Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Incorporating Employee Resourcing Requirements into Deployment Decision Making

Employee resourcing is the process of matching human resource capabilities to the strategic and operational needs of the organization. This is exceptionally problematic in project-based organizations due to the competing priorities of the project, the individual employee, and the wider succession needs of the organization. This article presents the findings of research examining the human resource management practices that form the key components of the resourcing process. These included, inter alia, human resource planning, recruitment and selection, team deployment, performance management, and human resource administration. Current practices were examined in seven leading construction firms, all of which faced dynamic resourcing priorities. Within an inductive methodology, semistructured interviews were carried out with senior executives, human resource management (HRM) specialists, senior operational managers, and project-based staff. Based on a synthesis of the promising practices extracted from the case-study organizations, an innovative approach to project resourcing was developed that aims to balance organizational, project, and individual employee requirements. Team deployment resides at the center of resourcing process for the project-based organization as it determines the success of the project, which in turn determines the competitiveness of the organization. Long-term planning and employee involvement enable team deployment to integrate with other elements of HRM effectively and thus help to balance the organizational strategic priorities, project requirements, and individual employee needs and preferences.
Realization of voltage-controlled impedances

K.W. Nay and A. Budak (1983) presented a technique employing JFETs and op-amps for obtaining voltage-controlled positive/negative resistance exhibiting wide dynamic range and low distortion. Here two new op-amp-JFET configurations are proposed, which not only realize voltage-controlled resistances but, unlike the Nay configuration, make it possible to realize voltage-controlled inductance and voltage-controlled capacitance elements, too. Experimental results are given to demonstrate the practical validity of the theoretical formulations. >
Optimising a one-class SVM for geographic object based novelty detection.

The automation of image processing workflows, particularly in a remote sensing context, holds a great deal of operational value and has subsequently attracted much research attention in recent years. A common step in the image processing workflow is selecting attributes to be used by a statistical or expert system classifier, typically in a pixel-based or object-based data representation framework. In a supervised statistical context a classifier might have free parameters to set, that directly influence the performance of the classifier as well as the usefulness of certain attributes. A metaheuristic approach is proposed and profiled in a remote sensing context for optimising a statistical classifier having such an interdependence of attributes and free parameters. The metaheuristic, a particle swarm in this case, attempts to simultaneously select an appropriate attribute subset and two classifier free parameter values for a one-class support vector machine functioning on high dimensional object-based data. For common earth observation anomaly detection problems using typical segment attributes, such a combined free parameter tuning and attribute subset selection system provided superior statistically significant results compared to a free parameter tuning only system. An increase of 1-10% geometric means accuracy is typically achieved when using such an approach, compared to a strategy not performing attribute subset selection. In some extreme cases, due to the stochastic nature of the search algorithm employed, the free parameter tuning only strategy provided slightly better results. It is suggested that such an approach can aid the streamlining of information extraction from earth observation imagery.
Influence of siderophores and iron on Mycobacterium bovis isolation from pathological material

The article presents the results of studying the effect of siderophores and iron on the isolation of Mycobacterium bovis from pathological material. It has been established that the simultaneous presence of iron and siderophore from M. phlei in the nutrient medium makes it possible to detect the growth of M. bovis from pathological material 6–8 days earlier; ensures the growth of more colonies and bacterial mass. The presence of heterologous to mycobacteria siderophore (from Nocardia spp.) in the medium reduces the elective (growth) properties of the medium. Siderophores found in the culture filtrate or alcoholic extract of M. phlei can be valuable additives to culture media for the accelerated isolation of M. bovis from pathological material
Sindrome de Behçet: Enfermedad de la ruta de la seda

La enfermedad de Behcet es un trastorno inflamatorio multisistémico vasculítico de vaso variable caracterizado por úlceras aftosas orales, genitales, recurrentes, panuveítis bilateral posterior, manifestaciones articulares y ocasionalmente compromiso del sistema nervioso central y grandes vasos . Las variadas manifestaciones clínicas y la falta de pruebas patognomónicas hacen de la enfermedad un reto diagnóstico cuya prevalencia en Colombia se desconoce. El diagnostico se basa en criterios diagnósticos propuestos ante la falta de una prueba Gold Standard. Con relación a la etiología se han estudiado diversas teorías, entre ellas las de origen inmunológico, especialmente por la existencia del HLA - B51, le siguen aquellas que responsabilizan a agentes infecciosos, daño endotelial, entre otros. Se presenta el caso de un paciente femenino de 35 años, con cuadro crónico y recurrente de aftas orales, presencia de lesiones dermatológicas y aparición de ulceras genitales. Descartándose causas inmunomediadas, infecciosas e inflamatorias. Considerándose un cuadro de aftosis bipolar recurrente y ante los síntomas dermatológicos, se propuso aplicar los criterios diagnósticos del International Team for the Revision of International Criteria for Behçet Disease, con una puntuación de 4, lo que avala el diagnostico de enfermedad de Behcet. El manejo se basó en la instauración de medidas terapéuticas a base de corticosteroides sistémicos e inmunosupresores, con adecuada respuesta clínica.
New hot-carrier degradation mode and lifetime prediction method in quarter-micrometer PMOSFET

Hot-carrier-induced device degradation has been studied for quarter-micrometer level buried-channel PMOSFETs. It was found that the major hot-carrier degradation mode for these small devices is quite different from that previously reported, which was caused by trapped electrons injected into the gate oxide. The new degradation mode is caused by the effect of interface traps generated by hot hole injection into the oxide near the drain in the saturation region. DC device lifetime for the new mode can be evaluated using substrate current rather than gate current as a predictor. Interface-trap generation due to hot-hole injection will become the dominant degradation mode in future PMOSFETs. >
ANALYSIS OF A 2D CATHODIC PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR A BURIED SLENDER STRUCTURE WITH THE DUAL BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD

In this paper a boundary element formulation is developed and used for the analysis of cathodic protection systems of buried slender structures, such as foundations of electric transmission line towers. The foundation is basically a truss structure and the slenderness of the pieces composing it, brings numerical difficulties into the classical boundary element method. To avoid this problem, the dual boundary element method is implemented: combination of standard and hypersingular integral equations to form a mathematically well-posed system. A simple experiment is carried out where a galvanized metallic sheet is buried alongside two Copper electrodes (anodes) in parallel, with the objective of simulating a two-dimensional problem. The soil resistivity properties are measured along the depth and the non-linear polarization curves describing the relation between the current density and the electrochemical potential at the metallic sheet is investigated. Two situations are analysed: a) current is injected into the ground through both electrodes; b) current is injected through only one of the electrodes. In the numerical implementation, the soil is modeled as a homogeneous layered half-space with a different property for each layer. The validity of the proposed dual approach is discussed and compared with the measurements of potential at the ground surface.
Estimating impacts of wildfire and climate variability on streamflow in Victoria, Australia

Wildfires are common in Australia and can cause vegetation loss and affect hydrological processes such as interception, evapotranspiration, soil water storage and streamflow. This study investigates wildfire impacts on catchment mean annual streamflow for 14 Australian catchments that have been severely impacted by the 2009 Victoria wildfire, the second‐worst wildfire disaster in Australia. A statistical approach based on sensitivity coefficients was used for quantifying the climate variability impacts on streamflow and the time trend analysis method was used to estimate the annual streamflow changes due to wildfire respectively. Our results show that wildfire has caused a noticeable increase in mean annual streamflow in the catchments with a burnt area above 70% for an immediate post‐wildfire period (2009–2015) and the wildfire impact on streamflow is evidently larger than the climate change impact in the majority of burnt catchments. Furthermore, the wildfire impact on mean annual streamflow strongly increases with the burnt percentage area, indicated by R2 = 0.73 between the two. The results also illustrate that catchments with high burnt percentage areas can have more potential to gain increased streamflow due to wildfires compared with that due to climate variability and can have significant streamflow change after wildfires above the 70% threshold of burnt area. These results provide evidence for evaluating large‐scale wildfire impact on streamflow at small to medium‐sized catchments, and guidance for process‐based hydrological models for simulating wildfire impacts on hydrological processes for the immediate period after the wildfire.
Integrated transit services for minimum cost operation considering heterogeneous demand

Abstract In large metropolitan areas, public transit is a major mode choice of commuters for their daily travel, which has an important role in relieving congestion on transportation corridors. The purpose of this study is to develop a model which optimizes service patterns (SPs) and frequencies that yield minimum cost transit operation. Considering a general transit route with given stops and origin-destination demand, the proposed model consists of an objective total cost function and a set of constraints to ensure frequency conservation and sufficient capacity subject to operable fleet size. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed model, in which the demand and facility data of a rail transit route were given. Results show that the proposed model can be applied to optimize integrated SPs and headways that significantly reduce the total cost, while the resulting performance indicators are generated.
A Design Procedure for Bandpass Channel Multiplexers Connected at a Common Junction

A new general design procedure is presented for multiplexers having any number of Chebyshev channel filters, with arbitrary degrees, bandwidths, and interchannel spacings. The design procedure is developed for bandpass channel filters connected in series at a common junction for narrow-band applications. Commencing with the closed-form expressions for element values in Chebyshev filters, the multiplexer design process modifies all of the elements in each channel filter and preserves a match at the two points of perfect transmission closest to the band edges of each channel filter, while taking into account the frequency dependence across each channel. Examples of several multiplexer are given indicating that the design process is valid for most combinations of contiguous and noncontiguous channels.
Machine Learning Mid‐Infrared Spectral Models for Predicting Modal Mineralogy of CI/CM Chondritic Asteroids and Bennu

Planetary surfaces can be complex mixtures of coarse and fine particles that exhibit linear and nonlinear mixing behaviors at mid‐infrared (MIR) wavelengths. Machine learning multivariate analysis can estimate modal mineralogy of mixtures and is favorable because it does not assume linear mixing across wavelengths. We used partial least squares (PLS) and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (lasso), two types of machine learning, to build MIR spectral models to determine the surface mineralogy of the asteroid (101955) Bennu using OSIRIS‐REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) data. We find that PLS models outperform lasso models. The cross‐validated root‐mean‐square error of our final PLS models (consisting of 317 unique spectra of samples derived from 13 analog mineral samples and eight meteorites) range from ∼4 to 13 vol% depending on the mineral group. PLS predictions in vol% of Bennu's average global composition are 78% phyllosilicate, 9% olivine, 11% carbonates, and 6% magnetite. Pyroxene is not predicted for the global average spectrum, though it has been detected in small amounts on Bennu. These mineral abundances confirm previous findings that the composition of Bennu is consistent with CI/CM chondrites with high degrees of aqueous alteration. The predicted mineralogy of two previously identified OTES spectral types vary minimally from the global average. In agreement with previous work, we interpret OTES spectral differences as primarily caused by relative abundances of fine particulates rather than major compositional variations.
Experimental Verification of a Depth Controller using Model Predictive Control with Constraints onboard a Thruster Actuated AUV

In this work a depth and pitch controller for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is developed. This controller uses the model predictive control method to manoeuvre the vehicle whilst operating within the defined constraints of the AUV actuators. Experimental results are given for the AUV performing a step change in depth whilst maintaining zero pitch.
Nutritional values and nutrient digestibility of ground perilla cake (Perilla frutescens) in growing pig diets

This study determined the nutritional values of ground perilla cake (GPC) and the potential for dietary supplementation in growing pigs based on in vitro ileal digestibility (IVID) and apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD). The IVID evaluated at four dietary supplementation levels: 0, 5, 10, and 20%. The ATTD was measured by using twenty-four grower crossbred pigs. Pigs were randomly assigned to three dietary supplementation levels (0, 5, and 10%). From these analytical results, GPC raw material contained crude protein (CP) content (31.54%). That total essential amino acid (EAA) was 138.34 mg/g, mainly leucine (28.87 mg/g), and contained notably limiting amino acids for pigs, such as lysine (19.52 mg/g) and methionine (10.94 mg/g). The ether extract content (EE) was 10.52%, and the major free fatty acid (FFA) was linolenic acid (C18:3n3; 55.97%) and the fat-soluble vitamins included γ-tocopherol (367.25 μg/100g). In addition, GPC contained minerals such as phosphorus (1.02%), potassium (0.83%), calcium (0.46%), and iron. However, crude fiber (CF) had a notably high content (24.43%). Increasing GPC levels in pig diets reduced the IVID of dry matter (DM), EE, and CF (P<0.05), especially the 20% GPC supplement. The IVID of the CP did not differ among the groups. Furthermore, the results for the ATTD of the CP and EE in the 5% GPC supplement group were significantly better than that of the other groups (P˂0.05). We found the potential of GPC as an alternative protein source. Moreover, it contained high energy and polyunsaturated fatty acid.
Cultivation of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in canine periapical tooth abscesses

This research aimed to assess the occurrence of bacterial pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance in dogs presenting with canine periapical tooth abscesses. Sample swabs were performed on 45 dogs who had undergone dental surgery between January 2019 and August 2020 at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Chiang Mai University. Samples were analyzed within 24 hours at Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Chiang Mai University to identify any bacterial species and to investigate their potential antimicrobial susceptibility according to CLSI guidelines. A high proportion of gram-negative and facultative species were identified. Out of the 17 species obtained, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (34.6 %) was determined to be the predominant species followed by Escherichia coli (15.4%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (11.5%), respectively. P. aeruginosa was highly resistant (100.0%) to ampicillin and clindamycin, while E. coli and K. pneumoniae were found to be highly resistant (100.0%) to clindamycin in terms of antimicrobial susceptibility. However, E. coli was more resistant to enrofloxacin, gentamicin, and norfloxacin than K. pneumoniae. When focusing on the resistance rates of all species, clindamycin exhibited the highest degree of resistance, followed by ampicillin and amoxicillin, respectively. Amoxicillin-clavulanate is an empirical antibiotic in our area that has exhibited a resistance rate of 48.7%. The outcomes of our study have suggested that fluoroquinolone and aminoglycoside could be used to treat canine periapical tooth abscesses. However, the renal effect of these drugs must be considered. Importantly, antibiotic selection must depend upon the results of bacterial culture and antimicrobial susceptibility tests in order to reduce any potential antimicrobial resistance issues.
Biomimetic synthesis of silver nanoparticles for treatment of N‐Nitrosodiethylamine‐induced hepatotoxicity

The development of bioengineered nanoparticles has attracted considerable universal attention in the field of medical science and disease treatment. Current studies were executed to evaluate the hepatoprotective activity of biosynthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Their characterization was performed by UV‐Visible analysis, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and Zeta analyses. In in vivo studies, albino rats (180 ± 10 g) were persuaded with model hepatic toxicant N‐nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) and subsequently cotreated with Morus multicaulis at 100 mg/kg and AgNPs at 100 µg/kg dose. NDEA administration elevates the levels of liver function test biomarkers, which were reinstated to normal by cotreatment of test drugs. The oxidative stress and concentration of drug‐metabolizing enzyme increase after induction of toxicant (NDEA), these markers are restored toward normal after cotreatment of nano‐drug. Treatments of M. multicaulis extract did not show such significant protection. The NDEA‐treated groups showed a significant rise in the level of cytokines (interleukin [IL‐6] and IL‐10) and reached normal with subsequent treatment with AgNPs. Histopathological studies also exhibited the curative effect of AgNPs in the same manner. Thus current results strongly suggest that biomimetic AgNPs could be used as an effective drug against hepatic alteration.
Increasing flexibility for staff development: Modelling good practice at the University of Western Sydney

Crafting a quality online learning and teaching environment requires specialist skills and knowledge that can be achieved through well designed and engaging staff development activities. However, as many academic staff have busy workloads balancing the design of e-learning environments, teaching students, undertaking administrative tasks and pursuing research endeavours, engaging these staff in e-learning staff development activities is a challenge. Complexity is added to this scenario when academic staff are geographically dispersed across campuses and staff development programs are centrally provided. This paper describes the staff development approaches of a multi-campus university to engage academic staff in the development of their e-learning knowledge and skills.
THE CLOUD OR THE MIST

There is no doubt that the Internet has changed how we live our lives. Shopping, watching videos, writing a diary – so much of our data that was localized is now stored in the ‘cloud’. We easily give information (such as birthdays and credit card numbers) and take information (such as forwarded links or search results) without much regard for where and how exactly that data is stored, and how secure it is. In Stephen King’s novella The Mist, a mysterious fog blankets a town and wreaks havoc. Because the cloud is already integrated into so many parts of our online experience, its safety is vital to our security; otherwise havoc might ensue for us as well. This paper will discuss the potential security risks of storing information in the cloud with respect to malware. It will explore whether malware can infi ltrate the cloud, what effects it can have, and what we can do to fi ght it. It will also delve into social engineering techniques that have evolved only with the introduction of cloud technology. It will also look into the ethical ramifi cations of cloud computing – who is ultimately responsible for maintaining a secure environment when ownership of data is no longer traditional?
Ferroelectricity of PZT-Based Thin Films Doped with Mn and Nb

The ternary compound thin films doped with Mn and Nb, Pb(Mn1/3,Nb2/3)O3-PbZrO3- PbTiO3(PMnN-PZ-PT), with the same ratio of PZ/PT=52:48(PZT(52/48)) are fabricated on the heterostructure substrates of SrRuO3(SRO)/Pt(111)/Ti/SiO2/Si(100) by the radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering system, in which the quench method is used for the post heat treatments. The ternary compound films exhibit polycrystal phase combined with (001), (101) and (111) orientations with the 6% mole percent mixing ratio of PMnN, in which the (111) directions are the main orientations for non-mixed PZT(52/48) films and 6% mole percent PMnN mixing PZT(52/48) films(6%PMnN-94%PZT(52/48)), and so both of them are epitaxially grown on Silicon substrates with the (111) orientation. The ferroelectricities of the films are studied by the Sawyer Tower circuit, and the results show that the mixing of PMnN seriously improves the ferroelectricities of PZT(52/48), in which the 6% mixed PZT films own the rest polarization intensity , the saturation polarization intensity and the coercive electric-field intensity =139 kV/cm which are distinctly larger than the non-mixed PZT(52/48) films