Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The diversity tool kit

The "Diversity Tool Kit" is a complete "training-program-in-a-box. " It includes 100 sample agendas, skill-building exercises, questionnaires and many other structured tools covering virtually every area of diversity training. The Tool Kit includes: laminated 8 1/2 x 11 activity "cards," so making copies is easy; tabs between sections, so it's as organized as a file drawer at work; everything needed to launch a complete diversity program - as quickly as possible.
USING OUTPUTS OF NASA-TLX FOR BUILDING A MENTAL WORKLOAD EXPERT SYSTEM

In this study, we evaluate the effect of demographic factors such as age, gender, marital status, and education level on mental workload of TEYDEB’s (Technology & Innovation Grant Programs Directorate) experts working in basic stages of R&D projects evaluation activities. One of the workload measurement techniques, NASA-TLX is chosen since it is the most convenient measurement technique for the experiment groups used in this study. We make statistical analyses to measure the effectiveness of 6 scales used in NASA-TLX for evaluating the subjective mental workload of TEYDEB’s experts. In the second phase of the study, output of NASA-TLX is used by AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solutions) methods to construct an expert system for choosing an executive expert from TEYDEB’s expert pool.
The Virtual Battlefield: Perspectives on Cyber Warfare

Part I. Strategic Viewpoints. Cyber Wars: A Paradigm Shift from Means to Ends / A. Sharma Towards an Evolving Theory of Cyberpower / S.H. Starr Sub Rosa Cyber War / M.C. Libicki Warfare and the Continuum of Cyber Risks: A Policy Perspective / A. Cutts Cyber Terrorism: A New Dimension in Battlespace / J.P.I.A. G. Charvat Borders in Cyberspace: Can Sovereignty Adapt to the Challenges of Cyber Security? / F. Hare Towards a Global Regime for Cyber Warfare / R. Hughes. What Analogies Can Tell Us About the Future of Cybersecurity / D. Sulek and N. Moran The Information Sphere Domain - Increasing Understanding and Cooperation / P.D. Allen and D.P. Gilbert Jr. Sun Tzu Was a Hacker: An Examination of the Tactics and Operations from a Real World Cyber Attack / B.K. Rios Belarus in the Context of European Cyber Security / F. Pavlyuchenko Politically Motivated Denial of Service Attacks / J. Nazario A Brief Examination of Media Coverage of Cyberattacks (2007 - Present) / C. Farivar Part II. Technical Challenges and Solutions Behavioral Analysis of Zombie Armies / O. Thonnard, W. Mees and M. Dacier Proactive Botnet Countermeasures - An Offensive Approach / F. Leder, T. Werner and P. Martini When Not to Pull the Plug - The Need for Network Counter-Surveillance Operations / S. Knight and S. Leblanc Autonomic Computer Network Defence Using Risk State and Reinforcement Learning / L. Beaudoin, N. Japkowicz and S. Matwin Enhancing Graph-Based Automated DoS Attack Response / G. Klein, M. Jahnke, J. Tolle and P. Martini On nth Order Attacks / D. Bilar Business and Social Evaluation of Denial of Service Attacks in View of Scaling Economic Counter-Measures / L. -F. Pau Virtual Plots, Real Revolution / R. Temmingh and K. Geers.
Specification of Training Simulator Fidelity: A Research Plan. Technical Report 558.

Abstract : This report presents a conceptual framework for identifying factors that may impact training simulator effectiveness. A research strategy is proposed for the empirical determination of necessary levels of training simulator fidelity. Preliminary studies consistent with this strategy are described to explore the effects of device fidelity on the transfer of training of perceptual-motor and cognitive maintenance tasks.
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE FATIGUE STATES

This chapter outlines a new model of fatigue that makes a critical distinction between two forms of fatigue state: "passive" and "active" fatigue. In the experimental record on fatigue and common task performance, most studies have examined perceptual-motor capability involved for prolonged periods. Active fatigue is then derived from continuous and prolonged, task-related perceptual-motor adjustment. In contrast is a second form of fatigue, passive fatigue, which requires system monitoring with either rare or even no overt perceptual-motor response requirements. Closely allied with vigilance, this form of fatigue develops over a number of hours of doing what appears to be nothing at all. In the present work, the authors consider the commonalities and differences between these fatigue states. In particular, their concern is a very practical one. Research on fatigue has often been applied to vehicle control. Loss of control, associated with fatigue, is an immediate precursor to accidents in all realms of transportation. In ground transportation in particular, active fatigue is a frequent occurrence. For motorcycles, cars, vans, trucks, and the like, the rider or driver must make adjustments on a momentary basis. As a result, active fatigue is the state experienced by and is familiar to drivers. However, in the light of current "intelligent" transportation developments such as those proposed by intelligent transportation system (ITS) developers, it appears possible and even probable that many aspects of vehicle operation become subject to either full or semi-automated control. The authors' contention is that under such forms of control, the fatigue experienced by drivers changes radically from active to passive fatigue. In reviewing evidence associated with these two fatigue states, the authors endeavor to show how such a transition affects transportation operations, errors, and crashes associated with these respective forms of performance stress. For the covering abstract see ITRD E108674.
Hold Your Fire!: Preventing Fratricide in the Dismounted Soldier Domain

Since WWI, an estimated 15% of all soldiers killed in combat are attributed to fratricide, and recent military operations show no decline. A substantial amount concerns fratricide incidents between dismounted soldiers. However, most techniques introduced to prevent fratricide focus on inter-vehicle identification (IFF systems). In this feasibility study, we propose a decision support system that warns a dismounted soldier about to engage when there is a high risk of fratricide. The project has won the 2007 Innovation Game organized by the Dutch Ministry of Defense (MoD). The system will run on a new platform that is currently in development within the Dutch Soldier Modernisation Programme. This platform enables information exchange between soldiers and the Battlefield Management System (BMS), among which up-to-date soldier position information from GPS. Together with terrain information, also available in BMS, these soldier positions are taken into account when deriving an instant risk estimation for fratricide in the current shooting direction. The system is demonstrated using a simulation in which the village of Marnehuizen, built to train Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT), serves as an example. The Dutch army has expressed great interest in the outcome of the study, and is currently investigating possibilities for actual implementation
A design of the noble vector modulator

In this paper, vector modulator which controls magnitude and phase of input signals is proposed. The previous magnitude/phase controlling circuit which is composed of attenuator and phase shifter makes phase/gain cross-coupling. The proposed modulator which composed of low phase shifting attenuator and 0/spl deg//180/spl deg/ phase shifter can minimize phase/gain cross-coupling. So the Cartesian coordinate plane of the output signal space can be represented with vector modulator.
A machine learning framework for automatic human activity classification from wearable sensors

Wearable sensors are becoming increasingly common and they permit the capture of physiological data during exercise, recuperation and everyday activities. This work investigated and advanced the current state-of-the-art in machine learning technology for the automatic classification of captured physiological data from wearable sensors. The overall goal of the work presented here is to research and investigate every aspect of the technology and methods involved in this field and to create a framework of technology that can be utilised on low-cost platforms across a wide range of activities. Both rudimentary and advanced techniques were compared, including those that allowed for both real-time processing on an android platform and highly accurate postprocessing on a desktop computer. State-of-the-art feature extraction methods such as Fourier and Wavelet analysis were also researched to ascertain how well they could extract discriminative physiological information. Various classifiers were investigated in terms of their ability to work with different feature extraction methods. Consequently, complex classification fusion models were created to increase the overall accuracy of the activity recognition process. Genetic algorithms were also employed to optimise classifier parameter selection in the multidimensional search space. Large annotated sporting activity datasets were created for a range of sports that allowed different classification models to be compared. This allowed for a machine learning framework to be constructed that could potentially create accurate models when applied to any unknown dataset. This framework was also successfully applied to medical and everyday-activity datasets confirming that the approach could be deployed in different application settings.
Hydrogen rich water ameliorate Trimethyltin induced spatial learning and memory impairment by regulation of Siah-1

Background: As an important member of organic tin compounds, Trimethyltin (TMT) exists widely in industrial and agricultural productions. TMT can induce significant neurodegeneration in the limbic system, particular in hippocampus. However, the molecular mechanisms in TMT-induced learning and memory impairment are not fully clear. Thus, this research was to explore the role of Synaptophysin (SYP) and Ubiquitin-ligating enzyme Siah-1 in TMT-induced nerve impairment and the protective effect of hydrogen rich water (HRW). Methods: Male BALB/c mice were randomly divided into 4 groups: control group (saline, 4 ml/d, i.p.for seven days), HRW group (4 ml/d, i.p.for seven days) , TMT group (2.25mg/kg, i.p. at the seventh day ), and HRW plus TMT group. The spatial learning and memory was tested by Morris water maze, the protein level of SYP and Siah-1were determined by western blot& immunocytochemical analysis, and the tin contents were detected by ICP-MS. Results: The TMT-treated mice showed significant learning and memory disability. Moreover, TMT increased the level of Siah-1, reduced the expression of SYP in hippocampus and cortex. After 7 days of continuous pretreatment with HRW, the mice showed better memory ability, the expression of Siah-1 and tin content decreased accompanied with the increase of SYP. Conclusions: These results showed that HRW ameliorated the decrease of SYP and the nerve impairment induced by TMT, reduced tin content and up-regulated the expressions of Siah-1, and it might be an important role in the protection of neurodegenerative diseases induced by TMT.
Strategy for the Corporate Level: Where to Invest, What to Cut Back and How to Grow Organisations with Multiple Divisions

PREFACE vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi PART I - INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY 1 Chapter 1 Strategy for the Corporate Level: Summary of the Main Messages 3 Chapter 2 Some History: From Boston Box to Three Logics that Drive Corporate Action 31 PART II - PORTFOLIO STRATEGY: WHERE TO INVEST AND WHAT TO AVOID 73 Chapter 3 How to Find Good Businesses and Avoid Bad Businesses 75 The Business Attractiveness matrix 83 Chapter 4 How to Make Businesses More Successful 99 The Heartland matrix 104 Chapter 5 How to Buy Low and Sell High 117 Fair Value matrix 133 Chapter 6 Making Decisions about Where to Invest and What to Avoid 139 PART III - WAYS OF ADDING AND SUBTRACTING VALUE FROM CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS 157 Chapter 7 Ten Sources of Value from Direct Influence 159 Chapter 8 Nine Sources of Value from Coordinating across Business Divisions 181 Chapter 9 Eight Ways Headquarters can Destroy Value 199 Chapter 10 How to Identify Sources of Added Value for Your Company 219 PART IV - MANAGEMENT STRATEGY: HOW TO STRUCTURE, HOW MUCH TO CENTRALISE AND HOW TO GROW THE BUSINESS DIVISIONS 237 Chapter 11 Structuring the Organisation into Businesses and Divisions 239 Chapter 12 Corporate-level Strategy in Integrated Companies - The Apple Example 259 Chapter 13 How Much to Centralise: Designing Corporate Headquarters 279 Chapter 14 Developing New Capabilities at Corporate Headquarters 303 Chapter 15 Encouraging Synergy and Cooperation across Business Divisions 321 PART V - RETROSPECTIVE 331 Chapter 16 Lessons from 20 Years of Consulting Experience 333 Appendix The Links between International Strategy and Corporate-level Strategy 347 INDEX 379
Year

Attached are four graphs providing a summary of the Department of Correction Bureau of Prison’s population based on the daily population reports for the period of January 2000 to December 2010. Also, on the second page of this report is a table that provides a detailed quarterly breakout of DOC facility types by offender status since the 2 nd quarter of 2008 which is obtained through examination of Department of Correction (DOC) offender status levels and holds. Offender status types include offenders sentenced for Level V Prison (offender serving more than one year), Level V Jail (offenders serving one year or less), Level IV offenders, Level III offenders, and detainees.
Creating Computer Simulation Systems: An Introduction to the High Level Architecture

1. Introduction. Why a High Level Architecture for Modeling and Simulation. An HLA Federation Has Software and Data Components. The HLA As a Standard. You Can Run Your Own Federation. 2. The Story Behind the HLA. Introduction. How the HLA Got Started. The Model of Technology Transition. Technology Development. Product Development. Customer Transition. Why Does HLA Progress When Other (Equally) Good Ideas Have Not? 3. An Overview of the HLA. Introduction. The HLA Defines a Software Architecture. The HLA Offers Services in Six Areas. Summary. 4. The Sushi Restaurant Federation. Building a Federation: Beginning an Example. Federation Management: Defining the Federation. The Federation Object Model: A Common Description of the World. Overview of Sharing Data. Sharing Data: More Details. Ownership: Responsibility and Cooperation in Modeling an Entity. Summary. 5. Synchronizing the Federation. Building a Federation: More on the Example. Time Management: Everything in Order. Federation Execution Lifecycle: Coordinating Independent Federates. Requirements Creep Sets In: the Demo Returns. Summary. 6. A Sample Implementation. Introduction. Exactly What Is Implemented. Running the Sample Implementation. Types Common to All Federates. Structure of the Production Federate. The Transport Federate. The Consumption Federate. The Manager Federate. The Viewer Federate. 7. Extending the Federation for a New Purpose. Using the Federation for a New Purpose. Summary. 8. Advanced Topics. Introduction. Zero Lookahead. Approach to Time Management for Optimistic Federates. Save and Restore. Data Distribution Management (DDM). More on How to Use the MOM. Appendix References and Accompanying Website. Index.
Origins and Development of Musical Instruments

Part 1 List of Illustrations Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Explanations and Definitions Part 4 Abbreviations Part 5 Maps Chapter 6 1. Origins Chapter 7 2. Drums Chapter 8 3. Flutes and Recorders Chapter 9 4. Reeds Chapter 10 5. "Brass" Instruments: Trumpets and Horns Chapter 11 6. String Instruments Chapter 12 7. Pipe Organs Chapter 13 8. Electrophones Part 14 Afterword: Archaeology and Other -ologies Chapter 15 Classification of Instruments Chapter 16 Scales and Music Chapter 17 The Sounds of Science Part 18 Bibliography Part 19 Index of Instruments and Accessories Part 20 Index of Places and Peoples Part 21 General Index Part 22 About the Author
Global asymptotic stability of an SEIRS model and its solutions by nonstandard finite difference schemes

In this paper, we present a mathematically rigorous analysis for the global asymptotic stability of a recognized SEIRS model with nonlinear incidence and vertical transmission. Our main objective is to re-establish the local asymptotic stability of the disease endemic equilibrium point without the assumption proposed in [L. Qi, J. Cui, The stability of an SEIRS model with nonlinear incidence, vertical transmission and time delay, Appl. Math. Comput. 221 (2013), 360-366] and prove that this equilibrium point is not only locally asymptotically stable but also globally asymptotically stable if it exists. Therefore, the global stability of the model is established rigorously. Additionally, we design nonstandard ﬁnite difference (NSFD) schemes that preserve essential properties of the SEIRS model using the Mickens methodology. A set of numerical experiments are performed to support the validity of the theoretical results as well as to show advantages and efﬁciency of the NSFD schemes over the standard ﬁnite difference schemes.
TRANSPORT'S PILOT

The UK Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that is taking the first steps in a plan to introduce co-operative vehicle highway systems (CVHS), with the aim of making roads safer and more efficient. Such systems would combine the instrumentation and electronic management of the highway infrastructure with the design and manufacture of next-generation vehicles in high-level, two-way communication. The systems could send safety signals from the road infrastructure directly into vehicles. If drivers fail to respond to warnings, CVHS equipment could intervene physically with the driving process. Vehicles would act as probes and transmit information on speed and location to traffic control centres. The communications systems that could be used are outlined. The CVHS initiative builds on two previous UK Government initiatives: Road Traffic Adviser and the Foresight Vehicle project.
Using images of noise to estimate image processing behavior for image quality evaluation

Noise is an extremely important image quality factor. Camera manufacturers go to great lengths to source sensors and develop algorithms to minimize it. Illustrations of its effects are familiar, but it is not well known that noise itself, which is not constant over an image, can be represented as an image. Noise varies over images for two reasons. (1) Noise voltage in raw images is predicted to be proportional to a constant plus the square root of the number of photons reaching each pixel. (2) The most commonly applied image processing in consumer cameras, bilateral filtering [1], sharpens regions of the image near contrasty features such as edges and smooths (applies lowpass filtering to reduce noise) the image elsewhere. Noise is normally measured in flat, uniformly-illuminated patches, where bilateral filter smoothing has its maximum effect, often at the expense of fine detail. Significant insight into the behavior of image processing can be gained by measuring the noise throughout the image, not just in flat patches. We describe a method for obtaining noise images, then illustrate an important application— observing texture loss— and compare noise images for JPEG and raw-converted images. The method, derived from the EMVA 1288 analysis of flat-field images, requires the acquisition of a large number of identical images. It is somewhat cumbersome when individual image files need to be saved, but it’s fast and convenient when direct image acquisition is available.
Granular media

Granular materials are of great importance to many industrial and natural processes, and thus attract considerable attention over a broad range of disciplines, from engineering to chemical and physical sciences. As their physical properties are different from known thermal systems, they also raise deep basic scientific issues. This special issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter collects together a group of papers from leading researchers in the physics community which discuss recent new findings and ideas introduced in this rapidly evolving field. Although many topics are still not fully developed, the last decade has witnessed an increasing understanding of a variety of theoretical and experimental issues, ranging from the properties of granular packing, stress distribution and force networks to the dynamics and rheology of granular flow, instabilities and jamming; from the statistical mechanics of granular packs, fluids and gases to applications to problems of geophysical and industrial relevance. The papers in this issue provide an introduction to these topics, summarizing the state-of-the-art and addressing some of the many, still open, questions by featuring an up-to-date presentation of new developments. A deeper test of the theories discussed here and an understanding of the new experimental results reported are certainly among the relevant open research directions ahead in this field. I wish to thank all the contributing authors to this special issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter devoted to granular media.
Sources and mechanisms

Contributors. Preface. I. Exposure To and Mechanisms Of Actions of Electric and Magnetic Fields: 1. Sources and Characteristics of Electromagnetic Fields in the Environment, D.W. Deno and D.O. Carpenter. 2. Radiofrequency Radiation in the Environment: Sources, Exposure Standards, and Related Issues, R.F. Cleveland, Jr. 3. The Thermal Noise Limit for Threshold Effects of Electric and Magnetic Fields in Biological Systems, J.C. Weaver and R.D. Astumian. 4. The Influence of Electromagnetic Fields on Biologic and Model Membranes, D.V. Zhelev and D. Needham. 5. Electric Activation of Membrane Enzymes: Cellular Transduction of High- and Low-Level Periodic Signals, T.Y. Tsong and C.J. Gross. 6. Direct Current Magnetic Fields: Mechanisms of Action, A.D. Rosen. 7. Physiological Effects of Magnetic Fields May Be Mediated Through Actions on the State of Calcium Ions in Solution, S. Ayrapetyan, A. Avanesian, T. Avetisian and S. Majinian. II. Behavioral and Neural Effects of Electric and Magnetic Fields:. 8. Non-Ionizing Radiation and Neuroscience, U.A. Kholodov. 9. Effects of Magnetic and Electric Fields in Invertebrates and Lower Vertebrates, M. Kavaliers and K.P. Ossenkopp. 10. Detection of and Receptors for Magnetic Fields in Birds, R.C. Beason and P. Semm. 11. The Pineal Gland and Melantonin Synthesis: Their Responses to Manipulations of Static Magnetic Fields, R.J. Reiter. 12. Neuroendocrine Responses to Electric and Magnetic Fields, B.W. Wilson. 13. Behavioral Effects of Electromagnetic Fields in Animals, K. Salzinger. 14. Phasic Behavioral and Endocrine Effects of Microwaves of Non-Thermal Intensity, M.A. Navakatikian and L.A. Tomaschevwkaya. References. Index.