Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Moderating Effects of Gender on the Relationship between Motivation and Spiritual Intelligence of Higher Education Students in India

Motivation as a determinant of student performance has been identified and proven by several researchers of the past.Spiritual Intelligence, has gained greater interest among recent researchers in terms of influencing the performance of students of various academic disciplines. This research is an attempt to identify empirically the relationship between motivation and spiritual intelligence in addition to exploring the moderating effects of gender on the relationship between motivation and spiritual intelligence of Indian higher education students, especially pursuing their higher education. Primary data has been collected in quantitative form, from 523 students belonging to various higher education institutions in India through survey approach. Cluster sampling has been employed and the data has been subject to Principal Component Analysis and Hierarchical Regression using SPSS. The results reveal that even though motivation and spiritual intelligence are correlated with each other, gender does not moderate the relationship between these two variables in particular.
IN-SITU PREPARATION OF POLYAMIDE-6 / POLYPROPYLENE GLYCOL COPOLYMERS WITH MINERAL FILLERS

Polyamide-6 /Polypropylene glycol (PPG) copolymers were synthesized via anionic polymerization of ε-caprolactam in the presence of inorganic additives graphite and boron carbide using isophorone diisocyanate end functionalized PPG prepared in-situ as a macroactivator. Sodium caprolactam was used as an initiator. The influence of the graphite and boron carbide fillers on the degree of conversion was investigated. The copolymers obtained were characterized by 1H NMR and FTIR spectroscopies. The charpy impact strength of the composites was evaluated.
Discussion of “ Correlations for Fully Softened Shear Strength Parameters

In this paper, the authors criticize the fully softened strength (FSS) correlation by Stark and Eid (Stark, T. D. and Eid, H. T., 1997, “Slope Stability Analyses in Stiff Fissured Clays,” J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 335–343) and subsequent updates (Stark, T.D., Choi, H., and McCone, S., 2005, “Shear Strengths for Analysis of Landslides,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 131, No. 5, pp. 575–588; Stark, T. D. and Hussain, M., 2010, “Shear Strength in Preexisting Landslides,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 136, No. 7, pp. 957–962; Gamez, J. and Stark, T. D., 2014, “Fully Softened Shear Strength at Low Stresses for Levee and Embankment Design,” Geotech. Geoenviron. J., Vol. 140, No. 9) in the following five areas: (1) use of a torsional ring shear device, (2) converting the ring shear results to the triaxial compression mode of shear, (3) sample processing, (4) a noncontinuous strength envelope, and (5) use of three distinct clay-size fraction groups even though admitting that the Stark and Eid (Stark, T.D. and Eid, H.T., 1997, “Slope Stability Analyses in Stiff Fissured Clays,” J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 335–343) correlation “is used widely and has been generally accepted in practice. ” The authors also use questionable direct shear test data from Castellanos (2014, “Use and Measurement of Fully Softened Shear Strength,” Ph.D. dissertation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, p. 805, https://www.dropbox.com/s/ 0k0ym51d8jdmn4v/Castellanos-FSS-Thesis-2014.pdf? dl=0.) to develop a fully softened Manuscript received July 3, 2016; accepted for publication July 8, 2016; published online April 12, 2017. 1 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, 2217 Newmark Civil Engineering Lab, 205 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 (Corresponding author), e-mail: tstark@illinois.edu Copyright VC 2017 by ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959. 517 Geotechnical Testing Journal doi:10.1520/GTJ20160148 / Vol. 40 / No. 3 / May 2017 / available online at www.astm. org strength correlation based on index properties, i.e., clay-size fraction (CF) and plasticity index (PI). The following paragraphs address these five criticisms, the questionable ring shear and direct shear testing presented in Castellanos (2014, “Use and Measurement of Fully Softened Shear Strength,” Ph.D. dissertation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, p. 805, https:// www.dropbox.com/s/0k0ym51d8jdmn4v/Castellanos-FSS-Thesis-2014.pdf? dl=0.), and the proposed FSS correlation.
9 % purity multi-walled carbon nanotubes by vacuum high-temperature annealing *

Ultrahigh purity multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were obtained, which were produced by a catalytic chemical 23 vapor deposition method and subsequently annealed at vacuum pressures between 10 and 10 Pa and temperatures between 1500 and 21508C. Acid treatments were made for comparison. Scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectra were used to characterize the specimens. Purities were characterized by thermogravimetric analysis. Raman spectra were also reported. The high-temperature vacuum process efficiently removed residual metal catalysts and metal oxide carriers and enhanced the graphitization of the MWNTs. The highest MWNT purity achieved is about 99.9%. This procedure presents a nondestructive, commercially viable purification method for carbon nanotubes.  2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The Effect of Chart Type on Pilots’ Response Time

Electronic flight bags have become common place in commercial and general aviation flight decks. These tools provide for a compact and concise methods of carrying charts, procedure manuals, policies, and flight-related communications. On devices with connectivity, these tools can even be used to download real-time weather and file flight plans or even serve as a moving map by connecting a portable GPS receiver. However, with the proliferation of these devices, few studies have searched for any performance differences in pilots between these electronic charts and traditional paper charts. The purpose of this study was to compare pilots response time when answering a series of 30 questions related to instrument approach procedures using an electronic chart display, followed by paper charts. Twenty-seven instrument flight rated participants completed the repeated measures design using a desktop computer. The study simulated an event where the pilot’s electronic flight bag failed, and they had to use paper charts as a backup. The results of the study suggest a significant increase in participant response time when using paper charts compared to electronic ones. Participants response time using paper chart also did not significantly increase from their first trial using paper to their last trial using paper. Additional research should be completed to explore this relationship further and determine if the use of electronic charts are resulting in an unintended degradation of other pilot skills.
On the Value Added by Operating Lessor : the Case of Aircraft Leasing Market

The increasing popularity and steady growth of funding capital assets by operating leasing and the diminishing importance of funding capital assets by capital leases has been widely recorded in real world and in academics (for example, see Graham, Lemmon, and Schallheim 1998; Yan 2006, pp. 719-720). Besides its traditional important role in the land and space financing market, i.e. most land and buildings (including commercial and residential) are operating leased to tenants on a short term relative to the asset economic lives, operating leasing is also gaining importance in equipment financing market. For example, Johnson and Waldman(2010) documents that leasing has become popular over time in automobile market and by the end of the first decade of the 2000s roughly one-fourth of new cars marketed directly to consumers were leased (essentially operating leased to consumers by manufacturers). By constructing a model which combines adverse selection and moral hazard, they find that very high income new-car drivers have a higher propensity to lease and used cars that were leased when new sell for more than used cars that were purchased when new. In their model, an important value added by leasing is that it reduces the adverse selection problem in the used-car market by suppressing the private information of new-car drivers while leasing as well as purchasing are associated with moral hazard concerning consumer maintenance.
Assessment of physical and mechanical properties of sawdust concrete using ultrasonic pulse velocity

This research aims to investigate the correlations between ultrasonic pulse velocit y (UPV) and physical (water absorption, void ratio and density) and mechanical (tensile and compressive strength, static and dynamic modulus of elasticity) properties of sawdust concrete in which sand was replaced by 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% of Pinus elliottii Engelm sawdust, in volume. Results show that mechanical properties of sawdust concretes decreased, t he higher the percentage of wood . Higher values of density and mechanical properties of sawdust concretes a related to lower void ratio and water absorption. The use of UPV showed to be trustworthy to estimate quantitatively physical and mechanical properties of sawdust concretes.
OBSERVED REGIONAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF RAINFALL OVER THE TROPICAL PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC OCEANS

Determining the diurnal cycle in rainfall is a fundamental step towards understanding the processes that control convection in the tropics. The dependence of the stage of convection on time of day provides clues as to what constitutes a favorable environment for convective development, and what processes are important at different points in the convective life-cycle. The seasonal and regional modulation of the diurnal cycle provide further clues regarding these processes. Most studies of the diurnal cycle in tropical oceanic rainfall rely on indirect measurements of precipitation from satellites (e.g. Reed and Jaffe 1981; Albright et al. 1985; Janowiak et al. 1994; Chen and Houze 1997; Yang and Slingo 2001). Sui et al. (1997) use data from surface radars to investigate the diurnal cycle in rainfall in the western tropical Pacific, but this study is limited in both space and time, and also involves indirect measurements of rainfall. Gray and Jacobson (1977) use direct measurements of rainfall from island gauges for investigating the diurnal cycle in rainfall, but these data are subject to island heating effects and are also limited to the western Pacific. Other studies involving surface rainfall or rainfall proxy measurements include Janowiak et al. (1994), who also investigate the diurnal cycle in cloud classification from ship-board data and in rainfall from 5 rain gauges on buoys in the west Pacific warm pool region. In this study the diurnal cycle in rainfall is investigated for the 1997-2001 time period using measurements from self-siphoning rain gauges on ATLAS buoys within the TAO/TRITON and PIRATA moored buoy arrays in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The TAO and PIRATA buoy arrays offer the first in situ direct measurements of tropical oceanic precipitation over an extended period of time and within critical rain areas throughout the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Ocean basins. Regional and seasonal differences in the diurnal cycles for seven different climatological regimes are discussed and compared with results from satellite and radar studies.
The Portfolio of Intangible Investments and Their Performance : Evidence from Taiwanese Manufacturing Firms

Intangible investments are not only important elements of knowledge creation, but also the driving forces of economic growth. Traditional studies of intangible investments have mainly focused on the investment of research and development (R&D) rather than non-R&D activities, which include employee training, advertisement, structure and network capital, marketing promotion, software, purchases of databases, payment of patents, etc. This paper focuses on Taiwan’s manufacturing industry and utilizes panel data of the 2001, 2006, and 2011 to explore the determinants and performance of intangible investment. Our results, based on Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR), show that capital intensity, amount of outward investment and exporting, the size of firms, and firm ages are the main determinants of intangible investment. As for firm performance, Taiwanese manufacturing industry’s output elasticity of intangible investment is estimated to be 0.07, which is relatively lower than other advanced countries. Among the three intangible investments, the economic competency (EC) is the most productive factor and innovation property (IP) is the most innovative factor.
Public Subsidies and Charitable Giving : Crowding

Whether government subsidies to nonprofit organizations leverage (crowd in) private donations, or rather crowd them out has been actively debated for some time. A third hypothesis, explored theoretically and tested empirically in this paper, is that the two phenomena are actually not inconsistent with one another: At low levels of subsidies, government support may stimulate private giving, whereas at high levels it could have just the opposite effect. The model presented is based on this idea, which yields implications relevant o nonprofit management and public policy, and tests it with data on symphony orchestras. The conclusion is that the maximization of private donations and total "unearned" revenues are not compatible goals. Further, nonprofits that suffer from short-term liquidity problems or managerial shortsightedness may face a "subsidy trap," in which they are forced to rely on suboptimal levels of subsidies in terms of maximizing the firm's revenues. 2000 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
Physicochemical studies of tamarind shell tannins as a potential green rust converter

The characterization of tamarind shell tannins for potential use in rust transformation was studied. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), and phytochemical assays were applied to examine tamarind shell tannins. The analyses revealed that the methanol extract of tamarind shell (TME) was rich in phytochemical compounds, compared to that of aqueous acetone extract of tamarind shell (TAE). Furthermore, the FTIR and NMR studies confirmed the presence of tannins. The FTIR study on the performance of tamarind shell tannins on rust treatment via the effects of concentration, pH, and reaction time was evaluated. The FTIR spectra revealed that the percentage rust transformation (RT %) was in the order of lepidocrocite (γ-FeOOH) > magnetite (Fe3O4) > goethite (α-FeOOH). Meanwhile, the results obtained revealed that lepidocrocite peaks completely disappeared, and magnetite peaks reduced intensity up to 95.83 RT % for TME and 94.75 RT % for TAE. The TME was the best rust converter at 7% concentration.
A Compression Scheme for Volumetric Data Based on the Local Cosine Transform

We propose a new lossy compression scheme for volumetric data based on the local cosine transform. This method is appropriated for further volume visualization because it provides good compression, minimizes reconstruction errors, and allows local decompression of the volume. We analyse the compression results and estimate scheme parameter variations, investigating the adaptivity properties and different space decomposition arrangements.
A new study of paleomagnetic directions in the Miocene lava pile between Arnarfjörður and Breiðafjörður in the Vestfirðir peninsula , Northwest Iceland

A new paleomagnetic study has been carried out on basaltic lava flows in the promontories between the fjords Arnarfjörður, Tálknafjörður, Patreksfjörður and Breiðafjörður, Vestfirðir peninsula of Northwest Iceland. This area is around 13 m.y. in age. The study involved mapping and sampling of 365 lava flows in 20 profile locations for laboratory measurement of magnetic remanence vectors; data from some 70 flows sampled previously were also available. A tentative scheme of paleomagnetic polarities is proposed for a composite section of 2.0 kilometers cumulative thickness, mostly overlapping with a stratigraphic column drawn up for the major part of the area by J. Preston in the early nineteen-seventies. At least six polarity reversals are encountered in the lava pile, as well as some apparent major excursions of the geomagnetic pole to middle and low latitudes. These are promising markers for stratigraphic correlation within and between the fjords, along with various lithologically distinctive units such as thick clastic sediments and cumulate plagioclase lavas. The rate of buildup of the lava pile is estimated to average 1.4 km/m.y. but it has been somewhat episodic, as nearidentical remanence directions are often recorded in two or more successive lavas. Additional work in the area is required before detailed correlations with previously mapped and sampled composite stratigraphic sections in the peninsula become feasible.
Beyond the Disposition Effect : Do Investors Really Like Realizing Gains More than Losses ?

The disposition effect (greater realization of winners than losers) is often taken as proof that investors have an inherent preference for realizing winners over losers. In contrast, we find that the disposition effect is not primarily driven by realization preference. The probability of selling as a function of profit is V-shaped, so that at short holding periods investors are much more likely to sell big losers than small ones. There is little indication of a jump discontinuity in selling probability at zero profits, as implied by an investor concern for the sign of realized returns. In a placebo test, there is a reverse disposition effect for the probability of buying additional shares. The speculative motive for trade potentially helps explain these findings.
Hybrid Machine Translation by Combining Output from Multiple Machine Translation Systems

This thesis aims to research methods and develop tools that allow to successfully combine output from various machine translation (MT) systems so that the overall translation quality of the source text would increase. An applicability of the developed methods for small, morphologically rich and underresourced languages is evaluated, especially Latvian and Estonian. Existing methods have been analysed and several combinations of methods have been proposed. The proposed methods have been implemented and evaluated using automatic and human evaluation. During this research novel methods have been created that structure source language sentences into linguistically motivated fragments and combine them using a character level neural language model; combine neural machine translation output by employing source-translation attention alignments; use a multi-pass approach to produce additional incrementally improving training data. The key results of this research are new state-of-the-art machine translation systems for English ↔ Estonian; approaches for utilising neural MT generated attention alignments for MT combination and comprehension of resulting translations; MT combination systems for combining output from English → Latvian statistical MT. A practical application of the methods is implemented and described.
Spring 5-29-2015 myStress : Unobtrusive Smartphone-Based Stress Detection

Life is becoming increasingly stressful in many aspects, e.g., due to technology-induced stress and stress in organizational context. The assessment of stress experienced by individuals enables stress management and prevention with the long-term aim to avoid psychological and physiological harm from excessive stress. Commonly this assessment is performed through questionnaires on perceived stress or physiological measurements evaluating body reactions to stress. We explore a third assessment method: Our design science approach aims to unobtrusively assess perceived stress based on smartphone data while waiving additional devices and explicit user input. The presented design artefact, myStress, reads 36 hardware and software sensors to infer users’ perceived stress levels. A prototypical instantiation of myStress for the Android platform is distributed to test users. For evaluation purposes, the stress level additionally is determined by a questionnaire consisting of the Perceived Stress Scale. By analyzing data from test users, we gain first insights into the feasibility of unobtrusive, continuous stress assessment considering exclusively data from smartphone sensors. We find that several sensors seem to correlate with perceived stress, e.g., the frequency of switching the display on/off. For future research, behavioral and situational prevention measures can build on this method of unobtrusive stress assessment.
Are Protected Classes Discriminated in Rental Housing Market? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

This paper provides the first evidence of how landlord treatment of rental housing applicants varies across race, gender, religion, sexuality, and family status. We adopt a randomized correspondence audit design by sending inquiry emails to randomly selected property owners or agents on Craigslist. The applicants’ characteristics are conveyed by names, email bodies, and signature quotations. The findings suggest landlords have preferences about tenants and make decisions based on signals communicated in inquiry emails from potential applicants. Blacks, Arab males, Muslims, and single parents are treated unfavorably while gay men are preferred. We believe these discrimination patterns are consistent with agent-based statistical discrimination. The results provide evidence that many groups protected under U.S. fair housing law continue to face obstacles when searching for housing.
Complete Stochastic Volatility Models With Variance Swaps

By considering a derivative contract related to a variance swap we present a new approach to complete stochastic volatility models which does not suffer from complex consistency conditions that appear in other complete models. This approach includes popular stochastic volatility models but removes the consideration of incompleteness and market price of risk. Calibration of the model involves observable quantities and their dynamics under the real world measure but not their dynamics under the unobservable risk-neutral measure. We look at the implications of this approach to other literature and see that modelling the price of a variance swap directly is equivalent to specifying a joint model for the underlying and its volatility. Thanks to Peter Carr, Martin Forde, Terry Lyons and Nicolas Victoir for discussion and comments.
Automated Error Correction and Validation for POS Tagging of Hindi

The Part-Of-Speech tag of a word can provide crucial information for a large number of tasks, and so, it is of utmost importance that the POS tagged data is accurate. However, manually checking the data is a tedious and time consuming task. Thus, there is a need for an Automatic Error Correction and Validation model for any POS Tagged Data. In this paper, we work towards achieving the aforementioned goal for Hindi POS Tagging. This is achieved by using an ensemble model consisting of three POS Tagging Models. Based on the predictions made by the three models, and the POS tag present in the dataset, the ensemble model predicts the presence of an error. The POS tagging models explored were the Hidden Markov Model, Support Vector Machine, Conditional Random Fields, Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) Networks, Bidirectional LSTM Networks, and Logistic Regression. A Fully Connected Neural Network was used to build the ensemble model, and it achieved an accuracy of 94.02%.