Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Solar Energy Industry as a Part of the Romanian Renewable Energy Industry: A Multi-level Territorial Approach

Abstract The green economy emerges differently depending on each region particular features, as well as local economic strengths and weaknesses; solar energy however, represents the way regional and local natural potentials are valorized. The current paper brings to our attention aspects related to the economic and legislative factors influencing the use and territorial distribution of solar energy, as a component of the Romanian renewable energy industry at all territorial levels: the national characteristics of the use of renewable energy resources are highlighted through the analysis of dynamics of official statistical variables (National Institute of Statistics); at regional and county levels, the analysis highlights the territorial differences in the use of solar energy; analysis at local level reveals the environmental and socio-economic effects of the of solar energy use (i.e. photovoltaic parks), as indicated by the information provided by a questionnaire survey carry out in Giurgiu County (case study).
Detection of Geologic Anomalies with Monte Carlo Clustering Assemblies

Abstract Authors present new clustering-based algorithms for detection of geologic anomalies and results of their testing on the data containing anomalies of two types: (a) high permeability anomaly with regular records containing smaller permeability values, and (b) gas-filled sand anomaly with regular records containing data from brine-filled sands. Results of algorithms testing, presented in the paper, demonstrate high stability of anomaly detection with false discovery rate below 20% and with the true discovery rate exceeding 73%.
Linking CRM capabilities to business performance: a comparison within markets and between products

Abstract Business performance is the primary goal of any type of firm, being a top priority for managers. Customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities is known in the literature as an important driver of business performance. However, there are significant differences across firms due to market settings they are acting on, or to the nature of products they are selling. Yet, little is known about how the impact of CRM capabilities on business performance vary across Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer markets, or across firms that are selling goods or services. In this study, we use data from a sample of 102 firms to investigate how customer relationship orientation influence the dimensions of CRM capabilities and how these capabilities determine customer satisfaction and market effectiveness, two business performance outcomes. Structural equation modelling is used in order to test the hypothesized relationships. The total sample is spilt into subsamples taking into consideration market settings and product type criteria, and the hypothesis are tested within them. Our results reveal that in case of each subsample, customer satisfaction and market effectiveness are driven by different dimensions of CRM capabilities. Critically, we find that in cases of firms that are acting mainly on Business-to-Business markets, customer relationship orientation doesn’t influence customer relationship upgrading capability, a dimension of CRM capabilities. Finally, the implications of these results for practitioners and managers are presented.
Integrated Supervision for Supporting Control and Proactive Maintenance of Material Handling System

Abstract Material handling systems, as an important part of different type of manufacturing processes, face the same challenges as manufacturing industries pushed nowadays forward by innovative ideas and technologies to the next level loudly announced as industry 4.0. Development of the next generation of automated manufacturing systems involves advanced approaches to material handling systems design and their close integration with the higher levels of manufacturing and production control and management, e.g. manufacturing execution systems (MES), enterprise resource planning (ERP). In the presence of increasing demands for manufacturing process optimization, the role of supervisory level of material handling systems is much more advanced today, ensuring not only data acquisition, visualization, monitoring, supervisory control, as well as synchronization with the higher control levels (FEM, ERP), but also providing functionality for supporting maintenance and decision-making processes to reduce downtimes, operations and maintenance costs. The article deals with the integration of control and maintenance functions in the hierarchical control system of a crane. The supervisory system for supporting control and proactive maintenance is prototyped at the laboratory overhead travelling crane. The article presents the control-measurement equipment and intelligent software tools implemented in the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system to aid decision-making process in proactive maintenance. The overview of the main components of the supervisory control and proactive maintenance subsystems is provided, and their respective role in control, supervision, and proactive maintenance is explained. The crane’s supervisory control includes the stereovision-based subsystem applied to identify the crane’s transportation workspace, determine the safety and time-optimal point-to-point trajectory of a payload. The proactive maintenance module consists of the human machine interface (HMI) supporting decision-making process, intelligent tools for upcoming downtime/failure prediction, and the crane's girder inspection using the metal magnetic memory technique.
Intergenerational Ambivalence Among Iranian Refugee Families in Finland

Abstract This article focuses on the process through which intergenerational ambivalence is experienced by a group of adult children and their parents with an Iranian refugee background living in Finland. This ethnographic study provides an insight into how the families’ struggles to mobilize capital in different forms can contribute to their experience of intergenerational ambivalence. The study indicates that when the parents’ social, economic and cultural capitals accumulated prior to migration are not accessible or valuable in Finland, they become dependent on their children’s conduct. This produces a contradictory demand on the participants’ roles as parents and children, where they face difficulties in navigating their role expectations. The families in this study expressed a significant ambivalence in their intergenerational relationships associated with these stressful conditions.
The role of media within young people’s socialization: A theoretical approach

Abstract Researching the role of media within young people’s socialization requires an integrative approach that understands socialization as a contextual, interlinked process in which children construct their approach to life against the background of ‘developmental tasks’ and of the relevant social contexts. This article presents a praxeological approach that combines subjective and structural components of practice and that has been put into practice by means of a qualitative longitudinal-panel study on children’s socialization. The approach is based on three analytical concepts, options for action, outlines for action, and competences for action, and advances an interlinkage of subjective perception, action-driving orientations, and everyday-life practices against the backdrop of (changing) socio-structural conditions.
Vertisols properties and classification in relation to parent material differentiation near Strzelin (SW Poland)

Abstract Vertisols are characterized by high content of clay fraction that affects their specific morphological and physical features. The shrink-swell phenomena of clayey materials under specific moisture regime cause formation of cracks, wedge-shaped structural aggregates and slickensides on aggregate surfaces. It was formerly believed that these soils can be found only in tropical/subtropical zones, thus Vertisols have not been expected to form under temperate climate of Central Europe. As a result, Vertisols are insufficiently recognized and documented on soil maps in Poland, including the Lower Silesia region. The aim of this study was to examine soils developed on clayey parent materials near Strzelin, focusing on their morphology, properties and classification issues. There was confirmed that soils developed from Neogene clays have vertic and mollic horizon, accompanied by stagnic or gleyic properties. However, not all soils fulfil the criteria for Vertisols due to the presence of surface or subsurface coarser-textured (sandyor silty-textured) layers. Native differentiation of parent material and geomorphological processes were found the main factors, which control the spatial mosaic of Vertisols and black earths (Chernozems or Phaeozems).
An Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Human Resources and other Factors on Firm Creation

Abstract Intangible assets and knowledge are key drivers of today’s economy, called knowledge economy, as a consequence of globalisation process and information and communication technology development. Knowledge and intellectual capital became leading factors that provide basis for gaining superior performance and sustainable competitive advantage of firms in dynamic and uncertain business environments. Invisible goods based on knowledge are becoming more important in generating and successful managing businesses. The purpose of this research is to test the impact of human resources on creation of the firm or, in other words, to examine individual’s inclination toward becoming an entrepreneur in transition economy such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. While investigating the relationship between human resources and firm creation, additional social, economic and emotional factors are included in analysis. Proposed theoretical model is tested using logistic regression model to analyse a sample of 2.015 individuals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a participant in GEM project in 2014. Obtained results show that the amount of individual’s knowledge, skills and expertise and its capability to seek and recognize new entrepreneurial opportunities, considered as human resources owned by individual, increase probability to generate a firm in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beside human resources, certain economic and social factors, such as work status and social perception of entrepreneurship as an attractive profession, are important for firm creation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Altered levels of the 20S proteasome maturation factor Ump1 affect the response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to the volatile anesthetic isoflurane

Abstract. Volatile anesthetics have been used in modern medicine for over 160 years, but their sites and mechanisms of action remain unclear. While many effects of these agents are characterized, how these effects relate to the physiological state of anesthesia has not been elucidated. Volatile anesthetics affect all cells and tissues tested, including mammalian, plant, bacterial, and yeast cells. In yeast, these drugs arrest cell division in a manner that parallels their actions in mammals. To gain further insight into the cellular activities of these compounds, genes were isolated that, when overexpressed or deleted from the genome, alter the response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast) to the volatile anesthetic isoflurane. One of the genes we identified is UMP1, which encodes a chaperone required for maturation of the 20S proteasome complex in yeast. Overexpression of UMP1 renders yeast cells more resistant to the growth inhibitory effects of isoflurane, while deletion of the gene renders cells more sensitive than wild type cells. This suggests an important role for the proteasome in responding to volatile anesthetics in yeast, and may provide clues as to how these drugs exert their effects in more complex eukaryotes, including mammals.
The Assessment of a Building’s insurable Value using Multivariate Statistics: The Case of the Czech Republic

Abstract When concluding a property insurance agreement, adjustment of the insured amount poses a certain risk. From the policyholder’s point of view, the risk measure translates into the chosen target amount, which should correspond to the insurable value. The aim of the research is to determine a statistical model for prediction of the insurable value with using current models in the Czech Republic. The model for insurable value prediction proposed in this paper accepts the risk of decision making under uncertainty suitably. The model’s foundation is a synthesis of four core models discussing the addressed issue. The methodology is based on a classification tree created by the CART method, and multivariate linear regression. After the classification tree is created, the input variables which contributed to the classification are used in the regression model. The database consists of 125 family houses which went through a detailed examination (they were documented, measured, and their technical state and legal status were determined), and described in experts’ reports. The obtained results showed a high degree of statistical association of selected predictors with the estimated insurable value of property, as well as with the acceptable risk, and subsequently, a relatively low percentage of misclassified objects. The proposed multiple regression model proved to be statistically significant and can be used for objective estimations of insurable values free of insurance companies’ strategy. The designed methodology may be applied in other areas as well, for example, in decision-making processes at the population level in crisis situations.
The experiences of women with traumatic brain injury about the barriers and facilitators experienced after vocational rehabilitation in the Western Cape Metropole, South Africa.

BACKGROUND Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a serious global public health problem. Globally and annually, at least 10 million individuals live with TBI that is serious enough to result in death or hospitalisationOBJECTIVE:This study aimed to explore and describe the experiences of women with traumatic brain injury, in their work environments utilising the Model of Occupational Self-efficacy as a vocational rehabilitation approachMETHOD:Ten females with mild to moderate traumatic brain injury participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and data were analysed utilising a qualitative approach to elucidate themes. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with two occupational therapists who served as key informants. RESULTS Two themes emerged depicting the participants' experiences and perceptions of barriers and facilitators which influenced their return to work: (1) Barriers to work participation for women with TBI, 2) Re-establishing a worker identity by means of vocational rehabilitation. CONCLUSION Both personal and environmental factors emerged as hindrances to returning to work for women with traumatic brain injury. Vocational rehabilitation proved successful in establishing a worker identity amongst participants; however, particular focus should be placed on the function-dysfunction continuum of the process of work place integration to further develop and enhance sustainable return to work programmes for women with traumatic brain injury.
Thyrotropin-releasing-hormone-synthesizing neurons of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus are inhibited by glycinergic inputs.

BACKGROUND Glycine is a classical neurotransmitter that has role in both inhibitory and excitatory synapses. To understand whether glycinergic inputs are involved in the regulation of the hypophysiotropic thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) neurons, the central controllers of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis, the glycinergic innervation of the TRH neurons was studied in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). METHODS Double-labeling immunocytochemistry and patch clamp electrophysiology was used to determine the role of the glycinergic neurons in the regulation of TRH neurons in the PVN. Anterograde- and retrograde tracing methods were used to determine the sources of the glycinergic input of TRH neurons. RESULTS Glycine transporter 2 (GLYT2), a marker of glycinergic neurons, containing axons was found to establish symmetric type of synapses on TRH neurons in the PVN. Furthermore, glycine receptor-immunoreactivity was observed in these TRH neurons. The raphe magnus (RMg) and the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (VLPAG) were found to be the exclusive sources of the glycinergic innervation of the TRH neurons within the PVN. Patch-clamp electrophysiology using sections of TRH-IRES-tdTomato mice showed that glycine hyperpolarized the TRH neurons and completely blocked the firing of these neurons. Glycine also markedly hyperpolarized the TRH neurons in the presence of tetrodotoxin demonstrating the direct effect of glycine. In more than 60% of the TRH neurons, spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents (sIPSC) were observed, even after the pharmacological inhibition of glutamatergic and GABAergic neuronal transmission. The glycine antagonist, strychnine, almost completely abolished these sIPSCs, demonstrating the inhibitory nature of the glycinergic input of TRH neurons. CONCLUSIONS These data demonstrate that TRH neurons in the PVN receive glycinergic inputs from the RMg and the VLPAG. The symmetric type of synaptic connection and the results of the electrophysiological experiments demonstrate the inhibitory nature of these inputs.
An investigation of the factors that dictate the preferred orientation of lexitropsins in the minor groove of DNA.

Lexitropsins are small molecules that bind to the minor groove of DNA as antiparallel dimers in a specific orientation. These molecules have shown therapeutic potential in the treatment of several diseases; however, the development of these molecules to target particular genes requires revealing the factors that dictate their preferred orientation in the minor grooves, which to date have not been investigated. In this study, a distinct structure (thzC) was carefully designed as an analog of a well-characterized lexitropsin (thzA) to reveal the factors that dictate the preferred binding orientation. Comparative evaluations of the biophysical and molecular modeling results of both compounds showed that the position of the dimethylaminopropyl group and the orientation of the amide links of the ligand with respects to the 5'-3'-ends; dictate the preferred orientation of lexitropsins in the minor grooves. These findings could be useful in the design of novel lexitropsins to selectively target specific genes.
Two-dimensional Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Ferroelectric Semiconductor with the Fluorinated Aromatic Spacers.

Two-dimensional (2D) organic-inorganic perovskites (OIPs), with improved material stability over the 3D counterparts, are highly desirable for device applications. It is their considerable structural diversity that offers an unprecedented opportunity to engineer materials with fine-tuning functionalities. The isosteric substitution of hydrogen by an electronegative fluorine atom has been proposed as a useful route to improve the photovoltaic performance of 2D OIPs, whereas its valuable role in developing ferroelectricity is still waiting for further exploration. Herein, for the first time we applied the fluorinated aromatic cations in extending the family of 2D OIP ferroelectrics, and successfully obtained [2-fluorobenzylammonium]2PbCl4 as a high-performance ferroelectric semiconductor. The failures in the non-ferroelectric [4-fluorobenzylammonium]2PbCl4 and [3-fluorobenzylammonium]2PbCl4 demonstrate that the selective introduction of fluorine in correct structural positions is particularly essential. This work represents an unprecedented proof-of-concept in the using of fluorinated aromatic cations for the targeted design of excellent 2D OIP ferroelectrics, and is believed to inspire the future development of low-cost, high-efficiency, and stable device applications.
Image Transmission with COFDM Using Trigonometric Transform

In this paper a new scheme is proposed for progressive image transmission over coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system with Low Density Parity Check Coding (LDPC). Trigonometric transforms are used in this scheme for improving the performance of the OFDM systems and reducing the PeakToAverage Power Ratio (PAPR) of OFDM signal. It improves the error resilience ability and transmission efficiency for progressive image transmission over Additive White Gaussian Noise (A WGN) channel. The Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) algorithm is used for source coding of the images to be transmitted. In the proposed scheme the transmit data sequence of the OFDM signal after Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (lFFT) is grouped into in-phase and in-quadrature components, then each component is transformed using either the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) or the Discrete Sine Transform (DST). The simulation results show that adding the DST to the system improves the visual quality of reconstructed images and reduces the PAPR of OFDM signal more than the DCT.
Effective Preprocessing and Knowledge Discovery in Web Usage Mining

In this paper, we present a new methodology for the effective web usage mining. Here we introduce a new technique for the effective preprocessing and web user mining by associating the offline web usage mining information with the online web usage mining information. In preprocessing, an effective preprocessing technique is introduced; so that the size of the web log file is reduced to a great extent without affecting the consistency. In the offline web usage mining, we use two methods to discover the web users’ interest. Here we use web log and web ranking for the effective knowledge discovery. In our methodology, we use web ranking as an additional technique for the knowledge discovery to improve the effectiveness in knowledge discovery. In online web usage mining technique, the web log is used to discover the current web user behavior. By comparing the offline web usage knowledge discovery with that of online web usage, we can improve the knowledge discovery about the web user.