Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hard White

This book analyzes data from a variety of sources to understand the mainstreaming of racism today, putting this research in a historical context. With issues of globalization, immigration, and demographic diversification achieving greater public salience, racism is now more likely to manifest itself in the form of a generalized ethnocentrism that expresses “outgroup hostility” toward a diverse set of groups, including Latinos and Muslims as well as African Americans. Changes in both structure and agency have facilitated the mainstreaming of racism today. Changes in the “political opportunity structure,” as witnessed by the rise of the Tea Party Movement, enabled the mainstreaming of white extremists into the Republican Party and established the basis for an electoral politics focused on giving voice to white people more generally acting on their outgroup hostility. Changes in the political opportunity structure were matched by the appearance of a charismatic leader in the person of Donald Trump, who made great use of a transformed media landscape to stoke white people’s outgroup hostility. Trump won the presidency by strategically deploying his demagoguery to mobilize white nonvoters in swing states, with the end result greatly accelerating the mainstreaming of racism and placing it at the center of policymaking in the White House. Providing extensive empirical evidence, this book documents how the mainstreaming of racism today began before Trump started to run for the presidency but then increased under his leadership and that it is likely to be a troubling presence in U.S. politics for some time to come. The findings provided create the basis for suggestions on how to push racism back to the margins of American politics.
Offshoring white collar jobs and structural change in host economies: the regional dimension

ABSTRACT The main objective of this paper is to investigate the extent to which inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABS) – a result of so-called offshoring of white collar jobs – contributes to the structural change of employment in regions of host economies. We use a fixed-effect regression model based on cross-regional panel data for Hungary and Poland for the period between 2005 and 2014. Our findings show that ABS FDI carries structural impacts: employment in foreign-owned firms increases the share of the tertiary sector in a region both directly and indirectly through inducing other tertiary activities as well.
Development of exploding foil initiators for future IM

For Missiles, expensive Insensitive Munitions and other timing dependent munitions applications (e.g. aimable or tandem warheads) the so-called Exploding Foil Initiator (EFI) is widely used as the detonator in the initiation train. These devices are still inefficient, relatively big and rather expensive. The development of a Micro chip (Mc) EFI is therefore desirable but needs an efficiency improvement of the system before it can be miniaturized. An Exploding Foil Initiator consists of a small capacitor charged to a high voltage, a switch, a transmission line, an exploding foil and an explosive. When the capacitor is discharged via the transmission line into the metal foil, the foil will explode and propel the flyer to a velocity of more than 3 km/s, high enough to initiate the explosive on impact. For the development of an Exploding Foil Initiator (EFI) the following topics are of interest: the electrical circuit, the exploding foil, the velocity of the flyer, the driver explosive, the secondary flyer and the acceptor explosive. In this initiator, the driver explosive accelerates the secondary flyer that initiates the booster explosive. In the recent years, TNO has conducted research on this topic, mentioned above, to improve the efficiency of an EFI, resulted in a mini-EFI, and is a development platform for a Micro Chip EFI in the near future. Besides measurement techniques to measure the efficiency, research has been carried out to arrive at an optimal flyer form (length, width and thickness) and material, length and width of the barrel, density of the driver and acceptor explosive in a secondary flyer set-up. This has led to a system that works at 1300 V (current of 3 kA) and delivers 90% of the electric power to the foil. Because of this high efficiency, instead of a spark gap, a solid state switch is used in the mini-EFI design. It also leaves the door open for further miniaturisation to the McEFI in the near future, possibly resulting in a low cost EFI that can be used in gun launched munitions. Several test series have been performed with a variation of the acceptor explosives, in a secondary flyer set-up, like TATB and RDX/wax at several densities and a variation of the secondary flyer material. Also progress has been made in the development of more powerful driver explosives like insensitive nano crystal nitramines (RS-RDX, RS-HMX and Cl20). The results of the development process and the test series will be presented.
Effects of the High-Heeled Shoes on the Sensory System and Balance in Women

The purpose of this study were to compare light touch, two-point discrimination, position sense, and static balance ability and to examine the relationship of static balance ability and different senses in those who are wearing various heights of high-heeled shoes. Each 29 women was classified two different heights (below 3 cm, above 7 cm) by experience in wearing shoes. A t-test was used to determine the differences between low- and high-heeled shoe in light touch, two-point discrimination, position sense, and static balance ability. Pearson correlation was used to examine the relationship of static balance ability to these sensation. The results were as follows: 1) No significant differences in average light touch, position sense between two groups were found(p>0.05). But significant differences in average two-point discrimination, static balance ability were found(p0.05). The results suggest that long time experience in wearing high-heeled shoe may be caused local sensory change and decreased static balance ability. Even though, static balance ability was not significantly affected but correlated with two-point discrimination, position sense, and light touch in order.
Nitrogen release dynamics of a slow release urea pellet and its effect on growth, yield, and nutrient uptake of sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)

Abstract Manure urea pellets were produced and their nitrogen release rate was evaluated in soil incubation at different water contents of 90, 75, and 60% soil filed capacity (FC). In another experiment, sweet basil growth was evaluated during eight months (with three shoot harvests) under the pellet application. The nitrogen release and pellet dispersion rates were slow after two months or at lower soil water content (60% FC), but they were significant after four months of soil incubation, or at higher soil water content (75 or particularly 90% FC). Application of pelleted urea reduced plant growth and yield at first harvest than urea treatment. However, at second and particularly at third harvest (and the average of three harvests) significant improvement in growth parameters of SPAD value, leaf area, plant height, shoot fresh weight, pot yield, and` leaf N and K concentrations were achieved by application of pelleted urea fertilization.
Successful predictions of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) in top companies in the European Union

Die Magisterarbeit thematisiert die Bedeutung des Business Process Reengineering (BPR, dt.: Geschaftsprozessneugestaltung) fur die Managementprozesse in internationalen Unternehmen. In Hinblick darauf wird eine Analyse der Grundlagen und Einsatzmoglichkeiten des BPR in unterschiedlichen Industriezweigen vorgenommen. Die Untersuchung liefert Beweise dafur, dass der Einsatz des BPR als Teil der Unternehmensstrategie fur die erfolgreiche Neugestaltung entscheidend ist, wenn dabei gleichzeitig die Kundenorientierung. die Veranderungen der Organisationskultur, die Informationstechnik als Mittel der Neugestaltung und die Zusammenarbeit mit Beratungsfirmen in Betracht gezogen werden.
Traffic related PM and mortality: exposure-response functions and impact calculations for TESS

This is a report from the research project TESS - Traffic Emissions, Socio-economic valuation and Socio-economic measures, which is funded by EMFO. In 2002 an agreement about the EMFO program was reached between the partners from the Swedish Vehicle Research Council, PFF. EMFO is a sector-wide research competence to develop vehicles and vehicle components with emission levels that are sustainable in the long term. The aim of EMFO is to offer academia, industry and authorities access to necessary knowledge and pioneering solutions that are necessary if vehicle technology is to develop in the desired direction. One important task is to coordinate activities within the program with both national and international research in the field. EMFO comprises subsidiary programs and two of these were: Socio-economic evaluation of the health and environmental impact of different emissions and Optimal range of socio-economic measures. TESS undertakes research in these two areas but it is also related to the subsidiary program: Health and Environmental Impact. The application was approved in 2005 and the project runs during 2005-2008. The basis for the research in TESS is the valuation methods developed in the EU funded ExternE projects where the external cost of emissions is calculated by tracing the effects that the emissions have on human health and then valuing these effects. The aim is to calculate the external costs related to particles that local emissions (from traffic and other sources) generate on a local and regional scale using Stockholm as a case study. Based on this information an analysis will be made on what reductions measures are likely to be efficient from an economic point of view. The analysis undertaken in TESS requires collaboration between researchers from different research disciplines. There are four parties involved in this project; VTI, SLB analys (Environment and Health Administration, Stockholm), Umeaa University and SMHI. This report is focused on the health impact assessment. The first aim is to overview and discuss the epidemiological basis for selection of an exposure-response function, ERF, (or several different) for traffic related particles and mortality. The second aim is to use the exposure calculations by SLB and SMHI presented in TESS to make impact calculations using the selected exposure-response assumptions for particles of three types; exhaust particles, road dust particles and secondary particles, especially nitrates (A). This document is available at http://www.vv. se/fud-resultat/Publikationer_000401_000500/Publikation_000474/BF%20underlagsrapport%20TESS%205.pdf.
Choice of temporary contraception based on client’s demographic status and parity

Aim: To analyse the demographic factors and parity in women influencing choice of contraceptive methods. Methods: This is a hospital record based retrospective study at Bhaktapur hospital, a tertiary hospital in a span of 6 months from October 2020 to March 2021. Data were collected from medical record and descriptive analysis was done. Results: There were 142 women taking contraceptive service in six months.Implant was the most commonly used method of contraception (48%), followed by the IUCD (26%), Injectable (16%) and OCP (10%). Age group of 20-39 had more acceptance of contraception as compared to adolescent and women above 40. More the parity more usage of long acting reversible contraception was found. Conclusion: The most common contraceptive method used among women was implant. Client having two or more children are more to receive long acting contraception.
Detailed Energy Data Collection for Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads in a Commercial Office Building

LBNL-XXXXX Detailed Energy Data Collection for Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads in a Commercial Office Building H.Y. Iris Cheung, Steven Lanzisera, Judy Lai, Richard Brown, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Jay Taneja, David Culler, University of California, Berkeley Environmental Energy Technologies Division June 2012 To be presented at the 2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings Asilomar, CA, August 2012 and to be published in the Proceedings of the 2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, in Asilomar, CA. August 2012
Exploitation of ICT for strategic education marketing inMalaysian Public Institutions of Higher Learning (MPIHL)

The advances in information and communication technology (ICT) and the astounding developments brought about by the Internet have robustly transformed the marketing landscape and how marketers conduct business. ICT allow marketers to deploy customerization and technologicalship marketing in a financially prudent way of creating and sustaining relationship with customers. OECD (2004) report shows that ICT is having far reaching impacts on performance and the success of individual organizations, in particular when it is combined in investment in skills, organizational changes and innovations. This trend will continue and the transformation of any organization, be it public or private, will depend upon the exploitation of ICT (Goodridge and Clayton, 2004). Numerous researches that investigated various ICT usage, adoption, diffusion and utilization can be found in information systems (IS) and marketing literatures. However, review on past studies show that abundant research has been done on electronic data interchange (EDI), and only Internet and e-mail has been studies in details. Different ICT have been studied individually by different researchers. A study is hitherto need to be done to examine the absorption and exploitation of all adopted ICT together in an organization for the purpose of comprehensive marketing activities in particular and organizational transformation in general. Therefore, this study attempts to fill the gap by exploring the extent of ICT exploitation for strategic education marketing in organizations in developing country. The focus is on the Malaysian Public Institutions of Higher Learning (MPIHL) in relation with radical changes undertaken at the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE) level and the Malaysia Prime Minister emphasizes put forth in Rancangan Malaysia Ke 9.
Biomechanical Analyses of Body Movement and Locomotion as Affected by Clothing and Footwear for Cold Weather Climates

Abstract : A study of Army cold weather clothing was conducted to determine effects on soldiers' movements and walking gait of adding layers of clothing to the body. Performance in a temperate duty uniform was also compared with performance in cold weather clothing, and differences in walking gait associated with regular combat boots and with cold weather foot gear were investigated. Study participants, 13 Army enlisted men, were each testing in seven clothing conditions. A video-based motion analysis system and a force plate were used to capture the maximum range of motion in various planes of the body and gait kinematics and kinetics. A total of 104 dependent variables were measured directly or derived. Analyses of variance revealed that adding clothing layers interfered with bending at the waist and moving the upper arm at the shoulder. Compared with the temperate duty uniform, cold weather clothing changed walking patterns; participants leaned further forward and moved the arms less at the shoulders with the multilayered clothing. The cold weather boots also interfered with leg swing, compared with regular combat boots. A principal components analysis yielded factors suggesting simple and complex metrics sensitive to effects of protective clothing on gait characteristics.
Chapter 8 Organisational Learning from Chinese Returners: An Exploratory Study of the Role of Cross-Cultural Interactions

Purpose –– The People's Republic of China has introduced policies to encourage Chinese who have worked or studied abroad to return and bring back the knowledge and skills they have gained. This chapter reports on the experiences of these returners as agents of organisational learning. Methodology –– The exploratory qualitative study is based on a written questionnaire and telephone interviews with 24 returners in diverse organisations and industries in China. Findings –– The study identifies a type of returner not yet addressed in the literature, ‘experienced self-internationalisers’, which we expect will grow significantly. We find that despite expecting returners to contribute to organisational learning, management does not organise the process. It depends on the individuals themselves, who develop various strategies for sharing their knowledge with local colleagues. Organisational learning is a cross-cultural process and requires bridging a gap between the kinds of knowledge the local employees are interested in gaining and what the returners feel the organisation needs. We note that organisational learning is more likely when the returners recognise their own need to learn rather than just to teach. Research limitations –– The sample is relatively small; we describe how to take the research forward to more organisations and additional kinds of respondents. Practical implications –– We formulate recommendations for policymakers, returners and human resource managers seeking to stimulate organisational learning more effectively. Value –– The chapter generates new insights into organisational learning in China, and it shows how to addresses a phenomenon at the crossroads between the fields of organisational learning, intercultural communication and international human resource management.
Fault tolerance: Validating a mathematical model via a case study of RAxML, an HPC community code

Researchers have mentioned that the three most difficult and growing problems in the future of high-performance computing will be avoiding, coping and recovering from failures. As the scale of computing increases, the Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) of the entire system decreases and, therefore, system resilience and fault tolerance techniques become mandatory. One of the most commonly used fault tolerance schemes is checkpoint/restart, however, it has been predicted that the current checkpoint/restart approach is not scalable. Thus, current research seeks to find scalable fault tolerance techniques as well as to extend the scalability of checkpoint/restart. The periodicity of the checkpointing operation, otherwise known as the checkpoint interval, plays an important role in application execution time and I/O performance. It can have a significant impact on execution time and the number of checkpoint I/O operations performed by the application. The frequency of checkpoint I/O operations performed by the application, along with its productive I/O, determine the demand made by the application on the I/O bandwidth of a massively parallel processing (MPP) system. There are analytical models for finding the optimal checkpoint interval that minimizes wall-clock execution time and the optimal checkpoint interval that minimizes the number of checkpoint I/O operations generated. This thesis presents a study that quantitatively measures the effect of the checkpoint interval on workload execution time and the number of checkpoint I/O operations generated. The study is based on the execution behavior of RAxML 7.2. 6, a popular community code, and RAxML-Light 1.0. 6 on an HPC system as well as simulations of workloads executed on an HPC system. Parameter values for the HPC runs and the simulations are the product of analysis of historic failure data of 22 systems made available by the Computer Failure Data Repository (CFDR). This analysis also is presented in the thesis. Our research showed that increasing the checkpoint interval to a value above the optimal
Sensory Profiles and Lactic Acid Bacteria Density of Tape Ketan and Tape Singkong in Bogor

Tape ketan (fermented glutinous rice) and tape singkong (fermented cassava) are traditional Indonesian foods produced by fermenting carbohydrate sources using ragi as starter culture. Those products known to contain high number of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). The purpose of the study was to evaluate the sensory characteristics of tape ketan and tape singkong from different household industry in Bogor, to identify the sensory profile, and to evaluate the correlation between LAB density and sensory attribute. The research was started by survey to household tape industries, followed by sensory analysis of rating hedonic and Quantitative Descriptive Analysis (QDA), and LAB analysis. Data analysis of rating hedonic was done by ANOVA and post-hoc Duncan test, while data analysis of QDA was done by Principle Component Analysis (PCA). Samples of tape ketan were taken from two different home industries (BK and LK), while samples of tape singkong were taken from four different home industries (CT, NG, SH, TS). Hedonic rating test showed that the most preferred sample overall was tape ketan BK and tape singkong CT. QDA results showed that tape ketan BK was characterized by its sweetness, rice-like aroma, rice-like taste, and texture, while tape ketan LK was characterized by alcoholic aroma, alcoholic taste, sourness, and color. Tape singkong NG were characterized by sour aroma, alcoholic aroma, alcoholic taste, and color. Specific characteristic of tape singkong CT was bitterness and bitter aftertaste, SH was sweetness, and TS was texture. LAB of tape ketan BK (8,5 log cfu/g) was higher than LK (7,9 log cfu/g). Tape singkong with highest density of LAB was TS (8,1 log cfu/g), followed by CT (7,2 log cfu/g), NG (7,0 log cfu/g), and SH (6,5 log cfu/g). There was no correlation between the density of LAB and descriptive score of sourness, alcoholic taste, and sweetness.