Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The “ Berlin Affective Word List ” ( BAWL ) As a Basic Tool for Studying Affective and Aesthetic Processes in Reading

Department of Experimental and Neurocognitive Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion, Berlin, Germany, 4 Scene Grammar Lab, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, Department of Cognitive, Social and Organizational Psychology, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain, Department of Psychology, General and Biological Psychology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany, 7 Experimental Psychology and Methods, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF CONCRETE USING LATERITIC SAND AND QUARRY DUST AS FINE AGGREGATE

This paper is part of a study investigating the structural characteristics of concrete using various combinations of lateritic sand and quarry dust as complete replacement for conventional river sand fine aggregate. Samples of concrete (eg. cubes) were made using varying contents of laterite and quarry dust as fine aggregate. The quantity of laterite was varied from 0% to 100% against quarry dust at intervals of 25%. The samples were cured for specified periods and tested in the laboratory for compressive strength. Workability tests were earlier carried out to determine the optimum water/cement ratios for three different mixes, namely: 1:1:2, 1:1.5:3 and 1:2:4. It was found that 0.5 water/cement ratio produced higher compressive strengths for 1:1:2 mix, while 0.6 water/cement ratio exhibit better workability for 1:1.5:3 mix proportion. Specifically compressive strength ranged from 17-34.2 N/mm for the mixes considered. These results compare favourably with those of conventional concrete. The concrete was found to be suitable for use as structural members for buildings and related structures, where laterite content did not exceed 50%.
Morpho-molecular characterization and epitypification of Annulatascus

The holotype of Annulatascus velatisporus, the type species of the genus Annulatascus, which is the core species of Annulatascaceae (Annulatascales) is in poor condition as herbarium material has few ascomata and molecular data could not be generated. Therefore, an epitype is herein designated for the precise delineation of this taxon. A morphological description and DNA characterization are provided for the epitype, obtained from the holotype location. Therefore, this specimen merits use as an interpretive type (epitype) for the holotype of A. velatisporus collected from submerged wood in a river, at Milaa Milaa Falls, north Queensland.
Correlations between anthropometric measurements, biochemical indicators, dietary intake and Dialysis Malnutrition Score among haemodialysis patients in Sibu, Sarawak

Introduction: Malnutrition is a common problem associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality among haemodialysis (HD) patients. Methods: This study determined the correlation between anthropometric measurements, biochemical indicators, dietary intake and dialysis malnutrition score among HD patients in Sibu, Sarawak. A total of 55 patients were recruited by purposive sampling and their biochemical parameters were retrieved from dialysis records. Anthropometric measurements and dietary intake were determined using standardised protocols while Dialysis Malnutrition Score (DMS) was computed to determine patients’ nutritional status. Results: Mean age of the patients was 53.0±12.2 years. Mean DMS was low, indicating low tendency of malnutrition among the patients. Approximately one-third of the patients had high interdialytic weight gain (IDWG), indicating a poor adherence on fluid recommendation. Mean intakes of dietary energy (DEI) and protein (DPI) were low, with only approximately 15% achieving the recommendations according to Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/ DOQI). Increase in age (r=0.337, p=0.012) and dialysis vintage (r=0.403, p=0.002) were associated with poorer nutritional status while higher BMI, MUAC, and serum albumin were associated with better nutritional status. Conclusion: This study revealed a high proportion of the HD patients with poor adherence on fluid intake, and the prevalence of inadequate DEI and DPI, indicating the importance of regular dietary counselling for HD patients. In view of their non-invasive nature and close relationship with nutritional status, body mass index, mid-upper arm circumference, and serum albumin should be included as part of the comprehensive periodic nutrition assessment of HD patients.
Charge transfer in natural negative and positive downward flashes

The question of interest is the charge transfer of lightning flashes. On instrumented towers, it is possible to measure these values. In many countries there is no equipment installed on the towers in order to measure the charge transfer. The other fact is that there are just a few cases of downward flashes occurring in towers around the world. In this paper, a method for estimation of charge transfer will be present. We used data from Brazil, USA and Austria for the analysis and comparison.
MODELING DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL AND SEDIMENT PROCESSES TO ASSESS LAND USE EFFECTS IN CHAO PHRAYA RIVER BASIN

Soil loss and its transport processes were coupled with an existing distributed hydrological model to assess the effects of land use change on stream flow and suspended sediment load in the Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand. The simulation period spanned from 2001 to 2010. The results indicate that the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency of upper sub-basins fluctuated in the range 0.51–0.72, indicating the applicability of the model for long-term simulation at the monthly scale. Land use change during 2001–2010 caused a 1.6% increase in suspended sediment load based on the present trend. The changes were particularly pronounced in the Wang River basin, where the delivery ratio was highest. Moreover, the urbanization and conversion of farm land from paddy fields exerted negative effects on sediment runoff in Chao Phraya River basin. The proposed model has the ability to quantitatively evaluate the heterogeneity of sediment runoff in the basin, demonstrating the benefits and trade-offs of each land use change class. The results of this study can support basin and local land development policy to control sediment losses during development.
Determinants of Capital Inflows : New Empirical Evidence

The simplest benchmark neoclassical growth model (e.g. Solow, 1956) suggests that capital should flow from capital-rich developed countries to capital-poor developing countries as a result of ‘diminishing returns to capital’. Lucas (1990) points out in his classic article that neoclassical assumptions on technology and trade in goods and factors are ‘drastically wrong’ and poses the provocative question “Why Doesn’t Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? ” (Lucas 1990, p. 92). This puzzle, known as the ‘Lucas Paradox’-the lack of capital flows from rich to poor countries-, introduced a new debate and spawned an extensive literature. From Lucas’s point of view, differences in ‘fundamentals’, such as human capital between rich and poor countries potentially explain this paradox. Lucas rejects capital market imperfection or political risk as an explanation for the lower capital flows to poor countries, pointing to the fact that before World War II many of today’s poor countries were colonies and subject to rich countries laws and governing institutions.
The Impact of First and Second Languages on Azerbaijani EFL Learners’ Writing Ability

There has always been a debate whether or not the learners’ first language (L1) can facilitate the process of learning foreign language. Since foreign language writing (FL) is a complicated process, it seems that the role of the learners’ L1 and its effect on FL writing is of great importance in this regard. The present study aimed at investigating the role of Azerbaijani EFL learners’ L1 and L2 (Persian) on their FL writing. To meet the purposes of the study, 30 female EFL upper-intermediate students were selected (through running an OPT), who were native speakers of Azerbaijani, with Persian as their L2 and official language of Iranian context. The data were collected through running three writing sessions (in which the participants wrote three essays in each session using Azerbaijani as L1, Persian as L2, and direct writing) using the think-aloud protocol, through which they were asked to report their thoughts loudly to record using a tape recorder. In addition, a survey was used to ask their perceptions towards each writing task. The analysis of the data obtained from the evaluation of learners’ writings indicated that the mere use of their L1 or L2 in foreign language writing was by no means helpful for them and they performed better on direct writing task in comparison with the two other ones. It was also found that the majority of the learners (70%) had difficulty in generating their ideas using Azerbaijani as their L1. In addition, nearly 77% of them claimed that even in direct writing mode, they made use of their L2 (Persian) on the occasions they could not find a proper word or phrase in English. As the implications of the study, it seems that the present study can bring helpful insights for both FL teachers and learners about the roles that Azerbaijani and Persian languages play as the students’ L1 and L2 in FL writing. Keywords : Writing ability, first language, second language, foreign language
Z-odometers and cohomology

Cohomology for actions of free abelian groups on the Cantor set has (when endowed with an order structure) provided a complete invariant for orbit equivalence. In this paper, we study a particular class of actions of such groups called odometers (or profinite actions) and investigate their cohomology. We show that for a free, minimal Zdodometer, the first cohomology group provides a complete invariant for the action up to conjugacy. This is in contrast with the situation for orbit equivalence where it is the cohomology in dimension d ∗Supported in part by a grant from NSERC, Canada †Supported in part by a grant from NSERC, Canada ‡Supported in part by the Norwegian Research Council
Factors Influencing the Nutritional Practice of Pregnant Women Living in a Semi-Urban Region of Ogun State , Nigeria

DOI: 10.21276/sjm.2017. 2.5. 1 Abstract: Maternal nutrition during pregnancy has been associated with healthy outcomes for both mother and child. This study investigated the factors influencing the nutritional practices of pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at a State Hospital in Ogun State, Nigeria. Study employed a descriptive, non-experimental research design. A non-probability convenience sampling method was used to select 210 pregnant women and questionnaires were administered after obtaining ethical approval and written consent. Data obtained was analyzed using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS 22.0. version). Inferential statistics of chi-square was used to test the hypothesis at a significant level of 0.05. Findings revealed that the nutritional practice of participants is inadequate. Although more than half of the participants (52.9%) claimed they eat whenever they felt like, only 29.8% respondents eat variety of food in moderation whereas 43.4% respondents eat fruits and vegetable daily. 82.2% respondents confirmed that they forbid the intake of certain food item when pregnant. Factors that hindered women from maintaining adequate nutritional practices in pregnancy includes low socio-economic status (42.4%), inadequate knowledge about the food item (20.4%), ignorance (13.1%), lack of husband support (12.6%) and forgetfulness (11.5%). Provision of health information was identified as a key measure for improving nutritional practices of women during pregnancy. Nutrition education and counselling given during each antenatal visit should be intensified. Special programs which elicit husband support should be organized in order to increase men’s knowledge of adequate nutrition intake in pregnancy and also enhance supportive care which would positively affect women’s nutritional practice.
Researching Information Systems and Computing

Introduction The Purpose and Products of Research Overview of the Research Process Internet Research Participants and Research Ethics Reviewing the Literature Surveys Design and Creation Experiments Case Studies Action Research Ethnography Interviews Observations Questionnaires Documents Quantitative Data Analysis Qualitative Data Analysis Philosophical Paradigms Positivism Alternative Philosophical Paradigms Presentation of the Research Final Words
Computational models of the thalamocortical circuit : sleep oscillations and receptive fields

Computational models of the thalamocortical circuit: sleep oscillations and receptive fields. Nada Yousif The thalamus is a subcortical structure, which consists of a collection of functionally and morphologically defined nuclei. A subset of these, the sensory nuclei, receive information from the periphery and relay it to the related primary cortical area. Hence the thalamus was traditionaUy assumed to passively relay afferent information. However, the fact that thalamic relay cells receive a large proportion of their sjoiaptic inputs from the cortical cells to which they project, has led to the consensus that there is a more significant thalamic contribution to sensory processing. This thesis investigates the role of the thalamocortical feedback loop using population-level computational models. In particular two states of thalamocortical activity are investigated: early sleep, and active visual processing. During early sleep, the network displays 7-14Hz spindle oscillations. These osciUations have been previously modelled using conductance-based paradigms, but here the activity is investigated through the nonhnear dynamics of the circuitry. It is shown that the circuit has an intrinsic resonant frequency in the spindles range. During visual processing, the role of the lateral geniculate nucleus (the primary visual thalamic nucleus) was previously overlooked, as thalamic receptive fields are spatially identical to those in the retina. Temporally however, thalamic and retinal responses differ in magnitude, and the second model in this thesis shows how cortical feedback can have a role in augmenting thalamic temporal responses. This model was reduced in order to find the minimal thalamic circuitry that can produce such responses, and this final model can also exhibit steady state oscillatory behaviour. The transition from transient visual activity to sustained oscillatory activity in this model, required a switch in the relative cortical feedback weights to the thalamocortical and the reticular populations. Together, these results indicate that the contribution of the thalamus to neural activity can no longer be ignored.
Hotel Online Booking Decisions Based on Price Complexity, Alternative Attractiveness, and Confusion

HOTEL ONLINE BOOKING DECISIONS BASED ON PRICE COMPLEXITY, ALTERNATIVE ATTRACTIVENESS, AND CONFUSION Pengsongze Xue Advisor: University of Guelph, 2019 Dr. WooMi Jo The goal of this research is to investigate customer confusion and its antecedents, specifically price complexity and alternative attractiveness, and to validate a link between confusion and postponing decisions about booking a hotel online. Price complexity and alternative attractiveness cause three types of confusion: overload confusion, similarity confusion, and ambiguity confusion. Moreover, these three types of confusion cause customers to defer purchase decisions. An online survey was used to collect data from customers who booked hotels online during the past six months in both the United States and Canada.
Assessing taurine introgression in the current Brazilian Nelore cattle population

The history of Nelore cattle in Brazil is that imported Indian animals were interbred with available taurine Creole populations to spread the zebuine germplasm, creating an admixture event by crossbreeding two formerly distant populations. With the use of currently available high-density genotypic information it is possible to investigate the genetic origins of livestock populations. The main aim of this thesis was to assess the taurine introgression in the current Brazilian Nelore cattle population by comparison to a reference group consisting of taurine (Angus, Fleckvieh, Hereford, Holstein, Limousin, Piedmontese) and indicine (ancestral Nelore, Brahman, Gir) cattle breeds. This was performed by estimating individual admixture levels, constructing haplotypes and calculating their frequencies, and building phylogenetic trees to show the relationships of the breeds graphically. The taurine introgression found in the young Nelore animals is lower than initially expected, with an average genome-wide taurine admixture level of just 0.4 % and a high proportion of the indicine admixture seemingly arising from the ancestral Nelore. Analysis of the Y-chromosome shows similar results to the genome-wide, with an average taurine introgression of 0.7 %. Moreover, differences between young Nelore subgroups were found with animals from pedigree type herds showing higher ancestral Nelore and lower taurine origin than the production type, and this result was additionally confirmed by the phylogenetic trees. In contrast, mitochondrial data shows an average of 95.1 % of taurine maternal ancestry in the young Nelore population. These results support the initial hypothesis of the historical use of taurine females, yet the analyses show that very little taurine ancestry has remained in the genome of the current population with variations at the individual and group level. Assessing taurine introgression in the current Brazilian Nelore cattle population IV
CARDIFF SCHOOL OF SPORT DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE MOVEMENT VARIABILITY IN ARCHERY

To include: collation of information and ideas and evaluation of those ideas relative to the extant literature/concept/theory and research question/problem; adoption of a personal position on the study by linking and combining different elements of the data reported; discussion of the real-life impact of your research findings for coaches and/or practitioners (i.e. practical implications); discussion of the limitations and a critical reflection of the approach/process adopted; and indication of potential improvements and future developments building on the study; and a conclusion which summarises the relationship between the research question and the major findings.
Regional Spillovers in the Hungarian Housing Market: Evidence from a Spatio-Temporal Model

This paper analyses housing market spillovers between Hungarian regions in a small, spatio-temporal model, which features both the house price and housing supply as endogenous variables. The paper estimates both the long-run relationship between housing variables and economic fundamentals, and the short-run adjustment path of the housing market towards the long-run equilibrium. Long-run elasticities are in line with previous studies. The size of spillovers between Hungarian regions is economically meaningful; therefore, region-specific developments such as the recent run-up of Budapest house prices can have significant aggregate effects.
Successful technical trading agents using genetic programming.

Genetic programming (GP) has proved to be a highly versatile and useful tool for identifying relationships in data for which a more precise theoretical construct is unavailable. In this project, we use a GP search to develop trading strategies for agent based economic models. These strategies use stock prices and technical indicators, such as the moving average convergence/divergence and various exponentially weighted moving averages, to generate buy and sell signals. We analyze the effect of complexity constraints on the strategies as well as the relative performance of various indicators. We also present innovations in the classical genetic programming algorithm that appear to improve convergence for this problem. Technical strategies developed by our GP algorithm can be used to control the behavior of agents in economic simulation packages, such as ASPEN-D, adding variety to the current market fundamentals approach. The exploitation of arbitrage opportunities by technical analysts may help increase the efficiency of the simulated stock market, as it does in the real world. By improving the behavior of simulated stock markets, we can better estimate the effects of shocks to the economy due to terrorism or natural disasters.
Chapter 2 Business Model De fi nition and Boundaries

The second chapter of this book focuses on the conceptualization of a BM and particularly on the definitions and boundaries of BMs that the literature has proposed over the last 15 years. In the first part of this chapter, we propose different definitions of BM categorized according to: the conceptual abstraction (i.e., strategic, narrative, process-based, and cognitive conceptual abstractions); the BM architecture (i.e., BM as a structure; BM as a system; BM as a network); the content of BM components (i.e., strategic activities and managerial decisions; resources; networks and relationships; and value) and to the dynamic approaches (with particular focus on strategic management and organizational studies). Finally, we review all the definitions of BM included in the 156 papers considered for our systematic literature review of BMI. Thus, according to a brief citation analysis, we have identified the most influential works on BM that contributed most to the academic and practice-oriented development of the literature of BMI.
Ivana Barǐsić Accurate measurements of the dust properties in the 1 billion year old universe

In this work I examine the dust attenuation properties of 11 average star-forming galaxies at high redshift 5 < z < 6 in the COSMOS field using deep high resolution rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 (HST WFC-3) data along with far infrared (FIR) continuum and [CII] emission line measurements from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA). In the previously conducted study of the same sample of galaxies, using low signal-to-noise ground based telescope data, it was found that these galaxies have higher dust column densities, i.e. redder UV continuum slopes, at a fixed FIR to UV luminosity ratio, compared to the average of local galaxies. This apparent difference is either caused by systematic measurement biases in the infrared luminosity and ultraviolet slope estimates, or changes in dust geometry or gas dynamics in high redshift galaxies. With the high signal-to-noise HST WFC-3 data I find mainly consistent UV continuum slope values compared to the ones from the low signal-to-noise ground based data. This result shows that differences between galaxies at low and high redshift found in previous studies are due to different dust and gas properties in high redshift (z > 5) galaxies. With HST WFC-3 measurements and additional tests of their reliability and accuracy, I conclude that some of the high redshift galaxies show similar dust attenuation properties as low redshift galaxies. However, I find that this is not the case for the upper limit subset of our sample showing very low FIR to UV luminosity ratios, hinting towards different dust and gas properties.