Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Hierarchical Structure of Dynamic Capabilities and Evolutionary Fitness of the Firm

This study introduces and validates a model of the hierarchical structure of dynamic capabilities. The hierarchical aspect has mostly seen conceptual theorizing while empirical evidence on the complex relationship between the different levels and firm performance is still scarce. Our findings reveal the complex relationships between dynamic capabilities and the evolutionary fitness of the firm. Our results drawn from data comprising 532 firms show that the higher order, regenerative and renewing, capabilities have an indirect positive influence on firm’s evolutionary fitness. Further, the results show that regenerative capabilities are negatively associated with evolutionary fitness. The incremental capabilities have positive direct effect on the evolutionary fitness of the firm which supports the assumed mediating role of incremental capabilities in the relationship between higher order capabilities and firm’s evolutionary fitness.
Asphalt rubber pavements in Sweden : noise and rolling resistance properties

Asphalt rubber (AR) pavements of the type which is commonly used in Arizona have been adapted for the Swedish climate and conditions. Both a gap-graded and an open-graded version have been constructed at several places and with a few different aggregate sizes. The objective of the work has been to determine the properties of these pavements in com-parison to conventional SMA and porous asphalt pavements. In this case the focus has been on noise and rolling resistance properties and how these properties change with pavement age or traffic exposure.Measurements so far in this study have indicated a couple of dB extra noise reduction due to the use of AR technology. Regarding rolling resistance properties, AR is neutral; i.e. proper-ties are similar to those of SMA and porous asphalt. There are indications that the favourable effects of AR might increase with pavement age, but more time is needed to verify this.
Sectorial growth, Exchange rate and Fiscal policy in Developing Economies: The Interlinkages

The study examined the interdependence of sectorial growth, exchange rate and fiscal policy by simultaneous equation model for 50 developing economies over the time period of 2000 to 2014. Industrial GDP, service sector GDP, exchange rate, tax revenue are endogenous variables, while capital formation, foreign direct investment, trade, inflation, foreign aid, external debt and money supply are instruments. The study has 4 system of equations and estimated by simultaneous equations models (SEMs) through three-stage least squares (3SLS) estimator presented by (Zellner & Theil, 1962), the result of the study indicates that sectorial growth and fiscal policy have positive relation because tax exemption or reduction generate great impact on sectoral growth. Sectorial growth and exchange rate have a positive relation. The study also indicates that the exchange rate and fiscal policy are negatively related. An increase in government expenditure (spending) shows a decrease in the exchange rate. So the government of developing economies should increase revenues from non-tax sources instead of taxes, an increase in taxes decrease the exchange rate and ultimately increased in the sectoral growth.
Designing social interfaces

Knowing how to create a social website to foster user interaction and community building is becoming a core skill for developers and designers today, but grasping the nuances of the social web is much harder than it appears. With more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, this book presents practical design solutions that you can use immediately to create or improve a social website interface. Written by curators of "Yahoo! 's Pattern Library", "Designing Social Interfaces" shares hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. That includes salient advice for many of the common challenges designers and developers face when building managing social websites. This book will help you: learn basic design patterns for adding a social element to an existing site; reign in misbehaving users on an active community site; build a social experience around a product or service, and invite people to join; develop a social utility without having to build an entirely new infrastructure; enable users of your site's content to interact with one another; and, offer your members the opportunity to connect with each other in the real world. The book also exposes antipatterns: emergent bad practices in the social network and social media space.
High School Student and Teacher Perceptions of an Online Learning Experience Integrating STEM and Poultry Science

Recent policy reports have demanded more effective education resources to support workforce needs and address deficiencies in STEM and agricultural literacy among U.S. citizens. This research assessed an educational program for secondary students contextualizing STEM education within poultry science. We designed seven 30-minute online modules to be integrated into existing agriculture and biology courses. Module content included basic hen management and welfare principles presented through text, videos, and interactive games. Participants were 499 students in 23 classrooms who used the modules in the Fall 2018 semester and served as a single treatment group in a mixed-methods study assessing program effectiveness. After the program, students completed an online questionnaire assessing motivation during the program. In addition, students completed ten 1-point content questions before and after the first six modules. Following the program, teachers responded to open-ended prompts. After excluding incomplete entries, data were analyzed from 169 student responses matched from pre- to post-questionnaire (34.1%) and 9 teacher respondents (56.2%). For each of the six content quizzes, significant increases in students’ knowledge were observed after completing the modules. Students reported low to moderate interest and enjoyment in the modules and moderate perceived autonomy. Qualitative responses from both students and teachers indicated that the program’s contextualization of STEM and interactive features enhanced student learning and interest.
Evaluation of island and nearshore confined disposal facility alternatives, Pascagoula River Harbor Dredged Material Management Plan

Abstract : The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) performed a number of engineering studies in support of U.S. Army Engineer District, Mobile (SAM) efforts to develop a Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP) for the Federal navigation project at Pascagoula, MS. The studies focused on evaluating an option under consideration for the placement of dredged material in an island confined disposal facility (CDF). Numerical modeling of circulation, water quality, and wave climatology were performed to examine the potential impacts of an island CDF, and for engineering design considerations. Field measurements of currents and waves in the Mississippi Sound were made. A number of studies were performed to examine the sediment consolidation process in the CDF with the primary objective of assessing its dredged material volume capacity. Quantitative and qualitative studies results were produced for three alternative locations. The three locations are an island CDF just northeast of Round Island and southeast of the Singing River, between Round Island and the main navigation channel leading to Horn Island Pass and the Gulf of Mexico, and north of the point where the main navigation channel biflircates to service the Pascagoula River and Bayou Casotte Harbors.
Tongue-Jaw Synergy in Vowel Height Production: Evidence from American English

Vowels are traditionally described according to three articulatory dimensions: height, frontness and rounding. Despite the linguistic importance of vowel height in many languages, there is still disagreement about its physiological implementation and its acoustic consequences. One area of controversy is whether the jaw or the tongue dorsum is the main contributor to this linguistic distinction. In American English, height is highly contrastive, distinguishing five front and five back vowels in most dialects. The present paper investigates jaw/tongue synergy in distinguishing /i/ from // as a function of vowel and speaker using two methods of articulatory data collection: x-ray Microbeam (XRMB) and digital ultrasound imaging (HOCUS). For most subjects, both tongue and jaw do contribute to the linguistic distinction between /i/ and //. However, the tongue’s contribution is greater than previously assumed.
Impact of pandemic COVID-19 on dermatology and venereology outpatient clinic in a tertiary referral hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

COVID-19 has spread throughout the world rapidly, including in Indonesia. During this pandemic, there are differences in the number and types of patient cases who attend the dermatology and venereology outpatient clinic. This study aimed to investigate the differences in the number of cases, disease profiles, diagnostic procedures, and therapy procedures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the dermatology and venereology outpatient clinic in Dr. Sardjito General Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a 61.2% decrease in patients visiting outpatient clinic compared to the same period in previous year. There was also a decrease in the number of diagnostic procedures and therapeutic procedures performed in the outpatient clinic. For the disease profile of the total number of patients who visited the outpatient clinic, there was a slight difference. In 2019, the number of cases of acne vulgaris became the second largest, but in 2020, the number of cases of acne vulgaris decreased to the fifth largest. These results support the finding that COVID-19, although not a skin disease, has an impact on dermatology and venereology outpatient clinic.
FLIGHT SIMULATOR EVALUATION OF THE FLYABILITY OF CURVED MLS APPROACHES WITH WIDE-BODY AIRCRAFT.

The flight simulator study described In this report concerns an evaluation of flight director flown curved MLS approach paths with a simulated wide-body transport aircraft. Four curved approach paths, consisting of two straight segments and one 90 degrees circular segment with different straight final segment lengths, have been investigated. Moreover an MLS equivalent of the 13R Canarsie visual approach at Kennedy Int'l, New York has been considered. Test objectives were: - to demonstrate the flyability of curved approaches for wide-body type of aircraft - to collect scientific data on pilot performance and operational acceptance for manually flown (flight director aided) curved approaches - to determine the operationally acceptable minimum straight final segment length. Test conditions Included various wind and visual conditions. Winds yielding limiting conditions for Cat. II operations and winds providing airframe limiting conditions, as far as magnitude of cross/tallwlnd cooiponents are concerned, were Included. Visibility and cloud base conditions ranged from Cat. II to better than Cat. I conditions. Test dat have been obtained as subjective and objective results. Subjective results concern pilot questionnaire responses and pilot comments, while the objective results concern among other things path tracking accuracy, including isoprobability contour plots and touchdown performance.
INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF NP FERTILIZERS CAN BOOST THE GROWTH AND YIELD PERFORMANCE OF SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUS L.)

Nitrogen and phosphorus (NP) are two most important essential nutrients promoting plant growth and yield traits of all crops. NP fertilizers are easy to use and quick in releasing nutrients. A field experiment was conducted at Oilseed section, Agriculture Research Institute, Tandojam to determine the effects of different doses of NP fertilizers on the time of maturity, vegetative growth and yield and yield related traits of sunflower variety HO-1. The six NP fertilizer levels viz. T1 = 0-0 (control), T2 = 80-40, T3 = 100-50, T4 = 150-50, T5 = 120-50 and T6 = 120-75 NP kg ha-1 were set in a randomized complete block design (RCBD). The results revealed that all the parameters of sunflower were significantly affected (P < 0.05) by different NP fertilizer doses. It was observed that maximum 184.25 (cm) plant height, 6.66 (cm) stem girth, 28.19 (cm) head diameter, 1161.92 seeds head-1, 90.33 (g) seed index and 2172.00 (kg ha-1) seed yield was achieved by applying 150-50 NP fertilizer kg ha-1. It was also noted that 150-50 NP kg ha-1 promoted the sunflower crop to mature early by enhancing vegetate growth. The poor performance for all growth, yield and maturity parameters were observed in the treatment where no NP fertilizer was applied (control). It was concluded that growth and seed yield was increased by increasing the application of NP fertilizers up to 150-50 NP kg ha-1 and thus recommended to get better growth and yield performance of sunflower crop in locality
Aerodynamic analysis of drag reduction devices on the underbody for SAAB 9-3 by using CFD

Environmental issues and increased fuel prices are driving forces for the automotive manufactures to develop more fuel efficient vehicles with lower emissions. Large investments are aimed at minimizing power needed for propulsion i.e. new downsized engines with new aerodynamic devices for drag reduction. For passenger cars the aerodynamic drag force is the dominating resistance force at higher velocity. The car body is often optimized for reducing the drag resistance but one region where the aerodynamic development has not reached its full potential is the design of the underbody. To explain the aerodynamic force in a simplified manner the resisting drag originates from the pressure difference between the stagnation pressure in the front and the base pressure at the rear. By reducing the difference in pressure the drag force will be reduced hence the fuel consumption will be reduced. A device to improve the aerodynamics that is used on sports- and racing-cars is a diffuser, with lower ground clearance the diffuser generates downforce and aid the braking, cornering and acceleration. Using a diffuser on a passenger car, with higher ground clearance, will improve the pressure recovery on the underbody and the base pressure will be increased. To get an effective diffuser a flat underbody is preferred which also contributes to reducing the resisting drag force. In this study the drag reduction effect of a diffuser with panels on the underbody have been studied on the SAAB 9-3 Sport sedan and the SAAB 9-3 Sports wagon. To measure the effect of altering the underbody Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations has been performed for the analysis, i.e. no wind tunnel tests have been performed. The simulations showed that a great improvement of the aerodynamic drag force can be achieved with a flat underbody and a diffuser. It was also found that the rear-end of the vehicles has an effect of the diffusers effect, a steeper diffuser is to prefer on a rear-end with steep rear-windscreen e.g. the sedan. Different additional aerodynamic devices and diffuser designs was simulated to find the most effective drag reduction setup, it was found that the most effective configuration consisted of a diffuser with covered rear rims. A reason for the drag reduction was found that the turbulent crossflow through the rims was prevented which was advantageous for the pressure recovery and overall streamlining of the pressure wake behind the vehicle. This study has shown that there are still possibilities to improve the aerodynamics of vehicles, especially at the underbody. By implementing panels at the underbody and a diffuser the drag resistance can significantly be reduced and hence a lower fuel consumption.
Analysis of Clock trees for optimization through Multi point Clock Tree Synthesis

With rapid development of deep submicron (DSM) VLSI circuits design, building clock tree with minimal insertion delays and minimal skews has turned out to be challenging. In this Paper for a given specified block with a latency of 530 ns it is aimed to achieve a latency of 400ns and achieve optimal power. Here a Clock Tree Synthesis method is used to reduce the latency and obtain the timing closure for the given block. The analysis is made and compared in terms of clock skew and insertion delay by varying the tap points. In this process of achieving the timing closure it is observed power has optimized by selecting the appropriate tap points.
Crossover from Kondo to Fermi-liquid behavior induced by high magnetic field in 
1T−VTe2
 single crystals

The magnetic and magnetotransport properties of metallic 1$T$-VTe$_{2}$ single crystals were investigated at temperatures from 1.3 to 300 K and in magnetic fields up to 35 T. Upon applying a high magnetic field, it is found that the electrical resistivity displays a crossover from the logarithmic divergence of the single-impurity Kondo effect to the Fermi liquid behavior at low temperatures. The Brillouin scale of the negative magnetoresistivity above the Kondo temperature $T_{\rm{K}}$ = 12 K indicates that the Kondo features originate from intercalated V ions, with $S$ = 1/2. Both magnetic susceptibility and Hall effect show an anomaly around $T_{\rm{K}}$. By using the modified Hamann expression we successfully describe the temperature-dependent resistivity under various magnetic fields, which shows the characteristic peak below $T_{\rm{K}}$ due to the splitting of the Kondo resonance.
Effect of E-Service Quality on Repurchase Intention: Testing the Role of E-Satisfaction as Mediator Variable

Recent developments in information and communication technology have contributed to tremendous economic efficiency. Companies that can take advantage of the sophistication of information and communication technology can operate more efficiently. Firm efficiency will tend to lower product prices and faster delivery time. It is expected to increase consumer satisfaction and repurchase intention. This study investigates the influence of e-service quality on repurchase intention with satisfaction as mediating variable. E-service quality was measured by five variables, namely ease of use, website design, security, personalization, and responsiveness. Good service quality tends to satisfy consumers and leads to repurchase intentions. To collect data, this study used survey design with purposive sampling method. The sample in this study are respondents who have experience in purchasing airline etickets for domestic flights within last year. To collect data, we distributed structured questionnaires to 263 respondents. To verify hypothesis, this study used descriptive statistics and hierarchical regression analysis. The results showed that esatisfaction partially mediate the influence of ease of use, website design, responsiveness, and personalization on repurchase intentions. While e-satisfaction proved fully mediates the influence of security guarantees on repurchase intention
Laser vibrometry system for rotating bladed disks

The application of laser vibrometry to high speed rotating structures has been hampered by technical limitations of the tracking systems employed. Whereas full field three-dimensional velocity measurements can be made on stationary structures, the capability of on rotating structures is limited to low speeds, one-dimensional, steady state operation. This paper introduces a self-tracking laser vibrometry system which overcomes many of the limitations of current techniques for vibration measurement on rotating structures.
Teori pengajaran dan pembelajaran: Bahasa Arab di Sekolah Menengah Agama di Malaysia

Buku ini mengupas teori-teori asas berkaitan dengan pengajaran dan pembelajaran bahasa Arab di Sekolah Menengah Agama di Malaysia. Buku ini menjadi rujukan pelajar-pelajar Program Sarjana Muda Sains serta Pendidikan (Pengajian Islam) di Universiti Teknologi Malaysia bagi Subjek Kaedah Mengajar Bahasa Arab di bawah kod (SLI 2292), subjek Qiraah Wa´al Maqal di bawah kod (SLI 3322) juga bagi subjek Qawaid Lughah Arabiah IV di bawah kod (SLI 2042). Buku ini juga amat sesuai bagi rujukan pelajar-pelajar IPTA dan Maktab Perguruan Islam serta masyarakat yang berminat dalam bidang pengajaran dan pembelajaran Bahasa Arab.
The effects of traffic calming measures on vehicle and traffic noise

The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) Driver Information and Traffic Management Division (DITM) has commissioned with the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) a number of studies in which the impact of noise has been examined. This paper discusses the results from surveys carried out before and after the installation of a range of traffic calming measures on residential roads and rural trunk roads, and from trial conducted on the TRL Tests Track.
ON SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS MADE OF STEEL FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE

Research on shear in reinforced concrete has been carried out for about a century, so there are many published papers in existence related to this subject. With the arrival on the market of new materials, such as Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC), studies began to focus on the shear behavior of elements made of this material. The present thesis tries to shed some new light on the shear behavior of FRC elements by means of a thorough analysis of the most important studies in order to detect any deficiencies or issues that have not yet been examined. Many researchers have presented new formulas for evaluating shear resistance and have compared them with others already in existence. This thesis does not propose a new formula to add to the already long list, but the objective is to verify the reliability of the current codes by means of comparing experimental tests. One of the issues dealt with was to verify the influence of flange size on shear and whether to include the flange factor in the design formulas (it appears in one shear formulation for FRC elements, but not in those for non-fiber elements). Tests were also performed on beams made of concrete of different compressive strengths and fiber reinforcements (quantity and quality) to study their influence on shear, including the size effect. Finally, FRC hollow core slabs were produced to achieve the benefits of fibers under shear forces, due to the impossibility of including transverse reinforcement in this type of slab.
Theoretical study on the effects of polarons on the transport properties of anatase TiO2

We present a theoretical study on the effects of electron-phonon interactions on the transport properties of anatase TiO2. Temperature-dependent resistivity measurement on anatase TiO2 thin film has shown that carrier concentrations and temperatures affect the resistivity of this material. At low carrier concentrations, a metal to insulator transition could be observed, while at high carrier concentrations this material only shows metal-like resistivity. In this study we aim to investigate the behaviour of temperature-dependent resistivity at various carrier concentrations as revealed in the experimental study. We hypothesize that electron-phonon interactions with intermediate coupling constant govern the transport properties of this material. We construct Holstein model Hamiltonian incorporating both conduction and valence bands of anatase TiO2 within parabolic dispersion approximation. We solve the model within the Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT). We calculate the density of states of the system and the corresponding inverse of the square of the density of states at the chemical potential, which is approximately proportional to the resistivity, as a function of temperature. Using carrier concentration values taken as in the experimental data, the calculations show that only insulating phase is found in the low carrier concentrations regime. Meanwhile, at high carrier concentrations, the results show metal-like properties, in agreement with the experimental data.