Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
What future the cane industry: is training a vehicle for change?

This paper summarised research into the training needs of cane growers in Queensland and Northern New South Wales for the Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC). The full report supplied comprehensive insights into industry training needs from the perspective of those most directly involved in the production side. As a result of historically low price returns and in some areas, lingering effects of lower than average rainfall, many cane growers are faced with difficult prospects: exiting the industry, seeking to augment incomes by off-farm employment, or diversifying their farming operations. Prior research has shown that farmers undertaking training in other farm business sectors have markedly higher gross operating surpluses when compared with those who did not train. Findings from this research revealed a significant unrecognised demand for competency-based training and a need for adoption strategies to be developed and championed at a whole of industry level. By adopting lessons learnt from other industry re-structures, cane growers can maintain their viability from high-level business management training which is not currently offered. The industry is challenged by a need to engage multiple stakeholders and to develop client designed training programs to enable them to remedy farming-related problems.
A control hierarchy of interconnected mini-grids

Distributed generation (DG) is recently integrating conventional power systems to assist main power plants to satisfy customer need. A control hierarchy to interconnect DG systems to conventional power systems is required to improve reliability and quality of power supply systems. The main task is to control the frequency and voltage of the systems. This task is currently done by using synchronous generators in many interconnected power systems. Therefore, their control strategy of conventional power systems can be based and adapted to be implemented into other DG technologies through their interface unit to the grid, namely the inverter. The inverter is the primary interface unit between the energy source and the grid. This paper presents a flexible control hierarchy of interconnected mini-grids based on inverters. (5 pages)
Applying series braking resistors to improve the stability of low inertia synchronous generators

Widely held concerns over the environmental impact of emissions from large fossil fuelled generating plants are serving to promote the connection of renewable or sustainable generation onto distribution networks. Many such generators are synchronous machines with low values of inertia, and thus possess short critical clearance times to avoid the onset of transient instability. With fault clearance times of up to 1s occurring in distribution networks, there is the potential for a growing problem as distributed generation makes up a larger proportion of installed capacity. This paper proposes the use of series braking resistors that are switched into circuit at the generator terminals as a means of improving transient stability, and thus avoid, or at least defer major upgrades to distribution system protection
Digital Advertising Features on Customer Purchase Intention

Advertisement denotes a standard strategy of attracting public interest and facilitating purchase decisions. This research aims to determine the digital advertisement feature effects on consumer purchase intent in Malaysia. A cross-sectional design was employed to gather quantitative data from 361 Malaysian respondents with a digital survey. Additionally, SPSS was utilised to assess the digital advertising-purchase intention relationship. Resultantly, pictorial cues, repetition, and sensory stores significantly influenced Malaysian consumers’ purchase intention. Following the motivation theory, this research identified a relationship between digital advertising feature effects and purchase intention power that proved inadequate in past studies. The study outcome proved vital in rearranging advertising methods to be more appealing and informative for customers to receive clear and precise knowledge.
Investigation of Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator Complications in Treatment of patients with ischemic stroke visiting Vali-e-Asr hospital in Birjand, 2016-2017

Background: Current treatment options for the sake of treating acute ischemic stroke include recombinant tissue plasminogen activator or dual anti platelet therapies. This study aims to evaluate the complications of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator in treatment of patients with ischemic stroke who were admitted in Vali-e-Asr hospital in Birjand, 2016-2017. Method: This descriptive analytic study was performed on patients with acute ischemic stroke who were admitted in neurology ward of Vali-e-Asr hospital in Birjand from 2016 to 2017. A total of 127 patients participated in this study. The data about complications of treatment were collected by questionnaires and entered into SPSS 21. Then, data were analyzed by Chi-square or Fisher exact test at a significant level of p≤ 0.5. Results: A total of 127 subjects received treatment for ischemic stroke. Thirty-one (24.4%) patients have been treated with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator and ninety-six (75.6%) have been treated conventionally with dual antiplatelet. These two groups were matched in terms of age and sex. The history of hypertension in the recombinant tissue plasminogen activator group and the conventional treatments were 32.3% and 67.7%, respectively (p=0.03). 99% of patients in the antiplatelet treatment group (N=96) and 96.8% of patients in the recombinant tissue plasminogen activator group (N=31) have been discharged and one death was occurred in each group (p=0.4). Regarding the incidence of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator complications, IVH was reported in two patients (6.5%, p = 0.06) Conclusion: The incidence of mortality was the same in two groups. Also, complications were only reported in two patients in the recombinant tissue plasminogen activator group (both intraventricular hemorrhage) and the difference was not statistically significant. Researchers recommend that more clinical trials must be conducted. If it is approved, the findings of the current studies will be widely taken into consideration for acute stroke treatment.
Sleep and driving in young adults

Sleepiness is a significant contributor to car crashes and sleepiness related crashes have higher mortality and morbidity than other crashes. Young adult drivers are at particular risk for sleepiness related car crashes. It has been suggested that this is because young adults are typically sleepier than older adults because of chronic sleep loss, and more often drive at times of increased risk of acute sleepiness. This project aimed to determine the relationship between sleep and driving patterns in young adult drivers. Three estimates of the risk of driving while sleepy were calculated from the data: 1) a model incorporating known circadian and sleep factors influencing sleepiness, 2) time-of-day accident statistics; and 3) self-reported sleepiness. Attitudes and behaviours toward driving and sleep were also assessed. Results from each model suggested that young drivers frequently drive while at risk of crashing, at times of predicted sleepiness and at times they felt themselves to be sleepy. The results of this study will help preventative programs to specifically target factors leading to increased sleepiness when driving.
Smart Metering and Privacy: Existing Laws and Competing Policies

This paper examines the many competing policy issues surrounding the development of the smart grid, including supporting technological innovation and protecting consumer privacy. The paper uses potential privacy-protection regulation as a lens through which to envision smart grid development, as privacy protections will determine, in many ways, information flows and network architectures. The paper concludes with recommended structures for regulating the disclosure and trafficing of smart grid information about consumer electricity usage. This paper was originally presented to the Colorado Public Utitlies Commission in May 2009, and then was used as a framing document in opening the Colorado PUC's investigatory docket concerning smart grid privacy concerns: Docket No. 09I-593EG.
Adaptive Instrumentation of Java Applications for Experiment-Based Performance Analysis

Running load tests, instrumentation of selected application parts is a common practice in order to measure performance metrics. Instrumentation means to extend the target application by measurement probes while executing measurements. For instance, in Java bytecode instrumentation, additional commands are inserted into the bytecode of the target application. Since data generation is time-consuming, it may affect the target application and thus the measurement. Countering this problem, stepwise approaches execute several measurements while using only few measurement probes per measurement. Utilizing existing approaches, the target application has to be restarted in order to change the instrumentation. The resulting measurement overhead can cause the execution of stepwise measurements to be impracticable or bound to high manual effort. In this presentation, we introduce the Adaptable Instrumentation and Monitoring (AIM) framework enabling stepwise measurements without system restarts. Furthermore, we show the advantages of selective instrumentation with AIM over excessive instrumentations. For instance, we introduce an approach to highly precise and fully automated performance-model calibration. Thereby, the relative error is smaller than 4%, whereas excessive instrumentations introduce an error of up to 50%. Last not least, we present the embedding of AIM in the Kieker framework, merging the adaptability of AIM with the comprehensive monitoring and analysis capabilities of Kieker.
COVID-19 ARTIC v3 Illumina library construction and sequencing protocol v4

This SOP describes the procedure for generating cDNA from SARS-CoV-2 viral nucleic acid extracts and subsequently producing 400nt amplicons tiling the viral genome using V3 nCov-2019 primers (ARTIC). This is followed by library construction, equivolume pooling of samples and quantitation, prior to sequencing on the Illumina NovaSeq. It is adapted from the nCov-2019 sequencing protocol which can be found here: https://www.protocols. io/view/ncov-2019-sequencing-protocol-bbmuik6w.
Accuracy evaluation of probabilistic location methods in UWB-RFID systems

The present project is focused on investigating the achievable accuracy of classical location methods commonly used in wireless and proposing an alternative location method based on combining two of them. The first part of the project studies the advantages and disadvantages of extending Ultra Wideband and Radiofrequency Identification technologies on some classical location methods. As a result of the study and with the goal of improving accuracy in indoor radio propagation channels, the Received Strength Signal-based location method and the Time Difference Of Arrival-based location method are selected to be combined in the alternative location method, including the proper channel models. This combined location method takes advantage of the virtues of each location method and combines information in order to improve the estimation of one target's position when locating in indoor channel. The second part of the project is devoted to analyse and simulate the modified RSS, TDOA and Combined location methods, considering the randomness of a real multipath fading channel. Results show that the Combined location method performs always the best accuracy. Specifically in analytical study, the combined location method provides a deterministic error of 24 cm which represents an improvement of 54% and 15% of the RSS and TDOA accuracies respectively. In the simulated study, results show that it is able to improve the accuracy up to 46% and 85% of the RSS and TDOA respectively in specific evaluated points.
Influence of forest management on soil organic carbon stocks

In this study, physical and chemical soil analyses were carried out on six habitas in the Tuczno State Forest District. The basic objective of the research was be to defi ne the impact of natural habitat fertility, manner of forest utilization and history of use on the volume of the accumulated carbon dioxide in a hectar of soil. An attempt was made to evaluate the stock of organic carbon in every genetic horizon and the whole profi les of selected soils and one countedtrophic soil index (SIG) indicator. In the examined soils, particle size distributions, content and organic carbon storage capacity were analysed together with total nitrogen, C:N ratio, soil reaction and sorption properties. Beech forest stand formed from the undergrowth and saplings after removal of pine stands accumulated over 20% more organic carbon content than a pine stand with the same uprising history. The infl uence of beech underwood on the increase of organic carbon stocks in soils is noted. The studies have shown the post-arable infl uence on the organic carbon stocks. In post agricultural soils, the organic carbon stock was much lower (the average stock of organic carbon was 55.53Mg·ha–1) than in forest soils that were not subject to agriculture (averagely 101.23 Mg·ha–1). Keywords
An introduction to ultrasonic motors

1. What is an ultrasonic motor? 2. Theoretical treatment of component elements 3. The Piezoelectric element and vibrator 4. Theory and experiments on the wedge-type motor 5. Theory of the ultrasonic wave motor 6. Equivalent-circuit analysis for the travelling-wave motor 7. Design, assembly and testing of a prototype ultrasonic motor 8. Comparison with electromagnetic motors Autobiographical notes (Toshiiku Sashida) Index
What is the distinction?

Chapter 2 introduces, but does not resolve, the conundrum of what the idea of distinction is that is circulating in international practices and how it relates to the IHL targeting rule. The main point conveyed is that distinction in the conduct of hostilities sense is in play, but that it is being deployed in ways we might not expect. Actors routinely move the line to assert intra-civilian distinctions, and collapse IHL’s principle of distinction together with other values, ideas and principles to compose the ‘distinction vernacular’. The muddling of distinction is easier to observe in the training spaces than in South Sudan, as conversations about IHL are more explicit in the former. Trainees can be found struggling to locate a civilian–combatant binary in the conduct of hostilities sense, and they extend this fuzzy treatment to their categorization of humanitarian actors. The chapter also outlines the comprehensive ethos that guides contemporary international missions, explaining how the ‘working together’ mentality shapes international interventions. From the perspective of international humanitarian actors, international military and peacekeeping actors are encroaching upon them and blurring the lines. The discussion of the Intellectual realm examines the status of the main actors, canvasses civil-military guidance documents, and considers high-level pronouncements about distinction. Attention is drawn to slippage between a civilian–combatant distinction and other fault lines, as distinction’s haziness prevails at this normative level.
Development of nonlinear real-time intelligent controllers for anti-lock braking system (ABS)

The objective of the Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) is to control the wheel slip to maximize the friction coefficient between the wheel and the road, irrespective of the road surface and condition. The introduction of new braking system in road vehicles such as the electromechanical brakes used in brake-by-wire (BBW) system, which has a more continuous braking operation with a high level of accuracy, necessitates the continual review and improvement of the anti-lock braking system. From the control view point, therefore, more refinement of the ABS operation could be achieved with these improved hardware components. This thesis proposes a hybrid controller; combining feedback linearization and proportional, integral and derivative (PID) controllers, and a neural network-based feedback linearisation wheel slip controller. Furthermore, the thesis investigated the viability of a hybrid system of the proposed neural network and a (PID) wheel slip controller system. The hybrid systems, combines the accuracy of slip tracking ability of the PID controller and the robustness of the feedback linearization controller to achieve shorter stopping distance and good slip tracking. The performance of the proposed ABS systems are validated in software simulation and on a laboratory ABS test bench. The results for both controllers revealed their robustness to different road conditions and good slip tracking. This work further confirms the feasibility of a future neural network-based ABS controllers in road vehicles.
AUGMENTED REALITY TO AID CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Summary . Nowadays, before being constructed, most buildings have geometric models defined by their CAD systems. Modern CAD systems are moving from drawing programs to geometric modelers yielding interesting new possibilities. Great benefit can be derived if an Augmented Reality system can yield online images of the construction augmented with the rendering of the CAD models still not constructed. With these possibilities a computer aided construction inspection system can be built providing significant gains of productivity by mainly avoiding construction errors. This paper focuses on Computer Vision challenges and algorithms as part of a bigger effort to make Computer Aided Civil Engineering a more integrated process spanning from design to production.
Extraction of Opinion Target Using Syntactic Rules in Urdu Text

Opinion target or aspect extraction is the key task of aspect-based sentiment analysis. This task focuses on the extraction of targeted words or phrases against which a user has expressed his/her opinion. Although, opinion target extraction has been studied extensively in the English language domain, with notable work in other languages such as Chinese, Arabic etc., other regional languages have been neglected. One of the reasons is the lack of resources and available texts for these languages. Urdu is one, with millions of native and non-native speakers across the globe. In this paper, the Urdu language domain is focused on to identify opinion targets from written Urdu texts. To accomplish this task, several syntactic rules are crafted to identify users’ opinions and associated target words. These rules are crafted using the grammatical and linguistic context of the words in the sentence. To the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work available in the Urdu domain for opinion target extraction. The proposed methodology is evaluated on an Urdu language dataset and compared with an existing approach for the English language by applying the same technique. The experiments have demonstrated that the proposed approach achieves promising performance as compared to the applied English language domain approach.
Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership

The report builds on a growing realization within the health care community of the critical role information/ communications technologies, systems engineering tools, and related organizational innovations must play in addressing the interrelated quality and productivity crises facing the health care system. The report provides a framework for change and an action plan for a systems approach to health care delivery based on a partnership between engineers, health care professionals, and health care managers. The goal of the plan is to transform the U.S. health care sector from an underperforming conglomerate of independent entities (individual practitioners, small group practices, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, community health centers, etc.) into a high-performance "system" in which participating units recognize their interdependence and the implications and repercussions of their actions on the system as a whole. The report describes opportunities and challenges to using systems engineering, information technologies, and other tools to advance a twenty-first century system capable of delivering safe, effective, timely, patient-centered, efficient, equitable health care — a system that embodies the six "equality aims" envisioned in Crossing the Quality Chasm.
Demonstration of an Instrument for On-Line Measuring of the Alpha Radiation

The Salt Waste Processing Facility and the Actinide Removal Process at the Savannah River Site will remove alpha emitting radioisotopes from High Level Waste to meet regulatory disposal requirements. The removal occurs prior to removal of the radioactive cesium. Both facility designs currently include verification measurement using conventional wet chemistry approaches remote from the operation. Use of an on-line monitor for this purpose offers the opportunity to shorten process cycle time and thereby increase facility throughput. Personnel from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory designed, built, and functionally tested an on-line monitor, which is capable of measuring the residual transuranic concentrations in processed high-level wastes with a detection limit of 370 Bq/mL (10 nCi/mL) in less than six hours. Personnel from Savannah River National Laboratory assisted in the design and tested the equipment using actual waste. The monitor measures the neutrons produced by the transuranics in the presence of gamma-ray fields up to 1 Sv/h (100 R/h). The optimum design derives in part from Monte Carlo modeling tempered with practical engineering and cost considerations. We demonstrated operation of the monitor in a cell utilizing an actual sample of high-level waste. Results of that demonstration are given, and suggestions for improvements in the next generation system are discussed. Primary findings include the following. The waste used for the demonstration contained entrained organic from a prior solvent extraction demonstration as well as precipitated fine particles. Settling of the solids during the experiments complicates interpretation of the results. The equipment operated without incident. The dynamic response of the equipment exceeded the design requirement suggesting on-line measurements in much less than the requested 6 hours are possible. Until the equipment is tested in a flow through configuration, we can not quantify the response time. In the demonstration that most closely approximated proposed operational conditions, the monitor gave slightly positive bias in results when compared to conventional wet chemistry results, i.e., 76.7 nCi/g versus 61.1 nCi/g. Flushing of the equipment between demonstrations indicated incomplete removal of the residual sample. As much as 5 percent residual contamination occurred in the most representative demonstration. This value does not represent the behavior in actual deployment within a flow-through system that has a high-velocity flush system.