Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Store Atmosphere, Price Discount and Purchasing Decisions of Shoe Stores in Bandar Lampung

This study investigates the influence of discounts and store atmosphere on purchasing decisions in shoe stores in Bandar Lampung, recognizing the evolving role of shoes from a basic foot protection necessity to a symbol of fashion. The purpose is to discern the impact of these factors on consumer behavior, particularly in a dynamic retail setting. The research, involving 100 respondents, employs purposive sampling to ensure representation of the population. Criteria for respondent selection include being over 17 years old and having made purchases in shoe stores. Data collection involves validated and reliable questionnaires, and SPSS version 26 is employed for statistical analysis, utilizing the multiple linear regression method. The results reveal that discounted prices and store atmosphere significantly influence purchasing decisions. These findings underscore the contemporary importance of factors beyond utilitarian aspects, shedding light on the interplay between economic considerations, retail strategies, and consumer preferences. Implications of this study extend to both marketers and consumers, guiding strategies for retailers to enhance the shopping experience and assisting consumers in making informed purchasing decisions in the evolving landscape of the fashion-centric shoe industry.
Beyond Appearances

This paper presents preliminary findings from research investigating the influence of selection panel biases on recruiting academic positions in Australian higher education. Emphasising the need for cultural diversity and inclusivity among students, the study argues that these goals should also be reflected in the selection of academics within higher education institutions. Notably, this research addresses a significant gap, as no prior studies in Australia have explored how selection panel members' personal and organisational characteristics and belief systems shape university academic selection. Data for this study were collected through surveys and optional semi-structured interviews with university staff who have participated in academic interviews or served on academic selection panels. Descriptive and thematic analysis techniques were applied to both survey and interview data, with verbal data analysis used for the interview transcripts. While the research is ongoing, this paper reports preliminary findings based on 45 surveys only from the participants interviewed. This paper does not report the findings from participants who were in interview panels. This research does not report on semi-structured interview data collected as a part of this project. The results highlight intense feelings of discrimination due to the race, age, gender, and cultural background of the candidates in the academic recruitment process in Australian universities.
Introduction to special issue on “Long‐term changes and trends in the stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere”

This special issue bundles some of the latest results on decadal‐scale variations in the stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and ionosphere, following on from the 8th Workshop on Long‐Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere, held in Cambridge, UK, on 28–31 July 2014. Emmert et al. ( ) provided a short report of the workshop. This introduction briefly describes the relevance of the field and highlights some of the recent progress that has been made.
Experimental Design for the Observation of Saliva Droplets Using a High-Speed Camera

Disease transmission is often caused by viruses or bacteria contained in salivary droplets. Salivary droplets are produced from breathing, coughing, and sneezing activities. The extent of droplet dispersal can determine the safe distance between individuals when interacting, many studies have taken a simulation and modeling approach, arguing that the risk of exposure to pathogens. In this study, we attempted to set up an instrument to experimentally observe the flow of saliva droplets emitted during sneezing using a High-Speed Camera (HSC) model Phantom T-1340 without using a light sheet. Additionally, this study did not use lasers for the comfort and safety of individuals during recording of sneezing phenomena. The observation results explain that the sneezing phenomenon occurs within a time frame of 300 ms. The number of droplets observed was 246 with an observation probability of only 66%. The saliva fluid emitted is considered as large particles (bulk droplets) that undergo refraction due to two main factors, namely external and internal factors. External factors are influenced by environmental air flow rate, humidity, and temperature. Internal factors refer to the contents present in saliva such as water, protein, enzymes, and mucus or mucin.
Soccer Match Analysis of UniKL FC Versus UPM FC

Universiti Kuala Lumpur Football Club (UniKL FC) is a soccer team comprises of players from Universiti Kuala Lumpur. UniKL FC is currently participating in the tournament organized by the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia where teams competing in the tournament are from local universities in Malaysia. This paper delineated the match analysis of UniKL FC versus UPM FC which was also the quarterfinal match of the tournament.
Annuella och interannuella ändmoräner

Abstract Annual and inter-annual end moraines. A preliminary report is given regarding investigations of De Geer moraines (the term introduced by Hoppe 1959). Detailed geochronological varve-measurements within a De Geer moraine series (fig. 1) prove that the opinion of De Geer (1932) according to which one can distinguish between annual and inter-annual moraines must be correct at least in certain areas. The investigations further confirm the opinion of G. Hoppe (1948) according to which De Geer moraines were built up at a calving ice-front. The annual moraines must be formed during winter-pauses in the calving, the inter-annual moraines during shorter pauses in the calving during the rest of the year. Detailed studies of the interior of several De Geer moraines show among other things that the ridges often have a coarse-grained core of washed till deposited directly on the normal basal till of the surrounding ground moraine sheet. In several cases such cores are overlain by lodgement till with fissile s.
The neural dynamics of loss aversion

Abstract In human decision-making under risk, loss is typically valued more than the same amount of gain, a behavioral phenomenon known as loss aversion, which suggests that gain and loss are evaluated differently in the brain. Most previous neuroimaging studies focused on the brain regions that show differential responses to losses relative to gains. What is still largely unknown is how the neural processing of gain and loss may unfold in time and drives loss aversion. Here, we designed a gambling task ideal for investigating the temporal course of the valuation process and used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to track human participants’ brain activities for valuating gain and loss. Computational modeling of participants’ behaviors implies that the gain and loss presented simultaneously can compete for cognitive resources, during which loss signals dominate the valuation process, resulting in loss aversion. Indeed, time-resolved MEG analysis reveals that the evaluation process of loss terminated later for participants with higher loss aversion than those with lower loss aversion, though the gain valuation had similar temporal courses for different participants. These results suggest that the origin of loss aversion may lie in the neural dynamics of loss processing
Tipologi Organisasi Ruang dan Elemen Interior Rumah Abu Han di Surabaya

Surabaya has three ancestral houses that located on jalan Karet. Ancestral house of Han family has been chosen as the object of study because it is the oldest, the biggest, the building is physically still sound and in good condition. The architecture of the building and the interior elements of the house as a whole show the existence of harmonious unity among elements of Chinese style, Dutch colonial and Javanese style. It reflects the social and culture values, owner life style and the local community condition. Climate condition and natural environment also influence the architectural element of building. Abstract in Bahasa Indonesia : Surabaya memiliki tiga buah rumah abu yang terletak di jalan Karet. Rumah abu keluarga Han terpilih sebagai objek studi karena merupakan rumah abu tertua, terbesar, fisik bangunan masih utuh dan dalam kondisi terpelihara dengan baik. Arsitektur bangunan dan elemen interior rumah secara keseluruhan memperlihatkan perpaduan harmonis antara unsur gaya Cina, kolonial Belanda dan Jawa. Hal ini sebagai refleksi nilai sosial, budaya, gaya hidup pemilik serta kondisi masyarakat setempat. Kondisi iklim dan lingkungan sekitar juga ikut mempengaruhi kondisi elemen arsitektur bangunan Kata kunci: rumah abu Han, elemen-elemen interior, dan pengaruh budaya.
Modelling outdoor thermal comfort of humans performing physical activity: applications to health and emergency heat stress preparedness

Humans are tightly linked to their thermal microclimatic environments, yet few studies have evaluated the outdoor thermal comfort of users performing physical activity. The purpose of this research was to critically review, assess, and apply findings using the COMFA ('COMfort FormulA') human energy budget for users performing physical activity outdoors. Research objectives were: to apply an improved multi-segmented skin temperature approach to the COMFA model; to evaluate its accuracy in predicting actual thermal sensation (ATS); to implement techniques to account for human behaviours associated with clothing and metabolic variations; to spatially assess human energy budget moderating effects of urban parks; and to investigate extreme heat stress situations. To evaluate modelled mean skin temperature (T_sk), field tests were conducted on subjects performing 30 minute outdoor sessions of steady-state moderately intense activity (cycling and running). The model accurately predicted T_sk, showing significantly strong agreement (r = 0.859, p<0.01). ATS votes displayed significantly strong rank correlation with budget scores calculated using both measured and predicted T_sk (r_s = 0.507 and 0.517, respectively, p<0.01). A further improvement of Incorporating conditioning level of an individual gave more realistic estimations of metabolism for budget estimation. Adopting a new relative wind velocity (v_r) equation, which incorporates wind to body angle, revealed errors of the original v_r equation in the modelling of convective heat loss and T_sk. Application of the COMFA model in urban spaces showed that energy budgets were more closely correlated to incoming solar radiation (r = 0.941) than air temperature (r = 0.490), with a significantly strong linear regression found with radiation absorbed by a human (R^2=0.858). Treed greenspace was shown to strongly enhance thermal comfort the greatest, decreasing budgets on average by 25.5 Wm^2. Budget values were found to be a strong predictor of emergency dispatch calls received in Toronto during the July 2010 heat wave (R^2 = 0.86). This study has displayed the potential of the COMFA outdoor model as a new tool to make heat forecasting more meaningful to the public, emergency responders, and urban planners.
ON THE THEORY OF GROWTH FAULTING*: A GEOMECHANICAL DELTA MODEL BASED ON GRAVITY SLIDING

A geomechanical delta model is presented that explains and permits quantitative reproduction of the main features associated with growth faulting. The model is based on a soil-plasticity analysis of gravity sliding of overpressured clays and silts on very gentle delta slopes. In this analysis, the packets involved in gravity sliding--called 'units'--are well quantified. The delta body may behave as a stack of such units ('multi-unit' delta model), which can behave differently depending on such parameters as sedimentation rates, changes in lithology and compactional behaviour. Two prominent and essentially different structural expressions of the model are discussed: (a) the regularly spaced growth-fault pattern, without recognisable toe regions; (b) the complete slide structure with a well-developed toe region. The shapes of the roll-over structures (particularly the positions of the crests), the thickening of the layers near the growth faults, antithetic faulting and horsetailing of growth faults can be derived from the model without the need to invoke any deeper seated mechanism in the substratum. The basic assumptions of this geomechanical model are supported by observations in Ireland and examples from literature. It may contribute to the reconstruction of the hydrocarbon migration history in a delta by accounting for the synsedimentary development of stresses and fault structures that may control hydrocarbon migration. Recently, geomechanical aspects came in focus again for the assessment of seismic amplitude anomalies in the search for hydrocarbons (Crans and Berkhout, 1979).
Environmental attitude-behavior correspondence between different types of forest recreationists

The purpose of this study was to examine the association of participation in outdoor recreation activities and the environmental attitude-behavior correspondence among forest recreationists. Environmental attitudes were operationalized with the revised New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale, and behaviors were operationalized using a series of proenvironmental behaviors that were derived from the literature. Outdoor recreation participation represented the respondents' most important activity. Data were collected at Bald Eagle State Forest, located in central Pennsylvania from June 12th 1999- March 11th, 2000. Bivariate correlations (Pearson's r) between attitudes and behaviors for appreciative, consumptive and motorized activities were conducted. Those involved with motorized activities showed the highest attitude-behavior contingency for ecocentric, and the lowest for technocentric attitudes. Those involved with appreciative activities generally had higher attitude-behavior consistency than those involved with consumptive activities for all three attitudinal indexes.
Quantitative fracture prediction from seismic data

ABSTRACT This paper presents results obtained from an area located east of Bremen, Germany, where gas is produced from a deep Rotliegend sandstone reservoir. Faults, fractures and associated deformation bands at reservoir depth have an important influence on the productivity of the gas field as fractures are cemented and tight and may act as permeability barriers. This contribution comprises the development of new coherency tools to better image sub-seismic faults and lineaments from seismic data, and the development of fracture attributes in order to quantify fracturation and its areal distribution. The fractal behaviour of faults was used to establish a relationship between coherency processed seismic data and borehole images at log scale. The ‘fractal dimension’ (FD) of the length of a fault population can be interpreted as a characteristic parameter describing local geology in terms of fracturation. Calculating FD for each point of a seismic grid yields an areal distribution of this value. Correlating seismic-derived FD values and fracture populations derived from borehole images defined a linear relationship which can be used to forecast the distribution of sub-seismic fractures and deformation from seismic data.
Perinatal complications following excisional treatment of cervical dysplasia

Cervical cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women. Mass screenings have significantly decreased its incidence, while causing an increase in precancerous cervical lesions that are mainly diagnosed in women of reproductive age who still have not fulfilled their reproductive goals. The aim of surgical treatment of these premalignant lesions is to prevent the development of cervical cancer, with minimal risks to the reproductive function. The most important perinatal complication is preterm delivery, usually coupled with preterm premature rupture of the membranes and chorioamnionitis. This results in prematurity with low birth weights, which can further result in increased neonatal morbidity and mortality. Data on the incidence of spontaneous miscarriages in treated women are non-consistent , however, it is believed that the incidence is higher in the second trimester. Possible predictors of complications are the amount of excised tissue, the type of excision technique, age at the time of surgery, and the length of the period between treatment and conception. Re-excision of the cervix is an additional risk factor for perinatal complications. The risk of perinatal complications is the highest after cold knife conization, followed by laser conization, whereas LEETZ excision means the lowest risk-this is primarily explained by the variations in the cone size. Having in mind that not all precancerous cervical lesions progress to cancer and that all types of excision treatments are associated with an increased incidence of perinatal complications, an adequate approach would entail primarily well-selected patients, i.e., treating only those women who are at real risk of developing cancer. The surgical treatment must be adapted to provide minimal risks for perinatal complications, maximal oncologic safety , and minimal risk of residual and/or recurring disease during a woman's lifespan.
Estimation of Soil Hydraulic Parameters in the Field by Integrated Hydrogeophysical Inversion of Time‐Lapse Ground‐Penetrating Radar Data

An integrated hydrogeophysical inversion approach was used to remotely infer the unsaturated soil hydraulic parameters from time‐lapse ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) data collected at a fixed location over a bare agricultural field. The GPR model combines a full‐waveform solution of Maxwell's equations for three‐dimensional wave propagation in planar layered media together with global reflection and transmission functions to account for the antenna and its interactions with the medium. The hydrological simulator HYDRUS‐1D was used with a two layer single‐ and dual‐porosity model. The radar model was coupled to the hydrodynamic model, such that the soil electrical properties (permittivity and conductivity) that serve as input to the GPR model become a function of the hydrodynamic model output (water content), thereby permitting estimation of the soil hydraulic parameters from the GPR data in an inversion loop. To monitor the soil water content dynamics, time‐lapse GPR and time domain reflectometry (TDR) measurements were performed, whereby only GPR data was used in the inversion. Significant effects of water dynamics were observed in the time‐lapse GPR data and in particular precipitation and evaporation events were clearly visible. The dual porosity model provided better results compared to the single porosity model for describing the soil water dynamics, which is supported by field observations of macropores. Furthermore, the GPR‐derived water content profiles reconstructed from the integrated hydrogeophysical inversion were in good agreement with TDR observations. These results suggest that the proposed method is promising for non‐invasive characterization of the shallow subsurface hydraulic properties and monitoring water dynamics at the field scale.
Impacts and interactions of two non-indigenous seaweeds Mazzaella japonica (Mikami) Hommersand and Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt in Baynes Sound, British Columbia

Supervisory Committee Dr. Stephen Cross, Department of Geography Co-Supervisor Dr. Mark Flaherty, Department of Geography Co-Supervisor Dr. John Dower, Department of Biology Outside Member Dr. Louise Page, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences Outside Member This thesis examines the interactions of two non-indigenous algae, Mazzaella japonica and Sargassum muticum, where they co-exist and their impacts on native species in their recipient habitats. Field and lab experiments were conducted to determine if they impact native seaweed communities, marine invertebrates, and supralittoral regions. In situ studies conducted in areas where Mazzaella japonica exists without Sargassum muticum found that removal of M. japonica allowed for an increase of native seaweed abundance and richness growing in fully subtidal regions, but had no detectable impact on native seaweeds growing in intertidal regions. Additionally, at the intertidal site, removal of M. japonica resulted in the recruitment of S. muticum. In regions where the two non-indigenous seaweeds co-exist, removal of both non-indigenous seaweeds negatively impacted native seaweeds. The magnitude of this negative impact was greater in subtidal compared to intertidal regions. M. japonica removal had a greater impact on native seaweed recovery than did S. muticum removal in areas of co-existence. iv Removal of Mazzaella japonica also allowed for a significant increase in percent cover of Sargassum muticum at both sites where these two seaweeds co-exist. An increase in percent cover of M. japonica was found at the subtidal site when S. muticum was removed. Though both species increased when reprieved from competition with the other non-indigenous species, removal of M. japonica had a far greater influence on the increase in cover of S. muticum. This suggests that M. japonica is the dominant competitor in the ecosystem outcompeting S. muticum. Field surveys found Mazzaella japonica was the dominant wrack species washing up on beaches in Baynes Sound. Though Sargassum muticum is also a component of the wrack, it has a disproportionately large influence as a spatial subsidy on beach habitats. S. muticum decayed and decomposed at a faster rate than M. japonica and all native seaweeds tested except for Chondracanthus exasperatus. Additionally, S. muticum was colonized by significantly more invertebrates than either M. japonica or Fucus spp. Results from these studies are intended to provide information for resource managers making policy decisions regarding the fate of these two non-indigenous species.
NEW RECORDS AND SPECIES OF MOLLUSCS FROM TERTIARY COLD-SEEP CARBONATES IN WASHINGTON STATE, USA

Abstract Eighteen gastropod and seven bivalve species are reported from Eocene to Oligocene cold-seep carbonates in Washington State, USA. Four species are new (Niso littlei, Turrinosyrinx hickmanae, Xanthodaphne? campbellae, and Lurifax goederti), and 16 are described in open nomenclature. Previously unknown features of protoconch or prodissoconch morphology and/or shell microstructure are provided for Retiskenea statura (Goedert and Benham), Provanna antiqua Squires, Nuculana? aff. N. grasslei Allen, and Bathymodiolus willapaensis (Squires and Goedert). Modiolus (M.) willapaensis is placed within Bathymodiolus based on the elliptical-triangular shape of its juvenile shell, indicating that the divergence between vent/seep and whale/wood-fall inhabiting bathymodiolines took place at least 40 Ma. The first fossil species of the vent/seep genera Pyropelta (Pyropeltidae), Lurifax (family uncertain), and Catillopecten? (Propeamussidae) are reported. Niso (Eulimidae), Xanthodaphne, Turrinosyrinx, Benthomangelia (Turridae), Ledella (Nuculanidae), Tindaria? (Tindariidae), and Delectopecten (Pectinidae) are reported for the first time from fossil cold-seep assemblages. Larval developmental strategies are inferred from protoconch and prodissoconch morphologies in 14 species, which largely reflect the species' phylogenetic groups, as in modern vent and seep molluscs. The data presented here indicate that the radiation of toxoglossate turrids (Gastropoda) into deep water took place already in the Oligocene, and not in the Miocene as previously thought. Healed shell injuries and presumed naticid drill holes represent the oldest known fossil evidence of predation at cold-seeps.