Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Molecular dynamics simulations for the prediction of the dielectric spectra of alcohols, glycols and monoethanolamine

The response of molecular systems to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region (0.3–300 GHz) has been principally studied experimentally, using broadband dielectric spectroscopy. However, relaxation times corresponding to reorganisation of molecular dipoles due to their interaction with electromagnetic radiation at microwave frequencies are within the scope of modern molecular simulations. In this work, fluctuations of the total dipole moment of a molecular system, obtained through molecular dynamics simulations, are used to determine the dielectric spectra of water, a series of alcohols and glycols, and monoethanolamine. Although the force fields employed in this study have principally been developed to describe thermodynamic properties, most them give fairly good predictions of this dynamical property for these systems. However, the inaccuracy of some models and the long simulation times required for the accurate estimation of the static dielectric constant can sometimes be problematic. We show that the use of the experimental value for the static dielectric constant in the calculations, instead of the one predicted by the different models, yields satisfactory results for the dielectric spectra, and hence the heat absorbed from microwaves, avoiding the need for extraordinarily long simulations or re-calibration of molecular models.
Determinacy , Learnability , and Monetary Policy Inertia ECONOMIC RESEARCH FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

We show how monetary policy inertia can help alleviate problems of indeterminacy and non-existence of stationary equilibrium observed for some commonly-studied monetary policy rules. We also find that inertia promotes learnability of equilibrium. The context is a simple, forward-looking model of the macroeconomy widely used in the rapidly expanding literature in this area. We conclude that this might be an important reason why central banks in the industrialized economies display considerable inertia when adjusting monetary policy in response to changing economic conditions.
Effect of Loan to Deposit Ratio (LDR), Non Performing Loan (NPL), Net Interet Margin (NIM) On Return on Assets (ROA) with ATM as Moderation Variables

Article History Received: 11.10. 2018 Accepted: 26.10. 2018 Published: 30.10. 2018 Abstract: Banking plays an important role in the economic development of a country, where banks provide benefits to the mechanism of available sources of funds effectively and efficiently. In addition, banks provide financial services to all levels of society, so that the soundness of banks must be considered so that the economy is better. Therefore, it is very important to assess the performance of a financial institution. The purpose of the assessment is to determine the state of health of a bank. Where the soundness of a bank is seen from the performance of the bank that is assessed in terms of profitability, and the level of profitability is assessed through Return on Assets (ROA). Innovations made by banks on the basis of information technology have an extraordinary impact on efficiency and effectiveness. One of them is the existence of electronic banking products such as ATMs. This study aims to examine the effect of the Loan Deposit Ratio (LDR), NonPerforming Loan (NPL) and Net Interest Margin (NIM) on Return on Assets (ROA), as well as ATM as a moderating variable on the effect of Loan Deposit Ratio, NonPerforming Loans, and Net Interest Margin against Return on Assets. In Banks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, from 2010 to 2017. Sampling using Purposive Sampling. The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression with SPSS 24. Research shows that Loan Deposit Ratio, Non-Performing Loans, and Net Interest Margin are able to explain Return on Assets. Research results show that (1) Loan Deposit Ratio has a significant negative effect on Return on Assets; (2) Non-Performing Loans have a significant negative effect on Return on Assets; (3) Net Interest Margin has a significant positive effect on Return on Assets; and (4) ATMs do not moderate the influence of Loan Deposit Ratio, Non-Performing Loans, and Net Interest Margin on Return on Assets.
Do blended working arrangements enhance organizational attractiveness and organizational citizenship behaviour intentions? An individual difference perspective

ABSTRACT In blended working arrangements (BWAs), employees have discretion over when and where they work. Although BWAs are proliferating worldwide, the lack of predefined temporal and locational structures is unlikely to appeal to every employee. To investigate with whom and when BWAs cause positive reactions, we conducted two experimental vignette studies among full-time employees. In Study 1, we used a 2 (BWAs: yes vs. no) × 2 (development support: yes vs. no) between-subjects design (N = 212) and, in Study 2, a within-subjects design with the same factors (N = 114). Additionally, in both studies, we measured individual differences in autonomy orientation and personal need for structure. Study 1 showed that, relative to traditional working arrangements, BWAs enhance organizational attractiveness and intention to demonstrate organizational citizenship behaviour. In Study 2, in which employees could compare working arrangements, we only found effects of BWAs among employees high in autonomy orientation or low in personal need for structure. Development support for independent working was not found to moderate the effects of BWAs. By indicating which employees tend to prefer BWAs, our findings could help organizations determine employees’ suitability for such arrangements, which is likely to contribute to BWAs being effective.
Enzootic pneumonia of pigs - diagnostic notes (review).

Pepovich, R. (2020). Enzootic pneumonia of pigs – diagnostic notes (review). Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 26 (5),1062–1068 The main purpose of this review is to analyze the methods used to diagnose the enzootic pneumonia which is one of the most significant and widespread respiratory infections in swine. This is a necessary condition so that adequate and timely measures for prevention and control of the disease can be identified. The benefits include decreasing economic losses in industrial pig farming. Discovering M. hyopneumoniae as a respiratory disease can be disappointing, as it isn’t always connected with the development of symptoms. The diagnosis of enzootic pneumonia requires a complex approach, i.e. combining clinical symptoms and lung lesions with results from various laboratory analyses. Depending of the stage which the disease has reached, and the type of probes analyzed, various clinical tests can be applied. Those tests are typically sensitive and specific and can be used for accurate diagnosis.
Communication at the Zero Lower Bound: The Case for Forward Guidance

The zero lower bound (ZLB) acts as an informational curtain for adaptively learning agents as they cannot observe the path of the interest rate. In a canonical New Keynesian model with no policy change it is shown that this results in a disagreement between the Central Bank and the agents about the lift-off date from the ZLB. Consistent with data from the Swedish Riksbank, the agents expect an earlier lift-off than the Central Bank when the ZLB is binding. The disagreement coupled with the learning of the agents results in explosive dynamics. Forward guidance is shown to restore stability at the ZLB by preventing spurious expectational drift. The paper calls for a necessary increase in transparency and communication by the Central Bank when constrained by the ZLB. Although such communication is welfare improving, the gains are modest and no forward guidance puzzle is present.
A systematic analysis and review of the impacts of afforestation on soil quality indicators as 1 modified by climate zone , forest type and age 2

9 This global systematic analysis and review investigate the impacts of previous land use system, climate 10 zone, forest type and forest age on soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP) 11 stock, soil bulk density (BD) and pH at soil layers 0-20, 20-60 and 60-100 cm, following afforestation. 12 Data came from 91 publications on SOC, TN and TP stock changes, covering different countries and 13 climate zones. Overall, afforestation significantly increased SOC by 46%, 52% and 20 % at 0-20, 20-60 14 and 60-100 cm depths, respectively. It also significantly increased shallower TN stocks by 28% and 15 22% at 0-20 and 20-60 cm depths, respectively, but had no overall impacts on TP. Previous land use 16 system had the largest influence on SOC, TN and TP stock changes, with greater accumulations on 17 barren land compared to cropland and grassland. Climate zone influenced SOC, TN and TP stock 18 changes, with greater accumulations for moist cool than other climate zones. Broadleaf forests were 19 better than coniferous forests for increasing SOC, TN and TP stocks of the investigated soil profile (020 100 cm). Afforestation for <20 years accumulated SOC and TN stocks only at the soil surface (0-20 cm), 21 whilst afforestation for >20 years accumulated SOC and TN stocks to 100 cm soil depth. Changes to 22 SOC and TN stocks were positively correlated at depths down to 100 cm under all forest age 23 groups, demonstrating that an increase TN could offset progressive N limitation, and 24 maintains SOC accumulation as forests age. TP stock decreased significantly in topsoil (0-20 25
Adaptability and productive potential of initial material from grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.)

Kosev, V. , Vasileva, V. , & Acar, Z. (2019). Adaptability and productive potential of initial material from grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.). Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science, 25(5), 994–1000 The adaptive properties of six grass pea varieties (BGE027129, BGE015741, BGE025277, LAT4362, LA5108 and LAT5038) were studied by the signs plant height (cm), aboveground mass weight (leaves + stems) (g), pods per plant, seeds per plant, seed weight per plant (g) and nodule weight (g). The study was conducted in 2014-2016 in the experimental fi eld of the Institute of Forage Crops, Pleven, Bulgaria. Varieties with high general and specifi c adaptive ability, relative stability and selection value on the traits studied were identifi ed. BGE027129 was characterized by high selective value of the number of pods, number of seeds and seed weight per plant, and BGE015741 by the plant height, number of seeds and seed weight per plant, respectively. Interest for the combinatorial selection is the variety BGE025277 by the plant height and the seed weight per plant, which are combined with good homeostaticity and relative stability to the environment. The varieties BGE027129, BGE015741 and BGE025277 can be used as parental components in breeding programs to create grass pea varieties with a larger number of seeds and pods per plant, and higher weight of seeds.
Schumpeter Lecture 2019: Slow Household Deleveraging

We use a model of precautionary savings with housing and mortgages to study the effects of a deleveraging shock on consumer spending. We focus on deleveraging caused by a contraction in home values, and compute numerically the partial equilibrium effect of the shock. Our simulations show that household deleveraging is associated to a long and protracted weakness in consumption. These effects appear even if we assume, realistically, that housing wealth is illiquid and mortgage debt is long-term. We show that housing wealth matters for consumption decisions due to an insurance force: consumers know they can sell their house if they get hit by sufficiently negative shocks in the future. We also show that our slow deleveraging mechanism is amplified when incomes are affected by weak aggregate consumption demand through general equilibrium effects. ∗Guerrieri: vguerrie@chicagobooth.edu, Lorenzoni: guido.lorenzoni@northwestern.edu. Prato: mprato@uchicago.edu. This paper was prepared for the Joseph Schumpeter lecture delivered by Veronica Guerrieri at the 2019 annual congress of the European Economic Association. We thank Ben Moll, Nicola Pavoni and Kjetil Storesletten for useful comments.
Sparsity Aware Normalization for GANs

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are known to benefit from regularization or normalization of their critic (discriminator) network during training. In this paper, we analyze the popular spectral normalization scheme, find a significant drawback and introduce sparsity aware normalization (SAN), a new alternative approach for stabilizing GAN training. As opposed to other normalization methods, our approach explicitly accounts for the sparse nature of the feature maps in convolutional networks with ReLU activations. We illustrate the effectiveness of our method through extensive experiments with a variety of network architectures. As we show, sparsity is particularly dominant in critics used for image-to-image translation settings. In these cases our approach improves upon existing methods, in less training epochs and with smaller capacity networks, while requiring practically no computational overhead.
Inner Ear Disorders in the Elderly with Carotid Artery Disease Requiring Revascularization: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Association

Article history Received: 14 September 2020 Accepted: 27 September 2020 Published Online: 30 September 2020 Background: Aging is almost assocaited with inner ear disorders (InEarDs) by means of age-related hearing impairment (ARHI) or vertigo-anddizziness as well as the carotid artery disease requiring revascularization (CAD-R). Objective: The present study aimed to study the prevalence and characteristics of InEarDs in older adults diagnosed with CAD-R. The other aim was to determine if InEarDs in CAD-R patients is age-related or might be explained by a concomitant CAD-R. Method: A retrospective, case-control study was conducted at the Mayo Clinic, Florida. The study cohort includes 919 patients who had CAD-R. The control group consisted of 244 ageand gender-matched patients presenting with cardiac or peripheral artery disease. The InEarDs were assessed based on the diagnosis upon presentation to the Audiology Clinic and follow-up. Results: Of the 919, 348 had ARHI that includes significant peripheral signs and central symptoms (24.9%), vertigo-and-dizziness events that are recurrent and persistent with normal objective vestibular testing (12.9%), or a combination of both (11.0%). These percentages were significantly higher in the study group relative to the control group. After adjustment for the vascular risk factors, the study group had significantly higher odds of ARHI (OR= 1.94; 95% CI: 1.09-3.44; P<0.05). Conclusion: CAD-R patients had significantly higher InEarDs than the control group. CAD-R is more likely to be associated with ARHI rather than the vertigo-and-dizziness even after adjusting for the vascular risk factors.
Impacts of succession in family business A systemic approach for understanding dynamic effects in horticultural retail companies in Germany

Purpose –While many studies in family business research focus on mono-causal impacts of succession, the purpose of this paper is to employ a systemic approach to analyze dynamic effects of intra-family succession on multiple business areas in family-run companies. Design/methodology/approach – A system analysis using a participatory approach was conducted for a reference family-run company operating in the horticultural retail sector in Germany. The Vester Sensitivity Model, supplemented with principles from system thinking was used to identify key variables related to intra-family succession. Findings – Expert input and analysis of variable co-occurrence revealed key variables associated with succession such as “strategic planning,” “productivity” and “financial flexibility. ” Dynamic interactions among various business areas were identified by simulating interventions in succession trajectories. In particular, key variables such as “conflicts between family and work” and “organizational climate” turned out to be highly sensitive to changes during a succession process. Practical implications – The concept and design of this system analysis tool will allow practitioners such as company managers and business consultants to better understand complex interrelations within companies and provide additional guidance with regard to critical events like business transfer. Originality/value – The present study uses system thinking to analyze succession and its dynamic and time-lagged impacts on affected business areas in family-run companies for the first time. Repeated application of the systemic approach presented here to real-world business cases will gradually improve the tool and the quality of information it provides.
Effect of Components Products, Prices, and Promotion of Purchase Decision Recharge Wells Modern (Sigmatank) the Impact of Customer Satisfaction (Case Study In. Trisigma Inti Solusi, Pt-Bintaro)

Trisigma Inti Solusi, PT is a company engaged in Landscape Engineering & Architectural Product. Where the company is committed to continuously provide technical goods that provide solutions to the needs associated with the design and construction, in particular modern recharge wells (sigmatank) with the concept of "Green Building Solution". More than 100 Project that has been handled by Trisigma Inti Solusi, PT since its establishment in 1995, with more than 15 years. Over a period of 5 years (2014 to 2018) sales of modern recharge wells (sigmatank) fluctuated or up and down, in the last 2 years (2017-2018) has decreased. Besides, the increasing number of competitors or new players are popping up, as well as a decrease in prices in accordance with market and product quality. Researchers conducted a survey to the respondent or client ever transaction or purchase of modern recharge wells (sigmatank), with the aim of increasing sales as targeted by the management company. Thus, it will be able to improve product quality, appropriate price reduction amount of the purchase, sale given as expected. The aim of the research is influencing purchasing decisions with quality products, pricing and promotions on purchasing decisions that impact customer satisfaction. Total population owned 450 and 180 samples with the SEM technique recommended the case Between 100 200. The analytical methods used are quantitative analysis. Mechanical analysis with SEM, the software used SmartPLS3.2. 8. The results of this study are product, price, promotion affects purchasing decisions, the impact is customer satisfaction.
A SEMIPARAMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS-BASED FACTOR MODEL

We propose an asset pricing factor model constructed with semi-parametric characteristics-based mispricing and factor loading functions. This model captures common movements of stock excess returns and includes a two-layer network of arbitrage returns interconnected by security-specific characteristics. We approximate the unknown functions by B-splines where the number of B-splines coefficients is diverging. We estimate this model and test the existence of the mispricing function by a power enhanced hypothesis test. The enhanced test solves the low power problem caused by diverging B-spline coefficients. Meanwhile, the strengthened power approaches to one asymptotically. And the dynamic networks are explored through Hierarchical K-Means Clusterings from detected mispricing functions. We apply our methodology to CRSP monthly data for the US stock market with one-year rolling windows during 1967-2017. This empirical study shows the presence of mispricing functions in certain time blocks and a dynamic network structure of arbitrage returns through groups of some characteristics.
Our Experience of Nonoperative Management in Patients with Liver Injury Due to Multiple Blunt Trauma

Amaç: Künt multiple travma nedeniyle nonoperatif tedavi (NOT) uygulanan karaciğer travmalı hastaların takibinde halen fikir birliği yoktur. Çalışmamızda hastanemizde NOT uygulanan künt travma sonucu karaciğer yaralanması olan hastalara ait deneyimlerimizi sunmayı amaçladık. Hastalar ve Yöntem: Çalışmada hastanemize multiple travma nedeniyle başvuran ve karaciğer yaralanması olan 104 hasta retrospektif olarak değerlendirildi. NOT başarılı olan hastalar ve NOT başarısız olup laparatomi yapılan hastalar tasnif edildi. Bulgular: Künt karın travmasına bağlı 104 hastanın tamamında solid organ yaralanması olup bunların 58’inde toraks travması mevcuttu. Künt karın travması nedeniyle karaciğer yaralanması olan 94 hastaya NOT başarı ile uygulandı. 10 hastada konservatif takip sırasında cerrahi tedaviye dönüldü. Yaralanma derecesine göre 35 hasta grade 1, 23 hasta grade 2, 24 hasta grade 3 ve 12 hasta grade 4 olarak derecelendirildi. NOT’un başarısız olduğu karaciğer travmalı 10 hastanın verileri NOT uygulanan grupla karşılaştırıldı. Sonuç: Yaralanma derecesi yüksek veya toraks travmasının eşlik ettiği hastalarda komplikasyon gelişimi de artmaktadır. Grade 4 yaralanmalarda NOT uygulanan vakalarda komplikasyonların görülme oranı yüksektir.
The Application of Corrective Feedback Theory in Integrated English Course

Feedback in the classroom, which describes the responses from instructors, is one type of discourse facing towards students’ performances, playing the vital role in the second language acquisition process. It helps learners realize the effectiveness of their output and functions as guidance for the continuing learning procedure. If the instructor does not provide feedback after activities, learners may not understand their weakness and the gap with the target language. Feedback entails positive feedbacks, like making complement shows the agreement and appreciation. However, compared with positive feedbacks, negative feedbacks, like corrective feedback (CF) has even more powerful impacts on language learners to achieve learning goals. Suitable CF helps learners make improvements while inappropriate CF decreases learners’ confidence and enthusiasm. Briefly speaking, Corrective Feedback is a kind of formal or informal comments on learner’s performances on different tasks from peers or teachers. Kepner defines feedback in general as any procedures used to inform a learner whether an instructional response is right or wrong. Corrective feedback is a controversial problem, and different scholars hold different opinions towards it. Ellis