Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An optical switch array with 750-µs switch time

A novel design of micromachining-based high speed 1x2 optical switch array is presented. Employing a triangle-shaped micromachined mirror for beam directing, the design achieved a high level integration of multiple switches on a single substrate, significantly shortened switch time to below 1 ms. An array of four 1x2 switches was fabricated and the performance of the switch array prototype was reported, attaining a fast switch time of less than 750us, extremely low cross-talk <-70dB, an insertion loss of between 0.6 and 0.8 dB, and with an overall size of only 60×36×7 mm3. The experimental result was compared with that from a finite element analysis and a good agreement was obtained.
Metal-mesh based transparent electrode on a 3-D curved surface by electrohydrodynamic jet printing

Invisible Ag mesh transparent electrodes (TEs), with a width of 7 μm, were prepared on a curved glass surface by electrohydrodynamic (EHD) jet printing. With a 100 μm pitch, the EHD jet printed the Ag mesh on the convex glass which had a sheet resistance of 1.49 Ω/□. The printing speed was 30 cm s−1 using Ag ink, which had a 10 000 cPs viscosity and a 70 wt% Ag nanoparticle concentration. We further showed the performance of a 3-D transparent heater using the Ag mesh transparent electrode. The EHD jet printed an invisible Ag grid transparent electrode with good electrical and optical properties with promising applications on printed optoelectronic devices.
Coaching Salary Disparity and Team Performance: Evidence from the Football Bowl Subdivision

Salary disparities and their impact on performance have long been a topic of research and debate in both the business and sport sectors. However, no studies to date have examined the impact these disparities have in the collegiate football setting within coaching staffs specifically. The purpose of this study was to determine how intra-staff salary disparity impacts team success, using salary data for the years 20102017 and the Gini index as the measure of dispersion. Results indicated that pay disparity had no impact on wins. Rather, on-field metrics were found to be the primary drivers of success.
Low Endemic Frequency of Adenovirus, Rotavirus and Norovirus in Pediatric Diarrhea Samples from Central Iran

Background: Acute viral gastroenteritis is a disorder that affects children on a worldwide scale but mostly in developing countries. Adenoviruses, rotaviruses, and noroviruses are the major viral cause of childhood gastroenteritis. This study is the first to investigate the prevalence of these viruses in diarrhea samples from pediatric patients living in central Iran.Methods: A total of 173 samples of pediatric diarrhea, from May 2015 to May 2016, was included in this descriptive cross-sectional study. The samples were analyzed using in-house developed PCR and reverse transcription (RT) -PCR methods to investigate the prevalence of adeno-, rota- and noroviruses. Results: Out of 173 samples of pediatric diarrhea, eight were shown to contain enteric viruses (4.6%): four of these were adenovirus (2.3%), three were rotavirus (1.7%), and one represented a genogroup II norovirus (0.6%). Most of the positive samples were obtained from children under the age of seven. The most common additional clinical symptoms in pediatric patients with viral agents were fever, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Conclusions: Adenovirus and rotavirus were rarely found as agents responsible for gastroenteritis in central Iran. Although we show that the frequency of viral gastroenteritis is low in this area compared to bacterial gastroenteritis, still longer-term monitoring of all enteropathogenic agents should provide a deeper understanding of the real endemicity and the possible occurrence of unexpected outbreaks of viral enteritis.
An overview of solar energy applications in buildings in Greece

This work classifies and describes the main fields of solar energy exploitation in buildings in Greece, a country with high solar energy capacities. The study focuses on systems and technologies that apply to residential and commercial buildings following the prevailing design and construction practices (conventional buildings) and investigates the effects of the architectural and constructional characteristics of these buildings on the respective applications. In addition, it examines relevant applications in other building categories and in buildings with increased ecological sensitivity in their design and construction (green buildings). Through its findings, the study seeks to improve the efficiency and broaden the scope of solar energy applications in buildings in Greece to the benefit of their energy and environmental performance.
CHIMERA: A Service Oriented Computing Approach for Archaeological Research

Archaeological data is available in greater complexity and volume than ever before, which presents significant challenges and opportunities. In this position paper, we describe how a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) could be deployed not only to bring federated resources together with a unified searching capability, but also how those capabilities could themselves be used to create a ‘bottom up’ domain ontology for the resources’ subject area or areas. By linking with Virtual Research Environment (VRE) technology, this system could deliver access to a range of digital resources for excavators in the field, and at the same time provide a valuable body of semantic information about the archaeological research workflow, as expressed in the natural language archaeologists use to conduct their collection searches.
The Legacy of Uranium Development on or Near Indian Reservations and Health Implications Rekindling Public Awareness

Uranium occurrence and development has left a legacy of long-lived health effects for many Native Americans and Alaska Natives in the United States. Some Native American communities have been impacted by processing and development while others are living with naturally occurring sources of uranium. The uranium production peak spanned from approximately 1948 to the 1980s. Thousands of mines, mainly on the Colorado Plateau, were developed in the western U.S. during the uranium boom. Many of these mines were abandoned and have not been reclaimed. Native Americans in the Colorado Plateau area including the Navajo, Southern Ute, Ute Mountain, Hopi, Zuni, Laguna, Acoma, and several other Pueblo nations, with their intimate knowledge of the land, often led miners to uranium resources during this exploration boom. As a result of the mining activity many Indian Nations residing near areas of mining or milling have had and continue to have their health compromised. This short review aims to rekindle the public awareness of the plight of Native American communities living with the legacy of uranium procurement, including mining, milling, down winders, nuclear weapon development and long term nuclear waste storage.
Health-Oriented Community Slow Greenway’s Planning and Design

Slow greenway as the integration of the natural environment and the living, providing both physiological and psychological health security for urban residents. Although some city-level greenways provide urban public space for residents, it exposed its intimacy is inadequate with residents, walking reach ability is not strong and the use is too concentrated. So that the community slow greenway concept becomes. As the end of the city slow greenway, community slow greenway’s planning and design is significance for the extension and widespread of the urban greenway. Rich the slow greenway’s functions with ecological environmental protection, biodiversity maintenance, entertainment participate, activities support, publicity education and others. Take Chunlei town as an example to explore community slow greenway’s specific planning and design methods, from construction points, feature set, pavement form and public service facilities.
Review on Role of Absciscic Acid for Adaptation and Performance of Crop Under Drought Condition

There are many biological regulators that enhance crop adaptation and performance under water deficit condition to realize sustainable crop production for food security and ample in put supply for Agro-industry. Hence, the current review conducted with the objectives to understand the effect of ABA for adaptation and performance of crops under drought stress. Absciscic acid (ABA) is one of Plant hormones that principally participate in crop response to drought stress. Its synthesis and catabolism for different function pass through many step in plant cell. After synthesis and catabolism ABA transported to different plant parts for regulatory purpose. ABA plays great role in plant adaptation and performance under drought starting from seedling emergency up to grain yielding by regulating plant cell, organ and organ system reaction to drought; this could be achieved through enhancing seed dormancy (inhibit seed germination during adverse condition) and reduction of water transpiration by promotion of stomata pore closure. Also via facilitating modification in root hydraulic conductivity, photosynthesis, biomass allocation between roots and shoots, plant water relations, osmolyte production, and synthesis of stress-responsive proteins and genes to confer stress tolerance ABA enhance crops performance under severe water deficit.
A Walk in the Park: Models of BMI with Green Space Density and Footpaths

Background : While exposure to urban green spaces has been associated with various physical health benefits, the evidence linking these spaces to lower BMI, particularly among older people, is mixed. We suggest that dimensions of green space accessibility, which are generally unobserved in the existing literature, may be a source of this volatility in results. Methods: We conduct a cross-sectional study combining data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing and detailed land use information. We proxy respondents’ exposure to green spaces at their residential addresses in network buffers, which are adjusted to account for the density of local footpaths. Generalised linear models are used to test the association between exposure to accessible green space and BMI. Results: Relative to the third quintile, exposure to the two lowest quintiles of green space, as measured within a 1600m accessible network buffer, is associated with slightly higher BMI (marginal effect for lowest quintile: 0.88; 95% CI: 0.24-1.53; marginal effect for second quintile: 0.61; 95% CI: 0.02-1.2). The results, however, are not robust to small changes in how green space is measured and no statistically significant association between green spaces and BMI is found under other variants of our regression model. Conclusion : The relationship between green spaces and BMI among older adults is highly sensitive to the characterisation of local green space. While footpath availability offers a partial explanation to some unintuitive empirical results previously found in the literature, our results suggest that there remains some other unobserved factor which mediates the relationship between green spaces and weight status.
The Leadership Skills That Influence Performance in an Organizational Context

The following study is an exploratory research regarding the leadership characteristics that may work as prerequisites for a high job performance. The study was conducted as a dissertation for the completion of the Master’s studies program in Business Administration on a global context, as offered by Mediterranean College in partnership with University of Derby. The aim of the study was to further research, which are the leadership characteristics that work as prerequisites for a high job performance and it was approached through relevant literature review and an electronic quantitative survey. The findings were used for a proposal of contemporary solutions regarding the effectiveness of modern leadership characteristics in changing the inner cultures of businesses and organizations, in order to keep them up resilient in harsh periods
Capabilities in strategic knowledge sourcing and assimilation: a new look at innovation in the automotive industry

The auto industry is undoubtedly one of the most competitive industries and has undergone significant change but the predominant paradigm remains the gasoline engine. Notwithstanding its aged paradigm, the industry is being forced to transform itself as it is being hurled into the new economy. The recent announcement of General Motors', Ford's and DaimlerChrysler's launching of a joint mammoth online exchange for automotive parts and supplies is just one of many examples of how tradition-bound old economy firms are joining hands with long-time bitter rivals to compete in the new economy online marketplaces. The rhetorical question is, will they finally learn to get along? Or perhaps more to the point, what will it take for these former rivals to build new positions of collaborative competitive advantage? In this paper, the authors pursue this question. By examining innovation in the auto industry, they explore the degree to which the predominant industry paradigm is being challenged. The auto industry has increasingly outsourced its innovation in product development, including systems integration. Confronted with innovations in ICT which are set to change radically the functionality and use of the motor vehicle and at the same time redefine the industry, the auto manufacturers are at a strategic inflection point between the two economies. Totally new capabilities as well as the refinement of many existing capabilities will be essential if these auto companies are to retain a dominant position in their supply chains.
Maritime Transport: A Theoretical Analysis Under a System’s Approach

Historically, maritime transportation has been the most common method to transport significant volumes of goods and creating commercial relationships between markets. However, as a consequence of the evolution of the international commerce, other models have increased their relevance due to certain factors: specialization of the customer services (door to door), technological evolution, and geopolitical changes which extends the logistics chains beyond the port. Land transportation (by truck), the use of the rail transportation to move significant volumes of goods, air transportation for specialized cargo and shipping which require fast delivery, and the appearance of Intermodal transport, as the Motorways of the sea, in the case of Europe, show the need to analyzed and understand in details the current model on maritime transportation in order to identify and maximize their competitive advantages thru the identification of the value drivers. In the value management, the most used and known methodology is the Porter Value Chain, for which all the system’s approach methodologies are applicable. Using this scope, a theoretical analysis will be performed over the activities and maritime process, identifying stakeholders, value drivers and competitive strategies.
Turbulence measurements in the impinging region of a circular jet

This note presents the results of turbulence measurements in the impinging region of a circular jet of diameter d with a Reynolds number of 105 impinging on a smooth wall located at a distance H equal to 18.5d. Even though the impinging region starts approximately at x/H = 0.860 (where x is the distance from the nozzle), the mean velocity profiles were found to be similar for x/H up to about 0.930 when normalized by the local maximum value. The normalized profiles of the turbulent shear stress and normal stresses in the axial, radial, and circumferential directions were also found to be similar. The variation of the scales for these turbulence profiles was found to be gradual for x/H up to about 0.960 and then rapid near the impinging wall. The corresponding length scales also showed a similar type of variation. The measurements also show that turbulence in the impinging jet drops significantly very near the impinging wall.
Combining Pedagogy and Modern Technology into the Public Relations Classroom: Arousal Theory as a Roadmap for Student Success

This study further assesses instructional pedagogies utilizing public relations technology in classrooms leading to the heightening of student success, empowering students, increasing comfort, bridging disparities, and embracing a diverse learning community. Public relations professional technology hinges on educating and informing key publics, and similarly, can serve as tools that every instructor has at their disposal. Predominantly, this study dives into the literature review of research associated with the use of consumer grade and professional grade technology in the classroom and the types of different resources (i.e. live polling, animated video presentations, socials, etc.) a person may wish to apply in the classroom that is significant not only to public relations as a practice but also as a pedagogical tool, accomplishing two goals at once for students. Particularly, this study connects learning in the classroom with Arousal Theory and will be among the first to analyze the benefit of PR technology in the public relations classroom, through primary and secondary research by two PR practitioners and instructors. (cid:55)(cid:72)(cid:70)(cid:75)(cid:81)(cid:82)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:74)(cid:92)(cid:3) (cid:88)(cid:86)(cid:72)(cid:71)(cid:3) (cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:3) (cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:3) (cid:73)(cid:76)(cid:72)(cid:79)(cid:71)(cid:3) (cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:3) (cid:51)(cid:53)(cid:3) (cid:88)(cid:86)(cid:72)(cid:71)(cid:3) (cid:68)(cid:86)(cid:3) (cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:81)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:74)(cid:3)
EVALUATION OF THE QUALITY STANDARDS OF THE WATER DISCHARGED INTO THE SEA AFTER WASHING THE EXHAUST GASES

The main objective of this paper is to propose technical solutions for monitoring and recording data for a gas washing system on board a ship and to maintain in standard parameters the quality of surface water following the discharge of gas washing water from installations from the ship.The specific objectives of achieving the general objective are: the methods for evaluating the laboratory samples from the washing water evacuation, modeling the dynamics of the washing water and modeling the dispersion of the scrubber washing water on board for a case study,evaluation of the quality standards of the water discharged into the sea after washing the gases, the elements of calculation, modeling and graphical representation are present
Abnormal Behavior Recognition Based on Features Fusion

One framework that fuses features for abnormal behavior recognition in videos was proposed, which provides increased robustness to noise and pose variation. First, ROI division of suspected pedestrian is achieved by optical flow method, which greatly reduces the dimensions of training data. After that, the proposed method uses the adaboost training to recognize pedestrian effectively. To capture the imaging variations and attributes of individuals, we use types of features: center track and inclination angle. Finally, D-S evidence theory is used to combine these features, which aims to recognize the abnormal behavior correctly. The results demonstrate that the recognition rate can be improved by the fusion of features.
QR Denoising using a Hopfield Network

In this research paper, we will train and test the Hopfield neural network for recognizing QR codes. We propose an algorithm for denoising QR codes using the concept of parallel Hopfield neural network. One of the biggest drawbacks of the noisy QR code is its poor performance and low storage capacity. Using Hopfield we can easily denoise the QR code and thereby increasing the storage capacity
Design and noise analysis of a sigma-delta capacitive micromachined accelerometer

A single-loop fourth-order sigma-delta（ΣΔ） interface circuit for a closed-loop micromachined accelerometer is presented.Two additional electronic integrators are cascaded with the micromachined sensing element to form a fourth-order loop filter.The three main noise sources affecting the overall system resolution of aΣΔaccelerometer, mechanical noise,electronic noise and quantization noise,are analyzed in detail.Accurate mathematical formulas for electronic and quantization noise are established.The ASIC is fabricated in a 0. 5μm two-metal two-poly n-well CMOS process.The test results indicate that the mechanical noise and electronic noise are 1μg/（Hz）1/2 and 8μV/（Hz）1/2 respectively,and the theoretical models of electronic and quantization noise agree well with the test and simulation results.
Detecting Store Review Spammer via Review Relationship

Online review can help people getting more information about store or product. The potential customers tend to making decision according to it. However, driven by profit and fame, spammers post spurious reviews to mislead the customers by promoting or demoting target store. Previous studies mainly focused on the text features of the reviews. However, these studies ignore the importance of relationship between store and reviewer. This paper first proposes a novel concept of store robustness which means the degree that store resist the influence of spamming. Then which types of store the spammer prefer to choose to gain larger influence is discussed. The proposed method use store-reviewer relationship combined with deviation degree to calculate the spamicity (degree of spam) of reviews. A subset of highly suspicious reviewers is selected for evaluation by human judges. Experimental results show that the proposed method can find out the harmful store review spammer efficiently.
Enhanced Cellular Function of Human Vascular Endothelial Cell on Poly (ε-caprolactone)/Gelatin Coaxial-Electrospun Scaffold

An extracellular matrix-like poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL)/gelatin core-shell nanofibrous scaffold with high hydrophilicity was developed by coaxial-elecrospinning. However, the behavior of vascular endothelial cells (ECs) on the modified scaffold remains limited. In this study, human umbilical vein ECs (HUVECs) were seeded onto PCL scaffolds with or without gelatin. Morphological changes of HUVECs were observed under confocal laser scanning microscopy (LSCM). HUVECs’ adhesion, proliferation and apoptosis were detected by MTT assay and flow cytometry (FCM). Our results showed that HUVECs on PCL/gelatin scaffolds with identical polygonal and cobblestone-like characteristics reached confluence after 7 days. Modification of PCL nanofibers significantly promoted the attachment of HUVECs onto scaffolds within 1 hour. Compared to pristine PCL, a two-fold increase in proliferation of HUVECs was also observed after 7 days, whereas the apoptosis of HUVECs was obviously reduced by 40% on the modified scaffolds. In summary, these results indicated modified PCL/gelatin scaffold developed by coaxial-elecrospinning can increase the adhesion, proliferation, and suppress apoptosis of HUVECs, suggesting it has a great potential and promising vascular graft in tissue engineering applications.