Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Visualising User Interaction History to Identify Web Map Usage Patterns

Map personalisation offers a solution to spatial information overload by removing map features which are irrelevant for particular users while highlighting content which is of interest. Determining interests by monitoring and interpreting map interactions is important in this process. This paper describes a Web based application to assist analysts with this task by providing visual analysis tools. A new technique which generates and displays trajectories formed from mouse movement data is presented. When the data from multiple sessions and several users is considered, visualising all trajectories simultaneously introduces its own information overload issues for the analyst. To resolve this and identify salient trends in the movement data, our tool groups trajectories into clusters based on similar movements. This paper describes these techniques and how they have been applied to a sample of mouse movement data.
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STYLES IN UKRAINE

Анотація. У статті надається огляд керівників провідних зарубіжних компаній щодо стилів лідерських і управлінських якостей, необхідних для успіху ведення бізнесу. Додатково, автором здійснено аналіз англомовних джерел щодо особливостей керівництва українськими компаніями. Ключові слова: лідерство, міжнародний менеджмент, крос-культурний аналiз. Abstract. The article explores the views of prominent business leaders and projects their attitudes to Ukrainian business reality.
Modelling shear-wave singularities in an orthorhombic medium

In this paper we report on and compare the results of numerical and physical modelling experiments that focus on the behaviour of shear waves near a point singularity in an orthorhombic material. In the neighbourhood of such singularities, at least one of which is known to exist in a symmetry plane of an orthorhombic material, shear waves may exhibit rapid polarization variations approaching 180”. Our objectives are: to predict theoretically the location of a point singularity in the industrial laminate Phenolic CE using its stiffnesses as determined from experimental measurements; and to locate such a singularity by direct observation of wave propagation in its vicinity in a controlled physical experiment. Piezoelectric transducer sources and receivers are placed in antipodal positions on a sphere of orthorhombic phenolic laminate and used to acquire traces shot along different directions through the phenolic. Data required for determination of stiffnesses are acquired, as well as traces along two profiles involving only shear sources and receivers. These profiles clearly show rapid variations of polarization direction near the singularity. We believe that this is the first time that a point singularity has been directly identified in either laboratory or field measurements, although the effects of propagation near point singularities have been recognized in VSP data by Bush and Crampin in the Paris Basin and by Yardley and Crampin above the Austin Chalk. The location of the point singularity on the group-velocity or wave surfaces agrees extremely well with the location computed for the phase-velocity or slowness surfaces from the experimentally determined stiffnesses of the sphere. The slight observed shift of the singularity from phase-velocity to group-velocity surfaces agrees both in magnitude and sense with theory and with previous physical modelling results. We also find that the locations of point singularities are quite sensitive to variations in stiffness values. Small changes in stiffnesses from a cube to a sphere of phenolic cause a shift of some 15’ in the position of the point singularity. This could imply that determinations of the directions of point singularities in field cases will act as a very good constraint on the stiffness values of a particular rockmass, which are directly related to its lithologic and fabric-related properties.
Efficiency of Silver Nanoparticles against Bacterial Contaminants Isolated from Water in Basra

The increased rates of morbidity and mortality due to contamination with pathological microorganisms that continuously develop antibiotic resistance has re-emphasized the need for alternative antimicrobial methodologies. Previous evidence showed such activity of Punica nanoparticles. The sources of microorganisms and plants are playing a major role in reduction of metallic nanoparticles such as silver, as it emerges as an eco-friendly and exciting approach in nanotechnology. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the potential antibacterial efficiency of silver nanoparticles obtained from pomegranate peel. Silver Punica nanoparticles with a size of 42 nm were prepared. The synthetized nanoparticles were analyzed by different techniques including UV-VisSpectrophotometer, atomic force microscopy and transmission electron Microscope. The potential of the silver Punica nanoparticles for water disinfection was examined on Enterobacter spp. isolated from Basra river. The results have shown that silver nanoparticles display a high antibacterial activity against bacterial contamination in the water samples of Basra river. In conclusion, nanotechnology provides an alternative solution to clean germs in water.
Public Expenditure on Education and Economic Growth: The Case of Bangladesh

JEL Classification: H52, H39. Education is an important determinant of economic growth for any country. On the other hand, Government budget policy affects the long-term growth rate through decisions on priority based public spending on different sectors. The study investigates the long-run relationship between public expenditure on education sector and economic growth in Bangladesh. An econometric model is applied to the analysis with time series data from 1995-2009. The result of the study shows that public spending in education has a positive and significant impact on economic growth in the long run. By employing Cointegration technique it is observed that a one percent increase in public expenditure in education contributes 0.34% increase in GDP per capita in the long run.
Quark/gluon jet tagging and colour reconnection

Colour reconnection (one of the primary, yet least understood, building blocks of MPI models) and quark/gluon jet tagging (relevant for searches for physics beyond the Standard Model1), two seemingly very different problems, turn out to be very closely related. This interesting observation is an outcome from the “Les Houches 2015 quark/gluon jet tagging” working group. This working group aimed to better understand the experimental observation [1, 2] that PYTHIA [3, 4] predicts greater quark/gluon jet discrimination and Herwig [5, 6] predicts lower quark/gluon discrimination than is seen in data.
Researcher Degrees of Freedom in the Psychology of Religion

ABSTRACT There is a push in psychology toward more transparent practices, stemming partially as a response to the replication crisis. We argue that the psychology of religion should help lead the way toward these new, more transparent practices to ensure a robust and dynamic subfield. One of the major issues that proponents of Open Science practices hope to address is researcher degrees of freedom (RDF). We pre-registered and conducted a systematic review of the 2017 issues from three psychology of religion journals. We aimed to identify the extent to which the psychology of religion has embraced Open Science practices and the role of RDF within the subfield. We found that many of the methodologies that help to increase transparency, such as pre-registration, have yet to be adopted by those in the subfield. In light of these findings, we present recommendations for addressing the issue of transparency in the psychology of religion and outline how to move toward these new Open Science practices.
A Multibiomarker Approach to Assess the Health State of Coastal Ecosystem Receiving Desalination Plants in Agadir Bay, Morocco

The present study aims to evaluate the initial health status of two stations receiving seawater desalination plants in Agadir Bay (Tifnit-Douira and Cap Ghir) and to assess their potential environmental impact on the marine ecosystem health. Six pairs of mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) were collected at six sampling sites on a monthly basis over two years. Each pair was homogenized to obtain the postmitochondrial fractions (S9). Toxicological effects were measured using a multibiomarker approach based on either acetylcholinesterase (AChE), glutathione S-transferase (GST), catalase (CAT), and malondialdehyde (MDA) rate. The results show a seasonal variation of the biomarkers: their activities increase in summer and decrease in spring and winter. High activities were recorded during summer in Cap Ghir (17.94 ± 0.88; 5.91 ± 052 nmol/min/mg of protein) for CAT and MDA, respectively. In Tifnit-Douira, low activities were recorded during winter for GST (3.74 ± 0.52 nmol/min/mg of protein) and during spring for the CAT (3.52 ± 0.45 nmol/min/mg of protein). The fluctuations in the activities of measured biomarkers could be attributed to different factors including the changes in environmental parameters, the influence of seasonal variation, and the contamination of the aquatic ecosystem. The data obtained in this study should be taken into account in the monitoring and management of the health of the ecosystems when the desalination plants are established.
Conceptual metaphors in poetry interpretation: a psycholinguistic approach

ABSTRACT Psycholinguistic research has shown that conceptual metaphors influence how people produce and understand language (e.g., Gibbs, 1994, 2017a; Kövecses, 2015; Jacobs & Kinder, 2017). So far, investigations have mostly paid attention to non-poetic metaphor comprehension. This focus stems from the original discovery of Conceptual Metaphor Theory that much of everyday, non-poetic language is metaphorical. The present study aims to expand this focus and explores whether people access conceptual metaphors during poetry interpretation. To answer this question, we conducted a psycholinguistic experiment in which 38 participants, all native speakers of English, completed two tasks. In each task, participants read excerpts of poetry containing conceptual metaphors before selecting or rating items that indicated their implicit and explicit awareness of the conceptual metaphors. The results of both tasks show that participants retrieve conceptual metaphors when reading poetry. This provides empirical evidence in favor of the idea that crucial aspects of poetic thought and language arise from conceptual metaphor.
CLEP-67632-a-simplified-approach-to-the- pooled-analysis-of-calibration-

License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. Permissions beyond the scope of the License are administered by Dove Medical Press Limited. Information on how to request permission may be found at: http://www.dovepress. com/permissions.php Clinical Epidemiology 2015:7 267–280 Clinical Epidemiology Dovepress
ID9- AUTOMATIC TURBOT FISH CUTTING USING MACHINE VISION

In this paper we present a new compact design of marine seismometer in the frame of INTMARSIS project. The design pretends to be an alternative to OBS (Ocean Bottom Seismometers) in shallow waters (depth < 500m) to be deployed near de coast. In contrast to OBS, a physical connection between the seafloor unit and the surface buoy allows real time data processing, satellite communication and intranet publishing. Even though an umbilical cable seems to be the more obvious alternative, the low energetic consumption of the seafloor unit and the recent improvements in inductive communications open a very interesting new possibility, the connection with steel cables. Steel cables are cheaper and not so heavy as the umbilical ones, and the bandwidth inductive communications supports at least 3 channels 100Hz sampling in real time. Mechanical structure and deployment procedure are also discussed.
RELIGIOUS SIMILARITY AMONG SIBLINGS

Religious Similarity Among Siblings. (May 2011) Layton Marshall Field, B.S., Texas A&M University Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Jeff Ackerman Dr. William McIntosh For many individuals, religious development begins in the family. Previous literature has confirmed this assumption and demonstrated that parents play a dominant role in the development process. There is a gap in the current literature regarding how other family members could also potentially contribute to religious development. This project takes the first step towards understanding how siblings may influence religious development by investigating the extent to which siblings share similar religiosity levels. Hierarchical linear models are applied to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in order to assess whether siblings share similar religiosity levels. This project also investigates potential explanations of this similarity. The results of this thesis demonstrate that siblings share common levels of religiosity. The similarity was still moderate after controlling for known predictors of adolescent religiosity such as parental influence, religious affiliation, race, and age. Sibling communication also explained a small proportion of sibling religious similarity. The results of this project leave open the possibility that siblings may contribute to one another’s religious development. Suggestions for future research are discussed.
QBFRelay, QRATPre+, and DepQBF: Incremental Preprocessing Meets Search-Based QBF Solving

DepQBF is a search-based quantified Boolean formula (QBF) solver implementing the QCDCL paradigm. We submitted DepQBF as part of several tool packages to the QBFEVAL’18 competition, which was part of the FLoC Olympic Games 2018. These packages integrate DepQBF as a back end QBF solver and a preprocessing front end called QBFRelay. This front end consists of a shell script that runs several preprocessors in multiple rounds on a given QBF, thus resulting in incremental preprocessing. QBFRelay employs publicly available preprocessors developed by the QBF community and, additionally, our novel preprocessor QRATPre+ that is based on a generalization of the QRAT proof system. We present an overview of DepQBF, QRATPre+, and QBFRelay and report on the performance of our submissions, which were awarded a medal in the FLoC Olympic Games.
Methods of Visualization and Analysis of Cardiac Depolarization in the Three Dimensional Space

Research analysis of electrocardiograms (ECG) today is carried out mostly using time depending signals of different leads shown in the graphs. Definition of ECG parameters is performed by qualified personnel, and requiring particular skills. To support decoding the cardiac depolarization phase of ECG there are methods to analyze space-time convolution charts in three dimensions where the heartbeat is described by the trajectory of its electrical vector. Based on this, it can be assumed that all available options of the classical ECG analysis of this time segment can be obtained using this technique. Investigated ECG visualization techniques in three dimensions combined with quantitative methods giving additional features of cardiac depolarization and allow a better exploitation of the information content of the given ECG signals.
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

In contrast to many other environmental problems, noise pollution continues to grow and it is accompanied by an increasing number of complaints from people exposed to the noise. The growth in noise pollution involves direct, as well as cumulative, adverse health effects. It also adversely effects future generations, and has socio-cultural, aesthetic and economic effects. Therefore, the concept of noise annoyance needed to be broaden to an integrated environmental, psychosocial, and socioeconomic assessment of the community situation to reach a more realistic basis for environmental impact and health risk assessments. Soundscape research represents a timely paradigm shift in that it combines physical, social and psychological approaches and considers environmental sounds as a 'resource' rather than a 'waste' to satisfy human needs and wants. Moreover, balancing between the expertise from people living in respective areas and acoustic measurements, architectural planning will lead to a new understanding of a concept of an environment under "noise control" as soundscape suggests exploring noise in its complexity, its ambivalence and its approach towards sound and quality of life.
A Guide to Conducting Educational Research in the Planetarium

Planetarian June 2015 Introduction For the past several decades, researchers have conducted studies on the planetarium as an educational venue. A major goal of this research has been to measure student conceptual learning (e.g. Brazell & Espinoza, 2009), while other studies have compared learning outcomes in the planetarium to learning in other settings (e.g. Zimmerman, Spillane, Reiff, & Sumners, 2014). Despite the long history of research on the planetarium, there are many questions unanswered about the role planetariums can play in educating audiences or supporting their interest in astronomy. The goal of this article is to provide guidance to the planetarium community on issues pertaining to planetarium-based research. In particular, we will aim our discussion towards those interested in investigating their own research questions. As members of this community, you are uniquely qualified to identify areas of research that will generate findings interesting and useful to other planetarium practitioners, and potentially speak to the broader community of researchers interested in astronomy education, informal education, visualization, and other fields. In particular, evidence gathered through research-based practices can help communicate the value of planetariums to other stakeholders (e.g. donors, school boards, etc.) as well as demonstrate how methods developed in one planetarium can benefit the broader planetarium community. This guide is organized into four sections. First, we present four broad areas of literature in which planetarium-based research could be situated. Second, we discuss basic elements of conducting educational research and different approaches to collecting and analyzing data. Third, we suggest practical considerations that are important to remember when engaging in planetarium-based research. Finally, we discuss the importance of disseminating research results and identifying potential venues in which to present and publish. We see this guide as one part of an ongoing conversation that can lead to improvement in how the planetarium community implements research-based programming for our audiences.
Effect of an Acupuncture Technique of Penetrating through Zhibian (BL54) to Shuidao (ST28) with Long Needle for Pain Relief in Patients with Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Background Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is the commonest gynecological disorder in young women of reproductive age, and there is not always satisfactory relief of pain treated by common medications. Therefore, acupuncture has been used as an alternative therapy to relieve the symptoms of PD. In clinical practice, a penetrating method of acupuncture with long needle has been shown to be particularly effective for improving primary dysmenorrhea. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this technique for pain relief in patients with primary dysmenorrhea as compared with a conventional pain medication. Methods The present study is a perspective, randomized, ibuprofen-controlled trial. Sixty-two eligible participants were randomly assigned in a 1 : 1 ratio to receive either acupuncture treatment or ibuprofen administration. The treatment lasted for three menstrual cycles for both groups. The primary outcome was the intensity of menstrual pain measured by using the visual analogue scale at the completion of treatment. Secondary outcomes included the severity of symptoms associated with menstrual pain, responder rate, and safety of acupuncture treatment. The clinical outcomes were measured on each menstrual cycle at baseline, treatment course (3 cycles), and follow-up period. Results Sixty-four patients of primary dysmenorrhea were recruited, and 62 subjects were included in the final analysis. At trial completion, acupuncture was shown to be associated with a significantly lower pain intensity and decreased symptom severity of primary dysmenorrhea as compared with ibuprofen (p < 0.05). A significantly higher responder rate was found in the acupuncture group as compared with the control group (p < 0.05). No serious adverse events were reported by patients in either group. Conclusions The penetrating method of acupuncture with long needle may be an effective and safe therapy for pain relief in patients with primary dysmenorrhea. This trial was registered with the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR-IOR-17012621).
A bootstrapped spectral test for adequacy in weak ARMA models

This paper proposes a Cram´er-von Mises (CM) test statistic to check the adequacy of weak ARMA models. Without posing a martingale difference assumption on the error terms, the asymptotic null distribution of the CM test is obtained. Moreover, this CM test is consistent, and has nontrivial power against the local alternative of order n − 1 / 2 . Due to the unknown de-15 pendence of error terms and the estimation effects, a new block-wise random weighting method is constructed to bootstrap the critical values of the test statistic. The new method is easy to implement and its validity is justiﬁed. The theory is illustrated by a small simulation study and an application to S&P 500 stock index.
Enabling Efficient Data Infrastructure and Analytics on HPC Systems

We propose to leverage PGAS and one-sided communication for building data infrastructure and analytics frameworks on HPC systems. Specifically, we have developed SHMEMCache, a distributed in-memory key-value store and SHMEMGraph, a balanced graph processing framework. We have tackled unique challenges in data consistency, load balancing, etc. with novel design features. The experimental results show that SHMEMCache achieves significant performance improvements over other KV stores such as Memcached in terms of latency and throughput. In addition, SHMEMGraph achieves an average improvement of 35.5% in terms of job completion time compared to a state-of-the-art graph processing system called Gemini.