Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bounds, health habits and anchoring income effects

Surveys are often design so that initial non-respondents to some continuous amount can disclose partial information with follow-up questions. These questions are often based on prompting responses with a sequence of bids that classify the undisclosed amount within a category. Secondary variables may reduce the problem of nonresponse but are unlikely to eliminate the problem altogether, thus, identification of the population parameters remains problematic. Furthermore, eliciting partial information by ‘anchoring' the answers to a set of bids may induce anchoring bias. This paper develops from Horowitz and Manski (1995, 1998) to derive bounding intervals with partial information that allow for anchoring effects according to the experimental finding in Jacowitz and Kahneman (1995). The bounds provide regions of identification allowing for any type of non-random nonresponse. The method is illustrated using the 1996 wave of the Health and Retirement Study to show that bounding intervals can be used to detect for differences in health habit between income sub-groups in the population.
The Effect of Crack Orientation on Ethanol-Induced Crack Healing in Poly (Methyl Methacrylate)

The line- and the cross-crack healing of Poly(methyl methacrylate, PMMA) under the methanol treatment at 40℃~60℃ have been studied. The cross-crack means that the crack plane is vertical to the crack plane of the line-crack. The effective glass transition temperature of PMMA is reduced after the methanol treatment. Both crack healings only occur at the effective glass transition temperature lower than the transport temperature. Both crack closure rates are constant. The closure rate of the cross-crack is higher than that of the line-crack. The analyses of the surface morphology and mechanical strength show that there are also two stages for crack healing which is wetting and diffusion. The tensile fracture stress of the healed specimen increases with a rise in volume fraction of the absorbing methanol. The tensile fracture stress of healed PMMA with line- or cross-crack can be recovered to the virgin material. The tensile fracture stress of healed PMMA with cross-crack is larger than that with the line-crack.
METAL AND METAL-SULPHIDE CONTAINING CARBONS FROM SULPHONATED STYRENE-DIVINYLBENZENE COPOLYMER BASED ION-EXCHANGERS

A temperature controlled carbonization process (5-800 °C for 1-4 h) of metal forms of various types of partially or completely saturated sulphonated styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer based ion-exchangers loaded with various valence state metal ions has been evaluated. The effect of temperature, nature and valence of metal ions, cross-linking and other parameters on the composition and properties of the synthesised composites have been evaluated. Depending on the ionic form and the degree of saturation of the ion exchangers the sulphur content of the ion-exchangers can partially transform into metal sulphides, SO 3 or SO 2 . Ni(II), Mn(II) and Zn(II) forms of the ion-exchangers resulted the appropriate M II S type metal sulphides (NiS, MnS or ZnS), while copper(II) resulted metallic copper formation at 500 °C in 2 h. Both iron(II) and iron(III) forms of sulphonated styrene-divinylbenzene copolymers resulted Fe 0.95 S and a-Fe formation at 800 °C for 2 h, however, the ratio of these compounds depended on the valence state of iron and were found to be 8:1 and 7:2 in the case of Fe(III) and Fe(II)-forms, respectively. The shape of the so formed carbon particles are bead-like and the hardness of the formed carbon beads proportional with the divinylbenzene content of the starting polymer. The higher divinylbenzene content the harder beads of carbon forms. All the beads have a leakage path due to evolution of gases which emitted at the weakest part of ball-like bead. The ball-like metal-containing activated carbon beads have low hydrodynamic resistance towards fluid streams and this carbonisation method can be used as an environmentally friendly way for processing of waste ion-exchangers into industrially usable carbon based metallic containing composites.
Wiki-worthy: collective judgment of candidate notability

The use of socio-technical data to predict elections is a growing research area. We argue that election prediction research suffers from under-specified theoretical models that do not properly distinguish between ‘poll-like’ and ‘prediction market-like’ mechanisms understand findings. More specifically, we argue that, in systems with strong norms and reputational feedback mechanisms, individuals have market-like incentives to bias content creation toward candidates they expect will win. We provide evidence for the merits of this approach using the creation of Wikipedia pages for candidates in the 2010 US and UK national legislative elections. We find that Wikipedia editors are more likely to create Wikipedia pages for challengers who have a better chance of defeating their incumbent opponent and that the timing of these page creations coincides with periods when collective expectations for the candidate's success are relatively high.
Effects of larval diet on female reproductive output of the European coccinellid Adalia bipunctata and the invasive species Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

Cannibalism and intraguild predation (IGP) are both common phenomena amongst aphidophagous coccinellids and serve as vital alternative feeding strategies which can prolong survival during periods of aphid scarcity. A reduction in essential prey den- sity and the acceptance of conspecific or heterospecific prey are likely to have a considerable influence on both larval development and adult reproduction. However, little is known about the legacy of larval diet on adult performance. This paper considers the effects of the diet provided to larvae of Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) and Adalia bipunctata (Linnaeus) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on the reproductive output of the resulting females. Results showed that larval diets, including treatments analogous to competition and IGP, did not affect adult longevity, ovipositional lag, proportion of eggs laid in clutches or ovariole number in H. axyridis or A. bipunctata. However, some variation in the maximum clutch size and oviposition rate was seen. A larval diet of unlimited aphids resulted in the largest clutches of eggs being laid by both species. The total number of eggs laid over 30 days was largest for H. axy- ridis when larvae were reared on unlimited aphids or limited aphids supplemented with either conspecific or heterospecific eggs, whereas oviposition was lower for A. bipunctata females that had received conspecific or heterospecific eggs in their larval diets. The results have also enabled us to make some general comparisons of reproductive parameters between the two species, and to refute the hypothesis that the maximum clutch size laid by a female ladybird is limited by the number of ovarioles within an ovary. We conclude that IGP of A. bipunctata eggs by H. axyridis larvae has a positive effect on reproductive output and is therefore likely to further contribute to the spread and increase of H. axyridis in Britain.
Designing Websites for People with Cognitive Disorder

This article highlights current issues involved in designing websites which are usable for people with cognitive disorder. This is as a result of the growing number of the elderly and other people with cognitive problems who have been reported to find it difficult to access or use a number of websites today. This review employs a narrative approach with critical analysis of key issues and recommendations in current literatures. Overall, findings from this study suggests that people with cognitive disorder and those specialized in such conditions should be incorporated more in the design of guidelines for developing websites and also in designing websites. The outcome of this study will provide relevant stakeholders with insight on some of the issues faced in designing websites that are accessible and usable to people with cognitive disorder and recommendations for future designs.
SIMOLA: Helping language learners bridge the gap

Mobile and ubiquitous learning technologies provide the opportunity for students of foreign languages living in a target language country to bridge the gap between classroom teaching and experience of using language in context. These technologies can be used in the contexts in which the language learner needs to apply his/her language skills for producing or interpreting language. The SIMOLA (Situated Mobile Language Learning) project, funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme, is developing a mobile phone application that enables students to collect, annotate, and tag interesting or puzzling language- and culture-related content found in everyday life, including text, images, and other media, and to upload these content items to a repository. From the repository, the information can be syndicated, e.g. via RSS feeds/widgets integrated into websites, blogs and profile pages, and alerts to subscribing mobile phones. The mobile application is complemented by a Web interface more appropriate for extensive editing and extensive text-based communication, thus combining the affordances of the two platforms. In this paper we describe the thinking behind the project, which is being evaluated with a) higher education students and b) adult immigrants, in six European countries and in Japan.
The Relationship between Intellectual Capital with Economic Value Added and Financial Performance

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (human capital efficiency, customer capital efficiency, and structural capital efficiency) and economic value added of the listed companies on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The population includes 39 firms selected through systematic sampling. The data is collected from the audited financial statements of the firms provided by TSE’s website from 2007 to 2010. The results of multiple linear regression analysis show that there is a significant relationship between financial performance of firms and intellectual value added, intellectual capital efficiency, relational capital efficiency, human capital efficiency, structural capital efficiency, and economic value added. However, the results of fuzzy regression analysis indicate significant relationships between the financial performance of firms and all the independent variables except structural capital efficiency and economic value added.
Exploratory distributions for convex functions

Given a Lipschitz and convex function f on a compact and convex domain in R, we construct an exploratory distribution of f in the following sense. Let g be a Lipschitz and convex function on the same domain, such that either g D f , or alternatively the minimum of g is " smaller than the minimum of f . Then is such that poly.n="/ noisy evaluations of g at i.i. d. points from suffices to determine with high probability whether g D f or g ¤ f . As an example of application for such exploratory distributions we show how to use them to estimate the minimax regret for adversarial bandit convex optimization. Mathematics Subject Classification (2010). 52A20; 62C05.
A Survey of Research on Health Monitoring System using Mobile Cloud Computing by Home Node Base Station

This paper presents a E-health monitoring scheme based on HNB (home node base station) and mobile cloud computing. In this method, the health data of each user is captured by using sensors and sent to the corresponding devices (i.e desktop, laptop, mobile). From that device the health data is transferred to cloud under which the mobile device is registered. In HNB it is verified whether the user’s health is normal using a database stored inside the HNB. If any abnormality is detected it will shows some indication through some sounds or light. The E-health data are send to cloud for each 15 seconds. In cloud also the data is verified with the normal data and if any abnormalities found it will indicate by sending message to the corresponding healthcare center. The health data in the cloud are stored with high security and only authentic healthcare center can access the data. Based on health data the healthcare centre takes proper action to cure the patient. KeywordsMobile cloud computing, Home node base station, E-health monitoring, Healthcare centre, E-health Data __________________________________________________*****_________________________________________________
Actions Speak Louder than Goals: Valuing Player Actions in Soccer

Assessing the impact of the individual actions performed by soccer players during games is a crucial aspect of the player recruitment process. Unfortunately, most traditional metrics fall short in addressing this task as they either focus on rare actions like shots and goals alone or fail to account for the context in which the actions occurred. This paper introduces (1) a new language for describing individual player actions on the pitch and (2) a framework for valuing any type of player action based on its impact on the game outcome while accounting for the context in which the action happened. By aggregating soccer players' action values, their total offensive and defensive contributions to their team can be quantified. We show how our approach considers relevant contextual information that traditional player evaluation metrics ignore and present a number of use cases related to scouting and playing style characterization in the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons in Europe's top competitions.
Experimental investigation of the check valve behaviour when the flow is reversing

Check valve in a pipeline is supposed to prevent the reverse flow and to allow the flow in the positive direction. The construction of check valves follows these requirements, but the check valve must not cause pressure pulsations in transients. It means when the fluid is accelerating or decelerating. The article describes an experimental investigation of a swing check valve when the flow is changing its direction. The check valve was placed in an experimental circuit, where the pressure on the upstream and downstream side of the valve was measured and the current value of flow rate was determined. The goal was to simulate conditions in the real system, where the check valve slam had been observed.
Code-Mixing As a Sociolinguistic Device in Hausa Contemporary Literature

Nigeria is a part of sub-Saharan Africa, which has a diverse linguistic system, with many different languages spoken by over 170 million people (Powlak, 1998; Newman, 2000). Hausa language is one of the three major languages. Hausa contemporary literature is popular Hausa literary form of writing that provides reading materials for pleasure and entertainment to the youth. The country has many literary writers in the southern and northern parts. This study looks into the role of code-mixing in some selected Hausa novels from Hausa contemporary literature writers. The study also reviewed some research works that looked into the influence of code-mixing in literary writing. This paper employs a qualitative method for analysing of the selected code-mixing appearing in the three novels. The findings revealed that code-mixing is one of the linguistic devices used for communicative purposes among the characters in the Hausa literary texts.
Encryption Schemes for Scalable Cloud Storage

— Cloud system is used to provide large number of storage servers, which provide long-term storage service over the Internet. Cloud is having its feature scalability which provides the scalable cloud storage; varying data storage size that means an owner can increase the data size of the storage for the particular user. Constructing centralized storage system for the cloud system makes hackers stole the data easily for which general encryption schemes protects the data confidentiality. In our study a secure distributed storage system is formulated by integrating an efficient public-key encryption scheme. It supports flexible delegation in the sense that any subset of the cipher texts which is produced by the encryption scheme and is decryptable by a constant-size decryption key generated by the owner of the master-secret key.
On synthetic gravitational waves from multi-field inflation

We revisit the possibility of producing observable tensor modes through a continuous particle production process during inflation. Particularly, we focus on the multi-field realization of inflation where a spectator pseudoscalar σ induces a significant amplification of the U(1) gauge fields through the coupling ∝ σFμνF̃μν. In this model, both the scalar σ and the Abelian gauge fields are gravitationally coupled to the inflaton sector, therefore they can only affect the primordial scalar and tensor fluctuations through their mixing with gravitational fluctuations. Recent studies on this scenario show that the sourced contributions to the scalar correlators can be dangerously large to invalidate a large tensor power spectrum through the particle production mechanism. In this paper, we re-examine these recent claims by explicitly calculating the dominant contribution to the scalar power and bispectrum. Particularly, we show that once the current limits from CMB data are taken into account, it is still possible to generate a signal as large as r ≈ 10−3 and the limitations on the model building are more relaxed than what was considered before.
Runoff generating processes in adjacent tussock grassland and pine plantation catchments as indicated by mean transit time estimation using tritium.

Abstract. The east Otago uplands of New Zealand's South Island have long been studied because of the environmental consequences of converting native tussock grasslands to other land covers, notably forestry and pasture for stock grazing. Early studies showed that afforestation substantially reduced annual water yield, stream peak flows, and 7-day low flows, mainly as a consequence of increased interception. Tritium measurements have indicated that surprisingly old water is present in catchments GH1 and GH2, and the small headwater wetland and catchment (GH5), and contributes strongly to baseflow. The data have been simulated assuming the presence of two types of water in the baseflow, young water from shallow aquifers connecting hillside regolith with the stream, and old water from deep bedrock aquifers, respectively. The mean transit time of the young water is approximately one month, while that of the old water is 25–26 years as revealed by the presence of tritium originating from the bomb-peak in NZ rainfall in late 1960s and early 1970s. Such a long transit time indicates slow release from groundwater reservoirs within the bedrock, which constitute by far the larger of the water stores. Comparison of the results from catchments GH1 (tussock) and GH2 (pine forest) suggests that about equal quantities of water (85 mm/a) are contributed from the deep aquifers in the two catchments, although runoff from the shallow aquifers has been strongly reduced by afforestation in GH2. This study has revealed the presence of a long transit time component of water in runoff in a catchment with crystalline metamorphic bedrock.
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Z. W. KUNDZEWICZ, L. J. MATA, N. W. ARNELL, P. DÖLL, B. JIMENEZ, K. MILLER, T. OKI & Z. ŞEN 1 Research Centre for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland zkundze@man.poznan. pl 2 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany zbyszek@pik-potsdam.de 3 North–South Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany l.mata@uni-bonn.de 4 Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela l.mata2007@cox.net 5 Walker Institute for Climate System Research, University of Reading, Reading, UK n.w. arnell@reading.ac. uk 6 Institute of Physical Geography, University of Frankfurt/M. , Frankfurt am Main, Germany p.doell@em.uni-frankfurt.de 7 Institute of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cogoacon, Mexico bjimenezc@iingen.unam. mx 8 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA kathleen@ucar.edu 9 Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan taikan@iis.u-tokyo.ac. jp 10 Department of Meteorology, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey zsen@itu.edu. tr
Analysis of mining's socioeconomic impacts with propensity score matching for insights on responsible mining in the Agusan Provinces of Caraga Region, Philippines

This study deals with the analysis of mining impacts on the socioeconomic condition of people in the mining areas of Agusan Provinces in Caraga Region, Philippines. Propensity score matching (PSM) with nearest neighbor and kernel as matching procedures has been used to get rid of selection bias and endogeneity in the estimation of impacts for the socioeconomic underpinnings of responsible mining in the said areas. The results show that mining can induce income effects and improvement in education of children and access to health facilities for the locals. These outcomes are deemed important to the development of human capital in the concerned areas for the proper management of opportunities brought about by mining. Based on these findings, future legislations are recommended to account and institutionalize the ways of catalyzing the income effects and the revealed improvement in welfare to manage judiciously these mining benefits with the foresight of sustainable development in Agusan Provinces and in Caraga Region, Philippines.
Genetic variability of body composition traits in Sudanese Native large Beladi Chicken

This work was conducted to estimate the genetic and phenotypic parameters for body weight, carcass traits and visceral portions of the native large Beladi chicken. Data set consisted of 1114 observations obtained from 50 sires and 150 dams were analyzed using Harvey’s SLMLMW (1990) to obtain variance and covariance components for genetic parameters estimates. The average body weight at twelve weeks of age (800.74± 162.98g) was lower than that of exotic strains at slaughter age. The results exhibited significant differences between sexes for all traits measured with males being heavier than females. As proportion of body weight at 12 weeks of age the hot carcass weight was 63.30 percent, whereas breast, thigh, drum and leg constituted 24.60, 15.50, 14.70 and 30.10 percents of the cold carcass weight respectively. Moreover, the abdominal fat, gizzard, heart, liver and shanks represented 0.72, 2.4, 0.55, 2.38 and 4.04 percents of live body weight at 12 weeks of age respectively. The heritability estimates for body weight at 12 weeks of age and carcass traits ranged from moderate to high. This indicates the possibility of improving these traits in local chicken using selection procedures. The heritability estimates for visceral portions were low. The genetic correlation estimates for body weight and carcass traits, body weight and abdominal fat and carcass weight and abdominal fat were high and positive. Therefore attempts to improve body weight in indigenous chicken may lead to concomitant increase in carcass traits including abdominal fat. Keyword: Body composition, Genetic variability, Native chicken.