Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Envisioning Skills for Adopting, Managing, and Implementing Big Data Technology in the 21st Century

The skills for big data technology provide a window of new job opportunities for the informat ion technology (IT) professionals in the emerging data science landscape. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to introduce the research results of suitable skills required to work with big data technology. Such skills include Document Stored Database; Key-value Stored Database; Column-oriented Database; Object-oriented Database; Graph Database; MapReduce; Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS); YARN Framework; Zookeeper; Oozie; Hive; Pig; HBase; Mahout; Sqoop; Spark; Flume; Drill; Programming Languages; IBM Watson Analytics; Statistical Tools; SQL; Pro ject Management; Program Management; and Portfo lio Management. This paper is part of an ongoing research that addresses the link between economic growth and big data.
Simulation research of fuzzy-PID synthesis yaw vector control system of wind turbine

Enhancing the stability and robust of yawing system effectively, carrying out the simulation research of fuzzy-PID synthesis control. Designing the yawing vector control system with the synthesis controller of fuzzy-PID, modeling the system with Matlab simulation software, and taking simulation test. Comparing the simulation curves with common PID control and fuzzy PID subsection control, the result indicate that the fuzzy-PID synthesis control system has better performances in the stability and robust of yawing system, which increase the safety factor of system.
Physiological ecology of seed respiration in some tropical species.

We examine the relationship of seed oxygen consumption rate (V̇o2 ) to seed moisture content, seed mass, and seed age in 22 ecologically diverse tropical species. These seeds vary greatly in moisture content, age, mass, mechanism of dormancy and length of viability. We quantify each relationship with a power equation, V̇o2 =aXb , where X is the independent variable. Seed moisture content (MC) explains 80% of the variation in mass-specific V̇O2 (ml O2 g-1 h-1 ) among seeds of all species, whereas seed mass explains < 1%. However, when seeds are reclassified as moist (> 28% MC) or dry (≤ 28% MC), seed mass explains 54% of the variation in mass-specific V̇o2 (ml O2 g-1 h-1 ) within dry seeds, but no significant variation within moist seeds. In dry seeds, seed age explains only 27% of the variance in mass-specific Vo2 , although seed age and moisture content are negatively correlated. On a per seed basis, seed mass explains 54% of the variation in mass-specific V̇o2 (ml O2 h-1 per seed) in dry seeds and 83 % of the variation in moist seeds: the exponents of the power function, 0.54 in dry seeds and 0.78 in moist seeds, are within the range reported for the allometric relationship of oxygen consumption and body size in animals and prokaryotes. We present a framework for future studies that recognizes seed respiration as an important, yet unstudied, component of tropical seed ecophysiology. We discuss the ecological significance of seed respiration in three groups of tropical species which differ in seed moisture content, mass, viability, and post-dispersal moisture regimes: (1) shade-intolerant pioneer species with small, dry, orthodox seeds; (2) seasonally dormant species; and (3) shade-tolerant primary forest species with large, moist recalcitrant seeds.
COMPUTATIONAL IDENTIFICATION & CHARACTERIZATION OF CONSERVED miRNAS & THEIR TARGET GENES IN GARLIC (Allium sativum L.) EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are the small (~21-24 nucleotides) endogenous non-coding RNAs in length, plays a pivotal role in plants and animals mediate transcriptional or posttranscriptional gene regulation and play a critical role in diverse aspects of physiological functions viz. growth, development, signaling, and metabolism in various organisms. Although various high-throughput, time consuming and expensive techniques like forward genetics and direct cloning are employed to detect miRNAs in plants but comparative genomics complemented with novel bioinformatics tools pave the way for efficient and costeffective approach for identification of miRNAs through homologous sequence search with previously known miRNAs due to strong conservation of miRNAs among the plant species. In this work, the in silico approach for identification and characterization of conserved miRNAs in garlic expressed sequence tags (ESTs) is adopted. For identification of novel miRNAs in garlic, a total of 21,637 EST sequences were searched for homology against 3227 known mature miRNAs of plant kingdom Viridiplantae. Comparative-genomics based computational identification resulted in 6 potential miRNA candidates belonging to 6 different miRNA families in garlic. Finally using the potential miRNAs of garlic, a total of 18 target genes were predicted and their probable functions were illustrated. Most of the garlic miRNA target genes which seem to encode HEAT-repeat containing protein, Glycine-rich protein, and CCAAT-binding transcription factors as well as genes involved in growth, development, metabolism and stress response. In near future, improved understanding in the molecular mechanisms of miRNAs in garlic plant may help in the development of novel and precise technique to understand some post-transcriptional gene silencing mechanism in response to stress tolerance.
Exploring what works in professional development: an assessment of a prototype intervention and its accompanying design principles

ABSTRACT The growing complexity and numerous changes in Dutch vocational education and training (VET) pressures teachers to continually develop their teaching profession. Therefore professional development (PD) is needed, but policy-initiated and imposed PD might be ineffective. Thus the purpose of this research is to evaluate which design requirements (DR) in a mandatory PD programme delivered in a VET institute appear to show the most effectiveness. Based on a review study aimed at detecting effectiveness enhancing DR an assessor PD programme was redesigned and implemented. This programme was evaluated with respect to effectiveness on five different levels of impact considering participants’ attitudes, their reactions, what they had learned or what behaviour they developed, and organizational support. Each level of impact was evaluated using existing and self-constructed instruments including questionnaires, surveys, interviews and observations. Thirty-nine teachers took part in this redesigned PD programme. Several DR appeared to show measurable levels of effectiveness: tolerance for complex contexts, contribution to a professional identity, and team based and collective participation.
Phenology, Sexual Expression, and Reproductive Success of the Rare Neotropical Palm Geonoma epetiolata 1

We studied the phenology and reproductive biology of the stained glass palm Geonoma epetiolata in a premontane rain forest of Costa Rica. This understory species is endemic to Costa Rica and Panama. We followed 102 plants for two years and found that G. epetiolata is monoecious and protandrous. Flowering duration at the inflorescence level is three to six months for the male phase and two to three weeks for the female phase; this is one the most extended flowering periods reported for palms. Flowering in this palm is continuous throughout the year, both at the individual and population level. This long and continuous flowering pattern may represent an adaptation to increase the chances of reproduction in a environment of high and unpredictable rainfall. The species is self–compatible, but self–pollination is possible only when there is overlap of male and female inflorescences (38% of the cases). Only 28 percent of the stigmas of 1020 flowers received pollen grains and 20 percent developed pollen tubes in the styles. Of all the flowers produced by an inflorescence, 14 percent initiated fruit development but only 3 percent develop into mature fruits. Seventy–six percent of the initiated fruits were aborted.
Mutual adaptation to mind mapping in human-agent interaction

This paper describes a human-agent interaction framework in which a user and a life-like agent mutually acquire the other's mind mapping through a mutual mind reading game. Through development of various life-like agents and an internal state (mind) of an agent like emotion, processing load has been recognized to play an important role in making them believable to a user. For establishing effective and natural communication between an agent and a user, they need to read the other's mind from expressions and we call the mapping from expressions to mind states mind mapping. If an agent and a user do not obtain these mind mappings, they can not utilize behavior which significantly depends on the other's mind. We formalize such mutual mind reading and propose a framework in which a user and a life-like agent mutually acquire mind mappings. In our framework, a user plays a mutual mind reading game with an agent and they gradually learn to read the other's mind. We implement our framework and perform experiments to investigate its effectiveness.
Intergenerational Time Transfers and Internal Migration. Accounting for Low Spatial Mobility in Southern Europe.

This paper examines the hypothesis that living close to grandparents is optimal for Southern European young couples with children in which the wife works given the combination of, on the one hand, substantial help (cid:135)ows in the form of grandparenting and, on the other hand, the shortage in the provision of formal childcare services in these countries. I develop a partial equilibrium job search model that incorporates these (cid:133)ndings. Simulation results show that a reduction in the price of private childcare services is more e⁄ective in increasing women(cid:146)s employment, fertility and inter-regional migration rates than an increase in the availability of publicly funded childcare slots. Using ECHP data I (cid:133)nd that families with children in which the wife works move signi(cid:133)cantly less than equivalent childless couples only if they live in a Southern European country. That e⁄ect is found for both inter- and intra-regional migrations but is substantially larger in the former case. for an analysis of the relationship between female labour force participation and fertility in Southern European countries.
P o S ( S S C 2 0 1 5 ) 0 7 4 Stellar populations in the dwarf galaxy NGC 59

NGC59 is a low-luminosity, early-type galaxy (ETG). It is a m e ber of the Sculptor galaxy group at a distance of 4.4Mpc. We study the stellar populatio n properties using data from the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) on SALT. A metallicity of [ Z/H]∼ -1.1 to -1.6 was found for this galaxy, which is very low compared to similar mass ga laxies. A range of ages were found in fitting the optical spectra with composite models. T he spectra show emission lines from current star formation, plus strong Balmer absorption line s indicative of intermediate age stars. Fits to spectral line strengths also indicate the presence o f older stars. NGC59 is an example of downsizing occurring in galaxy evolution in the local Unive rs .
Exploring the potential of fungal-bacterial consortium for low-cost biodegradation and detoxification of textile effluent

Abstract In the present study, the enrichment and isolation of textile effluent decolorizing bacteria were carried out in wheat bran (WB) medium. The isolated bacterium Providencia rettgeri strain HSL1 was then tested for decolorization of textile effluent in consortium with a dyestuff degrading fungus Aspergillus ochraceus NCIM 1146. Decolorization study suggests that A. ochraceus NCIM 1146 and P. rettgeri strain HSL1 alone re moves only 6 and 32% of textile effluent American Dye Manufacturing Institute respectively in 30 h at 30 ±0.2°C of microaerophilic incubation, while the fungal-bacterial consortium does 92% ADMI removal within the same time period. The fungal-bacterial consortium exhibited enhanced decolorization rate due to the induction in activities of catalytic enzymes laccase (196%), lignin peroxidase (77%), azoreductase (80%) and NADH-DCIP reductase (84%). The HPLC analysis confirmed the biodegradation of textile effluent into various metabolites. Detoxification studies of textile effluent before and after treatment with fungal-bacterial consortium revealed reduced toxicity of degradation metabolites. The efficient degradation and detoxification by fungal-bacterial consortium pre-grown in agricultural based medium thus suggest a promising approach in designing low-cost treatment technologies for textile effluent.
Spinless fermions and charged stripes at the strong-coupling limit

Spinless fermions on a lattice with nearest-neighbor repulsion serve as a toy-version Hubbard model and have a symmetry-broken even/odd superlattice at half filling. At infinite repulsion, doped holes form charged stripes that are antiphase walls (as noted by Mila [Phys. Rev. B 49, 14047 (1994)]). Exact-diagonalization data for systems up to 36 sites around 1/4 filling, and also for one or two holes added to a stripe of length up to 12, indicate stability of the stripe-array state against phase separation. In the boson version of the model, the same behavior can be stabilized by addition of a term with four creation/annihilation operators.
Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Machine Vision Flame Detection

Abstract : The U.S. Air Force has identified a need for rapid, accurate and reliable detection and classification of fires. To address this need, a proof- of-concept neural network-based, intelligent machine vision interface for the detection of flame signatures in the visible spectrum has been developed. The objective of the work conducted under this Phase I program has been to determine the feasibility of using machine vision techniques and neural network computation to detect and classify visible spectrum signatures of fire in the presence of complex background imagery. Standard fire detectors which rely on heat or smoke sensing devices tend to be slow and to react only after the fire reaches a significant level. Current electromagnetic sensing techniques have the desired speed but lack accuracy. The Phase I program approach to these problems used machine vision techniques to generate digitally filtered HSI (Hue, Saturation, Intensity)-formatted video data. Once filtered, these data were then presented to an artificial neural network for analysis.
Musical Feature and Novelty Curve Characterizations as Predictors of Segmentation Accuracy

Novelty detection is a well-established method for analyzing the structure of music based on acoustic descriptors. Work on novelty-based segmentation prediction has mainly concentrated on enhancement of features and similarity matrices, novelty kernel computation and peak detection. Less attention, however, has been paid to characteristics of musical features and novelty curves, and their contribution to segmentation accuracy. This is particularly important as it can help unearth acoustic cues prompting perceptual segmentation and find new determinants of segmentation model performance. This study focused on spectral, rhythmic and harmonic prediction of perceptual segmentation density, which was obtained for six musical examples from 18 musician listeners via an annotation task. The proposed approach involved comparisons between perceptual segment density and novelty curves; in particular, we investigated possible predictors of segmentation accuracy based on musical features and novelty curves. For pitch and rhythm, we found positive correlates between segmentation accuracy and both local variability of musical features and mean distance between subsequent local maxima of novelty curves. According to the results, segmentation accuracy increases for stimuli with milder local changes and fewer novelty peaks. Implications regarding prediction of listeners’ segmentation are discussed in the light of theoretical postulates of perceptual organization.
The Role of Entrepreneurship in Productivity Growth: Decentralized versus Centrally Planned Economies

Trends in gross domestic product (GDP) and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the former socialist economies seem to indicate that these economies were converging to unusually low long-run growth rates in the late 1980s. In this paper we develop an endogenous growth model of entrepreneurship that is able to account for the difference in long-run performance between centrally planned economies and market-oriented ones. Long-run growth rates of output and productivity are determined by the growth of the stock of managerial knowledge, which in turn depends on the share of the population involved in entrepreneurial activities and on the time that they spend on those activities. We analyze the effect of two characteristics of centrally planned economies on their growth performance. First, in centrally planned economies factors of production are distributed by the central planner to the firms’ managers through a contest that uses up some of the managers’ productive effort. Second, the leadership is “egalitarian”, in the sense that it treats individuals with different abilities equally. We show that these two features reduce the fraction of people becoming entrepreneurs/managers, as well as their managerial effort, which in turn reduces long-run output and TFP growth. Furthermore, we find that centrally planned economies have lower income inequality and slightly higher capital-output ratios, which is consistent with these countries’ experiences.
Breast and Thigh Meat Chemical Composition and Fatty Acid Profile in BroilersFed Diet with Dietary Fat Sources

Experiment was conducted to evaluate effects of different fat sources on breast and thigh meat chemical composition and fatty acid profile in broilers. Treatments were 1) DF1: basal diet + soybean oil; 2) DF2: basal diet + chicken fat; 3) DF2: basal diet + tallow; 4) DF3: basal diet + tallow and lard, and 5) DF5: basal diet + lard. Addition of different fat sources had no significant impact on relative organ weight (P>0.05). Breast meat crude fat content was suppressed in DF1 and DF5 relative to DF4 (P<0.05). Total SFA content was downtrended and total PUFA content was elevated in DF1 relative to other groups for both breast and thigh meat (P<0.05). Total MUFA content did not differ in breast meat however, it was lower in DF1 and DF3 compared to DF2, DF4 and DF5 (P<0.05). The n-3 PUFA was not affected by fat sources in breast meat, whereas it was elevated in DF1 relative to DF3, DF4 and DF5 in thigh meat (P<0.05). Breast and thigh meat n-6 PUFA was improved in DF1 in comparison to DF2, DF3, DF4 and DF5 (P<0.05). Ratio of PUFA to SFA upgraded in DF1 and DF3, and downgraded in DF2, DF4 and DF5 for breast meat; and upgraded in DF1 than other groups for thigh meat (P<0.05). Breast and thigh meat n-6 to n-3 PUFA was upgraded in DF1 group compared to other groups (P<0.05). To sum up, results indicated that dietary fat sources with different fatty acid content can significantly influence the breast and thigh meat composition and fatty acid profile without negative impact on the relative organ weight. Where DF1 group exhibited better result based on fatty acid profile and lower breast meat fat content which can be preferred for quality broiler meat production.
Coercion, vertical trust and entrepreneurism in bureaucracies: evidence from the Nazi Holocaust

Breton and Wintrobe (1982) develop a non-traditional (modern) model of bureaucratic management that is based on the notion of “vertical trust” – the notion that subordinates “trade services” that advance the goals of the bureau''s leadership in return for various “informal payments,” none of which are codified in formal contracts between the two sets of parties. Applying the model to the Nazi bureaucracy explains how Nazi functionaries, such as Adolf Eichmann, acted as bureaucratic entrepreneurs in accomplishing goals relating to “the Jewish question,” and ultimately “the Final Solution,” for their superiors, such as Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler (Breton and Wintrobe, 1986). As an extension of prior research, the current study examines the hypothesis that the use these vertical trust relationships within the borders of their minor Axis partners (e.g., Hungary) worked more effectively for the Germans than coercion, which would have been required to a greater degree within the borders of occupied European countries (e.g., Holland). Specifically, our estimates suggest that, ceteris paribus, owing to their use of vertical trust networks the minor Axis countries each contributed about 152,000 more European Jews to the Nazi Holocaust apparatus than their German-occupied European country counterparts, wherein the Nazis relied more heavily on coercion.
Studi Deskriptif Mengenai Keterlibatan Ayah Dalam Pemenuhan Tugas Perkembangan Anak Pada Keluarga Di Tahap Family With Preschool Children

Penelitian mengenai keterlibatan ayah dalam pemenuhan tugas perkembangan anak pada keluarga di tahap family with preschool children ini bertujuan untuk memperkaya literatur yang bersifat indigenous Indonesia serta memperoleh gambaran mengenai keterlibatan ayah dalam pemenuhan tugas perkembangan anak pada keluarga di tahap prasekolah. Rancangan penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif, menggunakan metode survey menggunakan kuesioner. Teknik pengambilan data menggunakan accidental sampling. Penelitian ini dilakukan terhadap 54 pasang orangtua (suami isti) yang memiliki anak pertama usia empat sampai enam tahun. Alat ukur yang digunakan berupa kuesioner yang disusun berdasarkan teori tugas perkembangan pada preschool children menurut Duvall (1985). Hasil reliabilitas alat ukur adalah 0,978 yang artinya alat ukur dapat diandalkan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ayah dan ibu bersama-sama terlibat secara langsung dalam seluruh tugas perkembangan anak pada usia prasekolah. Terdapat hubungan antara jam kerja ibu dan jenis pekerjaan ayah dengan keterlibatan ayah dengan anak. Sementara usia ayah, suku bangsa ayah, pendidikan terakhir ayah, sosial ekonomi ayah, jam kerja ayah, jenis pekerjaan ibu, jenis kelamin anak, adanya anggota keluarga lain yang tinggal dalam satu rumah, adanya anggota keluarga yang membantu orangtua mengurus anak, serta adanya asistem rumah tangga tidak berhubungan dengan keterlibatan ayah dengan anak. Terdapat perbedaan keterlibatan ayah dengan anak pada tingkat pendidikan terakhir ayah, jam kerja ibu, serta jenis pekerjaan ibu. Sementara keterlibatan ayah dengan anak pada usia ayah, suku bangsa ayah, sosial ekonomi ayah, jam kerja ayah, jenis pekerjaan ayah, jenis kelamin anak, adanya anggota keluarga lain yang tinggal dalam satu rumah, adanya anggota keluarga yang membantu orangtua mengurus anak, serta adanya asistem rumah tangga tidak terdapat perbedaan.