Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Project Procurement System Selection Model

In the last two decades, there have been significant changes in the technical and economic conditions prevailing in the construction industry. To overcome the shortcomings of the traditional procurement methods, the construction industry has developed a large number of different procurement systems. A systematic approach for selection of the most appropriate system is now needed. This paper presents the development of the project procurement system selection model (PPSSM), which integrates the techniques of the analytic hierarchy process and Parker's judging alternative technique of value engineering into a multicriteria multiscreening system. A survey was conducted in Saudi Arabia with the aim of testing the PPSSM for effectiveness and efficiency and assisting the governmental agencies to select the most appropriate procurement system for implementation of their projects. For this purpose, a questionnaire was developed. On the basis of the synthesis process of the PPSSM, Saudi public clients selected des.
PIPELINE FRACTURE EXPERIENCES IN AUSTRALIA AND NORTH AMERICA

INTRODUCTION The likelihood of the failure of high pressure fluid pipelines due to brittle or ductile fracture behaviour has been present ever since natural gas was first shipped in long distance pipelines. However, it was not until the 1950s when a long running brittle fracture occurred in a natural gas pipeline in North America, that the pipeline industry began to carry out research into the phenomenon. This failure resulted in the establishment of the American Gas Association’s Pipeline Research Committee (PRC) by pipeline owners who saw the need to carry out fundamental and applied research into a hitherto unexpected failure mechanism of high pressure natural gas pipelines. The work carried out under the direction of PRC provided designers with new tools to prevent brittle failure and to minimise the effects of ductile failure. In parallel with the work done on steel toughness, researchers had to develop models to represent the decompression characteristics of high pressure natural gas escaping from a propagating crack. It was only when both sets of models were combined, that researchers and pipeline designers began to understand the failure mechanism. These aspects are just as important in the design of today’s pipelines.
Effect of Different Brine Injection Levels on the Drying Characteristics and Physicochemical Properties of Beef Jerky

Abstract Meat jerky is a type of meat snack with a long shelf life, light weight, and unique sensory properties. However, meat jerky requires a long manufacturing time, resulting in high energy consumption. In this study, beef jerky was prepared by injecting different concentrations of brine at different hot-air drying times (0–800 min). When the brine injection levels were increased to 30%, the drying characteristics of beef jerky, such as drying time and effective moisture diffusivity, were significantly improved owing to the relatively high water content and the formation of porous structures. The physicochemical properties (e.g. meat color, porosity, shear force, and volatile basic nitrogen) of the beef jerky injected with 30% brine were improved owing to the shortened drying time. Scanning electron microscopy images showed that the beef jerky structure became porous and irregular during the brine injection process. Our novel processing technique for manufacturing beef jerky leads to improved quality characteristics and shortened drying times.
Food spoilage and Microorganisms

Received : 30/08/2021 Accepted : 03/10/2021 Microorganisms can spread in extreme conditions. Microorganisms have many beneficial and harmful effects on human life. In addition to being a disease factor in humans, they also cause spoilage in food products. Food spoilage is an undesirable process and is a serious problem for humans. There are many factors that accelerate and affect food spoilage. In this study, microbial behaviours in foods, microorganisms causing food spoilage and beneficial microorganisms are mentioned.
Alkaline phosphatase variability predicts new onset heart failure, cardiovascular mortality, and all-cause mortality in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus: a population-based study

Objective: To investigate the associations of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) variability measures with new onset heart failure, cardiovascular mortality, and all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with a populational-cohort study. Method: This study included patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented to ambulatory, outpatient and inpatient facilities managed by the public sector in Hong Kong between January 1st, 2000 to December 31st, 2019. Comprehensive clinical and medical data including demographics, past comorbidities, medications, and laboratory examinations of complete blood, lipid/glycemic profile and their variability were collected. ALP and its variability measures were extracted. Univariable and multiple multivariable Cox regression were used to identify the associations of alkaline phosphatase variability with new onset heart failure and mortality risks. Patients were stratified into three subgroups based on the tertiles of baseline ALP level. Results: The study cohort consisted of 14289 patients (52.52% males, mean age at initial drug exposure: 74.55 years old [standard deviation (SD): 12.7]). Over a mean follow up of 2513 days [interquartile range (IQR): 1151-4173]), 10182 patients suffered from all-cause mortality (incidence rate [IR]: 71.25%), 1966 patients (IR: 13.75%) died from cardiovascular causes, and 1171 patients (IR: 8.19%) developed with new onset heart failure. Higher cumulative incidences of all three outcomes were observed for the highest tertile of ALP compared to medium/low tertiles. ALP baseline and variability level predicted new onset heart failure, cardiovascular and all-cause mortality before adjusting for subclinical biomarkers (p < 0.01). Amongst the measures of ALP variability, the hazard ratio (HR) of coefficient of variation (CV) was markedly raised in particular (new onset heart failure: HR=2.73, 95% confidence interval [CI]= [1.71-4.37], p <0.0001; all-cause mortality: HR= 5.83, 95% CI= [5.01-6.79], p <0.0001; cardiovascular mortality: HR= 4.81, 95% CI= [3.36-6.88], p <0.0001). Conclusions: Raised ALP level and variability are associated with increased risks of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and new onset heart failure amongst patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
A REVIEW ON MUCOADHESIVE STRENGTH ANALYSIS BY USING DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES

Drug effect can be improved by developing new drug delivery systems, such as the mucoadhesive system. Mucoadhesion is a beneficial strategy for drug delivery systems, this system has several benefits like improved residence time at application sites, drug protection, enhanced drug permeation, and enhanced drug availability. The use of mucoadhesive polymeric materials to improve the efficacy of therapeutic treatments, have great interest in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. The pharmaceutical dosage with mucoadhesive properties is important in order to understand and characterize the in-vivo interaction between the formulation and the biological substrate, which help in development of new mucoadhesive systems with effectiveness, quality, and safety. There are several in vivo, in vitro, and ex vivo methods for the evaluation of the mucoadhesive properties of drug delivery systems. But, there also is a lack of standardization of these methods, which makes comparison between the results difficult. The aim of this study was to review the mucoadhesive polymer, mechanisms, theories and several methods for evaluating mucoadhesion.
Reworsening of Recurrent Guillain-Barré Syndrome Triggered by COVID-19 Infection

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is an acute, immunemediated, generalized polyradiculoneuropathy triggered by a bacterial or viral infection, vaccination, or surgery in about two-thirds of cases. GBS has been associated with viral epidemics or pandemics, including H1N1, swine flu A/New Jersey influenza strain, West Nile virus, or Zika, and with coronaviruses including severe acute respiratory coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and recent SARS-CoV-2 causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection [1].
Optimal Data Deduplication in Cloud with Certificate Authority for Multiuser Environment

Cloud computing has become an advanced platform for personal computing. Cloud computing will provide high performance computing resources and makes it possible to store and port large amounts of data across computers, servers and within IT environment. In computing, data deduplication is a special data compression technique for removing duplicate copies of repeated data without compromising its uniqueness.
Labor heterogeneity and processes of impoverishment in Argentinian households (2003-2017)

The persistence of high poverty levels in Latin America, after a decade of retraction, brings the issue back to the center of the regional social agenda. This paper examines various factors that reproduce poverty, based on the Argentinian case. Using a quantitative design and multivariate techniques, this study explores the effects of structural heterogeneity of occupational systems in household economic reproduction under different politicaleconomic phases. The results demonstrate the persistence of marked inequalities in occupational structure –even after a period of high growth– and the rigidity of the employment income distribution pattern. The heterogeneity of the occupational structure determines the reproductive capacities of households and causes selective processes of impoverishment.
Finding More Property Violations in Model Checking via the Restart Policy

Model checking is an efficient formal verification technique that has been applied to a wide spectrum of applications in software engineering. Popular model checking algorithms include Bounded Model Checking (BMC) and Incremental Construction of Inductive Clauses for Indubitable Correctness/Property Directed Reachability(IC3/PDR). The recently proposed Complementary Approximate Reachability (CAR) model checking algorithm has a performance close to BMC in bug-finding, while its depth-first strategy sometimes leads the algorithm to a trap, which will waste lots of computation. In this paper, we enhance the recently proposed Complementary Approximate Reachability (CAR) model checking algorithm by integrating the restart policy, which yields a restartable CAR model (abbreviated as r-CAR). The restart policy can help avoid the trap problem caused by the depth-first strategy and has played an important role in modern SAT-solving algorithms to search for a satisfactory solution. As the bug-finding in model checking is reducible to a similar search problem, the restart policy can be useful to enhance the bug-finding capability. We made an extensive experiment to evaluate the new algorithm. Our results show that out of the 749 industrial instances, r-CAR is able to find 13 instances that the state-of-the-art BMC technique cannot find and can solve more than 11 instances than the original CAR. The new algorithm successfully contributes to the current model-checking portfolio in practice.
Adaptive Network Design versus Rigid Patterns - Can We Do Better than a Grid?

Numerous di erent transport networks were built in the past centuries, lasting as rigid structures in urban plans. However, almost every original pattern got revised over time, leading to a reformulation of the network and its topology. In recent years, computational e ciency allows the construction of detailed models of transport networks, to predict and optimize the e ciency of transport networks. This paper compares rigid network patterns with networks of a generic design approach. Different network patterns result in markedly di erent travel costs. The proposed methodology includes, beside standard road volume-delay-functions, the turn movements of intersections in detail. The major intersection types are evaluated regarding turn delay in an isolated and network environment.
Total Phenolics, Antioxidative and Antimicrobial Activities of Some Edible Ascomycota Collected from Niğde

Central Laboratory Research Center, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, 51240 Niğde, Turkey Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, 06560Ankara, Turkey Department of Electronics and Automation, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, 51240 Niğde, Turkey Deparment of Biotechnology, Faculty of Arts and Science, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, 51240 Niğde, Turkey Corresponding author
Mekanik Bir Robot Tutucusu Tasarımı ve İmalatı

Grippers are the parts that do the real work in the robot arm systems. Grippers used in applications; hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanically driven. The designed gripper in this study is driven mechanically. A right trapezoidal screw on one side and a left trapezoidal screw parts on the other side are designed in two parts with the help of bearings on the same axis. The gears are moved together by using pulley and chain. In the pulley chain movements, the direction of opening and closing of the left and right screws is inverse. When the chain is turned to one side, the nuts on the gears whose turns are blocked are opened inwards and outwards. A right-angle drill motor is used in the drive system. After the motor is assembled on the system, the retaining jaws are rotatably mounted with chains and pulleys. The jaws that hold the part consist of two opposing pieces in the form of a vee block placed on the nuts. Motor movements are controlled by mechanical limit switches during pickup and release of the part. The springs are placed on one side of the jaws to prevent compression when the motor is holding the part. By rotating the gears, the holder works by holding the parts, lifting them and releasing them to the desired position. In this study, using designed the gripper, cylindrical and prismatic materials are taken from one place to another. In addition to the carriage of the parts, the gripper also provides movement in two axes to help increase the pickand-release positions of the part. It is attached to the end of an articulated robot that moves in three axes, so that the robot moves in five axes. The robot moving in five axes can be evaluated in the industry using processes such as transporting parts on belts and packing parts on moving belts.
Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management, The

HRM is central to management teaching and research, and has emerged in the last decade as a significant field from its earlier roots in personnel management, industrial relations, and industrial psychology. People management and high performance teams have become key functions and goals for managers at all levels in organisations. The Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management brings together leading scholars from around the world, and from a range of disciplines, to provide an authoritative account of current trends and developments. The book is divided into four parts: 1. Foundations and frameworks; 2. Core processes and functions; 3. Patterns and dynamics; 4. Measurement and outcomes. Overall it provides an essential resource for anybody who wants to get to grips with current thinking, research and development on HRM.
Making Formal Verification Trustworthy via Proof Generation

Formal deductive verification aims at proving the correctness of programs via logical deduction. However, the fact that it is usually based on complex program logics makes it error-prone to implement. This paper addresses the important research question of how we can make a deductive verifier trustworthy through a practical approach. We propose a novel technique to generate machine-checkable proof objects to certify each verification task performed by the language-agnostic deductive verifier of K—a semanticsbased language framework. These proof objects encode formal proofs in matching logic—the logical foundation of K. They have a small 240-line trust base and can be directly verified by third-party proof checkers. Our preliminary experiments show promising performance in generating correctness proofs for deductive verification in different programming languages.
Experimental simulation of the human respiration system

Research and development activities in the overall context of improving indoor environmental quality (e.g. buildings, trains, cars etc.) have been in the interest of scientists and manufactures for many decades. Besides the thermal conditions, the indoor air quality affects the comfort, health and productivity of humans [1]. Modern passenger trains are already taking this aspect into account by adjusting the volume flow rate of the supplied fresh air based on interior CO2 values. The rapidly developing situation of the corona pandemic in 2020 also leads to the fact that studies regarding air quality, air pollution level and airborne transmission of infectious agents become more and more relevant. Through the interaction of different flow mechanisms caused by natural convection around the human body, the human’s expiration and the ventilation system affect the air’s enthalpy level and the chemical parameters [2]. Hence, a mobile respiration device for thermal manikins was developed and tested at the DLR in Göttingen in order to simulate the human respiration process. The device provides realistic breathing volume flows and frequencies and can be connected to existing thermal manikins. Thanks to an integrated system that analyzes the air and a dosing system based on local sensors and a solenoid valve, the exhaled air can be enriched with CO2 to simulate realistic CO2 emissions of a human. In this context, any gas can be added to the system, thus allowing the investigation of airborne dispersal paths and ventilation efficiencies by means of tracer gas measurement techniques.
Intrasound Therapy Improves the Mechanical Properties and the Morphology of Tendons in Fluoroquinolone-Induced Achilles Tendinopathy

Fluoroquinolones (FQs), especially Pefloxacin (PEF) have been reported to increase risk of Achilles tendon rupture. However, prior studies showed that intrasound therapy (ITR) significantly improved the morphology of the healing tendon. This study aimed to compare the effects of 7, 14 and 21 days intrasound treatment on the mechanical properties and morphology of the Achilles tendon in fifty (50) male Sprague-Dawley rats induced with FQ and randomized into three main categories designated as Normal control (A), Experimental control (B)and Treatment groups ( C). All animals in groups B and C were orally administered PEF 400mg/kg in a fixed volume of 2.5 ml/kg daily for 6 consecutive days.The Achilles tendon of both hind limbs in group C were treated with the lowest intensity ITR 5 minutes daily for 7, 14 and 21 consecutive days. All the animals were serially sacrificed on days 8, 15 and 22 and the tendons excised and processed. Data were analyzed with RSTUDIO version 4.0. 02 and the level of significance set at 0.05. Kruskal Wallis showed no significant differences (p >0.05) in all the biomechanical parameters across all the groups. Compared with group B, ITR 14 days treatment had the best improvement in all biomechanical variables, though insignificant (p>0.05). In the Intrasound groups, there were significant positive correlations of Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS) with ultimate tensile stress and tensile load (p= 0.005; p=0.003) respectively. Intrasound treatment to the Achilles tendon for 14 days improved the mechanical properties and morphology of tendons in Fluoroquinolone-induced tendinopathy. DOI: https://dx.doi. org/10.4314/jasem.v25i7. 27 Copyright: Copyright © 2021 Aiyegbusi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCL), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dates: Received: 10 May 2021; Revised: 28 June 2021; Accepted: 01 July 2021
Cognitive Radio Application for Smart Grid

The communication infrastructure between energy generation, transmission, distribution and utilization will require multi-way communications, interoperability between the advanced and existing system, and end-to-end reliable and secure communications with low-latencies. Revolutionary communication architecture is required for effective operation and control of smart grid, and cognitive radio based communication architecture can provide a unique solution. By leveraging cognitive radio technology, the suggested communications infrastructure promises to utilize potentially all available spectrum resources efficiently in the smart grid. The radio agility allows the smart grid devices to sense the unused spectrum opportunities in the surroundings and utilize them subject to interference constraints. Dynamic spectrum access enabled by cognitive radio technology can be adopted by the smart grid to exploit the underutilized frequencies in an opportunistic manner. As a result, the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability can be significantly enhanced in a cognitive radio based smart grid network.
Performance evaluation of Asphalt Rubber Gap-graded mixture

One of the most successful means of improving paving performance is by the use of Crump Rubber (CR). Increased demand for Asphalt Rubber Gap-graded (AR-Gap) mixtures as a pavement material has resulted from improvements in the basic asphalt binder as well as environmental advantages and improved performance in recent years. A number of agencies and researchers conducted AR-Gap mix studies to evaluate the design and performance of AR-Gap mixtures. In this study, the most recent research and practices in the design of AR-Gap mixtures were reviewed, and the performance characteristics of these mixtures were also summarized. In addition, the positive effect of adding ground rubber on the performance of the mixtures, including the effect on fatigue cracking, drainage, moisture susceptibility and permanent deformation is also reviewed. In conclusion, future aims in the building of AR-Gap pavement and performance potential were discussed, which will assist it in becoming a viable long-term pavement choice in the future. Based on the results of the evaluation process, it was discovered that there is still potential to improve the current design state of AR-Gap mixtures as well as the effect of rubber inserts in improving the performance of the mix.