Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy Dovepress

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Religious values, secular education and development:empirical evidence from some Latin American countries

Religion as a component of family background may transmit values that positively affect children's educational achievements. Nevertheless, in its conservative dimension religion hampers children's self-determination and may lead them not to invest in higher education. Notably religion may adapt to the cultural changes triggered by economic development and modernization, which influences the prevailing effect of religion on education. These aspects are investigated through an overlapping generations model with human capital. The hypotheses from the model are tested with probit regression using the data from some Latin American countries. The results seem to support the role of development as a force driving the process of cultural change, which can promote children's educational achievement.
Evaluation of Nitrogen and Silicon Application for Enhancing Yield Production and Nutrient Uptake by Wheat in Clay Soil

Silicon (Si) is a beneficial element for plant growth. It helps plant to overcome multiple stresses, alleviates metal toxicity and improve nutrient imbalance. Field experiment was conducted in two seasons (2009/2010 and 2010/2011) at Shbeen El-Knatr, ElQualubia Governorate to study the effect of organic nitrogen (Farm yard manure) and inorganic nitrogen (Ammonium sulphate) application combined with foliar spray of silicon at a rate of 0.0, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 % as diatomite on the yield and chemical composition of wheat plants. Results indicated that, application of Farmyard manure (FYM), or ammonium sulphate combined with Si had significant effect on chlorophyll a and carotene as compared with the control treatment. Moreover, application of FYM as a nitrogen source alone was higher in their effects on grain and straw yield production as compare to application of ammonium sulphate. Application of FYM combined with Si significantly increased nitrogen and phosphorus content and uptake in grain and straw as compare to ammonium sulphate and control. Application of the FYM combined with 0.4 % Si as diatomite produced the highest values of grain yield, weight of 100 g grains as well as straw yield of wheat plants. The second best treatment was the application ammonium sulphte combined with 0.4 % Si as foliar spray followed by application of the FYM combined with 0.6 % Si as foliar spray. Highly significant and positive correlations were observed between grain and straw wheat yield and chlorophyll a, carotene, N, P and K uptake. The economic analysis clearly indicate that application of FYM to soil and foliar sprays of Silicon together had increased gross returns, net returns and Benefit: Cost ratio of wheat plants. This indicates that nitrogen application combined with foliar spray of silicon is important to get higher wheat yield from clay soil.
CIS 4930 / CIS 6930 Biometric Authentication on Mobile Devices Projects and Reports

​​The purpose of this research is to determine which touch dynamics features would be more optimal to use from the list of all possible features in touch dynamics. By finding the most efficient features to use, researchers can then use this information to create a better model from this biometric. The goal of this paper is to examine the procedure that was taken to retrieve the optimal and efficient features from the list of features in touch dynamics. Given the list of optimal features, the glimpse of using these features will allow the study of mobile biometrics to consider using the touch dynamics biometric modality more.
SPECTRUM, VELOCITY AND DRIFT OF DROPLETS SPRAYED BY NOZZLES WITH AND WITHOUT AIR INDUCTION AND MINERAL OIL

The aim of this study was to evaluate the spectrum, the velocity and the potential drift risk of droplets sprayed by nozzles with and without air induction, with the addition of mineral oil to the spray solution. The experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with five replications; in a factorial model 2 x 2 (two spray nozzles and spray solution with and without mineral oil Assist). Spray nozzles with and without air induction were evaluated, with nominal flow rate of 1.14 L min and pressure of 300 kPa. The spectrum and the velocity of droplets were evaluated directly, using a droplet analyzer (VisiSize D30) in real time based on the analysis of high-resolution images. The drift potential was evaluated in an open circuit wind tunnel. The data were submitted to analysis of variance and comparison test. In general, the addition of mineral oil (1.5% V V) resulted in an increase in the velocity of droplets, reduced drift and more homogeneous droplet spectrum. Air induction nozzles promoted larger and less homogeneous droplets, but they little affected the velocity of the droplets. There is an inverse correlation between drift potential and volume median diameter (VMD), which indicates that VMD can be used to predict the behavior of drift risk.
Contextualized Word Representations from Distant Supervision with and for NER

We describe a special type of deep contextualized word representation that is learned from distant supervision annotations and dedicated to named entity recognition. Our extensive experiments on 7 datasets show systematic gains across all domains over strong baselines, and demonstrate that our representation is complementary to previously proposed embeddings. We report new state-of-the-art results on CONLL and ONTONOTES datasets.
COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED WORK: Toward a framework for understanding working life

Much IT research and practice attempts to understand and design for the interaction between human beings and computers. This paper focuses on the two most well-known approaches in this area, namely Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)2. I argue that HCI and CSCW reflect different aspects of human activity, which can be characterized as the cognitive and the social aspects of systems design. This paper examines these two approaches rom a (meta)theoretical point of view focusing on their ‘unit of analysis’, as well as their underlying philosophical assumptions. It is argued that the two approaches draw on distinct and somewhat contradictory philosophical ideas and theories, and consequently suggest different solutions to the design of computer systems. Much HCI work adapts a cognitive psychological perspective, focusing on the cognitive aspect of systems design, whereas CSCW work takes on a sociological perspective dealing with social and organisational aspects of systems design. In order to achieve a more ‘coherent’ understanding of systems design and computer-mediated work we need to ‘integrate’ the cognitive perspective (internal thought processes) and the social perspective (external social behaviour). Based on a dialectical-materialistic philosophy and the psychological approach developed from such principles, that of Activity Theory, I situate cognitive and the social activity within a broader framework for working life.
Title A Code Generation Framework for Targeting OptimizedLibrary Calls for Multiple Platforms

Directive-based programming approaches such as OpenMP and OpenACC have gained popularity due to their ease of programming. These programming models typically involve adding compiler directives to code sections such as loops in order to parallelize them for execution on multicore CPUs or GPUs. However, one problem with this approach is that existing compilers generate code directly from the annotated sections and do not make use of hardware-specific architectural features. As a result, the generated code is unable to fully exploit the capabilities of the underlying hardware. Alternatively, we propose a code generation framework in which linear algebraic operations in the annotated codes are recognized, extracted and mapped to optimized vendor-provided platform-specific library calls. We demonstrate that such an approach can result in better performance in the generated code compared to those which are generated by existing compilers. This is substantiated by experimental results on multicore CPUs and GPUs.
GENE ACTION FOR SYNCHRONY IN POD MATURITY AND INDETERMINATE GROWTH HABIT IN MUNGBEAN (VIGNA RADIATA (L.) WILCZEK)

The nature of gene action for days to flowering, plant height at different growth stages, synchrony in pod maturity and indeterminate plant growth habit were assessed in two sets of crosses involving four parents through generation mean analysis. The mean data of six populations (both parents, F1, BC1, BC2 and F2) were subjected to joint scaling test. In the presence of epistasis, six-parameter model was used to detect all types of gene effects. The analysis indicated that most of the traits appeared to be complex in the expression of gene effects in both the crosses. Both additive (d) and dominant (h) gene effects were important in both the crosses for all the traits examined except days to first flower and first pod maturity in ML-5 x NM 54, where dominant gene effects were non-significant. The days to 90% pods maturity and plant height at first flower in case of 6601 x NM 92, and days to first pod maturity and plant height at first flower in ML-5 x NM 54 cross had showed no digenic interactions. The digenic interactions i.e., additive x additive (i), additive x dominance (j), and dominance x dominance (l) played an important role in the expression of all those traits which showed complex gene effects for their inheritance. The biparental approach is suggested for the exploitation of the complex inherited traits particularly for improved synchrony in pod maturity and determinate growth habit in mungbean.
Misinformation and Morality: Encountering Fake-News Headlines Makes Them Seem Less Unethical to Publish and Share

People may repeatedly encounter the same misinformation when it “goes viral. ” The results of four main experiments (two preregistered) and a pilot experiment (total N = 2,587) suggest that repeatedly encountering misinformation makes it seem less unethical to spread—regardless of whether one believes it. Seeing a fake-news headline one or four times reduced how unethical participants thought it was to publish and share that headline when they saw it again—even when it was clearly labeled as false and participants disbelieved it, and even after we statistically accounted for judgments of how likeable and popular it was. In turn, perceiving the headline as less unethical predicted stronger inclinations to express approval of it online. People were also more likely to actually share repeated headlines than to share new headlines in an experimental setting. We speculate that repeating blatant misinformation may reduce the moral condemnation it receives by making it feel intuitively true, and we discuss other potential mechanisms that might explain this effect.
Retention or defection? Chinese consumers' decision-making styles for domestic and global brands

This study explores consumers’ decision-making in terms of intention to switch to foreign brands from domestic brands when purchasing cell phones and sports shoes. A survey of 584 undergraduates in Guangdong, China, shows that domestic brands retain their low quality-conscious, low fashion-and-recreational-conscious and low price-conscious customers and attract low brand-conscious and high choice-confused buyers from foreign brands. Foreign brands typically retain their consumers who are highly conscious of fashion and recreation and keep and draw customers with low choice confusion. High-price-conscious consumers and those who are highly brand-confused will assess foreign and domestic brands when searching for bargains. Regarding managerial implications, local brands should offer products of high quality at low prices and constantly invest in RD foreign brands may expand their customer bases and build interactive brand channels; all companies can retain brand-confused customers with preferential packages and design their marketing strategies based on decision-making styles of their target consumers.
VISION-BASED ALGORITHM AND ROBUST FILTERING FOR STATE ESTIMATION OF AN UNCOOPERATIVE OBJECT IN SPACE

A Vision Based algorithm relying on a mono-camera as main sensor has been developed at PoliMi DAER to be used as main measurement tool to feed the Navigation filter for relative pose estimation of uncooperative objects. The Vision Based algorithm works combining a Perspective-n-Point problem (PnP) along with Bundle Adjustment (BA). This is an optimization technique widely diffused in Computer Vision, that has been applied on a built offline sparse map and on the 2D features extracted from the images coming from the camera to optimize the retrieved relative position and attitude, which are finally given in input to the navigation filter. A decoupled model is used for the relative translational and rotational dynamics. A first numerical validation of both the Vision based routine and the filter is presented by using, as input, measurements obtained from synthetic images. The obtained results are finally analyzed and critically discussed.
Quantitative dominance of seasonally persistent filamentous cyanobacteria (Planktothrix rubescens) in the microbial assemblages of a temperate lake

The spatiotemporal changes in abundance and biomass of heterotrophic bacteria, of three major bacterial phylogenetic groups, and of picocyanobacteria in the upper 20 m of a deep prealpine lake (Lake Zurich, Switzerland) were monitored during a seasonally persistent bloom of the toxigenic filamentous cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens. In addition, bacterial 16S ribosomal deoxyribonucleic acid (rDNA) sequences were collected at one instance from the bloom layer and from waters above and below this zone. P. rubescens comprised up to 70% of particulate organic carbon during summer stratification and autumnal mixis and thus by far exceeded the total biomass both of other phytoplankton and of prokaryotes. A strong negative correlation was found between the estimated basin‐wide biomass of P. rubescens and of heterotrophic bacteria, and there was different spatial niche preference of filamentous vs. picocyanobacteria. Only members of the Cytophaga‐Flavobacterium lineage of Bacteroidetes showed an increasing tendency of association with the P. rubescens population, in particular at the onset of autumnal mixing. Although the filamentous cyanobacterium was the dominant primary producer throughout the year, it did not seem to be a carbon source for heterotrophic bacteria at all. We conclude that P. rubescens represents a powerful competitor of autotrophic and heterotrophic prokaryotes, likely due to both its specific physiological (photoheterotrophic) properties and its protection against zooplankton grazing. This competitiveness might be regarded as another reason for its mass occurrence in numerous lakes of the Northern hemisphere.
Rediscovering Social Innovation

In the spring of 2003, the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business launched the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Our first “Editors’ Note” defined social innovation as “the process of inventing, securing support for, and implementing novel solutions to social needs and problems. ” That same manifesto also described the publication’s unique approach to social innovation: “dissolving boundaries and brokering a dialogue between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. ”
AFTERGLOW OF A BINARY NEUTRON STAR MERGER

The merger of two neutron stars often results in a rapidly and differentially rotating hypermassive neutron star (HMNS). We show by numerical-relativity simulation that the magnetic-field profile around such HMNS is dynamically varied during its subsequent evolution, and as a result, electromagnetic radiation with a large luminosity ∼0. 1B2R3Ω is emitted with baryons (B, R, and Ω are poloidal magnetic-field strength at stellar surface, stellar radius, and angular velocity of an HMNS). The predicted luminosity of electromagnetic radiation, which is primarily emitted along the magnetic-dipole direction, is ∼1047(B/1013 G)2(R/10 km)3(Ω/104 rad s−1) erg s−1, which is comparable to the luminosity of quasars.
GeoMetrIC CHArACterIstICs oF IrAQ’s rAster toPoGrAPHIC MAPs Used For AUtoMAtIC UPdAtInG

This paper is devoted to the problem of road network extraction from raster image. The task of road network extraction is formulated in common view. The approach to the road map extraction has been proposed which can be applied for topographic map updating and is based on image clustering by k-means method and on application of scanning algorithm for extraction of road network fragments. Road map description is formed as set of linear fragments with knowing parameters. These linear fragments are created by merging of smaller parts. Experimental researches were implemented for maps of 10 Iraq cities. Experimental results show in average the extraction precision of 86% (in comparison with human expert).
Regulation of even-aged forests with inclusion of environmental constraints

This study aimed to propose alternative methods of inclusion of environmental constraints in forest regulation models. Models were constructed for an experimental rural estate with a total planted area of 3.491 ha which was divided into 135 management units. The formulation of the regulation models included integer constraints for all management units. Genetic algorithm metaheuristic was used for solving the models. For comparison purposes, the classical model of forest regulation (model I) was used, and the model with adjacency constraints. The proposed formulations proved to be environmentally more effective than the imposition of adjacency constraints.
Analysis of the influence of a twelve-month swimming exercise on mentally disabled individuals' physical fitness level

In this study, it was aimed to analyze influence of a twelve-month swimming exercise on mentally disabled individuals’ physical fitness level. A total of 28 mild mentally disabled individuals between 1419 age groups participated the study. According to the results of the study, while there was no statistically significant difference between measurements of body weight, body mass index, sit-reach flexibility, left hand grip strength, extended arm hang on groups, measurements and between groups and their measurements; statistically significant difference was found in body fat percentage values between groups, measurements, and groups and their measurements. There was statistically no significant difference between vertical jump, leg strength, right hand grip strength groups, groups and their measurements, but statistically important difference between measurements was determined. When Isometric push-up and 1 mile run/walk values were analysed, it was noticed that statistically there was no striking difference between groups, measurements, there was statistically meaningful difference between groups and their measurements. When modified curl-up values were analysed, statistically no significant difference was observed between groups, but statistically there was important difference between measurements, groups and their measurements. Consequently, it is necessary to apply new exercise programs and revise existing exercise programs while studying with disabled individuals.
Investigation of a SiGe tunnel FET: comparison to Si and Ge TFETs

In this paper a SiGe p+n+in+ tunneling transistor is studied and compared with Si and Ge based transistors. Moreover, in the proposed structure a -doped n+ region is considered between the source and the channel, and this region is optimized in the sense of region width (Wd) and doping level for the highest ratio of on-current to off-current and the lowest sub-threshold swing. Simulations show that Ion/Ioff ratio greater than 11 order of magnitude and sub-threshold swing of 16.6 mv/dec, which is well below 60 mv/dec limit of conventional MOSFETs, are obtained.
Dynamical Properties of the Three-Dimensional XY Model at Low Temperatures

On the basis of the generalized Langevin equations for the spin operators, the dynamical properties of the XY model at low temperatures are investigated in the spin wave approxi· mation. The transverse as well as longitudinal dampings are calculated, with the use of which the hydrodynamic equations are derived. The frequency spectrum of spin wave thence obtained agrees with the result obtained hydrodynamically by Halperin and Hohenberg. The microscopic expressions for the various parameters appearing in their hydrodynamic equations are also determined.
Operational Models for Improving the Targeting Efficiency of Agricultural and Development Policies: A systematic comparison of different estimation methods using out-of-sample tests

Accurate targeting is key for the success of any development policy. While a number of factors might explain low targeting efficiency such as governance failure, political interference or lack of political will, this paper focuses on improving indicator-based models that identify poor households and smallholder farmers more accurately. Using stepwise regressions along with out-of-sample validation tests and receiver operating characteristic curves, this paper develops proxy means tests models for rural and urban Malawi. The models developed have proved their validity in an independent sample and therefore, can be used to target a wide range of development policies to the poor. This makes the models a potentially interesting policy tool for the country.
Safety situation assessment of open pit slope based on improved d-s evidence theory

The safety Situation Assessment of open pit slope is a hot research topic in the eld of information disaster science in recent years. In order to solve the problem of overreliance on expert experience in the current assessment, a safety assessment method for open pit slope based on improved D-S evidence theory is proposed. This method integrates multi-source situation factors, gets the basic probability assignation, BPA, of DS evidence theory based on back propagation neural network, computes BPA by DS evidence theory in sequence, weakens the in uence of human factors on BPA, improves the prediction accuracy of BPA and safety situation recognition rate of open pit slope. At last, the feasibility and e ectiveness of this method in pit slope safety assessment are veri ed by the monitoring data of some open pit slope.