Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Türk Coğrafyacılığında Jenerasyonlar: Disiplinin Tarihine Kohortçu Bir Yaklaşım (Generations in Turkish Geography: A Cohort Approach to the History of the Discipline)

Bu calismanin amaci, Turk cografyacilarini birbirinden farkli jenerasyonlara ayirarak disiplinin tarihselligini aktor gruplari perspektifinden irdelemektir. Calismada, disiplin icerisinde etkinlik gosteren aktorler kohortcu bir yaklasimla tanimlanmistir. Bu tip bir tanimlayici-tarihsel cercevede, aktorlerin doktora tezi hazirlama donemleri esas alinarak, Turk cografyaciligindaki jenerasyonlarin sayisi ve her bir jenerasyonun disiplinin tarihselligindeki yeri belirlenmeye calisilmistir. Buna gore, Turk cografyaciligi baslangictan gunumuze 18 jenerasyonla temsil olmaktadir. Bulgular, disiplinin 9. jenerasyona dek bir olgunlasma donemini deneyimledigini, 14. jenerasyondan itibaren niceliksel olarak buyudugunu, herhangi bir jenerasyonun uye sayisi ile jenerasyonel uretkenlik arasinda dogrusal bir iliskinin olmadigini, akademik yeniden-uretim surecine esas olarak 1990’larda dahil olan cevre universitelerdeki jenerasyonlarin ise zaman icerisinde bir olgunlasma surecine girdigini gostermektedir. Calismada, Turk cografyaciliginda 3. jenerasyonun buyuk bir agirliga sahip oldugu ve disiplin acisindan bir yol bagimliligi yarattigi, bunun 2000’li yillarin ilk yarisindan itibaren bozulmaya basladigi; bu bakimdan Turk cografyaciligindaki yenilik egilimlerinin esas olarak son 3 jenerasyonla sinirli oldugu sonucuna varilmaktadir.
Mortgage Stress and Precarious Home Ownership: Implications for Older Australians

This research investigated the growing numbers of middle-aged and older Australians who are carrying mortgage debt into retirement and paying off higher levels of debt relative to house values and income. Between 1987 and 2015, mortgage debt among older mortgagors increased by 600 per cent (from $27,000 to over $185,000). These trends have significant consequences for older Australians’ wellbeing, retirement wealth management and government incomes policy and housing assistance programs.
International financial centres, global finance and financial development in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)

The study evaluates the effects of global/international finance on financial development, as well as analyse the options for enhancing the flow of global finance, in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region. The study is motivated by the seemingly disconnection between global finance and international financial centres and financial development in the SADC region. The study uses a cross-country dynamic panel model, and estimations established that countries with international financial centres contribute nearly double to pooled financial development in the SADC when compared to countries without. It was also established that global finance that is currently received by SADC countries has no effect on financial development in these counties. The study recommends strategies through which South Africa, a globally connected country, could link other SADC countries to global financial markets and help in driving the development of financial systems in these countries. Key words: Financial development, global finance, international financial centres, Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).
Do financial incentives help or harm performance in interesting tasks?

There continues to be disagreement about whether financial incentives help or harm performance, especially in interesting tasks. Although the Jenkins, Mitra, Gupta, and Shaw (1998) meta-analysis finds a positive effect of incentives, including in interesting tasks (reported ρ ^ = +.34; our computed δ = +.79), a more recent and widely cited meta-analysis by Weibel et al. (2010) reports, in contrast, a negative effect (δ = -.13) of incentives on performance in interesting tasks. Thus, the effect size for interesting tasks differs by . 92 standard deviation (SD) between the two meta-analyses, a very large difference. We incorporate primary studies from these two meta-analyses and other sources in a new, more complete meta-analysis of incentives-performance in interesting and noninteresting tasks. We also examine additional key moderators (incentive intensity, how motivation-driven performance is, and autonomy). We find that the incentives-performance relationship is positive in both interesting (δ = +.58) and noninteresting tasks (δ = +.52). In addition, we find that the positive incentives-performance relationship is robust to not only task interest, but also to incentive intensity, how motivation-driven performance is, and autonomy. However, the incentives-performance relationship is less positive for performance measured as quality, especially in interesting tasks. We provide suggestions for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
Studies of operational measurement of ROC curve on large fingerprint data sets using two-sample bootstrap

From the operational perspective, on large fingerprint data sets, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is usually measured by the true accept rate (TAR) of the genuine scores given a specified false accept rate (FAR) of the impostor scores. The ties of genuine and/or impostor scores at a threshold can often occur on large fingerprint data sets, and how to determine the TAR at an operational FAR is provided. The accuracy of the measurement of TAR at a specified FAR for an ROC curve is explored using the nonparametric two-sample bootstrap. The variability of the estimates of standard error and lower bound and upper bound of 95% confidence interval of two-sample bootstrap distribution of the statistic TARs on large fingerprint data sets is extensively studied empirically. Thereafter, the number of two-sample bootstrap replications is determined. Both high-accuracy and low-accuracy fingerprint-image matching algorithms are taken as examples.
Multimodale datafusie voor tijdsruimtelijke analyse van het brandgedrag

This appendix provides an overview of basic fire behavior concepts and physics, to give some background and to guide the reader through this dissertation. Subsequently an introduction is given into enclosure fires and finally a preface is given into CFD and zone modeling for fire forecasting concept. Major parts of this chapter are inspired by the work of Merci et Beji. [1].
Everyday Kintsukuroi: Mending as Making

‘To think about repair requires us to recognize our own failures and imperfections and those of the world we live in, to take seriously what we may be unreflectively inclined to regard as the necessary but uninventive and uninspiring work of repairing the damage due to such flaws. It means attending to properties in things—their repairability—and capacities in individuals—their talents for mending—towards the atrophy of which there appear to be powerful economic incentives. ’ (Spelman, 2003:p.138)
The State of Prototyping Practice in the Industrial Setting: Potential, Challenges and Implications

Prototyping as a central method within innovation- and product development processes has a high acceptance in industry. Various prototyping tools provide impressive visualizations of product ideas in early development stages and especially low fidelity prototyping methods seem easily applicable. However, a closer look at prototyping in practice reveals a number of misunderstandings and barriers regarding effective prototyping, often related to different stakeholders’ (e.g., developer, designer, client) ideas about the purpose of prototyping. Based on a combination of literature analysis, adapting existing models and methods in user centered design (e.g., personas, double diamond design process) and empirical results from industrial research cooperation, we introduce a focus group format and a first model of prototyping maturity, which can help organizations to reflect on their state of practice in prototyping on an individual, team, and organizational level. The maturity model also forms a valuable theoretical lens for design research. Thus, our research aims at researchers in the field of prototyping as well as practitioners involved in prototyping and innovation processes.
Corporate Governance, Tax Planning and Firm Value

: This study examined the influence of corporate governance and tax avoidance on firm value and moderating effect of corporate governance on the relationship between tax planning and firm value. The data cover 37 manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) for the period of 2014 to 2016. Empirical analyses are conducted using multiple regression and path analysis to identify the presence of moderating variable. The result shows that corporate governance has a positive effect on firm value, which means the greater the corporate governance in companies, higher the firm value. Tax planning has a negative effect on firm value, which means the higher tax expense the lower the firm value. For moderating effects, the result shows that corporate governance does not moderate the relationship between tax planning and firm value.
A kind of Rapid Robust Human Detection Algorithm for the Interested Area

A kind of rapid two-level human detection algorithm based on the interested area was proposed in the paper, the coarse-level classifier was obtained via using the cascade training of multi-scale direction feature and Adaboost to extract the possibly human interested area, the decomposition and dimension reduction were realized via nonnegative matrix, and the précised classifier was obtained via the cascade training of dimension reduction feature and intersection kernel support vector machine to detect the human precisely. The experiment on INRIA public test set showed that the algorithm proposed in the paper improved the detection accuracy and greatly reduced the detection time when compared with the currently representative algorithm.
Neural Substrates of Human Perceptual Decision-Making

Perceptual decision-making describes the process of choosing one of at least two response alternatives based on sensory evidence. This sensorimotor process underlies a range of human behaviours and has been studied extensively by both psychologists and neuroscientists. There is now a consensus, that perceptual decision-making can be explained by sequential sampling models, which assume that we make decisions by accumulating sensory evidence over time until a decision threshold is reached and the response is executed. Although these models are designed to explain behavioural data, the accumulation-to-bound processes they predict have recently been shown to occur in the brain. In this project, we set out to explore these neural correlates of decision-making in the human brain by combining mathematical modelling with neuroimaging. We fitted sequential sampling models to human decision-making data collected in a number of paradigms and directly compared the associated accumulation profiles with neural signals, which were generated either by using electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings or through transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). We found that decision-related accumulation profiles can be observed using a parietal EEG signal, namely the event-related potential centroparietal positivity (CPP). Additionally, we showed that accumulation is fed forward to the motor system, where it can be measured using TMS-induced motor evoked potentials. We demonstrated that, under a number of manipulations, namely difficulty, response speed instructions, non-stationary evidence, decision biases, and number of alternatives, these signals display profiles similar to those predicted by sequential sampling models. Our findings support the notion that sequential sampling occurs in the human brain and demonstrate that a model-based approach in which sequential sampling models and neuroimaging are combined and inform each other, can shed light on the underlying mechanisms of human perceptual decision-making.
Teotihuacanos y mayas en la “entrada” de 11 Eb’ (378 d.C.): nuevos datos de Naachtun, Petén, Guatemala

Desde que a mediados del siglo XX se detectó en el registro arqueológico la presencia de rasgos teotihuacanos en el área maya, entender la naturaleza de dicha presencia ha sido objeto de un largo y fuerte debate. Hace ya casi veinte años, David Stuart, siguiendo el trabajo seminal de Tatiana Proskouriakoff, sugirió, basándose en la lectura e interpretación de los textos epigráficos disponibles, que uno de los episodios de la compleja interacción entre Teotihuacan y el área maya había adoptado la forma de una conquista militar, que se verificó en la fecha 8.17. 1.4. 12 11 Eb’ 15 Mak (378 d.C.). El nuevo registro epigráfico de monumentos de Naachtun, Petén, Guatemala, en el contexto de las excavaciones del Proyecto franco-guatemalteco, ha ofrecido nuevos datos sobre las características de la «entrada» del 11 Eb’, corroborando su definitiva naturaleza militar. Sugiere la participación de reinos mayas del lado de los teotihuacanos en ese importante acontecimiento histórico, –entre ellos el reino de Suutz’ (Murciélago) establecido en Naachtun–, que hemos de ver no ya como un acontecimiento puntual sino como la culminación de un complejo proceso planificado. En esta contribución, detallaremos también cómo esta alianza con Teotihuacan y luego con los nuevos soberanos de Tikal, favoreció el desarrollo sociopolítico de Naachtun.
Online Course Design and Development among College and University Instructors: An Analysis using Grounded Theory

In this study, a grounded theory approach was used to investigate the process college and university instructors undergo to design and develop online courses. Fourteen instructors who created online courses for four-year colleges and universities were interviewed about their experience designing and developing online courses. Results showed that participants begin the process with objectives and/or with existing course outlines, typically taken from online and face-to-face courses. Next, the instructors structure the course and chunk content. The instructors interviewed rarely use formal instructional design principles, but their design tasks show a striking similarity to those formalized in the ADDIE model. Student feedback (evaluation) motivated the instructors in their development efforts after initial course delivery. The study discusses practical implications and suggests opportunities for future research.
Cognitive learning: a machine learning approach for automatic process characterization from design

Cutting edge innovation requires accurate and fast process-control to obtain fast learning rate and industry adoption. Current tools available for such task are mainly manual and user dependent. We present in this paper cognitive learning, which is a new machine learning based technique to facilitate and to speed up complex characterization by using the design as input, providing fast training and detection time. We will focus on the machine learning framework that allows object detection, defect traceability and automatic measurement tools.
Seeing the light: Research, conservation and exhibition of a 1980s daylight fluorescent painted leather jacket designed by Sprouse and painted by Castronovo

ABSTRACT In the mid-1980s, Stephen Sprouse designed a leather motorcycle jacket, the back of which was subsequently painted by muralist Stefano Castronovo. The silver jacket depicts the unmistakable – albeit fluorescent green – face of the Mona Lisa. Designed as club-wear, the garment’s full visual effect is only achieved under black lights. Exhibiting the jacket under ultraviolet radiation with its concomitant degradation concerns presented an ethical conundrum: exhibited this way, the jacket demonstrates to museum visitors the effect desired by Castronovo, but the lifetime of the fluorescent colors would be further shortened. Castronovo’s striking painting already suffered from delamination and cracking due to the flexible leather garment. Inpainting these losses was complicated by the jacket’s potential short-term display in both the visible and ultraviolet spectrum. Scientific analysis was conducted at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields on the original fluorescent paints and potential conservation materials to investigate solutions for display and documentation under both lighting conditions. This paper explores how the potential display of a leather jacket painted with daylight fluorescent pigments under visible and/or ultraviolet radiation impacted the treatment, interpretation, and exhibition. The jacket was stabilized, inpainted, and subsequently featured in an exhibition, taking into account the abovementioned research.
Estimation of Ground Motion Variability in the CEUS Using Simulations

We estimate earthquake ground-motion variability in the central and eastern U.S. (CEUS) by varying the model parameters of a deterministic physics-based and a stochastic site-based simulation method. Utilizing a moderate-magnitude database of recordings, we simulate ground motions for largermagnitude scenarios M6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5, and 8.0. For the physics-based method, we vary the faulting mechanism, slip, stress drop, rupture velocity, source depth, and 1D velocity structure. For the stochastic method, we simulate realizations using a set of six model parameters, each of which has a preassigned probability distribution. The median spectral accelerations over all synthetic realizations are compared with the NGA-East models. The synthetic standard deviation for deterministic simulations ranges from approximately 0.4 to 0.85 for various magnitudes and distances, whereas that for stochastic simulations is between 0.48 and 1.04. Based on the simulation results and comparisons with NGA-East variability models, a range for ground motion variability in the CEUS is discussed.
Development of Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks have numerous exciting applications in virtually all fields of science and engineering, including health care, industry, military, security, environmental science, geology, agriculture, and social studies. The routing protocols developed for these distributed sensor networks need to be energy efficient and scalable. Geographic information based routing algorithms have been demonstrated to represent an effective way of finding the appropriate next hop relay nodes by utilizing the location information while avoiding the large number of control packets necessary for route discovery in wireless sensor networks. In this thesis, we propose Energy Aware Geographic Routing Protocol (EAGRP) routing algorithm in a wireless sensor network. Where, we optimize the greedy forwarding mode. The proposed protocol is an efficient and energy conservative routing technique for multi-hop wireless sensor networks. The significance of this study is that there have been very limited investigations of the effect of mobility models on routing protocol performance in Wireless Sensor Networks. We have considered the influence of random way point mobility models on the performance of EAGRP routing protocol. We evaluate the performance of EAGRP against three other protocol approaches GPSR, DSR, AODV. Our simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm gives better performance in terms of higher packet delivery ratio, throughput, energy consumption, routing overhead, and delay. In wireless sensor networks, congestion occurs when the traffic load being offered exceeds the available capacity of sensor nodes. In most applications, every sensor node will send the event it has sensed to a destination node. This operation makes the sensors closer to the destination, resulting in congestion. Congestion may cause packets loss, lower network throughput and sensor energy waste. Therefore, effective congestion control and loss recovery approach can be considered as effective solution to this problem. We modify TCP congestion control for use in wireless sensor networks. We show that by slightly modifying the algorithm of the TCP, it can be made to respond better to wireless links, while maintaining its advantages on the wired networks at the same time. This is certainly a very desirable feature as the conventional TCP in most cases contradicts to the demands of the wireless links of the network. Simulation results indicate that in wireless sensor networks, modified TCP outperforms traditional TCP algorithm in terms of sending data and information due to its better average throughput, average end-to-end delay, average retransmission, congestion window size, and energy consumption in both high and low traffic.
Inteligencia emocional y rendimiento académico en estudiantes universitarios de nutrición

El concepto de inteligencia emocional (IE) desarrollado en 1990 por Salovey y Mayer y Goleman en 1995, nos invita a considerar una nueva visión del estudio de la inteligencia humana más allá de los aspectos cognitivos e intelectuales. El aprendizaje socioemocional en educación y en la formación de profesionales de salud tiene una gran importancia debido a la relación entre competencias emocionales con las competencias genéricas y a su supuesta asociación con el rendimiento académico. Se realizó una investigación de corte transversal mediante la aplicación del test TMMS-24 a una muestra de 131 estudiantes de la Carrera de Nutrición de una Universidad pública chilena, con el objetivo de establecer la relación existente entre los componentes de la inteligencia emocional con el rendimiento académico y avance curricular. Los datos se analizaron mediante estadística descriptiva y se aplicaron pruebas estadísticas de ANOVA para asociación entre niveles de inteligencia emocional y rendimiento académico y prueba de Chi cuadrado para asociación con avance curricular. Los resultados indican que no existen diferencias significativas entre el nivel de atención y el promedio de notas (p=0,829), el nivel de comprensión y el promedio de notas (p=0,963) y el nivel de regulación y el promedio de notas (p=0,501), aplicando ANOVA. No se encontró asociación entre los niveles de Inteligencia emocional y avance curricular, aplicando la prueba de chi cuadrado. Los resultados de investigaciones que asocian Inteligencia Emocional son controversiales. Este estudio es un aporte a los resultados publicados en esta línea. A pesar de los resultados, se considera relevante la consideración de competencias socioemocionales en la formación de profesionales de salud como parte de la formación integral para enfrentar el mundo laboral.