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Rental security and the property manager in a tenant’s search for a private rental property

Abstract This article builds on current understandings of rental security by exploring the important role of the property manager in a tenant's search for a private rental property. In the absence of any legislated right to housing, as is the case in many Anglophone societies, the decision to accept or reject a tenancy application is in the hands of the landlord, and, in many cases, the property manager, who provides expert advice to the landlord. A qualitative content analysis of blogs featured on two national websites advertising rental properties in Australia, identifies six aspects of interactions between the tenant and property manager argued to impact a tenant’s ability to secure a rental property: responsibility, making an impression, established relationships, honesty, flexibility and creative thinking. Findings suggest that understandings of rental security need to extend beyond a tenant’s experience while leasing and must incorporate experiences during the search for a private rental property.
Design Consideration of Body-Tied FinFETs (Ω MOSFETs) Implemented on Bulk Si Wafers

The body-tied FinFETs (bulk FinFETs) implemented on bulk Si substrate were characterized through 3-dimensional device simulation. By controlling the doping profile along the vertical fin body, the bulk FinFETs can be scaled down to sub-30 nm. Device characteristics with the body shape were also shown. At a contact resistivity of 1 × 10 -7 Ω cm 2 ,
Will the Implementation of a Sugar Tax Reduce Obesity Levels? An Insight from Scotland

This study has aimed to offer an insight into the current gap within academic literature by surveying consumers in Scotland by analysing gender, age and household income. This research has focussed on a survey of residents from North Ayrshire, which is a low socio-economic area in rural Scotland. A questionnaire was developed and collected from 64 people (32 males and 32 females). The purpose of the questionnaire was primarily to identify the consumers who may be directly affected by a sugar tax, then question them on their attitudes, values and beliefs concerning the SDIL. The results of the survey provide an insight into the potential effects of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) but it is unclear whether it will have any significant impact on obesity levels within Scotland. This study has implications for policy makers, the soft drinks industry and the academic arena as it demonstrates that differing levels of awareness, different values and beliefs between different socio-demographic groups that have the potential to impact upon policies that are attempting to change consumer behaviour as with the UK SDIL.
Technology Acceptance Predictors among Student Teachers and Experienced Classroom Teachers

This study investigated 160 student teachers' and 158 experienced teachers' self-reported computer usage and their future intentions to use computer applications for school assignments. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used as the framework to determine computer usage and intentions. Statistically significant results showed that after completing a student teaching practicum, students have greater intentions to integrate computer applications into their lessons. Both student and experienced teachers perceived computer usage as useful for their classroom lessons. No differences between the teacher groups were found for computer usage activities (i.e., student assignments, teacher-led classroom lessons, and administrative work). However, experienced teachers used spreadsheets and subject-specific and educational software to a greater extent than did student teachers. Practical suggestions are made for teacher preparation programs and educational technology researchers. Recommendations propose the expansion of TAM to include behavioral control issues when dealing with teachers.
BiCMOS current cell and switch for digital-to-analog converters

A BiCMOS current cell and current switch used in a current steering DAC are proposed. The BiCMOS self-calibrated current cell offers higher output resistance and smaller minimum voltage and shows up to a factor of 2 improvement in accuracy in simulations. The BiCMOS current switch has no base current error and achieves close to a factor of 2 improvement in simulated switching speed when compared to a MOS switch. >
Alternative Asset Holdings by US Pension Funds Since the 2008 Financial Crisis

Since the 2008 Financial Crisis, the percentage of alternative assets held by institutional investors has increased dramatically. The current study analyzes both the drivers and impacts of this increased allocation to alternative assets on US pension funds. Results indicate a significant divergence in asset allocations since the 2008 Financial Crisis. However, naïve simulation analysis shows that, despite the argued motivation for the adaptation of alternatives by market research, those funds that adopted the highest level of alternatives would have actually performed worse during the 2008 Financial Crisis than those funds that made only modest allocation changes since that time.
Recognition of facial expressions using conceptual fuzzy sets

A facial expression is a vague concept that is difficult to describe explicitly. Conceptual fuzzy sets (CFSs), which have the ability to explicitly represent vague concepts, are realized using bidirectional associative memories, and a multilayer structured CFS represents the meaning of a concept by various expressions in each layer. Multilayered reasoning in CFS has the capability of simultaneous abstract and concrete representation and of simultaneous top-down and bottom-up processing. CFS has been applied to the recognition of facial expressions and shown to achieve context-sensitive recognition. <<ETX>>
Beyond Teaching Language: Towards Terminological Primacy in Learners' Geometric Conceptualisation

This paper reports on a specific aspect of a broader geometry conceptualisation study that sought to explore and explicate learners’ knowledge of basic geometric terminology in selected Nigerian and South African high schools. It is framed by the notion that students’ acquisition of the correct terminology in school geometry is important for their success in the subject. The original study further aimed to determine the relationship that might exist between a learner’s ability in verbal geometry terminology tasks and his/her ability in visual geometry terminology tasks. A total of 144 learners (72 each from South Africa and Nigeria) were selected for the study, using both the stratified and the fish‐bowl sampling techniques. A questionnaire consisting of a sixty‐item multiple‐choice objective test provided the data for the study. An overall percentage mean score of 44,17% obtained in the test indicated that learners in this study had only a limited knowledge of basic geometric terminology. The Nigerian subsample in the study had a weaker understanding of basic geometric terminology than their South African counterparts. Importantly, there were high positive correlations between participants’ ability in verbal geometry terminology tasks and their ability in visual geometry terminology tasks. These results are consistent with those of several earlier studies, and provide a reasonably firm basis for certain recommendations to be made.
Monetary Policy and the Top One Percent: Evidence from a Century of Modern Economic History

This paper examines the distributional implications of monetary pol-icy from a long-run perspective with data spanning a century of modern economic history in 12 advanced economies between 1920 and 2015. We employ two complementary empirical methodologies for estimating the dynamic responses of the top 1% income share to a monetary policy shock: vector auto-regressions and local projections. We notably exploit the implications of the macroeconomic policy trilemma to identify exogenous variations in monetary conditions. The obtained results indicate that ex-pansionary monetary policy strongly increases the share of national income held by the top one percent. Our findings also suggest that this e? ect is arguably driven by higher asset prices, and holds irrespective of the state of the economy.
Do vendor/consultant services affect small business' IT course requirements?

This paper compares two studies carried out in the area of small business in Australia. The first of these studies examined one branch of the 'scientific' small business community, veterinary practitioners. In particular, the study examined the computer training required by the city-based and country-based veterinarians. The second study examined the computer training needs of general small business managers in a city-based environment. Not only did both studies attempt to determine specific curricula needs, both examined the effect of vendor/consultant services on those curricular choices. The paper begins by briefly describing the nature of both the veterinary profession and small business in Australia. The paper then presents details of each of the studies. Finally the paper compares the findings of each of the studies, highlighting similarities as well as differences in the small business types.
Mapping and Compiled Communication on the Connection Machine System

Large processing speeds may be achieved by coordinating the work of many processors in a distributed memory architecture. FOT most applications, this approach mandates the communication of data amongst the distributed memories, and the cost of this communication can offset the advantage brought by massively parallel processing. We describe an optimization strategy that addresses this problem by dramatically reducing communication costs on the Connection Machine system.
Molecular Identification of Gut Microflora of Bacillus coagulans Supplemented Feed FED Macrobrachium rosenbergii Post-Larvae Using 16S rRNA

Probiotics yield numerous health benefits to the host. In this way the probiotic bacterium, Bacillus coagulans has competitively been excluded the pathogenic bacteria, Streptococcus spp. , and Klebsiella spp. , from the gut of Macrobrachium rosenbergii post-larvae when given through feed (Manjula et al., 2018). The elimination of these two pathogenic bacteria indicated the fact that B. coagulans improved the disease resistance capacity of M. rosenbergii. The present paper deals with 16S rRNA sequence analysis of gut microbial diversity of M. rosenbergii fed with B. coagulans (CFU, 2.28x10-7) supplemented feed, which revealed the presence of B. coagulans (1541 bp), Lactobacillus fermentum (1516 bp), Lactobacillus lactis (1499 bp), Lactobacillus acidophilus (1507 bp), Escherichia coli (1465 bp) and Staphylococcus aureus (1476 bp). The BLAST of these sequences showed almost 100% similarities with the same species retrieved from the NCBI database. The MAS showed 920 identical amino acids residues, 119 similar amino acids residues and 461 variable amino acids sites. The nucleotide sequence divergence and the calculated phylogenetic information clearly discriminate these bacterial species.
Neural Grammatical Error Correction Systems with Unsupervised Pre-training on Synthetic Data

Considerable effort has been made to address the data sparsity problem in neural grammatical error correction. In this work, we propose a simple and surprisingly effective unsupervised synthetic error generation method based on confusion sets extracted from a spellchecker to increase the amount of training data. Synthetic data is used to pre-train a Transformer sequence-to-sequence model, which not only improves over a strong baseline trained on authentic error-annotated data, but also enables the development of a practical GEC system in a scenario where little genuine error-annotated data is available. The developed systems placed first in the BEA19 shared task, achieving 69.47 and 64.24 F_{0.5} in the restricted and low-resource tracks respectively, both on the W&I+LOCNESS test set. On the popular CoNLL 2014 test set, we report state-of-the-art results of 64.16 M² for the submitted system, and 61.30 M² for the constrained system trained on the NUCLE and Lang-8 data.
Algorithms for Delayed Encoding in Delta Modulation with Speech-Like Signals

This concise paper is concerned with the problem of improved delta-coding by using delayed decision instead of bit-bit-by-bit decision. It is found that delayed encoding allows a fairly general predictor to be used without causing instability problems. Simulations indicate that considerable improvement can be achieved by matching the feedback filter to the input process. Delayed encoding requires a search algorithm for making the decisions. Some proposals of algorithms that are efficient from a computational point of view are presented. Particular interest is attached to a highly truncated version of the Viterbi algorithm, which seems very promising.
Social Status and Risk-Taking in Investment Decisions

A pervasive feature in the finance industry is relative performance, which can include extrinsic (money), intrinsic (self-image), and reputational (status) motives. In this paper, we model a portfolio decision with two assets and investigate how reputational motives (i.e., the public announcement of the winners or losers) influence risk-taking in investment decisions vis-a-vis intrinsic motives. We test our hypotheses experimentally with 864 students and 330 financial professionals. We find that reputational motives play a minor role among financial professionals, as the risk-taking of underperformers is already increased due to intrinsic motives. Student behavior, however, is mainly driven by reputational motives with risk-taking levels that come close to those of professionals when winners or losers are announced publicly. This indicates that professionals show higher levels of intrinsic (self-image) incentives to outperform others compared to non-professionals (students), but a similar behavior can be sparked among the latter by adding reputational incentives.
An Historical Syntax of the English Language

The aim of this study is to provide an outline of the development, from the earliest times to the present day, of all the English syntactical constructions with a verbal form as their nucleus. Professor Visser's description is based on a very extensive collection of documentary material covering every kind of writing in prose and poetry in the Old, Middle and Modern periods, drawing on quotations illustrating syntactical pheonomena in Bosworth & Toller, OED, MMED, EDD and DOST, but also making reference to obsolete usages not found in any grammar, and to the views of English and American grammarians of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries on the various syntactical constructions. The volumes of this work originally appeared in the early 60s and 70s and were well received by readers and reviewers. Volumes 1 and 2 have undergone correction in the light of these early reactions.
First Language Phonetic Drift During Second Language Acquisition

Despite abundant evidence of malleability in speech production, previous studies of the effects of late second-language learning on first-language production have been limited to advanced learners. This dissertation examines these effects in novice learners, finding that experience in a second language rapidly, and possibly inexorably, affects production of the native language. In a longitudinal study of Korean acquisition, native English-speaking adult learners (n = 19) produced the same English words at weekly intervals over the course of intensive elementary Korean classes. Results of two acoustic case studies indicate that experience with Korean rapidly influences the production of English, and that the effect is one of assimilation to phonetic properties of Korean. In case study 1, experience with Korean stop types is found to influence the production of English stop types (in terms of voice onset time and/or fundamental frequency onset) as early as the second week of Korean classes, resulting in the lengthening of VOT in English voiceless stops (in approximation to the longer VOT of the perceptually similar Korean aspirated stops) and the raising of F0 onset following English voiced and voiceless stops (in approximation to the higher F0 levels of Korean). Similarly, in case study 2, experience with the Korean vowel space is found to have a significant effect on production of the English vowel space, resulting in a general raising of females' English vowels in approximation to the overall higher Korean vowel space. These rapid effects of second-language experience on first-language production suggest that cross-language linkages are established from the onset of second-language learning, that they occur at multiple levels, and that they are based not on orthographic equivalence, but on phonetic and/or phonological proximity between languages. The findings are discussed with respect to current notions of cross-linguistic similarity, exemplar models of phonology, and language teaching and research practices.
An OpenCL Method of Parallel Sorting Algorithms for GPU Architecture

In this paper, we present a comparative performance analysis of different parallel sorting algorithms: Bitonic sort and Parallel Radix Sort. In order to study the interaction between the algorithms and architecture, we implemented both the algorithms in OpenCL and compared its performance with Quick Sort algorithm, the fastest algorithm. In our simulation, we have used Intel Core2Duo CPU 2.67GHz and NVidia Quadro FX 3800 as graphical processing unit.
Crimen y castigo. Una reflexión desde América Latina

Este artículo presenta el debate entre dos visiones relativas a la forma de enfrentar el fenómeno criminal. De una parte, aquella que establece que existe en los seres humanos la capacidad de decidir de forma racional su comportamiento y elegir libremente frente a los valores contrastados del delito y su castigo. De otra, la que plantea que el fenómeno delictivo puede tener raíces en situaciones sociales y económicas frente a las cuales es posible actuar corrigiendo anomalías sociales y previniendo el delito antes de que este se cometa. Para la primera de estas visiones, la sanción penal, la cárcel, representa exclusivamente el castigo; para la segunda, es el camino de la rehabilitación y la reinserción social. El artículo muestra que, entre estas dos alternativas, en la mayoría de los países latinoamericanos se ha optado durante las últimas décadas por la primera. En consecuencia, han adoptado políticas públicas de “mano dura”, que enfatizan el castigo por sobre la prevención y la rehabilitación. El artículo busca demostrar que ese camino no ha dado resultados, en relación con el objetivo de disuadir de la conducta delictual. En consecuencia, esa política debe ser modificada. Abstract This article presents the debate between two visions regarding ways to confront the criminality. On the one hand, the vision that human beings rationally decide their behavior and choose their options freely when facing the contrasted values ​​of crime and punishment. On the other hand, the idea that criminality may have roots in social and economic situations in which it is possible to act by correcting social anomalies and preventing crime. For the first of these visions, the penal sanction, the prison, represents exclusively the punishment; for the second, it is the path of rehabilitation and social reintegration. The article shows that, between these two alternatives, most Latin American countries have opted for the first during the last decades. Consequently, they have adopted “iron-fist” public policies, which emphasize the punishment instead of prevention and rehabilitation. The article seeks to demonstrate that this path has not yielded results in relation to the objective of dissuading delinquent behavior. Consequently, that policy must be modified.
USING TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING TO TEACH TENTH GRADERS OF SMA NEGERI 9 SURABAYA TO ANALYZE SIMPLE PAST AND PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE IN RECOUNT TEXT

Tenth graders in Indonesia are supposed to be able to analyze linguistic components in recount text, including grammar, outlined in the 2013 Curriculum. Teaching grammar usually includes explaining the rules and providing some examples. However, this may be inadequate to enable the students to analyze the examples and therefore to use the grammar rules appropriately in different conditions. Teachers need to assure that the students genuinely learn in order to accomplish that objective. Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach is a preferrable teaching resolution. It provides exercises to the students, aimed to teach the students the accurate use of grammar.
A Spatially Adaptive Sparse Grid Combination Technique for Numerical Quadrature

High-dimensional problems have gained interest in many disciplines such as Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and Uncertainty Quantification. These problems often require an adaptation of a model to the problem as standard methods do not provide an efficient description. Spatial adaptivity is one of these approaches that we investigate in this work. We introduce the Spatially Adaptive Combination Technique using a Split-Extend scheme – a spatially adaptive variant of the Sparse Grid Combination Technique – that recursively refines block adaptive full grids to get an efficient representation of local phenomena in functions. We discuss the method in the context of numerical quadrature and demonstrate its applicability to refine efficiently to various test functions where common approaches fail. Trapezoidal quadrature rules as well as Gauss-Legendre quadrature are investigated to show its applicability to a wide range of quadrature formulas. Error estimates are used to automatize the adaptation process which results in a parameter-free version of our refinement strategy.
Clickers in the Classroom

Introduction to Clickers . 2 Explaining Why You’re Using Clickers . 3 Why Consider Clickers in the Classroom? 4 General Framework for Thinking about Question Design in Practise . 5 Creating Questions . 7 Taxonomy of Clicker Questions . 9 Orientation Type Questions and Possible Answers . 14
Rician Noise Removal and Straightening of Blood Vessel in MR Images

Purpose: To improve the visualization of severities in blood vessels combined Smoothing and straightening of a blood vessel was attempted for effective diagnosis of tumors and platelet formation in blood vessels. Method: Fast gradient projection method was used for removing the Rician noise present in MR images. The smoothed image was extracted using the binarization technique and the extracted blood vessels are straightened using a tangent function. Result: These techniques were tested in a variety of MR images and the results of this study reveal that the proposed method removed the Rician noise without affecting the diagnostic details and compared with existing methods quantitatively, extracted and straightened the blood vessels for making a clear decision about the severity of the disease. Conclusion: The smoothed, extracted and straightened images are very much useful for the diagnosis of tissue characterization and tumor detection.
The Role of the Visual Image: What Are Students Really Learning from Pictorial Representations?

Abstract Young learners must be better prepared to interpret and utilize the visual information presented to them in elementary science books. The findings of this study suggest that illustrations may not promote student understanding, but may. in fact, encourage misconceptions about science. Further, the elementary students in this study demonstrated a propensity for constructing their own interpretations to describe the visual representation, rather than posing questions about their observations, or reading the caption or explanatory text. Only two students, out of sixty, chose to read any part of the accompanying text. Other research on visual representations should concentrate on investigating learner understanding and interpretation to determine what changes, if any, are necessary to make illustrations more meaningful.