Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Review Extract Using Word Embeddings

Online reviews become the basis of evaluating alternatives before making purchase decision. So extracting useful information from a large number of reviews becomes a valuable act. Recently word embeddings methods have been widely used in binary sentiment classification tasks and perform well. They judge a review is negative or positive, but ignores the product characteristics of the reviews expression. It’s difficult to get valuable information from huge number of reviews. In this paper, we propose a method to get the core reviews from review collection. This methodology applies a combined approach of word embedding (word2vec) and PageRank named WVP to calculate the impact factor of a review. We training the model through an open source hotel review data. The methodology is applied to the data sets of hotel reviews was crawled from DianPing which a famous company on tourism. Experiment show that WVP is effective to get core reviews.
Biomechanical Analysis of Military Boots: Phase 2. Volume 2. Human User Testing of Military and Commercial Footwear.

Abstract : This is a two-volume report on human user testing of military and commercially available footwear. Volume I, NATICK/TR-96/011, contains the body of the report, and references; Volume II, NATICK/TR-96/Ol2, contains the appendices comprised principally of summary statistics. The military footwear tested consisted of the black leather combat boot and the hot weather boot; the commercial items were a basketball shoe, cross trainer, hiking boot and work boot. Men and women performed the following activities in a laboratory setting while wearing each footwear type: walking, marching, running, jumping from heights and running an agility course. The data acquired included ground reaction forces, in-shoe pressures, sagittal plane kinematics, rearfoot movement, leg muscle activity, metabolic rate, and heart rate. The results indicated that the magnitudes of vertical ground reaction forces were lowest with the basketball shoe and the cross trainer. The military and the work boots were associated with lowest amounts of ankle dorsiflexion and the greatest degrees of flexion at the metatarsal-phalangeal joints. The fastest times to completion of the agility course were achieved with the basketball shoe and the cross trainer. The third report in this series is 'Biomechanical Analysis of Military Boots: Phase III Recommendations for Design of Future Military Boots,' NATICK/TR-96-0l3. Phase I is 'Biomechanical Analysis of Military Boots: Materials Testing of Military and Commercial Footwear,' NATICK/TR-93/006.
The Honda book of management : a leadership philosophy for high industrial success

This study, fully revised since its original publication in Japan, charts the rise of the Honda Motor Company, built upon the individual management style formulated by the company's founder, Honda Soichiro. This fascinating case history affords an insight into the Japanese experience, one to which managers and business students from different corporate cultures aspire. Highlighting the relationship between ideas and behaviour in the Japanese business setting, and demonstrating that an innovative management style can have a dramatic effect on corporate success, this book has both a practical and a theoretical message.
Integrated GPS/fibre optic gyro land navigation system

The Litton Land Navigator LLN-95 is an inertial/GPS system based on modular fibre optic gyro (FOG) strapdown technology designed by LITEF GmbH and LITTON Italia S.p.A. for land vehicle applications. The LLN-95 is a hybrid navigation system which uses the navigation data from: a closed loop FOG for vehicle rate measurement; a level sensor module for level measurement; GPS for vehicle position and velocity; a vehicle odometer for velocity. This data is integrated in a Kalman filter which delivers vehicle heading and position. Processing of waypoint information is also performed. The man-machine interface uses a separate control and display unit (CDU). Prototypes were built in 1993 and successfully completed with better accuracy than specified. The modular design allows for the use of accelerometers and more accurate FOGs to meet higher performance requirements such as heading self alignment if later required. <<ETX>>
Bandwidth efficient block codes for M-ary PSK modulation

A class of bandwidth efficient block codes for M-ary PSK modulation is presented. A soft-decision decoding for this class of codes is devised. Some specific short codes for Quad Phase Shift Key (QPSK), 8-PSK and 16-PSK modulations are constructed. These codes have good minimum squared Euclidean distances and provide 2 to 5.8 dB coding gains over uncoded QPSK modulation without (or with little) bandwidth expansion. The complete weight distributions of these specific codes are determined. Based on these weight distributions, their error probabilities are evaluated. Some of these codes have simple trellis structures and hence can be decoded by Viterbi decoding algorithm with relatively simple implementation. Moreover, the codes are very suitable for use as inner codes for various cascaded coding schemes with Reed-Solomon codes as outer codes.
Sustainable Materials - With Both Eyes Open

Part I The world of materials 1 Material wealth and health 2 Scale, uncertainty and estimation 3 Our uses of steel and aluminium 4 Metal journeys 5 Energy and emissions 6 Where does the money go? Part II With one eye open 7 Energy efficiency 8 Opportunities for capturing heat 9 Novel process routes 10 Carbon sequestration 11 Future energy use and emissions Part III With both eyes open 12 Using less metal by design 13 Reducing yield losses 14 Diverting manufacturing scrap 15 Re-using metal components 16 Longer life products 17 Reducing final demand 18 Options for change 19 Future energy use and emissions Part IV Other materials 20 Cement 287 21 Plastic 301 22 Paper 313 Part V Creating a sustainable material future 23 Business activity evaluation 24 The influence of policy 25 The actions of individuals References Index Acknowledgements
Block Toeplitz with Toeplitz block covariance matrix for space-time adaptive processing

Interference covariance matrix estimations and computational complexity are two main concerns in space-time adaptive processing (STAP). This paper deals with the two problems by exploring a structured covariance matrix. First, a conjugate gradient iterative algorithm (CGIA) with reduced computational complexity is presented, which is based on FFT by using a block Toeplitz with Toeplitz block (BTTB) structure of the interference covariance matrix. To ensure the convergence of CGIA, an iterative BTTB (IBTTB) covariance matrix approximation is also proposed. Based on the approximated BTTB matrix, the corresponding STAP algorithm provides superior and robust performance both in limited sample support and in the presence of system errors.
The Distribution of Quantum Noise in the Presence of Gaussian Noise in the Fiber

In this paper we determined the distribution of quantum noise in the presence of variable light intensity. The distribution of quantum noise in the presence of variable light intensity is Poisson’s. The light intensity is variable because of different interferences. We considered the case when the light intensity has Gaussian pdf. Bibl. 4 (in English; summaries in Lithuanian, English and Russian).
Railroad Crew Resource Management (CRM): Pilot Rail CRM Training Development and Implementation

This report summarizes the work undertaken by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) to develop and implement a pilot program of Rail-Based Crew Resource Management (CRM) training that can be used for a variety of crafts throughout the railroad industry. Pilot program development was a follow-on to the previous tasks to document the types of teams that exist in the railroad industry and the state of rail CRM training at U.S. Class I railroads, which TTI completed and documented in a separate report to the Federal Railroad Administration in September 2003. The pilot program builds upon the training methods and procedures identified in the earlier work. This report documents the development of the program and the experiences encountered in implementing it at the railroad division level. The report presents data from pre-training and post-training surveys of participants that were administered during the pilot course as measures of the effectiveness and acceptance of the training program materials. The study also includes recommendations on further steps to broader CRM implementation within the railroad industry.
Am Kind vorbei - Ideen und Interessen in der jüngeren Familienpolitik

Die moderne Familie wurde schon mehrfach verabschiedet, ihre Funktionalitat des ofteren angezweifelt. Neu ist, dass heute die Familie in vielerlei Hinsicht disfunktional geworden zu sein scheint. Neu ist auch die Radikalitat der vorgeschlagenen Losungen. Gefordert wird eine 'De-Familialisierung' - die moglichst weitgehende Befreiung der Familie von ihren Betreuungspflichten - im Interesse des Erhalts der Familie. Die Diagnosen und Losungsvorschlage werden haufig von machtnahen Eliten ohne Ruckkoppelung an die Lebenspraxis empirischer Familien und Kinder formuliert. Deshalb sind sie so wirkungsmachtig. So begreifen z. B. Experten der OECD oder der Europaischen Kommission die Familie in erster Linie in ihrer Funktion fur den Arbeitsmarkt, - auch dann, wenn sie sich um die Geburtenrate, die geschlechterspezifische Arbeitsteilung oder Defizite fruhkindlicher Erziehung sorgen. Daher wundert es kaum, dass Kinder in den Diagnosen und vorgeschlagenen Losungen nur als Kosten und Gelegenheiten, die verringert bzw. genutzt werden mussen, vorkommen. Der Titel 'Am Kind vorbei' spielt auf Ideen und Interessen an, die Kinder fur vielfaltige Zwecke instrumentalisieren, empirische Kinder und ihre Eltern dabei aber verfehlen. Der Beitrag erlautert diese Behauptung. (DIPF/Orig.) The family has been often criticised. Only naive functionalists assume the family to function as expected. At present, however, those critical of thefamily identify multiple family failures. The solution to the many disfunctions which has been proposed is both paradox and radical. It demands a significant „de-familialistion" - the weakening of family obligations to care for one's own children and elderly family members - in order to safeguard the family. Elites wedded to power develop assumptions about the family and family practices - often with little reference to empirical children's and their parents' experiences - and they design the policy proposals. Due to elitist influence these assumptions and proposals easily enter public debates and agendas and succeed to imprint on policies to restructure western welfare states. OECD and European Commission experts, for instance, see thefamily primarily (if not exclusively) as a function of the labour market. This holds true even in cases when experts care about declining fertility rates, persistent gender inequalities in unpaid care or about deficient early childhood education. Unsurprisingly, children enter assumptions and proposals as costs respectively as opportunities which must either be reduced or taken. „Missing the child" alludes to the many ways by which children are treated as means to ends beyond their daily experience. The essay elaborates this argument. (DIPF/Orig.)
Outsourcing van het ICT door overheidsinstellingen

Het IWI heeft onlangs gewezen op de risico’s van outsourcing van ICT door het UWV. Ook het uitbesteden van ICT door gemeenten is niet zonder risico. Om outsourcingsbeslissingen van gemeenten en UWV te kunnen beoordelen wil het ministerie meer inzicht in de effecten van outsourcing. De directie Expertcentrum Gegevensverkeer en Informatiemanagement (EGI) van het ministerie van SZW heeft de SEO gevraagd een literatuurstudie te verrichten naar de effecten van outsourcing van ICT door overheidsinstellingen. De literatuurstudie is bedoeld als een eerste stap op weg naar het formuleren van een beoordelingskader voor beslissingen over outsourcing. Voor het outsourcen van ontwikkeling van software geldt over het algemeen dat de risico’s van outsourcing groot zijn. Uit empirische literatuur blijkt dat dit type ICT meestal in huis wordt gemaakt. Voor overheidsbedrijven is outsourcen een mogelijkheid om overheidsfalen te verminderen. De drive voor outsourcen is voor overheidsorganisaties groter dan voor private organisaties. Anderzijds is outsourcen door overheidsorganisaties misschien nog wel risicovoller dan outsourcing door private organisaties, als gevolg van zwak management. Outsourcing door de overheid van de ontwikkeling van complexe specifieke software is dus een risicovolle mogelijkheid om overheidsfalen te verminderen.
Extraction of Roads From Out Door Images

A few separate initiatives from the robotics community to design and prove a mechanical automated solution have taken place. Here at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Colombia, we are working in this problem: on a previous project the mobile robot Ursula was developed (Rizo et al., 2003); and now we are working in a new mobile robot called Amaranta (Figure1). One part of the humanitarian demining problem is the navigation, in the two projects the autonomous navigation task is executed based on a vision system that uses a camera mounted on the robot. Landmines could be placed in any type of terrain: deserts, mountains, swamps, roads, forests, etc. This means that when trying to build a robot for demining operations, its workspace has to be previously defined and limited. In this work humanitarian demining, is limited to operate on places that have been modified by man and that represent great importance for a community, for example the roads or paths. Specifically, the systems have been designed for the Colombian territory (Rizo et al., 2003).
Population status and distribution of mugger crocodile Crocodylus palustris in the Similipal Tiger Reserve, Odisha, India

T mugger crocodile Crocodylus palustris (Lesson, 1831) is one of the 27 extant crocodilians (Grigg, 2015). It is distributed across six countries, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and possibly also Bangladesh (Choudhury & de Silva, 2013) although formally it was also found in Bhutan and Myanmar. In India, the mugger has been reported at altitudes up to 420 m a.s. l. in Corbett Tiger Reserve (Whitaker & Whitaker, 1984; Whitaker, 1987) which is listed as its highest altitude by IUCN (Choudhury & de Silva, 2013) but is also present in the lower hill streams up to 700 m a.s. l. (Daniel, 1983; Rao, 1993). In Nepal, most records are from below 200 m a.s. l. (Schleich & Kästle, 2002), while in Sri Lanka it has been recorded at 450 m a.s. l. (Whitaker & Whitaker, 1979). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recognises the mugger as vulnerable, and in India it is included in Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Throughout its range, the mugger is highly adaptable and has been found to co-exist with humans in urban landscapes (Vyas, 2012). The mugger is widespread in India except its north-eastern states and it is known to occupy various habitat types such as rivers up to 3-5 m depth, lakes, marshes, human-constructed ponds, reservoirs, irrigation canals, as well as estuaries and coastal saltwater lagoons (Whitaker & Whitaker, 1984; Whitaker, 1987; Whitaker & Andrews, 2003). Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in India is a part of the Deccan Peninsula Biogeographic zone and Chhotanagpur Biotic province (Rodgers & Panwar, 1988) that covers 2750 km2 in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha state (Fig. 1). The major forest types in the STR are Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest and Tropical Semi-evergreen (Champion & Seth, 1968). The temperature here ranges from 4 ̊ C in winter to 34 ̊ C in summer. It is a very moist landscape with an average annual rainfall of 2000 mm, and the landscape is a matrix of numerous perennial streams (Nayak, 2014). In Odisha, the mugger is found in river systems of the STR (Sagar & Singh, 1993), in the Mahanadi river system of the Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary (Dutta et al., 2009), the Ghodahada reservoir in Ganjam district, and a few individuals have been recorded from the Saberi river in Koraput district (Debata et al., 2018). In around 1980, the mugger was extirpated in the STR. Possible reasons for this include fishing using explosives and nylon nets and fires at nesting sites (Sagar & Singh, 1993). In the past, the core of the STR had villages with fishing folk but now all but one village has been relocated outside the STR boundary, thereby significantly minimising fishing pressure. A mugger reintroduction programme took off in the STR’s river systems after the establishment of the Ramatirtha Captive Breeding Center in 1980. A few individuals from the Madras Crocodile Bank, Tamil Nadu and Nandankanan Zoological Park, Odisha were also released. From 1981-2010, 812 muggers were released The Herpetological Bulletin 156, 2021: 28-30
Clinical and Cytogenetical Characteristics-Related Nomograms for Assessing Outcome of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients Post IA Induction

Background: Acute myeloid leukemia(AML) is a highly heterogeneous hematological malignancy. Despite, increase in treatment options for AML over the past decade, prognosis for AML remain dismal. Numerous prognostic models have been developed for this disease, however nomograms predicting long-term survival in AML patients after induction chemotherapy(IA regimen) have not been described.Method: We constructed nomograms to predict disease-free survival(DFS) and overall survival(OS) by analyzing the cohort of patients with de novo non-M3 AML patients who underwent induction chemotherapy between June 2008 to August 2019. We utilized univariable and multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analyses to obtain the selected variables for the nomograms. The discriminative ability and calibration were tested using C statistics, calibration plots, and Kaplan-Meier curves.Results: A total of 360 patients who underwent induction chemotherapy with IA regimen were included in the study. Of these 55% were male with a median age was 48 years. Using the univariate and multivariate analyses, the following variables were identified in the prediction of DFS: age(HR, 1.770; 95%CI, 1.160-2.702; P = 0.008), Hb(HR, 0.634; 95%CI, 0.462-0.870; P = 0.005), albumin(HR, 0.473; 95%CI, 0.363-0.615; P < 0.001) and cyto/molecular risk group(intermediate vs. favorable: HR, 1.614; 95%CI, 1.128-2.309; P = 0.001; poor vs. favorable: HR, 2.459; 95%CI, 1.645-3.676; P < 0.001) at the time of diagnosis, and allo-HSCT treatment(HR, 0.341; 95%CI, 0.234-0.497; P < 0.001). Factors which predicted OS were Hb (HR, 0.616; 95%CI, 0.438-0.866; P = 0.005), albumin (HR, 0.448; 95%CI, 0.340-0.591; P < 0.001), cyto/molecular risk group (intermediate vs. favorable: HR, 1.558; 95%CI, 1.068-2.275; P = 0.021; poor vs. favorable: HR, 2.348; 95%CI, 1.523-3.620; P < 0.001), allo-HSCT treatment (HR, 0.256; 95%CI, 0.166-0.396; P < 0.001), and age (HR, 1.528; 95%CI 0.980-2.382; P = 0.061). The discriminative ability and calibration of the nomograms revealed good predictive ability as indicated by the C statistics (0.715 for DFS and 0.731 for OS). Conclusion: Independent predictors of survival and relapse risk after IA regimen for AML can be utilized to obtain survival nomograms. These nomograms were able to predict DFS and OS while having good calibration accuracy and discriminative ability on internal validation.
Acute pancreatitis - severity classification, complications and outcome

Acute pancreatitis, with an annual incidence of approximately 35 per 100 000 inhabitants in Sweden, is in most cases mild and self-limiting. Severe acute pancreatitis, affecting 10-15% of the cases is, however, associated with severe complications and even death. The optimal management of acute pancreatitis includes accurate early prediction of the disease severity. The aims of this thesis were to investigate early severity classification, complications and outcome in acute pancreatitis patients, with special regard to patients developing the severe form of the disease. The results of the studies were: I) Two early risk factors for death were identified: increasing age and hypotension at admission. Deaths were to a high extent related to multiple organ dysfunction. Early recurrence after biliary acute pancreatitis was common. II) A model for early prediction of severity in acute pancreatitis with artificial neural networks was developed, identifying 6 risk factors. The ROC area for the model was 0.92, and it performed significantly better than the APACHE II score. III) Patients with pancreatic pseudocysts were found to be resource demanding in regard to recurrences and repeated hospital visits. Even larger pancreatic pseudocysts could be managed successfully with conservative treatment. IV) In a national Swedish survey, the treatment of patients with pancreatic pseudocysts appeared to be heterogeneous, with different treatment options available and varying local traditions. V) In long-term follow-up after acute pancreatitis, impairment was mainly seen in the endocrine pancreatic function, and especially after severe disease. The time to rehabilitation and return to work and normal life was long, and the costs for the society high. The quality of life years after the disease was, however, as good as in the normal population. VI) A survey of patients dying in acute pancreatitis without reaching the hospital showed that this group represents a substantial part of all deaths from the disease. The dominating aetiology was alcohol. Pulmonary injury was the most common organ manifestation outside the pancreas. To reduce mortality due to acute pancreatitis it is important to target also the patients that never reach hospital.
Sexual dimorphism in behavior, neuropathology, and biomarkers in a tau P301S mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Tau hyper-phosphorylation has been considered a major contributor to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related tauopathies, and has gained prominence in therapeutic development for AD. To elucidate the pathogenic mechanisms underlying AD and evaluate therapeutic approaches targeting tau, numerous transgenic mouse models that recapitulate critical AD-like pathology have been developed. Tau P301S transgenic mice is one of the most widely used mouse models in AD research. Extensive studies have demonstrated that sex significantly influences AD pathology, behavioral status and therapeutic outcomes, suggesting that studies using mouse models of AD must consider sex- and age-related differences in neuropathology, behavior, and plasma content. Method: We systematically investigated differences in tau P301S transgenic mice (PS19 line) and wildtype littermates of different sex behavioral performance, tau neuropathology and biomarkers in plasma and brain. Results: Male P301S transgenic mice exhibited significant changes in weight loss, survival rate, clasping, kyphosis, composite phenotype assessment, nest building performance, tau phosphorylation at Ser202/Thr205 and astrocyte activation compared to that of wild type littermates. In contrast, female P301S transgenic mice were only sensitive in the Morris Water Maze and open field test. In addition, we characterized the upregulation of interferon (IFN)-γ, interleukin (IL)-5, and IL-6 and the absense of macrophage-inflammatory protein (MIP)-3α. Male P301S transgenic mice expressed more plasma biomarkers than those of female P301S mice. Conclusion: Our findings highlight sexual dimorphism in the behavior, neuropathology, and biomarkers in tau P301S transgenic AD mice, indicating that the use of male P301S transgenic mice may be more suitable for assessing anti-phosphorylated tau therapeutic strategies for AD and related tauopathies.