Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Affekter, affektiv kommunikation och anknytningsmönster – ett bio-psyko-socialt perspektiv

Manniskan ar biologiskt forberedd for social interaktion och vi formas i hog grad av de speciella sociala erfarenheter vi gor och den kultur som vi ar omgivna av. Vi ar styrda av biologiskt nedlagda affekter, affekter som i samverkan med ett annat biologiskt nedlagt system, anknytningssystemet, inriktar oss mot att soka nara, trygga relationer. I det sociala samspelet paverkas vi intuitivt av andras emotioner och i boken forklaras de mekanismer som ligger bakom var spontana formaga att smittas av varandras inre emotionella tillstand. Som en rod trad genom boken loper skildringen av den icke-verbala ansiktskommunikationens roll i detta emotionella samspel.
Techniques for the Characterisation of Speciality Malts

At present, the only specifications for the characterisation of speciality malts are extract, colour and moisture content. These parameters are insufficient to accurately predict brewing properties and flavour potentialsof speciality malts. Malts with similar colour can, depending on the malting process conditions, produce different flavour patterns in the final product. In order to obtain a more complete picture of the properties of speciality malts, other specifications are needed. The aim of our research was to investigate new techniques for the characterisation of dark speciality malts. Alternative methods for colour measurement, reducing power assessment and flavour analysis with GC/MS were explored. A method for the tasting of Congress wort was also developed.
EVALUATION OF SERUM CHOLINE ALONG WITH, SOME BIOCHEMICAL AND CLINICAL PARAMETERS IN CATTLE SUFFERING FROM WITH BOTULISM

Botulism is a disease of cattle that causes significant impact due to its high mortality rate. The aim of the present study is to evaluate serum choline levels as well as clinical and biochemical parameters of cattle suspected to be suffering from botulism and to compare the results with healthy cattle and also to compare the results of survivors and fatalities. Thirteen botulism suspected and eleven healthy cattle were used. Total protein, albumin, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT), calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and potassium levels were measured from the sera of botulism and control cattle by colorimetric method using an autoanalyser. Choline levels were analyzed using HPLC. Dysphagia, decreased tongue strength weak anal reflexes, tongue and tail paralysis and locomotion disorders were the main clinical findings observed in suspected botulism cases. Botulinum toxin analysis of ruminal fluid samples were positive in two cattle from one herd. AST, ALT, potassium and choline levels were higher in cattle suffering from suspected botulism cases and choline levels were positively correlated with albumin and total protein levels. Three animals from botulism group survived. Clinical findings were milder, animals were not recumbent and choline levels were lower in survivors. Clinical findings of the three animals that recovered were milder, animals were not recumbent and choline levels were lower in survivors. It was observed that clinical findings such as decreased tongue strength and anal reflexes, dysphagia, tail paralysis, and locomotion disorders are important for diagnosis of botulism In conclusion, cattle with milder clinical signs and lower choline have a higher chance of survival.
Mutual Coupling Between Antennas

Mutual Coupling Between Antennas explores the theoretical underpinnings of mutual coupling, offers an up-to-date description of the physical effects of mutual coupling for a variety of antennas, and contains techniques for analysing and assessing its effects. The book puts the topic in historical context, presents an integral equation approach, includes the current techniques, measurement methods, and discusses the most recent advances in the field.
Development of Handling Qualities Requirements for a Personal Aerial Vehicle

This paper describes progress that has been made in the European Commission funded project myCopter on the development of handling qualities requirements for future Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs). A generic PAV dynamics model has been developed to permit the simulation of a range of tasks that are representative of a typical PAV commuting role. The model has been configured to provide a number of different response types – with a constant control deflection commanding a constant angular rate, a constant attitude or a constant translational rate. Results from simulation trials with test pilots have shown that, of the response types investigated, the translational rate response is most suited for PAV pilots flying low speed tasks. Ongoing work will identify whether the response types selected with the test pilots remain valid for pilots with reduced levels of training – more akin to those expected for future PAV operations.
Overcoming procrastination

Overview/Description Procrastination is rampant in today’s business world. Sure, it’s easy to blame others for your inability to get things done—demanding bosses, or coworkers who interrupt you for help. But be honest, how often is it your own fault? Are you simply putting off doing what will still be in your in-box tomorrow? Do you make statements such as: “I don’t have time to do it,” “It makes sense to do the smaller tasks first to get them out of the way,” “Once I get more energy, I can really focus on this. ”? If so, there’s a strong possibility that you have fallen into the “Procrastination Trap. ” Pushing important tasks and projects off until later can cause emotional anguish and keep you from accomplishing professional and personal goals. This workshop will provide you with techniques and strategies to overcome procrastination in your work and personal life.
Reliability of Sentiment Mining Tools: A comparison of Semantria and Social Mention

Social Media platforms have become quintessential for user-generated content and consumer opinions. As a result, vast amounts of commercially and freely available sentiment mining tools have emerged, however it remains unclear how reliable these tools are. In this paper, I evaluate the reliability as well as the features of the sentiment mining tools Semantria and Social Mention. This study is a sentiment analysis of 12 different car models that were applied to both sentiment mining tools. In addition to presenting a comparison of outputs obtained from two different sentiment mining tools, an analysis was conducted that compares the sentiment and passion outputs for three social media platforms. The results show significant differences in outputs for sentiment mining tools. Furthermore, statistically signifcant as well as observational differences were also apparent for the outputs from three social media platforms. The results have theoretical as well practical implications for different groups, including academics and practitioners using sentiment mining tools as input for future research and decision-making.
Furies: A Scalable Framework for Traffic Policing and Admission Control

We have proposed a control framework called Furies* for scalable, efficient admission control and traffic policing. Furies leverages the knowledge of traffic demand distributions between ingress-egress pairs and the network topology within an ISP in making admission control decisions. We propose to aggregate admitted flows for policing at edge routers instead of monitoring individual flows. Furies achieves this by assigning a unique flow-identifier to every admitted flow based on its ingress and egress point. As a result, the amount of states maintained by the edge routers can be reduced from O(n) to O(square-root of n), where n is the number of admitted flows, while core routers are stateless. Simulation results show that we can successfully detect a majority (64-83%) of the malicious flows with virtually zero false-alarms without maintaining per-flow state at the edge. Our implementation demonstrates that Furies adds minimal processing overhead to edge routers and can be incrementally deployed. [ * Furies is the Roman name of the Greek goddess responsible for tormenting evildoers. ]
Fluid-Structure Interaction for Coolant Flow in Research-type Nuclear Reactors

The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is scheduled to undergo a conversion of the fuel used and this proposed change requires an extensive analysis of the flow through the reactor core. The core consists of 540 very thin and long fuel plates through which the coolant (water) flows at a very high rate. Therefore, the design and the flow conditions make the plates prone to dynamic and static deflections, which may result in flow blockage and structural failure which in turn may cause core damage. To investigate the coolant flow between fuel plates and associated structural deflections, the Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) module in COMSOL will be used. Flow induced flutter and static deflections will be examined. To verify the FSI module, a test case of a cylinder in crossflow, with vortex induced vibrations was performed and validated.
Parametric Instability of Deep-Water Risers

During the last decade, some major changes took place in the offshore industry. These changes were associated with new oil and gas fields which were discovered in severe environments, at depths of 1500 meter and more. Nowadays, offshore companies face challenges in the design of risers which could reliably facilitate such deep-water exploration. The heave motion of a floating platform induces a fluctuation in time of the axial tension in the riser. A possible and undesirable phenomenon is the excitation of the lateral response caused by this fluctuation. This phenomenon is called parametric instability. The objective of this study is to gain better insight in this phenomenon. The focus is on the occurrence of instability for deep-water risers induced by the variation of the effective tension in time. Due to this tension variation the governing equation of motion for the transverse motion of the riser is a partial differential equation containing a time-dependent coefficient. To analyse the stability of the system described by this differential equation three main steps are taken. The normal modes of a closely related system are determined to make it possible to apply the Galerkins Method. The normal modes are obtained for the system without the time varying component of the tension force. This equation is a linear partial differential equation of the fourth order whose coefficients are independent of time. To integrate this differential equation a standard FORTRAN routine is used. A study is carried out to find out the features of different methods which are commonly used for analysing the dynamic stability of systems. Three methods are investigated to construct the stability charts of a one-degree of freedom system and a two-degree of freedom system: a small-parameter method, the Floquet theory and the Hills method of infinite determinants. A stability chart shows the combinations of magnitude and period of the time varying force for which the system is unstable. The Floquet theory is applied to different riser configurations. Not only stability charts are obtained to gain insight in the riser behaviour but also numerically integrations in time are performed for the most critical heave motions of the platform. The results of this analysis are used to estimate the maximum riser displacements. Using these results the bending stresses and additional tensile stresses are calculated.
FURTHER ANALYSIS OF DRIVERS LICENSED WITH MEDICAL CONDITIONS IN UTAH

The Utah Driver License Division has implemented a program since 1979 that restricts drivers with medical conditions by functional ability category (medical condition) by assigning them a functional ability level. This study compares the citation, all crash, and at-fault crash rates (per eligible licensed days) of medical conditions drivers at each functional ability level, by category, to the rates of comparison drivers matched on age group, gender and county of residence over a five year period. Analyses were performed separately for drivers reporting single medical conditions and those reporting 2 or more medical conditions. Probabilistic linkage was used to link data from different databases in order to determine the crash, at fault crash and citation rates by functional ability level classification at the time of occurrence. Corresponding relative risks and confidence intervals were calculated. Overall, for most functional ability categories, drivers in the medical conditions program had higher crash and at-fault crash rates compared to their corresponding comparison groups, occurring at the numerically lowest (least restricted) functional ability levels. The relative risk (odds ratios) was generally fairly modest, in the 1.5-2.5 range. For drivers with multiple medical conditions, the functional ability levels were collapsed into two groups, unrestricted and restricted driving privileges. Of the combinations of medical conditions analyzed, roughly half had higher risk of crashes and at fault-crashes than comparison drivers; unrestricted and restricted drivers did not appear to differ materially. Further evaluation of the medical conditions program, taking into account true exposure rates (miles driven), may be warranted.
Physical layer simulation study for the coexistence of WLAN standards

This paper presents the results of a study on the performance of wireless local area network (WLAN) devices in the presence of interference from other wireless devices. To understand the coexistence of these wireless protocols, simplified physical-layer-system models were developed for the Bluetooth, Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), and Zigbee devices, all of which operate within the 2.4-GHz frequency band. The performances of these protocols were evaluated using Monte-Carlo simulations under various interference and channel conditions. The channel models considered were basic additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), Rayleigh fading, and site-specific fading. The study also incorporated the basic modulation schemes, multiple access techniques, and channel allocations of the three protocols. This research is helping the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) understand the coexistence issues associated with deploying wireless devices and could prove useful in the development of a technical basis for guidance to address safety-related issues with the implementation of wireless systems in nuclear facilities. (authors)
Refactoring and AOP under Scrutiny

A conflict between refactoring and AOP techniques can arise whenever an application with aspects is subjected to a refactoring application. When the units of code being restructured are also part of a pointcut definition, changes in the external behaviour of the application can occur. This study presents an approach to anticipate the impact of refactoring changes in AO applications. We first decompose refactorings into atomic change operations. Then we individually analyse and evaluate each of these operations. The overall results anticipate the consequences of the refactoring. Our approach is partially automated. We also provide some examples and introduce a discussion (left open in this work) about the relationship between different variables that characterize the refactorings.
Improvement of Spatial Memory Impairment Following Voluntary Exercise in Morphine-Dependent Rats: A Short Report

Background and Objectives: Exercise is one way to treat addiction. The aim of this study was to determine the improvement of spatial memory impairment following voluntary exercise in morphine-dependent rats. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, the sample rats received morphine (10 mg/kg) twice a day, 12 hours subcutaneously, at the same time as 10 days of running. All rats were then trained for 5 consecutive days and twice daily in the Mauritius water maze. Analysis of variance and Tukey’s test were used to analyze the data. Results: Comparison between groups showed that morphine-dependent and athletic control groups spent significantly more time in the target area than morphine-dependent and non-exercised control groups (respectively p=0.04 and p=0.0001) and this indicates that exercise improved spatial memory recall. Conclusion: Voluntary exercise might be considered as a potential method to ameliorate some of the deleterious behavioral consequences of morphine abuse.
Riconoscimento di facce in un sistema di visione distribuito

This thesis has been carried out within a project at IAS-Lab (Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab), University of Padua. The project aims to create an autonomous system for distributed video surveillance. The thesis had as main objective the creation of a face detection and recognition system in a distributed sensors network. In particular, we wanted to create a system capable of processing video streams from sensors installed in different locations within a local network, in order to extract from them the images of the people faces in a room and then send the selected images to a central server, instructed to carry out the recognition. The main purpose of this system is to recognize people in the room even if they are not fully visible from some sensors, thus exploiting the distribution of the various cameras in the room. This thesis is mainly based on two aspects: - the creation of a reference model of the room in which the sensors are common to all of them; - the use of a middleware, called NMM, to create a network of nodes which distributes people and face detection and face recognition within a Local Area Network. In this thesis we will use the Viola-Jones algorithm to perform the detection of people and faces and the Eigenfaces algorithm for the recognition of the latter; we will also analyze the performance of the algorithm for recognition and propose some improvements aimed to increase the overall performance of the system
Experimental characterization, modeling and compensation of hysteresis in force sensing resistors

Force Sensing Resistors (FSRs) exhibit considerable amounts of hysteresis and repeatability error inhibiting their usage in applications that require high-accurate force readings. This paper presents the hysteresis characterization and modeling of the Tekscan A201-1 FSR employing the Preisach Operator (PO) function. In order to compensate for hysteresis during sensor operation, the inverse PO was numerically found on the basis of the Closest Match Algorithm (CMA). A test bench, capable of handling sixteen sensors simultaneously, was built, which allowed the characterization and later testing of the CMA. Grip force profiles were applied to the sensors during testing and the experimental results showed a considerable reduction in the force estimation error compared with the linear regression method proposed by the manufacturer. These results enable a wider use of FSRs in applications with tight accuracy requirements. Finally, a generalized sensor model for hysteresis compensation that simplifies the obtaining of PO parameters is presented.
Environmental management plans demystified : a guide to implementing ISO 14001

Contents. Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Managing the Environment. 3. Nine Steps to a Successful Environmental Management Plan. 4. The Environmental Audit. 5. Environmental Plan Structure. 6. Monitoring and Measuring. 7. EMS Audit and Management Review. 8. Environmental Operations Procedural Assistant. 9. Documentation Assistant. 10. Manuals, Folders and Logs. 11. ISO 14001 Self Assessment. 12. Alternative Environmental Management Systems. 13. Environmental Terminology. 14. Environmental Legislation and Regulation Guide. 15. Support Agency Information. Further Reading.
Chemistry education in the light of the research

Students of “Chemistry of bioactive agents and cosmetics” course should have some experience in predicting bioactivity of chemicals applied in cosmetics, not only from experimental data but also from their molecular structure. The computational approach is one of the newest and fastest techniques developed in chemistry of bioactive substances. Proposed computer-aided classes includes: the prediction of human skin permeability coefficients on the basis of physico-chemical parameters calculated according to the structure of chosen group of organic sunscreen ingredients the calculation of bioaccumulation factors of organic sunscreen ingredients in tissues of living organisms. Proposed classes allow students to get acquainted with basic methods of calculation of pharmacokinetic parameters by use of freely available software and data bases only.
The Evolution of Inequalities and the Impact of Education on Economic Growth in Romania

Among the most important economic challenges currently faced by both Romania and other advanced economies is the increase in inequality. This paper aims to address the evolution of inequality over time starting with the global financial crisis until these days by using descriptive methods in order to view the evolution of some economic indicators that measure inequalities and how Romania recently addressed the issue at hand. It is commonly accepted among economists that problems related to measuring inequalities may cause underperformance for both developing and developed economies. Throughout the literature there are also findings that inequality serves as a barrier between economic growth and living standards, generating income largely for those at the top and thus making it more difficult for poor people to make a difference in living standards regardless of the cycle in which the economy finds itself. Among the findings of this paper the lack of investment in human capital and therefore in education stands out even tough starting with 2013 economies have started growing with healthy growth rates.