Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Enhancing goal self-concordance through coaching

Objectives:Research shows that self-concordant goals are more readily pursued, better achieved, and their attainment can lead to increases in well-being. This study assesses whether executive coaching in turn affects self-concordance.Design:We hypothesised that the heightened awareness produced by coaching leads to changes in self-concordance (type of motivation) and commitment (a measure of the amount of motivation). A single group design with repeated measures was used.Method:26 participants – all senior managers in business – identified three goals and then received a one-to-one coaching session focused on one goal, but received no coaching on the remaining goals.Results:The hypothesis was supported, with significant changes (increases) in self-concordance and commitment for the coached goal. There were also significant increases in self-concordance and commitment for some of the other non-coached goals.Conclusion:These results are discussed with reference to the goal attainment and coaching literature, and suggestions made for further research.
On time-optimal procedure for analog system design

The process of any analog system design has been formulated on the basis of the control theory application. This approach produces many different design strategies inside the same optimization procedure and allows determining the problem of the optimal design strategy existence from the computer time point of view. Different kinds of system design strategies have been evaluated from the operations number. The general methodology for the analog system design was formulated by means of the optimum control theory. The main equations for this design methodology were elaborated. These equations include the special control functions that are introduced artificially. This approach generalizes the design process and generates an infinite number of the different design strategies. The problem of the optimum design algorithm construction is defined as the minimum-time problem of the control theory. Numerical results of some electronic circuit design demonstrate the efficiency and perspective of the proposed methodology. These examples show that the computer time gain of the optimal design strategy with respect to the traditional design strategy increases when the size and complexity of the system increase. An additional acceleration effect of the design process has been discovered by the analysis of various design strategies with the different initial points. This effect is displayed for all analyzed circuits and it reduces additionally the total computer time for the system design. RESUMEN
Storms prediction : Logistic regression vs random forest for unbalanced data

The aim of this study is to compare two supervised classification methods on a crucial meteorological problem. The data consist of satellite measurements of cloud systems which are to be classified either in convective or non convective systems. Convective cloud systems correspond to lightning and detecting such systems is of main importance for thunderstorm monitoring and warning. Because the problem is highly unbalanced, we consider specific performance criteria and different strategies. This case study can be used in an advanced course of data mining in order to illustrate the use of logistic regression and random forest on a real data set with unbalanced classes.
Households' Disagreement on Inflation Expectations and Socioeconomic Media Exposure in Germany

Inflation expectations are often found to depend on socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of households, such as age, income and education, however, the reasons for this systematic heterogeneity are not yet fully understood. Since accounting for these expectation differentials could help improve the communication strategies of central banks, we test the impact of three sources of the demographic dependence of inflation expectations using data for Germany. Overall, our findings suggest that household-specific inflation rates and group-specific news consumption accounts for the higher expectation gaps of younger and older households, households with lower income and unemployed survey respondents, while households' inflation perceptions only play a minor role.
Changes of Intestine Dimensions Determined by Barley and Wheat-Based Non Starch Polysaccharides (NSP) in Broilers

The objective of this experiment was to determine the main intestine dimension changes generated by the NSP content of the combined forage and by beta glucanase utilization in concordance with barley and wheat proportion in the structure of the combined forage for broilers. In this viewpoint, we carried out an experiment consisted of 5 experimental variants, as follows: EG1 - fed with a combined forage without barley, EG2 - fed with a combined forage including 60% barley in its structure in the first and second growth periods as well, EG3 - fed with a combined forage similar with the one offered in EG2, but with addition of beta glucanase 75 ppm, EG4 – with the enzyme in a quantity of 100 ppm and EG5 - 50 % of the barley amount was replaced with wheat and we also added beta glucanase 75 ppm. At the end of the experiment, successive to chicken killing, we determined the main changes at intestine dimension level and muscle stomach. By incorporating barley in proportion of 60 % in the combined forage structure, the intestinal dimensions (length, diameter) get changed, and also the width of the muscle stomach. The incorporation of enzymes in the combined forage structure reduces the differences available between the intestinal dimensions in the group fed with enzyme and the one that was not fed with enzyme: there are significant differences (p<0.05) between the length of duodenum, cecum and ileonum of the chickens fed with forage including beta glucanase 75 ppm and the chickens fed with forage including barley without beta glucanase, of up to 20 %. There are also significant differences in the case of the muscle stomach diameter, of up to 25 %.
bservations on variation in skull size of three mammals in Israel during the 20 th entury oram

Among mammals, food availability, especially during the growth period, is a key predictor in determining final body size, and improved nutrition may lead to an increase in their body size. In Israel during the last century food availability for animals commensal with humans increased greatly, due to a 16-fold increase in the human population and the accompanying changes, such as a 135-fold increase in the area of irrigated agriculture and the availability of large quantities of organic garbage. Using museum material, we studied temporal changes in skull size of a sample of 89 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus, 1758), 108 golden jackals (Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758) and 117 Cape hares (Lepus capensis Linnaeus, 1758) collected during the 20th century. Four measurements (condylobasal length,
Knowledge interactions in patent development: the role of geographical vs. organisational proximity

There is consensus in the literature about the importance of firm competencies in the production of inventions. The affiliation to an organisation with unique capabilities, internal communication systems, and specific routines is an effective mechanism for the production and transmission of knowledge (e.g. Nelson and Winter, 1982; Dosi et al. 1988; Klepper, 2001, Buenstorf and Klepper 2005). There is also evidence of the importance of competencies that pertain to territories and regions rather than specific firms. By facilitating the transfer of knowledge among close-by individuals and companies, the geographical cluster is another organisational form for invention. Recent contributions confirm that knowledge spills over, and that the cost of acquiring knowledge is lower when individuals and firms are geographically close. This explains the tendency of innovative activities to cluster (Jaffe, 1986; Jaffe et al., 1993; Saxenian, 1994; Swann et al. 1998), with skilledand R&D-intensive industries that benefit to a greater extent from co-location (Audretsch and Feldman, 1996).
GC- MS EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS FROM METHANOLIC LEAF EXTRACT OF Kedrostis foetidissima (Jacq.) Cogn

Kedrostis foetidissima (Jacq.) Cogn. , a medicinal plant belongs to the family of Cucurbitaceae. Traditionally the plant was used in the treatment of small pox and skin diseases. The present study deals with the phytochemical screening and GC-MS evaluation of chemical constituents from the methanolic leaf extract of Kedrostis foetidissima. Preliminary phytochemical screening reveals the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, phenols, triterpenoids, glycosides and saponins. Fifteen chemical constituents have been identified through GC-MS analysis, among that the major constituents are 7,10- hexadecadienoic acid, methyl ester (CAS) (9.37%), 2-hexadecen-1-ol,3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-(R-(R*,R*-(E)))-(CAS) (5.57%), 1H-1,2,4-triazole-3,5-dicarbaldehyde (5.22%) and docosanoic acid (4.96 %) and other minor constituents were also identified. The compounds identified through the GC-MS analysis were used in various applications as anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, cancer preventive, flavor and anti- fouling agents.
Determining the Stability of Clove Oil (Eugenol) for Use as an ... . In: Israel Journal of Veterinary Medicine (IJVM) - Vol. 69 - N°4 - Dec. 2014

Girisgin, A.O. 192 INTRODUCTION Acaricides are currently used globally for the control of the honey bee parasite, Varroa destructor, a mite that endangers the international beekeeping community. Colonies infested with V. destructor have significantly reduced worker bee populations which may eventually die off if infestations are uncontrolled (1). There are numerous drugs and modes of applications to combat Varroosis. It has been widely documented for many years that some of these drugs may cause contamination of bee products with acaricides (2, 3). The use of synthetic lipophilic acaricides leads to an accumulation of these substances in beeswax, but less so in honey. The accumulation in wax depends on the frequency, lipophilicity and amount of active ingredient used (2). The persistence of pyrethroid and organophosphate acaricides in beeswax has led to strains of V. destructor that are resistant against fluvalinate, flumethrine and coumaphos (4, 5). These problems have led to investigations to identify alternative control methods. Some alternatives proposed have included organic acids, thymol and essential oils or any of their components (6). Essential oils are distilled from aromatic plants and possess an intense smell, exhibit low toxicity Determining the Stability of Clove Oil (Eugenol) For Use as an Acaricide in Beeswax
Contested Markets: An overview

This article provides an overview of the sub-area of new economic sociology, (NES), known as “contested markets”. The involvement of both interests and values in the confection of markets has always been a leitmotif of economic sociology and many authors have dealt with the different ways in which markets have been challenged. The very organization of markets involves exclusions which at any time may provide the basis for contestations. Nevertheless, demographic trends, the rapid advance of the scientific and technological frontier, and the privatization of what were previously considered key public goods, have led to a more fundamental questioning of the acceptability of extending markets into new areas of social and private life. We review the different contributions of NES to this theme and, in particular, examine the major contribution provided by Philippe Steiner and colleagues to an understanding of the mechanisms put in place to deal with contestation in the construction of markets. A related, important, contribution on the dynamic of illegal markets by Beckert and Wehinger and the degree to which these can be included within the framework of market analysis, is also discussed. The article concludes with a discussion of Steiner´s original contribution on the “don” to an understanding the hybridization of reciprocity and exchange in the emergence of contested markets.
Controller design for active noise cancellation headphones using experimental raw data

This work presents a practical method of designing controllers for active noise cancellation (ANC) headphones. Without attempting system identification and perturbation modeling, the headphone system is directly described by a set of frequency-response data. In frequency domain, the controller synthesis problem is formulated as a constrained optimization problem, where the H/sub 2/ performance objective is minimized with various frequency-dependent constraints. The fixed-order robust controller is thus designed to achieve maximum noise attenuation with acceptable stability margins. Further, the method is able to accurately constrain noise amplification outside the control bandwidth due to waterbed effect of the nonminimum phase plants. This feature is very important for the ANC design to maintain an overall quality of noise reduction.
Optimum Stocking Density for Growth of Goldfish, Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758), in an Aquaponic System

Goldfish (Carassius auratus) and spinach (Spinacea oleracea) were raised together in an aquaponic system. The goldfish were stocked in 12 rectangular 40-l fiberglass tanks at 300, 400, 500, or 600/m 3 and spinach was planted at 28 plants/m 2 in 12 round 75-l plastic tubs filled with gravel to the height of 15 cm. Water circulated from the fish culture tanks to the round tubs by air-lift pumps. Additional goldfish were stocked at 300/m 3 in three 20-l glass aquaria without spinach and spinach was raised in a nearby field as controls. The fish and spinach were grown for 60 days to study growth and determine the optimum fish stocking density for an aquaponic system. Fish survival was 100% in all treatments. Total weight gain, percent weight gain, and SGR of the goldfish were higher in the control and 300/m 3 aquaponic treatments than in the 400, 500, and 600/m 3 aquaponic treatments but feed conversion ratio, feed efficiency ratio, and protein efficiency ratio did not differ between treatments. Length gain of the spinach was highest in the 600/m 3 treatment but did not significantly differ from the others. Chlorophyll a and b contents of the spinach were highest in the control and 600/m 3 treatment. Even though fish growth was best in the 300/m 3 treatment and spinach growth was best in the 600/m 3 treatment, the best fish stocking density for both together was 500/m 3
Microbiological profile of early-onset neonatal sepsis in a tertiary care hospital in South India

Aims: To identify the microbiological profile of neonatal sepsis and antibiotic sensitivity patterns of various isolates in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Karnataka. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, the laboratory data of primary blood culture reports of 240 neonates admitted with clinical suspicion of early-onset sepsis, from April 2014 to March 2016, were analyzed. Results: Total 240 samples were received during the study period, of which 40, (16%) were found to be positive. Out of these, 18 (7.5%), 18 (7.5%), and 4 (1%) had Gram-positive, Gram-negative, and Candida infection, respectively. The most common organism noted among Gram-positive isolates was Staphylococcus aureus (22.5%), followed by coagulase-negative staphylococci (12.5%) and Enterococcus (10%). Among Gram-negative isolates, Acinetobacter was the most commonly implicated organism (20%), followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (12.5%), Escherichia coli (7.5%), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (5%). Conclusion: This study emphasizes the need for close observation to be carried out at regular intervals to describe the various pathogens causing early-onset neonatal sepsis and their ever changing antibiotic sensitivity pattern which will provide useful data to guide practice and policies on rational use of antibiotics.
Who Cares about Inflation? Empirical Evidence from the Czech Republic

Most central banks around the globe have the primary task to fight inflation. In the light of the fact that at least moderate inflation turns out to have little effect on the economy this is somewhat surprising. In order to understand why many countries have installed central banks which (almost exclusively) focus on fighting inflation it is necessary to understand why people care about inflation. However, comparatively little knowledge is yet available on the individual determinants of inflation aversion. Up to now, empirical (and quite inconclusive) evidence is available for a number of large Western democracies. Moreover, the evidence is mostly drawn from pure cross section data. Thus, it is yet unclear in how far the results depend on the prevailing macroeconomic situation and can be generalized. In this paper we study the individual determinants of inflation aversion in the Czech Republic. Using data from 11 waves of the Eurobarometer survey we find age, political orientation, education and the macroeconomic situation to have significant effects on the revealed preferences towards fighting inflation while income seems not to play a significant role.
Internal resistance of cells of lithium battery modules with FreedomCAR model

Internal resistance is usually calculated by EIS (Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy) method, which gives unrealistic low internal resistance values. In this paper internal resistance will be calculated from the voltage drop with FreedomCAR method where the validation of the results is much better (99%) than EIS method[1][12]. Batteries are often tested per cell. But in most cases more than one single cell is needed for an application and the characteristics of a module of cells is not the same. In other cases the whole module is examined as one big cell, without looking on the individual cells. But the weakest cell affects the performance of the whole module. This research goes deeper than the module approach on batteries: the behavior of individual cells is examined while they are working together in a module. The battery model consists in most researches of an ideal voltage source and a simple internal resistance[2]. In this work the advanced FreedomCAR battery model, created by Idaho National Laboratories (USA), is used: the cell is represented by an ideal voltage source with two internal resistances and two capacitors. Usually batteries are tested with very low constant currents (till 5% of the nominal current value) to show a high capacity value to the customer, while the customer needs the characteristics of the battery in real conditions. Here the parameters are calculated by testing the battery packets in high pulse conditions. The matching between the predicted and the measured voltage is proportional with the quality of the model. This was 99% (+-0.9%) in the tests. This means that the model is very close to the reality. Three types of Lithium-ion battery packets with 6-7 cells were tested.
Impact of pruning on growth, yield and quality of mango cv. Dashehari

An experiment was carried out to study the impact of pruning on growth, yield and quality of mango cv. Dashehari. Ten treatments consisted of heading back of terminal shoots at two different levels viz., M1: 10 cm & M2: 20 cm, with two level of frequency i.e., F1: annually & F2: biennially and at two different timings i.e., T1: immediately after fruit harvest (June-July) & T2: during rest period before the emergence of new growth (floral and vegetative) including control as M0F0T0 with and without Paclobutazol (PBZ), were imposed on the trees. The trial was laid out in Randomized block design replicated thrice and single tree served as treatment unit. On the basis of 6 years (2009-2014) pooled data, it was observed that the vigorous growth in terms of tree height (4.56 m), trunk circumference (43.56 cm) and tree spread (3.03 m) were observed in the trees under control (M0F0T0 without PBZ), whereas the trees which were pruned annually by heading back of 20 cm of terminal shoots during rest period before emergence of new growth along with paclabutrazol application (M2F1T2) showed less growth in terms of tree height (3.30 m) and spread (2.21 m). The annual pruning of tree by heading back of 10 cm of terminal shoots immediately after fruit harvest along with paclobutrazol application (M1F1T1) proved effective for increasing the number of fruits per tree (51.31), yield (9.09 kg/tree and 15.14 t/ha), B: C ratio (4.04), maintaining fruit quality and for having the appropriate dwarfing effect on the tree.
TIME DEPENDENCE OF PERSISTENT-CURRENT FIELD DISTORTIONS IN THE SUPERCONDUCTING HERA MAGNETS

The time dependence of the persistent-current sextupole and dipole components has been measured in more than 250 HERA dipoles. The drift of these two multipole components is correlated and almost logarithmic in time. The initial current cycle of the magnet has a surprisingly strong influence on the decay rates. By introducing a break in this cycle the time drift at the HERA injection energy can be greatly reduced, thereby relieving the requirements on time- dependent sextupole corrections considerably. Reference dipoles with diagnostic equipment will be used to determine and correct the time and fieid dependent dipole and sexlupole errors in the HERA proton ring.
The history of mass dispersal around Herbig Ae/Be stars

We present a systematic study of the material surrounding intermediate-mass stars. Our sample includes 34 Herbig Ae/Be (HAEBE) stars of dierent ages and luminosities. This is a quite complete representation of the whole class of HAEBE stars and consequently, our conclusions should have a solid statistical meaning. In addition, we have observed 2 intermediate-mass protostars and included published data on 15 protostellar objects in order to determine the evolution of the circumstellar material in the early stages of stellar evolution. All the HAEBE stars have been classied according with the three Types already dened in Fuente et al. (1998): Type I stars are immersed in a dense clump and have associated bipolar outflows, their ages are0.1 Myr; Type II stars are still immersed in the molecular cloud though not in a dense clump, their ages are between af ew 0.1 to af ew Myr; Type III stars have completely dispersed the surrounding material and are located in a cavity of the molecular cloud, their ages are >1 Myr. Our observations are used to reconstruct the evolution of the circumstellar material around intermediate-mass stars and investigate the mass dispersal mechanisms at the dierent stages of the stellar evolution. Our results can be summarized as follows: intermediate-mass stars disperse90% of the mass of the parent clump during the protostellar phase. During this phase, the energetic outflows sweep out the gas and dust forming a biconical cavity while the equatorial material is infalling to feed the circumstellar disk and eventually the protostar. In this way, the density structure of the parent clump remains well described by a density law n/ r with 2 0:08 pc) cavities in the molecular cloud, producing a dramatic change in the morphology of the region. This dierence is easily understood if photodissociation plays an important role in the mass dispersal around these objects.