Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Methods to Improve Cultural Communication Skills in Special Operations Forces.

Abstract : This report describes the development and application of methodologies to identify cultural communication skills training requirements for Special Forces. Cultures (187) of operational relevance were identified and grouped into ten regions. A "generic cultural communication skills template" was developed to provide a structured taxonomy of the cultural information domain and the basis for culture-specific templates. Three culture-specific templates were developed, each describing a culture and identifying culture-specific behaviors that were prioritized through focus groups of cultural informants and clustering analysis. Mission templates were developed that identified and organized the elements of two missions. The mission elements were weighted by subject-matter experts using paired comparisons and ranking. A crosswalk related each cultural behavior to each mission element for three pairs of cultures and missions (Arabs of West Asia/Foreign Internal Defense, Russian/ Unconventional Warfare, Cuban/Foreign Internal Defense) to generate a "preliminary prioritization of cultural communication skill training requirements" for each pairing. The report also describes the development and delivery of two programs of instruction based on the methodologies. The methodologies should improve the commanders' and training managers' ability to determine training requirements and to develop training specifically linked to mission requirements.
THE PENGARUH GAME: EAST MEETS WEST

With Pengaruh we intended to develop a serious game, to be used in leadership development programs, that adds value to the already large number of simulations currently available in the market. Pengaruh is based on a Southeast Asian strategy board game, using existing mythological figures, made by Kummara (Bandung, Indonesia). In this paper we assume that leadership impact on teams today is related to the being perceived as trustworthy and the ability to keep others engaged. In order to learn something about trust and engagement, we believe we need to tackle the less tangible elements of the impact one has on others related to trust and engagement, in addition to well defined behavioral feedback. Pengaruh is designed to cover this.
A comparison of power circuit topologies and control techniques for a high frequency ballast

A comparison of power circuit topologies and fluorescent lamp current control strategies for medium to high power rapid-start high-frequency ballasts is presented. Issues such as output current harmonic content, current crest factor, and starting current are addressed. It is found that the LCC type and the LCLC type power converter satisfy the lamp requirements. The LCLC type converter has the added advantage of having the lowest kVA rating. Experimental results for the LCC type power converter under voltage mode control are provided. <<ETX>>
Security concerns regarding connected embedded systems

Embedded systems have been present in our daily lives for some time, but trends clearly show a rise in inter-connectivity in such devices. This presents promising new applications and possibilities, but also opens up a lot attack surface. Our goal in this thesis is to find out how you can develop such interconnected embedded systems in a way that guarantees the three major components of information security: Confidentialy, Integrity and Availability. The main focus of security is networked security. In this thesis, a dual approach is taken: investigate the development process of building secure systems, and perform such an implementation. The artifacts produced as byproducts, the software itself, deployment instructions and lessons learned are all presented. It is shown that the process used helps businesses find a somewhat deterministic approach to security, have a higher level of confidence, helps justify the costs that security work entails and helps in seeing security as a business decision. Embedded systems were also shown to present unforeseen obstacles, such as how the lack of a motherboard battery clashes with X.509. In the end, a discussion is made about how far the system can guarantee information security, what problems still exist and what could be done to mitigate them.
Stromspeicher: eine wichtige Option für die Energiewende

The German energy transition makes it necessary to increase flexibility in the electricity system. Different forms of power storage may play a part in this, yet there is competition with other options on the production or demand side. In the short term, the further expansion of electricity generation from fluctuating renewables will be possible in Germany without additional power storage facilities. In the longer term, however, storage requirements will depend strongly on specific circumstances and are therefore difficult to predict. A model-based analysis shows that requirements for power storage rise sharply when the share of renewable energies is very high, particularly if other potential sources of flexibility are less developed. If options such as flexible generation of electricity from biomass, the enhancement of demandside flexibility, or cross-border contributions to integrating renewable energies develop less favorably than is frequently assumed today, then additional electricity storage facilities will be required and economically beneficial in the long term. For this reason, supporting the development of power storage will be a useful component of a policy designed to safeguard the energy transition for the future. Policy-makers should aim for technological progress and cost reduction in power storage, primarily by means of continued and broadbased support for research and development. At the same time, it should enable a level playing field for competition among the flexibility options in the various areas of application, for example on the control reserve market. Die Energiewende erfordert eine hohere Flexibilitat im Stromsystem. Unterschiedliche Arten von Stromspeichern konnen hierzu beitragen, wobei sie in Konkurrenz zu anderen erzeugungs- und nachfrageseitigen Optionen stehen. Kurzfristig ist der weitere Ausbau der Stromerzeugung aus volatilen erneuerbaren Energien in Deutschland ohne groseren Zubau von Stromspeichern moglich. Der langerfristige Speicherbedarf ist jedoch stark kontextabhangig und deshalb schwer prognostizierbar. Eine modellbasierte Analyse zeigt, dass der Stromspeicherbedarf bei sehr hohen Anteilen erneuerbarer Energien stark ansteigt, insbesondere wenn andere Flexibilitatspotenziale nur in geringerem Mase erschlossen werden. Falls Optionen wie die bedarfsgerechte Verstromung von Biomasse, die Flexibilisierung der Nachfrageseite oder die Beitrage des Auslands zur Integration erneuerbarer Energien sich ungunstiger entwickeln als heute haufig angenommen, sind zusatzliche Stromspeicher langerfristig erforderlich und wirtschaftlich vorteilhaft. Daher ist die Unterstutzung der Entwicklung von Stromspeichern ein sinnvolles Element einer vorsorgenden Politik zur Absicherung der Energiewende. Die Politik sollte vor allem durch eine weiterhin breit angelegte Forschungsforderung auf technologische Fortschritte und Kostensenkungen bei Stromspeichern hinwirken. Gleichzeitig sollte ein unverzerrter Wettbewerb von Flexibilitatsoptionen in verschiedenen Anwendungsbereichen, wie zum Beispiel im Regelleistungsmarkt, ermoglicht werden.
Algorithmes de routage dans les réseaux mobile ad hoc tactique à grande échelle

The current Transformation of the military networks adopts the MANET as a main component of the tactical domain. Indeed, a MANET is the right solution to enable highly mobile, highly reactive and quickly deployable tactical networks. Many applications such as the Situational Awareness rely on group communications, underlying the need for a multicast service with the tactical environment where the MANET is employed as a transit network. The purpose of this thesis is to study the setting up of an optimal multicast service within this tactical environment. We firstly focus on defining the protocol architecture to carry out within the tactical network paying particular attention to the MANET. This network is interconnected within different types of networks based on IP technologies and implementing potentially heterogeneous multicast protocols. The tactical MANET is supposed to be made of several hundred of mobile nodes, which implies that the scalability is crucial in the multicast protocol architecture choice. Since the concept of clustering proposes interesting scalability features, we consider that the MANET is a clustered network. Thereby, we define two multicast routing protocols adapted to the MANET: firstly STAMP that is in charge of the multicast communications within each cluster and secondly SAFIR that handles multicast flows between the clusters. These two protocols that can be implemented independently, act in concert to provide an efficient and scalable multicast service for the tactical MANET.
Time for a Revolution in Art and Design Education (RCA Papers No.6)

A reproduction of the second and fourth in a series of ten seminars given by Professor Bruce Archer in the academic year 1976-7 under the title A Philosophy for Design. The paper explores the idea that there is a third area of human knowing, after literacy and numeracy, which we might call 'wroughting and wrighting'. It makes the case that this third area be given proper esteem and resources at secondary-school level, and be considered worthy of study at the level of higher education.
Development of a reduced-order model for wind turbine response to atmospheric turbulence in forest regions

A reduced-order structural model of a wind turbine has been developed and coupled with wind shear and turbulence fields generated computationally by Large-Eddy Simulation (LES). The wind turbine is composed of rigid but rotating blades on top of a flexible tower structure. Turbulence data from LES over a forest and over low-roughness flat terrain were tested in the proposed model. It was found that, while maintaining the same mean wind speed at the hub height, turbulence appears strongly increased in the atmospheric boundary layer above a forest. Subsequently, the dynamic loads on the wind turbine structure are more than doubled for the case with forest.
Simulated Effects of Changes to State and Federal Asset Eligibility Policies for the Food Stamp Program. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research

This study used a microsimulation model to assess the effect of changes to state-level Food Stamp Program asset rules on household eligibility and benefits. Seven percent of households eligible in 2006 were eligible only through expanded categorical eligibility rules that exempted them from standard federal rules on assets; one percent were eligible because of state rules that counted fewer vehicle assets toward the limits. The number of eligible households would increase by about 3 percent if asset limits were raised by $2,000, by 22 percent if the asset test were eliminated, by 2 percent if retirement accounts were excluded, and by less than half of 1 percent if all vehicles were excluded.
Process tomography : principles, techniques and applications

CONTENTS INCLUDE: Part One - Introduction to Process Tomography and assessment of industrial needs. Part Two - Description of techniques, including electrical sensing, (capacitance, resistance, inductance and triboelectric), ultrasonic sensing, optical sensing, emission tomography. Part Three - Data processing techniques required for image reconstruction, often at high speeds necessary for on-line process applications. The need for parallel processing and implications for sensor design. Finally, a description of the techniques used for quality assurance in process tomography imaging. Part Four is a major aspect of the book - featuring a wide range of applications and practical results of the techniques detailed above, including those to particulate flows, fluidized beds, mixing transport and separation processes and combustion systems.
Evaluation of Television Shows Popularity Based on Twitter Data using Sentiment Examination Techniques

A Blogging platform promotes you to conferrer expose your current status in the type of short posts by making utilization of texting, social media along with online messages. In the meantime, this is constantly producing large amounts of unsorted and un-organized information which has turned out to be a perplexing responsibility for examination. Twitter, the interpersonal organization benefit, is a rich wellspring of data on client reaction to an occasion, for example, a TV program. Here, we present a contextual investigation where we consider freely accessible tweets that were posted when a famous TV indicate was publicized. We utilize standard content mining methods to dissect the tweets and know the rating of show. This analysis can be used by producers for future shows for improving their business.
Modified pedicle screw-rod versus anterior subcutaneous internal pelvic fixation for unstable pelvic anterior ring fracture: A retrospective study and finite element analysis

Objectives: This study compared the stability and clinical outcomes of modified pedicle screw-rod fixation (MPSRF) and anterior subcutaneous internal pelvic fixation (INFIX) for the treatment of anterior pelvic ring fractures using Tornetta and Matta grading system and finite element analyses.Methods: In a retrospective review of a consecutive patient series, 63 patients with Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA)/Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen (AO) type B or C pelvic ring fractures were treated by MPRSF (n=30) or INFIX (n=33). The main outcome measure were Majeed score, incidence of complications and adverse outcomes, and fixation stability was evaluated by finite element analysis (FEA). Results: two groups did not differ in terms of injury severity score, OTA classification, cause of injury, and time to pelvic surgery. However, the MPSRF group had a higher satisfactory rate according to the Tornetta and Matta grading system than the INFIX group (73.33% vs 63.63%) as well as a higher Majeed score (81.5±10.4 vs 76.3±11.2), which was statistically significant at 6 months’ post-surgery. FEA showed that MPRSF was stiffer and more stable than INFIX and had a lower risk of implant failure.Conclusions: Both MPSRF and INFIX have acceptable biomechanical stability for the treatment of unstable pelvic anterior ring fractures. However, MPRSF has better fixation stability and lower risk of implant failure, which can lead to better clinical outcomes.
Coupled bunch instability in Fermilab Booster: Longitudinal phase-space simulation

The physical presence of vacuum structures can be expressed in terms of a coupling impedance experienced by the beam. The beam environment considered here consist of parasitic higher order modes of the r.f. cavities. These resonances may have high enough Q's to allow consecutive bunches to interact through mutually induced fields. The cumulative effect of such fields as the particles pass through the cavity may be to induce a coherent buildup in synchrotron motion of the bunches, i.e., a longitudinal coupled-bunch instability. The colliding mode operation of the present generation of high energy synchrotrons and the accompanying r.f. manipulations, make considerations of individual bunch area of paramount importance. Thus, a longitudinal instability in one of a chain of accelerators, while not leading to any immediate reduction in the intensity of the beam in that accelerator, may cause such a reduction of beam quality that later operations are inhibited (resulting in a degradation performance). In this paper we employ a longitudinal phase-space tracking code (ESME) as an effective tool to simulate specific coupled bunch modes arising in a circular accelerator. One of the obvious advantages of the simulation compared to existing analytic formalisms, e.g., based on the Vlasov equation, is thatmore » it allows consideration of the instability in a self-consistent manner with respect to the changing accelerating conditions. Furthermore this scheme allows to model nonlinearities of the longitudinal beam dynamics, which are usually not tractable analytically. 5 refs., 3 figs.« less
SPEECH ENHANCEMENT USING A MINIMUM LEAST SQUARE AMPLITUDE ESTIMATOR

In this contribution, we address the general problem of noise reduction for speech signal. We propose a new filter designed in the frequency domain by taking into account actual analysis frame but also previous frames. We compared our solution with the classical Wiener filter designed by the analysis of a unique actual frame. The proposed approach provides also new highlights on the empirical Ephraim and Malah a priori SNR estimator which is commonly used in practice.
Spreading radius of fountains after impinging on a free surface

Laboratory experiments and dimensional considerations were used to investigate the spreading radius of axisymmetric fountains after they impinged upon the free surface of the initially homogeneous and quiescent ambient environment. The distance to which the fountain fluid spread, before plunging downwards as the result of negative buoyancy, was found to be a function of the source radius, the source Froude number and the depth at which the fluid was injected. For example, the greater the source Froude number (and hence initial momentum) the greater the spread of the surface flow for the same injection depth and source radius. Experimental data and simple scaling considerations were used to an equation for predicting the spreading distance. The results show the need for further studies to quantify mixing processes and dilution rates.
INVESTIGATION OF THE ANTAGONISTIC CAPABILITY OF BACILLUS BACTERIA AGAINST RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI KUHN AND THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN CONTROLLING OF RICE SHEATH BLIGHT DISEASE IN THE SCREEN HOUSE CONDITION

Investigation of the antagonistic capability of Bacillus strains against Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn in vivo by green house experiments for rice sheath blight control was conducted. The results indicated that three bacterial antagonist strains LM2.15et, LM3.16et, PH5.8et belong to the Bacillus group were potential biocontrol agents of the rice sheath blight disease equally to Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Carbenda Supper 50SC fungicide. At 14 days after infection, the treatment with Bacillus strains LM2.15et, LM3.16et, and PH5.8et by spraying one day after inoculation with pathogen retained disease suppression of 45,67%, 43,81% và 47,59%, respectively, and there is not significantly different from B. amyloliquefaciens. Treatment of antagonists by spraying one day after inoculation with pathogen had higher disease suppression (45.25%) than those with one day before pathogen inoculation treatment (27.37%) or seed-coating treatment (26.91%).
Frequency Constraints on D.C. Biasing in Deep Submicron Technologies

Frequency Constraints on D.C. Biasing in Deep Submicron Technologies Jonathan Thomas Zimmermann Supervising Professor: Dr. P. R. Mukund The progression of technology has required smaller devices to achieve faster circuits and more power-efficient systems. However, with supply voltage and device intrinsic gain decreasing, device biasing in deep sub-micron technologies can be challenging. A low-voltage current source is analyzed in a 28 nm CMOS, 0.85 V supply, technology to take into account undesirable effects introduced by aggressively scaled technologies. The analysis includes intrinsic gain degradation as well as short-channel effects to create a more accurate design methodology. Amplifier design challenges in deep sub-micron technologies are discussed along with a DAC bias correction technique. Frequency dependence of output resistance for a simple and a proposed current source is presented. For the proposed current source the frequency dependence of output resistance was found to be dictated by the frequency response of the amplifier. To demonstrate the relevance of current source resistance bandwidth a common-mode logic circuit is considered, and fabrication plans are discussed along with future work.
The effects of alcohol and marijuana in combination: A review

Epidemiological studies indicate that thc (or carboxy thc) is infrequently detected in the blood of dead drivers as the only drug present. In by far the majority of cases these cannabinoids are found in combination with alcohol. Also in the greater proportion of these cases, the BAC is more than 0.1 G per cent, and could itself be a contributory factor in the crash. Either drug alone has been shown to produce impairment of skills performance. When taken together the drug effect is generally one of addition, which most commonly is in the direction of an increase in impairment. There have been several reports which suggest an antagonistic effect exerted by low doses of marijuana on the effects of alcohol. Several reports have indicated that on some behaviours, alcohol and marijuana produce effects which are qualitatively different. Pharmacologically, marijuana and alcohol are distinctly different drugs. At the dose levels used in the studies completed to date, alcohol appears to produce the greater impairment. In all of the studies reported to date, the dose of thc has rarely exceeded 20 mg per subject. In view of the increase in potency of "street" marijuana which has occurred within recent years, it will be necessary to study the effects of higher doses of thc as well as their combination with low to moderate doses of alcohol.
Deep learning– just data or domain related knowledge adds value?: bus travel time prediction as a case study

ABSTRACT In recent years, deep learning models proved their ability to solve complex problems in the areas such as computer vision and natural language processing, and are receiving a lot of attention within the community of transportation systems as well. Though these are known as data-driven approaches, it is not yet reported whether providing a huge amount of data is sufficient or whether extra domain knowledge added as features will improve their performance. It is reasonable to expect that the performance of deep learning models will be improved by incorporating field-specific knowledge into the problem. This paper tries to address this question by taking Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as a sample deep learning technique and comparing its performance with and without adding extra information about the data as feature input, for the application of bus travel time prediction. To extract extra information, the data are pre-processed using visual and statistical analyses, and the obtained knowledge is incorporated with the deep learning method. For pre-processing heat maps and statistical analysis were conducted using k-means clustering and Davies-Bouldin (DB) score to identify the optimum number of input groups. Further, the accuracy levels were compared with the deep learning method that was built with just data alone as input. The proposed models were evaluated on two selected bus routes, 19B and M1, in the City of Chennai, India. Results show that the provision of domain-related information having a positive impact on the prediction accuracy of up to 3% in selected routes. Performance comparison with existing methods such as historical average, linear regression, ANN, LSTM, and Conv-LSTM was also carried out and it was observed that the proposed method performed better than other existing methods.