Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Resisting appreciation and accumulating reserves in Asia : examining the domestic financial consequences DRAFT 27 December 2007

Since 2002, official reserves in Asia have grown at an unprecedented scale, mainly as a byproduct of official efforts to resist currency appreciation. Apart from the external adjustment and international political repercussions, critics have also warned of the “perils”, or unintended domestic consequences, of countering capital inflows with sterilised intervention. These warnings in the Calvo (1991) tradition are well known and frequently invoked, but to what extent have the risks cited actually materialised in Asia? This paper examines the domestic consequences in three main areas: monetary control, financial stability and central bank profitability and balance sheet risk. We find that, so far, the evidence has not been as strong or widespread as often presumed. With the exception of India, where a number of archetypal symptoms have emerged, other large reserve accumulators have not exhibited conclusive signs of difficulties. We argue that many of the assumptions underlying the Calvotype warnings did not apply broadly to Asia. Indeed, rather than being an independent policy with consequences, we find that the large-scale reserve accumulation in Asia might be better seen as a consequence of the weakness of investment relative to savings in this decade. 1 Bank for International Settlements, Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific. The authors thank Eric Chan and Michela Scatigna for support with tables and graphs. Views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Bank for International Settlements.
Social Emotional Effects of Drumtastic®: A Dyadic within-Group Drumming Pilot Program for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Educators and practitioners working with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are concerned with deficits in positive affect and social-emotional reciprocity, which may affect their daily living and school success. This pilot study explored the social-emotional impact of eight one-hour sessions of a novel dyadic within-group drumming program called Drumtastic for children with ASD at a four-week summer camp. Participants were 14 children diagnosed with ASD ranging in age from 5-14 years. Paired sample t-test revealed that children with ASD scored significantly higher on the posttest on Smiley-o-meter, t(13) = -2.193, p=. 047 and Fun-o-meter, t(13) = -2.235, p=. 044 when compared to their pretest scores. The Social Personal Relationship Scale showed a trend for improvement but did not elicit a statistically significant change in children's social and personal skills. These results suggest that the children with ASD significantly improved in the domains of enjoyment and fun,
Improving solar cell efficiencies by the up-conversion of sub-bandgap light

The concept of improving the infrared absorption of wide band-gap-materials by the insertion of impurities with energies located in the band-gap, the so-called impurity photovoltaic effect (IPV), is an interesting option to increase the efficiency of solar cells. However, the introduction of impurities into a solar cell material has also a major disadvantage. From detailed balance follows that the additional generation channel for electron hole pairs also represents an additional recombination channel. A problem inherent in an IPV-system is that not only the additional electron hole pairs, which are gained by the insertion of impurities, are affected by the additional recombination channel, but all electron hole pairs.
Magnetotelluric investigation of the Iberian lithosphere and asthenosphere beneath Tajo Basin and Betic Cordillera ( PICASSO-Phase I )

The PICASSO project intends to enhance knowledge about the geological setting of the Alboran Domain beneath the western Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding regions, Northern Africa and Iberian Peninsula, and through that knowledge to understand processes related to continent-continent collision. The Iberian Peninsula is the focus of the first phase of DIAS’s PICASSO efforts, and comprises a magnetotelluric profile crossing the Tajo Basin and Betics Cordillera. The overarching goal of this phase is to reveal deep-seated features previously undetected due to the location of the Peninsula on the edge of Europe and the associated complication in deep-probing seismic tomography studies, along with the circumstance that prior MT studies were mainly focussed on regions of alpine orogeny.
Part I An Overview of Computer and Network Security

Computer and network systems have given us unlimited opportunities to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase revenues, as demonstrated by an expanding number of computer and network applications. Unfortunately, our dependence on computer and network systems has also exposed us to new risks which threaten the security of computer and network systems and present new challenges for protecting our assets and information on computer and network systems. This part has two chapters. Chapter 1 analyzes security risks of computer and network systems by examining three elements of security risks: assets, vulnerabilities and threats. Chapter 2 describes three areas of protecting computer and network security: prevention, detection, and response. Chapter 2 also outlines various security protection methods covered in Parts II–VII of this book.
Job Satisfaction as a Mediator in Relationship between Emotional Intelligence , Organizational Commitment in Employees ’ Kerman Universities

The main purposes of the current study were (a) to examine the degree to which job satisfaction mediates the association between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment. Data from 132 participants (65 male and 65 female) were examined using measures of emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. The results of present study indicated that job satisfaction mediate relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment. Also, results of the study revealed that emotional intelligence has positive significant relationship with organizational commitment. Implications for future research are discussed. [Hamid Taboli. Job Satisfaction as a Mediator in Relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Commitment in Employees’ Kerman Universities. Life Sci J 2013;10(1):1-8] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 1
Comparative Study of Secure VerificationSystem against Attacks in Mobile Sensing

The increasing capabilities of mobile devices have given raise to many mobile sensing applications. The problem with existing system of the mobile sensing applications is that the sensor data aggregation assume a trusted aggregator, and hence cannot protect user privacy against untrusted aggregator. An untrusted aggregator in mobile sensing can periodically obtain desired statistics over the data contributed by multiple mobile users, without compromising the privacy of each user. To address this problem, we propose an efficient protocol to obtain the Sum aggregate, which employs an additive homomorphic encryption and a novel key management technique. Evaluations show that our protocols are orders of magnitude faster than existing solutions, and it has much lower communication overhead
Olive and olive oil quality after intensive monocone olive growing ( Olea europaea L . , cv . Kalamata ) in different irrigation regimes

This work reports the results of a study carried out in an intensive monocone orchard of Olea europaea L. cv. Kalamata, a dual purpose (olive oil and table olives) variety, to investigate the influence of different irrigation regimes on productivity and quality of olives and olive oil. Irrigation regimes did not affect the sugar composition of the fruit, while the content of the phenolic compounds varied. In the water stress condition, olive fruit showed an higher cuticular thickness to prevent the loss of water and nutrients. Olive oil composition did not change with irrigation, except for the total phenols, which decreased. A restitution of 66% of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) was sufficient to achieve good yields, while higher water volumes (100% of ETc) gave little additional yield increases. # 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Energy-saving Algorithms for the Control of Backbone Networks: A Survey

The rapid growth of energy demand by wired IP networks can be mitigated on hardware and software levels. While upgrading to more efficient transmission media still brings biggest savings, we take a look here at power-saving algorithms that combine the capability of setting networking equipment in arbitrary energy states which, combined with profound knowledge of the network traffic matrix, leads to considerable complex optimization problem formulations. Alternatively, lightweighted heuristic approaches are presented, built on much simpler network model but still capable to perform energy-efficient traffic engineering. Keywords—green routing, mixed integer programming, OSPF heuristics, power-save networks.
Application of Improved Particle Swarm Optimization for Navigation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Multi-sensor fusion for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is an important issue for autonomous navigation of USVs. In this paper, an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed for real-time autonomous navigation of a USV in real maritime environment. To overcome the conventional PSO’s inherent shortcomings, such as easy occurrence of premature convergence and human experience-determined parameters, and to enhance the precision and algorithm robustness of the solution, this work proposes three optimization strategies: linearly descending inertia weight, adaptively controlled acceleration coefficients, and random grouping inversion. Their respective or combinational effects on the effectiveness of path planning are investigated by Monte Carlo simulations for five TSPLIB instances and application tests for the navigation of a self-developed unmanned surface vehicle on the basis of multi-sensor data. Comparative results show that the adaptively controlled acceleration coefficients play a substantial role in reducing the path length and the linearly descending inertia weight help improve the algorithm robustness. Meanwhile, the random grouping inversion optimizes the capacity of local search and maintains the population diversity by stochastically dividing the single swarm into several subgroups. Moreover, the PSO combined with all three strategies shows the best performance with the shortest trajectory and the superior robustness, although retaining solution precision and avoiding being trapped in local optima require more time consumption. The experimental results of our USV demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method for real-time navigation based on multi-sensor fusion.
Organizational Justice, Organizational Trust and Organizational Identification Perceptions of Physical Education Teachers

The purpose of this study is to determine the association between organizational justice, trust and identification perceived by physical education teachers working at secondary schools and to examine these in terms of some socio-demographic features.This study, significant difference was found between the procedural and interactional justice perceptions of teachers in terms of their organizational justice and, significance difference was found between the justice, trust and identification of physical education teachers in terms of the variables of marital status and social activity. A moderately significant association was found between distributive justice-a sub dimension of organizational justice perceptionsand trust and identification of the research group while a highly significant association was found between interactional, procedural justice and organizational trust. It was concluded that procedural and interactional justice and identification had a significant influence on the teachers’ trust perceptions.
Code-switching online A case study of Swedish-English code-switching in the blog

This study investigates the form and function of Swedish-English code-switching within Swedish pop culture online through a case study of the fashion blog Charlotta Flinkenberg. Code-switching can be found in a multitude of written data; however, research has primarily focused on code-switching in spoken language. This study seeks to explore written codeswitching, and to answer the questions of when, how and why the writer utilizes codeswitching in her blog posts. To facilitate this, a total of 310 blog post published between February 1, 2013 and September 30, 2013 were examined. The data was analyzed to see if any patterns of code-switching occurred as well as to examine what types of words were code-switched. The results show that the writer code-switches most frequently when she is writing about fashion and when answering questions from readers about fashion. The results further show that the most frequent type of code-switching was intra-sentential codeswitching, with a high frequency of code-switched nouns, reflecting the fashion community’s focus on clothes and accessories. The theories applied show that the writer’s code-switching may be a way for her to establish an identity as an integral part of the fashion community and to connect with her readers.
Teaching High Performance Computing through Parallel Programming Marathons

Parallel and distributed programming is essential for exploiting the processing power of modern computing platforms. However, during the first years of a Computer Science course, students usually learn problem solving techniques, data structures and programming paradigms that are inherently sequential, hindering the transition to parallel architectures. Parallel Programming Marathons organized in Brazil are similar to other Programming Competitions around the world and have been used for teaching and stimulating undergraduate and graduate students into learning to "think in parallel" and to develop applications for different parallel architectures, including multicores, clusters and accelerators. This paper presents the structure of this Parallel Programming Marathon and an overview of how it supports regional and national contests. Also, this work presents use cases on Parallel and Distributed Computing course from two different Brazilian universities that use a challenge based learning approach and employ marathon problems as course assignments. This approach contributed to increase students' interest towards High Performance Computing.
SIMILARITY MEASUREMENT WITH SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

The traditional text similarity measurement methods based on word frequency vector ignore the senses of words and the semantic relationships between words, which have become obstacles to text similarity calculation, together with the high-dimensionality and sparsity of document vector. To address the problems, word sense disambiguation based on unsupervised learning is used to identify the senses of words and the key senses are selected to construct the feature vector for document representation. The definition of concept similarity and the similarity weighting factor between vectors are proposed to calculate similarity between two documents on the semantic level. The experimental results on benchmark corpus demonstrate that the proposed approach promotes the evaluation metrics of F-measure.
Multi-Mission Laser Altimeter Processing and Co-Registration of Image and Laser Data at DLR

Introduction: The Institute of Planetary Research (IPR) at DLR has a long tradition in the processing, analysis, and archiving of planetary mapping data. In the past years, we also have become interested in laser altimeter datasets from various planetary missions. Consequently, IPR has joined forces with Technical University of Berlin to develop a system for the processing and storage of laser altimeter datasets, which are typically very large. The system is based on a Linux server and uses PostgreSQL and PostGIS as database software. The system currently contains all data from the MOLA (Mars Global Surveyor), LALT (Lunar Kaguya mission), MLA (MESSENGER), and LOLA (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) instruments. The main purpose of the system is a fast search for laser altimeter data points in a specified area on the surface of the planetary body. Additional functions for recovery of housekeeping data, as well as the calculation of physical parameters like slope and roughness are also implemented. It is planned to use this laser data processing system also for the planning and optimizing of the operations of upcoming instruments like BELA (BepiColombo) and GALA (JUICE). Furthermore, laser altimeter data can be combined with digital terrain models based on stereo images (stereo DTMs). Through the co-registration the individual advantages of these complementary topographic datasets can be combined, while the disadvantages are avoided [1]. Typically, laser altimeter data provide high topographic accuracy but it suffers from large gaps in the coverage. For stereo DTMs typically the opposite applies, they provide extensive coverage but less accurate height information. Consequently the combination of both data sets leads to internally consistent topographic products and can be used for quality assessment. Moreover, the temporal coverage of the data sets can be used for measurement of the rotation and tidal deformation of the planetary object [2].
Fracture mechanism characterization of cross-ply carbon-fiber composites using acoustic emission analysis

The sequence of microscopic fracture mechanisms in locally loaded cross-ply carbon-fiber composites was studied by analyzing acoustic emission (AE) signals in combination with the modal analysis of Lamb waves, using microscopic and ultrasonic examination of the specimen after load interruption. The first 70 AE events were analyzed, which were detected during the initial loading segment when the first sudden load drop and gradual load recovery were observed. Characteristics of the detected waves were compared with the S0and A0-mode Lamb waves produced by a spotor line-focused YAG laser. The internal damage progression of the composite specimen was determined to be the fiber fracture in the front lamina, transverse cracks in the mid-lamina, delamination and splitting. 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Māori business news in the Mass Media

Despite numerous historical and contemporary demonstrations of their business acumen, hegemonic discourses represent Māori as dishonest, lazy, incompetent and unfairly privileged in this domain. We studied the items about Māori business in a large representative national sample of newspaper coverage gathered in 2007/8 using content, thematic and discursive analyses. From these data we conclude that mass media newspapers in Aotearoa reproduce hegemonic views through very low levels of coverage and frequent recourse to Pākehā expectations about Māori business. The overall effect is to minimise, marginalise and denigrate important Māori contributions to this vital arena of national life.
Scalable and Secure Dynamic Key Management Framework for Static and Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Network consists of diverse numbers of resource constrained sensor nodes that are deployed in the field to sense the real world attributes and send the sensed information in-terms of digital data to one or more centralized processing units or base stations for analyzing the data. Since the medium of data communication happens wirelessly, there are possibilities for the intruders to attack the network to obtain the secret information and to disrupt the service of the network. From the literature, it can be understood that there is no unique security solution available that defends against all kinds of security attacks. While designing the security protocol for wireless sensor networks, the availability of resources, the consequence of attackers and the complexity level of security required by the application should be considered. As a part of the network security, the key management plays a vital role in it. The key management should be chosen by considering the constraints of the devices and the requirements of the application for which the security to be provided. When compared to the key managements such as public key management, pairwise key management and group based key management, the dynamic key management efficiently utilizes the memory and energy resources. Also the dynamic key management is scalable in nature. In the first study, the secret key based security solution is presented for homogeneous wireless sensor networks in which the nodes are assumed to be static. This solution provides security for the small scale wireless sensor network applications such as homeland security, small and medium scale
USE OF THE rep-PCR TECHNIQUE FOR DIFFERENTIATING ISOLATES OF RHIZOBACTERIA

In this study, the rep-PCR technique was used to differentiate isolates of bacteria belonging to genus Pseudomonas and phosphate-dissolving bacteria collected from the root vicinity of apple and sour cherry trees. DNA amplification was carried out with complementary primers for repetitive sequences: REP (repetitive extragenic palindromic sequence), ERIC (enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus) and the BOX element. The most differentiated DNA profiles were observed when using REP1R-I and REP2-I primers, in reactions with which 25 different DNA patterns were obtained for 28 isolates. In reactions with the primers ERIC1R and ERIC2 or BOXA1R, 24 and 22 patterns were obtained, respectively. Following the use of all the primers, no differences were found in the DNA profiles of two isolates of Pseudomonas bacteria and three isolates of phosphate-dissolving bacteria. This result suggests that the isolates in which no DNA polymorphism was observed belong to the same bacterial strain.
Threshold voltage mismatch (Delta;VT) fault modeling

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Planning and design of smart grids with virtual power plants

While traditional planning and design of the distribution network is mainly based on developments of power demand and connection requests, nowadays the contribution of distributed energy resources (DER), including storage devices and controllable loads, as well as the deployment of electrical vehicles should be taken into account. To embed these newcomers in the power system and to give them an active role the concept of the virtual power plant (VPP) is selected. While the combination of VPP systems with active distribution network management leads to smart grids operation, this paper discusses the planning and design of smart grids in which the VPP concept is fully employed. First the developments of DER, controllable loads, storage devices and electrical vehicles are considered. This is followed by an assessment of the planning methodology of the passive and active distribution network in order to discuss the needed optimization.