Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Strange Floods : The Upper Tail of Flood Peaks in the 1 US 2

24 We examine the upper tail of flood peak distributions through analyses of annual peak 25 observations from more than 8000 USGS stream gaging stations and through hydrom26 eteorological analyses of the storms that produce the most extreme floods. We focus on 27 the distribution of the “upper tail ratio”, which is defined as the peak discharge for the 28 flood of record at a stream gaging station divided by the sample 10-year flood magni29 tude. The 14 June 1903 Heppner storm, which produced an upper tail ratio of 200, was 30 the product of a hailstorm that formed along the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon, a 31 region dominated by snowmelt flooding. A striking contrast between record flood peaks 32 and the larger distribution of annual flood peaks in the US is in the seasonality of flood 33 occurrence, with record floods reflecting a much stronger contribution from warm sea34 son thunderstorm systems. Mountainous terrain and intense convective rainfall are im35 portant elements of the geography and hydrometeorology of extreme upper tail ratio flood 36 peaks. The distribution of upper tail ratio values for USGS stream gaging stations does 37 not depend on basin area, a result which is consistent with scaling results based on ex38 treme value theory. Downscaling simulations with the Weather Research and Forecast39 ing model are used to examine the storm environment of the 1903 Heppner storm, along 40 with two other record flood peaks near the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon from the 41 USGS “miscellaneous” flood record, the July 1956 Meyers Canyon flood and the July 42 1965 Lane Canyon flood. 43
Signal-Averaged versus 12-lead Electrocardiography in Measuring QRS Duration for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: The Role of Ventricular Late Potentials

Background: It is well documented that approximately 30% of target patients do not benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Attempts at imaging contractile dyssynchrony for selection have had modest results at best, and the 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) criterion remains sub-optimal. The high-resolution signal-averaged electrocardiogram (SAECG), with its ability to distinguish late potentials, may provide significant advantages over the 12-lead ECG. Our goal is to compare SAECG and 12-lead ECG with respect to QRS measurement in CRT. Methods: Twenty patients scheduled for CRT were analyzed with two SAECG recordings, one immediately prior to their procedure and one shortly after. QRS durations derived from these recordings were compared to respective surface QRS durations preand post procedure. Ten-minute three-lead orthogonal SAECG recordings were sampled at 1000 Hz and signal-averaged offline using 40–300 Hz bandpass filter. Late potential duration was defined as the duration that the filtered QRS complex remained ,40 mV. Results: Paired data were available in 20 patients, 17 male; mean age 72.50¡9.67 years. The SAECG QRS duration was significantly greater than the 12-lead QRS duration pre-procedure (203.00¡35.77 ms versus 178.25¡37.23 ms, p50.05); however, post-CRT values did not differ (175.50¡23.21 ms versus 175.20¡36.19 ms, p50.932). A significant reduction in QRS duration was only observed in the SAECG, and this was entirely due to reduction in late potential duration (78.85¡29.23 ms to 46.25¡16.01 ms p,0.001). Conclusion: The SAECG is able to better quantify QRS length preCRT and determine changes in QRS duration post CRT by measuring late potential reduction.
The interplay of technological innovation and business model innovation toward company performance

* Selma Smajlović, PhD. , Senior Teaching Assisent, (corresponding author), University of Tuzla, Faculty of Economics, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Univerzitetska 8, BiH 75000 Tuzla, Phone: +387 35 320 820, E-mail: selma.smajlovic@untz.ba ** Bahrija Umihanić, Ph.D., Full Professor, University of Tuzla, Faculty of Economics, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Univerzitetska 8, BiH 75000 Tuzla, Phone: +387 35 320 820, E-mail: bahrija.umihanic@untz.ba *** ̋Lejla Turulja, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Business Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trg oslobodjenja – Alija Izetbegovic 1, Phone: +387 33 275 970; E-mail: lejla.turulja@efsa.unsa. ba Abstract. This study aims to clarify the relation between technological innovation and business model innovation and their shared impact on the business success of medium and large enterprises. Drawing on the ResourceBased View, this paper offers a comprehensive research model that analyses the relationships between technological innovation and business model innovations and their impact on business success. Structural Equation Modelling is utilized for the analysis of a dataset collected in a Southeast European developing country among medium and large enterprises. The results show that technological innovation has a positive influence on business model innovation and that business model innovation positively impacts the success of a business. Finally, the results confirm the mediating role of business model innovation between technological innovation and company business success. This research adds to the existing literature by empirically investigating the relationship between technological innovation, business model innovation, and company success identifying an antecedent role in the relationship between technological innovation and business model innovation.
A questionnaire to assess parental perception of barriers towards active commuting to school (PABACS)_ Reliability and validity

Introduction: Parental barriers are a key factor to determine physical activity behaviors, such as active commuting to school in young people. The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of a questionnaire which addresses parental barriers towards active commuting to school. Methods: This paper describes the development, following the Delphi method, and the validation of a likert-scale questionnaire of 23 items (Parental Perception of Barriers towards Active Commuting to School (PABACS)) designed to determine the main parental barriers. These barriers are categorized into 3 scales (general, walking, and cycling barriers) and the overall questionnaire. A total of 207 parents of children and adolescents in Granada (Spain) in 2016 completed the survey on two occasions. The internal consistency was examined using Cronbach's alpha tests and Intra-Class Correlation (ICC) and Kappa index were used to assess the reliability of the different questions. To examine the predictive validity, spearman's rho tests were conducted. Results: The questionnaire showed a good internal consistency for the overall questionnaire and for the three scales. The Intra-Class Correlation values were moderate. The overall questionnaire and the general and walking barriers scales showed a moderate validity to predict active modes of commuting, as well as the items ‘distance’ and ‘walking convenience’. Conclusions: This study provides a reliable tool to assess parental barriers towards active commuting to school, which will help future studies to identify the most important barriers on which institutions have to focus to increase active commuting to school rates.
Intestinal parasitic infections in three geographical zones of Rivers State, Nigeria

The distribution of intestinal parasitic infections among school-age children was assessed in three geographical zones (rural, semi-urban and urban) in Rivers State, Nigeria. Stool samples were collected following ethical approval and consent from parents and teachers of the pupils and analyzed using both wet saline/iodine and formol-ether concentration methods. A total of 3,828 stool samples were collected from school children in thirty-six primary schools from thirteen Local Government Areas of Rivers State. Of the 3,828 stool samples examined, a total of 1,059 (27.66%) were positive for different intestinal parasites. Of the geographical zones, prevalence of infection was higher in the Rural area (35.32%), followed by the Urban area (34.75%) and semi-urban (29.93%). The differences were not statistically significant ( p >0.05). Sex-related infection shows that infections occurred more among boys (35.57%) in the rural area, followed by urban (34.43%) and semi-urban (30.0%). More females (35.19%) were infected in Urban followed by Rural (34.97%) and semiurban (29.94%). This high prevalence is of public health concern hence control measures and awareness strategy to improve sanitation should be developed. Keywords: intestinal parasitic infections, distributions, geographical zones, Rivers State, Nigeria
Reliable Calibrated Probability Estimation in Classification

Estimating reliable class membership probabilities is of vital importance for many applications in data mining in which classification results are combined with other sources of information to produce decisions. Other sources include domain knowledge, outputs of other classifiers or exampledependent misclassification costs. In this paper we revisit the problem of classification calibration motivated by the issues of the isotonic regression and binning calibration. These methods can behave badly on small or noisy calibration sets, producing inappropriate intervals or boundary generalization. We propose an improvement of the calibration with isotonic regression and binning method by using bootstrapping technique, named bootisotonic regression and boot-binning, respectively. Confidence intervals obtained by repeatedly calibrating the set sampled with replacement from the original training set are used for merging unreliable or too narrow calibration intervals. This method has been experimentally evaluated with respect to two calibration measures, several classification methods and several problem domains. The results show that the new method outperforms the basic isotonic regression and binning methods in most configurations.
Neural network learning of the Russian genitive of negation: optionality and structure sensitivity

A number of recent studies have investigated the ability of language models (specifically, neural network language models without syntactic supervision) to capture syntactic dependencies. In this paper, we contribute to this line of work and investigate the neural network learning of the Russian genitive of negation. The genitive case can optionally mark direct objects of negated verbs, but it is obligatory in the existential copula construction under negation. We find that the recurrent neural network language model we tested can learn this grammaticality pattern, although it is not clear whether it learns the locality constraint on the genitive objects. Our results further provide evidence that RNN models can distinguish between optionality and obligatoriness.
Explicit and Implicit Exhaustivity in Focus

Previous work on exhaustivity has often blurred the notion of exhaustivity with focus in a uniform analysis of the two. In this paper, I will refine the distinction between focus and exhaustivity and draw a further distinction between types of exhaustivity in focus environments. Experimental data from Greek Cypriot adults supporting this proposal will be presented. These data, and other from languages using similar focus strategies, show that exhaustivity effects vary based on different focus environments. Exhaustivity effects appear to be uniformly strong with only, but the effect of exhaustivity is weaker with clefts and bare intonation focus. The paper contributes to the already existed theoretical and experimental literature exploring the nature of exhaustivity, argues against stricter theories positing a uniform treatment of exhaustivity with focus and divides exhaustivity into an implicit and explicit type based on whether exhaustivity is an entailment(only) or implicature (clefts, prosodic focus).
www.econstor.eu Honesty and Relational Contracts

We study the economic consequences of opportunities for dishonesty in an environment where efficiency relevant behaviour is not contractible, but rather incentivized by informal agreements in an ongoing relationship. We document the repeated interaction between a principal and an agent who, within our main treatment, was privately informed about the costs of effort provision being either high or low. At the beginning of the interaction, an agent could either truthfully report the cost type to the principal or choose to lie about it. We find that a substantial fraction of low cost agents decided to signal high costs. Dishonest low cost and honest high cost agents pool on the complete information outcome with high costs, as measured in our control treatment. The outcome of such pooling is less efficient than for honest low cost agents. Moreover, principals who face dishonest agents earn substantially less profits than those facing honest agents. Our evidence therefore suggests that informal agreements in a repeated interaction generate less efficient outcomes if dishonesty is possible but, at the same time, are robust to substantial degrees of deception. We furthermore show that our experimental findings can be organized using the logic of repeated games.
High resolution observations of continuum radiation

The Polar spacecraft has identified near-source regions of continuum emission in the plasmapause and outer plasmasphere. As in the case of kilometric continuum (KC), near-source regions of continuum emission often display a high resolution fine structure of closely spaced bands of emission. The separation of the bands is much less than the local gyrofrequency. This suggests that the source is associated with density structures and perhaps the result of trapped eigenmodes. These results imply further that continuum emission is the low-frequency manifestation of KC emission. r 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PPA_A_220207 2039..2046

Ambulatory Surgery Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, ChengDu, SiChuan 610041, People’s Republic of China Background: An increasing number of surgeries are performed as ambulatory surgeries, and mobile health applications (m-health apps) have therefore been designed to help provide patients with more convenient health-care services and improve the working efficiency of health-care professionals (HCPs). To find an effective approach to design such m-health apps, a study to evaluate ambulatory surgery patients’ preferences is necessary. Methods: A structured questionnaire was distributed to 360 patients undergoing ambulatory surgery to understand their demographic characteristics, preferences regarding the features and functions of m-health apps and willingness to engage with m-health apps. Results: In total, 84.16% of ambulatory surgery patients stated that they would be willing to engage with an m-health app during the perioperative period. In addition, their top 10 necessary features and functions of m-health apps were related mainly to ambulatory surgery and communication with HCPs. Furthermore, younger age (χ=10.42, p<0.01), employment (χ=9.04, p<0.01), higher education (χ=13.67, p<0.01), longer daily use of phones (χ=11.84, p<0.01) and more frequent usage of m-health apps (χ=23.23, p<0.01) were associated with patients’ willingness to engage with m-health apps, but only more frequent usage of m-health apps (OR=2.97, 95% CI=1.54–5.71, p<0.01) was found to be a predictor. Conclusion: This study presents an initial evaluation of ambulatory surgery patients’ preferences regarding m-health apps. Gaining these insights will be useful to help us design an evidence-based, highly functional m-health app that best meets the needs of patients undergoing ambulatory surgery.
Ascorbic acid heterosis in chili peppers (Capisucm L.).

Chili pepper is the most important world wide grown and consumed spice and vegetable crop because of its colour, taste, pungency, flavour and aroma. The nutritive value of chili pepper is largely determined by ascorbic acid content. The fruits at five ripening stages viz. M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5 from 18 parents and 40 F 1 hybrids were analyzed for ascorbic acid content and per cent heterosis over mid and better parents. Among the parents and hybrids CA2 (208.0Â±0.68(M1), 231. 0Â±0.66(M2), 280. 0Â±0.31(M3), 253. 0Â±0.34(M4) and 173. 7Â±0.27(M5)) and H37 (211.0Â±0.45(M1), 248. 6Â±0.32(M2), 298. 0Â±0.35(M3), 272. 3Â±0.70(M4) and 188. 0Â±0.17(M5)) showed higher ascorbic acid content (mg/100g) FW. Hybrid H27 (CA25XCA10) manifested highest per cent heterosis over mid parent (92.34%) and better parent (79.32%) respectively. The results revealed that ascorbic acid content increased from green to red while, decreased in red partially dried and red fully dried fruits. Crosses H37, H27, H25, H26, H36, H35 and H31 were best for ascorbic acid content and per cent heterosis over mid and better parents could be suggested for further evaluation programmes to develop chili pepper varieties with good nutritive values.
OPTH_A_230192 2527..2534

C Lommatzsch 1 K Rothaus JM Koch C Heinz 1,2 S Grisanti 3 1Department of Ophthalmology, St. Franziskus Hospital, Muenster 48145, Germany; 2Department of Ophthalmology, University of Essen, Essen, Germany; 3Department of Ophthalmology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany Purpose: To compare papillary and macular vessel density (VD), as measured by optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), in eyes with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) and exfoliation glaucoma (XFG). Methods: The papillary and macular VD of 40 eyes with POAG, 19 with NTG and 21 with XFG were examined using OCTA (AngioVueTM). The VD was measured at two different layers of segmentation (optic nerve head: radial peripapillary capillary [RPC] and nerve head [NH]; macula: superficial [SL] and deep [DL] retinal vascular plexus) with a 4.5×4.5mm papillary and 6×6-mm macular scan. VD was calculated by an automated density measuring tool in the AngioVueTM software. Results: There were no significant differences in the total value of the papillary, peripapillary and macular VD. A significantly higher VD could be measured for NTG compared to POAG, as well as for XFG in the inferior nasal peripapillary sector at RPC-segmentation and at the NH-level between NDG and XFG. Conclusion: OCTA can detect a difference in VD in the nasal inferior peripapillary sector in NTG compared with POAG and XFG. These findings may help to improve the understanding of further pathophysiological mechanisms.
INFLUENCE OF ELECTRONIC TENDERING PRACTICE ON SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE OF SUGAR PROCESSING FIRMS IN KENYA

Purpose: The study aimed to establish the influence of electronic procurement practices on supply chain performance of sugar processing firms in Kenya. Objective: The study considered one specific objective; to establish the influence of electronic tendering practice on supply chain performance. Materials and methods: The study applied a mixed research design and the target population of 7,584 drawn from the 12 sugar processing firms in Kenya. Stratified random sampling was applied to come up with a sample of 367. Data was gathered by questionnaires and interviews. Pearson’s correlation coefficient determined the relationship between electronic tendering practice and Supply chain performance. Regression analysis was used to test the hypothesis. Results: Results reveal that there is significant relationship between electronic tendering practice and supply chain performance. It is recommended that Sugar firms in Kenya need to unutilized all the electronic tendering modules to enable them improve supply chain performance function.
Bachelor Degree Project

Forestry is a large industry in Sweden and methods have been developed to try to optimize the processes in the business. Yet computer vision has not been used to a large extent despite other industries using computer vision with success. Computer vision is a sub area of machine learning and has become popular thanks to advancements in the field of machine learning. This project plans to investigate how some of the architectures used in computer vision perform when applied in the context of forestry. In this project four architectures were selected that have previously proven to perform well on a general dataset. These four architectures were configured to continue to train on trees and other objects in the forest. The trained architectures were tested by measuring frames per second (FPS) when performing object detection on a video and mean average precision (mAP) which is a measure of how well a trained architecture detects objects. The fastest one was an architecture using a Single Shot Detector together with MobileNet v2 as a base network achieving 29 FPS. The one with the best accuracy was using Faster R-CNN and Inception Resnet as a base network achieving 0.119 mAP on the test set. The overall bad mAP for the trained architectures resulted in that none of the architectures were considered to be useful in a real world scenario as is. Suggestions on how to improve the mAP is focused on improvements on the dataset.
CONFIDENCE IN POLITICAL PARTIES IN AUSTRALIA: EVIDENCE FROM THE AES

This article uses the 2010 Australian Election Study (AES) to explore the level of confidence citizens have in political parties. This article shows that citizens have very little confidence in political parties and sheds light on existing theories of political support by exploring some of the reasons for this. However, this article also shows that many citizens still care which party wins the election, still think parties are essential to the proper functioning of the political system and are broadly satisfied with and supportive of democracy. The evidence suggest that the ‘party is not over’ but the relationship between citizens and parties in Australia is a fractured one.
Realtime Honey Bee Waggle Dance Decoding System

The goal of this thesis is to present the first realtime honey bee waggle dance decoding system, and to establish a benchmark of detection rates and decoding quality. Honey bee research concerns a wide scientific community, but there are no automatic waggle dance detection and decoding systems in use. Hence the goal of this thesis is to create one. This master’s thesis first introduces the honey bee waggle dance communication and motivates the need for an automatic decoding system. Then it examines related work and concludes that no such systems exist. First I define the software requirements, then I present a detailed implementation. Finally, the presented algorithm is applied to video recordings and used in two experiments. Decoding quality is evaluated with precise video material. Detection results of six and four weeks live observations are evaluated. Decoder system’s capability to reconstruct the location of a trained artificial food source is tested. Evaluation results show that the realtime honey bee waggle dance decoding system can achieve 96.4 % precision rate and 89.5 % recall rate with recorded videos. The system shows 78.6 % and 67.4 % precision rates for live observations. On average decoded dance positions show 0 mm error and a low standard deviation error. Waggle run duration decoding averagely exhibits an error of additional 97.79 ms and a standard deviation error of 138.52 ms. On average the decoding of honey bee dance directions shows −1.06◦ error and a standard deviation error of 35.83◦. In the end I discuss different evaluation results and presents further improvements for future works.