Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploiting temporal variation of received radio signal strength for indoor human tracking: poster abstract

Indoor positioning is one of the key technologies for enabling location-aware applications. To the best of our knowledge, existing indoor positioning technologies are aimed at providing very high-accuracy location information, but are hindered by the need of a infrastructure with high installation and maintenance costs. In addition, their accuracy is usually highly variable and vulnerable to environmental changes or external interference. Thus, for applications of indoor human tracking, the practical considerations of choosing a suitable indoor positioning technique should be to provide adequate accuracy while also being economical. Based on this observation, our study presents an indoor, room-level tracking method characterized by an infrastructure with low costs to build and maintain. The user carries a mobile device that can determine his/her location with the help of Bluetooth beacons installed at the intersections between rooms and hallways. In contrast to traditional radio-fingerprint map and proximity approaches, in this study the mobile device tracks the user's moving direction and the temporal variation of the radio signal strength from nearby Bluetooth beacons, to determine when the device enters or leaves a given room or hallway. Therefore, by determining the sequence of a user's movements, his/her moving path can be recorded for indoor tracking or navigation.
Rule-based Approach in Arabic Natural Language Processing

The rule-based approach has successfully been used in developing many natural language processing systems. Systems that use rule-based transformations are based on a core of solid linguistic knowledge. The linguistic knowledge acquired for one natural language processing system may be reused to build knowledge required for a similar task in another system. The advantage of the rule-based approach over the corpus-based approach is clear for: 1) less-resourced languages, for which large corpora, possibly parallel or bilingual, with representative structures and entities are neither available nor easily affordable, and 2) for morphologically rich languages, which even with the availability of corpora suffer from data sparseness. These have motivated many researchers to fully or partially follow the rule- based approach in developing their Arabic natural processing tools and systems. In this paper we address our successful efforts that involved rule-based approach for different Arabic natural language processing tasks.
The Development of Visual Word Recognition in German Bilinguals

23 Introduction . 24 Method . 29 Results and Discussion . 34 Conclusion . 39 References . 42 CHAPTER 3 Differences in Visual Word Recognition between L1 and L2: The Impact of Frequency, Length, and Orthographic Neighborhood Size in German Speaking Children (Study 2) Abstract . 47 Introduction . 48 Method . 54 Results . 57 Discussion . 64 References . 70. 47 Introduction . 48 Method . 54 Results . 57 Discussion . 64 References . 70
IMPLEMENTASI GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN SITUASIONAL KEPALA SEKOLAH DI SMP NEGERI 1 WAMENA KABUPATEN JAYAWIJAYA

Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang implementasi gaya kepemimpinan situasional Kepala Sekolah di Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri 1 Wamena Kabupaten Jayawijaya.Jenis penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan berparadigma kualitatif deskriptif. Subjek penelitian akan ditentukan berdasarkan purposive sampling , informan dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 7 (tujuh) orang. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan cara observasi (pengamatan), dokumentasi, wawancara mendalam ( indept interview ), Analisis data dilakukan dengan cara: reduksi data ( data reduction ); paparan data ( data display ); dan penarikan kesimpulan dan verifikasi ( conclusion drawing/verifying ). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: 1) Kepala sekolah telah mengimplementasikan gaya kepemimpinan situasional, dari indikator kepala sekolah berperan sebagai telling /memberitahukan telah dilaksanakan, selling /menjajakan, participating / mengikutsertakan delegating /mendelegasikan, 2) faktor pendukung implementasi gaya kepemimpinan situasional adalah kepala sekolah selalu berusaha untuk merangkul semua pihak dalam menjalankan tugasnya, bersikap adil, memberikan motivasi, adanya SDM yang sesuai dengan standar kompetensi, tersesdianya sarana dan prasarana sekolah yang memadai. Sedangkan yang menjadi faktor penghambat diantaranya adalah ada beberapa guru yang sulit dalam berkomunikasi dengan pimpinan, 3) Dampak implementasi gaya kepemimpinan situasional kepala sekolah dalam meningkatkan mutu SMP Negeri 1 Wamena Kabupaten Jayawijaya, dimana selama ini sekolah mendapat nilai akreditasi “A”, dan lulusan pada saat ujian nasional siswa 100% lulus. Kata Kunci: Kepala Sekolah, Gaya Kepemimpinan Situasional.
Promoting Socially Desirable Behaviors: Experimental Comparison of the Procedures of Persuasion and Commitment

In a series of experiments, we test the relative efficiency of persuasion and commitment schemes to increase and sustain contribution levels in a Voluntary Contribution Game. The design allows to compare a baseline consisting of a repeated public good game to, respectively, four manipulation treatments relying on: an information strategy, a low commitment strategy, a high commitment strategy and a promise strategy. We confirm the advantages of psychologically orientated policies as they increase the overall level of contribution and for some, that is commitment and promises, question the decreasing trend traditionally observed in long term contributions to public goods.
Three-Level Multiple Imputation: A Fully Conditional Specification Approach

Currently, there is a clear gap in the missing data literature for three-level models. To date, the literature has only focused on the theoretical and algorithmic work required to implement three-level imputation using the joint model (JM) method of imputation, leaving relatively no work done on fully conditional specification (FCS) method. Moreover, the literature lacks any methodological evaluation of three-level imputation. Thus, this thesis serves two purposes: (1) to develop an algorithm in order to implement FCS in the context of a three-level model and (2) to evaluate both imputation methods. The simulation investigated a random intercept model under both 20% and 40% missing data rates. The findings of this thesis suggest that the estimates for both JM and FCS were largely unbiased, gave good coverage, and produced similar results. The sole exception for both methods was the slope for the level-3 variable, which was modestly biased. The bias exhibited by the methods could be due to the small number of clusters used. This finding suggests that future research ought to investigate and establish clear recommendations for the number of clusters required by these imputation methods. To conclude, this thesis serves as a preliminary start in tackling a much larger issue and gap in the current missing data literature.
Analog RF cancellation of self interference in full-duplex transceivers

Master’s Degree Program in Electrical Engineering TIMO HUUSARI: Analog RF Cancellation of Self Interference in Full-Duplex Transceivers Tampere University of Technology May 2015 Master of Science Thesis, 59 pages, 2 Appendix pages Major: Wireless Communications Examiners: Professor Mikko Valkama, University Lecturer Olli-Pekka Lundén
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization

In an effort to challenge the Eurocentric view on the roots of civilization, Martin Bernal commences the first volume of his series Black Athena, The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization with the chapter “The Ancient Model in Antiquity. ” However, to understand what he means by ancient model, analyzing and comprehending the introduction of the book is indeed essential. Literally, through the use of the word „model‟, he reveals the draft of a belief system, and submits three models: „Aryan‟, „Ancient‟, and „Revised Ancient‟. The Aryan model, developed during the first half of the nineteenth century, views Greece as the progenitor of philosophy and literature that is essentially and exclusively European; the ancient model is the conventional classical and Hellenistic Greek version. Conforming to this model, Greek culture arose as the result of colonization by Egyptians and Phoenicians around 1500 B.C, meaning that the Greeks would have borrowed heavily from the Egyptian and the Near Eastern cultures.
When Do Intended Performance Standards Predict Goal-Related Affect? A Motivated-Reasoning Perspective

This research used intensive longitudinal methods to examine a motivated cognition perspective on intention–behavior discrepancies. We propose that under conditions of high performance, people are more inclined to evaluate their efforts in light of their intentions; thus, discrepancies between intentions and performance should have stronger impacts on goal-related affect under conditions of high (vs. low) performance. Secondary data analyses were conducted on two daily-diary studies in which participants reported their exercise, goal-related affect, and next-day intentions across 14 days. Under conditions of low performance, people felt negative about their performance irrespective of whether they typically set low versus high intentions. On days with high performance, average intentions significantly related to affect, such that those with low average intentions experienced the greatest satisfaction. Additionally, we observed that average (between-person) affect, but not within-person fluctuations in affect, predicted daily levels of exercise behavior. Implications for self-regulatory theories of affect are discussed.
PERAN KUALITAS KEHIDUPAN KERJA DAN PERSEPSI PELUANG KERJA TERHADAP INTENSI PINDAH KERJA

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisis peran dari kualitas kehidupan kerja dan persepsi peluang kerja terhadap intensi pindah kerja karyawan PT. X berperan terhadap intensi pindah kerja. Intensi pindah kerja adalah keinginan individu untuk keluar dari suatu organisasi dan berpindah ke organisasi lain. Kualitas kehidupan bekerja adalah persepsi pekerja terhadap suasana dan pengalaman pekerja di tempat kerja mereka. Sedangkan persepsi terhadap peluang kerja adalah proses tanggapan yang terjadi dalam diri individu terhadap keadaan pasar tenaga kerja. Tinggi dan rendahnya kesesuaian keadaan antara pencari kerja dan pekerjaan yang ditawarkan akan menentukan besarnya intensi karyawan untuk meninggalkan organisasi. Penelitian ini melibatkan 300 responden yang merupakan karyawan PT. X. Metode survei secara online melalui portal karyawan berbentuk closed-ended question diberikan kepada responden. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan regresi linear ganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan nilai F sebesar 70,780 dengan signifikansi (p) sebesar 0,000 (p < 0,05) dan nilai R2 sebesar 0,323 yang berarti terdapat peran yang signifikan antara kualitas kehidupan kerja dan persepsi peluang kerja terhadap intensi pindah kerja karyawan di PT. X dengan kontribusi sebesar 32,3%, sedangkan kontribusi peran kualitas kehidupan kerja adalah 30% dan kontribusi persepsi peluang kerja adalah 3,7%. Intervensi yang dilakukan adalah menyusun program pelatihan dan memperbaiki uraian pekerjaan sesuai dengan kebutuhan perusahaan saat ini.
Investigating comprehension of nouns and verbs: is there a difference?

ABSTRACT Background: There is growing evidence that verbs are often more difficult to process than nouns and that verb retrieval is more commonly affected in aphasia. However, existing observations are largely based on naming and semantic judgment tasks. The extent to which this processing difficulty is modality-general has yet to be established. In addition, most of the present language batteries do not allow direct comparison between noun and verb comprehension deficits. To fill this gap, a test was developed for the assessment of noun and verb lexical-semantic comprehension. Aims: The current study investigates whether verb processing difficulties are modality-general by administering novel balanced noun and verb comprehension tasks to participants with and without aphasia. Methods & Procedures: In this study, we directly compare the difficulty of comprehension of verbs versus nouns in a group of participants with aphasia (PWA, n = 32) and non-brain-damaged, age-matched participants (NBD, n = 20). The word comprehension task was implemented on a tablet measuring accuracy and reaction times (RTs). Participants were required to listen to an aurally presented word and match it to one of four pictures (a target and three distractors: semantic, phonological, and irrelevant) by tapping on it with the non-dominant hand. In total, 30 nouns and 30 verbs were presented. The verbal stimuli in the two tasks were matched on relevant psychometric properties such as familiarity, age of acquisition, subjective visual complexity, imageability, image agreement, and frequency. Outcomes & Results: Both groups experienced more difficulties in the verb comprehension task, indicated by lower accuracy and longer RTs in PWA and longer RTs in NBD. PWA who were performing the task within normal limits (i.e., demonstrated no difference in accuracy compared to the control group) still showed significantly longer RTs in the verb task than controls. Also, PWA who demonstrated similar accuracy in both tasks had longer RTs in the verb task relative to the noun task. The pattern was general and no differences were observed in performance between participants with fluent and non-fluent aphasia types. Moreover, the observed dissociations in RTs were greater for PWA than for NBD, indicating that a damaged language system experiences even more difficulties in processing verbs. Conclusions: Overall, the study demonstrated the relative difficulty of verb processing in a comprehension task, supporting the hypothesis that verb processing difficulties are modality-general. The new test allows researchers to compare performance on noun and verb comprehension and registers even subtle differences by measuring RTs.
Writing Strategies in the Process of L2 Computer-Mode Academic Writing with the Use of Multiple Resources

This study is an exploratory case study of writing strategies that Korean EFL graduate students in applied linguistics employed in the semester-long process of L2 computer-mode research paper writing with the use of multiple resources. Data for writing processes and strategy and resource use were largely collected from a writing strategy inventory questionnaire and writing logs, which were complemented by a keystroke logging program, video recordings and retrospective recall interviews. The results of the study reveal the influence of genre features and variations across writing stages, strategies, resources, and individual writers. Planning was intermingled with researching. The participants deployed certain strategies only at a particular stage or throughout the whole writing process. The students who had higher education in English-speaking countries used fewer strategies and preferred electronic resources to print resources than those who were educated mainly in Korea. The latter also showed a tendency of employing self-regulatory strategies. Findings from the study suggest that the research paper writing process is resourceful, strategic and individually situated, and it involves complex composing behaviors accompanied by more varied strategies and resources than shown in studies of one-time reading-to-write tasks.
Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 3. End-Use Electricity Demand

The Renewable Electricity Futures (RE Futures) Study investigated the challenges and impacts of achieving very high renewable electricity generation levels in the contiguous United States by 2050. The analysis focused on the sufficiency of the geographically diverse U.S. renewable resources to meet electricity demand over future decades, the hourly operational characteristics of the U.S. grid with high levels of variable wind and solar generation, and the potential implications of deploying high levels of renewables in the future. RE Futures focused on technical aspects of high penetration of renewable electricity; it did not focus on how to achieve such a future through policy or other measures. Given the inherent uncertainties involved with analyzing alternative long-term energy futures as well as the multiple pathways that might be taken to achieve higher levels of renewable electricity supply, RE Futures explored a range of scenarios to investigate and compare the impacts of renewable electricity penetration levels (30%–90%), future technology performance improvements, potential constraints to renewable electricity development, and future electricity demand growth assumptions. RE Futures was led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Learn more at the RE Futures website. http://www.nrel. gov/analysis/re_futures/
Content Validity Estimation of Assessment Instrument Based on Volleyball Information System of Volleyball Learning: Field Research

This study aims to estimate the value of the content validity of assessment instruments in playing volley ball with the basis of volleyball information system (VIS) on the basic skills namely serve, receive, set, block, spike and dig. The study was conducted toward 12 students as practitioners and five lecturers as academics of volleyball who are known as Subject Metter Experts (SME). This preliminary study was conducted in Bandung, Indonesia, by utilizing Focus Group Discussion (FGD) to assess the appropriateness of the basic skill items which are developed to assess student performance when they are playing volleyball. The instrument used is modified from the VIS that is developed by the Volleyball International Federation (FIVB) in 2005 with six main criteria, namely the serve, receive, set, block, spike and dig. The results of data analysis is gained by using the estimation of content validity (Lawshe’s CVR), it resulted the value ratio between 0.60 until the 1.00. The score exceed the minimum threshold criteria 0:50 as the standard that value ratio is acceptable. Thus, the results of the validation shows that the early stages of assessment instruments based on VIS is proven valid in measuring the content of the performance of volleyball playing for high school students.
Effects of Mobile Money Transactions on Financial Performance of small and medium Enterprises in Nakuru Central Business District

The inception of mobile phone financial transaction has brought a lot of benefits to SMEs. It has made money transfer to be available at a low cost compared to the traditional banking system where some transactions would be done within the premises of the bank. As a result, there was a need to study effects of mobile money transactions on financial performance of Small and Medium enterprises. The aim of this study was to find out the effect of mobile money transactions on financial performance of Small and Medium enterprises in Nakuru town Central business district (CBD). The study employed descriptive research design. The study sampled 120 out of 640 businesses using purposive sampling technique. Questionnaire was used as data collection instrument. The results of the study indicated that mobile money transactions have a significant effect on sales revenue. Keywords : Mobile phone financial transactions, financial performance of SMEs, Sales revenue, Nakuru town Central Business District.
Understanding International Bank Capital Flows During the Recent Financial Crisis

Cross-country bank lending mushroomed over the past decade. This helped to spread risks but also meant that international banks were more vulnerable than previously to shocks from abroad including from each other. Following the outbreak of the US sub-prime crisis, and especially after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, cross-border bank flows reversed dramatically. This paper is aimed at better understanding how the recent crisis propagated through the international banking system. It describes the pattern of deleveraging by international banks in reaction to their funding and capital pressures, the international spillovers and the vulnerability of the UK banking system to shocks from abroad given its global role.
Does Corporate Board Diversity Affect Corporate Payout Policy

This paper investigates whether board diversity has a significant impact on corporate payout decisions. Previous studies exclusively focus on examining the relation between a measure of firm performance and board diversity. The major advantage of our study is to investigate the direct impact of board diversity on a major corporate decision - i.e., dividend payout policy. We find that firms with diverse boards are more likely to pay dividends and tend to pay larger dividends than those with non-diverse boards. After controlling for various firm characteristics and exploring alternative explanations for the positive association between board diversity and dividend payout policy, our results suggest that board diversity has a significant impact on dividend payout policy. The impact of board diversity on dividend payout policy is particularly conspicuous for firms with potentially greater agency problems of free cash flow, suggesting that diverse board helps mitigate the free cash flow problem. Our findings are consistent with the argument that board diversity enhances the monitoring function of directors for the benefit of shareholders. We also show that significantly larger portion of firms pay dividends after they added a diverse director to their boards and that firms pay significantly higher dividends after adding a diverse director for the first time. However, the change in dividend payout ratio is not significant when firms add another diverse director to their already diverse boards. Also, the benefits of board diversity are not materialized when directors share the same gender or ethnic tie with the CEO. Our findings have an important implication for policies aiming to increase the number of diverse directors in corporate boardrooms. What makes the significant difference is not the sheer number of diverse directors in the board but the diversity they bring to the board.
Measuring and Explaining Government Inefficiency in Developing Countries

We show the relevance of government expenditure inefficiency using the Barro (1990) model. We estimate government inefficiency for 52 developing countries using a data envelopment analysis. The estimated inefficiencies are subsequently used in a general to specific approach in order to identify their determinants. We find the government expenditure inefficiency is primarily determined by governance and political variables, and structural country variables. Economic policy determinants apparently count less. Government inefficiency of the Sub Saharan countries in the sample is substantially higher.
Monetary Policy Rules in Central and Eastern Europe

We estimate monetary policy rules for six central and eastern European countries (CEEC) by taking changes in the policy settings explicitly into account. Distinguishing rather fixed and more flexible exchange rate arrangements we find that for most countries exchange rates played an important role in monetary policy during the fixed exchange rate regime, whereas their influence disappears after the introduction of floating exchange rate regimes. This indicates that most countries followed their officially announced policy settings. For Slovenia and to some extent for Romania, however, we find evidence for exchange rate targeting, although they officially announced a managed float.