Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Aalborg Universitet Instant Data Analysis : Evaluating Usability in a Day

When designing a usability evaluation, key decisions must be made regarding methods and techniques for data collection and analysis. Although there is a strong body of research within human-computer interaction regarding the appropriate choices of data collection methods and techniques, much less research has been conducted examining and comparing methods and techniques for analyzing the collected data. This paper presents a data analysis technique which allows usability evaluations to be conducted, analyzed and documented in a day; Instant Data Analysis (IDA). The use of this technique is exemplified through a usability evaluation of a software product for a large hospital for which traditional video data analysis and Instant Data Analysis were applied independently through a controlled experiment. Among our key findings, the experiment revealed that in only 10% of the time required to do the video data analysis, Instant Data Analysis identified 85% of the critical usability problems in the system being evaluated. At the same time, the noise of unique usability problems usually characterizing video data analysis was significantly reduced. Author
Using Goal Programming To Increase The Efficiency Of Marketing Campaigns

Organizations allocate a part of their financial resources to optimize their market segmentation strategies, plan marketing campaigns, and improve customer relationships. Throughout this process, they use a vast amount of electronic records generated by online and offline purchases to design effective marketing campaigns and introduce personalized promotions for their customers by employing data analytics. The problem of selecting target customer segments, given various priorities and the budget constraint, can be modeled as a multi-objective optimization problem with flexible goals and different priorities, interdependencies and resources constraints. The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate the use of the goal programming approach to address this challenge.
Comparative study of midazolam-propofol and metamizole-propofol clinical effects in domestic pigeons.

Propofol, 2,6-diisopropylphenol, is a short-acting general anesthetic agent used in animals and humans. It is rapidly metabolized and is administrated intravenously with or without pre-anesthetics. It is also used in the induction of inhalation anesthesia (17, 30). It acts by stimulating gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors and causes sedative, anesthetic, and analgesic effects (23, 28). It has a rapid recovery time and does not accumulate in tissues (18). A number of researchers have reported positive effects of propofol on muscular relaxation and minimum adverse effects on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, but some other have reported a decreased ventilation rate and respiratory depth and apnea (9, 15). Metamizole, methane sulfonic acid sodium monohydrate or dipyrone, acts rapidly and has analgesic, muscle relaxant, anti-pyretic, and strong anti-inflammatory effects. Its mechanism of action is similar to that of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (24, 29). Some studies have shown that inappropriate doses of metamizole could possibly cause hypoxia, dyspnea, peripheral vasodilation, and hypothermia, while appropriate doses may not cause any disorders or renal or hepatic toxicity in the short term (10, 26). The side effects of metamizole on the cardiovascular system are not clear, and it has adequate compatibility with the respiratory and renal systems, blood serum, and blood glucose (2, 6). Benzodiazepines affect GABA receptors; they have a half-life of one hour in avian species and possess sedative, analgesic, and muscle relaxant effects. However, administration of high doses may induce cardiovascular and respiratory depression and may damage the renal tissue in the 1) This study is a part of a dissertation to be submitted by the first author to the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran, Iran. The study was supported by the Faculty of Specialized Veterinary Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University. Comparative study of midazolam-propofol and metamizole-propofol clinical effects in domestic pigeons1)
The Impact of Promotions, Recognition, Autonomy and Pay Incentives on job satisfaction: A case of banking sector employees in Pakistan

This study is an attempt to better describe the factors which can effect job satisfaction in Pakistani banking sector’s employees. The current study measures the impact of various factors i.e. autonomy, promotion opportunities, recognition and appreciation, pay incentive on job satisfaction by using a sample of 300 Bank employees. Results indicated that all the predictors including autonomy, recognition and appreciation, promotion opportunities, and pay incentives turned out to be significantly influencing employees’ job satisfaction and tend to enhance it. Key Words: Job satisfaction, Banking sector, Autonomy, Promotion Opportunities, Recognition & Appreciation, Pay Incentive
Exploring an Absent Presence: Wayfinding as an Embodied Sociocultural Experience

Wayfinding has often been seen as being about the quickest or shortest possible route between two points (Hölscher et al 2011; Tam 2011; Haque et al 2006). Moreover, this process has very often been seen as a cognitive one, with the experiential nature of wayfinding and with the embodied, emotional and sociocultural aspects of this experience conspicuously absent. We argue that wayfinding is rarely a purely cognitive process that involves an individual person, who is entirely instrumental in navigating a direct and precise route, but instead that this is a process almost always directed according to embodied and sociocultural needs. We propose a reassessment of present wayfinding definitions and suggest an alternative understanding that includes sociocultural elements, embodied individuals and experience through their embodied senses, as crucial elements of the concept. Seeing wayfinding from this different sociocultural ontological viewpoint, opens up new ways of understanding and planning wayfinding systems.
PATHOGENIC DIVERSITY IN BIPOLARIS SOROKINIANA ISOLATES COLLECTED FROM DIFFERENT WHEAT GROWING AREAS OF THE PUNJAB AND NWFP OF PAKISTAN

Leaf blight of wheat caused by Bipolaris sorokiniana (Cochliobolus sativus) is a world wide economically important foliar disease. It mainly occurs in warm, humid wheat growing areas. In Pakistan Helminthosporium leaf blight (spot blotch) has been noted in southern province of Sindh, where winter temperatures are warmer. During a survey conducted in different agro-ecological zones of Pakistan from 2004 to 2005, Bipolaris sorokiniana was found to be a predominant pathogen. Eighty-seven isolates of B. sorokinaina isolated from 6 different zones were tested for their aggressiveness on cv. Inqliab-91, Wafaq-2001 and Bhakhar-2001. The majority of the isolates were found more aggressive on cv. Wafaq-2001 than Inqliab-91 and Bhakkar-2001 whereas, two isolates were categorized as least aggressive, 57 slightly aggressive and 27 were moderately aggressive while one isolate P2 9 collected from Khanewal (zone 5) exhibited most aggressive reaction.
A Systematic Study on Electronic and Thermodynamical Properties of Some LiM (M= Ag, Hg and Tl) Intermetallics

Binary intermetallic system, Li-M (M=Ag, Hg and Tl) has been systematically evaluated and optimized using self consistent tight binding linear muffin tin orbital (TB-LMTO) method under ambient conditions. The lattice constant, bulk modulus and its pressure derivative were calculated. The lattice constants were calculated to be 3.05, 3.20 and 3.34 A and bulk modulii were predicted to be 61.8, 50 and 37.8 GPa, for LiAg, LiHg and LiTl, respectively. Electronic band structures, partial and total densities of states were derived in B2 (CsCl) phase for the first time. The band structures show metallic character and conductivity was mostly governed by Li-d and M-d states. Furthermore, Debye temperature, Gruneisen constant and molar heat capacity in terms of coefficients of the electronic and lattice heat capacities were estimated.
VLT/NACO adaptive optics imaging of the Herbig Ae star HD 100453

We report the detection of a companion candidate to the Herbig Ae star HD 100453, using the NACO instrument at the VLT UT4. The separation between the companion candidate and HD 100453 is 1$\farcs$06, and their brightness contrast is 5.1 mag at K s and 4.2 mag at Br γ . We discuss the possible nature of the newly detected star based on near-infrared photometry. The photometric data are consistent with a 0.3 $M_\odot$ companion to HD 100453, corresponding to a spectral type of M3-M5. This detection could have important implications for the structure of the disk around HD 100453.
Wild ungulates vs extensive livestock. Looking back to face the future.

Foraging of herbivores has been one of the most ancient and important causes of heterogeneity in Mediterranean landscapes. Its ecological role has been so extensive, diversified and deep, that much of their current biological and cultural heritage (including many Nature 2000 grassland habitat types) depends upon extensive livestock management systems. However, extensive livestock numbers are decreasing while wild ungulate populations are increasing. Our aim, following the "rivets and redundancy" theory, is to discuss how much of the traditional contribution of livestock to the preservation of those cultural landscapes and to Sustainable Rural Development can be assumed by wild ungulates as well as to describe potential opportunities and risks. Although we lack sufficient knowledge about the role wild ungulates play within their environments, we think they can partially assume some essential functions traditionally played by extensive livestock. However, due to their wild nature and to different potential risks, their stocking rates should be much lower than those of livestock. Hence, especial attention should be paid to risk prevention and particularly to population control.
Flame-wall interaction of a flame jet impinging normally on a cooled cylinder

The main objective of the present experimental investigation is to study the turbulent reacting flow field in the region where a stable premixed flame jet (Re = 3250 and ? = 1.3) impinges normally on a cooled cylinder and gain a better understanding of the effect of the cylinder wall temperature. PIV measurements were done in a plane normal to the cylinder axis for both a cold wall (100 °C) and a hot wall (500 °C). The effect of wall temperature on mean flow velocities and Reynolds stresses were investigated by comparing the results of detailed PIV measurements for both cases. The effect of wall temperature on the mean flow velocities is minimal. In the impinging jet region, small differences in the mean velocities only exist near the wall due to thermal expansion. In the wall jet region, small differences in the mean velocities arise further away from the wall caused by the mean position where large scale vortices are created. It was found that the position where these vortices form are generally further upstream for a hot wall than for a cold wall. Large Reynolds stresses are found at two locations: (i) At the location where the inner flame bends around the wall, large Reynolds stresses are present due to the wavy motion of the inner flame as a result of shear between the fast unreacted cold core and the slow diffusion flame. (ii) At the outer edges of the diffusion flame, large Reynolds stresses are present due to the periodic passing of large scale vortices, altering the velocity flow field in the wall jet region. At both locations the Reynolds stresses increase with increasing cylinder wall temperature, which is related to the position where vortices form.
The impact of foreign direct investment and real exchange rate on economic growth in Malaysia: some empirical evidence

This study is an attempt to examine the relationship between exchange rate and foreign direct investment towards economic growth in Malaysia during the periods between 1970 to 2011. The ARDL method was used to establish the long-run relationship as well as the direction of causation between variables. For this purpose two equations were estimated. The standard the bivariate relationship and the trivariate model includes the exchange rate variable. Both models exhibit strong evidence on long-run cointegration relationship. The impact of foreign direct investment in the long run equation found to be positive and significant, whereas the impact of real exchange rate is not. In the short run, both exchange rate and foreign direct investment found to be significant but slightly minimal in the percentage effect. We offer two possible reasons with regards to exchange rate movements in the short run as well in the long run, i.e. the hold-up effect and the price adjustment effect.
US Policy Spillover (?) -- China's Accession to the WTO and Rising Exports to the EU

The paper offers a novel explanation for China’s manufacturing exports performance after WTO entry. Building on stylized facts about low-wage country exporters, a theoretical model is developed to analyze reduced trade policy uncertainty. A global (non-destination specific) component of exporting fixed costs facilitates transmission of bilateral policy changes to multilateral export performance. The empirical analysis exploits the removal of US tariff uncertainty in conjunction with China’s WTO accession, and examines its effect on China’s exports to the EU. The results reveal that: (i) the structure of China’s export boom to the EU conforms to the pattern of US tariff uncertainty; (ii) the adjustment takes place at the extensive margin; and (iii) the effect phases out after a few years. These findings have implications for the scope of international policy negotiations and provide suggestive evidence on the nature of fixed costs manufacturing firms in low-wage countries must overcome.
THE CONVEX REAL PROJECTIVE MANIFOLDS AND ORBIFOLDS WITH RADIAL ENDS I: THE OPENNESS OF DEFORMATIONS

A real projective orbifold is an n-dimensional orbifold modeled on RP n with groups PGL(n + 1;R). We concentrate on orbifolds with a compact codimension 0 submanifold whose complement is a union of neighborhoods of ends, dieomorphic to (n 1)-dimensional orbifolds times intervals. A real projective orbifold has radial end if each of its end is foliated by projective geodesics concurrent to each other. It is said to be convex if any path can be homotoped to a projective geodesic with endpoints xed. A projective structure sometimes admit deformation to inequivalent parameters of real projective structures. We will prove that local homemorphism between the deformation space of projective structures on such an orbifold with radial ends with various conditions with the representation space of the fundamental group with corresponding conditions. We will use a Hessian argument to show that a small deformation of a real projective orbifold with ends and without essential annuli will remain properly and strictly convex in a generalized sense if so is the beginning real projective orbifold provided that the ends behave in a convex manner. Here, we have to restrict each end to have a fundamental group isomorphic to a nite extension of a product of hyperbolic groups and abelian groups. The understanding of the ends is not accomplished in this paper as this forms an another subject. We will prove the closedness of the convex real projective structures on orbifolds with irreducibilty condition. One theorem of note is that a convex irreducible real projective orbifold with radial ends with some condition is relatively hyperbolic if and only if it is strictly convex with respect to ends, generalizing the result of Benoist for closed orbifolds.
Innovation Capital and Its Measurement

Innovation capital regarded as an element of intellectual capital reflects the ability of an organization to create and commercialize the new knowledge (innovations). The aim of this study is twofold. Firstly, an attempt is made to give a concise review of innovation capital concept and its measures in selected intellectual capital – IC –models. Secondly, this paper sets out to extend the current models and introduce a new valuation method of innovation capital. Moreover, the paper provides empirical evidence about the use of the proposed method.
Biological and physical controls on the flux and characteristics of sinking particles on the Northwest Atlantic margin

Biogenic matter characteristics and radiocarbon contents of organic carbon (OC) were examined on sinking particle samples intercepted at three nominal depths of 1000 m, 2000 m, and 3000 m (∼50 m above the seafloor) during a 3-year sediment trap program on the New England slope in the Northwest Atlantic. We have sought to characterize the sources of sinking particles in the context of vertical export of biogenic particles from the overlying water column and lateral supply of resuspended sediment particles from adjacent margin sediments. High aluminum (Al) abundances and low OC radiocarbon contents indicated contributions from resuspended sediment which was greatest at 3000 m but also significant at shallower depths. The benthic source (i.e., laterally supplied resuspended sediment) of opal appears negligible based on the absence of a correlation with Al fluxes. In comparison, CaCO3 fluxes at 3000 m showed a positive correlation with Al fluxes. Benthic sources accounted for 42 ∼ 63% of the sinking particle flux based on radiocarbon mass balance and the relationship between Al flux and CaCO3 flux. Episodic pulses of Al at 3000 m were significantly correlated with the near-bottom current at a nearby hydrographic mooring site, implying the importance of current variability in lateral particle transport. However, Al fluxes at 1000 m and 2000 m were coherent but differed from those at 3000 m, implying more than one mode of lateral supply of particles in the water column.
Fractional topological insulator precursors in spin-orbit fermion ladders

We study precursor states of fractional topological insulators (FTIs) in interacting fermionic ladders with spin-orbit coupling. Within a microscopically motivated bosonization approach, we investigate different competing phases depending on same-spin and interspin interactions at fractional effective filling $\nu=1/3$ per spin. In the spin-decoupled limit, we find that strong repulsive interactions of already moderate range may lead to a partially gapped state with two time-reversed copies of a quasi-one dimensional Laughlin phase. This FTI precursor competes with an interleg partially gapped phase displaying quasi long-range density wave order, however it may be stabilized if interactions have suitable anisotropy, or are sufficiently near SU($2$) symmetry, in leg space. When the FTI phase is present, it is moderately robust to small interspin interactions; these introduce competing partially gapped phases of orbital antiferromagnetic and bond density wave character. Performing a strong coupling analysis of the FTI precursor regime, we find that the main effect of interspin interactions is to induce correlated quasiparticle backscattering between the precursor FTI edge modes. Although this process competes with the topological phase, we show, by considering an array of ladders, that its influence may disappear upon approaching the two dimensional case. Considering time-reversal symmetry breaking perturbations, we also describe a protocol that adiabatically pumps $1/6$ charge per half-cycle, thus providing a quantized FTI signature arising already in the single ladder regime.
Feed intake, digestibility and performance of growing small East African goats offered maize (Zea mays) stover supplemented with Balanites aegyptiaca and Acacia tortilis leaf forages.

Small East African entire male goats aged 7 months and 12±0.4kg were used to assess the effect of supplementing B. aegyptiaca and A. tortilis to maize stover on dry matter intake, apparent nutrient digestibility, average daily gain and rumen parameters, using three diets: maize stover and mineral salt (control); control plus B. aegyptiaca and control plus A. tortilis, in a completely randomized design with eight animals per treatment. The crude protein was 46, 117 and 137g/kg DM for stover, B. aegyptiaca and A. tortilis, respectively. Intake of stover (294, 298 and 302g/d) was similar (P>0.05) across the treatments, but supplementation significantly increased (P<0.05) intake (294, 442 and 449g/d) for the control animals and those supplemented with A. tortilis and B. aegyptiaca, respectively. The rumen parameters were normal, but apparent nutrient digestibility differed (P<0.05). The average daily gains were 8.33, 15.7 and 20.3g/d for control, A. tortilis and B. aegyptiaca supplement, respectively. In conclusion, A. tortilis and B. aegyptiaca supplements greatly improved feed intake, diet digestibility and average daily gains of growing goats. However, B. aegyptiaca was superior and, therefore, has better potential as a protein supplement to low quality roughages.
A generalization of modules with the property (P

I.AKhazzi and P.F. Smith called a module M have the property (P ∗) if every submodule N ofM there exists a direct summand K of M such that K ≤ N and N K ⊆ Rad( K ). Motivated by this, it is natural to introduce another notion that we called modules that have the properties (GP ∗) and (N −GP ∗) as proper generalizations of modules that have the property (P ∗). In this paper we obtain various properties of modules that have properties (GP ∗) and (N −GP ∗). We show that the class of modules for which every direct summand is a fully invariant submodule that have the property (GP ∗) is closed under finite direct sums. We completely determine the structure of these modules over generalized f-semiperfect rings.
From Animosity to Affinity: The Interplay of Competing Logics and Interdependence in Cross‐Sector Partnerships

Drawing on and extending institutional logics and resource dependence theories, this paper posits that for cross-sector partnerships to survive, organizations need to share compatible institutional logics, but depend less on each other's resources. Asymmetrical cross-sector partnerships may lead to a breakup if organizations are forced to operate under incompatible institutional logics. The findings of this study show that the challenges posed by incompatible logics of partners could be mitigated by the degree of resource interdependence between organizations. Capturing the effects of context and transactions on the actors’ strategic behaviour, the findings, based on a dataset of project-level partnership ties between 1312 organizations in the carbon-offset market, support these hypotheses. The paper concludes by discussing implications of organizations' responses to keep acting under or reinterpreting existing institutional logics in asymmetrical cross-sector relationships.