Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Novel Scenario Detection in Road Traf- fic Images A Comparative Evaluation of Novelty Detection Algorithms Master’s thesis in Complex Adaptive Systems

For artificial neural networks to be deployed in safety critical applications, such as autonomous driving, there is a need for reliable detection and rejection of unfamiliar inputs, because of the black box nature of such algorithms. This thesis compares the performance of three recently published convolutional autoencoder-based novelty detection algorithms when applied to road traffic images. The algorithms were reimplemented for high-resolution images, and tested for detecting two types of previously unseen scenarios: unseen weather conditions and unseen type of landscape. Each use case was represented in two datasets: one simulated dataset with low scene variation, and one dataset captured in real road-traffic. Classification results in terms of area under receiver operating characteristic and area under precision-recall curve show that for low variability in the normal scenario, novelties can be reliably detected with two out of three approaches. For the real image dataset, performance is consistently lower, indicating that more complex and/or more well tuned models are needed for use in real-world applications.
PERCEIVED VALUES IN TECHNOLOGY AFFECTING ATTITUDES AND EXPECTANCY OF BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS TO ADOPT AI-DRIVEN FITNESS APPS: THE PERSONALIZED PRACTICES FOR TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE CUSTOMERS

The application of Artificial intelligence (AI) has become extensive in the last decade. It will be more than worthwhile if healthcare sector recognized integration into AI Technology. AI-driven fitness apps enhance customers with invaluable experience. The study aims to explore the relationship between perceived values of technology, attitudes and intention to AI driven fitness app. This paper constructs a multi-scale model for the measurement of customer perceived values of technology, which is applied to fitness application. The data collection employed a survey method with structured questionnaires which were distributed to 400 respondents who experienced AI driven fitness apps. The results were found that structural equation model developed by the researcher was consistent with the empirical data. The structural formula showed the confidence index for forecast that was equivalent to 65%. The result supported that perceived values of technology significantly influenced to attitudes and intention to adopt fitness apps at the level of statistical significance 0.001. The findings showed that interactions through AI application were able to increase customer perceived values of technology, facilitating higher level of perceived usability and usefulness and lower level of perceived risks, allowing the fitness providers to improve and develop service offers based on contactless and personalized workout experience.
Patient-Support Program in Diabetes Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Italian Multicentric Experience

Purpose Telephone coaching and health apps are effective means to support subjects with diabetes. Patient support programs (PSP) on type 2 diabetes are scanty, and none has been conducted in Italy. In a pilot phase, conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we aimed to examine the feasibility and acceptance of such program. Methods The “BE THere for diabetes CARE” (BETHCARE) project is a real-world PSP conducted through telephone and digital coaching system to provide educational and emotional support to Italian adults with diabetes receiving long-acting basal insulin degludec. This pilot phase was conducted in 11 centres that enrolled a total of 63 patients (89% with type-2 diabetes). Counselors contacted patients to define a set of emotional, physical and nutritional targets, and monitoring calls were performed on a monthly basis. Data were collected on socio-demographic and anthropometric characteristics, selected clinical information, quality of life, achievement of targets and patient satisfaction. Results Fifty-eight subjects (92%) chose to participate by telephone and 5 (8%) by mobile app. Most participants (ie, ≥80%) evaluated counselors’ calls “useful/very useful”, duration of calls “adequate/adequately long”, were satisfied with the educational pathway and declared to be more confident in diabetes management after the program. About half of participants were confident to maintain their targets after the PSP. Achievement of nutritional targets improved during counseling, from a mean score of 1.56 at week 1 to 1.88 at week 16 (p-value = 0.03). No significant variations in the achievement of emotional and physical targets emerged. Mean patients weight decreased from 84.9 kg (week 1) to 84.3 kg (week 4) and then levelled off (84.2 kg, week 16). Conclusion This project demonstrated the feasibility and patient appreciation of a PSP in diabetes care, which is particularly important for a chronic disease of the elderly and during a pandemic period when face-to-face counseling is problematic.
Measuring the Classification of Digital Natives use Digital Natives Assessment Scale: The Implementation on Pre-Service Physics Teachers in Banten-Indonesia and Its Implications

Education in the digital era had shifted conventional learning methods to digital technology-based learning. Likewise with students have to be faced by pre-service physics teachers who have entered the generation of digital natives. However, is it true that the concept of digital natives exists? Moreover, whether pre-service physics teachers belong to that generation? Therefore, the objective of this study was to prove the construct validity of the Digital Natives Assessment Scale using data from pre-service physics teachers in Banten Province, Indonesia. And follow-up analysis is used to find the relationship between digital natives' status and pre-service physics teacher technology mastery. This study used a quantitative approach with the correlational method. The type of correlation research chosen was Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The instrument used was a Digital Natives Assessment Scale (DNAS) questionnaire consisting of 21 items and four factors, measured using a 7-point scale. The results showed that this study could not prove the 4-factor DNAS model for pre-service teacher participants in Banten Province based on the results of the CFA. And there was no relationship between the status of digital natives and the level of technology mastery of pre-service teachers based on Pearson correlation analysis. So it can be concluded that using a sample of student-teacher candidates in Indonesia, the 4-factor DNAS cannot be proven construct validity. However, this decision is not final but should be tested on a larger scale to show DNAS matches.
Correlates of Stock Market Development and Economic Growth: A Confirmatory Study from Ghana

The study confirms the debate on whether stock market development correlates to economic growth. The dimensions used for the stock market development consisted of market liquidity, size, and capitalization. Economic growth was represented by the real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate. Based on secondary data obtained from the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) and Ghana Statistical Service from 2014 to 2018, a correlational research design was adopted to analyze the data with SPSS 20v by using bivariate and regression. The study found that there is a high positive relationship between market liquidity and economic growth, a moderate negative relationship between market size and economic growth, and a moderate positive relationship between market capitalization and economic growth. Also, the stock market development of market liquidity, size, and capitalization predict 95.7 percent of economic growth. The study summarized that there is a high positive association between stock market development and economic growth as a confirmatory revelation, but all the relationship results were not statistically significant. The result points to the casualty of the relationship between stock market development and economic growth. The study recommends that more firms must be encouraged to be listed on GSE to enhance economic growth in Ghana.
Joana Filipa Alegria Pereira

Resting state brain networks are associated with a variety of relevant brain functions. Specifically, atypical patterns of functional connectivity in these networks have been reported in several psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. The nature of the brain connectivity in Williams Syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by a variable and enigmatic profile of cognitive and behavioral characteristics, remains unexplored. The main goal of this research is to evaluate the functional connectivity of resting state networks in individuals with Williams Syndrome. Seven Williams Syndrome participants and seven age and gender matching controls underwent a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging session. Using a region of interest approach, we found altered functional connectivity in areas that correspond to six different networks, namely in the default mode network, dorsal attention network, salience network, sensoriomotor network, visual networks and auditory network. This global pattern of hypoconnectivity in these networks may be underlying their cognitive and behavioral phenotype. Specifically, alterations in the default mode and visual networks may be related with their abnormal social cognition and visual-spatial deficits. This study highlights the importance of studying the resting state networks in development.
FAMILY CONTROL AND EARNINGS QUALITY CONTROL FAMILIAR Y CALIDAD DEL RESULTADO

This work examines the relationship between family control and earnings quality in a context where the salient agency problem shifts away from the classical divergence between managers and shareholders to conflicts between the controlling owner and minority shareholders. The results reveal that, compared to non-family firms, family firms reveal higher earnings quality in terms of both lower discretionary accruals and greater predictability of future cash flows. They also show a positive relationship between the level of voting rights held by the controlling family and earnings quality. The evidence is consistent with the presence of a reputation/long-term involvement effect associated with the family firm. Moreover, the work reflects that, as the divergence between the voting and cash flow rights in the hands of the controlling family decreases, earnings quality increases.
BFJ-02-2021-0114_proof 3208..3227

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate how hotel guests can be nudged for more active engagement in hospitality plate waste prevention and moderation at buffets, through designing effective persuasive interventions. Plate waste is a main sustainability challenge, and it is considered one of the major drivers of food waste in the hospitality sector, whose operations generate excessive amounts of waste. The hospitality industry, featured by all-you-can-eat buffet-style settings, is somehow encouraging consumers to increase the amount of food ordered or taken and not been eaten. Design/methodology/approach – This study reports a field experiment conducted in a real hotel setting, where persuasive interventions were targeted to consumers at the croissants buffet, when guests were making their selections. The research tests the persuasiveness of functional and experiential appeal messages to nudge hotel guests towards a more active engagement in avoiding plate waste. Each single treatment was carried out for three weeks in varying sequence. Findings – The findings are based on 63 rounds of data collections and show the superiority of experiential appeal messages in positively influencing guests’ behaviour. This implies that appropriate messages can persuade tourists to avoid plate waste in buffet-style settings, especially if these messages are grounded in participatory cues with an emphasis on altruistic values. Originality/value – This is one of the few studies that empirically tests the effectiveness of different persuasive interventions in a real consumption setting, thus measuring actual behaviours which have been rarely studied. This study further contributes to the identification of concrete communication tools that can help to mitigate plate waste generation.
ANALYZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EPILEPSY AND ITS PSYCHO-SOCIAL IMPAIRMENTS OF DIAGNOSED EPILEPTIC COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH NORMAL STUDENTS

1 Nandha College of Physiotherapy, Koorapalayam Privu, Perundurai main road, Erode-638052, Tamil Nadu, India. 2 Nandha College of Pharmacy, Koorapalayam Pirivu, Perundurai main road, Erode-638052, Tamil Nadu, India. *Corresponding Author: Prof. R. B. Chitradevi, MPT (Neuro) HoD Neurology, Nandha College of Physiotherapy, Koorapalayam Privu, Perundurai Main Road, Erode 638052, Tamil Nadu, India. Email id: academic@nandhaphysio.org ORCID: https://ORCID.ORG/0000-0001-6201-7797
The Nominalist Approach to the Head-Internal Relative Clause in Japanese Revisited: The Pure Internal Head vs. The Null External Head

The nominalist approach to the head-internal relative clause in Japanese revisited: the pure internal head vs. the null external head Sub Title Author 星, 浩司(Hoshi, Koji) Publisher 慶應義塾大学日吉紀要刊行委員会 Publication year 2002 Jtitle 慶應義塾大学日吉紀要. 言語・文化・コミュニケーション No.28 (2002. 4) ,p.132 Abstract Notes Genre Departmental Bulletin Paper URL https://koara.lib. keio.ac. jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/detail.php? koara_id=AN10032394-2002041 1-0001
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports

Wildlife trafficking poses a major threat to global biodiversity. Species such as pangolins are particularly vulnerable and trade continues almost unabated despite numerous interventions aimed at eradicating illegal wildlife trade. Despite restrictions on the pangolin trade, thousands of pangolins continue to be intercepted annually. We focused on China because of the recent delisting of pangolins from the Chinese pharmacopeia, and their removal from healthcare insurance, despite deeply ingrained traditions of having pangolins for ethno-medicinal use. We collated pangolin interception data from public online media seizure reports to characterize the pangolin trade within China, and found that a total of 326 independent seizures equivalent to 143,130 pangolins (31,676 individuals and 222,908 kg of scale) were reported in 26 provinces. Pangolin domestic seizures are greatest in the southern cities of Dehong, Fangchenggang, and Guangzhou. Also, we found 17 countries within the global pangolins range which were the major source of the pangolin shipments to China. The number of arrests and convictions was much lower than the number of pangolin incidents reported. Our results show a significant increase in the volume of scales and number of live pangolin seizures after amended endangered species law came into effect in 2018, and recorded the highest number of individual pangolin interceptions. China has shown increasing wildlife seizures over time, owing partly to emergent trends in the international wildlife trade as well as increasing global demand for ethnomedicine. The future eradication of illegal wildlife trade in China is dependent not only on stringent border control and offender prosecution but also the; removal of other threatened species from the pharmacopeia and healthcare insurance which includes wildlife derivatives. Furthermore, our work highlights importance of current policy intervention to combat the pangolin trade within China, and the need for further interventions both within China and in export countries.
Pre-training Summarization Models of Structured Datasets for Cardinality Estimation

We consider the problem of pre-training models which convert structured datasets into succinct summaries that can be used to answer cardinality estimation queries. Doing so avoids per-dataset training and, in our experiments, reduces the time to construct summaries by up to 100×. When datasets change, our summaries are incrementally updateable. Our key insights are to use multiple summaries per dataset, use learned summaries for columnsets for which other simpler techniques do not achieve high accuracy, and that analogous to similar pre-trained models for images and text, structured datasets have some common frequency and correlation patterns which our models learn to capture by pre-training on a large and diverse corpus of datasets.
LOW POWER FIR FILTER USING FIFTH APPROXIMATION ADDER

: The demand for power efficient design has increased with the portable multiple devices employing various signal processing algorithms and architectures. In previous approach, voltage over scaling has emerged as one of the most effective technique for reducing power in digital designs, this technique is to mitigate the resulting errors. In this paper, propose a logic complexity reduction at the transistor level as an alternate approach to voltage overscaling. Based on this concept, propose various approximate adder cells with reduced complexity at the transistor level. The fifth approximate adder is reduced full adder having least number of transistors. By using this arithmetic unit design architecture like FIR filter. Simulation results indicate up to 97% power saving using the proposed approximate adder, when compared with existing accurate adder.
Effect of Different Essential Oils on Enzymatic Activity of Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus florida)

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Estimation Theory in Financial Accounting as It Applies to Valuing Intellectual Property Assets

The abandonment option under various capital budgeting models are discussed in this study to illustrate the notion that present value of cash flows is often improperly estimated in financial models utilizing decision analytics in estimation theory as it applies in financial accounting. In this study, intellectual property rights and other intangible assets which are often not considered in the accounting estimation processes utilized in financial accounting. An investor/analyst often misestimates cash flow resulting in less-than-optimum capital budgeting decisions. This is especially a problem when actions to abandon for salvage and other similar decisions improve when the present value of intangibles and property rights are included in the decision process. This last statement is the goal of this study as well as to present well-founded processes to improve abandonment and similar decisions in capital budgeting decisions. The estimation problem in financial accounting is included in the analysis to accomplish this goal.
How Can Teachers Support School Readiness Skills Through Social and Emotional Development for Male Students?

Gender has an influence on how children learn. According to data, preschool males fell behind females in social and emotional development (Kent and Pitsia, 2018). Teachers support school readiness skills through social and emotional development for male students. To ensure male student learning styles are supported, teachers need to modify teaching methods. One challenge is educators are female dominant and expectations of children may have been designed for females. This paper synthesized peer reviewed journal articles and book research on why children needed social and emotional skills and how males and females differed in social and emotional development. The research reviewed factors leading to low social and emotional skills, and how teachers could support the development of social and emotional skills. The findings concluded teachers need to understand the difference of male’s and female’s development of social and emotional skills, create classroom expectations supporting males, and understand how teaching styles play a role in how males develop social and emotional skills. Schools need to ensure teachers have training related to how males develop social and emotional skills and have the freedom to incorporate large amounts of active learning in preschool.
Enhancing response to Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant: Technical brief and priority actions for Member States

On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1. 1.529 a variant of concern (VOC) (1), following advice from the WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution. The variant was given the name Omicron. Omicron is a highly divergent variant with a high number of mutations, including 26-32 mutations in the spike protein, some of which were likely to be associated with humoral immune escape potential and higher transmissibility.
Evaluation of demographic and clinical characteristics of female patients presenting with MINOCA and differences between male patients: A subgroup analysis of MINOCA-TR registry.

OBJECTIVE Although the prevalence and rate of myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) are higher in women than in men in previous cohorts, potential demographic and clinical differences between women who are diagnosed with MINOCA versus myocardial infarction with obstructive coronary arteries (MIOCA) have not been studied till date. In this study, we aimed to document these characteristics and to compare them between female patients with MINOCA and MIOCA. METHODS The study was a subgroup analysis of the MINOCA-TR study. The study was a multi-center, observational cohort study that was conducted in Turkey between March 2018 and October 2018. In this study, 477 (29.3%) female patients who had been diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction were evaluated. RESULTS Of these women, 49 (10.3%) were diagnosed with MINOCA (mean age 58.9±12.9 years) and 428 (89.7%) had a final diagnosis of MIOCA (mean age 67.4±11.8 years). The prevalence of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes mellitus was significantly lower in the MINOCA group than in the MIOCA group. In addition, the MINOCA group had higher rates of recent flu history and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) presentation than the MIOCA group. There were significant clinical differences in patients with MINOCA in terms of sex. The female patients were older, had higher systolic blood pressures, and lower hemoglobin levels than male patients. CONCLUSION The study revealed that the prevalence of traditional coronary artery disease risk factors was lower in female patients with MINOCA than in those who had final diagnosis of MIOCA.