Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Volatility of short term capital flows and socio-political instability in developing countries: A review

The paper reviews the theoretical and empirical evidence on the relationship between financial liberalization and socio-political risk by identifying the inter-dependent nature of socio-political and economic fault lines. In particular, the research examines the dynamic relationship between the volatility of short-term capital flows and socio-political instability. Accordingly, the socio-political risk is argued to be endogenously determined with the volatility of short term capital inflows such that increasing volatility by disrupting market activities, domestic investment and growth increases socio-political risk, which further feeds into the volatility of such flows. Using evidence from three major developing countries that are Argentina, Mexico and Turkey and applying Granger causality tests and Impulse Response Functions, the paper finds support for the presence of an endogenous relationship between the volatility of short-term capital inflows and socio-political instability. The results challenge the previous research regarding the use of political risk as a purely exogenous variable.
A Morphometric Analysis of Carollia ( Chiroptera , Phyllostomidae )

The species ofbats in the genus Carollia present a complex pattern of morphological variation which complicates identification of species. I examined sexual and geographic variation in cranial and mandibular measurements of 475 specimens of Carollia selected to represent the geographic range ofeach species in the genus: brevicauda, castanea, perspicillata, and subrufa. All species were easily separated by canonical variates analysis, with C. castanea being the most distinctive. Sexual dimorphism is present in all species and males consistently are larger than females. Significant differences are present among populations in all species. Carollia subrufa and C. brevicauda have morphologically distinct populations in the northern and southern portions of their range, whereas different populations of C. castanea sampled show no clear geographic pattern. Character values from samples of C. perspicillata form a continuum with non-overlapping values from the northernmost and southernmost portions of their geographic range. I Curatorial Intern, Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History. Copyright American Museum of Natural History 1984 2 4
Simulation of potential impacts of man-made land use changes on U.S. summer climate under various synoptic regimes

This study evaluates impacts of land use changes due to human settlement on regional summer climate over the central and western United States by performing 30-day simulations during normal, drought, and flood years. Under current land use the simulated evapotranspiration increased noticeably over the central United States where grassland has been replaced by crops. Simulated evapotranspiration decreased slightly in the western United States. These changes produced wetter and cooler surface air over the central United States and slightly drier and warmer air over the western United States. Responses of surface fluxes and thus screen height variables to land use changes were consistent from year to year, whereas rainfall showed strong interannual variations because of the combination of various dynamic processes involved in precipitation. For normal year conditions, average evapotranspiration and rainfall under current land use increased by 18% and 8%, respectively, over the central United States, whereas they slightly decreased in the western United States. In both flood and drought years, current land use exhibited a rainfall increase in the western United States and a decrease over the central United States. The decrease of rainfall with increased evapotranspiration in the central United States was likely associated with weakening of the dynamic forcing needed to produce precipitation.
Randomized Clinical Trial of the Effectiveness of a Home-Based Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse Intervention : Outcomes for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness andHIV

1 Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 418 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19204-4217, USA 2 Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6218, USA 3 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, RWJF, P.O. Box 2316, Route 2 and College Road East, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA 4 Center for Mental Health Policy, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2648, USA
The Volatility of Market Risk In Viet Nam Listed Banking, Insurance and Financial Services Company Groups after the Financial Crisis 2009-2011

The Viet Nam economy, especially the stock exchange, has been influenced by the global crisis during and after the period 2007-2009. How much risk for a typical industry in an emerging market such as Viet Nam? For specific industries, such as banking, insurance, investment and security industries, the risk re-analysis and estimation for the listed firms in these industries become necessary, esp. after the crisis period 2009-2011. First of all, by using quantitative and analytical methods to estimate asset and equity beta of four (4) groups of 32 financial service listed companies in Viet Nam banking, insurance, investment and security industries with a proper traditional model, we found out that the beta values, in general, for most companies are acceptable, excluding a few cases. There are 81% of listed firms with lower risk, among total 32 firms, whose beta values lower than ( ) 1and have stock returns fluctuating more than the market index. Finally, this paper generates some outcomes that could provide both internal and external investors, financial institutions, companies and government more evidence in establishing their policies in investments and in governance.
Evaluation of an Approach Stabilization Advisory system in a B737 full flight simulator

Unstabilized approach has been identified to be a major causal factor of approach and landing accidents (e.g. off runway touchdowns, tail strikes etc.). In the D3CoS project, we conducted experiments in order to analyze pilots workload during approaches. Therefore 15 type rated, commercial pilots flew 4 different approaches each in a B737 full flight simulator. Geometry characteristics, winds and weather conditions were manipulated in order to induce unstabilized approaches. The pilot flying‘s eye gaze, heart rate and subjective data (NASA TLX) were collected. Flight data were also recorded and aggregated with an algorithm to provide a stabilization performance indicator. Flight data analysis suggests that the scenarios were able to induce unstabilized approaches. Moreover, our results showed that only half of the unstabilized approaches were subjectively perceived as critical by the participants. Interestingly enough, a scenario at Dalaman airport was very efficient to induce unstabilized approach and elicited higher physiological responses, as well as higher Nasa TLX scores. The next step is to implement an Approach Stabilization Advisory System (AStA) that monitors aircraft performance/configuration and pilot’s behavior/cognitive state. When AStA detects a potential occurrence of an unstabilized approach, it suggests corrective actions to restabilize the approach or to go around. AStA will be tested in the next experimental campaign of D3CoS.
Nutritional and feeding management Studies on hybrid Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus x O. aureus)

wo experiments were performed in two or three way factorial design on Nile tilapia hybrid (O. niloticus x O. aureus) at the El kanater El khairyia Experimental Fish Research Station belonging to NIOF. The three experiments were carried out in outdoor concrete tanks, each of 10m total water volume. Both experiments lasted 20 weeks after start and fish initial weights for the first and second experiments were 30.24 and 31.76 g, respectively. The first trial aimed to test the interaction between protein (25 or 30 % p25 or p30) and dietary energy levels (15.70; 16.74 or 18.84 Kj g-1 dry diet) on growth performance of hybrid tilapia. In the second experiment, three feeding rates (2, 4 or 6% biomass of fish R2 ;R4 or R6) within each rate two feeding frequencies (2 or 3 times /day F2 or F3 ) within each two stocking densities (25 or 50 fish /m D25 or D50) were tested for their effects on growth performance of hybrid tilapia. Results of the first experiment revealed that the maximum growth performance of hybrid tilapia was obtained using the diet P25% E16.74KJ, which is recommended for hybrid tilapia. Results of the second trial recommended the feeding rate; frequency and stocking density of 4%; two times feeding at 25 fish/ m density, respectively for best growth performance of hybrid tilapia.
Numerical study of the Martelange mine to be used as underground reservoir for constructing an Underground Pumped Storage Hydropower plant

Abstract. Underground Pumped Storage Hydropower (UPSH) using abandoned mines has been considered as a potential high capacity Energy Storage Systems. In UPSH plants, the excess of electricity is stored in the form of potential energy by pumping water from an underground reservoir (abandoned mine in this paper) to a surface reservoir, while electricity is produced (when the demand increases) discharging water from the surface into the underground reservoir. The main concerns may arise from the water exchanges occurring between the underground reservoir and the surrounding medium, which are relevant in terms of environmental impact and UPSH efficiency. Although the role of the water exchanges has been previously addressed, most studies are based on synthetic models. This work focuses on a real abandoned slate mine located in Martelange (Belgium). The effects of different rehabilitation works to prepare the mine as an underground reservoir are assessed in terms of groundwater exchanges and their associated consequences.
Application of Multinomial Logistic to Smallholder Farmers’ Market Participation in Northern Ghana

The contribution of agriculture to the development of a country cannot be over emphasized, likewise the role played by smallholder farmers in the production of food in developing countries such as Ghana. Hence, the research examined the factors that affect market participation of smallholder farmers in Ghana. The Ghana Living Standard Survey data as published by the Ghana Statistical Service was employed and analyzed with the application of multinomial logistic regression model. Analysis of the data in the Northern part of Ghana indicate a very low market participation relative to the national average figure of 36% which itself is considered to be low at the international level. The results further show that, out of the total food crops produced (cereals), maize takes the highest whilst millet is the lowest cereal produced in Ghana. The results also revealed that only 24.2% of the total output of cereals produced in the study area is sold. The multinomial logistic results show that being a female farmer, having access to credit, increase in farm size and household size were factors that discourage subsistence farming and encourage market-oriented farming. The study recommends the promotion of small scale farmer participation in marketing of their produce through improving access to credit, land reallocation and promotion of female farmers’ commercial participation.
Nanoscience: Friction and Rheology on the Nanometer Scale

The 2002 issue of the book “nanoscience” is a reprint of the first edition that was published 1998 and which was written in the years 19951998. Therefore this book cannot provide detailed information on the latest results in the field of “Friction and Rheology on the Nanometer Scale”. The book, however, was intended to give an introduction for students and beginners in the field, a goal that is still achieved with this reprint. The book starts with a description of the history of tribology that gives a nice impression of the early scientific work. It follows a chapter on instrumentation that includes basic mechanical experiments, more developed tribometers, the surface force apparatus and friction force microscopy. The next three chapters deal with normal forces at the atomic scale, the understanding of lateral forces and dissipation mechanisms. The longest chapter covers nanorheology and nanoconfinement and finally the generation of ultrasonic waves in sliding friction and friction force microscopy experiments are discussed. Each chapter contains a list with references to original research papers. The book does provide a good introduction to tribology and will be of use for students. However, the quality of some figures is not very good and there a several cases where the phrasing is rather ponderous.
CONCEPT AND EVALUATION METHODOLOGY OF ADJUSTABLE TOILETS FOR OLD PERSONS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

This paper describes research activities carried out while developing innovative toilet systems which are able to adjust themselves according to the individual needs of disabled and older people. The EU funded Friendly Rest Room (FRR) project has followed a user centred and a user driven research approach in order to develop and evaluate several toilet prototypes which support disabled persons and older people with functional limitations during toileting. This paper focuses on the concept development and on the evaluation methodology. Beside laboratory tests a field trial with one of the height and tilt adjustable toilet systems was carried out in day care centre. It resulted in a satisfaction rate of 82.3% (N=20). The paper also gives an outlook to the commercialisation of the prototypes and further research activities to improve quality of life. (12.7%) or hardly can (23.4%) leave home due to the fact that adequate toilet facilities simply are not available in the public or semi-public area. This fact forces them to stay at home instead of participating in societal life, and thus affects their quality of life in a massively negative manner. In a sociological perspective, these individuals are in risk of marginalization.
The Solid State 13C NMR Study of Gamma Radiation of Ethylene-Octene Copolymer

Ethylene-octene copolymer (POE) samples exposed to I³-radiation under a series of absorbed doses have been investigated using thermal analysis, solâ€“gel analysis and solid state 13 C nuclear magnetic Resonance (NMR). The chemical shift of POE was assigned and peak evolution as a function of radiation dose was discussed. An obviously evolution is that the peak area of 33.6 ppm decreases as a function of the increase of radiation dose, and at the same time, the peak shape broadens gradually. This indicates that the chain scission occurred between I±-C and branch chain C (methine) or between C1 (the sidegroup hexyl) and branch chain C (methane) after radiation. The chain scission is severer with the increase of absorbed dose.The 13 C NMR spectra of the corresponding gels confirmed the result. The variation in linewidth of the resonance at 33.6 ppm in samples of POE irradiated to different doses was attributed to information of chain, scission, new cross linking, and crystalline components.
The role of business schools in society

Purpose – In the future, the legitimacy of business schools will no longer be in question, nor will their vocation to participate in training the elite (especially of companies) alongside institutes which, in various countries, train top Civil Servants. But this context, which dominant positions always provoke, should not encourage complacency. On the contrary, it should invite reflection on the weaknesses of the institutions in question. Aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approach – Some major new trends in management education are questioned (the use of new information technologies, an initiation to management starting at a much earlier stage of the education track, a different way to grasp the use of case studies). Findings – This paper is an analysis of the functions of business schools and management faculties in universities. It leads one to observe that they appear above all as places busy “reproducing” or “miming” reality. Where science faculties describe, management teaching establishme.
Nonthermal particle and full-wave diffraction effects on heating and current drive in the ICRF and LHRF regimes

Fast waves (FW) are a primary technique for heating and current drive (CD) on the proposed burning plasma device, International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) and lower hybrid (LH) waves are a candidate for edge current profile control. The models used to simulate these two waves rely on assumptions of Maxwellian populations that allow efficient analytic implementations of the plasma response, and in the case of the LH wave, the ray tracing models used are able to follow the very small wavelengths in a continuum manner without requiring a fine computational grid. Recent advances in algorithms and parallel computational methods have allowed these assumptions to be tested, permitting more accurate estimates of heating deposition and CD efficiencies in a burning plasma. Absorption by energetic particles for both waves can be significant, reducing electron heating and associated CD. Wave propagation and absorption are dependent on the velocity space distribution of particles in the plasma and geometric effects of focusing and diffraction. Fusion-born alpha particles and neutral beam ions may interact with these waves in a manner that cannot be accurately modelled by Maxwellian distributions. The AORSA2D code has been modified to use a generalized non-Maxwellian conductivity and applied to ITER reference scenarios. The effects of diffraction on LH waves in toroidal geometry are not well understood because computational limits have prohibited full-wave simulations at those small wavelengths. Simulations of LH waves have been restricted to WKB ray tracing techniques and one-dimensional full-wave in the past, but the availability of massively parallel architectures has made full-wave calculations using an electromagnetic field solver tractable. The TORIC code has been adapted to run on parallel architectures making it possible to resolve the slow electrostatic LH wave. We present full-wave simulations of LH slow and FW in toroidal geometry using a Maxwellian distribution with non-relativistic electron damping in Alcator C-Mod at values of (ωpe/ωce)2 comparable to those expected in the ITER device.
Physical and tapping characteristics of muruchi (Borassus aethiopum) flour as influenced by moisture condition

The influence of moisture content on physical properties and tapping behavior of ‘muruchi’ flour was determined with a view to exploring the possibility of efficient handling at industrial scale. The properties measured were geometric mean diameter, geometric standard deviation, estimated surface area and number of particles per unit gram, loose-filled bulk density and tapped bulk density. Experimental data were simulated using log-normal function to estimate maximum percent mass retained and maximum particle size, while in finite compressibility by tapping and degree of difficulty of tapping were estimated using Sone’s model. Moisture content had a significant influence on the physical properties of the flour. The geometric mean diameter of particle by mass decreased linearly from 286 to 234 µm as moisture content increased from 6.32% to 10.96% (db) while estimated total surface area and number of particles per gram increased linearly from 396.5 to 582.6 cm2, and 515,188 to 1,675,732 particles respectively. The particle size ranged between 75 and 400 µm, where 300 µm particle size was the modal particle size. The estimated maximum percent mass retained and maximum particle size decreased as moisture content increased. Loose-fill bulk density and tapped density had highest and lowest values of 462.46 and 425.35 kg/m3 and 600.71 to 518.53kg/m3 at 6.32% and 10.96% moisture contents respectively. As moisture content increased from 6.32% to 10.96% (db) the maximum volume reduction ratio by tapping decreased from 0.2302 to 0.1797. The infinite compressibility by tapping decreased as moisture content increased while the degree of difficulty of tapping did not show any definitive variation with moisture variation.
Polymer Physics

introduction to physical chemistry and physics of polymers. It is intended to be utilised as a text book for teaching upper level undergraduates and first year graduate students about polymers. Thus it will suit as well for scientists (chemist, physics .) who need to learn about the fascinating field of polymer science. The book starts will an introductory section on general aspects of polymer characterization including basic information on molar mass distribution and molar mass measurements by osmometry, light scattering, viscometry, and size exclusion chromatography. The main body of the book is divided into four parts: I single chain conformations, II Thermodynamics of blends and solutions, III Networks and gelation and IV Dynamics. The first parts describes the various models of ideal chains starting with the freely rotating chain model, the wormlike chain model and the rotational isomeric state model. The radius of gyration is introduced and finally the size measurement by scattering methods and form factors are discussed. The last chapter “real chains” introduces excluded volume effects and the second osmotic virial coefficient. The second Polymer Physics
Explorer Mechanism Design for Mixed Bidders

The Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction has appealing properties when ads are simple (text based and identical in size), but does not generalize to richer ad settings, whereas truthful mechanisms such as VCG do. However, a straight switch from GSP to VCG incurs significant revenue loss for the search engine. We introduce a transitional mechanism which encourages advertisers to update their bids to their valuations, while mitigating revenue loss. In this setting, it is easier to propose first a payment function rather than an allocation function, so we give a general framework which guarantees incentive compatibility by requiring that the payment functions satisfy two specific properties. Finally, we analyze the revenue impacts of our mechanism on a sample of Bing data.
Dissecting the act of god: an exploration of the effect of religiosity on economic activity

Abstract This research explores whether religiosity has a persistent effect on economic outcomes. We follow a three-step analysis. First, we use a sample of migrants in the United States to establish that religiosity in the country of origin has a lasting effect on the religiosity of migrants. Second, by exploiting variation in the inherited component of religiosity of migrants and controlling only for a baseline set of controls, we uncover a causal link between several aspects of religiosity and income level. The empirical findings of the second step suggest that i) church attendance has a positive impact on income; and ii) stronger faith is associated with a higher income. Finally, we augment the set of controls included in the measure of inherited religiosity in order to capture the effects of social capital, education, and of traits conducive to income growth. When controlling for social capital, the effect of religious attendance on economic outcomes vanishes, and when controlling for the presence of traits conducive to growth, the effect of intensity of faith vanishes as well. We therefore conclude that when properly accounting for unobservables, religiosity does not affect per capita income.