Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FUZZY MODEL OF SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION BASED ON ONTOLOGY

IT project concerning a selected class of ERP while related to dimensioning (cost estimation) of the project within the scope of any selected properties (metrics), e.g. changes in the cost of software is considered. According to specific customer’s requirements suppliers face the problem of determining the cost of additional works. Most methods of cost estimation bring satisfactory results only at the stage of pre-implementation analysis. However, suppliers need to know the estimated cost as early as at the stage of trade talks. A method, which gives more accurate results at the stage of trade talks is a method based on the ontology of implementation costs. This paper proposes a modification of the method involving the use of fuzzy attributes, classes, instances and relations in the ontology. The result provides not only the information about the value of work, but also about the minimum and maximum expected cost, and the most likely range of costs. This solution allows suppliers effectively negotiate a contract and increase the chances of a successful completion of the project.
MODEL OF RECONNECTION OF WEAKLY STOCHASTIC MAGNETIC FIELD AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

We discuss the model of magnetic eld reconnection in the presence of turbulence introduced by us ten years ago. The model does not require any plasma eects to be involved in order to make the reconnection fast. In fact, it shows that the degree of magnetic eld stochasticity controls the reconnection. The turbulence in the model is assumed to be sub-Alfv enic, with the magnetic eld only slightly perturbed. This ensures that the reconnection happens in generic astrophysical environments and the model does not appeal to any unphysical concepts, similar to the turbulent magnetic diusivit y concept, which is employed in the kinematic magnetic dynamo. The interest to that model has recently increased due to successful numerical testings of the model predictions. In view of this, we discuss implications of the model, including the rst-order Fermi acceleration of cosmic rays, that the model naturally entails, bursts of reconnection, that can be associated with Solar ares, as well as, removal of magnetic ux during star-formation.
Childhood abuse and aggression in girls: The contribution of borderline personality disorder

Abstract The authors tested whether emerging borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms mediated the association between childhood physical abuse (CPA) and aggression among incarcerated girls. Participants were 121 incarcerated adolescent girls (13–19 years old). Three forms of aggression (relational, overt, and violent offending behavior) and exposure to CPA by a parental figure were assessed using self-report inventories, whereas BPD symptoms were evaluated using a structured interview. Mediation models, including tests of indirect effects, were conducted in which each form of aggression was predicted from CPA with BPD symptoms entered as a mediator. A divergent pattern emerged in which BPD symptoms mediated the relationship between CPA and violent offending, but not less severe forms of overt aggression. Relational aggression, although correlated with CPA, was not associated with BPD symptoms. Implications for the conceptualization and treatment of girls' aggression within the context of interpersonal functioning are discussed.
Cash Holdings and Corporate Governance - New International Evidence*

In this paper, we provide new and complementing international evidence on the relation between cash holdings, corporate governance, and firm value. Our sample consists of a crosssection of 1,875 firms from 46 countries in 2007. We construct eight different measures of firm-level corporate governance based on 64 individual governance attributes provided by Governance Metrics International (GMI). We present three new main findings. First, firms with poor firm-level governance hold significantly more cash than firms with better firm-level governance. Second, we document a positive effect of cash holdings on firm value for firms with good firm-level corporate governance. A likely explanation is that in firms with weak firmlevel governance, higher cash holdings might be exploited by the management and invested in negative-NPV projects. Third, we find that a payout of excess cash by means of dividend payments, which reduces the possibility for managers to waste cash on negative-NPV projects, also positively affects the valuation effect of cash holdings. Moreover, firms with comparatively low firm-level corporate governance can still profit from cash holdings if they maintain relatively high dividend payout ratios. We control for country-level corporate governance in our analyses but find its effect to be limited and dominated by the effect of firm-level governance.
The r-Neighborhood Graph: An Adjustable Structure for Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

In wireless ad hoc networks, constructing and maintaining a topology with lower node degrees is usually intended to mitigate excessive traffic load on wireless nodes. However, keeping lower node degrees often prevents nodes from choosing better routes that consume less energy. Therefore, the trade-off is between the node degree and the energy efficiency. In this paper, an adjustable structure, named the r-neighborhood graph, is proposed to control the topology. This structure has the flexibility to be adjusted between the two objectives through a parameter r, 0lesrles1. More explicitly, for any set of n nodes, the maximum node degree and power stretch factor can be bounded from above by some decreasing and increasing functions of r, respectively. Specifically, the bounds can be constants in some ranges of r. Even more, the r-neighborhood graph is a general structure of both RNG and GG, two well-known structures in topology control. Compared with YGk, another famous adjustable structure, our method always results in a connected planar with symmetric edges. To construct this structure, we investigate a localized algorithm, named PLA, which consumes less transmitting power during construction and executes efficiently in O(n logn) time
Maternal mind-mindedness: a cognitive-behavioural trait or a relational construct?

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Developmental Care Approaches for Mitigating Stress in Preterm Neonates in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review

The aim of the present study was to perform a systematic review of the impact of developmental care approaches on indicators of stress in preterm neonates who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Twenty-two studies were identified in the PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and SciELO databases using the keywords “preterm neonates,” “stress,” and “developmental care. ” The methodological quality of the studies was assessed according to the Effective Public Health Practice Project tool. Nine developmental care approaches were employed for preterm infants similarly to the approaches that are employed in the NICU environment. Positive results with regard to physiological and behavioral indicators of neonatal stress were identified. However, negative results were also found with regard to higher levels of stress as a physiological indicator. With regard to the methodological quality of the studies, 54% were classified as having moderate quality, and 46% were classified as having either strong (23%) or weak (23%) quality. These findings suggest that there is growing interest in developing developmental care approaches to minimize stress in hospitalized preterm neonates, but no consensus has been reached regarding the measures that are used to assess stress. Most interventions are in the exploratory stage, with little methodological convergence. Future studies are needed that integrate the assessment of both physiological and behavioral measures of neonatal stress and seek to validate developmental care approaches that are already used in the NICU based on scientific evidence.
General Probabilistic Framework of Randomness

We introduce a new mathematical framework for the probabilistic description of an experiment upon a system of any type in terms of initial information representing this system. Based on the notions of an information state, an information state space and a generalized observable, this general framework covers the description of a wide range of experimental situations including those where, with respect to a system, an experiment is perturbing. We prove that, to any experiment upon a system, there corresponds a unique generalized observable on a system initial information state space, which defines the probability distribution of outcomes under this experiment. We specify the case where initial information on a system provides "no knowledge" for the description of an experiment. Incorporating in a uniform way the basic notions of conventional probability theory and the non-commutativity aspects and the basic notions of quantum measurement theory, our framework clarifies the principle difference between Kolmogorov's model in probability theory and the statistical model of quantum theory. Both models are included into our framework as particular cases. We show that the phenomenon of "reduction" of a system initial information state is inherent, in general, to any non-destructive experiment and upon a system of any type. Based on our general framework, we introduce the probabilistic model for the description of non-destructive experiments upon a quantum system and prove that positive bounded linear mappings on the Banach space of trace class operators, arising in the description of experiments upon a quantum system, are completely positive.
Dopamine-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity in the Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons

The striatum, the input stage of the basal ganglia, is a critical brain structure for the learning of stimulus–response habits as well as motor, perceptual, and cognitive skills. Roles of dopamine (DA) and acetylcholine (ACh) in this form of implicit memory have long been considered essential, but the underlying cellular mechanism is still unclear. By means of patch-clamp recordings from corticostriatal slices of the mouse, we studied whether the identified striatal cholinergic interneurons undergo long-term synaptic changes after tetanic stimulation of cortico- and thalamostriatal fibers. Electrical stimulation of the fibers revealed a depolarizing and hyperpolarizing postsynaptic potential in the striatal cholinergic interneurons. The early depolarizing phase was considered to be a cortico/thalamostriatal glutamatergic EPSP, and the hyperpolarizing component was considered to be an intrastriatally evoked GABAergic IPSP. Tetanic stimulation of cortico/thalamostriatal fibers was found to induce simultaneously occurring long-term potentiation (LTP) of the EPSPs as well as the disynaptically mediated IPSPs. The induction of LTP of EPSP required a rise in intracellular Ca2+ concentration and dopamine D5, but not D2 receptor activation. Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors might also play a part in the LTP induction. Blockade of NMDA receptors, metabotropic glutamate receptors, or serotonin receptors had no significant effects. The long-term enhancement of the disynaptic IPSPs was caused by a long-term increase in the occurrence rate but not the amplitude of disynaptically mediated IPSP in the striatal cholinergic interneurons. This dual mechanism of synaptic plasticity may be responsible for the long-term modulation of the cortico/thalamostriatal synaptic transmission.
Bringing The Daily Mail to Africa: entertainment websites and the creation of a digital youth public in post-genocide Rwanda

ABSTRACT This article considers Kinyarwanda-language entertainment websites in Rwanda and argues that they create an alternative digital youth public. In a context wherein the ‘traditional’ media is heavily regulated, I argue that these websites provide important spaces of debate, aspiration, and self-making. They allow young Rwandans to participate in transnational networks of cultural production and imagine themselves as well-connected and ‘modern’ global citizens. This does not mean, however, that the digital public convened by these websites is a space of ‘rational’ or democratic debate. Rather, these sites are heavily gendered and seem disproportionately concerned with policing the behaviour and dress of young women. In doing so, they reveal on-going anxieties about women’s sexuality and place in the public sphere. Furthermore, as much as entertainment websites are understood to be relatively ‘apolitical’, they are inevitably shaped by the country’s politics. The digital youth public convened by entertainment websites is ‘alternative’ insofar as it allows for vibrant debate on topics of importance to young people, but it should in no way be seen as existing outside the realm of state power.
Classifying Sentence-Based Summaries of Web Documents

Text classification categories Web documents in large collections into predefined classes based on their contents. Unfortunately, the classification process can be time-consuming and users are still required to spend considerable amount of time scanning through the classified Web documents to identify the ones that satisfy their information needs. In solving this problem, we first introduce CorSum, an extractive single-document summarization approach, which is simple and effective in performing the summarization task, since it only relies on word similarity to generate high-quality summaries. Hereafter, we train a Na¨ıve Bayes classifier on CorSum-generated summaries and verify the classification accuracy using the summaries and the speed-up during the process. Experimental results on the DUC-2002 and 20 Newsgroups datasets show that CorSum outperforms other extractive summarization methods, and classification time is significantly reduced using CorSum-generated summaries with compatible accuracy. More importantly, browsing summaries, instead of entire documents, classified to topic-oriented categories facilitates the information searching process on the Web.
IMPLEMENTASI METODE ODOA (ONE DAY ONE AYAT) DALAM MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENGHAFAL AL-QURAN

Education has an important role in human life, without presence of human education will not develop properly. Implementation of education of children should be started early, especially religious education, because it will make strength of religion obtained. The duties of parents, teachers, and community is how guide of religion including in it teaches the al-Quran is still done, meaning that religious education should not be allowed to disappear. In order to maintain purity of Qur'an, in addition to do it by reading and understanding it, we also try to memorize it. At basic thought mentioned it, then formulated a focus on this research is planned memorizing activities of the al-Quran, the implementation of ODOA method (one day one ayat ) in improving the ability to memorize the al-Quran of students, and evaluation of memorizing activities of the al-Qur’an in Awar Awar NU Elementary School.
Learning to classify emotional content in crisis-related tweets

Social media is increasingly being used during crises. This makes it possible for crisis responders to collect and process crisis-related user generated content to allow for improved situational awareness. We describe a methodology for collecting a large number of relevant tweets and annotating them with emotional labels. This methodology has been used for creating a training data set consisting of manually annotated tweets from the Sandy hurricane. Those tweets have been utilized for building machine learning classifiers able to automatically classify new tweets. Results show that a support vector machine achieves the best results (60% accuracy on the multi-classification problem).
Keterkaitan Brand Image, Perceived Value Dan Purchase Intention Pada Tenun Kubang H. Ridwan By Di Kabupaten Lima Puluh Kota

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis keterkaitan Brand Image, Perceived Value dan Purchase Intention pada Tenun Kubang H. Ridwan By di Kabupaten Lima Puluh Kota. Ukuran sampel adalah 65 responden, teknik pengambilan sampel adalah purposive sampling. Analisis data dengan Structural Equation Modelling - Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS 2.0) . Hasil dari penelitian ini menemukan bahwa adanya pengaruh signifikan brand image terhadap perceived value dan perceived value terhadap purchase intention, serta adanya pengaruh tidak signifikan antara brand image terhadap purchase intention. Implikasi penelitian ini, Tenun Kubang H. Ridwan By harus meningkatkan citra merek dan mengoptimalkan pemasaran dengan menciptakan nilai dan kualitas yang lebih bagus, serta lebih memperhatikan niat pembelian konsumen. Kata Kunci : Brand Image, Perceived Value, Purchase Intention
Advanced Cooperative Provable Data Possession based Data Integrity Verification for Multi-Cloud Storage

Cloud computing is an emerging field which is raising its importance in the field of storage of data. Every individual, firm or organization wants to store data that has the limited storage capacity. For that purpose, there is need to outsource data to some Cloud Service Provider, there arises a problem of security of data. Security comes with 3 main parameters confidentiality, integrity and availability. For these issues, there is term called Provable Data Possession, it is nothing but the proof given by service provider to the data owner when there is demand by owner. Paper proposes an effective PDP model for integrity verification of data on distributed multicloud storage by using web-servers and Trusted Third Party. Here proposed the use of techniques such as, Advanced Cooperative Provable Data Possession (Advanced CPDP), Homomorphic Verifiable Response and Hash Index Hierarchy for Multiprover Zero Knowledge Proof System which is an Interactive Proof System. General Terms Security, Data Integrity on multi cloud
ÜNIVERSİTE ÖĞRENCiLERiNiN YAŞAM ANLAMI DÜZEYLERiNiN FARKLI DEĞiŞKENLER BAĞLAMINDA İNCELENMESi

Aim of this research was to investigate the university students’ meaning in their lives in the context of gender, perceived income level, perceived parental attitudes and grade level. Participants of this research consisted of a total of 200 students aged between 18 and 27, (147 female, 52 male) who studied various departments at different universities in Turkey. One of the participants did not indicate gender. This research is a descriptive study which is based on correlational research model. The Meaning in Life Questionnaire (Steger, Fraizer, Oishi, & Kaler, 2006), the Turkish adaptation studies of which were conducted by Akin and Tas (2011), was used to measure the young adults’ levels of meaning in life. Personal information form developed by the researcher was used to collect information about gender, grade level, perceived income level, and perceived parental attitudes. Results indicated that university students’ level of meaning in life did not significantly changed according to gender, perceived income level, perceived parental attitudes and grade level.
Kernel combination for SVM speaker verification

We present a new approach for constructing the kernels used to build support vector machines for speaker verification. The idea is to construct new kernels by taking linear combination of many kernels such as the GLDS and GMM supervector kernels. In this new kernel combination, The combination weights are speaker dependent rather than universal weights on score level fusion and there is no need for extra-data to estimate them. An experiment on the NIST 2006 speaker recognition evaluation dataset (all trial) was done using three different kernel functions (GLDS kernel, linear and Gaussian GMM supervector kernels). We compared our kernel combination to the optimal linear score fusion obtained using logistic regression. This optimal score fusion was trained on the same test data. We had an equal error rate of≃ 5, 9% using the kernel combination technique which is better to the optimal score fusion system ( ≃ 6, 0%).
Trends in the incidence of noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure: The role of race*

Objective: We sought to examine trends in the race-specific incidence of acute respiratory failure in the United States. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: We used the National Hospital Discharge Survey database (1992-2007), an annual survey of approximately 500 hospitals weighted to provide national hospitalization estimates. Patients: All incident cases of noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure hospitalized in the United States. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: We identified noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure by the presence of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes for respiratory failure or pulmonary edema (518.4, 518.5, 518.81, and 518.82) and mechanical ventilation (96.7×), excluding congestive heart failure. Incidence rates were calculated using yearly census estimates standardized to the age and sex distribution of the 2000 census population. Annual cases of noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure increased from 86,755 in 1992 to 323,474 in 2007. Noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure among black Americans increased from 56.4 (95% confidence interval 39.7-73.1) to 143.8 (95% confidence interval 123.8-163.8) cases per 100,000 in 1992 and 2007, respectively. Among white Americans, the incidence of noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure increased from 31.2 (95% confidence interval 26.2-36.5) to 94.0 (95% confidence interval 86.7-101.2) cases per 100,000 in 1992 and 2007, respectively. The average annual incidence of noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure over the entire study period was 95.1 (95% confidence interval 93.9-96.4) cases per 100,000 for black Americans compared to 66.5 (95% confidence interval 65.8-67.2) cases per 100,000 for white Americans (rate ratio 1.43, 95% confidence interval 1.42-1.44). Overall in-hospital mortality was greater for other-race Americans, but only among patients with two or more organ failures (57% [95% confidence interval 56%–59%] for other race, 51% [95% confidence interval 50%–52%] for white, 50% [95% confidence interval 49%–51%] for black). Conclusions: The incidence of noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure in the United States increased between 1992 and 2007. Black and other-race Americans are at greater risk of developing noncardiogenic acute respiratory failure compared to white Americans.