Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of a dietary change on emotional distress.

A single-subject design was used to investigate the impact of a dietary change on the emotional state of four individuals selected by means of the Behavioral Index of Metabolic Imbalance and a subsequent interview. The dietary change for three subjects consisted of a high protein-low carbohydrate diet void of sucrose and caffeine, whereas only caffeine and sucrose were eliminated for the fourth subject. The dependent variable used with the first subject was a self-report of symptoms experienced, whereas the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Profile of Mood State (POMS) were used with the other subjects. Results revealed that subjects reported many symptoms and/or presented a distressed profile during baseline assessment. However, following a 2-week dietary change symptoms declined, and the MMPI or POMS profiles reflected a more stable and less distressed individual. Overall, the results suggest that a dietary change can remediate the emotional distress exhibited by some individuals. During the past decade the public has become increasingly aware that diet can have an impact on behavior. This awareness has arisen primarily through the publication of books (e.g., Feingold, 1972) that have hypothesized an association between behaviors such as hyperactivity and dietary elements such as food colors and preservatives. Although such associations have generally not been substantiated (Conners, 1980), additional evidence, which seems to support a possible diet-behavior relationship, has increasingly appeared in the literature. Kwok (1968) described the adverse behavioral effects, for example, headache and nausea, that can occur from the ingestion of monosodium L-glutamate. Green (1969), Powers (1973), and Von Hilsheimer (1974) reported case studies of children whose behavioral disturbances, irritability, hyperactivity, and short attention span improved following a dietary change consisting of a high-protein/ low-carbohydrate diet and the inclusion of various vitamin supplements. Mikkelsen (1978), Greden (1974), and others have reported that paranoid delusions, headaches, anxiety symptoms, depression, and insomnia have been eliminated or dramatically reduced following the elimination or a reduction in the amount of caffeine consumed.
Factors Influencing Spousal Role Reform and Purchase Decision in Nigeria: A Study of Consumable and Durable Goods

The relationship between spousal role and purchase behavior is drawing more research attention especially with the rapidly changing lifestyles and demographics in cities. This paper investigated inter-spousal role on consumer purchase behavior of consumables and durable goods in Port Harcourt. Cluster sampling was carried out in Port Harcourt city and 95 spouses (medical doctors, nurses, and lecturers) were surveyed through the questionnaire instrument in Port Harcourt. Spearman rank correlation coefficient and multiple regression were adopted for the hypotheses testing. It revealed that socio-cultural characteristics, income, product idea, gender role orientation, level of involvement reforms significantly and positively influenced purchase decision of interspousal role while age had the least influence on the purchase decision. It concluded that a spouse who possesses these factor(s) affects the kind of purchase decision on durable and consumable goods. The study recommended that marketers should proactively identify, segment, position and develop marketing programs that appeal to a spouse who possesses and wades influence during purchase decision so as to secure sustained patronage.
Face recognition for newborns

Mixing, abduction and illegal adoption of newborns is a global problem and the research done to solve this problem is minimal. Traditional methods of biometric and non-biometric techniques have their own limitations and fail to provide enough level of security for newborns. The work on adult face recognition has been an active research area in recent years and automatic face recognition for newborns is least reported in the literature. Therefore it is imperative to initiate research, so that future face recognition algorithms will be able to solve this important problem for identification of newborns. The contributions of this research are (i) proposed method, which mitigates the effect of the covariates of newborn face; (ii) providing an analytical and experimental underpinning effect of different facial expressions exhibited by newborns; (iii) preparing newborn face database of 280 individuals with slight variations in pose, illumination and expression. The accuracy of the proposed matching algorithms on the newborn face database with neutral expression is 87.04% and this negates the notion that all newborns look alike.
The Effect of Environmental Disclosure on Cost of Equity

The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is significant impact of environmental disclosure on cost of equity. The samples of this study are non-financial companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange year 2013-2014. This study find, contrary to our expectation, that there is positive significant impact of environmental disclosure on cost of equity. This study also finds that there is a different impact of different environmental disclosure type and nature on cost of equity. Soft type of environmental disclosure and the nature of positive disclosure have a positive impact on cost of equity. Type of paper: Empirical
Sequencing analysis of a 15·4 kb fragment of yeast chromosome XIV identifies the RPD3, PAS8 and KRE1 loci, and five new open reading frames

The DNA sequence of a 15·4 kb region covering the left arm of chromosome XIV from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was determined. This region contains eight open reading frames (ORFs) which code for proteins of more than 100 amino acids. Three ORFs correspond to the RPD3, PAS8 and KRE1 loci, described previously. Three ORFs show limited homology with known proteins: NO330 with the recessive suppressor of secretory defect SAC1, NO325 with YCR094W identified during chromosome III sequencing; whereas NO315 presents a motif conserved in the dnaJ family. Two ORFs (NO320 and NO325) show no homology to known proteins within the databases screened, but NO320 corresponds to a serine‐threonine‐rich protein. The sequence has been entered in the EMBL data library under Accession Number Z46259.
MOTIVATIONS ANALYSIS IN ECOTOURISM THROUGH AN EMPIRICAL APPLICATION: SEGMENTATION, CHARACTERISTICS AND MOTIVATIONS OF THE CONSUMER

In recent years, there has been a growing interest of tourists in the environment and movements directed towards the enjoyment of the natural environment. This study is designed to analyze the motivations and the demand segmentation in ecotourism taking as reference the functional theory. The empirical analysis was carried out in Santay Island National Recreation and Morro Mangrove Refuge in Ecuador. About the data analysis, a factorial analysis and a k-means non-hierarchical segmentation were performed. The results show that there are several motivational factors in ecotourism: “Self-development”, “Interpersonal relationships”, “Building personal relationships and Ego-defensive function”, “Reward”, “Escape”, “Nature appreciation”. There are three segments of ecotourists: “Multiple motives”, “Nature”, and “Reward and Escape”.
Adaptive feature selection for denial of services (DoS) attack

Adaptive detection is the learning ability to detect any changes in patterns in intrusion detection systems. In this paper, we propose combining two techniques in feature selection algorithm, namely consistency subset evaluation (CSE) and DDoS characteristic features (DCF) to identify and select the most important and relevant features related DDoS attacks. The proposed technique is trained and tested using the NSL-KDD 2009 dataset and compared with the traditional features selection method such as Information Gain, Gain Ratio, Chi-squared and Correlated features selection (CFS). The result shows that the combined CSE with DCF model overcomes the drawback of traditional feature selection technique such as avoid over-fitting, long training time and improved efficiency of detections. The adaptive model based on this technique can reduce computational complexity to analyze the data when attack occurs.
Analyzing Disturbed Di usion on Networks ?

This work provides the rst detailed investigation of the disturbed di usion scheme FOS/C introduced in [17] as a type of di usion distance measure within a graph partitioning framework related to Lloyd's k-means algorithm [14]. After outlining connections to distance measures proposed in machine learning, we show that FOS/C can be related to random walks despite its disturbance. Its convergence properties regarding load distribution and edge ow characterization are examined on two di erent graph classes, namely torus graphs and distancetransitive graphs (including hypercubes), representatives of which are frequently used as interconnection networks.
State Space Modeling and Implementation of a New Transformer Based Multilevel Inverter Topology with Reduced Switch Count

This paper presents a new transformer based multilevel inverter, with a novel pulse width modulation scheme to achieve seven-level inverter output voltage. The proposed inverter switching pattern consists of three fundamental frequency sinusoidal reference signals with an offset value, and one high frequency triangular carrier signal. This switching scheme has been implemented using an 8-bit Xilinx SPARTAN-3E field programmable gate array based controller. In addition, the state space model of the proposed inverter is developed. The significant features of the proposed topology are: reduction of the power switch count and the gate drive power supply unit, the provision of a galvanic isolation between load and sources by a centre tap transformer. An exhaustive comparison has been made of the existing multilevel inverter topologies and the proposed topology. The performances of the proposed topology with resistive, resistive-inductive loads are simulated in a MATLAB environment and validated experimentally on a laboratory prototype.
Developing a Taxonomy for Risks in Product Design and Development

Based on a review of the pertinent literature, we develop a taxonomy to classify risks in product design and product development. The taxonomy is based on a matrix differentiating the impact areas in two dimensions: First, regarding their impact on the utility function (1. risks affecting either stakeholder needs or 2. risks affecting project outcomes), and second, regarding the area of impact (1. Program process execution attributes or 2. Engineering artefact attributes). The chapter concludes with results of an empirical quantification of selected categories of risks within the newly developed framework.
ANALISIS PENGARUH PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH, DANA ALOKASI UMUM, DAN BAGI HASIL PAJAK TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI KABUPATEN/KOTA di PROVINSI JAWA TIMUR

The reform of local financial governance has been initiated by the central government, which is a particularly important step to manage the governance system.The formulation of problem in this research is how big influence of Original Income, General Allocation Fund, and Profit Sharing on Economic Growth of Regency/City in East Java Province year 2011-2015. The analysis tool used is panel data regression analysis, that is by using classical assumption test and hypothesis test.The result of this research analysis is Local Original Revenue have significant negative effect to Economic Growth of Regency/City in East Java Province in 2011-2015, General Allocation Fund positively influence to Economic Growth of Regency/City in East Java Province in 2011-2015 and Profit Sharing Revenue positive to the Economic Growth of Regency/City in East Java Province in 2011-2015. Keyword: : Economic Growth, Local Own Revenue, General Alokai Fund, Tax Sharing
Rapid and delayed death of cultured trabecular meshwork cells after selective laser trabeculoplasty

Selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) is becoming increasingly employed to reduce elevated intraocular pressure in glaucoma patients. SLT is known to target the ocular trabecular meshwork (TM), but the exact response mechanisms to this treatment have not been clearly delineated. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to investigate the modes of death of cultured bovine TM cells subjected to SLT in vitro.
CHAMPS physical activity questionnaire for older adults: outcomes for interventions.

PURPOSE To evaluate effectively interventions to increase physical activity among older persons, reliable and valid measures of physical activity are required that can also detect the expected types of physical activity changes in this population. This paper describes a self-report physical activity questionnaire for older men and women, developed to evaluate the outcomes of the Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors (CHAMPS), an intervention to increase physical activity. METHODS The questionnaire assesses weekly frequency and duration of various physical activities typically undertaken by older adults. We estimated caloric expenditure/wk expended in physical activity and created a summary frequency/wk measure. We calculated measures of each of these for: 1) activities of at least moderate intensity (MET value >/= 3.0); and 2) all specified physical activities, including those of light intensity. Six-month stability was estimated on participants not likely to change (assessment-only control group, physically active cohort). Several tests of construct validity were conducted, and sensitivity to change was analyzed based on response to the CHAMPS intervention. RESULTS The sample (N = 249) comprised underactive persons (N = 173 from the CHAMPS trial) and active persons (N = 76). The sample was aged 65-90 yr (mean = 74, SD = 6); 64% were women, and 9% were minorities. Six-month stability ranged from 0.58 to 0.67, using intraclass correlation coefficients. Nearly all construct validity hypotheses were confirmed, though correlations were modest. All measures were sensitive to change (P < or = 0.01), with small to moderate effect sizes (0.38-0.64). CONCLUSIONS The CHAMPS measure may be useful for evaluating the effectiveness of programs aimed at increasing levels of physical activity in older adults.
A comparison of deep multilayer networks and Markov random field matching models for face recognition in the wild

Robustness to a diverse range of image transformations and distortions has been an everlasting goal of visual pattern recognition. While there have been a huge number of efforts to advance the state-of-the art in this direction over the last decades, two prominent outstanding schemes, among others, are deep multilayer architectures and graphical models, providing some degree of robustness to undesired image perturbations. In this study, the authors aim at shedding some light on the underlying concepts, mechanisms, strengths and potentials of each methodology while discussing their relative merits from a practical point of view. In particular, they discuss the underlying motivations for the construction of deep multilayer architectures and undirected graphical models, also known as Markov random fields. The principles in the construction of each architecture, how invariance properties are achieved in each approach, the efficiency of each approach in terms of computations required during train and test as well as the degree of human labour required in each approach are discussed. Finally, an experimental comparison of the performances of the two frameworks is performed on a challenging problem of face recognition in unconstrained settings in the presence of a wide range of undesirable visual perturbations.
A review of influential factors for Product Service System application [Un bilan des facteurs déterminants de la mise en œuvre de systèmes produits-services]

The trend towards servitization of businesses is growing in importance. But most traditional businesses have difficulties to adopt this new paradigm of the value of services and the importance of a product service offering. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify influential factors of product service system application. The research findings can be a basis for the development of a PSS implementation strategy for companies and for the identification of future research need in this field.
Fiber cavity ring-down for strain sensing using an OTDR

This work presents a fiber CRD configuration for the measurement of strain. An Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer was used to send impulses down into the fiber loop cavity, inside of which a chirped fiber Bragg grating was placed to act as a strain sensing element. This technique could provide strain results with both conventional CRD-based configuration and the OTDR.
Digital image stabilization technique for fixed camera on small size drone

This paper explores a digital image algorithm to stabilize videos recorded from a fixed camera (without stabilized machanical tools) on a small size drone. In particular, this paper focuses on implementation of the Speed-Up Robust Feature (SURF) method. The fundamental concept is to match 2 pictures, one obtained from the current image frame and another from the previous (or reference) frame. The matching process is achieved by locating common keypoints between the current and reference frames and associating them together. Then transformation is then implemented to translate and rotate the current image frame so that keypoints remain in the same position or as close as possible to those of the reference frame. Various video samples are used to validate the SURF method's efficiency. The scenarios include recorded videos under a normal light condition and having partial shadows on the image. The movement due to drone's engine and environmental winds are also under this study. The results indicate that the SURF method can be used to stabilize image frame so that the processed video becomes smoother and more suitable for viewing.
INVESTIGATING WASTEWATER TREATMENT IN MBRS USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

1. Master Student of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran (mitra.bayat@ut.ac.ir) 2. Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran 3. Professor, , Chemical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran (mostoufi@ut.ac.ir) 4. Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran (rajabi@ut.ac.ir)
Revictimization as a moderator of psychosocial risk factors for problem drinking in female sexual assault survivors.

OBJECTIVE Adult sexual assault (ASA) survivors report greater levels of problem drinking than do other women, and research suggests that their coping strategies, reactions from their social networks, and traumatic life events affect their problem drinking. The links between these factors and problem drinking may be moderated by whether survivors are revictimized, yet research has not examined this possibility. Therefore, the current study examined psychosocial factors, problem drinking, and revictimization in women ASA survivors. METHOD Community-dwelling urban women (n = 555) who had experienced an ASA completed a mail survey at Time 1 (T1) and were resurveyed 1 year later to examine how revictimization between survey waves moderated the effects of coping strategies, social reactions to assault disclosures, and traumatic life events on problem drinking at Time 2 (T2). RESULTS The findings showed that recent revictimization that occurred between surveys was related to increased problem drinking at T2, after T1 problem drinking was controlled for. Moderated hierarchical multiple regressions showed that survivors who engaged in drinking to cope with distress, who received negative social reactions in response to recent assault disclosures, or who experienced additional traumatic events had increased T2 problem drinking only if they were revictimized since T1. CONCLUSIONS Psychosocial factors relate to increases in problem drinking for sexually revictimized women but not for nonrevictimized women. Interventions to reduce problem drinking in women ASA survivors should target drinking to cope with assault-related symptomatology, informal social networks to improve their supportiveness, and safety issues through risk-reduction education and self-defense training for women when appropriate.
MATERNOFETAL TRANSFER OF PHENYTOIN, p‐HYDROXY‐PHENYTOIN AND p‐HYDROXY‐PHENYTOIN‐GLUCURONIDE IN THE PERFUSED HUMAN PLACENTA

1. Transplacental transfer of the anti‐epileptic agent phenytoin (PHT), its phase I metabolite, p‐hydroxy‐phenytoin (p‐OH‐PHT), and its phase II conjugate p‐OH‐PHT‐glucuronide, was studied in term placental lobules perfused single pass in both maternal and fetal circuits.
The Impact of Shariah Governance and Corporate Governance on the Risk Management Practices: Evidence from Local and Foreign Islamic Banks in Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of Shariah governance and corporate governance (CG) on the risk management practices (RMPs) of local Islamic banks and foreign Islamic banks operating in Malaysia. The Shariah governance comprises the Shariah review (SR) and Shariah audit (SA) variables. The study also evaluates the level of RMPs, CG, SR, and SA between these two type of banks. With the aid of SPSS version 20, the items for RMPs, CG, SR, and SA were subjected to principal component analysis (PCA). From the PCA, one component or factor was extracted each for the CG, SR, and RMPs while another two factors were extracted for the SA. Primary data was collected using a self-administered survey questionnaire. The questionnaire covers four aspects ; CG, SR, SA, and RMPs. The data received from the 300 usable questionnaires were subjected to correlation and regression analyses as well as an independent t-test. The result of correlation analysis shows that all the four variables have large positive correlations with each other indicating a strong and significant relationship between them. From the regression analysis undertaken, CG, SR, and SA together explained 52.3 percent of the RMPs and CG emerged as the most influential variable that impacts the RMPs. The independent t-test carried out shows that there were significant differences in the CG and SA between the local and foreign Islamic banks. However, there were no significant differences between the two types of the bank in relation to SR and RMPs. The study has contributed to the body of knowledge and is beneficial to academicians, industry players, regulators, and other stakeholders.