Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cyber Security Beyond the Industry 4.0 Era. A Short Review on a Few Technological Promises

The global development industries progress towards meeting the ever evolving contemporary and future demands. This transformative evolution introduced phenomena such as Industry 4.0 and 5.0 which are facilitated by both information and operational technologies: collaborative robotics, IoT, AI. Their integration into a hyper-connected system facilitates the production of goods and services. In addition, these industries are characterized by automation, as well as by unmatched levels of data exchange throughout the value chain. Cyber security risks are crucial as the prevalence of these information and operation technologies has changed the appearance of cyber threats. Addressing the premises and realities of cyber security in Industries 4.0 and 5.0 is crucial. Risk mitigation strategies provided by various organizations are crucial for lowering risks. Given the loopholes and vulnerabilities generated by interconnections, cyber security is vital for the advancement of digital industrial transformation.
Towards effective knowledge application capability in ITSM through socialisation, externalisation, internalisation and combination

Prior research has focused on issues that are relevant to knowledge creation and sharing in Information Technology Service Management ITSM. Instead, the purpose of this paper is to examine how knowledge application capability effectiveness (KACE) in ITSM can be affected through several knowledge management processes. In ITSM, IT service desk function is on the most important functions that keeps and maintains IT services running. This function deals with various IT problems and incidents on a daily basis through utilisation of all available knowledge resources (i.e. organisational knowledge and personal knowledge). A framework was developed to identify factors affect KACE in IT service desk function. The framework is based on Nonaka (1994) model of organisational knowledge creation. The framework focuses upon socialisation, externalisation, internalisation and combination as contributors to the formation of KACE. The empirical research was conducted at group of eight (Go8) Universities in Australia, based on set of semi-structured interviews. Four major factors are shown to be related to the extent to which IT SD managers feel that KACE can be influenced. The results are founded upon a qualitative data in which manual and computer-aided content analysis were undertaken.
New preparation approach, electrical and mechanical properties of poly(vinyl alcohol)-loaded graphene films

Previous publications showed that graphene sheets polymer nanocomopsites were prepared by incorporating previously prepared graphene into the polymer matrix through two or more successive steps. In this work, graphene sheets were exfoliated from graphite inside the polymer matrix solution for certain period in one step. This approach was easy to perform, low cost, high mass production of graphene and, almost, produces effective results. In this respect, electrolytic solution from poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and salt was prepared and exfoliation process took place inside it for different times. After that, solution was dried to get films of PVA loaded with different concentrations of graphene sheets. Scanning electron microscopic and transmission electron microscopic images of exfoliated graphene sheets were studied. Raman spectroscopy of graphite, graphene nanosheets, and PVA-loaded graphene was studied. The dielectric permittivity, dielectric loss, and alternating current electrical conductivity were studied and had maximum values at 10 min of exfoliation time. Cole–Cole impedance plots show semicircles behavior with lowest radius for samples prepared at 10 min. The elastic modulus was found to have a maximum value at exfoliation time of 30 min.
Evidence for Psychodynamic Play Therapy With Parent Consultation as a Treatment for Somatic Complaints in Childhood

This study explored the effectiveness of psychodynamic play therapy with parent consultation to treat somatic complaints. Evie was treated with 50 sessions of psychodynamic play therapy which incorporated parent consultation. Intervention included direct parent consultation aimed to improve the security of the parent–child attachment in tandem with building a long-term, secure therapy relationship with Evie. Variables were assessed pre- and post-treatment, utilizing the Reliable Change Index to examine statistically significant change over the course of treatment. Significant symptom improvement was observed in Evie’s somatization. Significant improvement was also observed in parent–child relationship indicators including relational frustration and discipline practices. No significant improvements were observed in communication, parenting confidence, involvement, or attachment at the end of treatment, but significant improvements were observed at 3-month follow-up in all areas. Results are discussed in terms of the effectiveness of psychodynamic approaches to treatment with children, particularly with regard to the “sleeper effect. ”
Stickiness and Incomplete Contracts

Both economic and legal theory assumes that sophisticated parties routinely write agreements that maximize their joint surplus. But more recent studies analyzing covenants in corporate and government bond agreements have suggested that some contract provisions are highly path dependent and “sticky,” with future covenants only rarely improving upon previous ones. This Article demonstrates that the stickiness hypothesis explains the striking lack of choice-of-forum provisions in commercial contracts, which are absent in the majority of half a million material agreements reported to the SEC. When drafting these contracts, external counsel relies heavily on templates and whether or not a contract includes a forum selection clause is almost exclusively driven by the template that is used to supply the first draft. There is no evidence to suggest that counsel negotiates over the inclusion of choice-of-forum provisions, nor that law firm templates are revised in response to changes in the costs and benefits of incomplete contracting. Together, the findings reveal a distinct apathy with respect to forum choice among transactional lawyers that perpetuates contractual gaps. The persistence of these gaps suggests that default rules can have significantly greater implications for the final allocation of the contractual surplus than is assumed under traditional theory.
Considerations for Introducing Asynchronous Discussion to Enhance Postgraduate Online Learner Engagement

AbstractThe notion of an online course implies that students and teachers are separate and that there is a feeling of remoteness. Isolation and lack of perceived community have been noted as influences on retention in courses and ultimately on student success. Postgraduate nursing students more than likely attempt to combine families and work commitments with study, thereby increasing the risk of disengagement. Educators responsible for online courses need to be able to provide a learning design that will motivate and connect students, increasing their chance of success.
Made in My Village: Exploring Country of Origin Effects and Bi-National Products Across Cohorts in Ukraine

Abstract Ukraine’s geopolitical past has created a unique environment for consumer socialization and global marketing. This study investigated possible cohort differences in the ways that Ukrainians evaluate bi-national products for Procter & Gamble (P&G) according to country of origin. Results of a survey show the majority of Ukrainian consumers are aware that P&G products sold in Ukraine are made locally, despite their United States branding. Cohort differences emerged with respect to country of manufacture (COM) awareness and purchase intention for products manufactured outside of Ukraine. This research demonstrates consumer understanding of the difference between the country of branding and COM of P&G products.
Factors Affecting the Capacity of Small to Medium Enterprises (SME) Building Construction Firms in Ghana

There is a raft of factors that affect the capacity of local construction firms in Ghana, particularly those in the smaller contractor classifications. These factors render small to medium enterprises (SME) ineffective in administration of construction processes. As a result, these firms are not able to match with growing demands of stakeholders and end up collapsing. In this article, factors affecting the capacity of SME building construction firms in Ghana were empirically ascertained. This involved a review of published research works on the construction industry, generally in both developed and developing countries focusing on Ghana. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were employed while conducting the study. The data obtained during the research were analysed using descriptive statistics and factor analysis. It emerged from the study, among other factors, the following as key factors affecting the financial, managerial and technical capacities of SME construction firms in Ghana: delay in payment for work done, limited access to finance, non-payment of interest on delayed payments and lack of fair competition. It is therefore recommended that if there is any policy that is directed at building the capacity of the SME Construction firms in Ghana, it should endeavour to mitigate the aforementioned factors.
The Role of Entrepreneurial Empowerment in the Relationship between Islamic Microfinance and Well-Being of Clients: A View from a Service Provider

Islamic microfinance has been reported as appropriate in improving the living conditions of the poor. However, little is known about the contribution of entrepreneurial empowerment in achieving such success. The objective of this study is to examine the mediating role of entrepreneurial empowerment in the relationship between Islamic microfinance and well-being of clients. A sample of 291 respondents was selected randomly from the operational staff of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia in east-coast states of Malaysia. Structural Equation Modelling was used as the statistical procedure to analyse the data. The results supported three hypotheses, which confirmed that Islamic microfinance has positive relationship with entrepreneurial empowerment. However, three hypotheses were rejected on the relationship between Islamic microfinance and clients’ well-being, suggesting that Islamic microfinance does not improve the clients’ well-being. The seventh hypothesis was also supported, which indicates a full mediation role of entrepreneurial empowerment. The unique finding of the study is that, entrepreneurial empowerment is the underlying factor for the success of Islamic microfinance. To enable generalisation of this finding, further study is recommended in other Muslim countries.
A Quantitative Study of Geometric Characteristics of Urban Space Based on the Correlation with Microclimate

With the sustainability of contemporary cities gaining more and more attention, interest in the correlation between urban geometry and urban microclimate is increasing. On this basis, this paper aims to investigate the quantification of geometric characteristics of urban space. Based on a combination of easily accessible software packages, a quantitative method composed of spatial partition, spatial characteristic indices (area, shape, and openness), and a spatial classification chart is proposed for the study of the correlation between urban spatial geometry and urban microclimate. Two blocks with different spatial geometric characteristics of the Xinjiekou central area in Nanjing are selected as the cases to verify the operability and effectiveness of this method. The results reveal that complex real urban space can be quantitatively described and classified by this spatial quantification method. In addition, a possible correlation between urban spatial geometry and urban wind environment is demonstrated by using the method, which may also be applicable to the correlation study between urban spatial geometry and other environmental issues.
Automated citation sentiment analysis using high order n-grams: a preliminary investigation

Scientific papers hold an association with previous research contributions (i.e. books, journals or conference papers, and web resources) in the form of citations. Citations are deemed as a link or relatedness of the previous work to the cited work. The nature of the cited material could be supportive (positive), contrastive (negative), or objective (neutral). Extraction of the author’s sentiment towards the cited scientific articles is an emerging research discipline due to various linguistic differences between the citation sentences and other domains of sentiment analysis. In this paper, we propose a technique for the identification of the sentiment of the citing author towards the cited paper by extracting unigram, bigram, trigram, and pentagram adjective and adverb patterns from the citation text. After POS tagging of the citation text, we use the sentence parser for the extraction of linguistic features comprising adjectives, adverbs, and n-grams from the citation text. A sentiment score is then assigned to distinguish them as positive, negative, and neutral. In addition, the proposed technique is compared with manually classified citation text and 2 commercial tools, namely SEMANTRIA and THEYSAY, to determine their applicability to the citation corpus. These tools are based on different techniques for determining the sentiment orientation of the sentence. Analysis of the results shows that our proposed approach has achieved results comparable to the commercial counterparts with average precision, recall, and accuracy of 90%, 81.82%, and 85.91% respectively.
Phacoemulsification: Practice and barriers in Nigeria

Objective: The objective is to determine the availability of phacoemulsification cataract surgery, its role in the management of cataracts among ophthalmologist and the barriers to its use in Nigeria. Materials and Methods: Ophthalmologists who attended the opening ceremony 2016 of the Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Ophthalmological Society of Nigeria in August 2016 at Port Harcourt, Nigeria were asked to participate. The study was a cross-sectional study in which responses were obtained from participants using convenient sampling technique. Result: A total of 71 ophthalmologists participated in the study. Of this, 48 (67.6%) were males and 23 (32.4%) were females. The mean age was 43.6 years (standard deviation ±8.5). Most participants 44 (62.2%) do not have a phacoemulsification machine in their centers, whereas 27 (38%) had. Manual small-incision extracapsular cataract surgery (MSICS) was the most commonly performed surgery 33 (46.5%), followed by extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) 11 (15.5%) and phaco 7 (9.9%). A total of 11 (15.5%) of participants perform a combination of ECCE and MSICS, whereas nine (12.7%) are beginners or perform the phacoemulsification technique infrequently. Some of the barriers to the use of phacoemulsification included cost of machine 51 (71.8%), surgical consumables 33 (46.5%), high level of training to attain competence 39 (54.9%), no need for phacoemulsification 14 (19.7%), and administrative bottlenecks 16 (22.5%). Conclusion: Phacoemulsification cataract surgery is seldom practiced in Nigeria. Many Nigerian Ophthalmologists are willing to undergo training in phacoemulsification technique but the high cost of equipment and consumables as well as administrative bottlenecks among other factors have hindered the widespread use of this procedure.
Diversity and Plant Growth Promoting Ability of Culturable Endophytic Bacteria in Nepalese Sweet Potato

There is no information on Nepalese sweet potato endophytes. We isolated 243 endophytic bacteria belonging to 34 genera in six classes from 12 locations of Nepal. Among them, the predominant classes were Bacilli and Gammaproteobacteria. The principal component analysis revealed that the composition of bacterial classes was unrelated to the environmental parameters of the sampling sites. Regarding their plant growth promoting potentials, 57% of the strains demonstrated indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) producing ability while 5% strains had nitrogen fixing gene (nifH) and acetylene reduction assay (ARA) activity. The representative strains in all six classes showed antagonistic effect against bacterial pathogens while only Bacillus strain showed the effect against fungal pathogen. For endophytic traits, cellulase activity was observed in 5 classes, while pectinase activity was only in Proteobacteria. Fresh weight and vine length of sweet potato increased by inoculating mixed cultures of the isolates from each location.
Does the Gap between Domestic and International Gold Price Affect Money Demand?: Evidence from Vietnam

The paper aims to investigate the impact of the gap between domestic and international gold price on money demand in Vietnam, an emerging economy in the Asian region. We use a quarterly database collected from the first quarter of 2004 to the fourth quarter of 2016. The time-series database includes 52 observations. The money demand is represented by M2; Domestic income is the Gross domestic product at the constant prices of 1994; Inflation rate is calculated by the Customer Price Index from the General Statistics Office of Vietnam. The result confirms the existence of a long-term cointegration relationship between the money demand and the gap between domestic and international gold price as well as some variables including domestic income, inflation, and real exchange rate. The regression results also show that the gap between domestic and international gold price has a positive impact on money demand in the Vietnamese economy. Besides, the domestic income and international gold price have positive impacts on money demand while the inflation and real exchange rate are negatively related in the long run. This proves that the gap between the domestic and international gold price really has a positive impact on money demand in Vietnam during the study period.
Towards the Deployment of Machine Learning Solutions in Network Traffic Classification: A Systematic Survey

Traffic analysis is a compound of strategies intended to find relationships, patterns, anomalies, and misconfigurations, among others things, in Internet traffic. In particular, traffic classification is a subgroup of strategies in this field that aims at identifying the application’s name or type of Internet traffic. Nowadays, traffic classification has become a challenging task due to the rise of new technologies, such as traffic encryption and encapsulation, which decrease the performance of classical traffic classification strategies. Machine learning (ML) gains interest as a new direction in this field, showing signs of future success, such as knowledge extraction from encrypted traffic, and more accurate Quality of Service management. ML is fast becoming a key tool to build traffic classification solutions in real network traffic scenarios; in this sense, the purpose of this investigation is to explore the elements that allow this technique to work in the traffic classification field. Therefore, a systematic review is introduced based on the steps to achieve traffic classification by using ML techniques. The main aim is to understand and to identify the procedures followed by the existing works to achieve their goals. As a result, this survey paper finds a set of trends derived from the analysis performed on this domain; in this manner, the authors expect to outline future directions for ML-based traffic classification.
Multi-Threshold SDN Controllers Load Balancing Algorithm Based On Controller Load

SDN (Software-Defined Networking) centralized control features make it suffer from performance bottlenecks and therefore need to be overcome using a distributed control plane. However, the imbalanced load among multiple controllers will also lead to a decrease in overall system performance. In order to solve the conflict between inefficient nodes and overloaded nodes, a more efficient and flexible load balancing algorithm is needed to ensure the efficient operation of the SDN network. The algorithm firstly accurately selects the controller load description parameters, then uses multiple thresholds to distinguish the controller status, and at the same time more effectively selects the switch to migrate to the idle controller. The algorithm determines the state of the controller more precisely while trying to make each controller work in the normal mode, to avoid the controller in a long period of high load mode. The experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively improve the load balancing degree and throughput recovery speed of SDN control plane.
Polypharmacy Associated with Cognitive Decline in Newly Diagnosed Parkinson's Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study

Aims: Polypharmacy is well known to affect cognitive function in community-dwelling older adults. However, the effect of polypharmacy on cognitive function in patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease remains unknown. Here, we evaluated the association between polypharmacy and cognitive function in patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease. Methods: This cross-sectional study enrolled 131 consecutive hospitalized patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease. Cognitive function was evaluated with the Mini-Mental State Examination and analyzed between groups of patients with or without polypharmacy. Comparisons were adjusted for confounders by performing inverse probability weighting with propensity scores. Results: After inverse probability weighting, patients in the polypharmacy group had a significantly lower Mini-Mental State Examination score than patients in the nonpolypharmacy group (26.2 vs. 27.7, p = 0.001). Conclusion: Polypharmacy was associated with cognitive decline in patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease. This finding suggests that medication reduction might serve as a promising intervention to prevent the development of dementia in patients with early Parkinson’s disease. Further prospective studies are needed to determine whether medication reduction improves cognitive function in patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease.
Designing and quality testing of “Digichip” virtual simulation software of Android platform for mobile-virtual learning supporting vocational mechatronics engineering

Technology enhancement in any life aspects is undeniably crucial to face the globalization era. A strategic approach to touch any life aspect is gained through education. Supporting this educational long-term goal, this study aims to: (1) produce learning media in the form of a virtual-learning simulation software, which is capable of operation on mobile devices to facilitate mobile, portable, effective, economical, and operationally-safe learning; (2) test the developed software quality in terms of the functional aspects of suitability, maintainability, portability, and usability (ISO/IEC 25010). The subjects of this Research and Development (R&D) study were class XI students of Mechatronics Engineering at SMTI Yogyakarta. The process of designing and testing software uses the V-model type Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Unit testing was done through the white-box technique with the base-path test, flowgraph, and independent path. The testing for integration, system, and acceptance used Black-box techniques. The study shows that: (1) V-models were used to design the "DigiChip" virtual simulation software to support virtual learning and mobile learning through the software development stage; (2) The software quality testing based on ISO/IEC 25010 shows that in the functional aspects suitability, all features function properly (very decent), its maintainability is of MI 84 (easy maintenance), it gains 100% portability, or can be operated on all Android OS kernels (very feasible), and its usability is 86.18% (very feasible) with Cronbach's Alpha 0.841 (good). Ninety percent of media experts and 100% of material experts consider that the developed software is very feasible.