Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Modeling Education Deserts for Veterans and Military Families in the Southern United States

Despite billions of dollars invested in educational benefits for veterans and active-duty military families under the U.S. Post-9/11 GI Bill, many prospective students are not forging pathways through public institutions of higher education, and funding is disproportionately spent on for-profit colleges. To reveal patterns of lack of access and opportunity, we propose a novel, robust analysis tailored to the situation of veterans and military families in the southern United States. This methodology delineates education deserts using fuzzy algorithms and multivariate spatial analysis to move beyond simple “hotspot” identification of distance from university locations. Results and comparisons of four models confirm different patterns for veterans versus nonveterans and show dynamic regional changes from 2005 through 2017 that reflect shifting demographics, economics, and educational offerings. These insights could inform a roadmap for outreach that accounts for shifting education deserts and potentially workforce opportunities through geographic analysis. This approach represents a potential first step for academic actors, especially in the public sector, who play a role in advancing science, technology, engineering, and math; geography; and geographic information systems to enable veteran and military families to better achieve equitable rates of educational attainment.
Making Plans: The Role of Evidence in England's Reformed Spatial Planning System

Abstract This paper explores the use of evidence in the making of local development frameworks in England, introduced as part of the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act. The reforms dictate that for a plan to be considered ‘sound’, the policy choices it contains must be justified through the compilation and use of an appropriate evidence base. The paper draws on research undertaken as part of the UK government-sponsored Spatial Plans in Practice (SPiP) project looking into the operation of the reformed spatial planning system in England. It draws on the findings of a number of reports produced as part of this research on the use of evidence in the making of local development frameworks in England as well as wider components of the SPiP project including interviews with local authority planning officers, documentary review of adopted planning documents (core strategies and area action plans) and a longitudinal suite of case studies covering a number of local planning authorities using both qualitative semi-structured interviews and a strategic survey. The paper finds grounds to believe that, although local planning authorities are collecting more evidence than ever before, the culture of using evidence to inform policy-making is far from a well-established or uniform practice.
The Science and Technology of the Square Kilometre Array

I discuss the science and engineering of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the next generation astronomical observatory for studying the structure and evolution of the Universe. I give an overview of the SKA Key Science areas and map them onto the instruments that are being developed for these investigations. I outline where the SKA is being built and how the international community is developing the project. I discuss a range of SKA pathfinder and precursor telescopes that are currently being built or are operational, helping to inform SKA engineering, ICT and astrophysics.
An optimal lossless commutation quadratic PWM Boost converter

This paper presents a PWM boost power converter, where the DC voltage conversion ratio has a quadratic dependence on the duty cycle, providing a large voltage step up (from 24 V to 160 V). By introducing two resonant networks, soft switching is achieved, providing highly efficient operating conditions for a wide load range at high switching frequencies.
Optimization of Collocated/Noncollocated Sensors and Actuators along with Feedback Gain Using Hybrid Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm-Artificial Neural Network

A multiobjective optimization procedure is proposed to deal with the optimal number and locations of collocated/noncollocated sensors and actuators and determination of LQR controller gain simultaneously using hybrid multiobjective genetic algorithm-artificial neural network (GA-ANN). Multiobjective optimization problem has been formulated using trade-off objective functions ensuring good observability/controllability of the structure while minimizing the spillover effect and maximizing closed loop average damping ratio. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are used to train the input as varying numbers and placements of sensors and actuators and the outputs are taken as the three objective functions (i.e., controllability, observability, and closed loop average damping ratio), thus forming three ANN models. The trained mathematical models of ANN are fed into the multiobjective GA. The hybrid multiobjective GA-ANN maintains the trade-off among the three objective functions. The ANN3 model is used experimentally to provide the control inputs to the piezoactuators. It is shown that the proposed method is effective in ascertaining the optimal number and placement of actuators and sensors with consideration of controllability, observability, and spillover prevention such that the performance on dynamic responses is also satisfied. It is also observed that damping ratio obtained with hybrid multiobjective GA-ANN and found with ANN experimentally/online holds well in agreement.
Australian Wine Tourism: Establishing a Career Path at the Cellar Door

Wine tourism in Australia has grown substantially in recent years and contributes to employment opportunities in regional areas. To meet the requirements of this growing sector, workers need a considerable degree of skill-specific training; development of wine tourism personnel will be required. This article examines challenging human resource issues associated with the potential labour pool in wine regions in Australia. It raises issues about professional development through the implementation of training and assessment strategies to achieve a growth in the professionalism of cellar-door employees and thus provide a professional career pathway for Australian wine tourism personnel.
Ten best practices of companies that care

© 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ert.10092 One need not be a brilliant economist to know that U.S. businesses are merely limping toward economic recovery. Indeed, today’s economic climate is clouded with uncertainty and is frequently raining bad news with more layoffs and an ever-growing list of bankruptcy filings. Unemployment is at its highest level in years with earnings flat or down across most sectors and industries. What’s more, employees have lost trust in corporate accountability, and a belief in company standards and ethics is being challenged on a routine basis. In the midst of this economic storm, organizations are faced with more pressure than ever to perform and report profits back to shareholders. Once again, the “do-more-withless” strategy is being reactivated. But in some workplaces, there’s a quiet revolution taking place—some companies are approaching today’s business challenges with business practices that consider their human resources as valuable assets rather than as costs. Considering employees as assets is not a new concept for HR philosophers. However, translating this concept into day-to-day business practices that are outside the scope of HR’s function is still only in its infancy. Henry Ford once mused, “Why is it that what I always get is a whole person when what I really want is a pair of hands? ” Businesses have a choice—they can bemoan the baggage that accompanies the “pair of hands,” or they can take a holistic approach that results in a competitive advantage. When people are viewed as assets with the intent of directing their hearts and minds toward the service of business goals, attitudes about employees change radically. Under this new mindset, people, like other hard assets, are cared for with kid gloves. In much the same manner that hard assets such as computers, machinery, and raw materials are kept clean, protected, and in good working condition, etc., extensive planning and practice go into developing and sustaining employees, while maximizing their profitability. This mindset also incorporates a longterm view; that is, the priority is not only to motivate current employees, but also to invest in future employees by supporting the communities in which they grow.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2005, volume 23, pages 851^881

In this paper we present a detailed examination of identification codes, their embeddedness in everyday life, and how recent trends are qualitatively altering their nature and power. Developing a Foucaultian analysis we argue that identification codes are key components of governmentality and capitalism. They provide a means of representing, collating, sorting, categorising, matching, profiling, regulating, of generating information, knowledge, and control through processes of abstraction, compu- tation, modeling, and classification. Identification codes now provide a means of uniquely addressing all the entities and processes that make up everyday lifepeople, material objects, information, transactions, and territories. Moreover, they provide a means of linking these entities and processes together in complex ways to form dense rhizomic assemblages of power/knowledge. At present, however, the information that identification codes provide access to are, at best, oligopticon in naturethat is, they afford only partial and selective views. In the latter part of the paper we outline four trendswide-scale trawling for data, increased granularity, forever storage, and enhanced processing and analysisthat seek to convert these partial oligopticons into more panoptic arrangements. In turn, we contend that these trends are part of a larger metatrendthe creation of a machine-readable world in which identification codes can be systematically and automatically 'read' and acted on by software inde- pendent of human control. This metatrend is supported by interlocking discourses such as safety, security, efficiency, antifraud, citizenship and consumer empowerment, productivity, reliability, flexi- bility, economic rationality, and competitive advantage to construct powerful, supportive discursive regimes.
Improving the Password Selection Mechanism

wisdom seems to have concluded that traditional passwords are inherently insecure. We feel that the se conclusions are premature. Our current research is reexamining the problem of password selection and memorability through the exploration of password selection mechanisms with novel interface designs. During the spring of 2006 we did work that was publ ished as a CHI2006 work-in-progress paper summarizing the initial study. This poster is intended to extend upon that by furt her defining the methodology of that work, presenting preliminary re sults motivating further study, and by soliciting partici pation in the next phase of the study. The goal of this research is develop both principles and designs that help users to choose pa sswords that are secure and memorable.
Inertial sensor technology trends

This paper presents the status of inertial sensor technology in underwater navigation applications, followed by a prediction of where inertial instrument technology is heading and in which applications the future sensor technologies will find a niche. Many kinds of sensors have been developed. The GPS is cheap and ubiquitous, but it is uncertain whether it would be continuously available in military scenarios.
Study of micro particles deposition in ribbed channel: A numerical investigation in turbulent airflow

The air is modeled as incompressible flow in a ribbed channel. The existence of ribs on channel surface causes the turbulence in flow, therefore we must solve the turbulence equations. There are previous experimentally investigations on turbulence flow in ribbed channels. In this article, the results of numerical simulation are compared with experimental results and the effectiveness of k−e model in solving the problem of micro-particle deposition with Lagrangian model is studied because of complexities of turbulent flow, the problem is modeled both 2- and 3-dimensionally. After solving the fluid domain, the particle equations of motion are solved separately and finally the particle deposition on channel surface is calculated. Considering the physic and complications of turbulent flows, the results of 2-D simulation are different with experimental results, despite of 3-D results, which a" # "re in complete accordance with experimental results.
Partial Discharge - Part 111: Cavitv-Induced PD in Solid Dielectrics

n the first paper of the series, we discussed the nature of partial discharge (PD), and how a PD I associated with a test object causes a current to flow in the test leads. The second paper of the series discussed the options for detecting such a signal. With this paper, the series begins the move toward applicationsspecific content which will lead to a series of papers on I'D testing of specific types of electrical apparatus, such as solid dielectric power cable, rotating machines, printed circuit boards, gas-insulated substations, etc. Cavities (sometimes termed "voids") within solid or viscous liquid dielectrics are among the most common sources of PD in such systems. For this reason, along with the recent progress in the field, we will devote a paper to the subject. The basic problem can be stated in either of two contexts, viz., "How do we relate the magnitude of the measured, 'effective', PD to the size, shape, and position of the cavity within a solid dielectric system? " or "What is the relationship between cavity size and 'effective' I'D magnitude in a given context? ", i.e., 'What is the smallest detectable cavity? " For a range of geometries, such as parallel plate and coaxial, we can develop analytic solutions (i.e., formulas), and for any system, the solution can be found using computer-based methods for calculating the electric field throughout a sample.
A Study on Grey Correlation Degree Model of Venture Capital Intrinsic Value

In view of the disfigurement that the former research mostly focus on the evaluation of the investment value before investment, not only this paper uses for reference to the former evaluation system, but also successfully integrates it into a unity that the evaluation before investment and after investment. This paper designs a set of evaluation criterion and a set of actual state evaluation system. Comparing both of them is the essential start of evaluation. Then according to it, and based on the grey correlation degree theory, this paper constructs a set of compositive evaluation indexgrowth imitating degree, The method provides a primary analysis frame for monitoring venture enterprise fostering.
Conception d'une unité pilote pour le traitement des sédiments de l'assainissement pluvial

The aim of this study is to develop a pilot unit based on attrition and sieving for the treatment of runoff water sediments. Preliminary laboratory tests carried out on 6 sediments with different characteristics show that 45 to 75 % of a given sediment can be re-used. These results are used for the conception of the pilot unit which allows to separate 4 fractions. The pollutants (organic mater and trace metals) are concentrated in the fine fraction ( 30 mm), generally less than 5 % will be considered as a domestic waste. Finally, the > 2 mm and 60 µm-2 mm fractions representing between 45 and 75 % of the bulk sediment are likely to be re-used (as road embankment) in case their geotechnical characteristics are good.
Cluster-error correction for through-silicon vias in 3D ics

The two-dimensional parity check is the optimum single-error-correction code in terms of speed. In this reported work it is employed to develop two sliding schemes for through-silicon-via cluster error correction in three-dimensional ICs. For k bits of source data, the one-dimensional sliding scheme can correct a single cluster error up to about √k bits and more extra discrete errors can be corrected by the two-dimensional sliding scheme. Experiments show that for several hundreds of through-silicon vias (TSVs), two trees of 3-level 2-input exclusive-OR (XOR) gates are almost optimised to encode and decode each interconnect, and the time penalty can be controlled within about 1 ns.
The study of threshold voltage extraction of nitride spacer NMOS transistors in early stage hot carrier stress

Threshold voltage V/sub t/ extracted by g/sub m/-maximum extrapolation method under early stage hot carrier stress is proven to be an inappropriate method once electrons are trapped in a nitride spacer. The trapping of electrons in a nitride spacer increases the series drain resistance, reducing the transconductance g/sub m/ and the corresponding gate-to-source voltage V/sub gs/ at which peak g/sub m/ occurs. It ultimately decreases the threshold voltage V/sub t/ extracted by the g/sub m/-maximum extrapolation method. A novel algorithm is derived to determine the relationship between the measured data and the true threshold voltage of such a device under hot carrier stress by considering the effect of series resistance in g/sub m/-maximum extrapolation method.
Speed-up technique of rangefinder system that consists of an image sensor with an electronic pattern mask

3-dimentional image measurement is still an important field. A measurement system for the aim requires sufficiently fast speed, compactness, and high cost performance. To meet these requirements, we have developed a rangefinder system that consists of an image sensor with an electronic pattern mask. It was shown that one range image, theoretically, can be obtained in about 0.025 [s] by using the system. However, it was necessary to make acquisition time longer since the output voltage from the image sensor was too small (about 1.0mV). One range image was obtained in 128 [s] really. In this paper, we propose a speed-up technique of the rangefinder system by introducing an integration circuit. A simple circuit is adopted as the integration circuit from a perspective of a cost performance. By using the circuit, measurement speed is improved by 2400 times (0.053 [s / one range image]), and output voltages are improved by about 10 times (about 10mV), theoretically. From experimental results, there are some problems with the measurement by using the circuit. However, it is also shown that the system has a possibility to be improved at the same level as the theoretical value in the method by solving the problems.
Adaptive Miller capacitor multiplier for compact on-chip PLL filter

An adaptive Miller capacitor multiplier is proposed to reduce on-chip phase-locked loop (PLL) capacitor area and improve lock speed. Fabricated in 0.5 µm standard CMOS, an effective capacitance of 576 pF is achieved with a polycapacitor of only 192 pF (62% die area saving) and 0.43 mA current consumption. The lock time is reduced by 36% due to the adaptive loop bandwidth control during PLL settling.
Association of Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass and Central Obesity Parameters with Lipid Profiles in Older Women

BACKGROUND: Metabolic syndrome is a common condition found in the elderly. The association between body compositions with the lipid profiles in the elderly as cardiovascular risk factors was still unclear. AIM: This study aimed to evaluate the association appendicular skeletal muscle mass (ASMM) and central obesity parameters with lipid profile in older women. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study conducted at the Geriatric Outpatient Clinic, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, from January 2019 to February 2020. We collected patients’ medical records and analyzed the correlation between ASMM and central obesity parameters including truncal fat mass (TrFM) with lipid profile. RESULTS: A total of 61 subjects were included in the inclusion criteria in this study. The mean of body mass index (BMI) was 25.8 ± 4.5 with a normal BMI percentage of 44.2% and obesity of 16.4%. The mean of abdominal and calf circumference was 89 ±10 cm and 35 ± 4 cm, respectively. The mean of ASMM was 8.27 ± 1.29 kg/m2 and TrFM was 10.98 ± 3.92 kg/m2. We found a negative correlation between ASMM and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) (r = –0.297, p = 0.01). TrFM was correlated with triglycerides (TG) (r = 0.339, p = 0.004). There was no significant relationship between calf circumference and abdominal circumference to lipid profile parameters. CONCLUSION: ASMM is negatively correlated with HDL, meanwhile, TrFM had a positive correlation with TG in older women as alertness of cardiovascular risk.
Identification of genetic diversity among some promising lines of rice under drought stress using SSR markers

Fourteen rice lines and one cultivar were investigated for morphological traits and genetic diversity under normal and drought stress condition. Mean squares of years, environment and lines × environments were significant for all traits under observation, except for days to heading and grain yield/plant in years, days to heading in environment and days to heading and harvest index in lines × environments, respectively. The 10 SSR markers, covering seven chromosomes (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9) generated polymorphic alleles with sum of 72 alleles on seven chromosomes with 9 markers across the fifteen rice lines. Furthermore, genetic diversity values for all SSR markers varied from 0.94 to 1.00 with an average of 0.98. In addition, the PIC values ranged from 0.83 to 0.99 with an average value of 0.94. The promising lines of present investigation can be utilized in future plant breeding programs.
Exploring the ideation patterns of ordinary users: the case of mobile telecommunications services

Managers aiming to utilise the potential of involving ordinary users in ideation for innovation receive very little guidance from the existing literature with regard to how to do so in a satisfactory way. This paper aims to fill this knowledge gap by contributing to a better understanding of how users contribute to the ideation process of technology-based services, as well as how users may satisfactorily be managed within it. This is accomplished by identifying and investigating different ideation patterns and their effects on the created ideas' characteristics in the context of mobile telephony services. The current paper is based on a quasi-experimental study lasting 12 days and involving 56 ordinary users and 12 professionals as idea creators. Three different groups of users and one reference group of professionals were used. The paper inductively identifies four different ideation patterns leading to different types of ideas with regard to their innovativeness (incremental/radical). These are further related to the existing literature. The paper concludes with the managerial implications concerning how to manage user involvement for ideation to obtain either more incremental or more radical ideas.