Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Accounting for Culture in Terms of Hofstede and Gray

Culture as the "norms, values, beliefs, and customs that reflect common behavioral characteristics" which is widely used in a particular society at a particular point in time to be shared. Human thinking part in shaping the culture of the community. According to Hofstede, culture is "the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another. In this paper, the definition of culture, Hofstede's cultural dimensions of perspective, Turner and Trampnrz (1993) is discussed and compared. The theoretical relationship between cultural values and accounting values outlined in the model of Gray (1988) and the experimental test of the model will be presented. According to Hofstede's five cultural criteria (Include power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, male secretaries and their vision of society) are able to explain cultural differences in different nations. Obviously, accounting, business entities that are part of the performance is hard to be affected by national and organizational culture, with the help of four basic criteria proposed by Gray (career orientation, uniformity, conservatism and secrecy) can be used to accounting practice communities distinguished from each other.
Ethnography in a brave new world : exploring research in cyberspace 1

Can we establish the importance of a ethnographic choice through the deconstruction of the method assemblages mainly used in web-based research? How can we face the related ethical problems? In this paper we will face these questions, drawing from the advancement in CMC and Internet research in the last decades. The presence of utopian and dystopian views about ICT suggest us to search for a point of view able to overcome this dichotomy. Considering research as a situated practice, we focus on ethnography as the method which can help us to discuss the a priori assumptions we can find both in the utopian and dystopian views, as well as in the methodological accounts about on-line research. So, we consider as an example the Complementary Explorative Multilevel Data Analysis by Galimberti and Riva, to show how it construct the reality observed before starting the observation itself. Stressing the situated character of organizational research, we propose the Internet a library-of-people metaphor in order to catch with an evocative image both ethical and methodological issues studying cyberspace. In conclusion, telling stories about our PhD researches, we show how ethnography is able to deconstruct methodological accounts like the CEMDA, crossing micro and macro levels, and give insights about the construction of the relationship between the researcher and the groups studied. Preface The growth of the Internet is one of the most emphasized cultural phenomena of our time, involving almost all areas of our life. So it is not surprising there is a rapidly increasing body of ethnographic work that studies computer mediated communication and interaction, but also related spaces that are highly mediated and interactive: virtual cities, telemedicine, e-commerce, etc. We decided to write this paper to catch an integrative approach between two disciplines involved in the study of virtual or cyberorganizations in the web in the last three decades: psychology and sociology. We just want to shade off the barriers and the controversies about what social is and how people re-assemble it in a messy place with a disappearing physical support but 1 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.
Fusion of Semantic Data for Mobility Information Prospects and Opportunities

In this position paper, we argue for the opportunities in combining data at the semantic level with other types of data for extracting information related to mobility. Specifically, we are interested in combining statistical data which describes mobility in the city (e.g. the number of vehicles in a specific street per unit of time) and natural language-based information about activities in the city (e.g. RSS feeds about events and user generated content about an individual’s activity). We intend to explore the opportunities and difficulties in performing this work and discuss its possible applications. The paper is organized in three sections: we start by familiarizing the reader with the main concepts involved; we propose our core ideas and point to a number of applications; we then end by illustrating the main challenges facing this work.
Experimental and numerical investigation on interaction between gaseous detonation and solid explosive

Introduction Ignition of solid explosive in typical conditions is well studied. There is a lot of data for deflagration and detonation of the solid explosive in literature. The kinetic properties of the materials were measured for relatively slow heating rates at low pressure or for extremely high temperatures and pressures behind detonation front in solid explosives. Unfortunately there is lack of data concerning the combustion of such materials under conditions which exist behind a gaseous detonation wave. In this conditions the explosive is very fast heated to temperature up to 3000 K, when pressure (in our experiments) is only in range of 3÷10 bar. These parameters places the process of ignition between conditions typical for deflagration and detonation of such explosive. The interest in ignition of explosive behind the detonation wave comes from new idea of boosting a ramaccelerator by layer of solid explosive. Main advantage of this idea is utilizing energy stored in the explosive. The solid explosive has much higher chemical energy density than combustible gaseous mixtures. Combustion of explosive inside ramac tube should result in increase of pressure and thus producing the higher trust. The concept is more detailed described in [4, 5, 6]. The crucial parameters for such application is ignition delay and increase of pressure. They are the main subject of the research.
COMBINED SFF PATTERNING AND REPLICA MOLDING FOR MICROFABRICATION OF CELL-LADEN MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE ( SFF Symposium

1. Abstract We report on a novel technique using additive manufacturing to fabricate a cell-laden polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic device by SFF processes and replica molding. We demonstrate concept feasibility and present results using single and multiple layer patterns. 3-dimensional channel architecture is achieved by CAD/CAM technology and tuning manufacturing process parameters. Our microfluidic device is fabricated in two stages (1) print negative mold by thermal extrusion of polycaprolactone (PCL) using layer-by-layer precision extrusion deposition then (2) casting PDMS. Cells and matrix are selectively assembled inside microchannels using multi-nozzle printing to demonstrate feasibility of chip as a culture environment. The objective of this work is to fabricate a cell-laden microfluidic device by combined solid freeform patterning and replica molding with direct cell writing into channels. This work has application as a 3D physiological model for in vitro pharmacokinetic study in space environment in preparation for long term manned missions.
DOES THE PREVIOUS CONSUMER TRANSACTION EXPERIENCE STRENGTHEN REPURCHASE INTENTION ON WEBMALL?

E-commerce is one of trade forms that is growing rapidly because it reduces the intermediary fees. Thus, consumers pay lower cost. Nevertheless, trust is a problem in e-commerce due to the existence of uncertainty and asymmetry of information. In a research field, experience allegedly strengthens the consumer trust that leads to repurchase intention. However, some studies were carried out to examine the experience in the context of the purchase frequency and duration of internet and website usage. This study examined whether previous consumer transactions experience can strengthen the relationship of trust toward the repurchase intention. This study also examined the dimensions of trust to know which dimension describes the trust in anonline context. This research was conducted in Indonesia, involving 265 respondents who had purchased good sin web mall at least 1 time in the last 6 months. Web mall was selected as the research object because it was considered more stable and constant in executing transactions. This study used Moderated Regression Analysis and proved that the previous consumer transactions experience can strengthen the correlation between trust and repurchase intention. Implication for theory and practice, and the suggestion of future research are discussed on the last part of this paper.
A multi-center clinical observation of recombinant human thrombopoietin for the treatment of sepsis-associated thrombocytopenia

Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of recombinant human thrombopoietin (rhTPO) in treating sepsis-associated thrombocytopenia. Methods: This is a randomized, parallel, controlled, multi-center study. 102 patients with sepsis and thrombocytopenia (peripheral platelet count, PLT ≤ 50×109/L) were randomly divided into rhTPO group and immunoglobulin (IVIG) group. Healthy volunteers were recruited as control. The primary outcome measure was platelet count within 9 days of intervention. Results: PLT increased gradually after treatment. On the 3rd day, 5th day, 7th day and 9th day of treatment, PLT was higher in rhTPO group than IVIG group (p < 0.05). Duration for PLT increasing to ≥ 50×109/L and ≥ 100×109/L was shorter in rhTPO group. On d2, d3, d5 and d7, plasma TPO level was higher in rhTPO group than intravenous human immunoglobulin (IVIG) group (p < 0.01). The total hospitalization cost (RMB) was lower in rhTPO group than IVIG group (p = 0.041). The transfusion amounts of platelets was less in rhTPO group than IVIG group (p = 0.045). Conclusion RhTPO promotes the recovery of platelet count without affecting platelet activation, and it reduces the amount of platelet transfusion and decreases medical costs in patients with sepsis-associated thrombocytopenia.
A Metamodeling Approach for Requirements Specification 1

There are many Requirements Engineering approaches and techniques that help to specify, analyze and validate requirements in the context of practically any kind of project. However, they are neither widely accepted nor widely used by industrial software community. One of the main problems faced when applying a requirement technique is to what extent it can be easily adapted to the specific needs of the project. This has often led to unsatisfactory requirements management in industrial software development. Currently, Use Case model is the most widely accepted despite its restricted expressiveness and overloaded semantics. Other more sophisticated modeling techniques have been developed independently of any others and/or for specific application domains. Frequently, techniques that provide richer expressiveness do not include scalability from other more popular techniques nor do they offer integration with other more advanced techniques. In this work, we present an approach for requirements modeling that allows the integration of the expressiveness of some of the more relevant techniques in the Requirements Engineering arena. Our work takes advantage of metamodeling as a medium for integrating and customizing Requirements Engineering techniques. By focusing on the scalability with respect to expressiveness and adaptability to the application domain, we have established some basic guidelines and extension mechanisms that lend coherence and semantic precision to our approach. A case study is presented to describe the application of our approach in a real-life project and the tool support we are using.
Tunable Metamaterial Devices by means of Two-Hot-Arm Electrothermal Actuators

A reconfigurable metamaterial, obtained from the combination of two-hot-arm electrothermal actuators with a split-ring resonator, is presented in this paper. Offer-ing a reliable control of the tip displacement, the selected actuators overcome the undesired bandwidth constraints of existing structures and establish significant levels of tunabil-ity. To this goal, the actuator is realized as an integrated part of the resonator. The proposed design is numerically verified through several setups which prove its left-handed behavior.
BALANCING OPTIMUM FERTILISATION AND N LOSSES IN DAIRY SYSTEMS

A simulation study was carried out to investigate the effects on nitrogen (N) losses in dairy farming when fertilisation rates are targeted to achieve high pasture yields. The simulations were done for an irrigated, ryegrass-only pasture in the Canterbury region of New Zealand using the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator model (APSIM). A previously developed algorithm was used to determine monthly required N fertilisation rates as a function of pasture N content prior to fertilisation. In this study the algorithm targeted 90% of the potential monthly yield, this was compared with a scheduled fertilisation rate of 400 kg N/ha/year. These fertilisation rules were evaluated on a dairy farm by running APSIM to simulate the grazing rotation over a ten-year period. This provided yield and N loss estimates from both non urine and urine affected areas. The results from the two fertiliser regimes indicated an increase in yield and a reduction in N losses when N fertilisation rates were controlled by the algorithm compared to a scheduled fertiliser regime. This result occurred despite the similar annual amount of fertiliser applied. This work demonstrates the potential of using the algorithm in conjunction with tools such as remote sensing of pasture N concentration to improve pasture nutrient management.
The improving of soybean meal nutritive value by using yeast and lactic acid bacteria in raw milk สินีนาฏ พลโยราช

This experiment was conducted the to improve soybean meal nutritive value by using yeast and lactic acid bacteria in raw milk. Experiments were used t-test to compare chemical composition between unfermented milk soybean meal and fermented milk soybean meal. Experimental products were analyzed for DM, OM, CP, EE, CF, NDF and ADF. The result was shown that in fermented milk group significantly (P<0.05) increased CP and EE, especially, CP was increased from 46.8 up to 70.6 % of DM while ADF was significantly (P<0.05) decreased. In addition, both, CF and NDF were numerically decreased when compared with unfermented group. In conclusion, fermented milk could improve nutritive value of soybean meal by increasing crude protein and ether extract and decreasing acid detergent fiber. Moreover, the further research should be investigate more composition in term of non protein nitrogen, true protein, amino acid and fatty acid profile in soybean meal fermented milk.
Using visual analytics to explore Community Engaged Learning and Teaching at the University of Otago

Community Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) is an interdisciplinary practice involving students and the wider community. Through CELT, students acquire skills that may not be so readily learned in formal classwork. Practitioners at this university came together to promote CELT to the wider institution, but faced difficulty in clearly defining the boundaries of the practice. To aid the development of a shared understanding of CELT, practitioners engaged in a process of ‘visual analytics’. This method involved analysing data on CELT programmes through the collaborative development of interactive visualisations. In the end, the visual analytics approach proved useful for co-constructing a shared understanding of the CELT space.
Next-Generation Driver Information Systems

The vehicular transportation is one of the most important means of transportation in the world. Hundred of millions of people in the world use a car, a bus or any kind of road vehicle to go to work every day. Vehicular transportation is also one of the most used means of transportation of goods. With the evolution of the society, we have seen a considerable growth of the number of motor vehicles. This growth led to several negative effects: first on the increasing number of road traffic injuries, which has become a global health problem; and second, on the rising costs of developing and maintaining the road infrastructures. Automotive industry equips modern vehicles with sophisticated assistance systems. However, these systems rely on the information retrieved by the vehicle itself using radars and cameras, which only provides partial information of the vehicle’s surroundings. Vehicular ad hoc networks enable innovative and more informed intelligent transportation systems that can help to tackle the problems of vehicular transportation. This thesis aims to deliver innovative driver information systems based on the of vehicular communications. The work of this thesis is divided in three different categories: safety; sustainability; and simulation. Regarding safety in vehicular transportation, we propose an overtaking assistance system based on vehicle-tovehicle communication, video-streaming and augmented reality that introduces the concept of the virtual windshield. We propose an assistance system that explores this concept for delivering information about the topology of the network on the windshield in order to avoid road accidents in low-visibility situations. Furthermore, we propose an audible augmented reality assistance system, that uses vehicular communications to trigger an audible event on the sound system of a vehicle. We propose two different systems based on advertising that focus on achieving sustainability of the road infrastructure and transportation systems. Finally, we provide a driving simulation framework for testing driver information systems based on vehicular communications. Results show that vehicular communications enable a new type of solutions to increase safety in vehicular transportation, and that augmented reality in vehicular environment is indeed effective. Moreover, they show that vehicular ad hoc networks provide means for achieving sustainability of transportation systems and road infrastructures. Finally, this thesis show that a driving simulator integrated with a traffic simulator is the perfect framework to design, evaluate and test driving information systems.
Learning Community or Community of Practice: Preliminary Findings of a Transfer of Learning Study

This exploratory study examines the learning community and community of practice aspects of an online applications course. Transfer of learning (Caffarella, 2002) was significant for nearly all study participants. The learning community purposefully fomented as part of the course design was a significantly positive and effective element of course design and delivery, supported by instructor presence. However, the community of practice aspect during the course (Lave and Wenger, 1991), whilst strong, was not as evident after the course ended. This paper represents a preliminary analysis of the findings from the quantitative (questionnaire) portion of a larger, mixed methods scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) study.
A Survey on Object Detection, Classification and Tracking Methods

Video tracking is one of the fields of recent development in the field of computer vision. A lot of research has been going on in this area and new algorithms are being proposed to detect and track objects in video. This field of study has experienced a sudden growth especially after robotics has started gaining importance. The objective of this paper is to present the different steps involved in tracking objects in a video sequence, namely object detection, object classification and object tracking. We survey the different methods available for detecting, classifying and tracking objects in a detailed manner. The pros and cons of each of the methods are discussed. Object detection methods are frame differencing, optical flow and background subtraction. Then, objects may be classified based on shape, motion, colour and texture. Tracking methods involve point based tracking, kernel based tracking and silhouette based tracking. Keywords— object detection, object classification, object tracking, video processing.
Context-dependent opinion lexiCon translation with the use of a parallel Corpus

The paper deals with multiligual sentiment analysis. We propose a method for projecting an opinion lexicon from a source language to a target language with the use of a parallel corpus. We can make sentiment classification in a target language using an opinion lexicon even if we have no labeled dataset. The advantage of our method is that it captures the context of a word and thus produces a correct translation of it. We apply our method to the language pair English-Russian and conduct sentiment classification experiments. They show that our method allows creating high-quality opinion lexicons.
Spoken Dialog System: Direction Guide for Lahore City

A Direction Guide Spoken Dialog System is a system that asks an Urdu language user about his current and the destination location over a telephone and then gives direction guidance to the user from the user’s present location to the destination location. A prototype end-to-end system has been developed that is distributed and Hub & Spoke message based system using the open-source GALAXY Communicator. The end-to-end system uses a Telephony framework and a software based infrastructure that involves the modules of Automatic Speech Recognizer, Text-to-Speech Synthesizer, RavenClaw Dialog Manager, a Backend database and an Interaction Manager. Currently the end-to-end system works for a single session and future work includes the multiple session handling as well.
On Scheduling in Service Oriented Architectures

Service oriented architectures become more and more popular with the emergence and consolidation of new paradigms such as Clouds and Grids. In this context scheduling becomes an important and difficult problem because the services are abstractions. In this paper I present some of the problems which are encountered when designing a job scheduler for system oriented architectures: estimating the performance of the services, estimating the running time of the jobs , enabling the scalability of the system, and I propose solutions for them.
The Influence of Transformational Leadership and Compensation on Psychological Well-Being ( Study at Private Hospital Nurses in South Kalimantan Province )

The research conducted is the Influence of Transformational Leadership and Compensation to Psychological Well Being in Private Hospital Nurses in South Kalimantan Province. Private Hospitals registered in South Kalimantan Province, were RSU Suaka Insan, RS Islam, RS Puri Paramita, RS Mawar, RSK Bedah Siaga, Sari Mulia Hospital, Medica Center Hospital, Ceria Kandangan Hospital and Pertamina Hospital. Samples taken in this research are at 9 private hospitals spread over 4 (four) districts/cities in South Kalimantan Province. The sample of this study is all employees who are hospital nurses using Slovin formula so that was obtained by 216 respondents. The sampling technique used was Technicque of Random Sampling, where 9 (nine) private hospitals in South Kalimantan Province were taken at random from the respondents, then from all the names were given the numbers. Data collection was done using questionnaire while data analysis using SPSS program. The test results prove Transformational Leadership has a significant effect on Psychological Well Being partially with the influence of 16.8% and Compensation significantly influence Psychological Well Being partially with a big influence 33.3%, while simultaneously Transformational Leadership and Compensation significantly influence Psychological Well Being with a big influence of 21.9% while the rest of 78.1% is influenced by other variables.