Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gendered Wealth Losses after Dissolution of Cohabitation but not Marriage in Germany

Objective: To document gender differences in how economic wealth changes following the dissolution of marriage and cohabitation in Germany.Background: Wealth can be an important resource to deal with the adverse economic consequences of union dissolution. Marital property regimes usually ensure that both partners receive a share of the couples’ wealth following a divorce. The dissolution of cohabiting unions is not governed by such rules in most countries, including Germany, which may lead to a more unequal division of wealth following the dissolution of cohabitation as compared to marriage.Method: The analysis consists of multivariable fixed-effects regression models based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (N = 6,388 individuals) for the years 2002 to 2017.Results: Changes in wealth are relatively similar for men and women after the dissolution of marriage. The dissolution of cohabiting unions is related to losses in wealth for women, but not for men. Controlling for post-dissolution processes, gender inequality increases after the dissolution of cohabitations.Conclusion: Union dissolution is associated with wealth losses. The legal protection of the economically weaker spouse in marriage prevents gender inequality in these wealth losses. Lacking such legal protection, cohabitation is associated with gender inequality in the consequences of dissolution.
A Mini-Review of Spatial Segregation of Aquatic Food Webs: Stable Isotope Technique and Human Impact

Organisms that comprise food webs inhabit areas that are spatially heterogeneous in productivity, resource abundance, and habitat structure, thus the spatial structure in a food web should be considered. Here I reviewed the spatial structure of aquatic food webs. The sub-web structure in a food web should be recognized in understanding the whole food web structure. Also, I reviewed the human impact on spatial structure of aquatic food webs due to species invasion, habitat fragmentation and aquaculture. These human impacts induce the changes in spatial segregation patterns of aquatic food webs. To estimate spatial structure of food webs, the stable isotope technique will be particularly useful because the technique can detect the spatial changes in food sources and links of food web along with environmental and biological gradients in an ecosystem.
Evaluation of the viability of free and encapsulated lactic acid bacteria using in vitro gastro intestinal model and post storage survivability studies of synbiotic microcapsules in dry food matrix

Gastro-intestinal tolerance is inevitable for probiotics to allow enough live cell arrival in colon for bestowing their health benefits. The efficiency of l actic acid bacteria (LAB) en route to colon was studied in an in vitro gastro-intestinal model. The effect of storage on bacterial and synbiotic microcapsules in dry food matrix was studied using Pleurotus ostreatus as the source of prebiotics. Cereal health mix from Tamil Nadu, India n traditional dry food snack and universal health drink Malted health drink was used as the mat rices to study the stability of microcapsules in dry formulations. LAB were checked in free and encap sulated forms for tolerance towards stress conditions and encapsulation was found to protect th e bacteria and enhance their survival. There was 72% to 87% survivability of bacteria in synbioti c microcapsules after storage in dry food matrix. L. bulgaricus NCIM 2056 and L. plantarum NCIM 2083 showed highest level of survivability in the synbiotic microcapsules stored in all the dry food matrices studied. Shelfstable (not requiring refrigeration) dry probiotic f oods would be path breaking products in probiotics industry to overcome the disadvantages of liquid probiotic formulations. The present work is an initiative towards formulation of such pr oduct which can be replicated using probiotic LAB.
A Comparison of Feature Selection and Classification Algorithms in Identifying Baseball Pitches

Data classification has been widely studied in engineering, market and financial analysis, medicine and biology, and other areas. In particular, there exists a large body of literature concerning classification algorithms. However, many classification algorithms are data dependent. For example, while the k-nearest neighbors algorithm (k-NN) is quite versatile in its application, most parametric classifiers are limited in their use by assumptions. Using data from Sportvision’s PITCHf/x, we apply several generic classification methods to the problem of pitch classification. We place a particular emphasis on improving the accuracy of Bayesian classifiers through feature selection and dimension reduction via principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA), respectively. The accuracy and speed of these classification algorithms are then analyzed and compared.
D6.4 – Augmented Reality Experience with Physical Artefacts

This deliverable presents a system to improve the engagement of the user in a virtual reality experience using economic, physical copies of real artefacts, made with cheap 3D fabrication technologies. Based on a combination of hardware and software components, the proposed system gives the user the possibility to interact with the physical replica in the virtual environment and to see the appearance of the original artefact. In this way, we overcome the current limitation of the cheap 3D fabrication technologies: a faithful appearance reproduction. Moreover using a consumer device for the real-time hand tracking and a custom electronic controller for the capacitive touch sensing, the system permits the creation of virtual experiences where the user with his hand can change the virtual appearance of the object using a set of personalization actions selectable from a physical 3D printed palette. Official Submission Date: 30/04/2019 Actual Submission Date: 27/05/2019 Dissemination Level: PU Partner Estimated Effort (in PMs) CNR 8
BLS曲線におけるPseudo 8-Sparse乗算を用いた効率的な Optimal-Ateペアリングの実装

This paper shows an efficient Miller’s algorithm implementation technique by applying pseudo 8-sparse multiplication over Barreto-Lynn-Scott (BLS12) curve of embedding degree 12. The recent development of exTNFS algorithm for solving discrete logarithm problem urges researchers to update parameter for pairing-based cryptography. Therefore, this papers applies the most recent parameters and also shows a comparative implementation of optimal-Ate pairing between BLS12 curve and Barreto-Naehrig (BN) curve. The result finds that pairing in BLS12 curve is faster than BN curve.
INVESTIGATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING POWER CURVE WIND TURBINE BLADE

The present study aims at investigating of factors affecting in enhancing the energy capture capabilities of performance wind turbine. The considered parameters are turbine swept area, air density, wind speed, and power coefficient as a function of pitch angle. A tool aerodynamic analysis based on the Blade Element Momentum Theory (BEMT) is developed to study the parameters that affect the power curve of blade wind turbine. The study shows that the operational parameters has a direct effect on the performance of wind turbine which will lead the developers and researchers to focus on the highest priority parameter that should be considered for optimizing the new generations of wind turbines blade.
A Study of Data Scarcity Problem for Automatic Detection of Deceptive Speech Utterances∗

In recent years there have been a lot of interest in the task of contactless automatic detection of deception in speech utterances. This task belongs to the paralinguistic area that studies the models for researching such aspects of speech as emotions, voice characteristics, psychophysiological traits etc. Despite the high relevance of the topic, there still remains the problem of the lack of data containing deceptive information. This paper presents an analysis of methods aimed to deal with the problem. Such over-sampling algorithms as SMOTE and ADASYN were explored.
Quality assessment of marketed food supplements and herbal tea products of olive leaf in Turkey

In this study, qualitative and quantitative analysis of commercially available food supplements composed of olive leaf extract and herbal tea products containing olive leaf were evaluated by High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) and a newly developed and validated High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic (HPLC) method for their quality assessment. In addition, leaves of two varieties of Olea europaea L. (var. europaea and var. sylvestris) grown in Turkey which were assigned as reference plant materials and their chemical compositions were also comparatively analyzed by HPTLC. Then HPTLC fingerprints of reference plant materials were compared to the marketed olive leaf samples. For quantification of oleuropein and luteolin 7-O-glucoside (L7G) contents in the samples, a simple and fast HPLC method was developed and validated. Consequently, in water and hydroalcoholic extracts of O. europaea var. europaea leaves, oleuropein contents were found to be 15.89% (w/w) and 15.84% (w/w), while L7G contents were 0.75% and 1.23%, respectively. For the reference materials, oleuropein in O. europaea L. var. sylvestris leaves was found to be 12.77% (w/w, in water extract) and 12.36%(w/w, in hydroalcoholic extract), while the concentration of L7G was 0.51% (w/w) and 0.83% (w/w) in water and hydroalcoholic extracts, respectively. Qualitative analysis of the commercial products revealed that fraud was detected in three of eight olive leaf herbal tea bag brands and two of ten olive leaf food supplements. These samples were found either devoid of oleuropein or they had different HPTLC fingerprint profiles than the reference samples.
Space-Efficient Algorithms for Longest Increasing Subsequence (Extended Abstract)

Let π be a permutation of {1, . , n}. For 1 ≤ i1 < · · · < il ≤ n, a subsequence π⟨i1, . , il⟩ of π is the sequence ⟨π(i1), . , π(il)⟩. A subsequence π⟨i1, . , il⟩ is an increasing subsequence of π if π(i1) < · · · < π(il). In this extended abstract, we present space-efficient algorithms for finding a longest increasing subsequence of a given permutation. Using √ n words of additional working space, our algorithm solves the problem in O(n1.5 log2 n) time. It runs in O(n1.5 log n) time when we need only the length of a longest increasing subsequence.
Maize-soybean intercropping in double row plant spacing

Intercropping of maize-soybean can increase land utilization and farmers income. The research was aimed to obtain a better maize-soybean intercropping model on double row plant spacing. The field experiment was conducted on dry land at Research Station in Bontobili, Gowa, Indonesia. The treatment consisted of 1: Maize monoculture with double row at plant spacing of 50-100 cm x 20 cm; 2: Intercropping 1 row of soybean in maize double row at plant spacing of 50-100 cm x 20 cm; 3: Intercropping 2 rows of soybean in maize double row at plant spacing of 50-100 cm x 20 cm; 4: Monoculture of maize with double row at plant spacing of 40-110 cm x 20 cm; 5: Intercropping with 1 row of soybean in double row plant spacing of 40-110 cm x 20 cm; 6: Intercropping 2 rows of soybean in maize double row at plant spacing of 40-110 cm x 20 cm; 7: Maize monoculture with plant spacing of 75 cm x 20 cm; 8: Soybean monoculture with plant spacing of 40 x 20 cm. Both of maize monoculture and intercropping maintained plant population at 66,666 plants ha. Monoculture of soybean population was 125,000 plant ha, whereas intercropping whit 1 row of soybean was 33,333 plant ha and 2 rows of soybean at 66,666 plant ha. The research used randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. Results showed that maize-soybean intercropping in double row plant spacing was able to obtained grain yield of 7.27–7.70 t ha, with total relative value of 1.08–1.19, maize equivalent yield of 7.88–9.11 t ha, land equivalent ratio of 1.35–1.70, profit of USD 965.46–1,139.78 ha, and benefitcost (B-C) ratio of 1.62–1.74, this results were higher than in case of monoculture. Intercropping of maize-soybean with double row plant spacing of 40-110 x 20 cm and 50-100 x 20 cm with 2 rows of soybean were planting spacing model that can be recommended to be implemented because both have the highest productivity and economic benefit compared to other models.
Kinetic study of the homogeneous acid-catalyzed esterification of malic acid with methanol to form dimethyl malate

The dearth of literature on the esterification of dicarboxylic acids containing a hydroxyl group attached to the chain was the lodestar behind this project. Since Malic acid typifies molecules belonging to this sect of hydroxydicarboxylic acids, a synthesis and kinetic study of the liquid-phase Sulfuric acid-catalyzed Fischer esterification reaction of Malic acid with Methanol to form Dimethyl Malate are presented. The preliminary synthesis study involved adjustments of operating conditions in isothermal reactions staggered in temperatures between (80-100) °C, at a milder catalyst concentration, and at distended reaction times to obtain a yield of the desired ester (87-91) % which was comparable to the figures obtained from previous synthesis studies. Then, using these conditions at their dialed-back states for conducting similar reactions, a kinetic study was conducted and experimental data were extracted. Afterwards, the effect of temperature, catalyst concentration and reactant molar ratio (in an uncatalyzed regime) were investigated and the findings discussed. A kinetic model was subsequently proposed based on certain assumptions and tested for fitness through computation and regression analysis of the kinetic data. They were revealed to be good fits in most conditions under investigation and an explanation was given for the circumstance in which the model seemingly-failed. A rationalization for the failure of the model, with a basis upon which another model can be developed, were adduced therein and can be used for the design and simulation of processes such as the reactive distillation for Dimethyl Malate formation.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND REPORTED EARNING QUALITY IN DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA

This study examined the effect of Corporate Governance on Reported Earnings Quality in Nigerian deposit money banks. Cross sectional data were obtained from Ten (10) listed deposit money banks in Nigerian Stock Exchange for over a period of ten years (2008-2017). The data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Earnings predictability was adopted as a proxy for reported earnings quality, while board size, board independence, foreign directorship and firm size were used as proxies for corporate governance. The study found board size having a positive and insignificant relationship with earnings quality; a negative and insignificant relationship between board independence and earnings quality; a positive and significant relationship between foreign directors on board and earnings quality; and also a negative and insignificant relationship between firm size and earnings quality. It was therefore recommended that deposit money banks should increase both their board size and number of foreign directors on board as these will enhance their reported earnings quality.
Addressing adolescent alcohol use in South Africa

Excessive alcohol consumption constitutes a significant public health problem for South Africans. Alcohol use by South African (SA) adolescents is characterised mainly by binge/heavy episodic drinking. Levels of binge drinking have been high, but relatively stable, among males since 2002, while there has been a significant increase in binge drinking by females since then. Binge drinking is a major risk factor for a range of alcohol-related harms in SA, including traffic-related accidents and deaths, interpersonal violence, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), crime, sexual risk behaviour, HIV, tuberculosis and the resultant burden of all of these on the economy. Clinicians may play a key role in addressing adolescent alcohol use and alcohol-related harm. Such a role may involve screening, brief interventions and referrals to treatment. There are several assessment, screening and diagnostic tools to detect alcohol use and misuse, specifically among adolescents. Furthermore, various pharmacological and psychological approaches are available to treat adolescent alcohol problems. Special issues to consider when dealing with alcohol use problems among adolescents in SA include recognising the risk factors, and acknowledging and addressing the harms associated with alcohol use (including sexual risk behaviour and FASD) and the possible existence of comorbid mental health problems.
Multiscale analysis of particulate nanocomposites- thermomechanical properties

Polymer-based nanocomposites have wide applications such as NEMS/MEMS device, electronic packaging, aeronautical structures and so on. In these applications, efficient reinforcing effects are needed in order to achieve adequate mechanical and thermal properties of structures such as elastic modulus, coefficient of thermal expansion(CTE) and glass transition temperature(Tg). In nano-sized materials, the ratio of the surface to volume increases remarkably as compared with micro and macro size materials. The multi-functionality of nanocomposites is very sensitive to the size of nano-fillers. It was reported that the CTE of PEEK matrix composites was reduced to 60% compared to pure PEEK at 43 vol% micro-Al2O3 and at 12 vol% nanoAl2O3 by Goyal et al[1]. Cho el al. measured the elastic modulus of vinyl ester composites with nanoAl2O3 (15nm) and compared it to modulus of composite with macro Al2O3 (0.5mm)[2]. The larger values were estimated in the composites including nano-particles. So the size effect of the nano-filler on the themomechanical properties has been investigated widely and actively using Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method[3,4].
SWAT-CUP Calibration and Uncertainty Programs for SWAT

Distributed watershed models are increasingly being used to support decisions about alternative management strategies in the areas of landuse change, climate change, water allocation, and pollution control. For this reason it is important that these models pass through a careful calibration and uncertainty analysis. Furthermore, as calibration model parameters are always conditional in nature the meaning of a calibrated model, its domain of use, and its uncertainty should be clear to both the analyst and the decision maker. Large-scale distributed models are particularly difficult to calibrate and to interpret the calibration because of large model uncertainty, input uncertainty, and parameter nonuniqueness. To perform calibration and uncertainty analysis, in recent years many procedures have become available. As only one technique cannot be applied to all situations and different projects can benefit from different procedures, we have linked, for the time being, three programs to the hydrologic simulator Soil and Water Assessment Tools (SWAT) (Arnold et al., 1998) under the same platform, SWAT-CUP (SWAT Calibration Uncertainty Procedures). These procedures include: Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) (Beven and Binley, 1992), Parameter Solution (ParaSol) (van Griensven and Meixner, 2006), and Sequential Uncertainty FItting (SUFI-2) (Abbaspour, et al., 2007). In this paper we describe SWAT-CUP and the three procedures and provide an application example using SUFI-2.
Discordance of Her-2 Status in Gastric Cancer and Lymph Node Metastases

Despite important advances in the diagnosis and treatment of gastric cancer, this type of cancer is still the second highest cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Approximately 65% of patients present with locally advanced or metastatic disease (Jemal et al., 2011). The median overall survival is approximately 3 months with the best supportive care in metastatic disease; however, this time increases to 9 to 14 months with effective combination chemotherapy regimens (Wagner et al., 2006). Recent advances in molecular pathogenesis of have made targeted therapy possible. Trastuzumab is the most widely studied agent in this regard. Currently, trastuzumab in combination with chemotherapy constitutes a new option for treating HER2-overexpressing gastric and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) carcinomas (Bang et
Solid-phase microextraction of hop volatiles

The composition of hop essential oil is an important tool for evaluation of hop quality. As each hop variety has a typical essential oil pattern (fingerprint), hop oil analyses can be used to distinguish between hop varieties. The headspace solid-phase microextraction (SPME) method as described in this contribution is a simple sample preparation technique and represents an alternative procedure for essential oil fingerprint determination. Different SPME parameters (extraction temperature, extraction time and sample mass) were studied and the results were compared with those obtained by the routine distillation method. It is shown that SPME results can be used for determination and verification of varieties grown in Slovenia by means of principal components analysis.  2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
5-Methyl-4-thiazolidinones: Synthesis and evaluation as antitubercular agents

This paper reports the synthesis, characterization and evaluation of some 5-methyl-4-thiazolidinone derivatives for their in vitro antimycobacterial activities against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv strain by microplate alamar blue assay. Also the crystal structures of the compounds (2a and 2c) were determined by the single-crystal Xray diffraction study. Among the target compounds, 2-(4-ethoxyphenyl)-5-methyl-3-(phenylamino)thiazolidin-4-one (2g) was promising with a minimum inhibitory concentration of 12.5 μg/mL against M. tuberculosis. Based on the preliminary results, 2g was considered as a lead compound for further optimization of antimycobacterial activity.