Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Computer‐aided design of microstrip extracted‐pole lossy filter

In this article, computer‐aided design of a new type of microstrip lossy filter is described. The new type of lossy filter is realized by introducing resistive cross couplings into a microstrip extracted‐pole filter to achieve a flat passband. The high selectivity is achieved by introducing 2 transmission zeros using 2 extracted poles, which can be adjusted. An equivalent circuit model is established and its circuit parameters, which are useful for physical implementation of the filter, are determined in light of computer modeling. For demonstration, two 6‐pole filters centered at 2 GHz with fractional bandwidth (FBW) 6% and 20% are implemented. Experimental results, together with a theoretical comparison between different FBWs, and full‐wave electromagnetic simulation results are also presented.
AFLP: An Efficient Molecular Fingerprinting Technique (A review work)

The chemical structure of DNA is the same in all organisms. But the order of the base pairs differs in different organisms and even within varieties. There is a difference in sequence of the bases in DNA of a specific sample. Using these sequences, every specimen could be identified solely by the sequence of their base pairs. DNA Fingerprinting (also called DNA testing, DNA typing or DNA profiling) is a technique used to distinguish between different species and also between individuals of the same species. DNA fingerprinting therefore involves the display of a set of DNA fragments from a specific DNA sample. Most DNA fingerprinting techniques involve the use of PCR for detection of fragments. The choice of what particular fingerprinting technique to use, is dependent on some factors. These are DNA typing, DNA marker mapping and the organism under investigation e.g. prokaryotes, plants, animals, humans. AFLP technique has been extensively used with plant DNA for the development of high-resolution genetic maps. Its application is expanding for determining genetic relationships and for epidemiological typing in bacteria provides a rapid and higher eukaryotes. AFLP marker is dominant in nature and provides rapid solution. This review describes the AFLP applications in the molecular fingerprinting of DNA from An increasing number of reports describe the use of AFLP analysis for plant and animal genetic mapping, phylogenetic studies. This review describes its applications in different plant samples. In the year 1993, Zabeau first developed the AFLP technique. Later Vos et al. (1995) described the AFLP technique as being based on the detection of restriction fragments by PCR amplification. Xu et al. (1999) suggested AFLP, as the most efficient way to generate a large number of markers that were linked to target genes.
Edge Assisted Real-time Instance Segmentation on Mobile Devices

Accurate and real-time instance segmentation on mobile devices enables a wide spectrum of applications such as augmented reality, context-aware inspection and environ-mental cognition. However, the computation resource demanded by instance segmentation impedes its deployment on resource-constrained commercial mobile devices. Prior studies enable smartphones to conduct computational-intensive tasks in real-time with the assistance of an edge server. However, simply applying an edge-assisted framework hardly achieves delightful segmentation performance due to the movements of devices and targets, pixel-level precision requirements, and huge computational overhead even for edge nodes. This work proposes edgeIS, an edge-assisted system that enables real-time and accurate instance segmentation on mobile devices. edgeIS embraces the mobile device sensing ability of surroundings and its own motion, and redesigns an innovative mobile-edge collaboration paradigm suitable for segmentation tasks. We implement edgeIS on a lightweight edge node and different mobile devices. Extensive experiments are conducted under four datasets. The results show that edgeIS can run on mobile devices in real-time and achieve a 0.92 segmentation IoU, outperforming existing state-of-the-art solutions. We further embed edgeIS in an AR-based inspection system deployed in an oil field and the performance of edgeIS meets the demand of the industrial scenario.
Standardization of driving cycles for shunting locomotives – reduction of energy consumption and optimized selection of new powertrain solutions

Modern rail vehicles are facing a lot of different challenges in order to be successful established on the market. Besides the primary requirements safety, fulfillment of the scope of performance and low investment costs, there are increasing requirements such as energy consumption, local emissions (global warming gases, harmful substances and noise), non-operation periods and maintenance intervals. All these requirements are crucial in case of customer satisfaction. For train operating companies as well as for locomotive manufactures one challenge in the development process is the meaningful simulation of real service profiles. For mainline traffic as well as for existing rail vehicles some mathematical-physical models already exist. These models are based on track topology and timetables. They show results for energy consumption and driving times. In the field of shunting, the fact that the topology, the towing capacity and a concrete timetable cannot be determined exactly, leads to a problem for the simulation and the evaluation of new powertrain solutions for shunting locomotives. This shows the need of an approved method to create standardized driving cycles. In the future there will be still the need of shunting locomotives for the passenger traffic and of course for rail cargo. This is shown by the constant number of shunting locomotives during the last years. As a consequence the field of shunting has a clearly recognizable share of the whole railroad energy consumption. Therefore it is obvious that optimized powertrain systems for shunting locomotives will have a clear influence on the reduction of CO 2 -Emissions and other exhaust emissions. The cycles and reliable analysis of vehicles and powertrain systems. With the basis of defined characteristics and determined values, possible to create synthetic driving cycles with the use of mathematic algorithms for shunting locomotives. this method the big range of operation profiles for shunting locomotives can be transferred into universal driving cycles without changing characteristics. The following method of creating driving cycles is validated by measurements with a H3-Hybrid locomotive from Alstom. With the development of new alternative powertrain solutions for rail vehicles the requirements, especially for the interfaces and the interaction between vehicle components, will increase. Standardized driving cycles will be helpful to adjust vehicle components and operating strategies and can increase the reliability of railroad vehicles.
Ultrafilters on $\omega$-their ideals and their cardinal characteristics

For a free ultrafllterU on ! we study several cardinal characteristics which describe part of the combinatorial structure of U. We provide various consistency results; e.g. we show how to force simultaneously many characters and many …{characters. We also investigate two ideals on the Baire space ! naturally related to U and calculate cardinal coe‐cients of these ideals in terms of cardinal characteristics of the underlying ultrafllter.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND REPURCHASE INTENTION ON MCDONALD’S KUALA LUMPUR

This study was conducted to examine the relationship between the customer satisfaction and the intention to repurchase at the McDonald’s fast food restaurants in Kuala Lumpur. Restaurant industries are getting bigger and more competitive which created difficulties for the public on making choices on their repurchasing intention. Interestingly, many customers are willing to queue up to purchase their food at fast food restaurants in Kuala Lumpur. Therefore, a quantitative research was carried out with a set of survey questionnaires involving 171 respondents at McDonald’s restaurants in Kuala Lumpur. The results were analysed by using SPSS to perform descriptive and correlation analyses. The results of the survey showed that majority of the respondents were males, aged between 18 to 27 years old with monthly income less than RM 1,000 and the frequency of visits to McDonald’s restaurants of once in a month. The results also showed that four of the attributes of customer satisfaction were significantly and positively related to the repurchase intention. The findings will be useful for the distinguishing fast food outlets from other restaurant industries to improve their customer satisfaction; hence, to enhance customers ’ repurchase intention.
Relationship between occurrence of acute stroke and job strain

Stroke is a type of circulation dysfunction in some areas of the brain that causes neurologic events. Stroke is one of the main causes of morbidity, mortality and disability around the world which has various risk. Psychosocial stress can be known as a risk factor for stroke. The present study was and conducted as an observational and analytical study. This study included who self-referred to the emergency department with neurologic defects from 1 January 2019 to 1 2019 and were admitted as patients. Demographic data of patients, determined by interview and the type of stroke by imaging, were recorded and collected by the researcher through a researcher-made checklist.
HIV Stigma among the Kenyan Adolescents: A Barrier to Tests and Medications

: HIV testing and counselling remains to be the primary doorway to accessing treatment and prevention. Stigma associated with HIV creates negative mindset and convictions about HIV positive individuals. The partiality involves labelling a person as socially inadequate and excluding them from societal activities. While stigma refers to an attitude or belief, discrimination is the behaviour that results from those attitudes or beliefs. In Kenya, stigma level is highest in school settings where adolescent spend most of their time. The mind-set people have regarding the infection creates perceived fear which acts as a barrier for the adolescents to go for HIV test. The Same stigma creates challenge for adherence to treatment which suppresses the viral load for those who have tested positive given the unfriendly environment. The scenario does not provide room for this age group to go for counselling, to take HIV test, enlist on and adhere to treatment. Most of the available innovations and programs are not contextualized to fit the adolescents in boarding school set up, particularly self testing kits. Albeit the effectiveness of the innovation, stigma and school schedules remain to be a barrier that hinder adolescents from relying on such technology. This paper argues that HIV stigma is not an issue of the past but also the present, and should be prevented from being a future agenda.
Satellite Image Enhancement and Compression

-In this era of technology, satellite images are used in many fields for research (quality factors in images comes from its resolution) and in many applications such as astronomy, geographical information systems, geosciences studies etc and enhancement of these images is an important process. In this research work, transform technique is used for image enhancement. The edges of an image can be improved by using an effective transform technique and the resolution can be improved by using interpolation technique. The combination of transform technique and interpolation method helps to produce an overall enhanced image. Nowadays, a new satellite image enhancement technique is based on the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) which has better PSNR result compare to other. There is Standard Compression technique known as JPEG Compression which has great performance on large size image dataset. In this research work South Gujarat and Middle Gujarat dataset are used.
Approximation adaptative et anisotrope par éléments finis : théorie et algorithmes

L'adaptation de maillage pour l'approximation des fonctions par elements finis permet d'adapter localement la resolution en la raffinant dans les lieux de variations rapides de la fonction. Cette methode intervient dans de nombreux domaines du calcul scientifique. L'utilisation de triangles anisotropes permet d'ameliorer l'efficacite du maillage en introduisant des triangles longs et fins epousant notamment les directions des courbes de discontinuite. Etant donnee une norme d'interet et une fonction f a approcher, nous formulons le probleme de l'adaptation optimale de maillage, comme la minimisation de l'erreur d'approximation par elements finis de degre k donne parmi toutes les triangulations (potentiellement anisotropes) de cardinalite donnee N du domaine de definition de f. Nous etudions ce probleme sous l'angle des quatre questions ci dessous: I. Comment l'erreur d'approximation se comporte-t-elle dans le regime asymptotique ou le nombre N de triangles tend vers l'infini, lorsque f est une fonction suffisamment reguliere? II. Quelles classes de fonctions gouvernent la vitesse de decroissance de l'erreur d'approximation lorsque N augmente, et sont en ce sens naturellement liees au probleme d'adaptation optimale de maillage? III. Ce probleme d'optimisation, qui porte sur les triangulations de cardinalite donnee N, peut-il etre remplace par un probleme equivalent portant sur un objet continu? IV. Est-il possible de construire une suite quasi-optimale de triangulations en utilisant une procedure hierarchique de raffinement?
THE EFFECT, PERCEIVED QUALITY, PERCEIVED RISK, PERCEIVED VALUE, ON BAG PURCHASE INTENTION IN VISVAL

The increasingly business competition and new emerging competitors is a problem that Visval has to face. Companies need to create a positive perception of the product because it will stimulate consumer behavior, before finally making a purchase decision. The purpose of this research is to know the effect of Perceived Quality, Perceived Risk and Perceived Value to Purchase Intention. The research method used is quantitative method with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Analysis. The objective of study are students and employees in the Bandung with 400 respondents. The result of research shows that there is no significant influence between Perceived Quality to Purchase Intention, there is significant influence between Perceived Value to Purchase Intention, there is influence of Perceived Risk there is Purchase Intention, there is influence between Perceived Quality to Perceived Risk, there is no influence between Perceived Quality against Perceived Value, there is influence between Perceived Risk to Perceived Value, there is influence of Perceived Quality, Perceived Value, and Perceived Risk simultaneously with Purchase Intention.
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Ferroelectricity at molecular level Ferroelectricity at molecular level

The synthesis of ultrathin ferroelectric nanostructures by the Langmuir–Blodgett method and their properties are reviewed. It is shown that ferroelectricity exists in one monolayer of the ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE) copolymer, i.e., at the molecular level. The specific characteristics of switching of ultrathin ferroelectric films are established.
Forty Years of Suﬀix Trees Forty Years of Sufﬁx Trees

This paper reviews the ﬁrst 40 years in the life of suﬃx trees, their many incarnations, and their applications. The paper is non-technical but assumes some familiarity with the structures and constructions discussed. It is not meant to be exhaustive. It is meant to be a tribute to a ubiquitous tool of string matching — the suﬃx tree and its variants — and one of the most persistent subjects of study in the theory of algorithms.
in Neanderthal genomic DNA sequences.

Two recently published papers describe nuclear DNA sequences that were obtained from the same Neanderthal fossil. Our reanalyses of the data from these studies show that they are not consistent with each other and point to serious problems with the data quality in one of the studies, possibly due to modern human DNA contaminants and/or a high rate of sequencing errors.
Cancer testis antigen PASD1 expression and immunogenicity in human colorectal cancer and polyps

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a malignant tumor arising from a human inner colon lining that may spread to other organs such as the liver and lungs. Per ARNT Sim domain containing 1 (PASD1) is a cancer-testis antigen expressed in cancers including CRC but not in normal tissues except for normal testes. This study aims to study PASD1 protein as a potential target for CRC immunotherapy. A total of 90 CRC and polyps tissue samples were investigated for PASD1 RNA and protein expression using a real-time polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemical staining, respectively. Matched patients’ peripheral blood mononuclear cells were pulsed with PASD1 peptides and measured for immunogenicity, cell cytotoxicity, and cytokine assays. The clinical data were collected and analyzed accordingly. Our results show that PASD1_v2 mRNA expression was highly expressed in CRC (46.0%) and polyps samples (33.3%). Both PASD1-1 and PASD1-2 proteins were expressed in 31.7% of CRC and 29.4% of polyps samples. Protein expression was weak to moderate positive in the cytoplasm and/or nucleus of the tissues. Immune responses towards CD4-specific PASD1 peptides were detected in 21.7% of CRC and 23.5% of polyps patients. The most immunogenic peptide was PASD1 (1) in CRC while PASD1 (3) in polyps. Cytotoxicity effects were detected up to 57.20% observed in CRC samples while IL-17A and IL-6 cytokines were highly expressed. The demographic data suggest that Chinese female patients more than 60 years old, diagnosed with late-stage rectosigmoid tumors may benefit from the PASD1 peptide immunotherapy approach. This is the first report describing CD4-positive T-helper response to the PASD1 positive CRC patients and its cytotoxicity.
Cross-Sectional Study Clinical and Imaging Evaluation of Rotator Cuff in Male Elite Water polo Players - A Cross-Sectional Study

Rotator cuff structural changes are conjoint in the overhead throwing Abstract Background: Rotator cuff structural changes are common in overhead throwing athletes, such as baseball, javelin, swimming, volleyball, by increasing the risk of shoulder pain and injury. The structural alterations in elite water polo players are not well known. The purpose of this study is to evaluate shoulders of asymptomatic elite male water polo players at the beginning of the season with the hypothesis that in elite water polo athletes there are structural alterations of rotator cuff tendons due to overuse of the dominant shoulder compared to the non-dominant, like in other overhead disciplines, identifiable by ultrasound. Methods: Asymptomatic elite men
Modelling the Milky Way stellar halo

We motivate the importance of understanding the kinematics and dynamics of the Milky Way stellar halo both in unravelling the formation history and evolution of our host Galaxy and in the more general context of galaxy dynamics. We present a cleaned picture of the kinematics of the smooth component of the stellar halo: we develop a method to quantify the average distance error on a sample of stars based on the idea of Schoenrich et al. (2012), but adapted so that it uses velocity information only on average. We use this scheme to construct an analytic distance calibration for Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) field halo stars in Sloan colours and demonstrate that our calibration is a) more accurate than the ones available and b) unbiased w.r. t. metallicity and colour. We measure the rotation of the smooth component of the stellar halo with a tool-set of four estimators that use either only the l.o. s. velocities or the full 3D motion. From two samples of BHB stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we favour a non-rotating single halo. We critique conflicting results in the literature based on similar samples and trace back the disagreement (either in the sign of rotation or in the morphology of the halo) to sample contaminations and/or neglect account of the halo geometry. We propose a scheme that generalizes any isotropic spherical model to a model where the potential is axisymmetric and the distribution function is a function of the three actions. The idea is to approximate the Hamiltonian as a function of the actions with a library of quadratic fits to surfaces of constant energy in action space and then make explicit the dependence of the energy on the three actions in the ergodic distribution function. The transparency of the physics implied by the model we achieve, should make it possible to combine our spheroidal models to the f(J)-models of Binney (2010) for the disks and of Pontzen & Governato (2013) for the dark-matter halo, and obtain a complete actions-defined dynamical model of the Milky Way Galaxy.
The real e⁄ects of in(cid:135)ation volatility driven by sunspots

This paper provides a theoretical approach to investigate the real e⁄ects of in-(cid:135)ation volatility driven by a self-ful(cid:133)lling prophecy (i.e., sunspot equilibrium) on investment, capital accumulation, and welfare in a representative-agent macroeconomics model. The model is constructed based on empirical evidence that (1) in(cid:135)ation volatility (rather than in(cid:135)ation rates) negatively a⁄ects national investment, (2) uncertainty about in(cid:135)ation is attributed more to market psychology than economic fundamentals, and (3) (cid:133)rms are risk-averse decision makers. We show that the introduction of in(cid:135)ation-indexed bonds can improve welfare. A steady-state analysis quanti(cid:133)es the impact of in(cid:135)ation volatility on investment and welfare. Empirical evidence shows that there is a positive relationship between the level and variance of in(cid:135)ation of in(cid:135)ation the e⁄ects of fundamental (cid:135)utuation or increases the of in(cid:135)ation
Some Properties of Self Compacting Concrete by Using Different Types of Local Rocks as a Coarse Aggregate

Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) is a new type of concrete that possesses the property of high flow ability, passing ability and stability.This research aims to investigate the properties of the SCC produced by using locally available materials and to study the effect of using local rocks as a coarse aggregate such as quartzite, dolomite and limestone with two replacement ratio 50% and 100% of traditional coarse aggregate (gravel). The SCC mixes prepared with full and 50% replacement of quartzite gives higher compressive strength, splitting strength, flexural strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity compared with mix that contained gravel with percentage of enhancement (11.9%), (9.5%), (12.4%) and (2%); respectively for fully replacement at 28 day.On the other hand, it has been noticed that the concretes prepared with full and 50% replacement of dolomite give lower compressive strength, splitting strength, flexural strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity compared with mix that contained gravel with percentage of detraction (10.3%), (4.8%), (5.9%) and (1.2%); respectively for fully replacement. Also, for both full and 50% replacement; limestone exhibits the same behavior of dolomite but with larger percentages of detraction which are (24.2%), (33.3%), (27.1%) and (3.6%).
A Modified DPI-Neuron with Various Biological Firing Patterns

Neuromorphic VLSI is an important tool for investigating and implementing neural algorithms. The DPI-neuron analog implementation of neural network in silicon is the real-time conductance-based that has the low power consumption. This circuit implemented Exponential Integrated-and-Fire model that produces real time spiking behavior. In this paper we modify DPI-neuron circuit which can be produce different type of behavior biological neuron. It is suitable for applications in reconfigurable neuromorphic devices which implement biologically brain circuits. This circuit is simulated by HSPICE software in 0.35  m CMOS technology with supply voltage 3.3Volt.