Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Suffix Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory

Recurrent neural networks have become ubiquitous in computing representations of sequential data, especially textual data in natural language processing. In particular, Bidirectional LSTMs are at the heart of several neural models achieving state-of-the-art performance in a wide variety of tasks in NLP. We propose a general and effective improvement to the BiLSTM model which encodes each suffix and prefix of a sequence of tokens in both forward and reverse directions. We call our model Suffix BiLSTM or SuBiLSTM. Using an extensive set of experiments, we demonstrate that using SuBiLSTM instead of a BiLSTM in existing base models leads to improvements in performance in learning general sentence representations, text classification, textual entailment and named entity recognition. We achieve new state-of-the-art results for fine-grained sentiment classification and question classification using SuBiLSTM.
Health Mobile Apps Services: Awareness, Acceptance, and Usage by Medical Librarians

Abstract This article intends to examine the level of awareness and use of mobile phone applications by medical librarians in university libraries and health centers in Iran. A sample of 35 librarians working in the libraries and hospitals of the University of Medical Sciences was selected by census method. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data, and its validity and reliability were measured. The results showed that the level of knowledge and understanding of medical librarians is increasing based on their information or experiences from mobile applications. Therefore, necessary measures should be taken to facilitate access to these applications in medical libraries.
The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Product Loyalty Focuses on the Beverage Firms: An Ordinary Least Square Approach

The influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on consumer behavior makes it a crucial marketing strategy for businesses. The primary intent of this paper was to investigate the impact of corporate social responsibility perceived performance on the product loyalty of customers towards beverage companies. The researchers employed a descriptive-causal design. This study used purposive sampling and selected 500 participants. The researcher-made survey questionnaires were distributed to the participants through an online survey and analyzed through the ordinary least squares regression model. The findings revealed that the CSR initiatives of beverage companies were somehow visible, signifying that beverage enterprises lack communication strategies to inform the public about their CSR efforts. It was also found that the perceived performance of CSR has a significant effect on the product loyalty of customers. Considerably, product loyalty was significantly related to the perceived performance of CSR. Hence, this study confirmed the stakeholder theory with strong statistical significance. The study recommends that beverage companies should effectively communicate their CSR activities to increase customer awareness, eventually enhancing product loyalty among their customers. Keywords: corporate social responsibility, perceived performance, product loyalty, regression analyses, Philippines
Evaluation of the zootechnical performance of broiler chicken at the level of different types of breeding in Algeria

The objective of this work was to study the influence of livestock farming type on the performance of broilers chickens (COBB 500 strains) in the semi-arid region of Sétif in Algeria. It has been determined the zootechnical parameters of chickens (live weight (g), Average daily gain, Consumption Index, Mortality) for control of livestock farming type. Indeed, the growth of broiler chickens was influenced by livestock farming type; the live weight and the average daily gain respectively were linked to livestock farming type (p < 0.05). Whereas the consumption Index was close to the meaning (p=009). Broiler chickens of larges breeders had more growth performance with heavy carcasses (2872, 22±251,39 g), the more the average daily gain (61,94±7,23 g/day), and better consumption index (1,76 ± 0,16) at 47 days of age. The mortality rate, in fact, is high and exceeds 10%. The efforts must be concentrated on equipping buildings, hygiene rules and health programs, strengthening the training of the human factor to obtain the best performance from the broiler chicken: a low mortality rate, better weight growth and an improved consumption index
Model-updating with experimental frequency response function considering general damping

In order to obtain a more accurate finite element model of a constructed structure, a new frequency response function–based model-updating approach is proposed. A general viscous damping model is assumed in this approach for better simulating the actual structure. The approach is formulated as an optimization problem which intends to minimize the difference between analytical and experimental frequency response functions. Neither dynamic expansion nor model reduction is needed when not all degrees of freedom are measured. State-of-the-art optimization algorithms are utilized for solving the non-convex optimization problem. The effectiveness of the presented frequency response function model-updating approach is validated through a laboratory experiment on a four-story shear-frame structure. To obtain the experimental frequency response functions, a shake table test was conducted. The proposed frequency response function model-updating approach is shown to successfully update the stiffness, mass, and damping parameters in matching the analytical frequency response functions with the experimental frequency response functions. In addition, the updating results are also verified by comparing time-domain experimental responses with the simulated responses from the updated model.
Middle Ordovician trilobites from the Castillejo Formation, Eastern Iberian Range (NE Spain): taxonomic reappraisal, biostratigraphy, and correlation

: Middle Ordovician trilobites found in 11 fossil localities from the areas of Alpartir, Aladrén, Luesma and Fombuena (Zaragoza province), and south of Calamocha (Teruel province) are studied. Most records come from the Alpartir Member of the Castillejo Formation, which is dated as Dobrotivian in age (late Darriwilian according to the global scale), with the only exception of two localities that are slightly older, from late Oretanian
The Effect of Financial Literacy, Economic Literacy, and Entrepreneurial Literacy on Entrepreneurial Behavior

This study aimed to determine the effect of economic literacy, financial literacy, and entrepreneurial literacy on entrepreneurial behavior for State High School Students in Surabaya. This study used quantitative research with population of class XI and XII students from several of all public schools in Surabaya. Sampling used purposive samples with 50 respondents. Data collection techniques used questionnaires and tests and used descriptive analysis techniques and multiple linear regression analysis with classical assumption test, namely normality test, multicollinearity test, heteroscedasticity test by using SPSS. The results of this study are (1) economic literacy, financial literacy, and entrepreneurial literacy had a simultaneous effect on entrepreneurial behavior with F-count of 29.925 F-table 2.73 and a significance of 0.000 0.05. (2) Economic literacy partially had a significant effect on the entrepreneurial behavior of public high school students in Surabaya. (3) Financial literacy did not partially affect the entrepreneurial behavior of State Senior High School students in Surabaya. (4) entrepreneurial literacy partially had a significant effect on the entrepreneurial behavior of state high school students in Surabaya. Based on the conclusions above, researchers provide suggestions in the form of support so that in the future students are able to manage finances wisely, students continue to deepen their knowledge of finance, economics and entrepreneurship from various sources so that they can improve entrepreneurial behavior and further researchers are expected to be able to develop similar research by adding other independent variables and adding moderating variables with the hope can provide more accurate results regarding entrepreneurial behavior.
The New Class and Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Wisconsin

ABSTRACT While previous scholarship highlights the importance of cross-class alliances between intellectuals and workers in past social-democratic and labor movements, the growth of right-wing populism may signal the breakdown of this political alignment today. We investigate the extent to which intellectuals and workers remain politically aligned through a case study of political developments in the state of Wisconsin, which pioneered social-democratic reforms in the US in the early twentieth century and then turned toward right-wing populism in the twenty-first century. We draw on Alvin Gouldner and Pierre Bourdieu to theorize intellectual-worker alliances. We then present historical evidence that an intellectual-worker alliance played an important role in the earlier period. Logistic regression analysis with survey data shows continued political antagonism between the state’s wealthiest and most highly educated citizens in the later period, as well as an enduring political alignment of highly educated and working-class Wisconsinites. Our results demonstrate that right-wing populism prevailed in Wisconsin despite an intellectual-worker alliance, not because the alliance broke down. We conclude with a discussion of what these findings imply about contemporary right-wing populism beyond Wisconsin.
THE EFFECT OF WORK ENVIRONMENT, MOTIVATION, AND WORK SATISFACTION ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF ONE OF THE REGIONAL-OWNED COMPANIES IN MEDAN

This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of work environment, motivation and work satisfaction on employee performance at the Head Office of one of the regional-owned company in Medan. 137 people were chosen as the sample using a stratified random sampling technique out of 209 people of the population. This descriptive quantitative study applied Multiple Linear Regression Analysis as the analytical technique with a significance level of 5%. The results of this study has revealed that simultaneously work environment, motivation and work satisfaction have a significant effect on the employee performance of the Head Office of one of the regional-owned company in Medan. The partial test shows that each of the work environment, motivation and work satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on the employee performance of the Head Office of one of the regional-owned company in Medan. Since the score of determinant coefficient (R2) is 51.4%, the employee performance variable can be explained by the work environment, motivation and work satisfaction variables while the remaining 48.6% can be explained by other factors which were not examined in this
Significant Mid‐ and Low‐Latitude Ionospheric Disturbances Characterized by Dynamic EIA, EPBs, and SED Variations During the 13–14 March 2022 Geomagnetic Storm

This work investigates mid‐ and low‐latitude ionospheric disturbances over the American sector during a moderate but geo‐effective geomagnetic storm on 13–14 March 2022 (π‐Day storm), using ground‐based Global Navigation Satellite System total electron content data, ionosonde observations, and space‐borne measurements from the Global‐scale Observations of Limb and Disk (GOLD), Swarm, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), and the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellites. Our results show that this modest but geo‐effective storm created a number of large ionospheric disturbances, especially the dynamic multi‐scale electron density gradient features in the storm main phase as follows: (a) The low‐latitude equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) exhibited a dramatic storm‐time deformation and reformation, where the EIA crests evolved into a bright equatorial band for 1–2 hr and then quickly separated back into the typical double‐crest structure with a broad crest width and deep equatorial trough. (b) Strong equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) occurred with an abnormally high latitude/altitude extension, reaching the geomagnetic latitude of ∼30°, corresponding to an Apex height of 2,600 km above the dip equator. (c) The midlatitude ionosphere experienced a conspicuous storm‐enhanced density (SED) plume structure associated with the subauroral polarization stream (SAPS). This SED/SAPS feature showed an unusual temporal variation that intensified and diminished twice. These distinct mid‐ and low‐latitude ionospheric disturbances could be attributed to the storm‐time electrodynamic effect of electric field perturbation, along with contributions from neutral dynamics and thermospheric composition change.
A dimension and variance reduction Monte-Carlo method for option pricing under jump-diffusion models

ABSTRACT We develop a highly efficient MC method for computing plain vanilla European option prices and hedging parameters under a very general jump-diffusion option pricing model which includes stochastic variance and multi-factor Gaussian interest short rate(s). The focus of our MC approach is variance reduction via dimension reduction. More specifically, the option price is expressed as an expectation of a unique solution to a conditional Partial Integro-Differential Equation (PIDE), which is then solved using a Fourier transform technique. Important features of our approach are (1) the analytical tractability of the conditional PIDE is fully determined by that of the Black–Scholes–Merton model augmented with the same jump component as in our model, and (2) the variances associated with all the interest rate factors are completely removed when evaluating the expectation via iterated conditioning applied to only the Brownian motion associated with the variance factor. For certain cases when numerical methods are either needed or preferred, we propose a discrete fast Fourier transform method to numerically solve the conditional PIDE efficiently. Our method can also effectively compute hedging parameters. Numerical results show that the proposed method is highly efficient.
Theoretical Proposal for a New Model of Cylindrical Biogas Combustion Cook Stove

The cook stove is usually constructed from black-painted sheet metal, to better absorb energy. To enhance thermal performance, a theoretical cylindrical design is proposed in this article. This article aims to study this design and compare its performance with the conical design. Theoretical modeling of the cook stove was carried out considering heat transfer by radiation, convection, and conduction based on a steady-state thermal network, and solved using the Matlab R2021b® platform under license (License No. 595687). The result of the theoretical analysis predicts a theoretical efficiency of 65%, a pot air temperature Tf=220oC and a flame temperature Ta=900oC. Similarly, a validation with Sagouong's model on combustion chamber temperature and Kaushik's model on thermal efficiency. A maximum threshold (RMSE) of 4% is observed between the two studies. The Tc temperature stagnates rapidly within 5 minutes at 600oC and the comparison showed that the firing temperatures of the cylindrical shape are higher than those of the conical-shaped cook stove. Consequently, the performance of the cylindrical-shaped cooking stove can be improved by further experimentation and flue gas analysis.
Analysis of Public Services to Improve Service Excellence in Bugoharjo Village

This research analyzes how public services improve great service in Bugoharjo Village, Pucuk District, Lamongan Regency. This study employs a descriptive research method with a qualitative approach, in which the data and information acquired are described in line with the facts in the field and then given in the form of a narrative sentence before concluding. This study will be conducted at the Bugoharjo Village office in Pucuk District, Lamongan Regency. Observation, interviews, and documentation were utilized to obtain data. Source triangulation is the method employed by researchers. Researchers employ the data analysis steps of reduction, display, and conclusion/verification. This research was conducted using interviews and direct observation, yielding data on five different topics: 1) Tangible aspects (real evidence); 2) Reliability aspect (reliability); 3) Responsiveness aspect (responsiveness); 4) Assurance aspect (guarantee); 5) Empathy aspect (empathy). On the surface, the facilities and infrastructure of the Bugoharjo Village Office are relatively complete, but some aspects, such as the service waiting area, might be improved. In terms of dependability or dependability, Bugoharjo has adequately prioritized the quality of its services. In terms of reactivity, the Bugoharjo village office staff are not sufficiently responsive in providing services. Furthermore, in terms of assurance or assurance, it is okay; it is simply that the level of staff discipline needs to be improved again. In terms of empathy, the Bugoharjo village office personnel have used it effectively in providing services, leaving the community quite satisfied.
Chat agents respond more empathetically by using hearsay experience

As the responses of chat dialogue systems have become more natural, the empathy skill of dialogue systems has become an important new issue. In text-based chat dialogue systems, the definition of empathy is not precise, and how to design the kind of utterance that improves the user’s impression of receiving empathy is not clear since the main method used is to imitate utterances and dialogues that humans consider empathetic. In this study, we focus on the necessity of grasping an agent as an experienceable Other, which is considered the most important factor when empathy is performed by an agent, and propose an utterance design that directly conveys the fact that the agent can experience and feel empathy through text. Our system has an experience database including the system’s pseudo-experience and feelings to show empathetic feelings. Then, the system understands the user’s experiences and empathizes with the user on the basis of the system’s experience database, in line with the dialogue content. As a result of developing and evaluating several systems with different ways of conveying the aforementioned rationale, we found that conveying the rationale as a hearsay experience improved the user’s impression of receiving empathy more than conveying it as the system’s own experience. Moreover, an exhaustive evaluation shows that our empathetic utterance design using hearsay experience is effective to improve the user’s impression about the system’s cognitive empathy.
Salicylic acid-mitigates abiotic stress tolerance via altering defense mechanisms in Brassica napus (L.)

Under the changing climate due to global warming, various abiotic stresses including drought (D) and salinity (S) are expected to further trigger their devastating effects on the already vulnerable crop production systems. This experiment was designed to unravel and quantify the potential role of exogenous application of salicylic acid (SA) in mitigating both D and S stresses and their combination (D+S), with three replications using CRD (Completely Randomized Design). The obtained results of the current study demonstrated significant effects of all three types of stresses (D, S, and D+S) on various parameters in Brassica napus plants. Quantifying these parameters provides a more informative and precise understanding of the findings. Current results revealed that all three stress types (D, S, and D+S) resulted in a reduction in leaf area (13.65 to 21.87%), chlorophyll levels (30 to 50%), gaseous exchange rate (30 to 54%) and the concentration of mineral ions compared to non-stressed plants. However, application of SA helped in mitigating these stresses by ameliorating the negative effects of these stresses. Moreover, Malondialdehyde (MDA) contents, an indicator of lipid per-oxidation and oxidative stress, the levels of antioxidants, proline content, an osmolyte associated with stress tolerance, and sugar content in the leaves were elevated in response to all stress conditions. In addition, the ultra-structures within the leaves were negatively affected by the stresses, while an application of SA considerably minimized the deterioration of these structures thus providing protection to the brassica plants against the stresses. In a nutshell, the findings of this study suggest that SA application in S, D and S+ D stresses provides evasion to the plants by improving different physiological and growth indices. The application of Salicylic Acid (SA) mitigated the negative effects of the stresses on all the above parameters, reducing MDA contents (47%), antioxidants (11 to 20%), proline (28%), sugar contents (20.50%), and minimizing the deterioration of ultra-structures. The findings emphasize the potential mitigatory role of SA in mitigating D and S stresses and highlight the need for further research to understand the underlying mechanisms in detail and explore its practical application in farming practices.
Three‐Dimensional Modeling of Two Interacting Streamers

Interacting streamers are commonly found in natural plasma discharges, such as lightning, jets and sprites, but are poorly understood at present. In this paper, we report a three‐dimensional modeling study of two interacting streamers simultaneously initiated from identical plasma columns in a uniform ambient field. Simulation results show that the streamers no longer propagate in the direction of the ambient field due to strong repulsion between them. The results also show that the peak field in the streamer head determines the direction of streamer propagation, and that the two streamers propagate in separate directions. We further conjecture that they will be unlikely to merge later on. Finally, the interacting streamers still grow exponentially, with a growth rate similar to an isolated streamer under the same condition.
Evaluation and Optimization of Restorative Environmental Perception of Treetop Trails: The Case of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, Xiamen, China

A treetop trail is an elevated linear green open space that plays a key role in forming a scientifically rational urban space and meeting the growing leisure needs of the people. Taking the Mountains-to-Sea Trail in Xiamen, China as a case, and through 426 questionnaires, this study explores the dimensions of the perceived restorative environment components of greenway recreationists and impacts on behavioral intentions. The demographic factors lead us to the following three conclusions. First, from an age perspective, restorative environmental perceptions are strongest among those aged 60 and above and weakest among those aged 18–30. Second, in terms of place of permanent residence, local visitors have stronger restorative environmental perceptions than other city users. Third, in relation to the number of accompanying travelers, individuals who embark on solo journeys experience the most robust perception, while that diminishes as the count reaches three or more companions. A structural equation model (SEM) is used to present the quantitative relationship among avoidance motivation, treetop trail environmental quality, restorative environmental perception, place attachment, and loyalty. The results showed that users’ escape motivation has a direct and indirect positive correlation with restorative environmental perceptions, and environmental perceptions have a significant positive correlation with restorative environmental perceptions. Furthermore, their place attachment to the restorative nature of the treetop trails positively affected their loyalty. This study provides essential factors to consider when constructing treetop trails in high-density cities.