Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WORKFLOWS – A NOVEL APPROACH ON THE BASIS OF PSEUDONYMIZATION OF PRODUCT INFORMATION

Information stored in the documentation of a product constitutes in many aspects the intellectual property (IP) of an enterprise. This valuable knowledge, built over years of extensive research and development deserves special attention and protection. Especially the context of distributed product development activities and increased collaborations with external partners puts companies at a growing risk that unauthorized individuals obtain access to this prized capital. In this paper, we present a novel concept for managing and sharing sensitive information in product development processes. Product information is separated and subsequently pseudonymized into independent blocks of data fragments which can be reassembled to specific information levels depending on the requirements of the organization. Thus, a user can be given access to that level of information specifically required to complete the task. The product information itself is only available as unordered data fragments and no longer interpretable even in case of data theft. By doing so, a comprehensive protection against internal and external abuse of sensitive product information can be realized which can easily be combined with existing concepts in the field of information protection.
Self-Annuitization, Consumption Shortfall in Retirement and Asset Allocation: The Annuity Benchmark

The present paper considers a retiree of a certain age who is endowed with a certain amount of wealth and is facing alternative investment opportunities. One possibility is to buy a single premium immediate (participating) annuity-contract. This insurance product pays a life-long pension payment of a certain amount, depending e.g. on the age of the retiree, the operating cost of the insurance company and the return the company is able to realize from its investments. The alternative possibility is to invest the single premium into a portfolio of mutual funds and to periodically withdraw a fixed amount that is assumed to be equivalent to the consumption stream generated by the annuity. The particular advantage of this self-annuitization strategy compared to the life annuity is its greater liquidity and the possibility of leaving money for heirs. However, the risk of self-annuitization is to outlive the assets before the uncertain date of death. The risk can thus be specified by considering the probability of running out of money before the uncertain date of death. The determination of this personal probability of consumption shortfall with respect to German insurance and capital market conditions is the objective of this paper.
THE MEDIATOR ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE WHICH IS EFFECTED BY TRANSFORMATIONAL AND STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP ON ETHICAL CLIMATE

In this study, the mediating role of emotional intelligence in the effect of transformational leadership and strategic leadership on ethical climate was investigated. The research was executed in 4 different hospitals among 200 healthcare employees in the province of Konya, in Turkey. In the consequences of the research, strategic leadership influences the ethical climate and emotional intelligence has a mediating role in the relationship between strategic leadership and ethical climate. It is also determined that emotional intelligence has designated ethical climate. It is concluded that transformational leadership has not determined the ethical climate and emotional intelligence has no statistically significant mediating effect on the correlation between transformational leadership and ethical climate.
Security Systems for Remote Farm

This paper presents a security system for a remote farm. This research is ideal for locations where real time monitoring and notifications are paramount to your security wherein the image(s) detected through a surveillance system is processed by the newly advanced technology such as Open-source Computer Vision programming, Matlab programming and Artificial Intelligence Network. The research is all about detection process through OpenSource Computer Vision programming wherein multiple object detection can be applied. Future recommendations for image processing and recognition can be used through Matlab programming technology and Artifical Intelligence Network Technology.
ON NANOTECHNOLOGY IN SOLID LIPID NANOPARTICLES

This present review is progress in selected nanotechnology topics and some possible applications. This attempt mainly focused on solid lipid nanoparticles & different preparation methods of solid lipid nanoparticles, nanostructured lipid carriers, lipid drug conjugates, route of administration and applications. For each of these, we review the underlying scientific concepts, potential enabling technologies and current limitations to the realization of nanotechnology applications.
The Effect of Suicidal Ideation, Self-esteem, and Family Life Satisfaction on Depression Among the Young-old, Middle-old and Old-old Elderly Koreans

While the prevalence of depression in later life rises, little is known about how depression varies as the older population is divided into age-subgroups. The current study attempts to determine whether psychosocial factors have a varying effect on each of the age-subgroups. A sample of 5,445 individuals aged 55 and over was adopted from the 7th Korea Welfare Panel Study(KOWPs) surveyed in 2012. The sampled subjects were divided into three age subgroups - the young-old, the middle-old, and the old-old. Three hypothesis were as follows. Those having suicidal ideation will be at a greater risk for depression. In times of reduced social status, having lowered self-esteem will also lead to more depressive symptoms. In the traditional Korean family culture where family harmony is greatly emphasized, decreased family life satisfaction will increase depression. The old-old were found to be at greater risk for developing poorer mental health. Those belonging to the old-old showed the highest score for depressive symptoms, the highest score for susceptibility to suicidal ideation, lowest self-esteem and negative family life satisfaction. To achieve a better mental health status, appropriate programs and policy implications for each age group were suggested.
The Mechanics of Playful Participatory Processes

a) University Groningen, Department of Planning & Environment, 9747AD Groningen, The Netherlands b) University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Research Group Playful Interactive Environments, 4323 Hagenberg, Austria c) Hasselt University, Architectuur en Kunst, 3590 Dipenbeek, Belgium d) Green City Lab Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria e) Vienna University of Technology, Department of Spatial Planning, Vienna, Austria
Teaching K-8 students about race: African Americans, racism, & the struggle for social justice in the U.S.

Keffrelyn D. Brown and Anthony L. Brown are assistant professors in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction of the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. curriculum and the implications of these representations on understanding these groups’ current experiences. Additionally, targeting textbook knowledge, or what is also often referred to as the official curriculum, illuminates or veils the material interests gained by and the role central actors have played in past events of racial injustice. This knowledge also informs us about the long-term effects of such histories. Thus, what makes the history curriculum a central space for debating issues of representation, national history, and race is that most if not all U.S. citizens are expected at one time or another to read, sing, and learn a common narrative of American history in school. The history curriculum, then, becomes a central apparatus through which to narrate a racial group’s past and frames what we know of their contributions to the national imaginary. In light of these factors, another persistent concern raised about the history curriculum relates to the effect such knowledge has on African Americans themselves. From this historical trajectory, we note how the history curriculum has played a prominent role in the way discourses of race and racial injustice are presented in schools. We argue that the current situation exemplified by limited textbook content about race, racism, and social justice—unless supplemented with other critical texts or additional knowledge presented by the teacher—is inadequate, yet it is likely employed unquestioningly by many teachers (both White or Black) as they enter and serve in our schools. Given these long-standing problems and the contentious debate surrounding curricular knowledge about African Americans and its relationship to teaching and learning about race, the basic question we pose is: How then should teachers approach race and social justice in the classroom? Introduction
Inequalities in Educational Outcomes: How Important is the Family?

In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background characteristics that are able to explain the resemblance in educational outcomes among siblings. We find sibling correlations in educational outcomes in the range of 15 to 33 percent, suggesting that up to a third of the variation in educational achievement can be explained by family and community background. Our results further reveal that parents' socio-economic background can account for a large part of the sibling correlation. Other family characteristics such as family structure, the incidence of social problems, and parents' educational preferences also play a role, though these factors only contribute to explaining sibling similarities at lower levels of the educational distribution.
The Sources of Taiwan's Regional Unemployment : A Cross-Region Panel Analysis

In recent years under the trendof a global recession andd omestic structural change, the unemployment rate in Taiwan has reacheda recordhigh of above 5% which in turn has generateda series of social problems. Unemployment has now become the core issue in the government's agenda. From historical regional data, we findthat there are distinct variations of the unemployment rate among 23 cities andprefectures; moreover, this differentiation seems to persist over time. We analyze this regional unemployment trendby equilibrium and disequilibrium factors controlling for the macro environment using 23 cities' andprefectures' cross section and time series data pertaining to the 1995 to 2004 period. A cross-region panel study shows that the major factors that explain the persistent but divergent regional unemployment rates (aside from the aggregate macro environment which explains about one quarter) are demographic composition, family characteristics, industrial structure, population density, migration costs, and labor mobility. Understanding the sources of regional unemployment will help us to determine the appropriate policies to mitigate the unemployment rate across regions.
The Sodankylä in-situ soil moisture observation network: an example application to Earth Observation data product evaluation

During the last decade there has been considerable development in remote sensing techniques relating to soil moisture retrievals over large areas. Within the framework of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) a new soil moisture product has been generated, merging different satellite-based surface soil moisture based products. Such remotely sensed data need to be validated by means of in situ observations in different climatic regions. In that context, a comprehensive, distributed network of in situ measurement stations gathering information on soil moisture, as well as soil temperature, has been set up in recent years at the Finnish Meteorological Institute’s (FMI) Sodankylä Arctic research station. The network forms a calibration and validation (CAL–VAL) reference site and is used as a tool to evaluate the validity of satellite retrievals of soil properties. In this paper we present the Sodankylä CAL–VAL reference site soil moisture observation network, its instrumentation as well as its areal representativeness over the study area and the region in general as a whole. As an example of data utilization, comparisons of spatially weighted average top-layer soil moisture observations between the years 2012 and 2014 against ESA CCI soil moisture data product estimates are presented and discussed. The comparisons were made against a single ESA CCI data product pixel encapsulating most of the Sodankylä CAL–VAL network sites. Comparisons are made with daily averaged and running weekly averaged soil moisture data as well as through application of an exponential soil moisture filter. The overall achieved correlation between the ESA CCI data product and in situ observations varies considerably (from 0.479 to 0.637) depending on the applied comparison perspective. Similarly, depending on the comparison perspective used, inter-annual correlation comparison results exhibit even more pronounced variation, ranging from 0.166 to 0.840.
Adaptive Linear Precoded DMT as an Efficient Resource Allocation Scheme for PowerLine Communications

In this paper, we propose to apply adaptive loading principles to linear precoded digital multitone (LP-DMT). This new approach can especially be exploited in the powerline context, since it requires the knowledge of the channel at the transmitter. We first show that maximal waveform capacity is achieved when orthogonal matrices are used to linearly precode the multitone signal. A practical loading algorithm based on tone clustering is then developed to handle the configuration of the system. This algorithm assigns tones, size of precoding matrices, bits and energies in order to maximize the total throughput of the system. The optimization procedure is led under power spectral density (DSP) limitations and finite order modulations constraint. Through simulations over power line channels, it is shown that the new adaptive LP-DMT system takes advantage of the carrier merging effect offered by the precoding function and then outperforms the non-precoded DMT system.
Cross-cultural research in a cross-border region: verbal and non verbal professional communication. The case of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine

In this study, the cultures of the five border subregions of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR) were measured and compared by means of a survey research. The results indicate that the subregions differ most in terms of the (in)formal way of their business interactions. Furthermore, discrepancies were found for the cultural dimensions ‘externalism-internalism’, ‘masculinity-femininity’ and ‘monochonism-polychronism’. The results, and more specifically the observed cultural differences, allowed a first exploration of possible effects on professional verbal and non-verbal business communication. This study also shows the importance of cultural research at sub-regional level.
Using ICT4D in Educative Training for Reducing Road Accidents in Developing Countries

All over the world road accidents are the major causes of death, it stems from reckless driving and poor driving culture. The rate of road accidents in developing nations is a lot higher than that of the developed nations. However, while observing the Finnish road users and their driving culture, where commuters respect road rules and pedestrians, inspired the thought of designing a platform more suitable for teaching road users and motorist in developing countries. Usually, majority of public road drivers in Nigeria, a developing country, are low literate; thus, they opt against using text-based road use highway-code information as they cannot read or interpret them due to their level of education. Therefore, they lack information that is supposed to serve as a guide in the prevention of road accident. Consequently, this thesis explores the opportunity of using the knowledge of ICT4D in building an interactive prototype application for teaching road use and regulation. The application designed incorporates text-free UIs which afford users the use of image/graphics with audio annotations. In fact, text-free UIs has been previously used in making services available to low literate users in sectors such as health, banking and job search with success. Therefore, a text free prototype application is designed to aid drivers, especially low literate and literate but novice technology users, so they can easily learn road use and its regulations. The application will be in a quiz-game like format, designed in three phases which are; User centered design, application version Phido and (PhidoE with English language audio output) as Experiment 1 for literate participants and Experiment 2 (PhidoY with Yoruba language audio output version) for low literate participants. In addition, the application is strategized and gamified with game-like elements as the quiz game show “Who wants to be a millionaire”, to increase both learning motivation and performance. Furthermore, designing and testing was done at Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria. With test results showing that text-free UI on road use should be suitable for teaching road users in Nigeria, in that it provides access in learning road use for majority of low literate users and literate but novice technology users. Findings from research interviews, observations and questionnaire were used in generating design recommendation on text free user interface for road use.
Institutional investor influence on global climate change disclosure practices

Using a stakeholder engagement perspective, we investigate the collective influence of institutional investors on a comprehensive set of climate change disclosures for a global sample of large companies. The proposition tested in this paper is that the influence of these powerful stakeholders is positively associated with climate change disclosure via corporate communications channels. We find the extent and quality of climate change disclosures to be associated with three indicators of corporate responsiveness to institutional investor expectations about the disclosure of this information. These are completion and publication of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) questionnaire on CDP’s website, indications in corporate communications that CDP activities have influenced climate change disclosures, and the extent and quality of climate change information provided in CDP questionnaire responses.
In vitro Membrane Stabilizing and In vivo Analgesic Activities of Boehmeria glomerulifera Miq. in Swiss-Albino Mice Model

Boehmeria glomerulifera Miq . is an indigenous plant of Bangladesh. Traditional healers use this plant to treat various diseases. The crude methanol extract of whole plant of B. glomerulifera and its Kupchan fractions were screened for in vitro membrane stabilizing and only the crude extract at doses of 200- and 400- mg/kg body weight were screened for analgesic activity in mice model in order to establish the medicinal values of this plant. The membrane stabilizing activity of the extractives was evaluated by the ability of test materials to inhibit hypotonic solution- and heat-induced haemolysis of human erythrocytes. Moreover, the analgesic activity of methanol extract was evaluated by acetic acid induced writhing method and tail immersion method in mice. In hypotonic solution- and heat-induced conditions, the crude methanol extract showed inhibition of haemolysis by 64.80±0.34% and 21.63±0.76%, respectively as compared to 77.74±0.67% and 40.41±0.69% demonstrated by the standard, acetyl salicylic acid. On the other hand, the analgesic activity was determined for its peripheral and central pharmacological responses using acetic acid-induced writhing test and tail immersion method at doses of 200- and 400- mg/kg body weight. The extract reduced the acetic acid-induced writhings significantly (p < 0.05) in a dose dependent manner with the highest activity observed at 400 mg/kg (46.0%) body weight when compared to that of Diclofenac sodium (64.0%), as the standard drug. A significant increase (p < 0.01) of latency period was also found in tail immersion method. Therefore, the present study established that the methanol extract of B. glomerulifera possesses moderate membrane stabilizing and significant analgesic activities. Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Journal 19 (2): 185-189, 2016
Supporting multidisciplinary model-based water management projects: a user perspective

Multidisciplinary model-based water management is a complex process. Projects that have to follow this process may encounter many problems, related to miscommunication, malpractice, misuse of the model, insufficient knowledge of the modeled problems and overselling of model capabilities. This leads to model projects, which are not transparent and difficult to audit. The knowledge-based system consists of an ontological knowledge base (KB) with ‘best modelling practices’ for teams, which members have different disciplinary backgrounds and play different roles in a project, and a Modelling Support Tool (MoST). MoST generates and presents guidelines from the KB on what to do. MoST also monitors what team members do in an electronic model journal and facilitates converting model journals into model reports for various audiences and purposes. Water managers can benefit from MoST and its KB in different ways: (1) during project set-up in defining what has to be done and finding a team to do the job, (2) at regular intervals in evaluating what has been done and planning of what has to be done, and (3) to check project progress. Modelers are guided by MoST on what to do, get access to what other team members did and helped keeping records of their work in the project. Auditors can easily follow the audit trail left in a model journal and are helped to appraise modelling projects. Stakeholders and public can be informed and consulted using MoST. In this way MoST and its KB facilitate cooperating in modelling projects and improve their quality. Parts of the technology of MoST and its KB can be reused to support other types of (simulation) modelling or even other types of processes (i.e. not focusing on modelling)