Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Professional Photoshop 5.0: The Classic Guide to Color Correction

From the Publisher: An electronic prepress master reveals how to get the most out of Photoshop Renowned among graphic design professionals for his technical grounding and ability to clearly explain difficult principles and techniques, Dan Margulis has updated his bestselling book, Professional Photoshop 5, to help readers quickly master Photoshop 6 and learn how to take full advantage of its latest tools and capabilities. Rather than focusing on program features, Dan Margulis builds on a solid foundation of classic design concepts and skills. This new edition has been substantially expanded to include coverage of issues surrounding image handling for devices other than offset printers, such as final output on desktop color printers, high-volume copiers, and large-format printers for outdoor displays.
Down on the ground : Comprehensive airport strategies

This paper purposes a Comprehensive Airport Strategy Matrix, for the management of airports. This matrix is based on two fundamental factors: characteristics of the airport and type of dominant airlines. Based on this model, four major strategy can identified (question mark, hub, periphery and emerging) and can divide into sustainable and non-sustainable strategies. Sustainable strategies (hub and periphery) mean the equilibrium points of the model in a longer perspective. Nonsustainable strategies are changing dynamically and moving toward the equilibrium. Another trend can be seen, the convergence of the airports in the same metropolitan area, with a hub and a periphery strategies. This new approach is the multi-airport clusters (MACs), which analyze these local networks as business cluster. At the end, this paper analyze how the MALÉV bankruptcy influenced the Budapest Airport’s operation. Zsolt Abraham Comprehensive Airport Strategies 3
Progettazione e implementazione di una interfaccia grafica in Java Swing per lo studio di classificatori automatici di testi

La tesi tratta delle scelte progettuali e della realizzazione in Java di un'interfaccia grafica per la classificazione automatica di testi. Si discute inoltre dell'implementazione fatta seguendo lo schema per architetture software MVC, e anche del modello probabilistico per i classificatori di testi
Plasma PCSK9 predicts microvascular function but not arterial stiffness in African-Americans with well controlled type 2 diabetes

Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) genetic variants are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Contradictory outcomes have been reported for the relationship between PCSK9 and increased diabetes risk. Furthermore, the relationship between PCSK9 levels, glycemic status, and vascular function among different ethnic groups is still not fully understood. African-Americans suffer disproportionately from many chronic diseases including T2DM due to many factors including environmental, socioeconomic and genetics factors. Thus, we aimed in this study is to examine the association between plasma PCSK9 and vascular dysfunction in African-Americans with T2DM. PCSK9 and total nitric oxide (NO) levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). Microvascular function was assessed by the vascular reactivity index (VRI) and large artery stiffness was assessed by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV). A total of 146 participants with T2DM were enrolled in this study. Mean patients’ age was 60 ± 8 years. Eighty percent (80%) had hypertension, 90% had dyslipidemia and 15% had chronic kidney disease. Total population was categorized into two groups based on HbA1c median value (7.5%). PCSK9 levels negatively correlated with VRI but not PWV in the total population and in well controlled patients with HbA1c ≤7.5% (r=-0.175, p=0.036 and r=-0.293, p=0.010; respectively). PCSK9 levels positively correlated with total NO levels in total population and in well controlled patients (r=0.186, p=0.0024 and r=0.256, p=0.023; respectively). Univariate analysis exhibited that PCSK9 levels were associated with VRI, but not PWV, in total population and in well controlled patients ( β =-0.175, p=0.036 and β =-0.293, p=0.010; respectively). Multivariable-adjusted regression analysis revealed that PCSK9 levels predicted VRI in well controlled patients ( β =-0.384, p=0.033) but not in poorly controlled patients. Furthermore, changes in total NO availability did not impact the PCSK9-VRI association in well controlled diabetic patients. Larger studies are needed to confirm the association of circulating PCSK9 with subclinical microvascular changes in T2DM, particularly in patients with good glycemic control.
An Empirical Study of ISD Methodologies and Socialisation Tactics In Virtual ISD teams

In recent years more and more systems development projects involve distributed, virtual teams of system developers, analysts and other experts in the design and construction of information technologies. These ISD teams work in separate locations using computer based tools to coordinate and structure their work. This mode of work creates problems associated with both the use of ISD methodologies and the socialisation of team members. For example, current ISD methodologies do not take into account the particularities of virtual development. Whilst many researchers have investigated the dynamics of co-located ISD teams, studies of virtual ISD teams are rare. This study investigated the use, in practice, of ISD methodologies and socialisation tactics by information systems professionals in virtual ISD teams. A conceptual framework was synthesised from the ISD methodology and socialisation literature. The central contention of the theory was that successful virtual ISD required well structured and complementary ISD and socialisation processes. The framework was tested empirically using an online survey which gathered both quantitative and qualitative data from 15 virtual ISD teams. Successful teams with excellent team communication, collaboration and cohesion used a bespoke ISD methodology and an institutionalised socialisation strategy. Internally developed ISD methodologies provided a structured, consistent and common approach by which team members could engage in their systems development process whilst also supporting knowledge sharing and social interaction. Institutionalised socialisation tactics were important for these teams because they enabled members to interact and create an integrated social system which contributed to the success of the projects. Virtual ISD work was also improved by mentor programmes, formal socialisation documentation, regular online meetings, facilitated informal communication, and the easy identification of expertise within the team by team members. The conceptual framework was revised on the basis of these findings and implications were drawn for both ISD practice and theory. This thesis therefore provides a fundamental contribution to the ISD literature by developing and validating a new theoretical framework for virtual ISD teams which has not previously appeared. This framework provides a basis for improved practice in the organisation and management of ISD projects, and the use of ISD methodologies in emerging ISD contexts. It also provides a springboard for deeper research into the particular nature of virtual ISD activities.
Bridging Departmental Barriers In Search Of A New Electronic Imaging Curriculum

In the winter of 1998 six University of Rochester faculty members came together to develop a new, comprehensive undergraduate and first year graduate curriculum in Electronic Imaging. The faculty represented three autonomous departments: The Institute of Optics, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and the Computer Science Department. Each department, through individual faculty efforts, had begun to offer courses specializing in some aspect of electronic imaging. Each course, on its own, provided a real but limited service to students. The need for a harmonized, multi-disciplinary curriculum became self evident to the faculty members working in the Center for Electronic Imaging Systems. The ensuing discussions resulted in a very aggressive proposal combining current research efforts with a series of five new and six enhanced courses. The new curriculum would provide students with an opportunity to earn Bachelors or Masters degree in the discipline of their choice and a strong concentration in one of three areas of electronic imaging. This paper relates how the proposal was developed and provides the details that support the development of the new and enhanced courses. A special freshman course designed to motivate students to consider electronic imaging as a career will start this spring. Two new undergraduate labs are to be created along with a summer, undergraduate research program. A special seminar series was designed to keep both students and faculty up-to-date on the latest technology in industry and academia. Strong input and support from local industry will ensure that the new curriculum will serve both the students’ academic pursuits as well as their ability to work in industry at a very proficient level.
DISS 725 - System Development: Research Paper 4 Software Process Assessment and Improvement Models

A display system line generator network having an error correction feedback loop which achieves high positional accuracy for both plan position indicators PPI and synthetic character and line data. Digital reference position and relative beam motion data are fed into separate D/A converters. The staircase effect at the output of the D/A that processes the relative beam motion data is eliminated in a constant current integrator. The output of the integrator is combined with the reference position signal in a summing amplifier and the summed signal is fed to a deflection amplifier. A feedback circuit picks off the inputs to the summing amplifier and uses their comparison to synchronize time with beam position by compensating for errors due to component drift and aging.
Comparative Study between Two Methods of Management of Thalassemia Patients Have Complicated Spinal Cord Compression

The aim of study to alert the neurosurgeons and ancologests about the significant of the use of radiotherapy in treatment of the thalassemia patients have intricate spinal cord compression. During the period of 15 years, 20 cases which were proved and diagnosed by spine M.R. I and hematological study, plain X. R as cases of intermediate and thalassemia beta which was associated with spinal cord compression divided these 20 cases into two groups. The 1 st group was 10 cases which was treated by radiotherapy while 2 nd group was treated by dorsal laminectomy only 10 cases were operated in Al-kademyia teaching hospital, Al-mosswy private hospital and Al-saady private hospital in Albassrha city and in Al hussian teaching hospital AL-Nasiriyah city. We found there is wide difference between these two types of management in relation to outcome in treatment of the spinal cord compression which is a complication of thalassemia. intermediate & beta. The use of the radiotherapy is indicated the need for minimal dose of radiotherapy which is the method of choice is recommended as usual method of treatment.
Privacy, security, and trust issues in smart environments

Recent advances in networking, handheld computing and sensor technologies have driven forward research towards the realisation of Mark Weiser's dream of calm and ubiquitous computing (variously called pervasive computing, ambient computing, active spaces, the disappearing computer or context-aware computing). In turn, this has led to the emergence of smart environments as one significant facet of research in this domain. A smart environment, or space, is a region of the real world that is extensively equipped with sensors, actuators and computing components [1]. In effect the smart space becomes a part of a larger information system: with all actions within the space potentially affecting the underlying computer applications, which may themselves affect the space through the actuators. Such smart environments have tremendous potential within many application areas to improve the utility of a space. Consider the potential offered by a smart environment that prolongs the time an elderly or infirm person can live an independent life or the potential offered by a smart environment that supports vicarious learning.
Early boiler leak detection cuts costs

This article discusses the use of a detection system to pinpoint leaks in a steam generator in time to prevent damage from steam washing, cutting, or overheating. The topics of the article include the need for timely leak detection, traditional methods, high frequency acoustic emission leak detection, complete boiler coverage, major components of the system, and an overview of its operation.
A power-aware fault-tolerant hardware system for a custom reconfigurable platform

Electronics systems in deep-submicron era face many new challenges. Increased intricacy of the manufacturing process will likely to increase the manufacturing defect while testing of those effect will be very challenging. Smaller feature size will also face new reliability issues due to phenomenas such as Joule heating and electromigration. Furthermore, chances of temporal defects, namely soft-errors, or Single Event Fault (SEU) will increase because the critical charge, the charge required to flip a logical value in flip-flops decreases with technology scaling. Power consumption is another issue that is ever greater in electronics design. Technical, financial, and ecological concern all require devices that consumes as small amount of energy as possible. The Ubichip, a bio-inspired reconfigurable VLSI developed in PERPLEXUS European project has attributes such as dynamic self replication and dynamic routing capability, both of which may help develop a system to increase reliability while addressing the power consumption issues. The author has designed a power aware fault tolerant system based on the Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) fault tolerant strategy to be implemented on Ubichip. The system also controls the number of functional unit to regulate the overall system power consumption. This report describes the design, implementation, and simulation of the fault-tolerant system.
Employees’ Competency Mapping Among Spinning Mills in Rajapalayam – an Empirical Research

Competency mapping is a process through which one assesses and determines one’s strengths as an individual worker and in some cases, as part of an organization. It generally examines two areas: emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ), and strengths of the individual in areas like team structure, leadership, and decision-making. The significant of differentiating competencies into different types such as conceptual, technical, contextual, interpersonal, etc. has gained momentum. Consequently, understanding the abilities, intentions, concealed possibilities, qualities of the people working in the association is critical. Every job has its own profile and specification. The research involved a survey in which total of two hundred and fifty employees drawn from various spinning mills in Rajapalayam were used as subjects. It is examined with the help of statistical tool together with various demographical factors was also studied using simple Percentage analysis, Weighted Average and Chi – square test. Data was collected through questionnaire and analyzed through SPSS. The chi-square analysis shows that there is significant Relationship between age of the respondents and knowledge of the respondents and also shows that there is significant Relationship between experience of the respondents and job performance of the respondents.
An IPv6-based measurement infrastructure for assessing internet traffic behaviour

The ability to measure the service experienced by network traffic is becoming of major importance due to the widespread IP connectivity and hence the increased need for service management, as well as due to the candidacy of the Internet to provide a global telecommunications infrastructure, supporting a range of different services and traffic. New measurement paradigms are being urged by the need for IP to deliver for time critical applications and at the same time, they are facilitated by latest protocol deployments. In this manuscript we present a novel way of conducting network measurements for the Next Generation (IPv6-based) Internet, enabled by the universal network transport and systems programmability. We raise the extreme importance of making measurements in-line with the actual network traffic and henceforth revealing its actual properties. We are presenting our experiences after building a prototype implementation of one-way, end-to-end measurements on top of an IPv6 network setup. We describe the overall design of our solution, as well as some early results in measuring properties of real TCP applications, over both wired and wireless topologies. Using in-line measurements, we compute the absolute application goodput of different TCP services, and also model the packet sequence distribution of two FTP streams.
Relationship Between Stock Price and Financial Distress: A Study on Banks of Bangladesh

The purpose of this study is to empirically test relationship between financial distress and stock price. Financial distress is calculated using Altman Z-score. Data for the study consists of financial information of 29 banks listed in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Variables in this study are Z-score (independent) and Stock price (dependent). This study analyzes and describes the data associated with these variables and linear regression has been done between them to ascertain the level of and direction of their relationship. The trends of z-score for the study period (2015-2019) have been tested. This study finds there is no significant relationship between the variables. In other words, Z-score is unable to explain the variability in the stock price.
Avaliação normativa do programa PPSUS: um estudo de caso no âmbito do CNPq

Resumo: O Programa Pesquisa para o SUS: gestão compartilhada em saúde (PPSUS), uma das políticas de fomento descentralizado do CNPq, busca a redução das desigualdades em ciência, tecnologia e inovação em saúde, por meio do financiamento de pesquisas em linhas prioritárias definidas por cada Unidade da Federação. O objetivo do estudo é realizar uma avaliação normativa do PPSUS, no âmbito do CNPq, e estimar o seu grau de implantação, baseada em critérios/indicadores e parâmetros orientados pela construção do modelo lógico e validados pela técnica Conferência de Consenso. Foi realizado um estudo de caso. Os dados foram coletados por meio das técnicas de análise documental e de observação participante. Os resultados mostraram que o grau de implantação dos componentes estrutura e processo foram, respectivamente, 66,66% e 84,21%. Os resultados indicam que o programa apresenta implantação satisfatória, porém com necessidades de melhorias na gestão do fomento. Palavras-chave: Avaliação normativa. Fomento descentralizado. PPSUS.
RF Pogo-Pin Probe Card Design Aimed at Automated Millimeter-Wave Multi-Port Integrated-Circuit Testing

A prototype RF probe card is assembled to test the feasibility of Pogo-pins as robust probe tips for the automized testing of multiple-port millimeter-wave circuits. A custom-made ceramic housing machined from a low-loss dielectric holds an array of 157 Pogo-pins, each with 2.9 mm-length in fixed positions. The ceramic housing is then mounted onto a probe-card PCB for power-loss measurements on two signal-ground Pogo-pin connections arbitrarily selected from the array. The probing results on a test circuit with a simple thru-line indicate a successful power transfer with a small insertion loss of less than 0.5 dB per single Pogo-pin connection up to 25 GHz. A new probe card design using shorter Pogo-pins is being prepared to extend the operation frequency to beyond 40 GHz.
Supporting Audio Privacy-aware Services in Emerging IoT Environment

: The increasing exploration of smart space voice assistants and audio monitoring IoT devices leads to significant trust and privacy concerns. Among them, some of the data are sensitive and a user may not aware of when and where audio recordings are sent for processing. This provides burning questions-how do users gain knowledge of, and control the amount of data captured in the physical world. Moreover, the sending and processing of these sensitive data to the far cloud do not provide an efficient solution for sensitive data which causes serious privacy and security concerns. In this paper, a new architecture for providing audio transparency and privacy in the IoT-rich environment is proposed. The proposed privacy enforcement module is used to operate within a nearby fog node, which situated close to the data sources and enforces privacy according to the data owner's desire. To show the effectiveness of the proposed architecture, a well-known privacy threat framework is investigated.
Physical Demands of U.S. Navy Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) Operations.

Abstract : This study identified the physical demands of U.S. Navy Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) operations. SEALs were interviewed regarding missions conducted and an inventory of missions and mission segments performed was developed. Questionnaires were developed from the inventories once they were judged comprehensive and accurate. SEALs rated each task on difficulty, frequency performed, and importance to mission success. For each task, scores were summed to obtain a 'composite' score. The composite score mitigated the effect of difficult tasks that were less important or infrequently performed when missions and segments were compared. Eighty-two SEALs averaging 11 years of experience (range 2-28 years) participated. Of the 15 missions rated highest on the composite score, 6 were 'overland', 5 were 'across the beach,' and 4 were 'ship attacks. ' The highest ranking mission had been performed by 85% of the SEALs, and 8 (of the 15 highest) missions had been performed by >50%. Of the 20 highest rated mission segments, 9 involved 'lifting/dragging/carrying/climbing,' 6 involved 'walking/hiking/skiing,' 3 involved 'swimming/diving,' and 2 involved 'jumping/bumping. ' The highest ranking mission segment had been performed by 90% of the SEALs and over 50% performed 18 of the 20 most important mission segments. These data will provide a basis for the development of mission-specific physical training programs.
Issues of risk in adult and teen safety belt use

A total of 400 adult and 709 young drivers (under 18) were surveyed concerning their values, beliefs and attitudes regarding safety belt use. In the young driver sample, five variables emerged as significant predictors of belt use: attitudes related to the comfort and convenience of belts, the value of free choice in deciding to buckle up, the belief that driving is risky, the value of adhering to social pressure to use belts, and the belief in the belt's ability to do its job. These five variables accounted for 47% of the variance. For the adult sample, the significant predictors of belt use included all the above for the young adult survey, but also included age and the value of maintaining good health. This model accounted for 44% of the variance. The implications of these findings for those interested in issues of risky driving behavior are discussed.