Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Total-radiated-power-based OATS-equivalent emissions testing in reverberation chambers and GTEM cells

Reverberation chambers historically have been used for military and aerospace radiated immunity testing, but their use for commercial radiated emissions testing is attracting attention. In contrast to the usual open-area-test-site-type radiated-emissions test, which measures electric field at some distance, a reverb chamber measures the total radiated power from an equipment-under-test. The widely used GTEM cell three-position emissions test method is also based on a total-radiated-power measurement. This paper presents preliminary total radiated power measured from dipole and slotted-box radiators in GTEM cells and reverberation chambers in the 80-1000 MHz frequency range. Measured results for typical multiposition GTEM-to-OATS and free-space correlation schemes are presented. An EUT directivity estimation scheme for power-to-field conversion is reviewed and compared to the GTEM algorithm using data from the same canonical radiators. FDTD-calculated free-space directivity for a slotted-box radiator is compared to the theory. Good agreement is shown between the various facilities.
Prosthetic Management of Segmentally Resected Mandible and Partial Glossectomy: A Case Report

The balance and symmetry of mandibular function gets destroyed by the loss of continuity of the mandible, which deviates the residual fragment towards the resected side thereby altering the mandibular movements. Physical therapy in combination with prosthodontic treatment can be used to reduce the mandibular deviation and hence it improves the masticatory efficiency. Many prosthetic methods are discovered to minimize deviation and provide masticatory efficiency. Some of these methods are mandibular guide flange prosthesis, implant supported prosthesis and palatal guidance restoration. Contact of Tongue with palate is important for the production of normal Case Study Kakade et al.; JPRI, 33(53A): 286-295, 2021; Article no.JPRI. 78334 287 speech, also the proper place of the tongue during certain sounds is important. In partial glossectomy conditions, tongue to palate articulation gets affected during speech and patient faces difficulty to pronounce certain sounds. For the rehabilitation of such patient thorough knowledge of the production of different sounds can be useful for diagnosis and treatment planning.
The dialectics of invisibilization in Syrian female refugees in Turkey

This article deals with how Syrian female refugees are intersectionally invisibilized in Turkey as refugees and as women. The main aim of this study is to understand the dialectics of (in)visibilization of Syrian female refugees. Therefore, using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), we analysed discourses in social media as well as popular discourses by Turkish and Syrian women in Ankara. We concentrate on the relation between the discourses produced in the host society and the particular way of how Syrian female refugees are portrayed and invisibilized. We wanted to know how powerful these discourses are in the host society when it comes to the (in)visibilization of Syrian women and their bodies. Furthermore, we wanted to understand the intersectionality of discrimination and invisibilization of Syrian female refugees. This study shows how discriminatory discourses are internalized and circulate also among women. Moreover, we show how different forms of invisibilization are usually related to marginalization, but in some cases can even be used as a means to escape discrimination.
General Impacts of Aswan High Dam

The Aswan High Dam in Egypt has been the focus of considerable attention with respect to its impact upon the environment. Prior to its completion in 1971, critics of the project voiced concern about the potential problems of sedimentation in the reservoir, downstream scour, riverbed degradation and coastal erosion, proliferation of disease vectors, and decreased soil fertility in the Egyptian Delta. The extent and degree of these and other environmental changes directly associated with the Aswan High Dam have been examined. Deleterious effects from the project have been placed in perspective against its derived benefits. Remedial measures for environmental damage as implemented currently by Egypt are described. It is concluded that through careful water resource management, the Aswan High Dam will continue to provide Egypt with benefits for the long-term future and the environmental problems can be effectively dealt with.
Productive and technological characteristics of goat farmers in Comondú, Baja California Sur

To identify productive characteristics through the technological indicators adopted by goats farmers at the Comondú municipality, state of Baja California Sur, Mexico. A survey consisting of semi-structured questions was designed to obtain multi-criteria information on the variables of technological, economic, social, and multilevel indicators. The production units (PUs) were classified by the cluster analysis of means statistical method in the SAS software, allowing to identify four groups of producers of 10.33, 69, 10.33, and 10.33 % of them. The social indicator demonstrated differences between UPs regard their education level, non-inclusion of women in the activity, total annual income, and whether or not they are members of an association. The technological indicator revealed differences in their distance from the UPs to the community, road conditions, area of the UP, available area for planting, water sources, herd size, availability to facilities, machinery, and equipment. The economic indicator showed differences between UPs in their agricultural complementary activities, economic dependence, milk production, cheese production, animal wastes, goat production, and their respective sales values. The conclusion is that this information is useful for particularly attending to the needs and will allow defining the precise kind of intervention in the management practices or the required management.
Beam‐steerable meanderline antenna using varactor diodes

This study presents a beam‐steerable traveling wave meanderline array at X‐band.Beam steering is achieved by the varactor diodes mounted on the meanderline that provide progressive phase shift between array elements. It is demonstrated that the radiation direction of the eight‐section meanderline array containing eight varactors can be rotated 10° by changing the varactor diode's bias voltage. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 53:200–204, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.25634
Acute Induced Scurvy: Implications for COVID-19 and the Cytokine Storm

Using an evolutionary genetic disease model, this review considers Vitamin C (VC) and its potential for treating COVID-19 (CV-19). The model’s validity rests on VC’s potent antioxidant property and the mutation sustained by the primate ancestor (est.) 61 MYA that left humans unable to produce VC. The result is humans cannot -by diet or oral supplementationachieve plasma VC concentrations typical of vitamin C synthesizers. This may leave humans chronically vulnerable to infectious disease (hypoascorbemia). VC deficiency can become more acute during severe disease (anascorbemia) and, because of the relationship between disease severity and oxidative stress, can intensify the oxidative load and associated inflammation. During acute disease, oxidative stress becomes oxidative distress when highly reactive oxidants are produced at a rate faster than normal homeostatic mechanisms can quench them, such as with the inflammatory cytokine storm characteristic of severe CV-19. Cytokine storms directly underly the most severe complications of CV-19, e.g., acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). Infusions of VC into the plasma achieve concentrations that can exceed those of VC synthesizing species. At such concentrations, VC’s action as a non-rate limited antioxidant may lower the probability of a cytokine storm and the risk of tissue injury. I suggest that VC may prove a useful treatment in such contexts. In advance of the resulting ongoing clinical trials, this review will extrapolate a picture of VC’s potential therapeutic impact on the inflammatory cytokine storm and severe complications possible with CV-19.
Scholarly Achievement versus Editorial Board Membership. The Case of the Top Ten Polish Pedagogical Journals

An invitation to become an editorial board member (EBM) of an academic journal should be regarded as evidence of recognition of a scholar’s research achievement and impact on his discipline. This is a requirement of Merton’s norm of universalism in science, which proposes that awards and prestige ought to be held to objective and pre-established impersonal criteria that depend exclusively on the quality of scholarly output. This principle is particularly important in the context of editorial teams of academic journals. The aim of this paper is to present an empirical case study of the academic achievements of the EBMs of the top ten Polish pedagogical journals, in 2020. For research purposes, the author assumed that the criterion for nomination to the editorial board was the scholars’ output, as evidenced by their publications indexed in the WoS and Scopus databases and also the number of corresponding citations. The results put into question the idea that the editorial nominations examined were indeed grounded in the publications indexed in the WoS and Scopus databases. Based on the record of EBMs output indexed in these databases, most EBMs analysed were not proven to be the most productive or cited scholars.
Synthetic Tabular Data Generation with Oblivious Variational Autoencoders: Alleviating the Paucity of Personal Tabular Data for Open Research

Hospitals store a wealth of digital data in the form of tables. If these data could be publicly shared, they would expedite data-intensive AI research to the benefit of the medical organizations or society at large. However, these tabular data usually contain personal identifiers of patients, which in conjunction with sensitive medical information, pose serious privacy concerns. Thus access to such data are usually hampered by the high walls and deep moats of security processes, such as lengthy reviews by medical review boards.
Statin Use in Relation to Intraocular Pressure, Glaucoma, and Ocular Coherence Tomography Parameters in the UK Biobank

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between statin use and various glaucoma-related traits. Design: Cross-sectional analysis of UK Biobank data. Participants: We included 118,153 participants (mean age (SD)=56.8 (8.0) years) with data on statin use (5 statin types - 2006-2010) and corneal-compensated IOP measured in 2009-2013. Also, we included 192,283 participants (with 8,982 self-reported glaucoma cases as of 2006-2010) for the glaucoma analyses. After excluding participants with neurodegenerative diseases, 41,638 participants with global macular retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (mRNFL) and 41,547 participants with ganglion cell inner plexiform layer thickness (mGCIPL) measurements in 2009-2010 were available for analysis. Method: We examined associations with statin use utilizing multivariable-adjusted linear regression models for IOP, mRNFL, and mGCIPL and logistic regression models for glaucoma. We assessed whether a 2,673-member polygenic risk score (PRS) identified from a glaucoma multi-trait analysis of genome wide association study (MTAG) modified associations. We performed Mendelian randomization (MR) experiments using 5 gene variants as proxies for the cholesterol-altering effect of statins to investigate associations with various glaucoma-related outcomes. Main Outcome and Measures: IOP; glaucoma; mRNFL; mGCIPL. Results: Statin users had higher unadjusted mean IOP {+/-} SD (16.3 {+/-} 3.9 mm Hg; n = 20,593 participants) than non-users (15.9 {+/-} 3.8 mm Hg; n = 97,560 participants), but in a multivariable-adjusted model, IOP did not differ by statin use (difference = 0.05 mm Hg; 95% CI: -0.02, 0.13; p=0.17). Similarly, statin use was not associated with prevalent glaucoma (OR = 1.05; 95% CI: 0.98, 1.13). Statin use was weakly associated with thinner mRNFL (difference = -0.15 microns; 95% CI: -0.28, -0.01; p=0.03) but not with mGCIPL thickness (difference = -0.12 microns; 95% CI: -0.29, 0.05; p=0.17). Among statins, simvastatin and atorvastatin, the two most commonly used statins, were not associated with any glaucoma outcome measures. No association was modified by the glaucoma MTAG PRS (Pinteraction[≥]0.16). MR experiments showed no evidence for a causal association between the cholesterol-altering effect of statins and various glaucoma outcomes (inverse weighted variance p[≥]0.14). Conclusions: Statin use was not associated with lower IOP, lower glaucoma prevalence, thicker mRNFL or thicker mGCIPL in the UK Biobank.
Next Major Wave of it Inovation

Cloud computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. A simple example of cloud computing is the mail Account which we having in Google and in Yahoo. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth. Also beyond cost savings, cloud computing is poised to enable innovation in green IT. The classic example which I would like to tell for cloud computing is, 'If you only need milk, would you buy a cow? ' All the users or consumers need is to get the benefits of using the software or hardware of the computer like sending emails etc. Just to get this benefit (milk) why should a consumer buy a (cow) software / hardware? Cloud computing is broken down into three segments: "applications", "platforms" and "infrastructure".
SiGe HBT technology: device and application issues

SiGe HBT Bipolar/BiCMOS technology has a unique opportunity in the wireless marketplace because it can provide the performance of III-V HBTs and the integration/cost benefits of silicon bipolar/BiCMOS. This paper will review the status of IBM's SiGe HBT technology particularly focusing on some key device and application issues for high frequency circuit applications. In this work we review graded-base SiGe HBTs optimized for analog circuits and address four key issues: 1) BV/sub ceo/ constraints, 2) Transmission line loss, 3) Noise performance, and 4) Process integration leverage and issues. All of the hardware results are for self-aligned, polysilicon emitter, graded-base SiGe HBTs fabricated in a 200 mm semiconductor production line using the UHV/CVD technique for film growth.
Journal of Humanities 2020 JHSSCA (Read-Only)

This study examines the influence of advertising on consumer preference for Guinness Stout and WIlfort Dark Ale. The survey method of research was adopted and 200 literate consumers of the brands under study who reside in Ibadan were purposively selected and sampled. Data collected were analyzed using percentage grade tabulation and correlation analysis. Results show that consumers perceive Guinness Stout adequately advertised and Wilfort Dark Ale under advertised. In terms of quality, consumers rated Guinness Stout adverts higher than that of Wilfort Dark Ale. The study also revealed that advertising influences consumer preference, however, quality (taste) and availability in that order, have greater influence on consumer preference than advertisements. The study concludes that advertisements alone cannot bring about brand preference. It is in this regard, that the following among others were recommended: That producers should ensure that their products are of very good quality and are made available to the people where and when needed. Specifically, Guinness Nigeria. Plc, producers of Guinness Stout should sustain Guinness Stout’s advertisement in terms of quality, reach and frequency, while, Sona Breweries, producers of Wilfort Dark Ale should consider it important to increase its advertisement of Wilfort and extend the advertisement to other media such as radio and television if and when they are ready to expand their market.
Kinetic Study on Photopolymerization of TPGDA under Containerless Condition

The TPGDA drop was suspended in the atmosphere under acoustic levitation and induced by photoinitiation for polymer preparation at the first attempt. The kinetics of TPGDA photopolymerization induced by the UV light under containerless condition was studied. Compared to the normal condition, the average initial polymerization rate of TPGDA under acoustic levitation is relatively lower, while the final conversion is higher. Relative to oxygen inhibition, container effect plays a more significant role on the conversion in this polymerization system.
Five Year Mortality Trend Among Bushehr Nuclear Plant Workers Exposed To Ionizing Radiation: Does Sanction Impact Mortality Rate?

Background: The investigation of potential adverse health effects of occupational exposures to ionizing radiation, on nuclear plant workers, is an important area of research. In this study, we aimed to calculate the incidence and risk of cancer development and mortality during last five years (2015-2019). Material and Methods: 660 nuclear industry workers were included into this study. For this cohort, the cancer mortality has been assessed by data obtained from national health registry excluded for the probability of known causes of death. The associations between cumulative occupational radiation exposures (radon, gamma radiation and long-lived radionuclides) and cancer mortality were calculated. Results: Radon and Gamma exposure, in mSV, was significantly higher among workers who developed cancer [8.9 (0; 3,224.5) vs 19.9 (0; 128.4), p=0.03] and [15.0 (2.1; 110.0) vs 24.5 (0; 470.1), p=0.02]. However, no significant association was found between long-lived radionuclides and risk of cancer (p=0.07). Considering economic sanction as a dependent variable, we found no significant effect on mortality rate among workers. Conclusion: In conclusion, significant association has been observed between the risk of cancer development and radon and gamma exposure among nuclear industry workers, but no association was found between cancer and long-live nucleoids exposure.
On the Strain Rate- and Temperature-Dependent Tensile Behavior of Eutectic Sn–Pb Solder

The present study examines the thermomechanical strain-rate sensitivity of eutectic 63Sn–37Pb solder over a broad range of strain-rates from 0.0002 s–1 to 200 s–1 , thus encompassing failure events between 1 h and 1 ms, at temperatures ranging from −60 °C to + 100 °C. A newly developed servohydraulic tensile method enabled this broad range of strain-rates to be evaluated by a single technique, eliminating ambiguity caused by evaluation across multiple experimental methods. Two solder conditions were compared: a normalized condition representing a solder joint that has largely stabilized ∼30 days after solidification and an aged condition representing ∼30 years at near-ambient temperatures. The tensile behavior of both conditions exhibited dramatic temperature and strain-rate sensitivity. At 100 °C, the yield strength increased from 5 MPa at 0.0002 s–1 to 42 MPa at 200 s–1 , while at −60 °C, the yield strength increased from 57 MPa at 0.0002 s–1 to 71 MPa at 200 s–1 . The room temperature strain rate-dependent behavior was also measured for the lead free SAC396 alloy. The SAC alloy exhibited thermal strain-rate sensitivity similar to Sn–Pb over this temperature and strain-rate regime. Microstructural characterization using backscatter electron imaging and electron backscatter diffraction showed distinct, morphological changes of the microstructure for different thermomechanical conditions as well as some systematic changes in the crystallographic texture. However, very little intergranular rotation was observed over the range of thermomechanical conditions, suggesting the dominance of a grain boundary sliding (GBS) deformation mechanism. Finally, a recently developed unified-creep-plasticity constitutive model for solder deformation was found to describe the observed behavior with much higher fidelity than the common Johnson–Cook model.
Review of printed Marchand and double Y baluns: characteristics and application

A review of printed baluns is presented. This is divided into two main groups; Marchand baluns (band pass networks) and double Y baluns (all pass networks). For each of these groups of baluns, three different realizations are given: microstrip-slot line, CPW-slot line and CPW/sub FGP/-CPS and their theoretical and experimental characteristics are compared. Simple expressions for the design of Marchand baluns with Chebyshev response, which replace the complicated synthesis proposed by Cloete are derived. Superior broadbandwidth features of double Y baluns are demonstrated in the design of two uniplanar double balanced mixers. Both the double Y mixer and the CPW/sub FGP/-CPS mixer have a frequency bandwidth 1:6, whilst maintaining other performance similar to that achieved with classical double balanced mixers. >
The regeneration of damaged connective tissue: wishful thinking or reality?

This review examines the current status of various cellular and non-cellular regeneration technologies used for the repair and regeneration of damaged connective tissue. The article explores the clinical use of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells, growth factors, cytokines, platelet-rich plasma and GOLDIC® method. To compare the regenerative capacity of these technologies, a systematic analysis of the regeneration quality is necessary, and a high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using a quality scoring system is needed. It is likely that in future clinical practice a combination of such technologies will offer the optimal treatment to patients with different connective tissue disorders, which must always be our ultimate goal.
Contested Cosmopolitanism

A growing body of literature is accumulating around theories of cosmopolitanism. The concept is hotly debated within a number of disciplines, and similar debates circulate beyond academia, among national and transnational actors. This paper aims to critically appraise some of the current competing discourses and agendas around cosmopolitanism and their implications. The recent emphasis on cosmopolitanism is not without its detractors, and this paper engages with some of the key critiques of the current cosmopolitan turn. These touch on multiple dimensions of the cosmopolitan project, its essentialising and reductionist features, its western-centric bias and its postcolonial inflection. While some scholars mobilise the concept of cosmopolitics to contest the political nature of cosmopolitanism rhetoric and agenda, others historicise its political and economic context. Still others flesh out the figure of the cosmopolitan, offering alternative readings of the current postmodern condition, or undoing the cosmopolitan project from within. Through an exploration of the discrepancies between competing accounts of cosmopolitanism, and of contested understandings of who can or cannot aspire to be considered ‘cosmopolitan’, the paper sets out to highlight the situatedness of specific political projects associated with cosmopolitanism and to discuss the ramifications of privileging specific views of cosmopolitanism over others.