Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Preserving User Privacy Through Ephemeral Sharing Design: A Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment in the Online Dating Context

Communication cold-start problems are pervasive in privacy-sensitive settings. For example, due to privacy concerns, users of online dating platforms often refrain from voluntary sharing of sensitive personal information in the initial interaction stage. However, the lack of information sharing impedes trust building, further hurting their probability of securing matches in online dating due to information asymmetry. Considering the privacy-authenticity dilemma and the communication cold-start problem, we examined ephemeral sharing as a privacy-preserving mechanism to navigate the balance between users’ privacy concerns and information sharing in the initial interaction stages in online dating. Ephemeral sharing refers to the digital design that once the information being shared by a sender is disclosed to a receiver for a relatively short period, it will be invisible and non-retrievable to the receiver in the future. In partnership with Summer, an online dating platform, we report a large-scale randomized field experiment with over 70k users to understand how ephemeral sharing influences users’ information sharing behavior and their subsequent matching outcomes. We find that the subjects in the ephemeral group send a significantly larger number of personal photos along with their matching request and a more significant number of photos disclosing the human face. Meanwhile, the ephemeral sharing treatment also leads to a more significant number of matches. Further, through causal mechanism tests, we find that the observed effect on the matching outcomes is fully explained by the increases in requests with photo, a proxy of disinhibition. The sequential mediation tests further show that the increased sharing of personal photos also increases the dating request receivers’ conversational engagements. Lastly, we apply a recursive partitioning algorithm to explore the heterogeneity in the disinhibition effect, and the results illustrate that the platform can perform treatment optimization based on gender, education, and user popularity. Our study contributes to the literature on the design of matching platforms and the literature on using ephemeral sharing designs to address communication cold-start problems in privacy-sensitive settings. Our findings on ephemeral sharing also provide actionable practical implications for the privacy-preserving design of matching platforms.
Mid-Term Results of Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty in Medial Compartment Osteoarthritis

There is still controversy about the best treatment options for patients with medial compartment-involved knee osteoarthritis (OA). In cases of symptomatic medial compartment knee OA when conservative treatment is insufficient, correcting osteotomies such as high tibial osteotomy (HTO) and distal femoral osteotomy, total knee arthroplasties (TKA) or unicompartmental knee arthroplasties (UKA) are both utilized for surgical treatment [1-3]. Though TKA has been considered the gold standart of operative intervention for degenerative knee joint, many authors have shown better long term results for the latter choice, UKA, as well as good knee kinematics and function with lower complication rates. Beside this, preserving the healthy joint structures of the knee and replacing the degenerative compartment alone are the main reason for its rising popularity and led the technique to further increase of the applied frequency [3-5].
Quality and seed production in New Zealand

Seed quality refers to a number of seed related properties which may have varying degrees of practical importance for agriculture. Analytical purity and germination have been the two factors most commonly used in assessing seed quality, but increasingly, information on other quality attributes is required. The present quality status of New Zealand produced seed lots is reviewed, and the importance of seed quality data assessed. Seed production is often for quantity, not quality. The need for research to overcome quality seed production problems is outlined. Additional key words: analytical purity, cultivar purity, germination, seed analysis, seed moisture, vigour.
MORPHOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS OF SCIUROTHAMNION STEGENGAE GEN. ET SP. NOV. (CERAMIACEAE, RHODOPHYTA) FROM THE INDO-PACIFIC

A new ceramiaceous alga, Sciurothamnion stegengae De Clerck et Kraft, gen. et sp. nov., is described from the western Indian Ocean and the Philippines. Sciurothamnion appears related to the tribe Callithamnieae on the basis of the position and composition of its procarps and by the majority of post-fertilization events. It differs, however, from all current members of the tribe by the presence of two periaxial cells bearing determinate laterals per axial cell. Additionally, unlike any present representative of the subfamily Callithamnioideae, no intercalary foot cell is formed after diploidization of the paired auxiliary cells. The genus is characterized by a terminal foot cell (“disposal cell”), which segregates the haploid nuclei of the diploidized auxiliary cell from the diploid zygote nucleus. The nature of three types of foot cells reported in the Ceramiaceae (intercalary foot cells containing only haploid nuclei, intercalary foot cells containing haploid nuclei and a diploid nucleus, and terminal foot cells containing only haploid nuclei) is discussed.
Technical Report 2018-08 Title : Compiling Probabilistic Model Checking into Probabilistic Planning

It has previously been observed that the verification of safety properties in deterministic model-checking frameworks can be compiled into classical planning. A similar connection exists between goal probability analysis on either side, yet that connection has not been explored. We fill that gap with a translation from Jani, an input language for quantitative model checkers including the Modest Toolset, into PPDDL. Our experiments motivate further cross-fertilization between both research areas, specifically the exchange of algorithms. Our study also initiates the creation of new benchmarks for goal probability analysis.
Salivary and Serum Levels of Serum Amyloid A, Haptoglobin, Ceruloplasmin and Albumin in Neonatal Calves with Diarrhoea [1]

This study was aimed at the determination of the serum levels of serum amyloid a (Saa), haptoglobin (Hp), ceruloplasmin (Cp) and albumin (alb), and the salivary levels of Hp and Cp in neonatal calves with diarrhoea. Male and female neonatal Simmental calves, 15 of which were sick and 10 of which were healthy, constituted the study material. Five mL blood samples from the jugular vein and saliva samples absorbed with swabs were collected once from all animals. While serum Saa (P<0.001), Hp (P<0.001) and Cp (P<0.001) levels were found to be significantly higher in the sick calves, compared to the healthy calves, no significant difference was detected for the serum alb levels (P>0.05). Furthermore, the salivary Hp (P<0.05) and Cp (P<0.001) levels of the sick animals were higher than those of the healthy animals. In result, it was ascertained that serum Hp, Saa and Cp levels and salivary Hp and Cp levels significantly altered in diarrhoeic animals. Thus, it is suggested that in studies involving the measurement of Hp and Cp levels, saliva samples could be collected non-invasively as an alternative to blood samples.
Mainstreaming sustainable urban transport: putting the pieces together

This chapter argues that policy-makers and the broader public need to be involved in the ultimate derivation of the relevant measures of sustainable urban mobility, and only then will mainstreaming of this concept be achieved. The normative sustainable mobility framework advocated by the author is intended to facilitate making relative judgments about policy options, and is based on the premise that a more sustainable urban mobility provides more accessibility per unit of throughput (mobility). This chapter also argues that from the “strong sustainability” perspective, the throughput metric might build on the “ecological footprint” approach, while in the “weak sustainability” tradition, the throughput metric might look to transport “full-cost” analysis. The proposed operational definition of sustainable urban mobility provides a straightforward way of conceptualizing sustainable mobility in urban areas.
CONFIRMATORY ANALYSIS OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP DIMENSION TO THE INDONESIAN ACADEMIC LEADER

Understanding Leadership in tertiary education is interesting. Greenleaf, the father of Servant Leadership, has been inspired by several Servant Leadership issues in college before he published his seminal paper on servant leadership. After surveying 11 models and scales of Servant leadership we finally apply the 35-item, six-dimension mea- sure of Servant Leadership Behavior Scale (SLBS). This multi-dimensional measurement was developed by Sendjaya. This study investigates and validates the 6 dimensions and 35 attributes of Servant Leadership. A 35-question questionnaire is used to measure the quality of department heads as the academic leaders in higher education. We study the Servant Leadership Dimension of Head of Department with 120 faculty members. Confirmatory factor analysis is performed to verify and validate the dimension of Servant leadership. It is found that the scale can be used in the context of higher education with one or two significant attributes in every dimension.
Media Framing of Pandemics: A Case Study of the Coverage of COVID-19 in Elite Newspapers of Pakistan

Ayesha Siddiqua, Ghulam Shabir, Atif Ashraf, Ammad Khaliq Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan, ayeshasiddiqua05@gmail.com Professor, Faculty of Media and Communication Studies, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, drshabair@yahoo.com ghulam.shabir@ucp.edu. pk Assistant Professor, Faculty of Media and Communication Studies, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, atifashraf@ucp.edu. pk Multimedia and Broadcast Journalist, BBC ARTICLE DETAILS ABSTRACT History Revised format: November 2020 Available Online: December 2020 Considering the outbreak of Corona pandemic as a case study the article explores the dominant frames used in the coverage of COVID-19 pandemic by the Pakistani English e papers. The media framing is analyzed through qualitative inductive content analysis of the COVID-19 related news stories published in the e papers of Dawn and Express Tribune. Three broad themes emerged as a result of the inductive content analysis which included Scientific Development related to Pandemic; Scale of Pandemic; Social and Economic Impact of Pandemic. The results indicated that the coverage by the e papers was mostly aimed at educating the readers; difficult jargon related to medicine was mostly avoided and where the use of jargon was unavoidable it was properly explained. Most of the stories were developing in nature as the pandemic itself was unfolding at a very fast pace during the selected time frame. The news related information was mostly compiled in a manner which was meant to both warn the readers and the policy makers about the growing scale of the pandemic. The coverage also provided recommendations for the revival of economic and social activities which were halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hidden symmetries and Lie algebra structures from geometric and supergravity Killing spinors

We consider geometric and supergravity Killing spinors and the spinor bilinears constructed out of them. The spinor bilinears of geometric Killing spinors correspond to the antisymmetric generalizations of Killing vector fields which are called Killing–Yano forms. They constitute a Lie superalgebra structure in constant curvature spacetimes. We show that the Dirac currents of geometric Killing spinors satisfy a Lie algebra structure up to a condition on 2-form spinor bilinears. We propose that the spinor bilinears of supergravity Killing spinors give way to different generalizations of Killing vector fields to higher degree forms. It is also shown that those supergravity Killing forms constitute a Lie algebra structure in six- and ten-dimensional cases. For five- and eleven-dimensional cases, the Lie algebra structure depends on an extra condition on supergravity Killing forms.
Design and Implementation Of 4 Bit Flash ADC using LTE and NAND Gate Comparator

-This Paper introduces 4 bit flash ADC design using Linear Tunable Transconductance Element based comparators for high speed and low power consumption using180nmtech. Thermometer to binary decoder with low power consumption, less area & short critical path is selected for the design of low power high speed. Proposed comparator provides improved PSRR (Power Supply Rejection Ratio) compared TIQ (Threshold Inverter Quantizer) comparator NAND based topology is used which improves PSRR as well as linearity; thus eliminates basic limitation of TIQ inverter. Keywords—CMOS-LTE, CMOS-NAND gate, MUX Decoder, ADC, Gain Booster network.
Case Report: Presentation of an unusual cause of carpal tunnel syndrome with accompanying literature review

Background: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a condition seen commonly in clinical practice; high-flow arteriovenous malformations (AVM) can be a rare but important cause. Case Report: We discuss a case of a patient who had developed left CTS in the fifth decade of life as the result of a progressively enlarging congenital peripheral AVM affecting his left upper limb. This case illustrates the clinical challenges encountered in the surgical and interventional management of this complex issue. Discussion:High-flow AVMs affecting the extremities may be comprised of a convoluted network of vessels in high-flow, low-resistance systems that often recur despite intervention. Conclusion: Peripheral AVM affecting the hand can be a rare and therapeutically challenging cause of carpal tunnel syndrome that warrants multidisciplinary team discussion.
Entrepreneurship, Firm Entry, and the Taxation of Corporate Income: Evidence from Europe

Can tax policy foster the creation of new companies? To answer this question, we assemble a novel country-industry level panel database with data on entry (by incorporation) for 17 European countries between 1997 and 2004. Our analysis is based on recent models of how corporate taxation affects firm’s incorporation decision, We compute effective average tax rates and study how the taxation of corporate income affects entry rates at the country-industry level. Drawing on the political economy literature, we account for the possible endogeneity of taxation. We find a significant negative effect of corporate income taxation on entry rates. The effect is concave and suggests that tax reductions affect entry rates only below a certain threshold tax level. We also find that a reduction in corporate tax rates is more effective in countries with better institutional infrastructure. Our results are robust to alternative measures of effective taxation and to the use of alternative and additional explanatory variables.
D CONVOLUTIONAL RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS FOR BIRD SOUND DETECTION Technical Report

With the increasing use of a high quality acoustic devices to monitor wildlife population, it has become imperative to develop techniques for analyzing animals’ calls automatically. Bird sound detection is one example of a long-term monitoring project where data are collected in continuous periods, often cover multiple sites at the same time. Inspired by the success of deep learning approaches in various audio classification tasks, this paper first review previous works exploiting deep learning for bird audio detection, and then proposes a novel 3-dimensional (3D) convolutional and recurrent neural networks. We employed 3D convolutions for extracting spatial and temporal information simultaneously. In order to leverage powerful and compact features of 3D convolution, we employ separate RNNs, acting on each filter of the last convolutional layers rather than stacking the feature maps in the typical combined CNN and RNN architectures.
Microarray Gene Expression and Multiclass Cancer Classification using Extreme Learning Machine ( ELM ) with Refined Group Search Optimizer ( RGSO )

-Microarrays can be utilized to determine the comparative amount of particular mRNAs in two or more tissue samples for thousands of genes concurrently. As the supremacy of this technique has been identified, various open queries arise about suitable examination of microarray data. The multicategory cancer classification is playing a vital role in the field of medical sciences. As the numbers of cancer victims are increasing steadily, the necessity of the cancer classification techniques has become indispensible. In this research, initially preprocessing and normalization process is carried out to select the best gene datasets. Then, a combination of Advanced Integer-Coded Genetic Algorithm (AICGA) and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM), with refined group search optimizer (RGSO) technique is used for gene selection and cancer classification. AICGA is used with RGSO Based ELM classifier to choose an optimal set of genes which results in an efficient hybrid algorithm that can handle sparse data and sample imbalance. The refined group search optimizer based extreme learning machine is used to carry out the classification process. In the proposed RGSO based ELM, the weights and bias to ELM are optimized using RGSO for better simplification and classification of large value of gene datasets. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated and the results are compared with existing methods. The proposed approaches are applied for real time R. Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Dr.NGP Arts and Science College, Coimbatore. E-mail:balakrishnan.scholar@yahoo.com Thirunavu Karthikeyan, Associate Professor, P.S. G. College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore. E-mail:t.karthikeyan. gasc@gmail.com datasets and benchmark datasets taken from dataset repositories. Keywords--Extreme Learning Machine, IntegerCoded Genetic Algorithm, Gene Selection, Classification, Refined Group Search Optimizer
Effect of Physico-chemical Properties and Weed Management Practices on Weed Dynamics of Dalpatsagar Reservoir, Jagdalpur

Scientifically Aquatic weed is known as aquatic macrophytes those plants are unwanted and important secondary producer for any wetland ecosystem. The wetland are the essential part of biological diversity and ecosystem functioning and its utility performance varied by the hydrological and ecosystem functioning (Banner and MacKenzie, 2000). In natural condition, many of aquatic wildlife such as different fish spices, animal, birds, amphibians, and plant spices (macrophytes and plankton diversity) International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 10 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Does Secrecy Signal Skill? Own-investor Secrecy and Hedge Fund Performance

Abstract Using a novel measure of own-investor secrecy, we find that non-disclosure to a fund’s own investors, unlike non-disclosure to the public, does not signal hedge fund skill. Own-investor secretive funds do not significantly outperform transparent funds through an up market, and they significantly underperform their (sub)strategy-matched peers through the down market of the Global Financial Crisis. These results are robust to using factor models and controls for fund illiquidity, complexity, concentration, size, and leverage. These patterns are consistent with funds loading on option-like risks, and additional tests show that secretive funds are exposed to risks akin to put-option writing. Measures of skill proposed by prior research also do not suggest secretive funds possess superior skill. Through the up-market portion of our sample, secretive funds have lower flow-to-performance sensitivity, even controlling for illiquidity, suggesting that investors view secretive and transparent funds differently.
Changes in the Kinematic and Kinetic Characteristics of Lunge Footwork during the Fatiguing Process

Fatigue is a major injury risk factor. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of fatigue on lunging during the fatiguing process. The lower extremity joint kinematics and kinetics of fifteen male collegiate badminton players were simultaneously recorded by optical motion-capture and force plate systems during lunging. In addition to statistical analyses of discrete variables, one-dimensional statistical parametric mapping (SPM (1D)) was used to analyze the waveform data. The hypotheses were that the biomechanics of lunging maneuvers would change during the fatiguing process, and the fatigue effects would differ in different periods (I–V) of the stance phase and in different joints. Results showed that the initial contact angles, peak angles, moments, power, and time needed to reach the peak angles at the hip, knee, and ankle in the sagittal plane all decreased post-fatigue. A continuous decreasing tendency was reflected in the moments and power of hip and, in particular, knee joints (mostly p < 0.001). Period IV showed a significant fatigue response. In conclusion, both discrete and waveform data illustrated the effects of fatigue, however, the results of SPM (1D) analysis showed both the key period and body segments affected by the fatigue response.
The Impact of Peer-mediated Intervention on Children with Special Needs in Inclusion Classroom

Abstract Systematic review aims to analyze the impact of interventions that mediated by peers on children with special needs in an inclusion setting. The review was conducted with the search keywords "peers" and "inclusive class", "peers" and "inclusion settings", "peers" and "inclusive settings", "peers" and "inclusive classrooms" in 2 online databases, namely ERIC and ScienceDirect. There were 11 articles reviewed from the total number of initial searches of 1,233 obtained from screening results according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results show that all interventions that have been implemented involve the role of peers. The focus of interventions various kinds, ranging from children aged 3-16 years and more focus on children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Eleven Interventions that involve peers are significantly able to improve interaction, communication, social skills and social initiation in children with special needs so that it can be a reference in the process of intervention in the further application or research. Abstrak Sistematik review bertujuan untuk menganalisis dampak intervensi yang dimediasi oleh teman sebaya pada anak berkebutuhan khusus di setting inklusi. Review dilakukan dengan kata kunci pencarian “peers” and “inclusive class”, “peers” and “inclusion setting”, “peers” and “inclusive setting”, dan “peers” and “inclusive classroom” pada 2 database online, yakni ERIC dan ScienceDirect. Terdapat 11 artikel yang direview dari jumlah total pencarian awal 1.233 yang diperoleh dari hasil screening sesuai dengan kriteria inklusi dan eksklusi. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa seluruh intervensi yang telah diterapkan melibatkan peran teman sebaya. Fokus intervensi beraneka ragam, mulai dari anak berusia 3-16 tahun dan lebih banyak fokus pada anak dengan Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Sebelas Intervensi yang melibatkan teman sebaya tersebut secara signifikan mampu meningkatkan interaksi, komunikasi, keterampilan sosial dan inisiasi sosial pada anak berkebutuhan khusus sehingga dapat menjadi rujukan dalam proses intervensi pada penerapan selanjutnya. Kata Kunci: Intervensi; Teman Sebaya; Kebutuhan Khusus; Inklusi