Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
RUPTURE PROCESS OF THE 2014 ORKNEY EARTHQUAKE, SOUTH AFRICA

An earthquake has occurred at 10:22:33 UT on 5 August 2014 in the Klerksdorp district, the North West province of South Africa. Its hypocenter is located beneath an Orkney town, where more than 10 gold mines exist. The Council for Geoscience (CGS) in South Africa reported that the magnitude and depth was ML5.5 and 4.7 km, respectively. CGS has been operating 17 surface seismic acceleration stations with 10 km interval in average, and obtained continuous acceleration seismograms through the time of the earthquake and following aftershocks. Using these seismograms, we analyzed the mainshock rupture process of this earthquake. Analyzing these seismograms, we found the ‘initial rupture’ with a Richter scale approximately 4 has occurred 0.3 sec before mainshock. Furthermore, by applying detailed aftershock distribution analysis, we found most of aftershocks occurred surrounding upper and southern part of mainshock rupture area, including initial rupture hypocenter. In order to understand detailed rupture process of this event, we surveyed for strong motion generating area (SMGA) of mainshock by applying Isochrones backprojection method (IBM) to the mainshock S wave waveforms. SMGA distribution seems to fill the vacant space of the aftershock distribution and initial rupture’s hypocenter. And we also found that a horizontal layered seismic vacancy exists between aftershocks with gold mine blastings. This fact implies mainshock rupture did not extent up to gold mine.
Security of Data Access Control for Multiauthority Cloud Storage System

: Data access control is an effective way to ensure the data security in the cloud. However, due to data outsourcing and untrusted cloud servers, the data access control becomes a challenging issue in cloud storage systems. Existing access control schemes are no longer applicable to cloud storage systems, because they either produce multiple encrypted copies of the same data or require a fully trusted cloud server. Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-based Encryption (CP-ABE) is a promising technique for access control of encrypted data. It requires a trusted authority manages all the attributes and distributes keys in the system. In cloud storage systems, there are multiple authorities co-exist and each authority is able to issue attributes independently. However, existing CP-ABE schemes cannot be directly applied to the access control for multi-authority cloud storage systems, due to the inefficiency of decryption and revocation.
Defining gaze tracking metrics by observing a growing divide between 2D and 3D tracking

This work examines the different terminology used for defining gaze tracking technology and explores the different methodologies used for describing their respective accuracy. Through a comparative study of different gaze tracking technologies, such as infrared and webcam-based, and utilising a variety of accuracy metrics, this work shows how the reported accuracy can be misleading. The lack of intersection points between the gaze vectors of different eyes (also known as convergence points) in definitions has a huge impact on accuracy measures and directly impacts the robustness of any accuracy measuring methodology. Different accuracy metrics and tracking definitions have been collected and tabulated to more formally demonstrate the divide in definitions.
System for functional annotation of single nucleotide polymorphisms

Single nucleotide polymorphisms are the substitution of one nucleotide in the DNA sequence that may or may not have phenotypic consequences. Here we describe a new system for ranking non-synonymous protein substitutions by their deleterious effects. The computational core of the proposed system is based on a rational combination of the results from the selected subset of publicly available tools. The weight coefficients for the individual tools are calculated on the basis of their confidence score and their reliabilities are assigned accordingly to their performance measured on the extensive dataset. The validation of the performance on the dataset consisting of 5 000 substitutions shows that overall accuracy of the system was improved by 6% in comparison to the simple majority vote.
Benefits of Depth for Long-Term Memory of Recurrent Networks

The key attribute that drives the unprecedented success of modern Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) on learning tasks which involve sequential data, is their ever-improving ability to model intricate long-term temporal dependencies. However, an adequate measure of RNNs long-term memory capacity is lacking, and thus formal understanding of their ability to correlate data throughout time is limited. Though depth efficiency in convolutional networks is well established, it does not suffice in order to account for the success of deep RNNs on data of varying lengths, and the need to address their `time-series expressive power' arises. In this paper, we analyze the effect of depth on the ability of recurrent networks to express correlations ranging over long time-scales. To meet the above need, we introduce a measure of the information flow across time supported by the network, referred to as the Start-End separation rank. This measure essentially reflects the distance of the function realized by the recurrent network from a function that models no interaction whatsoever between the beginning and end of the input sequence. We prove that deep recurrent networks support Start-End separation ranks which are exponentially higher than those supported by their shallow counterparts. Thus, we establish that depth brings forth an overwhelming advantage in the ability of recurrent networks to model long-term dependencies. Such analyses may be readily extended to other RNN architectures of interest, e.g. variants of LSTM networks. We obtain our results by considering a class of recurrent networks referred to as Recurrent Arithmetic Circuits (RACs), which merge the hidden state with the input via the Multiplicative Integration operation. Finally, we make use of the tool of quantum Tensor Networks to gain additional graphic insight regarding the complexity brought forth by depth in recurrent networks.
The Effect of TAI and STAD Strategy towards Learning Outcomes Reviewed from Mathematical Communication Skill

This research was conducted to know the difference in the effect of Team Assisted Individualization (TAI) and Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) strategy on mathematics learning outcomes. This research also aimed to know the difference in the effect of mathematical communication skills on mathematics learning outcomes and the interaction between TAI and STAD strategy and mathematical communication skills in vocational high school. The research type used was experimental research with a quasi-experimental design as the research design. The cluster random sampling was used to obtain two sample classes, namely the experimental class X F consisting of 36 students and the control class X A consisting of 36 students of class X students in SMK Negeri 1 Pedan in the 2019/2020 school year. The experimental class was conducted with TAI strategy and the control class with STAD strategy. The duration of the experimental learning was three meetings and one meeting for examination. The examination result used two-way ANOVA with the unequal cell to know the conclusion. The finding showed that there was an effect of the implementation of TAI and STAD strategy and also mathematical communication skills on mathematics learning outcomes. The learning using TAI strategy produced better mathematics learning outcomes than using the STAD strategy. Moreover, the high-category of mathematical communication skills was better than the medium and low ones. However, there was no interaction between learning strategy and mathematical communication skills on mathematics learning outcomes.
Integrated intelligence assessment for energy systems

Energy systems around the world are striving to become more environmental friendly and efficient. Conventional generation units are replaced by renewable, non-dispatchable and distributed generation (DG). Electricity markets and grids are being coupled to increase competitiveness and the security of supply. Essentially, these developments result in an increased system complexity. Consequently new tools for efficient and safe system operation are required. At the same time digitalisation has started to transform the world around us and the advances in information and communication technology (ICT) holds the potential to master many of the new challenges of the energy domain. The system wide implementation is currently being researched, for example by the German WindNODE-project [1].
Backward and Forward Reviews on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Malaysia: The Evolution and ICT-Driven Future Prospect

This paper discusses two important aspects of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) implementation in Malaysia, namely the evolution and the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in crafting the future of TVET in the Malaysian education landscape. The evolution of TVET is elaborated in seven stages, starting from the era of before the Second World War up to the present new millennium. On the other hand, the role ICT is narrated based on several contexts, such as the history behind ICT integration in TVET education, the advantages, and disadvantages, as well as the challenges and readiness to move along with rapidly shifted industrial demands. Education policies on TVET are constantly enacted and enhanced to ensure that the nation could overcome the challenges of the industrial revolution 4.0. These policies are implemented within three types of TVET institutions, which are school-based, non-school-based, and registered private entities. Therefore, this paper contributes to the existing knowledge by relating the past and the future of TVET education in Malaysia.
Offline tool trajectory compensation for cutting forces induced errors in a portable machine tool

In today’s business environment, the trend towards more product variety and customization is unbroken. Due to this development, the need of agile and reconfigurable production systems emerged to cope with various products and product families. To design and optimize production systems as well as to choose the optimal product matches, product analysis methods are needed. Indeed, most of the known methods aim to analyze a product or one product family on the physical level. Different product families, however, may differ largely in terms of the number and nature of components. This fact impedes an efficient comparison and choice of appropriate product family combinations for the production system. A new methodology is proposed to analyze existing products in view of their functional and physical architecture. The aim is to cluster these products in new assembly oriented product families for the optimization of existing assembly lines and the creation of future reconfigurable assembly systems. Based on Datum Flow Chain, the physical structure of the products is analyzed. Functional subassemblies are identified, and a functional analysis is performed. Moreover, a hybrid functional and physical architecture graph (HyFPAG) is the output which depicts the similarity between product families by providing design support to both, production system planners and product designers. An illustrative example of a nail-clipper is used to explain the proposed methodology. An industrial case study on two product families of steering columns of thyssenkrupp Presta France is then carried out to give a first industrial evaluation of the proposed approach. © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 28th CIRP Design Conference 2018.
ActivePointers: A Case for Software Address Translation on GPUs

Modern discrete GPUs have been the processors of choice for accelerating compute-intensive applications, but using them in large-scale data processing is extremely challenging. Unfortunately, they do not provide important I/O abstractions long established in the CPU context, such as memory mapped files, which shield programmers from the complexity of buffer and I/O device management. However, implementing these abstractions on GPUs poses a problem: the limited GPU virtual memory system provides no address space management and page fault handling mechanisms to GPU developers, and does not allow modifications to memory mappings for running GPU programs. We implement ActivePointers, a software address translation layer and paging system that introduces native support for page faults and virtual address space management to GPU programs, and enables the implementation of fully functional memory mapped files on commodity GPUs. Files mapped into GPU memory are accessed using active pointers, which behave like regular pointers but access the GPU page cache under the hood, and trigger page faults which are handled on the GPU. We design and evaluate a number of novel mechanisms, including a translation cache in hardware registers and translation aggregation for deadlock-free page fault handling of threads in a single warp. We extensively evaluate ActivePointers on commodity NVIDIA GPUs using microbenchmarks, and also implement a complex image processing application that constructs a photo collage from a subset of 10 million images stored in a 40GB file. The GPU implementation maps the entire file into GPU memory and accesses it via active pointers. The use of active pointers adds only up to 1% to the application's runtime, while enabling speedups of up to 3.9× over a combined CPU+GPU implementation and 2.6× over a 12-core CPU-only implementation which uses AVX vector instructions.
On some sums at the a-points of the k -th derivatives of the Dirichlet L-functions

Let L(s, χ) be the k -th derivative of the Dirichlet L-function associated with a primitive character χ mod q and a be a complex number. The solutions of L(s, χ) = a are called a -points. In this paper, we give an asymptotic formula for the sums ∑ ρ (k) 0,χ:0<γ (k) 0,χ<T L(ρ (k) 0,χ, χ) and ∑ ρ (k) a,χ:1<γ (k) a,χ<T L(ρ a,χ, χ) as T → ∞ where j and k are nonnegative integers and ρ a,χ denotes an a -point of the k -th derivative L(s, χ) and γ a,χ = Im(ρ a,χ) . This work continues the investigations of Kaptan, Karabulut, and Yildirim [7, 10] and Mazhouda and Onozuka [12].
OWAMAH: OPTIMIZATION OF BIOGAS PRODUCTION THROUGH THE SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE INOCULUM

*Corresponding author: owamah.hilary@gmail.com doi: http://dx.doi. org/10.4314/njtd.v16i1. 3 ABSTRACT: The impact of Inoculum-to-Substrate (I/S) ratio on the optimization of biogas yield from the co-digestion of FW and MH was investigated in five anaerobic reactors B-1 to B-5 at 37±1C. Cumulative biogas yield of digester B-3(28.92 L/gVS) with the I/S ratio 1 was higher than that of the other digesters. Simulation study through adoption of Gompertz model (modified) showed a large reduction in latency (λ) by 59.7% with increase in I/S ratio from 0.25 to 1, which indicates that the time taken for methanogenesis to begin was reduced by over 59%. Increase in I/S ratio had positive effects on maximum specific biogas production (Rm) and maximum biogas production potential (A) with reactor B-3 having the largest (Rm) and (A) values of 1.26 L/gVS/day and 29.58 L/gVS respectively. Lower I/S ratios of 0.25 and 0.5 were found to rather decrease biogas production. Biogas yield at I/S ratios 2 and 4 was lower than the yield at ratio 1.
Culture and gender effects on ethical reasoning in an auditing context : a comparison of Canada and mainland China

This study investigated culture and gender effects on ethical reasoning in an auditing context using Kohlberg’s (1969) cognitive moral development theory in conjunction with Hofstede’s culture theory (1980, 2001). The study was conducted using Canadian (71) and Mainland Chinese (64) final year undergraduate accounting students. The results indicated that Canadian accounting students had significantly higher ethical reasoning levels than Mainland Chinese accounting students. This suggests that cultural differences affect ethical reasoning in an auditing context. The difference in ethical reasoning scores between Canadian males and females was not significantly different from the difference between Chinese males and females.
Reflective practice: A ‘sweet spot’ in public relations curricula

This paper reports on an ongoing enquiry into the value of formally incorporating reflective practice in public relations curricula. It discusses the findings of an action research project that addressed the question: can formally including reflective practice in public relations teaching programmes assist teachers to fulfil the intense curricula demands of credentialism (the pursuit of formal qualifications or skills as an indication of a person's ability to do a particular job) while adopting a more prosocial approach to the teaching of public relations? The context of this research was an undergraduate, capstone public relations course taught at a New Zealand university. This course provides students with the opportunity to experience authentic elements of the ‘messy swamps’ of professional practice (Schön, 2017) prior to entering the workforce. The paper first discusses the motivations underpinning this research, and why reflection and reflective practice are important for public relations students and practitioners. Next it discusses action research and why it was chosen as the methodology for this research. This part of the paper also explains why Fook and Gardner’s (2007) two-stage reflective method was chosen as the model of formal reflection, and how it was applied. Finally the paper provides specific examples of the complexities and successes that the teaching team faced when formally incorporating reflective practice into the curriculum. The paper concludes with the claim that, despite concerns and difficulties, formal reflection is a ‘sweet spot’ that can provide a way of reconciling the intense curricula demands of credentialism with emerging prosocial approaches to the teaching of public relations.
Motivations and concerns of outgoing Erasmus students

Internationalization of higher education is a priority in the European education policy. Since it began in 1987/1988, the world’s most successful student mobility programme, the Erasmus programme, has provided over three million European students with the opportunity to go abroad and study at a higher education institution. Aiming to speed up this trend, for the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027, the European Commission has proposed to double funding for Erasmus to EUR 30 billion. In this way, it will make it possible to support up to 12 million people between 2021-2027. However, learning mobility barriers still exist and the shares of study abroad participants vary widely across Member States. Within this context, the aim of this contribution is to investigate the motivations and concerns about the experience abroad of 1272 students of a medium size Italian university – the University of Bergamo – that apply for an Erasmus+ or Extra-EU Program. To analyse the data collected by an on-line survey we used the Principal Component Technique.
HCC cell invasiveness by suppressing zonula occludens‐1 (ZO‐1) expression, via direct binding to the 3' untranslated region (3'‐UTR). Analysis of the molecular mechanisms demonstrated that IGF2BP3 binds to the overlapping targets of IGF2BP3‐RNA cross‐linkage and microRNA (miR)191‐5p targeting sites,

Early studies have indicated that insulin‐like growth factor II mRNA binding protein 3 (IGF2BP3/IMP3) may affect the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); however, the detailed underlying mechanisms, particularly its linkage to tight junction protein‐mediated cell invasion, remain unclear. The present study revealed that IGF2BP3 increased HCC cell invasiveness by suppressing zonula occludens‐1 (ZO‐1) expression, via direct binding to the 3' untranslated region (3'‐UTR). Analysis of the molecular mechanisms demonstrated that IGF2BP3 binds to the overlapping targets of IGF2BP3‐RNA cross‐linkage and microRNA (miR)191‐5p targeting sites, and promotes the formation of an miR191‐5p‐ induced RNA‐induced silencing complex. The knockdown of IGF2BP3 or the addition of a miR‐191‐5p inhibitor decreased cellular invasiveness and increased ZO‐1 expression. Analysis of the human HCC database also confirmed the association between IGF2BP3 and HCC progression. Collectively, these preclinical findings suggest that IGF2BP3 increases HCC cell invasiveness by promoting the miR191‐5p‐induced suppres‐ sion of ZO‐1 signaling. This newly identified signaling effect on small molecule targeting may aid in the development of novel strategies with which to inhibit HCC progression more effectively.
D Deformable Object Manipulation using Fast Online Gaussian Process Regression

In this paper, we present a general approach to automatically visual-servo control the position and shape of a deformable object whose deformation parameters are unknown. The servo-control is achieved by online learning a model mapping between the robotic end-effector’s movement and the object’s deformation measurement. The model is learned using the Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) to deal with its highly nonlinear property, and once learned, the model is used for predicting the required control at each time step. To overcome GPR’s high computational cost while dealing with long manipulation sequences, we implement a fast online GPR by selectively removing uninformative observation data from the regression process. We validate the performance of our controller on a set of deformable object manipulation tasks and demonstrate that our method can achieve effective and accurate servo-control for general deformable objects with a wide variety of goal settings. Videos are available at https: //sites.google. com/view/mso-fogpr.
Continuous monitoring of bedload transport in a laboratory flume

4 Bedload transport rate in gravel-bed rivers shows large non-Gaussian fluctuations, even 5 under steady flow conditions. The development of high-resolution measurement techniques 6 during the last two decades creates research opportunities to study the intermittent character 7 of bedload transport and the significance of its fluctuations. In this paper, we investigate the 8 use of an impact plate as an alternative to video-based technology for laboratory applications. 9 The objective is to develop a simple and robust technology that can be run continuously over 10 long periods of time. The impact plate is mounted vertically at the flume outlet. This is a 11 novel non-intrusive configuration, which reduces the uncertainties in the particle transport 12 rate measurement compared to the classical configuration: in that configuration, the impact 13 plate is indeed parallel to the bed and the vibrations recorded by the sensor depend a great 14 deal on the features of particle motion (e.g., the mode of transport, the angle of impact and 15 the particle velocity). In our experiments, we focused on two key variables: the number of 16 moving particles and the bedload transport rate. We measured these variables using the 17 vertical plate sensor and image processing in different flume experiments. We found that 18 the impact plate and the camera reached the same level of accuracy. The vertical impact 19 plate can therefore be an efficient measurement technique, which requires reduced costs and 20 computational resources. 21
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

High returns in emerging markets over the last decade have attracted international investors. This study investigates if and how economic or political news affects stock market activity in two emerging markets: Argentina and Turkey. Our analysis shows that political and economic news influences both the volatility of returns and trading volume in these markets to varying degrees. Results suggest that both economic and political factors, as well as specific market characteristics, should be taken into consideration by international investors when making investment decisions in emerging markets.