nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Un estudio multidisciplinario interinstitucional de necesidades sociocomunicativas linguisticas: hacia una propuesta curricular para la ingenieria agroindustrial, 2014, CURVA ELCE UNAH
Year: 2016

In the interest of responding to the demand of the Career of Engineering in Agribusiness of the Centro Universitario Regional del Valle de Aguan (CURVA) in the city of Olanchito, Honduras, a scientific study was conducted on a quantitative and qualititive based approach, at the Foreign Languages Department of the UNAH, late 2014; such research collected data from 4 appropriately selected populations, with the aim of designing and developing a curriculum for the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program of this regional center of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) This research project was aimed, first, to diagnosing and determining, through 5 instruments for data collection, the training needs in English (the needs of education in English) and then, after the analysis of these data, to establishing and technically validating a more intensive program that will respond to profession orientated communicative and linguistic needs, subjective needs and intercultural needs of students and graduates of the Engineering in Agribusiness. The new program will eventually lead to acquire better language and communicative skills for optimal academic and professional achievement in this concrete area. In short, this study determined the students' insufficient level of English, the demand, motivation and actual study habits to learning the language, also the needed content, sociolinguistic competence, teaching strategies and assessment methodology. Moreover, the research determined how these students should read, listen, write and speak in English in a more profession orientated way. In conclusion, the following question was answered: "Who needs what language, which operation to perform, according to what party, in what circumstances and for what purpose with regard to which object using what means and in what language forms? " Cabre (2010).These components shaped the curriculum proposal that was formulated. Consequently, the management of this new curriculum reform attempts to promote the socioeconomic development of the families in the community, and to respond to the demand of hiring skilled professionals because of the huge number of national and international companies in the area of Valle del Aguan, engaged in the field of agriculture and industry.
Growth and application of epitaxial heterostructures with polymorphous rare earth oxides
Year: 2013

Cubic lanthanide sesquioxides consisting of cations with an atom radius larger that promethium could be used as a buffer layer for growth of semiconductors with a cubic structure (Ge, GaAs or SiGe) on Si due to the close matching of a lattice constant between the oxides and the semiconductors. However, the oxides have a stable hexagonal structure at temperatures higher than 600 degC, which is typical for the epitaxy process. According to our ab initio density functional theory calculations, energy of molecular unit of hexagonal lanthanum oxide is lower than that of the cubic structure by 127 meV. In this paper, we demonstrate epitaxial stabilization of pseudomorphic cubic structure of lanthanum oxide grown on a cubic template. The oxide layer can serve as a buffer for growth of Ge or GaAs layers on Si substrate. On the other hand, gadolinium oxide, which according to many studies has a stable cubic structure, was grown on hexagonal GaN. The single crystal monoclinic Gd 2 O 3 could be used as a gate dielectric layer for GaN based electronic devices.
Parameterized quantum circuits as machine learning models
Venue: Quantum Science and Technology
Year: 2019

Hybrid quantum classical systems make it possible to utilize existing quantum computers to their fullest extent. Within this framework, parameterized quantum circuits can be thought of as machine learning models with remarkable expressive power. This Review presents components of these models and discusses their application to a variety of data driven tasks such as supervised learning and generative modeling. With experimental demonstrations carried out on actual quantum hardware, and with software actively being developed, this rapidly growing field could become one of the first instances of quantum computing that addresses real world problems.
Behaviour of polydiacetylene vesicles under different conditions of temperature, pH and chemical components of milk.
Venue: Food chemistry
Year: 2012

Blue polydiacetylene vesicles were studied with regard to their behaviour under variations in storage temperature, heating, potentiometric titration and in the presence of chemical components of milk, to evaluate their application as a sensor in the food industry. Vesicles were prepared using 10,12 pentacosadienoic acid (PCDA)/1,2 dimyristoyl sn glycero 3 phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) Their changes were monitored using UV Vis absorption. Temperatures not exceeding 25degC did not cause colour change in PCDA/DMPC vesicles for a period of up to 60days of storage. Heating for 10min at 60 and 90degC, exposure to pH higher than 9.0 and the simulant solutions of the whey proteins, b lactoglobulin and a lactalbumin, promoted colour change from blue to red for the vesicles studied. The effects of routine factors on the characteristics and stability of polydiacetylene vesicles is important in defining the parameters related to their application as a sensor for the food industry.
Single image haze removal using dark channel prior
Venue: 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Year: 2009

In this paper, we propose a simple but effective image prior dark channel prior to remove haze from a single input image. The dark channel prior is a kind of statistics of the haze free outdoor images. It is based on a key observation most local patches in haze free outdoor images contain some pixels which have very low intensities in at least one color channel. Using this prior with the haze imaging model, we can directly estimate the thickness of the haze and recover a high quality haze free image. Results on a variety of outdoor haze images demonstrate the power of the proposed prior. Moreover, a high quality depth map can also be obtained as a by product of haze removal.
Toward Emotionally Adaptive Virtual Reality for Mental Health Applications
Venue: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Year: 2019

Here, we introduce the design and preliminary validation of a general purpose architecture for affective driven procedural content generation in virtual reality (VR) applications in mental health and wellbeing. The architecture supports seven commercial physiological sensing technologies and can be deployed in immersive and non immersive VR systems. To demonstrate the concept, we developed the "The Emotional Labyrinth," a non linear scenario in which navigation in a procedurally generated three dimensional maze is entirely decided by the user, and whose features are dynamically adapted according to a set of emotional states. During navigation, affective states are dynamically represented through pictures, music, and animated visual metaphors chosen to represent and induce affective states. The underlying hypothesis is that exposing users to multimodal representations of their affective states can create a feedback loop that supports emotional self awareness and fosters more effective emotional regulation strategies. We carried out a first study to, first, assess the effectiveness of the selected metaphors in inducing target emotions, and second, identify relevant psycho physiological markers of the emotional experience generated by the labyrinth. Results show that the Emotional Labyrinth is overall a pleasant experience in which the proposed procedural content generation can induce distinctive psycho physiological patterns, generally coherent with the meaning of the metaphors used in the labyrinth design. Furthermore, collected psycho physiological responses such as electrocardiography, respiration, electrodermal activity, and electromyography are used to generate computational models of users' reported experience. These models enable the future implementation of the closed loop mechanism to adapt the Labyrinth procedurally to the users' affective state.
Barriers and facilitators to care seeking among survivors of gender based violence in the Dadaab refugee complex
Venue: Sexual and reproductive health matters
Year: 2020

In humanitarian settings, timely access to care is essential for survivors of gender based violence (GBV) Despite the existence of GBV support services, challenges still exist in maximising benefits for survivors. This study aimed to understand the characteristics of violence against women and explore barriers and facilitators to care seeking for GBV by women in two camps within the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya. A mixed methods design was used to study women accessing comprehensive GBV services between February 2016 and February 2017. Women were recruited into a cohort study (n 209) and some purposively selected for qualitative in depth interviews (n 34) Survivor characteristics were descriptively analysed from baseline measures, and interview data thematically assessed. A majority of women were Muslim, of Somali origin, had been residents in the camp for more than five years, with little or no formal education, and meagre or no monthly income. From the survey, 60.3% and 66.7% of women had experienced non partner violence or intimate partner violence in their lifetime respectively. Facilitators to accessing GBV services by survivors included awareness of GBV services and self perceived high severity of acts of violence. Barriers included stigma by family and the community, fear of further violence from perpetrators, feelings of helplessness and insecurity, and being denied entry to service provision premises by guards. Women in the Dadaab refugee camps face violence from intimate partners, family, and other refugees. There is an urgent need to address drivers of GBV and the barriers to disclosure and access to services for all survivors of GBV.
Performance of IPv6 Segment Routing in Linux Kernel
Venue: 2018 14th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)
Year: 2018

IPv6 Segment Routing (SRv6) is a promising solution to support advanced services such as Traffic Engineering, Service Function Chaining, Virtual Private Networks, and Load Balancing. The SRv6 data plane is supported in many different forwarding engines including the Linux kernel. It has been introduced into the 4.10 release of the Linux kernel to support both endhost and router functionalities. The implementation has been updated several times, with every new kernel release, to include new features and also to improve the performance of existing ones. In this paper, we present SRPerf, a performance evaluation framework for software and hardware implementations of SRv6. SRPerf is able to perform different benchmarking tests such as throughput and latency. The architecture of SRPerf can be easily extended to support new benchmarking methodologies as well as different SRv6 implementations. We have used SRPerf to evaluate the performance of the SRv6 implementation in the Linux kernel.
Validity and Reliability of the Korean Version of the Work Family Behavioral Role Conflict Scale (WFBRC S)
Venue: International journal of environmental research and public health
Year: 2020

This study aimed to examine the validity and reliability of the Korean version of the Work Family Behavioral Role Conflict Scale (WFBRC S) which was originally developed to measure work family behavioral role conflict in American adults with a wide variety of occupations such as nurses and chief executive officers. This study used a methodological research design. The study population consisted of 235 married men and women aged 20 years or older who were living in various cities, who had been employed for three years or more. The validity of the content, construct, convergent, discriminant, and criterion related, as well as the reliability of the WFBRC S K, was assessed. The WFBRC S Korean version consists of 25 items. It was found that through the validity of the composition and standards of WFBRC S K, it was possible to measure the conflict by focusing on behavior so that a comprehensive evaluation of the role conflict between family and work, and work and family, can be performed. Five items in the WFBRC S K were excluded with a standardized factor loading of less than 0.50. We applied the modified index to improve the model fit to build a model, it supports a good fit and reliable score for the Korean version of the WFBRC S model. Analysis of the fit of the revised model Nomed kh2 (CIMIN/df) value of less was: fit indices to 2.05 RMSEA 0.07, RMR 0.04, SRMR 0.06, GFI 0.85, IFI 0.91, TLI 0.90, CFI 0.91. Criterion validity compared to the WLBOC S showed significant correlation, and Cronbach's alpha was 0.94. Factor loadings of the 25 questions ranged from 0.49 to 0.81. The study findings confirmed the applicability of this scale for measuring the work family behavioral role conflict in Korean adults with a wide variety of occupations. The WFBRC S K can be applied on the measurement of work family conflict in nursing and other industrial sites. These results provide a foundation for future studies on work family behavioral role conflict in Korean adult.
Understanding Different Aspects of Caregiving for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) a Narrative Review of the Literature
Venue: Brain sciences
Year: 2020

There has been a considerable endeavor to understand associated challenges of caregiving for a child with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and to develop the necessary skills and approaches to assist parents of children with ASD. Different studies have been stressed the importance and need for parental involvement in the intervention process to increase positive impacts.  The process of caregiving and the associated challenges should be understood from different aspects to be able to facilitate parent involvement in intervention implementation. In a narrative literature review, ten selected reviews were considered and each review considered a special aspect of caregiving for an individual with ASD.  Five main different factors in the available literature and reviews were considered as different themes that needed to be reconsidered in the studies on the impacts of caregiving for an individual with ASD.  It is concluded that to facilitate parental involvement in the intervention process, and to support caregivers of this group of individuals this review highlights the need for improved research in some proposed areas in this field and to bridge the gap between research and practice in this field.
Removable gel color base coat to the artificial nail and a method for its preparation
Year: 2010

1. polymerizable composition comprising: at least one reactive (meth) acrylate and at least one reactive urethane (meth) acrylate and at least one reactive polypropylene glycol monomethacrylate; at least one copolymer of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) polymethacrylic acids (PMAA) at least one pyromellitic dianhydride glitserildimetakrilata (PDGDM) at least one non reactive polymer is soluble in the solvent; and at least one non reactive solvent, wherein the actinic radiation due to the polymerizable composition is cured in thermosetting acrylic material having voids formed therein, the cavities comprise at least one non reactive solvent soluble polimer.2. The polymerizable composition according to claim 1, wherein at least one polymer soluble in a non reactive solvent is an ester . The polymerizable composition according to item 2, wherein the cellulose ester is an alkylate tsellyulozy.4 acetate. The polymerizable composition according to item 3, wherein the cellulose acetate alkylate is selected from the group consisting of cellulose acetate butyrate, cellulose acetate propionate and smesey.5. The polymerizable composition according to claim 1, wherein at least one copolymer of PMMA PMAA has a monomer ratio of PMMA: PMAA approximately 50: 50.6. The polymerizable composition according to claim 1, wherein at least one copolymer of PMMA PMAA has a monomer ratio of PMMA: PMAA approximately 60: 40.7.
Prediction of shear strength of FRP reinforced concrete beams using fuzzy inference system
Venue: Expert Syst. Appl.
Year: 2014

The objective of this paper is to develop a more accurate and reliable alternative method using fuzzy inference system (FIS) to predict the shear strength of FRP reinforced concrete beams. Such an accurate model, which can lead to an economical use of FRP reinforcement, is in high demand since existing design provisions for shear capacity of FRP RC beams are either very conservative or even inadequate mainly due to two factors. Firstly, the current design codes follow the conventional assumption of superposition of concrete plus stirrup contribution to the shear strength, hence ignoring any interaction between shear resisting mechanisms. Secondly, the current design guidelines simply assume that some modified versions of the shear design equations which are empirically derived for steel reinforced concrete beams can be easily extended to cover FRP RC beams although the guidelines vary greatly in the manner they modify the equations. Given very different properties of FRP as compared to those of steel, such an assumption, however, needs to be examined and validated. To relax both of these assumptions, the FIS approach offers an attractive solution because it does not require a priori information. As a result, the proposed FIS model compares favorably with a large data base containing the test results of 197 FRP RC beams assembled from literature. Moreover, the proposed FIS model outperforms the latest design provisions for shear strength of FRP RC beams, namely ACI 440 06 and CSA S806 02. Also, a special attention is paid to differentiate between shear compression mode and shear tension mode of failure, which are the two common types of shear failure for FRP RC beams with FRP stirrups. In light of the proposed FIS model, modifications to the shear compression resistance provided by the considered design guidelines are recommended.
Alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor specific agonist DMXBA (GTS 21) attenuates Ab accumulation through suppression of neuronal g secretase activity and promotion of microglial amyloid b phagocytosis and ameliorates cognitive impairment in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
Venue: Neurobiology of Aging
Year: 2018

We previously demonstrated that stimulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) increases amyloid b (Ab) phagocytosis in rat microglia and is closely associated with the decrease of brain Ab and amelioration of memory dysfunction in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD) Here, we examined the subtypes of nAChRs involved in these beneficial effects. In primary cultures of rat microglia, the a7 nAChR selective agonist 3 (2,4 dimethoxy)benzylidene] anabaseine dihydrochloride (DMXBA) promoted Ab and fluorescent latex bead phagocytosis, whereas selective a7 nAChR antagonists suppressed the enhanced Ab phagocytosis. In a transgenic mouse model of AD, administration of DMXBA attenuated brain Ab burden and memory dysfunction. Moreover, DMXBA suppressed g secretase activity in solubilized fractions of human neuroblastoma cells and transgenic mouse brain. These results suggested that selective activation of a7 nAChRs promoted microglial Ab phagocytosis and suppressed neuronal g secretase activity to contribute to the attenuation of the brain Ab burden and cognitive impairment. Thus, we propose neuronal and microglial a7 nAChRs as new therapeutic targets in the treatment of AD.
Catalysis of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking by chiral chemical potential
Year: 2016

In this paper we study the properties of media with chiral imbalance parameterized by chiral chemical potential. It is shown that depending on the strength of interaction between constituents in the media the chiral chemical potential either creates or enhances dynamical chiral symmetry breaking. Thus the chiral chemical potential plays a role of the catalyst of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking. Physically this effect results from the appearance of the Fermi surface and additional fermion states on this surface which take part in dynamical chiral symmetry breaking. An interesting conclusion which can be drawn is that at sufficiently small temperature chiral plasma is unstable with respect to condensation of Cooper pairs and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking even for vanishingly small interactions between constituents.
Financial constraints on investment: Effects of firm size and the financial crisis
Year: 2019

We estimate the effect of external financial constraints on fixed investment intentions for UK manufacturing by size of firm distinguishing between normal effects and those since the financial crisis began in the UK in 2007. Our financial constraints data are constructed to reflect only supply side influences i.e. they are independent of cyclical conditions that may affect the demand for credit. Using consistent quarterly long run survey data with IV estimation, we find that only for the crisis period are financial constraints important for large firms and then only for periods of falling business optimism. By contrast, small firms experienced continuous constraint but with no additional supply side effects during the crisis. A policy implication for the UK is that the key to resumed lending may lie not so much with bank behaviour as with the demand conditions that firms face, in particular the sustainability and certainty of demand.
Uji Kadar Disolusi Tablet Kalsium Laktat Menggunakan Titrasi Kompleksometri
Year: 2020

Pengujian disolusi tablet Kalsium Laktat betujuan untuk memastikan kadar zat aktif dari kalsium laktat dapat terlarut dalam tubuh sehingga mencapai efek terapi yang diinginkan. Alat yang digunakan adalah Disolusion Tester merk Hanson type Vision G2 Elite 8TM dengan menggunakan metode keranjang. Media yang digunakan adalah aquadem dengan volume 500 ml tiap vesselsnya (tabung disolusi) Pengukuran kadar tablet kalsium laktat diukur menggunakan titrasi kompleksometri, dimana indikator yang digunakan adalah indikator EBT dan larutan standar yang digunakan adalah EDTA. Dari hasil pengujian didapatkan kadar rata rata tablet kalsium laktat sebesar 101,61% dengan kadar minimun 98,46% Hasil ini menunjukkan bahwa tablet Kalsium Laktat yang di produksi oleh PT. Kimia Farma (Persero) Tbk. Plant Medan memenuhi syarat sesuai dengan yang tertera di Farmakope Indonesia Edisi V yaitu tiap unit sediaan tidak kurang dari Q 5% 80% dimana Q 75%
DESAIN MICROCONTROLER DALAM SISTEM ABSENSI SISWA MENGGUNAKAN FINGERPRINT BERDASARKAN SIDIK JARI DI DUKUNG OLEH PEMROGRAMAN BAHASA C
Year: 2018

Dewasa ini pemalsuan tandatangan yang dilakukan oleh mahasiswa sudah menjadi kebiasaan. Hal ini selaras dengan dilakukannya pengecekan absensi mahasiswa oleh dosen dimana tandatangannya ada mahasiswa bersangkutan tidak berada didalam kelas. Demi menghindari hal tersebut penulis melakukan penelitian untuk pengambilan absensi mahasiswa menggunakan sidik jari melalui Fingerprint kemudian dipadukan dengan pemrograman bahasa C. Penulisan ini bertujuan agar tidak terjadi pemalsuan tandatangan yang diberikan untuk mengisi absensi. Pada penulisan ini penulis menggunakan metode Field Research dan Library Research dengan cara menguji konsep yang telah ada ke peralatan yang sesuai, kemudian diaplikasikan menggunakan microcontroller ARDUINO UNO sebagai chip, fingerprint sebagai media pembaca sidik jari dan pemrograman menggunakan bahasa C. Sistem akan bekerja jika mahasiswa menempelkan jarinya ke perangkat fingerprint, jika sinyal Low Level aktif itu artinya jari mahasiswa terbaca dengan demikian sinyal akan diteruskan ke microcontroller ARDUINO UNO untuk mencari data mahasiswa tersebut.