Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Traditional rural house an example of energy efficient building in Fars province of Iran

Today, most houses are dependent on new technologies with using of different kinds of energy such as electricity and fossil fuels. Looking for traditional techniques with energy efficient is very important in sustainable architecture. Learning some lessons of rural traditional architecture in Iran can help us to find ways to reduce energy consumption. These lessons can be useful for decision makers in energy strategies. This study is based on a research program, which has been carried out on rural house architecture in Fars province. Rural areas are the residential and productive places that have organic relationships with climatical, economical, social and cultural patterns. There are 1.63 million people living in about 350 thousand houses in rural areas in Fars province in Iran that are different in terms of size, technique, type and age of construction. The majority of the rural traditional houses have been constructed to reduce the energy consumption. In this paper we try to introduce a traditional way of rural house architecture in Iran. The main objectives are, to show that, rural houses are efficient buildings and also, how reduction in energy consumption has been achieved in traditional rural houses. To reach such an objective, this paper will address: (1) The current condition of rural house architecture in Fars province; (2) Some key analysis of form, structure and spatial patterns of rural house architecture in different parts of Fars province;(3) Comparative analysis of house architecture in different climatic zones of Fars province; (4) Several guidelines for rural house constructions; and (5) Essential readings for rural planners, architects and local and national government officers.
Calibration of Simulation for Soft Manipulators: A Case Study

This work proposes a guideline to calibrate a Finite Element Model (FEM) simulation of a soft manipulator. An overview of the fundamentals of this type of simulation and its usage in soft robotics is presented in a case study of the simulation of a prototype soft manipulator. The goal is to evaluate the accuracy of the position of the simulated model in comparison to a real soft manipulator. An examination of the relevant parameters in the simulation environment was performed, followed by a fine-tuning of these parameters to achieve an optimal result in terms of the fidelity of the simulation. The resulting method of calibration provided an average position error compare to the real model of 1.4 %, being suitable for similar manipulators.
Goat production as a mitigation strategy to climate change vulnerability in semi-arid tropics.

Due to climatic variability in semi arid tropics, livestock production faces many challenges that threaten its viability. This is a review that looks at the potential of goat production as one of the many mitigating strategies in confronting climate change in semi arid tropics. The discussion focuses on specific goat ethological, morphological and physiological characteristics that have environmental adaptation implications. Physiological, behavioral and morphological responses let goats effectively thrive in unfavorable climate change induced environmental conditions. These responses are important in matching goats to specific environmental conditions and ensuring a sustainable level of production. Severe feed shortages resulting from changes in rainfall pattern, and water scarcity are some of the major climate change induced environmental stressors, which have caused livestock capacity decline. Their negative influence on livestock production calls for use of adapted livestock species to cope with unavoidable climate change effects. Goats have shown to be a remarkable animal species that possess distinctive qualities enabling it to excel efficiently in harsh tropical environments. As climate change takes a centre stage in defining livestock productivity in semi arid tropics, there is greater need to stress what type of livestock species to keep. Therefore, the selection of adapted livestock species will be critical in sustaining productivity under this increasingly challenging environment. Identification of livestock species adaptable to semi arid tropics, is recommended for achieving sustainable levels of production. This is on the understanding that selection of adapted livestock species counteracts the negative effects of climate change in such a way that productivity can be maintained and improved. While other species tend to be highly vulnerable, goats have evolved a unique and fascinating array of physiological, morphological and reproductive characteristics, which have contributed to their survival and proliferation in unique unfavorable tropical environmental niches. This points to the fact that promotion of goat production may be a viable mitigation strategy in the context of climate change. It is thus suggested that as climatic variability worsens, goats will assume a critical role in livestock production due to their adaptive features, such as feeding behavior, disease and heat tolerance. These behavioral, morphological and physiological characteristics enable goats to effectively cope with the stressful nature of the vast semi arid tropics. The discussion concludes with the understanding that promotion of goats becomes a key component of semi arid tropics livestock production systems. Due to goats’ numerical strength and greater adaptability to varying harsh tropical environmental conditions, they offer a compelling solution to livestock production capacity utilization to minimize destabilizing factors associated with the uncertainties of climate change.
Immune thrombocytopenia: a review on the pathogenetic role of immune cells

ABSTRACT Introduction Immune thrombocytopenia [ITP] is a common bleeding disorder with an isolated platelet count of less than 100 × 109/L. Areas covered Relevant literature from 2003 to 2022 was retrieved and reviewed from the Google Scholar search engine and PubMed database. Antibodies produced by autoreactive B lymphocytes and the phagocytic function of macrophages are considered the most critical factors in platelet destruction. Also, macrophages present the antigen to T lymphocytes and activate them. Follicular helper T-cells [TFH] play a role in stimulating, differentiating, and activating autoreactive B cells, while cluster of differentiation [CD]-8+ T plays a role in platelet destruction through apoptosis. The classical pathway of the complement system also causes platelet destruction. By inhibiting platelet production, low levels of thrombopoietin and an immune response against megakaryocytes in the bone marrow worsen thrombocytopenia. Expert opinion T-cell subset changes and an increase in activated autoreactive B cells, in addition to the function of components of the innate immune system [the complement system, dendritic cells, and natural killer cells], play a critical role in the pathogenesis of the ITP. Accurate detection of these changes may lead to developing new therapeutic strategies and identifying better prognostic/diagnostic factors.
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems ( PACIS ) 2014 IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE IN THE MALAYSIAN PUBLIC SECTOR PRACTICE

The increased dependence on IT and rise of security threats in organisations has led to the awareness of the need for adopting formal IT governance practices. However, how far have organisation came to realise the implementation of these practices is yet unknown at least in the Malaysian context. The article discusses information technology governance practices in public sector agencies from the perspective of an emerging country like Malaysia. The study sets forth to explore how the Malaysian public sector agencies implement IT governance through structure, process and relational mechanisms. This research uses qualitative approach in selected public sector agencies in EPU, ICU, MoF and CGICT. The result shows that each public sector agency define IT governance structure, process and relational mechanisms to align IT and business, thus enabling collaboration between business units and IT. Each public sector agencies in this case study practices IT governance structure, process and relational mechanism to align IT and business using different approaches based on organisational context. Keywords— information technology governance; public sector; information technology governance
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems ( PACIS ) 2014 UNDERSTANDING HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS ’ RESISTANCE OF TELEMEDICINE : AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN ETHIOPIA

Telemedicine has great potential to improve health care in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet resistance from healthcare professionals could prevent telemedicine’s social value from being materialized. This article intends to understand why users resist the use of telemedicine by investigating antecedents of resistance. A research was developed to propose that user resistance is determined by perceived threat and perceived controllability, which in turn are influenced by reduced autonomy, anxiety, and costs. In addition, we examine how government support can be mobilized to alleviate the inhibiting factors that lead to resistance. A survey on 107 healthcare professionals in Ethiopia provides support to most of the hypotheses.
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems ( PACIS ) July 2009 MANAGEMENT OF IT-ENABLED BUSINESS PROCESSES – USING FRAMEWORKS FOR CONSTRAINED MODELING

A model-driven approach to semi-automatic manage IT based business processes implies to interlink language concepts of the business and IT domain. The paradigm of service-oriented architecture provides a technological basis for reacting to business requirements in a distributed application environment. Services encapsulate functionality to be reused in different processes and can be easily described in design models that should be the result of analyzing the business requirements described in conceptual models. However, this process is nontrivial, iterative, and cannot be fully automated. This paper presents an approach to introduce artifacts to establish a consensus on language level which enhances the comparability of models and allows to semi-automate the transformation process by weakening the strict separation of language creation and language usage.
Open Problem: Can Single-Shuffle SGD be Better than Reshuffling SGD and GD?

We propose matrix norm inequalities that extend the Recht and R ´ e (2012) conjecture on a noncommutative AM-GM inequality, by supplementing it with another inequality that accounts for single-shufﬂe in stochastic ﬁnite-sum minimization. Single-shufﬂe is a popular without-replacement sampling scheme that shufﬂes only once in the beginning, but has not been studied in the Recht-R ´ e conjecture and the follow-up literature. Instead of focusing on general positive semideﬁnite matrices, we restrict our attention to positive deﬁnite matrices with small enough condition numbers, which are more relevant to matrices that arise in the analysis of SGD. For such matrices, we conjecture that the means of matrix products satisfy a series of spectral norm inequalities that imply “ single-shufﬂe SGD converges faster than random-reshufﬂe SGD, which is in turn faster than with-replacement SGD and GD ” in special cases.
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems ( PACIS ) 1-1-2007 A Factorial View of Knowledge Exchange and Sharing : a European Perspective

There is surprisingly little literature specifically concerned with theorising and conceptualising of the transfer and sharing of complex information and/or knowledge, despite the fact that its significance is widely and without restriction acknowledged throughout the (mostly Anglo-American) literature on knowledge management and organisational learning. It is the aim of this paper to provide a brief review from a predominantly European perspective – that allows an overview of the state of the literature on this subject. After an introductory definition and limitation of the concepts involved they are illustrated with the use of a set of models – selected predominantly for their link to empirical research and the capability to delimit the field. The empirical grounding of the models makes it possible to view them as partial investigations contributing individual elements of a more overarching research framework into which future studies may be integrated. In conclusion, a systemic approach of knowledge exchange is proposed and the frameworks are further categorised as to the type of knowledge for which they would be of
Open Problem: Is There a First-Order Method that Only Converges to Local Minimax Optima?

Can we effectively train a generative adversarial network (GAN) (or equivalently, optimize a mini-max problem), similar to how we successfully learn a classification neural network (or equivalently, minimize a function) by gradient methods? The answer to this question at the moment is “No”. Despite extensive studies over the past ten years, training GANs still remains challenging. As a result, diffusion-based generative models are largely replacing GANs. When training GANs, we not only struggle with finding stationary points, but also, from a practical view, suffer from the so-called mode-collapse phenomenon, generating samples that lack diversity compared to the training data. Due to the nature of GAN, the mode-collapse is likely to occur when we accidentally find an optimal point for the maximin problem, rather than the original minimax problem (Goodfellow, 2016). This consequently suggests that addressing a long-standing open question of whether there exists a first-order method that only converges to (local) optimum of minimax problems can resolve the aforementioned shortcomings. Apparently, none of the existing methods possess such a property, neither theoretically nor practically. This is in contrast to the fact that a standard gradient descent method successfully finds (local) minima (Lee et al., 2016). Surprisingly, in nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization, Jin et al. (2020) are the first to suggest an appropriate notion of local optimality, especially taking account of the order of minimization and maximization. Jin et al. (2020) also presented a partial answer to the above open question, by demonstrating that a two-timescale gradient descent ascent only converges to a strict local minimax optimum, under a certain condition. However, the convergence to general local minimax optimum was left mostly unexplored, even though such a non-strict local minimax optimum is prevalent in practice. Our recent findings in (Chae et al., 2023) illustrate that it is indeed possible to find some non-strict local minimax optimum by a two-timescale variant of extragradient method. This positive result brings new attention to the aforementioned open question. In this paper, we detail it in regard to our recent findings. Furthermore, we are writing to revive discussion on the appropriate notion of local minimax optimum. This was initially discussed by Jin et al. (2020)
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems ( PACIS ) July 2009 EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF THE CUSTOMER LOYALTY STATES ON THE WORD OF MOUTH

This study empirically examines the Influence of the Cognitive, Affective, Conative and Action Loyalty states as conceptualized by Oliver (1999) on the Word-of-mouth behavior about retail websites from the customers of the sites. Structural equation model is used to estimate the path coefficients between the loyalty states and the WordofMouthbehavior. Data collected from 511 under graduate and graduate students from a business university suggest the existence of significant paths from the Affective, Conative and Action loyalty states to site-customer’ s word of mouth about the website . Results of the study, managerial implications and directions for future research are discussed.
Evaluación de hidrosiembras realizadas en taludes de carreteras del noroeste de Navarra

Como resultado de los movimientos de tierras que tienen lugar en las obras de construcción o mejora de las carreteras se originan una serie de alteraciones o impactos sobre el medio ambiente: destrucción y compactación de los suelos, aumento de la erosión, degradación y destrucción de la vegetación, etc. (M.O.P.T., 1989). Estos impactos son especialmente intensos en los taludes de carreteras debido a sus superficies inclinadas y desprovistas inicialmente de vegetación. Atendiendo al origen de los taludes distinguimos dos tipos, taludes de desmonte y taludes de terraplén, según se hayan originado por eliminación o aporte de materiales respectivamente.
Evidence of public value and public risk of electronic health records: an issue for social justice?

OVERVIEW Since 1999, the federal and other governments in Canada have repeatedly emphasized the value to healthcare of electronic health records. In 2004, a substantial UK investigation questioned the evidence of public value of largescale, government initiatives in healthcare information technology, and of electronic health records in particular. Citing an authoritative source, which holds that justice requires meeting healthcare needs fairly under resource constraints, and that this involves limiting healthcare in a publicly accountable way, the present study drew upon social justice as the frame of reference. Within this frame, it examined the evidence pertaining specifically to electronic health records as represented in eight major health policy papers at the national level published in Canada from 1999 to early 2005. Using a quantitative method, the study found during the period a decline in the concerns expressed in the eight policy papers about privacy, security and availability of electronic health records systems. It also found that some risks were barely considered, if at all. Yet, during the same period, the Auditor General of Canada issued strongly worded warnings about the wide range of risks affecting information technology in government. The Auditor General is denied domain over Canada Health Infoway, which is mandated nationally to promote and implement electronic health records, among other things electronic. The Health Council of Canada, which is mandated as an independent council for informing Canadians on healthcare matters, while promoting accountability and transparency, has predetermined as favourable its conclusion about electronic health records. The Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment, also armed with a national mandate, has decided that assessment of electronic health records lies outside its expertise. This study concludes that (a) evidence of public value and public risk of electronic health records should be subject to the standards increasingly used for and expected of evidence-based medicine, and of assessments of pharmaceuticals and medical devices; (b) at the national level, Canada lacks an independent public accountability mechanism for analyzing public value and public risk from electronic health records; (c) to the extent that, for electronic health records, the public risks are plausible and the public values are debatable, this lack is an issue of social justice.
Monitoring volcanic and geothermal areas by full seismic moment tensor inversion: are non‐double‐couple components always artefacts of modelling?

Non-double couple mechanisms (NDC) in volcanic environments are good indicators of local modifications of stress induced by dike injection, high fluid pressure movements or by thermal cooling. Nevertheless, the possible biasing effects of wave propagation in structurally complicated regions, the presence of noise or a not appropriate station coverage can make the identification of NDC as true source phenomena uncertain. In this paper we illustrate possible sources of fake NDC and we demonstrate that, by the error analysis that we apply, it is possible to discriminate spurious artifacts and physically meaningful solutions. Tests with synthetic seismograms and the analysis of observed ones in volcanic and geothermal areas are thoroughly discussed.
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Evidence for an early high-energy afterglow observed with BATSE from GRB 980923

In this Letter, we present the first evidence in the BATSE data for a prompt high-energy (25–300 keV) afterglow component from a g-ray burst, GRB 980923. The event consists of rapid variability lasting ∼40 s followed by a smooth power-law emission tail lasting ∼400 s. An abrupt change in spectral shape is found when the tail becomes noticeable. Our analysis reveals that the spectral evolution in the tail of the burst mimics that of a cooling synchrotron spectrum, similar to the spectral evolution of the low-energy afterglows for g-ray bursts. This evidence for a separate emission component is consistent with the internal-external shock scenario in the relativistic fireball picture. In particular, it illustrates that the external shocks can be generated during the g-ray emission phase, as in the case of GRB 990123. Subject heading: gamma rays: bursts
Biyoloji Öğrenme Anlayışları Ölçeği’nin (BÖAÖ) Geliştirilmesi: Geçerlilik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

Bu calismanin amaci 9-12. Siniflarda ogrenim goren ogrencilerin ogrenme anlayislarini belirlemek amaci ile bir Biyoloji Ogrenme Anlayislari Olcegi gelistirmek ve gelistirilen bu olcekten elde edilen sonuclarin gecerlilik ve guvenirlik calismasini yapmaktir. Arastirma Balikesir ili Merkez ilcesindeki devlet okullarinda ogrenim goren toplam 997 ogrenciden olusan iki bagimsiz orneklemde gerceklestirilmistir. Arastirmanin verileri 41 maddelik 5’li likert tipi olcekten elde edilmistir. Acimlayici faktor analizi sonuclari, olcegin 29 maddelik, 5 alt boyutlu bir yapiya sahip oldugunu ortaya koymustur. Olcegin butunune ait Cronbach Alpha katsayisi . 78, boyutlarina ait Cronbach Alfa katsayilari ise sirasi ile . 76, . 71, . 65, . 73, . 82 olarak bulunmustur. DFA sonuclari ise faktor yapisinin veri seti ile uyumlu oldugunu ortaya koymustur. Gelistirilen olcegin ogrencilerin biyoloji ogrenme anlayislarini olcmek icin guvenilir ve gecerli sonuclar urettigi sonucuna varilmistir.