Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Being Unpredictable

Psychological research has devoted much attention to how people judge and predict others. However, a full understanding of social perception necessitates incorporating the responses of the targets, who may have little interest in being predicted. The authors argue that whether people want to be predicted depends on the interpersonal context—in particular, competitive or cooperative ones. Study 1 used a unique behavioral measure and showed that competition participants, when asked to draw the flight path of a moth in a separate study, produced significantly more variable and significantly less predictable trajectories than did cooperation participants. Study 2 examined participants' self-assessments and showed that participants expecting a competitive interaction indicated that they were more difficult to predict, less willing to open up, and more willing to mislead. Together, the findings suggest that people are not always open to being predicted and that the form of these tendencies depends on features of the situation.
The Africanisation of South African retailing: a review

The internationalisation of retail businesses has become a global phenomenon as retailers around the world expand their operations beyond national borders. This phenomenon has attracted some academic attention. In Africa, South Africa appears to be more advanced in this regard, with Shoprite at the forefront of the Africanisation of South African retailers. A review of Shoprite’s expansion into the continent results in two propositions and some challenges that affect this process. The wider significance of the propositions is further examined by a study of other South African retailers expanding into Africa. The review finds that although there are opportunities for retailers in African countries, there are also significant challenges that can negate the opportunities. Most importantly, the chosen mode of entry into African countries plays a significant role in the overall internationalisation process and should be a primary concern of management teams considering making such a move, and it is established that the mode of entry comprises at least five areas of critical decision making.
Projection Matrix Design for Co-Sparse Analysis Model Based Compressive Sensing

Co-sparse analysis model based-compressive sensing (CAMBCS) has gained attention in recent years as alternative to conventional sparse synthesis model based (SSMB)-CS. The equivalent operator as counterpart of the equivalent dictionary in the SSMB-CS is introduced in the CAMB-CS as the product of projection matrix and transpose of the analysis dictionary. This paper proposes an algorithm for designing suitable projection matrix for CAMB-CS by minimizing the mutual coherence of the equivalent operator based on equiangular tight frames design. The simulation results show that the CAMB-CS with the proposed projection matrix outperforms the SSMB-CS in terms of the signal quality reconstruction.
Characterization of two Cucumber mosaic virus isolated from Solanum mammosum and Nicotiana affinis

Two Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) isolates, CMV-NA from Nicotiana affi? ~is, and CMV-SM from Solawam mammosum (nipple fruit plant) inducing mild and severe systemic mosaic s~mptoms, respectively, on tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi-nc), were characterized on the basis of their nucleotide and amino acid seqtlences of RNA3, serology and host ranges. The complete nucleotide sequencing of RNA3s of CMV-NA and CMV-SM has been done. Multiple alignment analysis of the nucleotide sequences of RNA3 of the 5'noncoding region and amino acid sequences of the CP and MP revealed that, CMV-NA and CMV=SM belong to subgroup I. CMV-NA in'duced systemic infection on Cryptotae7~ia japbnica and
OCEANIC FIXED NITROGEN AND NITROUS OXIDE BUDGETS

The senior author (LAC) was educated in an era when his geological oceanography instructor felt obliged to teach both the pros and cons of continental drift and when El Niño was described as an essentially Peruvian-scale phenomenon. At that time (the 1960s), limitated observations and the principle of parsimony encouraged many to assume an ocean that was in steady-state. Thus, when LAC’s Ph.D. work (Codispoti, 1973; Codispoti and Richards, 1976) in combination with other studies (e.g. Cline, 1973; Devol, 1975) found enough denitrification to bring the oceanic fixed N budget, as it was then understood, into balance, the result was nothing more than expected. After all, many studies assumed a steady-state ocean, and even though we dutifully note our assumptions, their frequent use tends to color our view of how the real world works. A disturbing, present-day SCI. MAR., 65 (Suppl. 2): 85-105 SCIENTIA MARINA 2001
A study on the optimal amino acid pattern at the proximal duodenum in growing sheep

Nine crossbred castrated lambs fitted with rumen and duodenum cannula and fed a diet of hay and concentrate formulated with ground corn and soybean meal as main ingredients were used to assess the duodenal ideal amino acid pattern. Three synthetic amino acid mixtures with different profile of essential amino acids were duodenally infused in order to get three different amino acid patterns flowing into the duodenum. The mixtures were designed to have similar amino acid profile as rumen microbial protein (Pm), casein (Pc) and modified muscle amino acid (Pmm). Results showed a lower urine nitrogen excretion (p=0.05), a higher nitrogen retention (p=0.04) and bodyweight gain with treatment Pmm. The modified muscle amino acid pattern also promoted a lower ratio of Gly to other amino acids in plasma (Gly/OAA) and a higher RNA and RNA/DNA concentration in the liver of the sheep. Meanwhile, the urea concentration in plasma was reduced and the insulin concentration was increased with Pmm treatment. No differences in glucose and growth hormone concentration in plasma were found among three treatments. All results obtained indicate that the modified muscle amino acid pattern (Lys 100%, Met+Cys 39%, Thr 76%, His 41%, Arg 72%, Leu 158%, Ile 81%, Val 105%, Phe 81% and Trp 13%) was the best for growing sheep.
Consequences of Human Land Use for an Afro-alpine Ecological Community in Ethiopia

The Guassa area of Menz in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia is an Afro-alpine ecological community with an indigenous resource management system. The local community harvest different resources including collecting grass and firewood from the Guassa area. Cattle and other livestock are also grazed in the Guassa area, especially during the dry season. Several sympatric species of endemic rodents dominate the small mammal ecological communities in the Guassa area, and form most of the diet of the endangered Ethiopian wolf. This study aimed to determine if current levels of resource use by the local community through the indigenous resource management system had any discernible effect on rodent community structure. We found that the structure of the rodent community differs between habitat types, and that different species of rodents show diurnal variations in their patterns of activity. We also found that populations of different species show variable responses to each type of resource use in different habitats; some species show increases in abundance in relation to use while others show decreases. Although the indigenous resource management system was not specifically designed to conserve wildlife, it has nevertheless allowed wildlife, specifically small mammals or rodent communities, to co-exist alongside the ongoing resource use by the local community. We conclude the Guassa area represents an interesting model of community-led resource management of an Afro-alpine habitat which supports populations of endemic and threatened species.
Bimodality of low-redshift circumgalactic O VI in non-equilibrium EAGLE zoom simulations

We introduce a series of 20 cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of L⇤ (M200 = 1011.7 − 1012.3M") and group-sized (M200 = 1012.7 − 1013.3M") haloes run with the model used for the EAGLE project, which additionally includes a nonequilibrium ionization and cooling module that follows 136 ions. The simulations reproduce the observed correlation, revealed by COS-Halos at z ⇠ 0.2, between Ovi column density at impact parameters b 106 K) promotes oxygen to higher ionization states, suppressing the Ovi column density. The observed NOvi-sSFR correlation therefore does not imply a causal link, but reflects the changing characteristic ionization state of oxygen as halo mass is increased. In spite of the mass-dependence of the oxygen ionization state, the most abundant circumgalactic oxygen ion in both L⇤ and group haloes is Ovii; Ovi accounts for only 0.1% of the oxygen in group haloes and 0.9-1.3% with L⇤ haloes. Nonetheless, the metals traced by Ovi absorbers represent a fossil record of the feedback history of galaxies over a Hubble time; their characteristic epoch of ejection corresponds to z > 1 and much of the ejected metal mass resides beyond the virial radius of galaxies. For both L⇤ and group galaxies, more of the oxygen produced and released by stars resides in the circumgalactic medium (within twice the virial radius) than in the stars and ISM of the galaxy.
Upwelling shadows at Mejillones Bay (northern Chilean coast): a remote sensing in situ analysis

Upwelling shadows are high temperature regions within coastal upwelling systems. In this article its dynamics is described at Mejillones Bay, in the northern Chilean coast, using satellite images and in situ current data. A conceptual model relating the generation and breakdown of the shadow to the bifurcated upwelling occurring outside the bay is proposed.
Dynamic Antiferromagnetic Spin Structure and Domains in Exchange Coupled Multilayers.

As revealed by the observation of memory effects and domain imaging, the antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin structure in exchange bias is not static. During reversal, the AFM spins form an exchange spring connected with the ferromagnet (FM). We have observed hybrid domain walls consisting of FM and AFM sections and their evolution using the magnetooptical indicator film technique. The external magnetic field moves only the FM section of the hybrid domain walls, leading to the formation of an exchange spring parallel to the interface. The nucleation and unwinding of the exchange spring occur at different locations, and the propagation depends strongly on the chirality of the FM domain walls.
Determinants of Farmers Adaptation to Climate Change: A Case From Syangja District of Nepal.

1 Crop Development Officer, Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD), Government of Nepal. Email:regminirmal5@gmail.com 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences (IAAS), Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Email:dhakaldinesh@hotmail.com 3 Agriculture Extension Officer, Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD), Government of Nepal, Nepal. Email:binodghim@gmail.com
A characterization of the warm 1999 Arctic winter by observations and modeling: NOy partitioning and dynamics

[1] A characterization of the NOy partitioning in the warm Arctic winter 1998/1999 is given. Vertical profiles of nocturnal total reactive nitrogen (NOy = NO2 + HNO3 + ClONO2 + 2 N2O5 + HO2NO2) were retrieved from infrared limb emission spectra measured by the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding, Balloon-borne version (MIPAS-B) instrument inside a distortion of the winter Arctic vortex from Kiruna (Sweden, 68°N) on 27 January 1999. To estimate the dynamic effects, the mixing ratios of the tracers N2O and CH4 were derived to construct a correlation between these two long-lived species and to estimate the effects of mixing on the N2O-NOy relationship. The measured data are compared to calculations performed with the three-dimensional chemistry transport models (CTMs) SLIMCAT and KASIMA. The results show that despite the warm winter 1998/1999 without significant occurrence of polar stratospheric clouds, the agreement between both the measurement and the models and among the models themselves is not satisfactory. It appears that in such a dynamically active winter, mixing processes on different scales which are hard to reproduce with coarsely resolved CTMs should be taken into account to explain the differences. Nevertheless, the results indicate that the chemistry which controls the NOy partitioning is not yet understood well under the studied geophysical situation. Furthermore, chlorine activation appears to be too crudely modeled when winter temperatures are marginal for polar stratospheric cloud formation.
Impact of Perceived Service Quality on Students’ Satisfaction

The contribution of services to the world economy is rapidly growing ever before which forces the marketers to focus on delighting the customers with the extended high quality service offers. Globalization paved a way to increase competition and the quality concerns all over the word. Service quality and customer satisfaction are the two different constructs which are researched persistently since the past and still remains with their prominence. Nowadays, most of the universities in Sri Lanka started to realize the importance of perceived service quality and the satisfaction of students in the higher education with the emergence of new private universities and other higher education institutions. This research aimed to investigate the impact of students’ perceived service quality and their satisfaction. The data collected from the students through the issuance of questionnaires which used the five point Likert scale as the measurement scale. The result revealed that there is a significant positive correlation between students’ perceived service quality and their satisfaction. Moreover, all the service quality dimensions expose a significant positive correlation with students’ satisfaction where the empathy and responsiveness are the most influencing dimensions on satisfaction. Keywords: Perceived Service Quality, Service Quality Dimensions, Students’ Satisfaction, SERVQUAL
Approches déterministes et bayésiennes pour un suivi robuste : application à l'asservissement visuel d'un drone

Pour qu'un systeme robotise puisse accomplir de facon autonome des fonctions en apparence simples, telles que se localiser ou se positionner par rapport a son environnement, il doit avant tout percevoir cet environnement. La perception vi- suelle obtenue a l'aide d'une camera constitue a cet egard une source d'information particulierement riche, largement utilisee en robotique. Le travail presente dans cette these concerne l'usage d'informations visuelles dans le contexte de la commande de mini-drones. En particulier deux types de tâches ont ete considerees : une tâche de poursuite, dans laquelle un objet - une voiture - se deplace dans un environnement inconnu et l'on souhaite qu'un drone puisse suivre son mouvement, et une tâche de positionnement ou de navigation pour un drone evoluant dans un environnement structure - interieur de bâtiment - dans lequel le signal GPS n'est pas disponible. Dans les deux cas, nous avons propose des approches completes, depuis l'extrac- tion robuste d'informations visuelles jusqu'a la commande d'un drone a partir de ces informations. Des experiences mises en ÷uvre sur un mini-drone quadrirotor montrent la validite des approches proposees. Mots-clefs : Vision par ordinateur, asservissement visuel, commande de drone
Stankovic, L. (2007) Scalable video/image transmission using rate compatible PUM turbo codes. In: The 8th Annual PostGraduate Symposium on The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking

The robust delivery of video over emerging wireless networks poses many challenges due to the heterogeneity of access networks, the variations in streaming devices, and the expected variations in network conditions caused by interference and coexistence. The proposed approach exploits the joint optimization of a wavelet-based scalable video/image coding framework and a forward error correction method based on PUM turbo codes. The scheme minimizes the reconstructed image/video distortion at the decoder subject to a constraint on the overall transmission bitrate budget. The minimization is achieved by exploiting the rate optimization technique and the statistics of the transmission channel.
Supply Chain Simulation: Experimentation without Pain

Bridging the gap between theory and practice has always been a key issue for students and graduates. The magnitude and scope of subject areas that students at third level institutions have to learn in theory means that visualising them without any practical experience can be very difficult. Understanding the complexity of supply chain networks and how to manage them create a considerable level of difficulty for students and professionals. Theories and applications included in supply chain management subjects are the key to empathise the real challenges. Nevertheless, teaching these theories needs substantial efforts and new innovative approaches to deliver the concepts and assure successful transfer of the learning outcomes. To complicate things more, the levels of uncertainty and risk within an entire supply chain are still not fully recognised or understood even by industry professionals. Research studies showed the need for more transparency and collaborative approaches to take place among supply chain partners in order to achieve more sustainable operations. Making sure students comprehend the scale of activities and stochastic nature of a supply chain before they carry on their industrial careers is therefore crucial. Using computer simulation integrated with structured modelling techniques, a detailed, animated and generic supply chain simulation-based learning framework can be developed to incorporate many areas of learning undertaken by students in relation to the supply chain management. Experimenting on the simulation models allow the students to examine quantitatively the impact of changing critical factors (e.g. inventory level, demand, suppliers’ lead time) on the performance of supply chain. This paper demonstrates the impact of using interactive simulation technologies in teaching third level education with special reference to supply chain management and discusses the benefits of learning through such a level of
SELF-HEALING COMPOSITES FOR MITIGATION OF LOW-VELOCITY IMPACT DAMAGE

Phone: 217-265-6261 Fax: 217 e-mail: ajpatel4@uiuc.edu http://www.autonomic. uiuc.edu Fiber-reinforced composites with polymeric matrices are extensively used in many structural applications. Despite successful implementation, their susceptibility to damage due to transverse impact loads remains a major limitation. Low-velocity or ballistic impact events can create significant matrix damage that is often hidden and difficult to repair. In this study, fiber-reinforced composites with self-healing, polymeric matrices are investigated for mitigation of low-velocity impact-induced damage. The self-healing components described by White et al.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS AND ADOPTION OF ENERGY CROPS

Current study analyzes the socio-economic factors that impact farmers’ willingness to grow switchgrass and miscanthus in Missouri and Iowa. The results of the current study show that current level of farmers’ willingness to grow for either crop is low. Hence, there are barriers to accomplishing the goal of producing 21 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuel by 2022. It is also found that currently growing energy crops is more attractive to small farms as a source of crop diversification, rather than an alternative crop production system in the big scale by large farms.
High-Frequency Electric Field Induced Nonlinear Electron Transport in Chiral Carbon Nanotubes

We investigate theoretically the high frequency complex conductivity in carbon nanotubes that are stimulated axially by a strong inhomogeneous electric field of the form E(t)=E0+E1cos(ωt). Using the kinetic approach based on Boltzmann’s transport equation with constant relaxation time approximation and the energy spectrum of the electron in the tight-binding approximation, together with Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collision integral, we predict high-frequency nonlinear effects along the axial and the circumferential directions of the carbon nanotubes that may be useful for the generation of high frequency radiation in the carbon nanotubes.
First generation college students and non-first-generation college students: Perceptions of belonging

Background and objective: First generation college students (FGS), are emerging as an important demographic group for colleges and universities. Having a ‘sense of belonging’ or belonging is important to the success of all college students, especially for the retention of students who may be at risk of not completing their academic degree. The purpose of this study is to analyze differences between first generation and non-first-generation college students based on a mattering survey. Methods: Two hundred and thirty undergraduate students in one New England College participated in a study designed to uncover differences between FGS and non-first-generation college students based on responses to a mattering survey. The study utilized a questionnaire designed to capture students’ opinions on mattering. Open questions were included to inform and enrich the data. Results: First-generation student perceived a greater number of obstacles in their college experience than non-first-generation students. Obstacles to academic success for first generation students included lack of time to study due to work and family responsibilities, financial struggles, and unhelpful faculty relationships. Facilitators were helpful faculty and peer relationships. Lack of mental health support was cited as a barrier to both cohorts of students. Conclusions: Having a sense of belonging or mattering can help the student feel a connection to the college. This may aid the student in persisting towards graduation. Persistence toward graduation is important for all students including nursing students.
Modeling Natural Gas Prices Volatility

Arastirmacilar, dunyadaki petrol rezervlerinin cok yuksek ihtimalle onumuzdeki 50 yil icinde tukenecegini ortaya koymuslardir. Bu gercek arastirmacilari, dunya genelinde petrolun alternatifi olarak kullanilabilecek bir enerji kaynagi arayisina itmistir. 1980’de Ukrayna’nin Cernobil sehrinde yasanan nukleer felaket, dunya uzerinde bu enerji turune karsi bardagin bos tarafindan bakilmasina sebep olmus, bu olumsuz gorus 2011 yilinda Japonya’da meydana gelen deprem sonrasi Fukusima santralinde meydana gelen sizintidan sonra daha da artmistir.Ayrica hidro-elektrik santrallerin dogal yasam alanlarina verdigi zararlar, bu enerji turune karsi, cevre savunuculari ve orgutlerinin tepkilerine ve protestolarina sebep olmaktadir. Diger taraftan 18 ve 19. yuzyillardaki Sanayi Devrimi sirasinda Ingiltere’de “Yazsiz Yil”in yasanmasina sebep olan termik santrallerden bahsetmeye gerek bile yoktur. Soz konusu enerji ve uretimi olunca, bu uretimi saglayan girdilerin alinip satildigi piyasa kosullari bircok dissal faktorden etkilenmektedir. Hassas dengeler uzerine kurulu bu girdi piyasalarinin dinamikleri kosullara bagli olarak surekli degismekte bu degisimlerde beraberinde soz konusu girdilerin fiyatlari uzerinde etkili olmaktadir. Petrol ve turevlerinin alinip satildigi piyasalar dusunulunce dinamiklerin ne kadar hassas ve birbirine bagli oldugu daha iyi anlasilabilmektedir. Bu hassas piyasa kosullarina bagli enerji girdilerinden bir tanesi de hic suphe yok ki dogalgaz fiyatlaridir. Bu calismada, (1997-2014) yillari arasi gunluk dogalgaz fiyatlarinin duraganligi arastirilarak, sahip oldugu volatilite ARCH&GARCH model ailesi ile modellenmeye calisilacaktir.