Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Drivers of wealth inequality in euro area countries

Abstract This paper investigates the sources of inequality in household gross and net wealth across eight euro-area countries applying the Shapley value approach to decomposition. The research draws on micro data from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey 2010. Dispersion in bequests and inter vivos transfers obtained by households are found to have a remarkable effect on wealth inequality that is stronger than the one of income differences. In Austria, Germany and Cyprus the contribution of real and financial assets inherited or received as gifts to gross and net wealth inequality attains about 40%. Nevertheless, also the distribution of household characteristics (age, education, size, number of adults and children in the household, marital status) within countries shapes the observed wealth dispersion.
How empathic traits affect interactions with virtual agents

Nowadays, virtual technology with embedded virtual agents is increasingly present in everyday life. Therefore, understanding the characteristics of psychological experience in social interaction with virtual agents can be useful for theoretical and application purposes. Here, we aim to understand whether individual differences in empathy can influence social interaction with virtual agents. To this end, we designed a correlational study comparing individual propensity towards empathic traits and the ability to take the perspective of a virtual agent (VA) to understand whether and how they are associated. In an Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) scenario, participants had to locate a glass according to the perspective of a virtual agent. They were seated behind a circular virtual table around which, in various positions closer and further away, VAs with a glass placed in front of them could appear. Participants had to decide whether the glass was to the right or left of the VA’s body midline. The results showed an association between some components of empathy and localization time: the higher the tendency to identify with a fictional character, the faster the participants were to locate the glass in all positions of the virtual agents around the table. Likewise, the higher the tendency to experience feelings of empathy, the faster they were in locating only when the VA was close to the observer. These preliminary results suggest that individual differences in empathy and the location of virtual agents help define how people experience virtual social interactions.
The Effect of Robots Listening Attitude Change on the Self-disclosure of the Elderly: A Preliminary Study

Self-disclosing one's life experiences is known to be beneficial to the psychological health of older adults, from the viewpoint of integrity. It has been shown that people tend to self-disclose more to the people they are fond of. For improving interpersonal liking, the use of the “gain effect” has been shown to be effective. “Gain effect” refers to that people like a person who initially has a negative attitude but gradually develops a positive attitude, compared to a person who consistently has a positive attitude. Based on these previous studies, our study aims to clarify the effect of a change in the robot's listening attitude on the self-disclosure of the elderly. We conducted an preliminary experiment, wherein 15 elderly participants self-disclosed to a robot for approximately 20 minutes. The participants were assigned to one of three groups according to the type of robot they self-disclosed. 1) The CN group where participants interacted with the robot that consistently listened with neutral behavior, 2) the CP group where participants interacted with the robot that consistently listened with positive behavior, and 3) the Ch group where participants interacted with the robot that listened with neutral behavior first and subsequently with positive behavior. The results revealed that the Ch group participants' ratio of self-disclosure utterances was the highest among the three groups. Furthermore, the willingness to self-disclose tended to be higher for the Ch group than for the CN group, in terms of everyday experiences and loss experiences.
High Engagement, Psychosocial Well-beingand Fear of Missing Out in Online SocialNetwork

Online Social Network (OSN) has been identified to serve different functions to its users. However, OSN also keeps users highly engaged and occupied to online world by keeping them away from offline world. Depending upon the personality of the users, many users experience the decline of psychosocial wellbeing in their life due to the over engagement in OSN. Using self-determination theory, we plan to test and validate how personality plays a role in differentiating positive outcome from negative outcome resulting from OSN. Some of the users who experience such decline in well-being may disengage them from their OSN while others fail to do so. Further, we will also test if fear of missing out would deteriorate the psychosocial well-being even further.
Does Encouraging Self-touching Behaviors with Supportive Voices Increase Stress-buffering Effects?

Due to the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, such measures as social distancing is being promulgated to reduce community spread. Unfortunately, such steps greatly limit physical touching, and this touch starvation increases people's stress. We address this problem by focusing on touch interactions with oneself: self-touch. We developed a system that consists of a touch sensor and a supportive voice function to encourage self-touch behaviors. We experimentally evaluated whether our developed system increased self-touch behaviors and investigated its stress-buffering effects under stressful settings. The experimental results showed that the system increased self-touch behaviors, although only male participants showed significant stress-buffering effects.
How can cognitive science contribute to sport? How can sport contribute to neuroscience?

Article statistics Word count: 2,340; Tables: 0; Figures: 0; References: 36 Received: October 2015; Accepted: December 2015; Published: March 2016 Full-text PDF: http://www.balticsportscience. com Copyright © Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport, Poland Indexation: AGRO, Celdes, CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), CNPIEC, De Gruyter IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences), De Gruyter IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences), DOAJ, EBSCO Central & Eastern European Academic Source, EBSCO SPORTDiscus, EBSCO Discovery Service, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus, J-Gate, Naviga (Softweco, Primo Central (ExLibris), ProQuest Family Health, ProQuest Health & Medical Complete, ProQuest Illustrata: Health Sciences, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source, Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest, TDOne (TDNet), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb, WorldCat (OCLC) Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Conflict of interest: Authors have declared that no competing interest exists. Corresponding author: Sławomir Kujawski, Marii Skłodowskiej Curie 9 street, Bydgoszcz, Poland; phone: +48791448117; e-mail: slawomirkujawski@wp.pl Open Access License: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. abstract
The Influence of Gaming Experience, Gender and Other Individual Factors on Robot Teleoperations in VR

A valid Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) should be effective for the majority of the population. However, gender, gaming experience, or other individual factors are often likely to affect users' performance when interacting with a robot. In the present study, we measured the performance and perceived workload of participants driving a robot through a pick-and-place task in Virtual Reality (VR) via controller buttons or physical actions. The following individual factors were considered in the analysis: gaming experience, gender, learnability skills, problem solving and trust in technology. Results showed that all the accounted individual factors impacted either performance or perceived demand, but only when guiding the robot via controller buttons. Our findings foster the adoption of more natural ways of teleoperating robots, such as by physical actions, as they demonstrated to be exempt from the influence of individual factors, and are likely to be effective for a broader section of the population.
WALL PRESSURE FLUCTUATIONS IN A TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER AFTER BLOWING OR SUCTION

A direct numerical simulation of a spatially-developing turbulent boundary layer is performed to examine the characteristics of wall pressure fluctuations after the sudden application of wall blowing or suction. The uniform blowing or suction is given by the wall-normal velocity through a spanwise slot at the wall. The response of wall pressure fluctuations to uniform blowing or suction is analyzed by computing the turbulence statistics and frequency spectra. It is found that wall pressure fluctuations are more affected by blowing than by suction. The large elongated structure of wall pressure fluctuations is observed near the maximum location of for blowing. The convection velocities for blowing increase with increasing the streamwise location after the slot. For both blowing and suction, the small scale of wall pressure fluctuations reacts in a short downstream distance to the spanwise slot, whereas the large scale recovers slowly in a farther downstream.
1 Optically Directed Assembly of Continuous Mesoscale Filaments

We demonstrate irreversible continuous filament formation when a weak laser focus is positioned near the edge of an evaporating colloidal droplet containing carbon and gold nanoparticles. Optical trapping, hydrothermal and chemical interactions lead to controlled colloidal synthesis of stable, irreversible mesoscale filaments of arbitrary shape and size. Mechanisms for this optically directed assembly are discussed with fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, and lattice kinetic Monte-Carlo calculations. PACS numbers: 81.16. Mk, 82.70. Dd, 62.23. st, 47.11. j, 47.11. Fj, 47.11. Mn
Reports from the Field: Native Youth Media as Social Justice Youth Development

Abstract:This article reviews the history of youth development theory and its emergence from colonial, sexist and racist contexts. It presents an alternative in the theory of Social Justice Youth Development for urban, Native American youth. It then explores the application of Critical Media Literacy as a Social Justice Youth Development practice and presents findings from a participatory evaluation of a 10-week Critical Media Literacy program with urban Native American youth. Preliminary analysis presents outcomes among youth participants and reveals evidence that supports, identifies tensions with and provides further theorization of Social Justice Youth Development practice within the context of Native youth development.
Retina Associations Between the T 280 M and V 249 I SNPs in CX 3 CR 1 and the Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Citation: Zhang R, Wang L-Y, Wang Y-F, et al. Associations between the T280M and V249I SNPs in CX3CR1 and the risk of age-related macular degeneration. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015;56:5590–5598. DOI:10.1167/ iovs.15-16830 PURPOSE. Two common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the CX3CR1 gene, T280M and V249I, have been reported to affect the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in several studies. The aim of the present study was to combine all published data on the relationship between these two variants and AMD susceptibility in a meta-analysis to clarify this association.
A Review and Comparison of Ship Power Simulation Methods

Safe, secure and efficient clean sea shipping proposed by the IMO requires the development of the appropriate design, operating knowledge and tools for assessing energy efficient design and operation of ships. A brief overview of the methods and models of ship power management simulation shows the advantages and disadvantages of representative models. This review includes a comparison of different simulation methods, which implies different models, with the aim of optimizing the production of electricity on board, emission reductions and improved energy efficiency. In addition, the recommended technical solution for contributing to energy efficiency on board is given.
1 ENDOGENOUS IRRIGATION : THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON FARMERS IN AFRICA 1

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the view of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. Policy Research Working Papers are available online at http://econ.worldbank. org.
Accurate and Robust Pupil Positioning Algorithm Using Adaboost Cascade Detector and Improved Starburst Model

With the rapid development of human-computer interaction systems, eye tracking algorithm has become a very popular research field. As the most important part in eye tracking, pupil positioning algorithm is still facing many challenges, especially in processing non-ideal eye images. In this paper we propose an accurate and robust pupil positioning algorithm using Adaboost cascade detector and improved starburst model. Firstly, we use an average linear interpolating method to interpolate the specular reflections. Secondly, we combine HAAR features and Adaboost cascade detector to extract the region of interest (ROI) from the eye image (after specular reflections removal). Lastly, the improved starburst model is adopted to locate the pupil contour and the pupil center. In order to evaluate the performance of proposed method, we collect several eye moving videos using the specified camera device and the experimental results prove that the accuracy and robustness of proposed algorithm are better.
Why too many political science findings cannot be trusted and what we can do about it: A review of meta-scientific research and a call for institutional reform

While other scientific disciplines are currently undergoing “credibility revolutions”, also political science should also face the uncomfortable question of how much we can trust the findings that are published in the discipline’s journals and presses. Employing the concept of social dilemmas, this commentary describes analytically why scientists ¬in academia’s current incentive system work against their self-interest if they prioritize research credibility. Empirically, this article conducts a comprehensive review of meta-scientific research with a focus on quantitative political science, demonstrating that threats to the credibility of political science findings are systematic and real. Building on a framework to assess the credibility of scientific literatures, the review shows that a large fraction of the published literature makes itself inaccessible to intersubjective credibility assessments, fails tests of analytical robustness, or shows patterns of systematic deviation from true population estimates. Yet, the review also highlights the notable progress the discipline has made in recent years to secure research credibility. This commentary urges further steps toward the direction of research openness credibility. Specifically, it proposes specific institutional measures to better align individual researcher rationality with the collective good of verifiable, robust, and valid scientific results, such as dedicated verification procedures and the implementation of pre-registration and result-blind peer reviewing.
Useful Government Consumption and the Long-Run Effect of Aid on Output

Foreign aid finances both public consumption and investment in developing countries. However, its long-run impact on output in recipient countries remains ambiguous. We show in a tractable general equilibrium model that when public consumption substitutes for private consumption in an Edgeworth Pareto sense, aid earmarked for public consumption decreases the marginal utility of private consumption and raises the marginal disutility of labor. This induces a simultaneous fall in private consumption and labor supply thereby diminishing and potentially, outweighing the positive effect that aid-financed public investment has on output. In contrast, Edgeworth complementarity between private and public consumption reinforces the positive effect of aid-financed public investment. This is because aid allocated to public consumption raises the marginal utility of private consumption and reduces the disutility of labor. These results have important implications for policies regarding aid allocation as well as ongoing studies that examine aid effectiveness in general equilibrium models. JEL Classification: E62, F35
Nonlocality without counterfactual reasoning

Non-local correlations are usually understood through the outcomes of alternative measurements (on two or more parts of a system) that cannot altogether actually be carried out in an experiment. Indeed, a joint input/output -- e.g., measurement-setting/outcome -- behavior is non-local if and only if the outputs for all possible inputs cannot coexist consistently. It has been argued that this counterfactual view is how Bell's inequalities and their violations are to be seen. We propose an alternative perspective which refrains from setting into relation the results of mutually exclusive measurements, but that is based solely on data actually available. Our approach uses algorithmic complexity instead of probability, implies non-locality to have similar consequences as in the probabilistic view, and is conceptually simpler yet at the same time more general than the latter.
Identification and characterization of outcome measures reported in animal models of epilepsy

Citation for published version: Simonato, M, Iyengar, S, Brooks-Kayal, A, Collins, S, Depaulis, A, Howells, DW, Jensen, F, Liao, J, Macleod, MR, Patel, M, Potschka, H, Walker, M, Whittemore, V & Sena, ES 2017, 'Identification and characterization of outcome measures reported in animal models of epilepsy: Protocol for a systematic review of the literature-A TASK2 report of the AES/ILAE Translational Task Force of the ILAE', Epilepsia, vol. 58 Suppl 4, pp. 68-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.13908
PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND FABRICATION OF Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) THINFILM SOLAR CELLS USING VACUUM AND NON-

In this chapter, Copper Zinc Tin Sulphide (CZTS) thin film based solar cells prepared by vacuum thermal evaporation, chemical bath deposition (CBD), spray pyrolysis, and SILAR techniques. CZTS thin film successfully deposited on Mo coated glass substrate about the sequential vacuum thermal evaporation of ZnS, Cu, and Sn powders. In chemical methods, metal chlorides and sulphides consumed as the precursor materials. Their structural, electrical, and optical properties were studied and discussed. Prepared films have found to be polycrystalline and p-type semiconductor. CZTS thin film based solar cell having fabrication consists of some different device configurations. The photovoltaic properties of CZTS thin film solar cells were examined and their performances were tabulated.
Spatio-temporal variability of daily precipitation concentration in Spain based on a high-resolution gridded dataset

: An analysis of the spatial and temporal variability of daily precipitation concentration (CI) in Spain was made based on a high-resolution (5x5 km) daily gridded precipitation dataset for the 1950–2012 period. For each grid point in the Iberian Peninsula (IP), and Balearic and Canary Islands, the average annual CI was computed, as well as its coefficient of variation and the 5 th and 95 th percentiles. Annual values were also computed, and the time series of the index were used to assess temporal trends over the whole period. The spatial distribution of the CI showed a strong relationship with the orographic barriers near the coastlines. The Canary Islands showed the highest values of CI, along with the eastern Mediterranean facade of the IP. The highest inter-annual variations of the CI occurred in the southern IP and in the southern Canary Islands. The trends of CI were, overall, positive and significant, which indicates an increase of daily precipitation concentration over the study period, and an increasing environmental risks scenario where erosivity, torrentiality, and floods may become more frequent.
Images of Environment and Management Practice: Conflicting priorities or platform for organizational learning?

Different images of environment can be found in relation to various understandings of environmental problems and solutions, such as cleaner production, environmental management, cleaner products and sustainability. Ascribed to these images are: environment as a part of license to operate; environment as a part of quality management; environment as a part of corporate branding and environment as a part of customer relations. The different images are distributed and coexist throughout the organization, where they may be a potential for conflicting priorities or a platform for organizational learning supporting the development of sustainable business strategies. An analysis of the different images has been conducted related to a Danish case company based on an analytical framework with inspiration from Mintzbergs structures in five. In the case company, the understanding of environment as a technical issue as part of a formalized system created barriers for organizational learning in relation to sustainability, while the broader concept of social responsibility shaped a platform from which the employees could create meanings on sustainability more in line with their daily practices.
Identifying critical skills for logistics professionals: Assessing skill importance, capability, and availability

The purpose of this research is to identify critical skills needed in the logistics profession now and in the future. This study uses survey research, means tests, and importance analysis to explore a multi-factor framework that identifies critical supply chain skills perceived by 176 experienced supply chain professionals from manufacturing, transportation, and retail/wholesale segments. Results indicate significant differences exist between current and future needed skills, among current capabilities and current availability of skills, and among skill needs utilizing a multi-factor index. Identifying needed skills based on importance is common. Considering more factors than just importance offers a more thorough assessment that reduces potential oversights and inefficiencies that can occur if decision makers focus on one factor when planning key processes, such as recruiting, hiring, and training, in a talent management program.
Delay-induced switched states in a slow–fast system

We consider the two-component delay system ϵx′(t) = − x(t) − y(t) + f(x(t − 1)), y′(t) = ηx(t) with small para- meters ϵ, η and positive feedback function f. Previously, such systems have been reported to model switching in optoelectronic experiments, where each switching induces another one after approximately one delay time, related to one round trip of the signal. In this paper, we study these delay-induced switched states. We provide conditions for their existence and show how the formal limits ϵ → 0 and/or η → 0 facilitate our understanding of this phenomenon. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Nonlinear dynamics of delay systems’.