Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Workforce Aging, Pension Reforms, and Firm Outcomes

Raising statutory retirement ages has been a popular policy to increase the labor supply of older workers in the face of population aging. In this paper, we quantify the effect of a sharp and unexpected increase in retirement ages on firms’ input mix and economic outcomes using Italian administrative and survey data on employment, wages, value added and capital. Exploiting information on lifetime pension contributions for the universe of employees, we are able to quantify the extra number of older workers employed by each firm as a result of the reform. We find that a 10 per cent increase in older workers implies a rise in employment of young and middle-aged workers of 1.8 per cent and 1.3 per cent, respectively. Total labor costs and value added increase broadly in line with employment, with little impact on labor productivity and unit labor costs. These results suggest older workers are valuable to employers and that pension reforms postponing retirement can remove a constraint rather than place a burden on firms.
The Effect of Copyright, Patents and Brands on Information Access to Industrial Field Computation

: This study aims to determine the effect of copyright, patents and brands on access to information on cloud computing in the industrial sector. The object of research is government agencies and the Industrial SKPD and the Directorate General of Intellectual Property and Rights, Indonesia. The research instrument was a questionnaire, where the Head and employees of the technical agency bureau in Indonesia province became respondents. Research variables influence the copyright, patents and brands and access to cloud computing information in the industrial sector of Indonesia. The results of the study indicate that copyrights, patents and brands have an influence on the performance of the agency of the technical agency of the state Indonesia.
The Effect of Professionalism and Competence on The Performance of Regional Representatives Council

The research aims to analyze the effect of Bogor Regency’s Regional Representatives Council members’ professionalism and competence on their performance. The research uses a quantitative approach and employs the descriptive method. Findings suggest that Bogor Regency’s Regional Representatives Council members’ professionalism and competence directly influence their performance in a positive and significant manner. Result of this research also show that with increasing competence of members of parliament, it will has an impact on improving the performance of legislators—that is because they are a higher priority on support capabilities are more conducive to understanding the rules and duties of their employment. Study recommends that include other factors besides the professionalism and competence of members of parliament in order to measure performance improvement legislators.
University of Southern Denmark Unnatural Origin of Fermion Masses for Technicolor Antola

We explore the scenario in which the breaking of the electroweak symmetry is due to the simultaneous presence and interplay of a dynamical sector and an unnatural elementary Higgs. We introduce a low energy effective Lagrangian and constrain the various couplings via direct search limits and electroweak and flavor precision tests. We find that the model we study is a viable model of dynamical breaking of the electroweak symmetry. matti.antola@helsinki.fi matti.p.s.heikinheimo@jyu.fi sannino@cp3.sdu. dk kimmo.tuominen@jyu.fi On leave of absence from Department of physics, University of Jyväskylä ‖ Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics Phenomenology devoted to the understanding of the Origins of Mass in the universe
The Effects of E-Sports Courseware for Teaching Psychomotor Skills

Computer Aided Learning (CAL) is no more an uncommon phenomena in the education arena of Malaysia today. This instructional approach had been used in the process of teaching and learning for many school subjects but there is very little application in Physical Education. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of E-Sports courseware developed by using the Simpson’s Psychomotor Domain Taxonomy for teaching psychomotor skills. The E-Sports courseware was developed for the topic of Triple Jump in Physical Education syllabus. This descriptive type of study comprised of 60 samples from a secondary school in Johor Bahru District. The instruments of the study were questionnaires to evaluate the courseware, a Pre-test and Post-test analyzed using t-Test for students’ performance. The data were also supported by interviews and observations. The significant value of 0.000 showed that there were differences before and after learning with the courseware. This means that there is an increase in knowledge of skills in triple jump. The result of the study also showed positive effects on level of achievement in Simpson’s Psychomotor Domain Taxonomy. As a conclusion, the development of E-Sports courseware is able to trigger positive effects towards students’ psychomotor skills learning and hopefully it may assist in identifying young sport talent later.
Teachers’ perceptions of behavioral problems in Dutch primary education pupils: The role of relative age

A growing number of studies suggest that relatively young behavior of pupils gives them a much greater likelihood of being diagnosed with a disorder such as ADHD. This ‘relative age effect’ has also been demonstrated for special educational needs, learning difficulties, being bullied, and so on. The current study investigated the relationship between relative age of pupils in primary education and teachers’ perception of their behavior. The study sample included 1973 pupils, aged between 6 and 12. Six linear mixed models were carried out with birth day in a year as predictor variable and ‘total problem score’, ‘problems with hyperactivity’, ‘behavioral problems’, ‘emotional problems’, ‘problems with peers’ and ‘pro-social behavior’ as dependent variables. Random intercepts were added for school and teacher level. Cluster-mean centering disaggregated between-school effects and within-school effects. We found no associations between relative age of pupils and teacher perceptions of their behavior. Several explanations are postulated to account for these findings which contradict prior studies on relative age effects.
Content-aware Trace Collection and I / O Deduplication for Smartphones

In this paper, we first introduce a trace collection tool specifically designed to capture the I/O requests with important content features in Android-based smartphones, which are critically important but rarely available in content-aware designs and optimizations such as JProbe and Netlink. Based on the analysis of the traces collected from 15 popular applications, we find that 20% to 40% of the I/O requests on the I/O critical path of the storage stack are redundant and this data redundancy is minimally shared among different applications. Based on this key observation, we propose a content-aware optimization, called APP-Dedupe, that applies data deduplication on the I/O critical path to improve both performance and efficiency by reducing write amplification and improving GC efficiency of the flash storage on Android smartphones. The evaluation results show that APP-Dedupe reduces the GC overhead by an average of 41.5%, reduces the response times by up to 15.4% and reduces the amount of write data by an average of 45.2%.
Nutrient and antinutrient distribution of edible mushroom , Pleurotus tuber-regium ( fries )

Edible mushroom Pleurotus tuber-regium, separated into cap, stalk, and tuber, was analysed. The macronutrient profile (g/100 g) showed crude protein ranging from 4.1 to 13.8, with the highest concentration in the cap (13.8) than any of the other parts and total carbohydrates from 34.0 to 56.2, while the crude fat and ash contents were generally low. Potassium, the most abundant nutritive element was found to be the highest concentration (mg/g) in the stalk (3.3) while copper was found in trace amounts in all the parts. The total cyanide (mg/100 g), phytate (mg/100 g) and tannin (%TA) concentrations were all below levels considered harmful. Amino acids analysis show that the protein contained all essential amino acids while the calculated amino acids scores showed the sulphur containing amino acids to be most limiting. The foregoing highlights the high nutritive values of the major parts of the edible mushroom, Pleurotus tuber-regium. r 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology.
THE EFFECT OF ORGANIZATION CULTURE, INCENTIVE, AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT ON JOB SATISFACTION OF CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AT HARAPAN MAULINA

This Research is written to determine the effect of organizational culture, incentive and working environment on job satisfaction of the employees of Harapan Maulina Sejahtera Company with quantitative method. The research variables used areorganizational culture, incentive and working environment as independent variables, and job satisfaction as the dependent variable. The research method used is non-probability sampling with purposive sampling technique. Questionnaire with Likert scale is used as the data collection technique. According to the data analysis, the variables of organizational culture, incentive and work environment have partial positive effects on job satisfaction of employees of Harapan Maulina Sejahtera Company.
Curve Density Intersection Inverse Intersection Closure Saliency map Saliency map Saliency map Saliency map Saliency map Percentile filtering Gaussian filtering

We present an image preprocessing technique capable of improving the performance of few-shot classifiers on abstract visual reasoning tasks. Many visual reasoning tasks with abstract features are easy for humans to learn with few examples but very difficult for computer vision approaches with the same number of samples, despite the ability for deep learning models to learn abstract features. Same-different (SD) problems represent a type of visual reasoning task requiring knowledge of pattern repetition within individual images, and modern computer vision approaches have largely faltered on these classification problems, even when provided with vast amounts of training data. We propose a simple method for solving these problems based on the insight that removing peaks from the amplitude spectrum of an image is capable of emphasizing the unique parts of the image. When combined with several classifiers, our method performs well on the SD SVRT tasks with few-shot learning, improving upon the best comparable results on all tasks, with average absolute accuracy increases nearly 40% for some classifiers. In particular, we find that combining Relational Networks with this image preprocessing approach improves their performance from chance-level to over 90% accuracy on several SD tasks.
Grade 3 ESL teachers’ (mis)conceptions about vocabulary acquisition, learning and instruction: A case study

development-related (mis)conceptions of ten purposively selected Grade 3 English Second Language teachers in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, with a view to indexing their vocabulary pedagogical practices. The efficacy of teacher cognition on teaching practices is the theory upon which the present study, which considers vocabulary development as a proxy for literacy attainment, is based. The theory is buttressed by literature on the research-based best practices in literature development against which teachers’ conceptionsare measured. Semi-structured teacher interview findings showed that vocabulary instruction proceeded largely on the basis of intuitive pedagogical decisions which evince dissonance with researchbased best practices. There was a manifest disregard for both incidental andcontextualised vocabulary development, and an apparent underestimation of learners’ potential for independent vocabulary acquisition. Professed instructional strategies only drew learners’ attention to the orthographic and phonological forms of the words at the expense of other crucial dimensions of word knowledge. The paper recommends a consideration of teachers’ vocabulary development-related perceptions as a point of departure for teacher education and teacher professional development, among others.
DIABETES MELLITUS IN BULGARIA

• The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Bulgaria was assessed in 1990 and 1993 by gathering information from a country-wide public health care system. A constant increase of prevalence rate was established beginning from 0.19% in 1963 to 1.61% in 1990 and reaching 1.71% in 1993. Higher prevalence rate was registered in central districts of the country, while in peripheral districts with insufficient specialized diabetological health care it was reported to be unusually low, under 1.0%. Differences in the districts are probably due to insufficient early detection, hidden prevalence and poor registration. Information about diabetic complications was gathered in 1990 and 1994. Prevalence rate of diabetic complications in Bulgaria was comparable with that in other European countries. National Diabetes Care Programme from 1987 and implementation of Saint Vincent Declaration since 1989 resulted in a decrease of proliferative retinopathy from 3.3% in 1990 to 2.9% in 1994, blindness due to diabetes from 0.87% to 0.37%, total number of amputations from 1.90% to 0.64% and amputations above the ankle from 0.13% to 0.04%, respectively. Mortality due to diabetes mellitus was increasing constantly from 8.59/100 000 population in 1973 to 18.95/ 100 000population in 1993. However, in the last seven years, mortality rate increased more slightly with a tendency to reach a plateau level in the next several years around 19.0/100 000. This might be due to increased efforts in the struggle with diabetes mellitus of the health care providers, diabetologists and lay persons organizations.
Habitat Associations of Bat Species in the White Mountain National Forest

Very little is known about the forest habitat associations of the nine bat species (Lasiurus cinereus, L. borealis, Lasionycteris noctivagans, Eptesicus fuscus, Pipistrellus subflavus, Myotis lucifugus, M. septentrionalis, M. leibii, and M. sodalis ) present in the White Mountain National Forest (). Timber management is the dominant form of habitat manipulation in the . Anabat II detectors were used to survey the flight activity of bat species in four age-classes (regeneration, sapling/pole, mature, and commercially overmature) of northern hardwood and spruce/fir forest stands. These vegetative classifications are appropriate to the current management structure of the . Prototype software was used to objectively identify unknown echolocation sequences in a statistically predictable manner. Non-myotids were identified to species, and myotid species were identified to genus. The results of our survey provide a baseline description of species distribution and bat community structure associated with managed forests in the northeastern United States.
Distribution and Habitat Associations of California Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis cortuniculus) in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta

Author(s): Tsao, Danika C. ; Melcer, Jr., Ronald E. ; Bradbury, Michael | Abstract: Past studies documenting the distribution and status of state “Threatened" California black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus; hereafter black rail) have largely omitted the Sacramento—San Joaquin Delta (hereafter Delta). During March to May of 2009–2011, we conducted call–playback surveys to assess the status of the species within a wide range of wetland habitats of the central Delta region. We detected black rails at 21 of 107 discrete wetland sites, primarily on in-channel islands with dense cover. To better understand the habitat and land cover characteristics, we developed a model of habitat suitability from these occurrence data and a fine-scale vegetation and land use dataset using MaxEnt. We also evaluated differences in the size of wetlands at sites where black rails were detected versus where they were not. Through surveys and quantitative modeling, we found black rail presence differed from other regions within California and Arizona, in that it was positively associated with tall (1 to 5 m) emergent vegetation interspersed with riparian shrubs. Specific plants correlated with black rail presence included emergent wetland (Bolboschoenus acutus, B. californicus, B. acutus, Typha angustifolia, T. latifolia, Phragmites australis) and riparian (Salix exigua, S. lasiolepis, Rosa californica, Rubus discolor, Cornus sericea) species. Median patch size was significantly larger and perimeter-to-area ratios were significantly lower at wetland sites where black rails were found. These results provide a preliminary characterization of black rail habitat in the Delta region and highlight the need for better understanding of this listed species’ population size and habitat use in the region, in light of anticipated climate change effects and proposed large-scale restoration in the Delta.
Dento-Skeletal Effects of Twin Block Appliance and Face-Bow on Early Treatment of Severe Class II Division 1 Malocclusion

A sample of 12 patients (4 boys and 8 girls) with skeletal Class II malocclusions due to mandibular deficiency aged from 8-12 years were selected for this study. Each patient was instructed to wear his Twin Block appliance for one weak then face-bow was added to the appliance through an activator tubes embedded in the premolar region of the upper compartment of twin block appliance, the force was 400500gm/side, An expansion screw was also added to the palatal acryl of the upper part which was opened by the clinician according to presence or absence of posterior cross bite. Cephalometric and cast variables was measured before and after treatment to evaluate the dento-skeletal changes produced by treatment. Data were entered and analyzed using:SPSS software for windows (version 21) and Boxplot graphs were created by STATA/MP software (version 14.0) for windows (32-bit). Statistical significance of the obtained results was judged at the 5% level. Results: Mandibular advancement with significant increased SNB (p<0.001), decreased ANB (p<0.0005), Maxillary growth restraining effect with Non-significant decrease in SNA (p=0.103),An increase in total anterior facial height (p=0.045), Upper incisor retroclination by decreased (U1-SN) measurement (p=0.002), Lower incisors proclination with increased (L1-MP) measurement (p=0.012), A significantly decreased overjet (p<0.0005), Lower lip was protruded significantly in relation to E-line (p<0.001), and a significant increase in inter-molar width (p=0.013). Conclusion: The Twin block appliance with face-bow had skeletal effects in the sagittal plane by restraining maxillary growth and stimulating the forward growth of the mandible which was effective in early treatment of skeletal Class II malocclusion due to mandibular retrognathism.
The Effect of Portfolio Assessment on Goal-orientation of Iranian Male and Female EFL Learners

This study examined the effect of portfolio assessment on goal-orientation of Iranian male and female EFL learners. Twenty-nine upper-intermediate EFL learners learning English at Chitsazan Language Institute, in Tabriz, were selected for the purpose of study. The participants were from a male intact class (N=16) and a female intact class (N=13). Both groups were tested based on TOEFL test to ensure the homogeneity in terms of general language proficiency. Besides, Midgley and Colleagues’ (1998) goal-orientation questionnaire was administered as the pre-test to estimate prior goal-orientation level of both groups. To match this questionnaire to the needs and context of this study, the researchers adopted the 18 item questionnaire to writing assignment. Later on, during 8 sessions, the researcher carried out portfolio assessment with a focus on writing assignments. The seven steps of portfolio assessment proposed by Delett’s et al (2001) were opted for as a framework for portfolio evaluation. After the finalizing the assessment sessions, the participants performed the same questionnaire as the post-test. The data were analyzed using a One-way ANCOVA test. The findings of the study revealed that there was a significant difference in mean goal-orientation F(27)=6.40, p=0.018 between the two groups. Moreover, comparing the estimated marginal means showed that the most progress in goal-orientation was for females (mean=76.124) compared to male participants (mean=65.274). The research findings have several implications for language learners and teachers.
Student teachers’ attitudes towards the compulsory English lessons at a Turkish university

The intent of the current study is to explore teacher candidates’ cognitive, affective, and behavioral attitude towards the compulsory English courses at universities and the relation of attitude with the participants’ genders, studying departments, graduated high schools, goals and hours for studying English. The cross-sectional survey and correlational research design, interlaced within each other, were embraced to reach that objective. 207 volunteer freshman students were sampled at the education faculty of a state university. A partially adapted survey was wielded as a data collection instrument. Based on the results of the descriptive and inferential statistics, while a large number of the respondents aimed to pass the English course, almost half of them did not ever exert any effort to learn the English language. The participants displayed negative attitude in all attitudinal components substantiating monolithic attitudinal concept. Male students displayed more favorable dispositions than females. Teacher learners getting education at the Turkish Language Education department bore more approving attitude than the other departments. The participants graduated from general high schools unexpectedly embraced more favorable dispositions. The participants’ goals and hours for studying English had very little share on their attitude. Hinged upon the results, a number of suggestions were forwarded to educators to promote approving dispositions in the language learners and teacher learners. © 2019 JLLS and the Authors Published by JLLS.
Joint Rumour Stance and Veracity Prediction

The net is rife with rumours that spread through microblogs and social media. Not all the claims in these can be verified. However, recent work has shown that the stances alone that commenters take toward claims can be sufficiently good indicators of claim veracity, using e.g. an HMM that takes conversational stance sequences as the only input. Existing results are monolingual (English) and mono-platform (Twitter). This paper introduces a stance-annotated Reddit dataset for the Danish language, and describes various implementations of stance classification models. Of these, a Linear SVM provides predicts stance best, with 0.76 accuracy / 0.42 macro F1. Stance labels are then used to predict veracity across platforms and also across languages, training on conversations held in one language and using the model on conversations held in another. In our experiments, monolinugal scores reach stance-based veracity accuracy of 0.83 (F1 0.68); applying the model across languages predicts veracity of claims with an accuracy of 0.82 (F1 0.67). This demonstrates the surprising and powerful viability of transferring stance-based veracity prediction across languages.
Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)

Taxonomy: The taxonomy of Long-billed Curlew is uncertain, with some authorities describing the species as monotypic while others argue for the existence of two subspecies based on difference in body and bill size 1, . However, it is unknown if these proposed measurements can be used to definitively identify individuals to the subspecies level, and therefore there are currently no formally recognized subspecies of Long-billed Curlew .