Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biochemical Profile of Heliodiaptomus viduus, Sinodiaptomus (Rhinediaptomus) indicus, and Mesocyclops aspericornis and their Dietary Evaluation for Postlarvae of Macrobrachium rosenbergii

The biochemical profiles of a calanoid, Sinodiaptomus (Rhinediaptomus) indicus, and a cyclopoid, Mesocyclops aspericornis, from a natural pond were studied for a period of 1 yr. In S. (R.) indicus, moisture, protein, lipid, carbohydrate, ash, and amino acid contents were 81.1%, 68.1%, 8.9%, 19.11%, 3.2%, and 56.2%, respectively; while in M. aspericornis, the values of these parameters were 82.4%, 69.0%, 12.4%, 13.97%, 4.5%, and 62.9%, respectively. Fatty acid content was higher in M. aspericornis (102.38%) than in S. (R.) indicus (42.87%). Variations were observed with regard to biochemical components in different seasons. The biochemical profile of S. (R.) indicus and M. aspericornis cultured in medium fertilized with an equal mixture of yeast (Y), poultry waste (PW), cotton seed cake (CSC), gingly cake (GIN), and ground nut cake (GNC), was comparable with that of copepods from natural sources. Higher values of the biochemical profile, survival, and growth were recorded in postlarvae of M. rosenbergii fed on a mixture of S. (R.) indicus and M. aspericornis than those fed on individual copepods or on Artemia nauplii. The amino acid content of postlarvae of M. rosenbergii fed on M. aspericornis was higher (71.83%) than that of postlarvae fed on S. (R.) indicus (46.15%) and a mixture of M. aspericornis and S. (R.) indicus (34.48%). The nutritional importance of copepods in aquaculture is discussed.
On the Effects of Private Information on Volatility

We study the impact of private information on volatility in financial markets. We develop a comprehensive framework to investigate this link while controlling for the effects of both public information (such as macroeconomic news releases) and private information on prices and the effects of public information on volatility. Using a high-frequency 30-year U.S. Treasury bond futures data set, we find that private information variables, such as order flow and bid-ask spread, are statistically and economically significant explanatory variables for volatility. Private information is more important than public information, with the effect of a shock to order flow on volatility being four times larger than the effect of a surprise in the most influential macroeconomic news announcement. Moreover, we document an interaction between public and private information effects on volatility, with the impact of order flow on volatility depending positively on the dispersion of analysts' expectations about macroeconomic announcements. Finally, we find that the effect of private information on volatility is larger during contractions than during expansions.
Research on Real-Time Laser Range Finding System

Phase shift laser range finder, as a large-scale, high-precision measurement method, is widely used in industrial and military fields. The traditional laser range finder can not meet the need of real-time, high resolution measurement because of its low anti-jamming capability and time-consuming measurement. Owing to this, multi-channel transmitting and receiving system for phase shift laser range finder based on parallel DSP was designed. Multi-frequency modulation laser can be transmitted and received at the same time, improving the measurement speed and avoiding the wrong data fusion because of target moving. The distance was got by measuring the phase difference between the measurement signal and reference signal, and the Doppler velocity of the target is got by measuring the measurement signals frequency, The measurement signals reference signals were acquired by parallel AD convertors, the phase difference between them was calculated adopting all-phase FFT(apFFT). A new frequency correction method was proposed according to the amplitude spectrum acquired by apFFT, Amplitude spectrum is expanded into Taylor series and the correction value of frequency is calculated by relationship of spectrum lines. Monte Carlo simulation results proved that the new frequency correction method had higher resolution and better stability than Rife method and centro-baric method. The experiments is implemented on a precision guide of 3m-long, on the condition that the sampling frequency of AD converter is 937.5KHz, the apFFT transform point number is 4096, distance and velocity results can be obtained each 10ms, experiments prove that the distance measurement standard deviation better than 0.09mm and the velocity measurement standard deviation better than 0.022m/s are obtained. The system can meet the need of high accuracy ,real-time distance measurement of moving target.
The Role of a Management Accounting System in the Decision-Making Process: Evidence from a Post-Transition Economy

Information about the management accounting system (MAS) is required for high-quality decision-making in business. Thus, MAS has to be appropriately developed and organized. The paper aims to explore the role of MAS in the decision-making process and its changes from the perspective of the economy that shifted from transition towards market-oriented economy. The study was performed on the sample of medium-sized and large Slovenian companies. The methodology comprises an interpretation of responses to the questionnaire, which was distributed in 1995, 2001, 2006, and 2011. The analysis of the data shows changes in the role of MAS over time and indicates the characteristics of MAS during transition and post-transition periods. The role of MAS was assessed by analyzing the frequency of reporting, content, and scope of MAS information for top and middle management. The results show that in times of crisis Slovenian management did not use MAS information more frequently, as suggested by the theory. The results indicate that MAS was not that developed during the transition period in comparison to traditionally developed market economies, while during the post-transition period, especially in the period of crisis, improvements are notable. Based on the results, the authors provide some recommendations for further improvement of MAS in the analyzed companies. The study is designed to make a contribution to management accounting literature from the perspective of a transition economy. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.5755/j01.ee. 26.1. 4873
Subscribers’ Perception of the Quality of Service (QoS) of the Global System for Mobile Services in Ibadan, Nigeria

This paper investigate the perception of users on the quality of service (QoS) provided by the GSM network serviceoperators and the difficulties subscribers encounter during the course of accessing the network service as they affect theirsocial and economic life in Ibadan, Nigeria. A questionnaire titled “User Perception of the Quality of Service of GSMService Providers In Ibadan, Nigeria” was designed to solicit responses from users. Responses are presented usingdescriptive statistics and data alaysed using inferential statistics (chi square). Findings from the research and analysis of datafrom the questionnaire showed that a significant percentage of the respondents are not satisfied with the Quality of Service(QoS) provided by the network operators. Mobile services users experience epileptic services, call drops, low voice callquality, poor interconnectivity, high billing on services and poor reception on network to network service problems.Recommendations were made based on these findings.Keywords: QoS, GSM, Mobile Phones, Ibadan, Nigeria,
Testing for change points in time series models and limiting theorems for NED sequences

This paper first establishes a strong law of large numbers and a strong invariance principle for forward and backward sums of near-epoch dependent sequences. Using these limiting theorems, we develop a general asymptotic theory on the Wald test for change points in a general class of time series models under the no change-point hypothesis. As an application, we verify our assumptions for the long-memory fractional ARIMA model.
Forecasting Consumer Price Indexes for Food: A Demand Model Approach

Forecasting food prices is an important component of the U.S. Department of Agricultureis short-term outlook and long-term baseline forecasting activities. A food price-forecasting model is developed by applying an inverse demand system, in which prices are functions of quantities of food use and income. Therefore, these quantity and income variables can be used as explanatory variables for food price changes. The empirical model provides an effective instrument for forecasting consumer price indexes of 16 food categories.
Chemical composition and heterogeneity of Wild 2 cometary particles determined by synchrotron X‐ray fluorescence

Abstract— Seven cometary dust particle tracks in Stardust aerogel were studied using synchrotron X‐ray fluorescence methods at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NY) and Advanced Photon Source (IL). Elemental maps were produced for each of the tracks and elemental abundances for 156 individual fragments within these tracks were determined. Whole‐track elemental abundances were inferred by summing the elemental masses for the fragments in each track and scaling by the ratio of total Fe in the map and total Fe in the fragments. In general, whole‐track and terminal‐particle abundances are dissimilar. The total Fe masses ranged from 4 to 2200 pg, corresponding to impactors in the size range of 2.7 to 22 μm if Fe abundances are equal to the chondritic value. Systematic variations in element abundance with fragment distance from the aerogel entry point were generally subtle but were pronounced in one track (C2115,19). In this track, Zn/Fe was about three orders of magnitude higher at the top, Cr/Fe was two orders of magnitude higher at the bottom, and S was relatively uniform. Compositional convergence data showed that typically analysis of ˜10 fragments was needed to reach convergent whole‐track abundance. Zinc was an exception, showing non‐convergent profiles and steps due to the presence of rare, high‐Zn fragments. The resulting whole‐track elemental abundances show diverse patterns that are generally chondritic (i.e., within a factor of three of CI abundances) with some exceptions, notably depletions in S and enrichments in the moderately volatile elements Cu, Zn, and Ga. Enrichments in large ion lithophile elements relative to Fe were observed in one track. Correlation matrices showed several strong elemental correlations, notably selenium associated with sulfur (sulfides), a ubiquitous correlation of the first‐row transition metals Cr, Mn, and Fe attributed to the presence of pyroxene, and enrichments of gallium associated with calcium, likely affiliated with Mg‐Al glass.
Medical Image Denoising and Enhancement using DTCWT and Wiener filter

Image denoising is the process to remove the noise from the image which contains noise. Wavelet transform technique is a unique mathematical manipulation framework used for medical image denoising and enhancement implementation. The wavelet techniques are effective to remove the noise due to their ability to capture the energy of a signal in a few energy transform values. A dual-tree complex wavelet transform is used to present the image enhancement process. The proposed technique has the cascaded structure of DTCWT used for generation of different frequency bands for analysis. In this paper, a denoising approach based on dual-tree complex wavelet and Wiener filter technique is used. The result has a better balance between smoothness and accuracy than the DWT and is less redundant than SWT. We used the SIM (Structural Similarity Index Measure) along with PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) to assess the quality of denoised images.
Sediment Yield Assessment for Tannur Dam Reservoir in Jordan

Reservoir sedimentation is caused from erosion process in the catchment area, the sediment build up in the reservoir, reduce its capacity and affect the aim for which the dam was constructed. This study presents an application of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to simulate the water and sediment yield for Tannur dam reservoir in Jordan. The model was calibrated and verified using the monthly average surface flow and sediment measurements at Tannur gauging station. The optimum curve number (CN) was found in the range 82 to 86 and land cover factor (C) in range 0f 0.003 to 0.03. Model validation results estimated the total volume of water of 110.5 MCM and total amount of sediment yield of 0.8 million ton reached Tannur dam reservoir during the period from October 2003 to December 2009. Total sediment yield of 2.5 million ton was predicted for the period 2010-2030. Subbasins 14 and 30 are more susceptible to soil erosion and sediment yields. The present work could assist in quantifying sediment yields in the long-term as well as in identifying the most susceptible areas within the catchment in order to assist policy makers in taking cost-effective management decisions. Keywords: Sediment yield, Erosion, Reservoirs, Tannur dam, Jordan
Comparison of Efficacy of Five Anesthetics in Goldlined Sea Bream, Sparus sarba

Anesthetics are often used to immobilize fish in experimental research. Many chemicals have proved effective in anesthetization of fish. Each chemical has its own advantages and drawbacks. In this study, we selected five anesthetics, quinaldine, quinate, MS-222, benzo- caine, and 2-phenoxyethanol, to test the efficacy in anesthetization of goldlined sea bream, Sparus sarba. Our results indicate that the induction time of the fish exposed to the five anesthetic solutions generally decreased with increasing concentrations, but the recovery time was concentration independent. The effective concentrations which produced anes- thesia within 3 min and allowed recovery within 5 min for the respective anesthetics in goldlined sea bream were: quinaldine, 9 µl/l; quinate, 20 mg/l; MS-222, 100 mg/l; benzo- caine, 50 mg/l; and 2-phenoxyethanol, 400 µl/l. We also present a table which briefly com- pares advantages and drawbacks of the five anesthetics.
Changes in quercetin and kaempferol concentrations during broccoli head ontogeny in three broccoli cultivars

Three broccoli cultivars – spear broccoli ‘Emperor’, crown broccoli ‘Marathon’ and violet broccoli ‘Viola’ – were harvested during head ontogeny from start of head development until over maturity stage (five stages) in three different years. The aglycones quercetin and kaempferol were analysed at optimised conditions of acid hydrolysis by HPLC. Heads of over maturity stage had the highest contents of quercetin and kaempferol. However, the genotype fundamentally determined the quantity and course of the increase in flavonols. Mini broccoli, as a new trend to market vegetables, has lower content of flavonols than the commercial stage, which indicates a reduction in health potentials. Harvesting broccoli heads of over maturity stage should be used as raw material, e.g. for the design of new functional foods.
Simulator for elderly people activity scheduling

Memory based illnesses, such as dementia, is a growing subject amongst the aging population. In order to improve the health care of the senior citizens, the University of Oulu has taken radical steps in the research for new technologies in the field. University of Oulu research has developed a telepresence-based monitoring system for elderly persons called Old Birds. The research done in this thesis concentrates in the virtualization of the caregivers interface, using client-server communication, calendar handling and time-simulation in order to handle senior citizens events, in order to validate the timing and coordination aspects. To tie the time-simulation to the movement of the senior citizens, this research continues the Old Birds project, and movement trajectory editing was developed further by refining waypoint system to be continuous and randomized. The artifact is constructed mostly by using techniques in Unity game engine, PHP scripting and SQL coding accordingly. In order to validate the research, a template scenario was created, that included all the created features, added to the Old Birds environment. The template scenario consisted of a bus trip from Oulu to Muhos. The technologies introduced in the scenario were the waypoint system, time simulation, point of interest stop points including the UI elements, a scene with a map and the calendar system. The template scenario was used by Carita Partanen, who successfully created a validation scenario, as part of one of the three validation scenarios in her own thesis, Community-level Social Activation of Elderly People Supported by ICT.
Genetic diversity in peripheral and central populations of the Cantabrian endemism Genista legionensis (Pau) M. Laínz (Fabaceae)

The impact of habitat fragmentation and isolation on the genetic diversity of populations has attracted much attention in studies of plant conservation. The central-peripheral population hypothesis predicts that peripheral populations have reduced genetic variability, so it is often assumed that they deserve higher conservation priority over central populations. In this work, using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), we studied the genetic diversity of central and peripheral populations of the Cantabrian endemism Genista legionensis (Fabaceae). At the species level, percentage of polymorphic bands, Nei heterozygosity and Shannon information index were PPB = 89.21%, H e = 0.246 and I = 0.377, respectively. The study revealed that peripheral populations were smaller in number, with lower levels of genetic diversity compared to the central populations. Furthermore, analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) indicated that most of the variability was partitioned among populations, also supported by principal coordinates analysis. This study indicates that the decrease in diversity from central to peripheral populations could be explained as a result of edge effect and fragmentation through the enhanced inbreeding and genetic drift, and thus supported the view that habitat fragmentation and related edge effect reduce the population genetic diversity. However, the presence of discriminating fragments in the peripheral populations suggests their conservation in order to preserve the genetic diversity in the Cantabrian endemism G. legionensis .
Impact of Resources and Strategies on Construction Company Performance

Globalized competition and customer needs forced construction companies to measure their performance beyond the financial measures such as profitability, turnover, etc. As qualitative determinants were added to measurement systems, their investigation and evaluation became a major area of research. In this study, the impact of "resources and capabilities," "strategic decisions," "project management competencies," and "strength of relationships with other parties" on "company performance" was investigated. A question- naire survey was administered to 73 Turkish contractors and the results of the survey were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings indicate that, as expected, resources and capabilities and strategic decisions have an important and direct impact on company performance, whereas project management competencies and strength of relationships with other parties impact company performance only indirectly, through their impact on companies' resources and capabilities and strategic decisions. DOI: 10.1061/ASCE0742-597X201026:19 CE Database subject headings: Construction management; Measurement; Resource management; Productivity. Author keywords: Company performance measurement; Resources and capabilities; Project management competencies; Strategic decisions.
Evaluation of a Double Pipe Technology-Performance for Sponge City

China is a country with severe water problems including dimensions of water scarcity, flooding, and water pollution, all of which have been intensifying in urban areas and threatening socio-economic development. In recent years, urban flooding has become very frequent, pervasive, and severe. For example, it was reported that 641 out of 654 Chinese cities have incurred frequent floods in a survey conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development (MOHURD). This study showed that over the period 2008–2010, 62% of 351 cities surveyed suffered urban flooding, and 39% experienced flooding on three or more occasions. Since 2008, the number of Chinese cities affected by floods has more than doubled, and at least 130 cities have experienced flooding nearly every year [1].
Enhancement of Polygalacturonase Production from Enterobacter Aerogenes NBO2 by Submerged Fermentation

The bacterium, Enterobacter aerogenes NBO2 was cultivated in 250 ml Erlenmeyer flask under submerged fermentation and physiochemical characteristics were studied in order to improve the pectinase production. Fermentation condition improved were pH 6.5, cultivation temperature of 37°C, inoculums size of 3% (v/v) 7.4x10 8 cell/ml and agitation speed of 250 rpm, together with pectin concentration of 1.50% (w/v) and 0.26% of yeast extract as carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively had produced the highest pectinase production of about 18.54 U/mL and 0.43 g/L cell growth at 24 hours incubation time. The enzyme production by this bacterial isolate was found not growth dependent. There were increment in enzyme production and cell growth after improvement of physical and chemical parameters.
Tilburg University Simulation Optimization through Regression or Kriging

This chapter surveys two methods for the optimization of real-world systems that are modelled through simulation. These methods use either linear regression metamodels, or Kriging (Gaussian processes). The metamodel type guides the design of the experiment; this design fixes the input combinations of the simulation model. These regression models uses a sequence of local first-order and second-order polynomials– known as response surface methodology (RSM). Kriging models are global, but are re-estimated through sequential designs. "Robust" optimization may use RSM or Kriging, and accounts for uncertainty in simulation inputs.
Unit Roots, Nonlinear Cointegration and Purchasing Power Parity

We test long¨Crun PPP within a general model of cointegration of linear and nonlinear form. Nonlinear cointegration is tested with rank tests proposed by Breitung (2001). We start with determining the order of integration of each variable in the model, applying relatively powerful DF¨CGLS tests of Elliott, Rothenberg and Stock (1996). Using monthly data from the post¨CBretton Woods era for G¨C10 countries, the evidence leads to a rejection of PPP for almost all countries. In several cases the price variables are driven by permanent shocks that differ from the ones that drive the exchange rate. Also, nonlinear cointegration cannot solve the PPP puzzle.
The impact of customer interaction on customer loyalty in Taiwan’s international tourist hotels: the mediating effect of service quality and trust

This study aimed to explore the relationships among customer interaction, service quality, trust, and customer loyalty. Based on 318 data from Taiwan’s international tourist hotel customers, result reveal that: (1) trust has the biggest direct impact on customer loyalty, followed by service quality and customer interaction (2) service quality has a positive impact on customer loyalty and is also an important intervening variable derived from customer interactions that affects customer loyalty (3) trust has a positive impact on customer loyalty and is also an important intervening variable derived from customer interactions that affects customer loyalty.