loading behavior of quasi-isotropic graphite/epoxy laminate embedded with piezoelectric sensor

This study investigated the effects of embedding piezoelectric lead zirconate-titanate (PZT) sensors on the tensile strength and fatigue behavior of a quasi-isotropic graphite/epoxy laminate as well as the embedded sensor's voltage degradation under these loading conditions. For this, AS4/3501-6 laminates were fabricated with a lay-up where PZT was inserted into a cut-out area in the two middle plies. Monotonic tensile tests showed that both the average ultimate strength and Young's modulus of the tested laminate with or without PZT were within 4% of each other. The fatigue lives with and without PZT were very close to each other as well. Overall, the sequence of damage in this study agreed with previous investigations of the damage mechanisms for quasi-isotropic laminates. The ranges of modulus reduction in both cases, with and without PZT, were within 5 to 15% of each other during fatigue loading. Delamination growths in both cases during most of the fatigue life were also very comparable to each other. Further, this study showed that the embedded PZT would maintain a steady voltage output indefinitely when mechanically cycled within its operational strain limit. It thus appears that the embedment of PZTs in a cut-out area of plies of quasi-isotropic graphite/epoxy laminates would not affect their monotonic tensile and fatigue behavior.
Frequency-Space-Polarization on UWB MIMO Performance for Body Area Network Applications

This letter experimentally investigates the performance of ultrawideband (UWB) radio technologies with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas for body area network (BAN) applications. Effects of array spacing, antenna polarization, bandwidth and propagation on UWB-MIMO channel capacity are analyzed. The key finding here is to that in BAN the MIMO channel capacity is mainly determined by the power imbalance between subchannels compared to the sub channel correlation for both spatial array and polar array. For spatial array, the measured results show that the MIMO channel capacity is decreased when the array spacing is increased, despite the spatial correlation coefficient is decreased. This phenomenon is different from that in wide area networks (WAN) and wireless local area networks (WLAN). It is because that power difference among elements of the spatial array is significant in BAN short-range communications compared to that in WAN and WLAN. For polar array, the achievable channel capacity is lower than that of the spatial array in line-of-sight (LOS) conditions due to high cross-polarization discrimination. Furthermore, the MIMO capacity is slightly dependent on the environments due to dominance of human body effect. It is also found that the MIMO channel capacity decreased with frequency or bandwidth.
A Novel Three-Dimensional Cellular Automaton Evacuation Model

In order to effectively reduce evacuation time of pedestrians in emergencies, a novel evacuation model is proposed based on the three-dimensional cellular automation. The model, according to Moore cellular structure, firstly defines location income and estimates evacuation time parameter, and then gives calculation formula for moving probability of pedestrians at next moment. Meanwhile, in combination with the degree of fear and moving speed, evacuation strategies and cellular evolution rules suited to the three-dimensional condition are raised. At last, by establishing simulation model, the article profoundly analyses key factors that affect evacuation time of pedestrians, and finds that the evacuation time shows a negative correlation with the exit width, but a positive correlation with pedestrian density. Appropriate increase of pedestrians fear degree is good for reducing the whole evacuation time.
Influence of bond slip on crack spacing in numerical modeling of reinforced concrete

This paper investigates the influence of bond slip on crack spacing in reinforced concrete. A bond-link element is used to account for the influence of the bond slip between the concrete and the reinforcing steel. Following a previous work, the writers treat crack spacing as a strain localization problem. A new numerical model for prediction of crack spacing in reinforced concrete is applied. It is assumed that the deformation pattern of crack spacing consumes the least energy among all kinematically admissible deformations, and the energy minimization approach is applied to predict crack spacing. To simplify the problem, a lattice model is used, in which the cracking process is represented by the damage of the concrete bar elements. The influence of the bond slip on the cracking patterns have been studied through three numerical examples. The results show that without considering bond slip, the damage near the reinforcement is distributed rather than localized, whereas considering bond slip, the damage near the reinforcement is localized. The influence of bond slip on crack spacing is significant.
ERP II systems to support dynamic, reconfigurable and agile Virtual Enterprises

The Virtual Enterprises (VE) approach and a holistic view the supply chain come into play in the modern globalised competitive markets. A company is as reliable as the weakest link in its chain. An unhampered product and information flow and backtracking among the parties are required. The current wave of enterprise systems is unable to satisfy the above, raising the need for new system architectures and functionalities. The authors believe that the referred approach is the enhancement of the ERP functionality with web and middleware technologies, thus forming the ERP II. The ERP II, combined with SOA concepts, can thriftily realise the VE paradigm.
Dental Anthropology-A Revolutionary Tool in Forensic Science

Dental anthropology is a field of physical anthropology that studies the origin, development, and evolution of anthropoid dentitions, as well as their relationship to social, physical, and cultural factors. Teeth have their own distinct morphology and physiology, which is in stark contrast to the body's genetic structure. Teeth are also unique among the resistant elements of archaeological and fossil remains in that they have been exposed on the body's surface throughout their lives. As a result, dental anthropology may be assessed in the mouth cavity of living humans using similar methods to those used for prehistoric relics. As a result, it's no surprise that practising dental surgeons have historically ranked well among dental anthropologists. This review’s initial purpose is to provide an overview of the morphological and non-morphological properties of animate dentitions that aid in the indirect identification of prehistoric remains and the understanding of their cultural, social, and physical relationships, as well as to assist forensic odontologists with craniofacial identification and skull bone reconstruction.
Pollen viability and incompatibility in indigenous rice bean (Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi & Ohashi)

Pollen viability, germination and compatibility are essential in determining the success of pollination and seed setting of high-valued crops. Rice bean (Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi & Ohashi) is an underutilized and unexplored indigenous legume with high potential for commercial production. In this study, pollen quality, viability, germination rate and incompatibility among selected six rice bean (V. umbellata) accessions from Barili, Cebu, Philippines were evaluated to determine the barriers and effective pollination habit for increased productivity while retaining the important traits, including high tolerance in poor soils, superior climatic resilience and resistance to pest and diseases. Results of acetocarmine calorimetric assay showed that rice beans’ (V. umbellata) pollens are highly viable, with accessions VU 004 (56.33 ± 4.91%) and VU 007 (54.34 ± 4.53%) having the optimum viability rate. Brewbaker and Kwack medium treated with 0.2 g.l-1 and 0.3 g.l-1 boric acid (H3BO4) enhanced the germination rate in vitro (11.56 ± 5.53% and 9.47 ± 6.50% respectively). Bud (14.96 ± 1.53%) and post-anthesis pollens (10.28 ± 0.94%) have optimum germination rate in 0.2 g.l-1 boric acid media, while anthesis pollens are suitable in media supplemented with sucrose and boric acid alone (12.20 ± 1.50%) and with 0.1 g.l-1 myo-inositol supplementation (8.49 ± 1.86%). Pollination test revealed that rice bean accessions have high self-compatibility (50.76 + 3.45%) and low cross-compatibility (26.57 + 2.49%). The findings provide an important background in understanding the pollen quality and intraspecific interaction among indigenous rice bean (V. umbellata) accessions in Barili, Cebu to improve production and hybridization.