Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Chinatown in Semarang: Cultural Environment and Peaces Narrative

People’s opinions on the Chinese are still limited to the groups of people who are oriented to economic affairs only, i.e. economic animals. Such a view often creates negative prejudice towards them. In fact, the Chinese people have quite diverse cultural wealth. Historically, cultural diversity can actually be a tool for inter-ethnic communication that can build a social integration. Based on the description above, the study aims to examine the cultural heritage of Chinese people and to find out how the social construction of society effects the cultural history of Chinese people. This study uses the historical approach to show the history of Chinese culture and the qualitative approach to show the social construction of society. The results of the study are 1) The Chinese people in Semarang’s Chinatown are quite conservative in preserving and caring for their cultural environment, the conservative attitude is influenced by their belief in FengShui; and 2) The social construction of Chinese people towards their culture is quite positive, it shows the aspects of humanism and Indonesianity. They consider that their traditions are a part of Indonesia's cultural wealth, not merely a symbol of Chinese ethnicity or an ethnic exclusivity. The implication of the study is that, the prejudices and stereotypes about ethnic Chinese are built politically through some policies and they are structurally controlled, so the people must not instill hatred of other ethnicities. It is necessary to be humanist to create a peaceful and non-threatening atmosphere.
Contrasts in intermittent endurance performance and heart rate response between female and male soccer players of different playing levels

This study compared intermittent endurance performance and heart rate (HR) response, as well as their relationship, by sex and competitive level in soccer. A total of 68 outfield (18 elite and 16 sub-elite female, 17 elite and 17 sub-elite male) soccer players performed the Interval Shuttle Run Test (ISRT) with monitored HR. Sex and level effects were evaluated by two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the relationships between parameters using Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Female players presented lower performance (effect sizes [ES]: 2.12-4.71, p < 0.01) and higher submaximal HR during the ISRT (ES: 1.66-3.40, p < 0.01). Elite players showed higher performance and reduced submaximal HR compared with their sub-elite counterparts, with a large level effect only evident between the female groups (ES: 1.22-1.56, p < 0.01). The maximum and the HR recovery 1 min after the ISRT (HRR) did not differ among all groups (ES: 0.01-0.51, p ≥ 0.18). The HRR was slightly related to the test performance for all groups (r = 0.20, p = 0.12). Large to very large negative correlations were verified between HR at 6 and 9 min during the ISRT and the test performance for each group (r = -0.54 to -0.84, p ≤ 0.04). However, 16 (3 elite and 13 sub-elite) female players did not reach the 9th minute of the test. The gap between competitive levels among female soccer players is greater than that observed for male players in intermittent endurance performance and submaximal HR response. The HRR had only a minor impact on performance and was influenced neither by sex nor by level.
Application of PLISSIT Model among Primiparae with Dyspareunia Following Puerperium

Background: Dyspareunia is one of the most common but neglected female health problems that have a significant negative impact on a women's sexual function. Aim: the present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of application of PLISSIT model among primiparae with dyspareunia following puerperium. Design: quasi-experimental equivalent study (pre and posttests, nonrandomized study) was utilized to fulfill the aim of this study. Setting: antenatal outpatient clinic affiliated to Benha University Hospitals. Sample: a purposive sample was selected according to inclusion criteria . The sample consisted of 200 primiparae women with dyspareunia following puerperium, they were divided into two groups (control group comprised 100 women, study group comprised 100 women). Tools: Data collected through three main tools self-administered questionnaire, dyspareunia data, Female Sexual Function Index. Results: the present study showed a highly statistically significant differences between control and study groups related to sexual domains and dyspareunia data at post-intervention phase. Conclusion: PLISSIT model had a significant effect in improving sexuality among primiparae with dyspareunia. Recommendation: Replication of PLISSIT model on wide range of women complaining dyspareunia in outpatient clinics, postpartum educational guideline should include topics about how to deal with postpartum dyspareunia and
Trust, Perceived Useful, Attitude and Continuance Intention to Use E-Government Service: An Empirical Study in Taiwan

According to the official TDOAS 2009∼2017 survey, the penetration rate of social media in Taiwan has reached a record 96.8%, while the Internet access rate is as high as 99.7%. However, people using government online services access to relevant information has continued to decline over the years, from 50.8% in 2009 to 35.4% in 2017. At the same time, the proportion of e-transaction users has also dropped simultaneously from 30.3% to 27.7%. In particular, only 1.1% of them are interested in government online forums, while the remaining 97.2% are more willing to engage in social media as a source of personal reference. The study aims to explore why are users not interested in accessing e-government services? Are they affected by the popularity of social networking applications? What are the key factors for users to continue to use e-government service? The research framework was adapted from expectation confirmation theory and model (ECT/ECM), technology acceptance model (TAM) with trust theories, in validating attitude measures for a better understanding of continuance intention of using e-government service. In terms of measurement, the assessment used the structural equation modeling method (SEM) to explore the views and preferences of 400 college students on e-government service. The study results identified that perceived usefulness not only plays a full mediating role, it is expected to be the most important ex-post factor influencing user’s intention to continue using e-government service. It also clarifies that the intent to continue to use e-government services is not related to use any alternative means such as social media application. key words: ECT, ECM, SEM, E-government, social media
Open House for Overheating: A Case Study of Overheating Policy Synergies in London

Overheating in buildings is a growing public health hazard becoming more prevalent with climate change. The research aimed to analyse how interactions between jurisdictional scales, urban stakeholders and policies promoting synergies affect adaptation processes in cities using overheating policies in London as an example. Understanding how these interactions affect policy implementation can ensure that cities are not promoting ineffective policies. To achieve this aim, a case study of London’s two overheating policies was conducted using a multilevel governance framework encompassing scale analysis and the adaption-mitigation dichotomy. First, a descriptive literature review was conducted to understand where synergies in buildings occur. A review of policy documents was then undertaken to establish the political framework London’s policies operate in and how national and intergovernmental policies create synergies, trade-offs and conflicts with the London policies. Interviews with municipal stakeholders, building professionals and advisory groups were used to confirm interactions with the policy documents, as well as identified barriers and future drivers to policy implementation. The policy document analysis showed that national and intergovernmental support for overheating was lacking which had the effect of weakening London’s enforcement capabilities for its local overheating policies. Multiple barriers were found relating to challenges of overheating being pushed into the future to address and stakeholders’ inability to prioritize the issue given specific circumstances within their operating domain. Future drivers to improve implementation of London’s policies related to preventing overheating from being seen as a future problem and incentivizing individuals to act sooner through more regulations, alternative financing mechanisms, and more. The thesis makes three unique theoretical contributions. While the adaptation-mitigation dichotomy can be used to explain barriers and drivers to integrated policies, overheating presents two unique challenges: i) overheating provides a significant adaptation challenge because of the perceived non-critical nature of the issue to the general public and apparent lack of immediate benefits; ii) large cities with devolved enforcement powers will face many of the same challenges as higher levels of governance. Finally, including informal institutions when conducting scale analyses is necessary so that these institutions can be mitigated with precautionary measures and tools. Policy recommendations are provided for London and other cities. (Less)
I AM G OING MAD: M AXIMUM D ISCREPANCY C OM - PETITION FOR C OMPARING C LASSIFIERS A DAPTIVELY Anonymous authors

The learning of hierarchical representations for image classification has experienced an impressive series of successes due in part to the availability of largescale labeled data for training. On the other hand, the trained classifiers have traditionally been evaluated on a handful of test images, which are deemed to be extremely sparsely distributed in the space of all natural images. It is thus questionable whether recent performance improvements on the excessively re-used test sets generalize to real-world natural images with much richer content variations. In addition, studies on adversarial learning show that it is effortless to construct adversarial examples that fool nearly all image classifiers, adding more complications to relative performance comparison of existing models. This work presents an efficient framework for comparing image classifiers, which we name the MAximum Discrepancy (MAD) competition. Rather than comparing image classifiers on fixed test sets, we adaptively sample a test set from an arbitrarily large corpus of unlabeled images so as to maximize the discrepancies between the classifiers, measured by the distance over WordNet hierarchy. Human labeling on the resulting small and model-dependent image sets reveals the relative performance of the competing classifiers and provides useful insights on potential ways to improve them. We report the MAD competition results of eleven ImageNet classifiers while noting that the framework is readily extensible and cost-effective to add future classifiers into the competition.
The Level of Awareness concerning Kampo among Out-patients

漢方を希望して当研究所の外来を受診した患者に, 漢方に対する認識についてアンケート調査を行った。 患者は副作用に対する関心が強く, 漢方を選んだ理由は副作用が少ないということが最も多かった。 副作用の程度はほとんど心配ないと考える人が多数であるが, 副作用が全くないあるいは重篤なものもあるなどの答えもあり, 診療において患者への充分な説明が必要と思われた。 また, 西洋医学で良くならない患者や不安感をもつ患者も多く, 西洋医学への批判的な意見もめだった。 病気の治療に対する漢方への期待感はかなり強く, その治療成績も高く評価していた。 また体質改善や健康維持, 病気の予防, 体力の増進など西洋医学では見いだしにくい点での期待もみられた。 漢方治療を求める患者は西洋医学に対して十分に満足しておらず, 漢方へは安心感のある治療が最も望まれているものであった。
EU KLEMS Project Productivity in the European Union: A Comparative Industry Approach January 2008

This paper describes and analyses the productivity performance of three small European countries: Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. It uses the EUKLEMS database for describing productivity developments for those countries in an international perspective. This paper particularly explores three specific topics for the three countries considered: i) catching up or falling behind? , ii) productivity in market services, iii) industrial specialisation and structural change. Productivity levels of Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands are high. However, both labour productivity growth rates and MFP growth rates in Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands have been considerably lower than in the United States since the mid 1990s. To some extent, these lower growth rates are owing to the disappearance of the catch up bonus diminishing the possibility to learn from the United States. Jel Classification O30, O47, O57.
Monolithic Interferometer in twin optical fibers

Over the last few years, Acreo has led research activities in the area of special optical fibers, thanks to its facility in Hudiskvall. One of the fibers fabricated consists of a double fiber, each half made of the same fiber and connected to the other half by glass during the drawing. This double-fiber opens the possibility of creating and controlling two similar optical paths in the same fiber. This characteristic is directly related to the present diploma work, which investigates the feasibility of creating stable and balanced fiber interferometers in an easy and cost-effective way. The first step has been to find a method to access the fiber halves individually and provide low-loss connections towards pigtails within a reproductive procedure. Their characterization through the measure of their Polarization Dependant Loss and Differential Group Delay has been the second step. It allows to compare and quantify the quality of the double fiber against the standard telecom fiber in the market. The realization of optical components requires the control of complex tasks such as Coupler fabrication and Fiber Bragg grating inscription. Both activities have been realized in the double-fiber. They are presented successively, with their respective results. Finally, a Michelson interferometer is presented. The measurements and results presented give valuable information about the possibilities offered by the double-fiber geometry. Eventually, an additional fiber component is presented. It deals with the realization of a monolithical Fabry-Perot interferometer into a capillary fiber.
Robot Path Planning with IGA-MMAS and MMAS-IGA

Path Planning of mobile robots is one of the essential tasks in robotic research and studies with intelligent technologies. It helps in determining the path from a source to the destination. It has extended its roots from classic approaches to further improvements over time, such as evolutionary approaches. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Genetic algorithm are well known evolutionary approaches in effective path planning. This research work focuses on the Max-Min Ant System (MMAS) derived from the ACO evolutionary approach of Ant System (AS) and Improved Genetic Algorithm (IGA) which is efficient over the classical Genetic Algorithm. In-order to study robot path planning two methods are combined in this research work combining MMAS and IGA as two-hybrid methods MMAS-IGA and IGA-MMAS . The results of the two-hybrid methods will be deriving the near optimal solution, demonstrated in the experimental study of this work. Grid maps are used for simulating the robot path planning environment which is modeled using the grid method. Genetic operators of IGA are combined with MMAS for the enhancement of the overall result of the methods IGA-MMAS and MMAS-IGA. The effectiveness of these two methods will be determined in the simulation modeled using MATLAB environment. The experimental results of these methods are done in a static environment, and the results of MMAS-IGA and IGA-MMAS are compared to the path planning method GA-ACO.
Plundervolt: Software-based Fault Injection Attacks against Intel SGX

Dynamic frequency and voltage scaling features have been introduced to manage ever-growing heat and power consumption in modern processors. Design restrictions ensure frequency and voltage are adjusted as a pair, based on the current load, because for each frequency there is only a certain voltage range where the processor can operate correctly. For this purpose, many processors (including the widespread Intel Core series) expose privileged software interfaces to dynamically regulate processor frequency and operating voltage.In this paper, we demonstrate that these privileged interfaces can be reliably exploited to undermine the system’s security. We present the Plundervolt attack, in which a privileged software adversary abuses an undocumented Intel Core voltage scaling interface to corrupt the integrity of Intel SGX enclave computations. Plundervolt carefully controls the processor’s supply voltage during an enclave computation, inducing predictable faults within the processor package. Consequently, even Intel SGX’s memory encryption/authentication technology cannot protect against Plundervolt. In multiple case studies, we show how the induced faults in enclave computations can be leveraged in real-world attacks to recover keys from cryptographic algorithms (including the AES-NI instruction set extension) or to induce memory safety vulnerabilities into bug-free enclave code. We finally discuss why mitigating Plundervolt is not trivial, requiring trusted computing base recovery through microcode updates or hardware changes.
The value of magnetic resonance imaging in the assessment of chemoradiotherapy of cancer of cervix uteri

Background and aim. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most useful and frequent methods of examinations to monitor patients after chemoradiotherapy, in order to assess residual tumor tissue and relapse of the disease. This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic value of MRI in the assessment of the effectiveness of the treatment of cancer of cervix uteri. Materials and methods. Retrospective data of 52 patients were obtained. All these patients underwent pelvic MRI in the Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno klinikos to assess the malignant tumor of cervix six months after chemoradiotherapy in the year 2010. MRI diagnostic value characteristics were calculated, compared with clinical data, obtained in the period of 5 or more years after chemoradiotherapy. Results. Residual tumor tissue was found in 25.0 % of patients. In 28.2 % of patients with non-keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma, in 20.0 % of patients with keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma and 0.0 % of patients with adenocarcinoma, the residual tumor was found. In 100 % of patients with G1 tumors, in 23.4 % of patients with G2 tumors and 25.0 % of patients with G3 tumors, residual tumor tissue was found. In 12.5 % of cases the residual tumor was diagnosed within the range of 1.0-3.0 cm, in 19.2 % – within the range of 3.0-5.0 cm, in 25.0 % – within the range of 5.0-7.0 cm, in 75.0 % – within the range of 7.0-9.0 cm, in 75.0 % – within the range of 7.0-9.0 cm. In 26.5 % of patients with tumor extension to parametrium, in 28.6 % of patients with tumor extension to corpus uteri/vagina, in 60.0 % of patients with tumor extension to bladder/rectum and 28.1 % of patients with abnormal pelvic lymph nodes, residual tumor tissue was found. The specificity of MRI in the detection of residual tumor was 100.0%, sensitivity – 63.6%, positive prognostic value (PPV) – 100.0%, negative prognostic value (NPV) – 78.9% and accuracy – 84.6%. Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) was 0.71. Conclusions. MRI allowed diagnosing residual tumor tissue in 25.0 % of patients. Residual tumor tissue was most commonly diagnosed in patients with non-keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma, G1 carcinoma, large tumors and tumors with invasion to bladder and rectum. In the diagnostic of residual tumor tissue, MRI showed moderate sensitivity, high specificity, accuracy, PPV and NPV.
PRENATAL ULTRASOUND SCREENING TO DIAGNOSE CONGENITAL ANOMALIES AMONG ONE THOUSAND UNSELECTED WOMEN AND THEIR PREGNANCY OUTCOME

OBJECTIVES: Purpose of our study was to determine the detection rate of congenital anomalies in second trimester by single prenatal ultrasound screening in an unselected population and to evaluate the subsequent pregnancy outcome and to compare the results with published series using standardized criteria. SUBJECTS AND METHODS - One thousand pregnant women at 18-22 weeks' gestation were screened by prenatal ultrasound examination. We compared these sonographic reports with pregnancy outcomes established by postnatal echocardiography and ultrasound examinations of neonates and autopsy for dead fetuses. Statistical analysis was performed on two units; malformed fetus and malformation itself. RESULTS - A total of 27 fetuses with 30 anomalies were identified by prenatal ultrasound. Prospectively 2 babies with 2 anomalies were found to be normal. On postnatal examination 13 babies were found to have 14 anomalies which could not be detected by ultrasound. Thus the sensitivity of ultrasound in detecting congenital anomalies and anomalous fetuses was 66.6% and 67.5% respectively. Highest detection rate was observed for CNS anomalies (88.8%) but that of craniofacial and musculoskeletal anomalies was not very satisfactory (33% in each system). CONCLUSION -This study shows rate of detection of fetal anomalies is satisfactory for most organ systems except cardiac, musculoskeletal and craniofacial malformations.
Advances in the Research on Anticardiolipin Antibody

Anticardiolipin antibody (ACA) is a kind of autoantibody and is one of the antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs). Phospholipids with a negative charge on platelets and endothelial cell membranes are ACA target antigens. ACA is common in systemic lupus erythematosus and other autoimmune diseases and is closely associated with thrombosis, thrombocytopenia, and spontaneous abortion. In 1983, Harris established a method for detecting ACA, and research on the antibody has gained worldwide attention and has developed rapidly. For this review, we browsed articles that cover most of the ACA-related studies in the last 25 years and extracted influential ideas and conclusions in this field.
Valence, Complementarities, and Political Polarization

Abstract I study a model of electoral competition where two parties that care about both the spoils of office and policy compete by announcing policy platforms. Parties are characterized by their valence on the one hand and by their policy platforms on the other. Unlike in the extant literature, I assume that valence and policy are complements (instead of substitutes) from the voter's perspective. I generally characterize electoral equilibrium and show that in such a framework increasing one or both parties' valence level(s) leads to policy moderation. To the contrary, if both parties have minimal valence policy platforms are maximally polarized. The model hence uncovers valence as an important determinant of political polarization.
Tree‐based fault‐tolerant collective operations for MPI

With the increase in size and complexity of high‐performance computing systems, the probability of failures, and the cost of recovery grow. Parallel applications running on these systems should be able to continue running in spite of node failures at arbitrary times. Collective operations are essential for many parallel MPI applications, and are often the first to detect such failures. This work presents tree‐based fault‐tolerant collective operations, which combine fault detection and recovery as an integral part each operation. We do this by extending existing tree‐based algorithms, to allow for a collective operation to succeed despite failing nodes before or during its run. This differs from other approaches, where recovery takes place after a failure of such operations have failed. The article includes a comparison between the performance of the proposed algorithm and other approaches, as well as a simulator‐based analysis of performance at scale.