Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Face hallucination using multisource references and cross‐scale dual residual fusion mechanism

There is an increasing interest in enhancing the quality of low‐resolution (LR) facial images for various social life applications. Existing methods often use domain‐specific prior knowledge, which is effective in improving the face super‐resolution model's performance. However, it is challenging to obtain rich and accurate prior information from LR inputs in real‐world scenarios, which can limit the robustness and generalization ability of the developed face super‐resolution model. In this paper, a multisource reference‐based face super‐resolution Network, namely MSRNet, is proposed. Without considering the prior knowledge of faces, the network can reconstruct a LR face image with a magnitude factor of 8 under the guidance of multiple reference face images of different identities. By constructing an “appearance‐alike” reference data set Face_Ref, the designed MSRNet aims to fully exploit the local and spatially similar high frequency information between the distinct references and the current face. More specifically, to effectively combine the information from multiple references, a cross‐scale and cross‐space feature fusion mechanism is introduced for external and internal references, and then the enhanced local semantics are finally incorporated into the high‐resolution face reconstruction. The robustness of face image super‐resolution is increased compared to current correlation approaches, since it not only eliminates the need for face prior knowledge but also avoids performing alignment operations on reference faces with multiple expressions and different poses. Experimental results show that the proposed model is able to produce results for face super‐resolution that are satisfying and dependable and outperforms the state‐of‐the‐art methods in terms of visual perceptual quality and quantity evaluation.
Cohomologie de SLn et valeurs de fonctions z^eta aux points entiers

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Sustainability-oriented innovation in the hospital environment

This research aims to analyze which internal and external factors related to sustainabilityoriented innovation (SOI) are present at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre-RS (HCPA). Adescriptive and qualitative case study was carried out. The main results show thatsustainability drives innovation, SOI is related to internal and external factors to theorganization, and, in this specific case, we observed that three factors (safety, financing, andcost/price) were considered barriers to SOI development. Finally, an SOI framework ispresented for the researched hospital organization.
Complete Blood Count and Blood Chemistry of Samae Dam Chickens (Gallus gallus) in Small-Holder Farmers, Thailand 

: Complete blood count and blood chemistry of Samae Dam chickens ( Gallus gallus ) in smallholder farmers, Thailand as part of the study on production performance of native samae Dam chickens ( Gallus gallus ) of breeders in small-holder farmers. Complete blood count and blood chemistry were studied in thirty-six healthy small-holder farmers-Samae Dam chickens ( Gallus gallus ) (male, n = 18; female, n = 18), at the age of 8 months, which had been small-holder farmers at Uthai Thani Province in Thailand. The results found that red blood cells, hemoglobin, hematocrit, MCV, MCH, and MCHC were in the reference range, while male and female Samae Dam chickens ( Gallus gallus ) of small-holder farmers in Thailand had similar red blood cell and blood chemistry at age 0-3 months the difference was not statistically significant (P>0.05), and at the age of 3-6 months and 6-8 months, it was found that male hemoglobin values were higher than female hemoglobin values were significantly different (P<0.05). The average proportion at 8 months of age is as follows: Lymphocytes (43.26±0.44%), neutrophils (42.63±3.65%), white blood cells (35.63±3.65%), monocytes (1.26±0.44%), eosinophils (0.0%) and basophils (11.50±0.36%).
Design and Analysis of a Novel Lightweight, Energy Economic Powered Knee Orthotic Device

The task of a powered knee orthotic device (PKOD) is to assist the knee joint so that its natural behavior can be restored. The key features of a PKOD that may help to regain such characteristics are low power consumption, fast response, compactness, and lightweight. This study proposes a novel design of PKOD, where we have focused on the betterment of the mentioned features with the help of a new mechanism, namely a four-bar controlled compliance actuator (FCCA). In FCCA, instead of using the widely used screw transmission mechanism, a four-bar mechanism is used to modify the joint's angular deviation and stiffness. The main advantages of using FCCA over other existing mechanisms are to reduce the power consumption by amplification of input motor torque and to achieve a faster response at the same time, and these are achieved by utilizing a simple four-bar mechanism. In the proposed design, FCCA controls both the stiffness of the artificial knee joint using a compliance mechanism as well as knee flexion with the help of a pulley arrangement. A three-dimensional (3D)-printed prototype of the proposed design has been developed, after optimizing the inherent design parameters. Simulation and experimental analysis are carried out in order to justify the performance of the proposed PKOD. The results have shown strong agreement with that obtained using analytical study and optimization. Moreover, the torque amplification is achieved, as desired.
Knowledge Mapping Bidang Ilmu Perpustakaan Dengan Metode Nine Basics of Information Science

: The purpose of this study is to analyze the knowledge of mapping in the field of Library Science with the Nine Basics of Information Science method and to analyze the development that has led to the Kemenristekdikti nomenclature. The research method used is quantitative research with a survey approach. The total population of 1,597 and a sample of 94. he validity test used construct validity and empirical reliability tests. Data analysis with mean analysis based on variables from all respondents and presented. The results showed that of the knowledge mapping the field of library science was categorized into three categories, namely the category of foundation, resources, and subject-based knowledge. he category of foundation shows that the use of theory used has varied, but it was found that several publications did not use theory. The method of publication is more inclined to use qualitative methods, and a relatively high level of sophistication publication. The category of resources is more inclined to use secondary information sources. The category of subject-based knowledge tends to be the subject of social issues, the subject of the technique and process of presenting information in the library, the subject of systems and application development, and the subject of technology.The results of the mapping of knowledge in the field of library science in the publications on the Garuda website are also appropriate and lead to a new nomenclature, which is more directed at the field of social issues.
A Compact 140-GHz CMOS Power Amplifier With 10.5-dBm Output Power and 27.6-dB Power Gain Supporting up to 128-QAM Modulation

A compact 140-GHz power amplifier (PA) with an employed multilayer stacked transformer (MLST) matching network is implemented in a 65-nm CMOS process. The employed MLST matching network adopts two metal layers as the primary coil and one single layer as the secondary coil to increase the coupling factor and decrease the insertion loss (IL) of the matching network at the D-band frequency range. Besides, a gain-boosting unit (GBU) is further introduced in the first stage of the PA to enhance the power gain. The proposed 140-GHz PA achieves a measured power added efficiency of 6.9%, a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${P_{\textrm {sat}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of 10.5 dBm, and an <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${OP_{\textrm {1dB}}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of 7.03 dBm with a maximum power gain of 27.6 dB when the GBU turns off. By turning on the GBU, the power gain managed to increase from 27.6 to 31 dB with stability. Furthermore, modulation measurement shows that the proposed D-band PA supports 24-Gb/s 64-QAM and 11.2-Gb/s 128-QAM modulated signals with error vector magnitudes (EVMs) of −23.1/−22.87 dB at the output power of 7 dBm, respectively. The core chip area and dc power consumption of the PA are only 0.0275 mm2 and 170 mW.
A Fully Integrated FVF-Based Low-Dropout Regulator With Wide Load Capacitance and Current Ranges

The flipped-voltage-follower-based low-dropout regulator (LDO) has drawn attention for its fast response and reduced complexity, while super source follower can be combined to push the pole at the gate of the pass device to high frequency. But the maximum load current and minimum load capacitance of this topology are limited, especially when the poles and zero from the SSF are omitted in previous designs. This paper proposes a solution to extend the ranges of the load current and load capacitance, by implementing a small feed-forward capacitor ($C_{F}$) and a damping factor control circuitry. In addition, a slew rate enhancement circuit is applied to reduce the voltage undershoot. The proposed LDO is verified in a 65-nm CMOS process with 0.008 mm2 active area. The measured voltage undershoot is 80 mV with a load steps from 100 μA to 50 mA with 2-ns edge times, with no external capacitor. And the maximum load capacitance can be extended to 2 nF. A figure-of-merit of 0.8 mV is achieved.
A review of remote-sensing unmanned aerial vehicles in the mining industry

The increased adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may improve the productivity and cost-effectiveness of remote sensing in the mining industry. This review's objective is to enable stakeholders to identify possible application adoption, improvement, and innovation opportunities. The review merges a building block strategy and practical screening criteria to identify possible avenues of research to answer the review questions. After the screening process, 72 documents were included in the review. Papers were classified into four categories: exploration, development, exploitation, and reclamation. Fifteen applications were identified, the majority of which were in the exploration phase. The most often researched applications were topographic surveys, reclamation monitoring, and slope management. From the two UAV types identified, multi-rotor vehicles were the most favoured for all applications. From the eight remote sensing techniques identified, photogrammetry was the one most often used. Other techniques were limited because of complexity, cost, or the incompatibility of sensors and UAVs. The review was limited to published papers in academic journals. Future studies could aim to include empirical data on the latest UAV applications used in the mining industry.
The dynamics of distributed digital innovation : an analysis of the radical transformation of frontline customer service in a UK retail bank

This thesis shows how small-scale actions can accumulate into radical organisational transformations catalysed and enhanced through digital technology. Current literature on digital innovation and path creation offer powerful views on such transformations emphasising the vistas of opportunity opened by generative and flexible digital technology, and how new technology can be leveraged for organisational transformation. Digital transformations have predominantly been portrayed from the centralised perspective of a manager, entrepreneur or group of designers. However, emerging research on distributed digital innovation increasingly emphasises how radical transformations emerge from widely distributed networks as a result of contributions from multiple heterogeneous actors. The aim of this thesis is to inform emerging theory on distributed digital innovation by explaining the ways in which multiple digitally distributed actions can combine into radical organisational transformations. To this end, a two-year, multi-method case study of the distributed and radical digital transformation of frontline customer service at Barclays’ retail bank was conducted. The research design combines traditional qualitative research techniques with new computational methods in a ‘grounded computational analysis’ framework. This allows for a new empirical and conceptual perspective on the agency dynamics of distributed digital innovation. The findings suggest that organisational transformations can occur as a consequence of accumulation of multiple small-scale actions, contingent upon at least the following four factors: a) the sequence of previous transformations; b) the composition and structure of the innovation network; c) the co-occurrence of proposition, opposition and synthesis as micro-level interactions; d) the specific configurations of enacted agency dynamics. These findings are used to build a grounded process theory of ‘double-cumulative synthesis’ explaining the transformational power of specific configurations of digital agency dynamics. This contributes to the literature on distributed digital innovation by conceptualising the dynamics and structure of distributed agency dynamics that accumulate into radical organisational transformations.
Fechner''s legacy and challenge [Review of The wave theory of difference and similarity

Abstract Stephen W. Link received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1968. He has held visiting professor appointments at numerous universities including The Rockefeller University, Stanford University, and University of California, San Diego. He is currently Professor of Psychology at McMaster University. He has held important positions in academic organizations including membership of the Executive of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences and the presidency of the Society for Mathematical Psychology. His major research interests involve the mathematical description of basic mental processes, especially those pertaining to choice, discrimination, and recognition. He recently edited (with H.-G. Geissler and J. T. Townsend) Cognition: Information Processing and Psychophysics: Basic Issues, Erlbaum, 1992. Philip L. Smith is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include visual information processing, selective attention, and stochastic models of response time. He is the editor (with D. Vickers) of Human Information Processing: Measures, Mechanisms and Models, Elsevier, 1989.
Dual band wristband antenna with metal frame loaded for biomedical applications

This letter proposes a dual band wristband antenna for biomedical monitoring applications. With a metal frame loaded, the lower resonant frequency can be pushed further. Additionally, by adopting an umbrella‐shaped radiating part and a notched ground, the bandwidth can be greatly enhanced. Finally, by properly rotating the protruding stubs of the central ground and coupling them to the metal frame, the resonant frequency can be adjusted to the desired ranges at 2.45 and 5.8 GHz Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) band. The proposed antenna can be intended for application where simultaneous telemetry with implanted device as well as external base station is required. The simulated and measured bandwidths on wrist are 6.1%, 7.0% at 2.45 GHz and 44.3%, 53.6% at 5.8 GHz, making it robust enough to withstand the frequency shift brought by tissue in close proximity.
Factors Affecting eHealth Literacy of Early Adolescents: School-based Research

ABSTRACT The purpose of the research were to describe eHealth literacy and identify factors affecting the eHealth literacy of early adolescents. This descriptive and correlational study was conducted in a government secondary school in the west of Turkey. The research sample consisted of 1347 adolescents in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades in the academic year 2016–2017. An adolescents’ description form and the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) were used to collect the data. The mean score on eHEALS was 23.81 ± 6.94. Multiple regression analysis showed that being in the 11–12 year age group (β = 0.528, p < 0.001), having a father with a high school or university level education (β = 0.055, p = 0.038), and carrying out research in the internet on health related topics (β = 0.118, p < 0.001) were determinant at 32% (F = 56.901, p < 0.001, R2 = 0.32) on the adolescents’ eHealth literacy. The mean eHEALS score in the study demonstrated that the e-health literacy of the adolescents was rather low and inadequate, and that there were gaps in the adolescents’ knowledge and skills about how and where to find quality eHealth information. Nurses are expected to provide eHealth literacy training that will help to find information on the internet and interpret and assess it, and this will develop eHealth literacy of adolescents. Integrating online health information sources into the school health education curriculum in line with developed strategies can be suggested because it is an attempt to improve the eHealth literacy of adolescents.
Avoiding organismic asymmetries in ecological cognition: Analysis of agent-environment couplings with eco-physical variables

The target article promotes an enactive approach to human behaviour, highlighting the phenomenology of agent-environment coupling, and is rooted in the course of experience from pre-reflective self-consciousness. In our comment we debate the idea that experience does equate with subjectivity. Such an equation reflects an organismic asymmetry locating behavioural organisation in the subjective mind, interacting with the objective world. In contrast, an ecological realist perspective considers that human behaviour and experience should be captured at the ecological level of analysis, requiring investigation of eco-physical variables. To achieve this aim, researchers need to avoid organismic asymmetries, and instead study performance variables that underpin the symmetry of the agent-environment system. We also debate the place of language and the fact that verbalisation does not equate with subjective experience. According to James Gibson, language focuses on ‘knowledge about the environment’ and not ‘knowledge of the environment’ needed by any autonomous, self-regulating organism, making their way in the world. Last, the target paper promotes the course of in-formation to complement the course of experience, without fully explaining how to deal with potential incongruence and divergence between findings emerging from verbalisation and behavioural aspects of realizing a given activity (the difference between ‘what we say, what we do’). We conclude by considering how our ecological perspective could offer pathways for the presented enactive approach to go beyond the course of in-formation.
e-Leadership during COVID-19: Challenges for Municipal Administration Employees

: e-Leadership was a practice of the business sector and just recently it found the applicability in organizations of the public sector. For a long period e-leadership was rather a random case than a common practice in municipalities. Covid-19 pandemic has affected the change of organizational practices globally, forcing even municipal administrations to look for ICT tools helping them to keep their internal processes continuing. Laws and regulations have been changed to legalize remote work, therefore, e-leadership as a common practice gained the peak of practical importance. The aim of the article is to reveal main challenges of e-leadership for municipal administration employees during Covid-19. The article is based on the summarizing of empirical results of the case study, conducted in Lithuanian municipal administration. The sudden turn to e-leadership required leaders and employees of municipal administration to adapt new tools, time planning and working culture, which had some positive and negative effects on leaders and employees in municipal administrations. It influenced the decrease of time wasting, increased rational and targeted communication, and the careful and trustful control of tasks’ implementation. On the other hand, the changed situation and leadership methods had a negative impact on the psychology of employees (constant tense and uncertainty), increased work-life imbalance, etc.
Evaluated of Egyptian buffaloes crossing with Italian buffaloes for reproductive traits

In 2003, MoA (Ministry of Agriculture) approved the commercial importation and utilization of Italian buffaloes (IT) semen, which is being uncontrollably spread around the country; a practice needs prior performance and genetic assessment for both milk production and reproduction traits. In a previous publication (Fooda et. al., 2011) the milk productivity was studied, and the current one handles the reproductive traits. Two of the private dairy buffalo farms that utilize Italian semen for obtaining the crossbred along with the native buffalo were selected from two different ecological zones to be included in this study being "Ganat Elreda" farm in Ismaeleia governorate (Newly reclaimed desert area) and "United Group" farm in Qaliobeia governorate (old delta). This study aims to evaluate the Egyptian Italian buffalo crosses (1/2EG.1/2IT) for some reproductive traits, in comparison to their Egyptian contemporaries (EG), to assess the crossing trial. The traits included age at first calving (AFC), number of service per conception (NS), gestation period (GP), calving interval (CI), days open (DO) and service period (SP). A total 177 records, 102 record from Ganat Elreda farm (57 record EG and 46 record 1/2EG 1/2IT; and 74 records from United Group farm (26 record EG and 48 record 1/2EG 1/2IT) was utilized, covering the period from 2007 to 2009. Results obtained indicate that the Egyptian buffaloes performed better than the crossbreed for (NS), (CI), (DO) and (SP) traits. Since the results for NS, CI, DO and SP were 1.2, 395, 71 and 38 days, respectively for EG, while for crossbred, the results were 1.87, 429, 118 and 76 days, respectively in farm1. And in farm 2, the results were 1.82, 418, 104 and 77 days for EG, but, the results were 2, 433, 119 and 85 days, respectively for crossbred. (Fooda, T. A.; Elbeltagy, A. R.; Laila R. Hassan and SetEl-habaeib S. Awad. Evaluated of Egyptian buffaloes crossing with Italian buffaloes for reproductive traits. Journal of American Science 2011;7(7):209-213). (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience. org.
Power laws in surface state LDOS oscillations near a step edge

In this paper we indicate a general method to calculate the power law that governs how electronic LDOS oscillations decay far away from a surface step edge (or any local linear barrier), in the energy range when only 2D surface states are relevant. We identify the critical aspects of the 2D surface state band structure that contribute to these decaying oscillations and illustrate our derived formula with actual examples.