Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The change in world price and export tax of crude palm oil and their impact on the economy and welfare in Indonesia: using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model

The research aimed to analyze the impact of change in world price and export tax of crude palm oil on the export and domestic production performance of some selected economic sectors, as well as households’ welfare in Indonesia. The analyses were carried out by a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) static model with data taken from Indonesian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) 2008. The results showed that the increase in world price accompanied by the increase in export tax of crude palm oil and rupiah depreciation have positive impact on the export and domestic production performance of palm oil manufacture sectors and other related economic sectors. Prevailing progressive tax on crued palm oil export does not have negative impact resulted in decreasing palm oil export because export unit price received by producers remains higher than the price at baseline. Due to the increasing of export performance and domestic production, production sectors have economic ability to meet the demands of paying higher value-added upon primary production factors owned by households so that households’ factor income increase and eventually, it leads households’ welfare increase as well.
Nominal Frictions and Optimal Monetary Policy

It is well known in standard economic literature that nominal frictions have significant impact on the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. This paper considers a closed economy version of DSGE model with various nominal frictions vis-a-vis monetary-cumfiscal blocks to seek the basic query that how monetary policy impacts while in the presence of nominal frictions, like price stickiness, staggered wages, etc. Using Bayesian Simulation techniques, we estimate the model for the closed economy . Our simulation results show that despite the apparent similarities of various frictions, their responses to shocks and fit to data are quite different and there is no agreement on their relative performance. As a result, Monetary Authorities cannot afford to rely on a single reference model which contains few nominal frictions of the economy but need to model a large number of alternative ways available when they take their decision of optimal monetary policy.
STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLE OF COACHES AND SPORTSMANSHIP COMMITMENT OF ATHLETES (A CASE STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES IN I.R. I. KARATE SUPER LEAGUE)

Мета : На сьогоднішній день, коли група людей намагається досягти мети, менеджер і керівник, як правило, повинні взяти на себе відповідальність за цю групу. Тренер впливає на членів команди, в той час як спортсмени продовжують наполегливо працювати над досягненням командних цілей. Метою даного дослідження є взаємозв'язок між стилями керівництва тренерів і діяльністю спортсменів в карате. Матеріал : Це дослідження включає в себе всіх активних спортсменів карате Суперліги в сезоні 1991-1992 рр. (n = 100). Статистична вибірка дорівнювала статистичної сукупності (n = n). Для збору інформації ми використовували опитувальник стилю керівництва MLQ і опитувальник SCMS. Достовірність опитувальника була схвалена професорами університетів з рівнем надійності - альфа-тест Кронбаха 0,86 і 0,79. Крім того, для аналізу даних ми використовували описові статистики середнього та стандартного відхилення. Попередній аналіз даних показав нормальний розподіл за допомогою критерія Колмогорова-Смирнова. Потім ми використовували критерії Пірсона, Спірмена, Манна-Уїтні, Вілкоксона, Фрідмана, коефіцієнт кореляції при рівні значущості (р-0,05). Результати : Існують значні відмінності між результатами спортсменів і стилем керівництва. Існує значна кореляція між результатами зі стилем Привабливості (0.000), Ідеалізованого впливу (0,000), Натхнення (0,001), Інтелектуальної стимуляції (0,007), Індивідуалізованого розгляду (0,017), Невключення активності (0,008) і Політики невтручання (0,041) (P-0,05). Висновки : для підвищення результатів спортсменів тренери повинні використовувати стилі: Привабливості, Ідеалізованого впливу, Натхнення, Інтелектуальної стимуляції, Індивідуального розгляду, Невключення активності. Якщо тренер хоче бачити успіх своїх спортсменів на спортивних майданчиках, він повинен поєднувати діючі стилі з результатами спортсменів.
International Planning Competition Uncertainty Part: Benchmarks and Results

Organizing an automated planning competition raises various difficulties: deciding of the language requirements, getting people to participate, selecting benchmark problems, finding out which planner is best in the end. This document discusses the last two points in the context of the uncertain part of the International Planning Competition 2008. It also presents the competition results with some comments. A more in-depth analysis would require presenting competing planners in details and is therefore out of the scope of this paper.
Zimbabwean Cultural Traditions in England: Ubuntu Hunhu as a Human Rights Tool

This paper is based on the argument that inside evolving African cultures, there are resources that could be useful human rights and ethical tools. These cultural resources can be harnessed in conducting research on sensitive topics such as HIV or used to deliver health promotion interventions. A key cultural resource, based on evolving Zimbabwean cultural traditions, is the notion of Ubuntu–Hunhu, which is grounded in respect, humanity and the interconnectedness of beings. This concept can be a useful resource in upholding confidentiality, a centralrequirement in research ethics and the deliverance of health promotion interventions. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the meaning of Ubuntu–Hunhu, and the applicability of this concept in helping those with HIV. Thirty HIV-positive Zimbabwean men and women living in London and the surrounding area were interviewed and then invited to take part in focus groups to discuss their experiences as migrants to the UK. All data were transcribed and a grounded theory approach was used to identify three themes: the meanings of Ubuntu–Hunhu, Ubuntu–Hunhu as a basis for privacy, and Ubuntu–Hunhu in clinical settings. Although all the respondents reported that they were aware of the concept of Ubuntu–Hunhu, not all were aware of the meanings of confidentiality as used by Western health and social care providers. Our study shows that the use of Ubuntu–Hunhu concepts that link the entitlements of individuals with communal responsibilities and duties provides an important ethical tool for clarifying what research participants understand confidentiality to be. Using the Ubuntu–Hunhu framework, confidentiality in HIV emerged as crucially important, not only for the individual but also for those connected to the person living with HIV, including sexual partners. This has important implications for public health.
Objectives: Sepsis treatment guidelines recommend macrocircu- latory hemodynamic optimization; however, microcirculatory dys- function is integral to sepsis pathogenesis. We aimed to test the hypothesis that following macrocirculatory optimization, inhaled nitric oxide would improve microcirculation

December 2014 • Volume 42 • Number 12 Objectives: Sepsis treatment guidelines recommend macrocirculatory hemodynamic optimization; however, microcirculatory dysfunction is integral to sepsis pathogenesis. We aimed to test the hypothesis that following macrocirculatory optimization, inhaled nitric oxide would improve microcirculation in patients with sepsis and that improved microcirculation would improve lactate clearance and multiple organ dysfunction. Design: Randomized, sham-controlled clinical trial. Setting: Single urban academic medical center. Patients: Adult patients with severe sepsis and systolic blood pressure less than 90 mm Hg despite intravascular volume expansion and/or serum lactate greater than or equal to 4.0 mmol/L. Interventions: After achievement of macrocirculatory resuscitation goals, we randomized patients to 6 hours of inhaled nitric oxide (40 ppm) or sham inhaled nitric oxide administration. We administered study drug via a specialized delivery device that concealed treatment allocation so that investigators and clinical staff remained blinded. Measurements and Main Results: We performed sidestream darkfield videomicroscopy of the sublingual microcirculation prior to and 2 hours after study drug initiation. The primary outcome measure was the change in microcirculatory flow index. Secondary outcomes were lactate clearance and change in Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score. We enrolled 50 patients (28 of 50 [56%] requiring vasopressor agents; 15 of 50 [30%] died). Although inhaled nitric oxide significantly raised plasma nitrite levels, it did not improve microcirculatory flow, lactate clearance, or organ dysfunction. In contrast to previous studies conducted during the earliest phase of resuscitation, we found no association between changes in microcirculatory flow and lactate clearance or organ dysfunction. Conclusions: Following macrocirculatory optimization, inhaled nitric oxide at 40 ppm did not augment microcirculatory perfusion in patients with sepsis. Further, we found no association between microcirculatory perfusion and multiple organ dysfunction after initial resuscitation. (Crit Care Med 2014; 42:2482–2492)
Study on the Efficiency of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors Therapy in a Batch of Hypertensive Patients in the County of Arges? (II)

The main objectives of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the therapy with ACE inhibitors on medium term (6 months) in the decrease of the systolic and diastolic blood pressure and to demonstrate the ACE inhibitors' influence on the level of total cardiovascular risk. The prospective study was performed in the Department of Cardiology within the County Emergency Hospital of Pitești, during 2009-2010, on a number of 357 patients. Clinical follow-up period was of 6 months. Although, the moment of patients' inclusion in the study was different, each patient was followed and treated according to the same operational plan. In defining the population of the county of Arges, I took into account the criteria of inclusion in the batch, respectively the exclusion criteria, as well as the criteria that required the premature interruption of the study.
Variability, Heritability and Genetic Advance for Some Yield and Yield Related Traits and Oil Content in Ethiopian Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) Genotypes

Coriander is a diploid annual plant, belonging to the Apiaceae/Umbelliferae family and it plays an important role in the Ethiopian domestic spice trade. Eighty one Ethiopian coriander genotypes were evaluated in 9×9 simple lattice designs for genetic variability in seed yield and yield related traits at Adami Tulu Agricultural Research Center during 2011 main cropping season. Data were collected on 21 yield and yield related characters. The analysis of variance showed that genotypes differed significantly for all characters studied with exception of umbel number per plant, number of seeds per plant and number of seeds per umbellete. Highest Genotypic Coefficient of Variation (GCV) was recorded for leaf number per plant followed by plant height at flowering and seed yield per hectare, in contrast lowest GCV were recorded for number of seed per plant, number of seed per umbellete and umbel number per plant. The highest Phenotypic Coefficient of Variation (PCV) was similarly recorded for leaf number per plant followed by, seed yield per hectare, plant height at flowering and harvest index per plant. The highest broad sense heritability values was recorded for days to 50% flowering, days to emergence, days to maturity and days to start of flowering. However, lowest heritability was recorded for umbel number per plant, number of seed per umbellete and number of seed per plant. The highest genetic advance as percent of mean was recorded for leaf number per plant, plant height at flowering and number of secondary branches. While the lowest genetic advance as a percent of mean was recorded for number of seed per plant, number of seed per umbellete and umbel number per plant.
Exploring the Levels of Knowledge, Attitudes and Environment- Friendly Practices Among Young Civil Servants in Malaysia

Today’s younger generations will determine the future and progress of the country. It is therefore important to create and nurture mature behaviour in younger generations towards the environment. Such behaviour is vital to ensure that the environment is continually protected and conserved. Exploring the levels of knowledge, attitudes and environment-friendly practice in young civil servants is an initial step in designing an environmental programme that will empower youth in leading and promoting recycling as one environment-friendly response to a threatened environment. To achieve this purpose, this study utilised the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) Model to examine the levels of knowledge, attitudes and workplace recycling practice among young civil servants. The study involved 244 young civil servants randomly selected from administration or management divisions in 25 government agencies aged between 20 and 40 years. The findings reveal that the level of knowledge and attitudes among the young civil servants on recycling was remarkable. However, the level of recycling practice at the workplace is moderate. Both recycling knowledge and attitudes are predictors of workplace recycling practice among young civil servants. Thus, any intervention programme involving youth to improve recycling should consider these results as a basis in designing a programme that can equip youth with some abilities and skills in proper recycling methods. With this knowledge, they can inspire their colleagues to actively participate in office recycling
Modeling and Analysis of Normal Stress in Viscoelastic

A custom-made nonlinear viscoelastic damper is designed for several industrial applications. The damper is structurally similar to typical commercial dampers and the design is solely based on the choice of the viscoelastic material used as damping agent in the damper. With rheological parameters of a selected material from experiment, the coefficients of Johnson-Segalman constitutive equation model are evaluated by fitting the data. The problem was first formulated by introducing the governing equations for the flow over flat plate. A numerical scheme of finite difference method is applied to solve the governing equations in the time domain. The model is capable of predicting the nonlinear amplitudedependent behavior of viscoelastic dampers under single and multiple-frequency excitations.
Diversity of Bacterial Communities on Sunken Woods in the Mediterranean Sea

Sunken woods are very rich and diverse ecosystems supporting large macrofaunal diversity and representing a source of carbon and energy for any heterotrophic organism able to consume plant material, and those relying on specialized microbial taxa. However, relatively little is known about the microbial communities that degrade sunken woods and produce reduced compounds that serve as energy sources for chemosynthetic lifestyles. The purpose of this study was to explore the bacterial diversity developing on and within sunken woods in a NW Mediterranean submarine canyon and its adjacent slope by using 16S rRNA genes survey. We described communities from Pine wood immerged at 1200m deep in the Blanes Canyon and its adjacent open slope, as well as from material filling wood boring bivalve burrows. We demonstrate that bacterial communities were very different from each other in each of the three wood ecosystems. These highly diverse wood communities contained all the major bacterial phyla, but Alphaproteobacteria and Deltaproteobacteria were dominant in the open slope and the canyon, respectively. The burrows had more Gamma- and Epsilon-proteobacteria. In summary, highly diverse bacterial communities with potentially wide metabolic capabilities colonized wood sunken in the Blanes Canyon and its adjacent open slopes in the Mediterranean Sea.
Ground‐penetrating radar: Wave theory and numerical simulation in lossy anisotropic media

Subsurface georadar is a high-resolution technique based on the propagation of high-frequency radio waves. Modeling radio waves in a realistic medium requires the simulation of the complete wavefield and the correct description of the petrophysical properties, such as conductivity and dielectric relaxation. Here, the theory is developed for 2-D transverse magnetic (TM) waves, with a different relaxation function associated to each principal permittivity and conductivity component. In this way, the wave characteristics (e.g., wavefront and attenuation) are anisotropic and have a general frequency dependence. These characteristics are investigated through a plane-wave analysis that gives the expressions of measurable quantities such as the quality factor and the energy velocity. The numerical solution for arbitrary heterogeneous media is obtained by a grid method that uses a time-splitting algorithm to circumvent the stiffness of the differential equations. The modeling correctly reproduces the amplitude and the wavefront shape predicted by the plane-wave analysis for homogeneous media, confirming, in this way, both the theoretical analysis and the numerical algorithm. Finally, the modeling is applied to the evaluation of the electromagnetic response of contaminant pools in a sand aquifer. The results indicate the degree of resolution (radar frequency) necessary to identify the pools and the differences between the anisotropic and isotropic radargrams versus the source-receiver distance.
Applications of digital core analysis and hydraulic flow units in petrophysical characterization

Conventional petrophysical characterizations are often based on direct laboratory measurements. Although they provide accurate results, such measurements are time-consuming and limited by instrument and environment. What’s more, in the geo- resource energy industry, availability and cuttings of core plugs are difﬁcult. Because of these reasons, virtual digital core technology is of increasing interest due to its capability of characterizing rock samples without physical cores and experiments. Virtual digital core technology, also known as digital rock physics, is used to discover, understand and model relationships between material, ﬂuid composition, rock microstructure and macro equivalent physical properties. Based on actual geological conditions, modern mathematical methods and imaging technology, the digital model of the core or porous media is created to carry out physical ﬁeld numerical simulation. In this review, the methods for constructing digital porous media are introduced ﬁrst, then the characterization of thin rock cross section and the capillary pressure curve using scanning electron microscope image under mixed wetting are presented. Finally, we summarize the hydraulic ﬂow unit methods in petrophysical classiﬁcation. Cited as : Chen, X. , Zhou, Y. Applications of digital core analysis and hydraulic flow units in petrophysical characterization. Advances in Geo-Energy Research, 2017, 1(1): 18-30, doi: 10.26804/ager.2017. 01.02
Clinical Presentationof ProstateCancer in Black SouthAfricans

Elizabeth A. Tindall, L. Richard Monare, Desiree C. Petersen, Smit van Zyl, Rae-Anne Hardie, Alpheus M. Segone, Philip A. Venter, M.S. Riana Bornman, and Vanessa M. Hayes* J.CraigVenter Institute, La Jolla,California DepartmentofUrology,Universityof Limpopo,Medunsa, South Africa Laboratory forHumanComparativeand Prostate CancerGenomics,Garvan Institute ofMedical Research andTheKinghornCancerCentre,Darlinghurst,New SouthWales, Australia DepartmentofMedical Sciences,Universityof Limpopo,Turfloop, South Africa Departmentof Urology,Universityof Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa SydneyMedical School,Universityof Sydney,Camperdown,NewSouthWales, Australia
Scalar Implicatures: a Gricean vs. a Relevance Theory Approach

Griceans have always supported the idea that scalar implicatures are Quantitybased generalized conversational implicatures (GCI). With the purpose of explaining this phenomenon, they derived their own principles inspired in Grice’s Quantity maxims and concluded that whenever a speaker uses a weak linguistic item of a given scale, no matter the context she is in, she will be implying (a) that she is not in a position to be more informative and that therefore (b) a stronger item of the scale will not hold. For instance, if there is a scale such as <all, some> and the speaker chooses the weaker element some, she will automatically be implying not all. However, Relevance theorists believe that scalar implicatures are context-based. Thus, they claim that these implicatures do not depend on any Quantity maxim to arise but on a notion of relevance that considers the context in which sentences are uttered. So although the speaker chooses the linguistic term some from the previously mentioned scale, the context should be taken into account to infer that she is implicating not all. The present paper aims to compare both pragmatic theories’ approach to the scalar implicature case. Consequently, I will first explain the main features of each theory: how human verbal communication works, how implicatures are generated and how the information contained in such implicatures is recovered by hearers according to them. Then, I will introduce scalar implicatures and contrast the Gricean and Relevance Theory approaches (based on the previously explained features of each pragmatic tendency) to such phenomenon. To conclude, I will discuss what experimental pragmatics says about each proposal. The results from the application of each theory’s approach to the case of scalar implicatures indicate that Relevance Theory predicts their generation more accurately. In the same way, experimental pragmatics denies that the Gricean system for generating scalar implicatures is the correct and most efficient one and verifies Relevance Theory’s predictions about it as well as its analysis of scalar implicatures.
Assessment of Higher Educational Institution using Segmented-trace Clustering

Curriculum mining is a recent research area that applies a data-driven approach to assess students’ learning behavior by discovering the curriculum model and compare it with the curriculum guideline. Some previous works exist to cope with the problem to discover the curriculum model from student database, by utilizing the concept of process mining. However, the challenges of discovering the curriculum model remain due to the different nature of student database from event log in twofold; the level of time granularity and variability of instance attributes. Previous works on curriculum mining that deal with conformance checking of the model between student’s learning behavior and curriculum guideline are related to sequence matching alignment which is insufficient to understand the patterns of a group of students in a particular level of time granularity, i.e., Semester. This study proposes a curriculum mining methodology for curriculum assessment and students’ learning behavior by creating segmentedtrace profiles. The segmented-trace profiles are extracted based on a local alignment of sequences and generated as the input for sequence matching alignment to assess whether the observed students’ learning behavior match with the prior curriculum guideline. The profiles would be the features of the clustering approach. Real curriculum data has been used to test the effectivity of the methodology. The results show that the students can be grouped into various clusters per semester that have different characteristics for their learning behavior and performance. The results can be analyzed further to improve the curriculum guideline.