Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Unlimited Release COMPRESSION WAVE STUDIES IN BLAIR DOLOMITE

Dynamic compression wave studies have been conducted on Blair dolomite in the stress range of 0-7.0 GPa. Impact techniques were used to generate stress impulse input functions, and diffuse surface laser interferometry provided the dynamic instrumentation. Experimental particle velocity profiles obtained by this method were coupled with the conservation laws of mass and momentum to determine the stress-strain and stress-modulus constitutive properties of the material. Comparison between dynamic and quasistatic uniaxial stress-strain curves uncovered significant differences. Energy dissipated in a complete load and unload cycle differed by almost an order of magnitude and the longitudinal moduli differed by as much as a factor of two. Blair dolomite was observed to yield under dynamic loading at 2.5 GPa. Below 2.5 GPa the loading waves had a finite risetime and exhibited steady propagation. A finite linear viscoelastic constitutive model satisfactorily predicted the observed wave propagation. We speculate that dynamic properties of preexisting cracks provides a physical mechanism for both the rate dependent steady wave behavior and the difference between dynamic and quasistatic response.
BODY CONDITION EVALUATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PARASITISM IN CAPTIVE DEER (AXIS AXIS)

Colonies few, hypophyllous, dense, thinly velvety, up to 3mm in diameter. Hyphae straight, substraight, flexuous to crooked, branching alternate, opposite to irregular at acute to wide angles, loosely to rarely closely reticulate, cells 24-32 x 5-7μm. Appressoria alternate, straight to curved, antrorse, subantrorse to often recurved, 16-28μm long; stalk cells cylindrical to cuneate, 3-11μm long; head cells ovate, globose, oblong, clavate, straight to curved, entire, angular to sublobate to lobate, 12-16 x 9-11μm. Phialides mixed with appressoria, scattered, conoid to ampulliform, 14-21 x 6-8μm.
Multivariate Poisson-lognormal model for analysis of crashes on urban signalized intersections approach

ABSTRACT Many studies investigate contributing factors of intersection crashes, but very limited studies focus on cashes on the intersection approach. It is important to address the characteristics of intersection-approach crashes to better understand intersection safety. This article analyzes the crashes on signalized intersection approach on urban arterials with a focus on traffic and geometric elements. The intersection approach is defined as the segment between stop bar and the location 200 ft upstream from the stop bar. The multivariate Poisson log-normal (MVPLN) model is used to model crash counts by severity. Ten-year crash data collected from 643 signalized intersections in Nebraska are used for analysis. One-way road is found to be negatively related to all three severity levels (light crash, moderate crash, and severe crash) of crashes. Compared to the 12 ft lane width, narrower lane widths generally lead to fewer crashes. The intersection approaches on urban arterials are expected to have more crashes than collector roads. The numbers of right-turn, left-turn, and through lanes, as well as the annual average daily traffic on the intersection approach and its crossing approach are statistically significant factors increasing crash frequency. The MVPLN model is compared to univariate and zero-inflated Poisson models. The results reveal that the MVPLN model provides a superior fit over the univariate Poisson model.
Research on Access Control Security in Cloud Computing Environment

With the popularization and development of cloud computing. Safety problem more and more get the attention of the researchers. Especially the access control security is particularly important. In this paper, we give a review of the the access control technology based on cloud computing environment. In the first section, the basic theory of access control theory has been introduced. Then, the paper expounds the main access control model Amazon Cloud platform, Windows Azure, Google Cloud and BaiduCloud in section 2; in section 3 the paper analyzes the mainstream open source cloud platform and different components on access control; in section 4 mainly study the cloud computing environment; In section 5 the paper proposes a system that implements a hypervisor-based access control mechanism. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of this research are analyzed, and perspectives for further study are also suggested.
A Systematic Approach to Extract Knowledge Types in API Reference Documentation: A Survey

Developing computer programs with an Application Program Interface (API) is an important part in software Engineering. The API Reference Documentation is a key role in this process. The problem for developers is to select the optimized API reference documentation to implement programs quickly. By using suitable API reference documentation, removes the low value content in the web. By using knowledge types we improve the quality of the Reference documentation during the product development. The Reference documentation is also plays a crucial role in how developers learn and use an API, and developers have high expectations about the information they should find therein. Most technology platforms expose APIs provide a documentation system with a uniform structure and look and-feel for presenting and organizing the API documentation. The main idea of this paper is to extract knowledge types in API Reference Documentation and to study the gap between information seekers & information providers.
High Efficiency Power Amplifiers

Automotive RADARs have gained popularity recently as a means to sense obstacles and avoid collisions, thus preventing loss of life related to vehicular incidence. Research in object detection is increasingly tending towards the 77G H z automotive RADAR band, owing to the availability of larger bandwidths, resulting in high range resolution. Another advantage of the frequency band comes from the absorption properties of the atmosphere, which limits the range and allows multiple vehicles to use RADARs with minimum interference [1]. A Power Amplifier is the most power hungry block in a transmitter-receiver chain and must be designed for high power efficiency, in order to mitigate radiative and more importantly heat losses. However, achieving high efficiency within the target automotive RADAR band proves to be challenging, specifically in case of integrated CMOS PAs. This thesis presents a study of Injection Locked Power Amplifiers (ILPA) in detail and proposes an architecture to meet the RADAR specification. The thesis also highlights passive loss models and provides a theoretical analysis of multi-stage power amplifiers by deriving an expression for the total efficiency of such a PA. Furthermore, this thesis proposes a design procedure and highlights the design process in 40nm CMOS technology. Emphasis is also placed on the study of the active device available in the PDK. The designed integrable PA shows a peak output power of 13dBm with a PAE = 17% and gain= 16dB within a 5G H z band centered around 78.5G H z.
This is a repository copy of Reference Dependence and Market Participation

This paper finds optimal portfolios for the reference-dependent preferences by Kőszegi and Rabin, with piecewise linear gain-loss utility, in a one-period model with a safe and a risky asset. If the return of the risky asset is highly dispersed relative to its potential gains, two personal equilibria arise, one of them including risky investments, the other one only safe holdings. In the same circumstances, the risky personal equilibrium entails market participation that decreases with loss aversion and gain-loss sensitivity, whereas the preferred personal equilibrium is sensitive to market and preference parameters. Relevant market parameters are not the expected return and standard deviation, but rather the ratio of expected gains to losses and the Gini index of the return. JEL Classification: G11, G12. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 91G10, 91G80.
game mechanics

Narrative mechanics have many “faces”, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society (such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy) and are increasingly used in politics. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a special kind of motivational design, or more precisely: a special kind of game mechanics. In the same way as classic game mechanics, they consist of rules and rule sets for control cycles that contain challenges, provide options, make decisions possible, and then reward or punish, thereby creating a magic circle. As in all game mechanics, everything that is possible in the system may be used. Most narrative mechanics, however, use a narrative structure (rule set mechanics), narrative rewards and punishments. Often, rules with linear connections are employed for this purpose.
Virtualizing the physical world: the on-demand room case study

Generally speaking, the virtualization technique allows to maximize the exploitation of available physical resources by abstracting from them a set of virtual resources that users independently own. This paper proposes to apply the virtualization technique to the built space. For this, we present a case study called on-demand room, where the same physical resources (space, furniture, appliances and networks) are dynamically and transparently reallocated to different apartments. Thanks to implicit interaction and automatic reconfigurations, inhabitants have the impression of owning a bigger surface than the physically available one. We present a demonstrator of on-demand room that was realized leveraging a large-scale immersive virtual reality platform and provide some perspectives for the generalization of the virtualization approach.
A CASE OF GAUTENG PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA

The relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and business performance using 500 smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Gauteng province, South Africa was tested. Questionnaire was used to collect data from 500 SME owners. The findings from the survey among 500 SME owners were modelled through a categorical regression model with business performance as dependent variable. The level of significance of the 8 variables out of 12 variables suggests that entrepreneurial orientation be classified as the strongest predictor of business performance. The ability to adjust one’s business model to adapt to changed economic circumstances is an important thing as it dictates performance in increasingly competitive economic environment.
Source shape and data analysis procedure effects on hydraulic conductivity of a sandy-loam soil determined by ponding infiltration runs

Performing ponding infiltration runs with non-circular sources could represent a good means to sample completely an area of interest. Regardless of the shape of the source, predicting the expected reliability of the collected data by infiltrometers should facilitate soil hydraulic characterisation and also allow a more conscious use of the field data. The influence of the shape of the infiltration source ( i.e ., circular or square) and the analysis procedure of the steady-state infiltration data on the saturated hydraulic conductivity, K s , of a sandy-loam soil was tested in this investigation. Circular and square surfaces sampled with the pressure infiltrometer (PI) yielded similar estimates of K s ( i.e ., differing by a factor of 1.05-1.16, depending on the calculation method) when an equivalent radius was considered to geometrically describe the square source. With the simplified falling head (SFH) technique, the shape of the source was irrelevant ( i.e ., circular and square sources yielding K s values that differed by a factor of 1.19), as theoretically expected. For the steady-state PI experiment, the twoponding depth approach yielded two times smaller K s values than the one-ponding depth (OPD) approach, probably due to lower steady-state flow rates than those expected for the second phase of the two-level run. The conclusions were that: i) simple infiltrometer experiments (PI, SFH) can be carried out with square sources; and ii) the simplest PI run (OPD approach) is expected to yield the most reliable predictions of K s . Sampling other soils is advisable in an attempt to make these conclusions of general validity.
Family environment and loneliness among adolescents with learning disability

Learning Disability is an “umbrella” term that describes a number of other, specific learning disabilities, like dyslexia and dysgraphia. Children and adolescents with learning disability have average or above average intelligenc but still show difficulty in forming relationships at family and at school. Family plays its own specific effect on child development by providing day to day experiences and in their behaviour formation. The purpose of the present research was to examine and compare the family environment and loneliness among male and female adolescents who are been diagnosed with and without learning disability. The samples selected were 60 adolescents with learning disability (30) and without learning disability (30) aged between 10 and 14 years studying in normal schools and special institutions. Family Interaction Scale by Dr. Asha (1987) and UCLA Loneliness Scale by Russell. D, Peplau. L. A. , Ferguson, M. L. (1978) were used to determine family relationship and experience of loneliness among them. Student t-test and Pearson correlation were used as statistical tools for analysis of result. The result indicated a significant difference in family relationships and experience of loneliness among adolescents with and without learning disability. Significant negative correlation existed between family relationship and experience of loneliness.
Ceramide Regulates the Transcription of Cyclooxygenase-2 EVIDENCE FOR INVOLVEMENT OF EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED KINASE/c-Jun N-TERMINAL KINASE AND p38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE PATHWAYS*

The ceramide signaling pathway is activated by the sphingomyelinase (SMase)-mediated hydrolysis of cell membrane sphingomyelin to ceramide. We determined whether ceramide, a lipid second messenger, induced cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in human mammary epithelial cells. Treatment of cells with neutral SMase or C 2 - or C 6 -ceramide enhanced prostaglandin E 2 synthesis and increased levels of COX-2 protein and mRNA. Nuclear runoff assays revealed increased rates of COX-2 transcription after treatment with SMase and C 2 - and C 6 - ceramide. Transient transfections utilizing COX-2 promoter deletion constructs and COX-2 promoter constructs in which specific enhancer elements were mutagenized indicated that the effects of ceramide were mediated via a cAMP response element. The induction of COX-2 by ceramide was inhibited by calphostin C, an inhibitor of protein kinase C. Induction of COX-2 promoter activity by SMase was blocked by overexpressing kinase-deficient Raf-1. Triggering of the ceramide pathway also led to increases in extracellular signal-regu-lated kinase (ERK), c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activities; pharmacological inhibitors of MAPK kinase (MEK) and p38 MAPK blocked the induction of COX-2 by SMase. Overexpressing ERK1, JNK, or p38 led to severalfold increases in COX-2 promoter activity.
Robust Control in Project Management: A Review

Critical chain project management has experienced a change since it was introduced to project management in 1997. At present, the research of robustness becomes a quite popular area for many scholars because of the excellent performance of robustness. This paper is based on the studies, finished before 2015, on robustness which is used in two periods of project management i.e. deployment and controlling in execution. And it has concluded a comparable completed carding. In addition, the trend of robustness applied in project management as well as the outlook of the advanced methodologies is also included in the end. The theory of robustness controlling should be applied to multi-project management in making use of other projects precious experience. The scenario plant and simulation about the whole process of project management are both the potential domains to be launched in the forthcoming years.
A Philosophical Comment on Kitazawa’s Hypothesis concerning the Neural Basis of A–series Time Concepts

Kitazawa (2017) has proposed an interesting hypothesis about the processing of A-series time concepts—past, present, future—in the brain. The experiments on which it is based can be interpreted in two different ways; they are concerned with either our ability of processing linguistic expressions with different tenses or ability of imagining situations with different temporal specifications. Time awareness has evolved from that involved in the primitive perception through the representation of immediate past and future to the highly detailed mental time travel performed by human beings. Language seems to be essential to human mental time travel, because mental time travel is an “episodic constructive process” that requires a developed form of imagination, which seems to be impossible without a language. By considering the two different interpretations of the experiments, this paper tries to find out how our understanding of time expressions and imagining time in specific situations are related to each other.
Improving Academic Events and Conference Participation by Zimbabwean Lecturers: Learning From RIO-SET 2012 Experiences.

While research outcomes might be important in both public and private sector in Zimbabwe, the tertiary education sector seemed to be lagging behind. Lower attendance at RIE Expo 2012(now RIO-SET) by lecturers, conference audiences and other key research stakeholders made it imperative to carry out this research. Researchers felt that a minimum of 50 participants should attend each parallel session, but the RIE 2012(RIO-SET) had an average of 15 people in each session. The methodology used a sample size of 100 lecturers chosen from 10 universities and 15 colleges across Zimbabwe using judgmental and quota sampling. Issues covered included attitudes, institutional challenges, communication challenges and financial constraints facing lecturers and their institutions. The key findings indicated that distance from the venue, publishing propensity of lecturers, communication to participants, funding, college or university vacations and institutional policies had considerable impact on the overall attendance in the RIE Expo 2012(RIO-SET) conference. The study established that the needs of lecturers closer to Harare and those outside Harare were almost similar. The major differences were on institution specific challenges where differences in research disposition and lack of resources were cited as the major reasons behind lower attendance to RIE 2012. The research results will be used for planning the future RIE Expos, and other research conferences in Zimbabwe. The researchers proposed the Attitude, Challenges and Communication (ACC) model for managing events and ensuring key
A trust-aware RPL routing protocol to detect blackhole and selective forwarding attacks

This research addresses blackhole and selective forwarding routing attacks, which are fundamental security attacks on the routing of data in IoT networks. Most IoT devices today, from medical devices to connected vehicles and even smart buildings, have the capability of communicating wirelessly with one another. Although, consumers are progressively embracing the concept of connected devices, recent studies indicate that security is not high on the priority list of manufacturers, especially in the way these IoT devices route and communicate data amongst themselves. Thus, it leaves the door wide open to attacks and compromises. In this study, a trust-based routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks, addressing blackhole and selective forwarding attacks is proposed. We show that our proposed protocol is not only secure from blackhole and selective forwarding attacks, but also does not impose undue overheads on network traffic.
Fever and Survival with Drug-treated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Patients with non-small cell lung cancer who develop fever during anti-neoplastic chemotherapy are treated empirically, before the cause of fever has been determined. Little study has been made of episodes of infection during chemotherapy with respect to antineoplastic response, other adverse reactions, or survival time. In particular, the relationship between fever and long-term survival is not clear. The prognostic significance of febrile episodes was investigated in patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving full-dose chemotherapy. Most were treated only with chemotherapy during the period of investigation, although some had concurrent or subsequent radiotherapy, and a few had surgery following chemotherapy. No significant difference was seen between febrile and afebrile patients regarding therapeutic modality. Patients with poor perfor mance status (PS) had a higher incidence of febrile episodes (P<.001). Multivariate analysis, however, showed febrile episodes to be a major prognostic factor independent of PS on clinical stage. PS and stage affected short-term survival, while febrile episodes were related to decreased long-term survival (203 vs. 366 days; with deaths in the first 3 months excluded, 241 vs. 377 days). Although existing evidence is inconclusive, our study suggests that prevention of infection during antineoplastic treatment by administration of granulocyte stimulating factors and early initiation of antimicrobials might improve long-term survival.
A crossover comparison of urinary albumin excretion as a new surrogate marker for cardiovascular disease among 4 types calcium channel blockers Running title: Anti-albuminuric effects among 4 types of CaCB

Background: At the intervention for cardiovascular disease (CVD), albuminuria is a new pivotal target. Calcium channel blocker (CCB) is one of the most expected agents. Currently CCBs have been classified by delivery system, half-life and channel types. We tested anti-albuminuric effect among 4 types of CCBs. Methods: Subjects were 50 hypertensives (SBP/DBP 164.7±17.1/92.3±12.2 mmHg, s-Cr 0.81±0.37 mg/dl, urinary albumin excretion (UAE) 69.4 (33.5-142.6) mg/gCr). Four CCBs were administered in a crossover setting; nifedipine CR, a long biological half-life L type by controlled release, cilnidipine, an N/L type, efonidipine, a T/L type and amlodipine, a long biological half-life L type. Results: Comparable BP reductions were obtained. UAE at endpoints ware as follow (mg/gCr, *P<0.01): nifedipine CR 30.8 (17.3-81.1),* cilnidipine 33.9 (18.0-67.7),* efonidipine 51.0 (21.2-129.8), amlodipine 40.6 (18.7-94.7). By all agents, significant augmentations were observed in PRA, angiotensin I and angiotensin II (AngII). AngII at cilnidipine was significantly lower than that at amlodipine. PAC at cilnidipine and efonidipine was significantly lower than that at amlodipine. Nifedipine CR significantly reduced ANP concentration. Conclusions: It is revealed that only nifedipine CR and cilnidipine could reduce albuminuria statistically. Thus, it is suggested that the 2 CCBs might be favorable for organ protection in hypertensives.