Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
System dynamics modeling of the impact of Internet-of-Things on intelligent urban transportation

Urban transportation systems are at the cusp of a major transformation that capitalizes on the proliferation of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), autonomous and cooperative vehicular and intelligent roadway technologies, advanced traffic management systems, and big data analytics. The benefits of these smart-transportation technologies were investigated using System Dynamics modeling, with particular emphasis towards vehicle sharing, intelligent highway systems, and smart-parking solutions. The modeling results demonstrate that these solutions offer the potential to deliver tremendous opportunities to improve the efficiencies in urban transportation systems. However it is also observed that by improving the overall utility of roadway transportation, it is likely that there will be an increase in roadway usage that potentially negates the benefits that planners are seeking. As a consequence, when smarttransportation technologies are adopted, they must be implemented in conjunction with solutions and incentive plans that encourage the desired commuter behaviors.
Long-term persistence of sedimentary copper contamination in Lake Orta: potential environmental risks 20 years after liming

Lake Orta, northern Italy, has suffered from severe copper pollution and human-induced acidification between the 1920s and the 1990s because of discharges from a rayon factory and electroplating industries located in its water basin. Following liming operations in the late 1990s, the chemical quality of the water column has been restored and signs of, still ongoing, biological recovery observed. Examination of two sediment cores collected close to the main historical Cu discharge and in the central part of the Lake shows that Cu concentrations in the uppermost layers of bottom sediments remain 10 to 40-fold higher than background levels. Past studies demonstrated the toxic potential of Lake Orta sediments to a variety of organisms at Cu concentrations comparable to present ones. Comparison with published results suggests that current level of Cu contamination may still pose a risk to sediment-ingesting organisms and slow down further ecological recovery of Lake Orta. Particular attention should be given to understand the effects of dietary ingestion of Cu from sediments which, unlike in previous ecotoxicological studies, may now represent the main route of Cu exposure for sediment-ingesting benthic organisms.
Designing for touch : Creating and building meaningful haptic interfaces

This paper presents our initial findings a bout the problems and challenges of designing haptic interfaces. W e support our discussion w ith observations and analysis of design activities realized in by our research group and design studen ts. We conclude with initial ideas about how to structure, document and evaluate haptic qualities in the design process. O ur hope is to expose the many questions and issues in this nascent design activity to eventually expand our haptic design toolbox and library, and bring consistency and rigor within the field.
Detection and study of the compact HII region N26A-B in the Small Magellanic Cloud

This paper presents new imagery and spectrophotometric results for the N26 HII region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The observations using monochromatic images and low-resolution spectra (3700{10 000 A) reveal a compact and complex nebula composed of two cores A and B where A in the region of H is brighter than B by a factor 5 and distance of 2 00 . T he core Ao fFWHM 2: 00 1 or 0.6 pc presents a high excitation (O III) 5007 + 4959=H up to 8 and a high reddening E(B V ) 0:6, while the core B is less excited but has a higher reddening0.8. Each core contains one exciting source; the brighter one should be responsible for the high excitation of A. The apparent spectral type of the two cores ranges from O7 to O9 V and the gas electron density and temperature were derived from the absorption and emission-line intensities. The total mass of the ionized gas is evaluated at 13 M. The chemical abundances of He, O, N, Ne, S, and Ar were computed. These abundances seem consistent with average abundances for SMC HII regions, except N that appears slightly overabundant. N26A-B is comparable to the objects previously observed in the LMC and SMC that we have called \blobs".
Before and after the inclusion of intervention events: an evaluation of alternative forecasting methods for tourist flows.

This article investigates the intervention impacts on tourist flows and evaluates the accuracy of various forecasting techniques to predict travel demand before and after the inclusion of intervention events. The forecasting methods used in this study include (1) Naive 1, (2) Naive 2, (3) HoltWinter’s model, (4) Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model, and (5) Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The Holt Winter’s and Naive models are included for comparison purposes to ensure that minimum performance standards are being met. Data on air transport passengers including international arrivals and domestic air transport flows of the US (from January 1990 to June 2003) were obtained from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. This study focuses firstly on the importance for forecasting accuracy of allowing for intervention events in the modeling process. SARIMA models are therefore estimated both with and without intervention effects (the September 11th events). These models are used to generate forecasts for 2002 and the first part of 2003, and forecast accuracy is assessed using mean absolute percentage error and root mean square percentage error. The second focus of the study is to examine the impacts on tourism demand of the major crises that occurred during the period 2001–2003.
IS INTERPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (IPP) FOCUSED ON MEDICATION SAFETY FEASIBLE IN INDONESIA? A QUALITATIVE STUDY

This paper explores facilitators for and barriers to the implementation of IPP focusing on medication safety in a public hospital in Bali, Indonesia. Qualitative methods involved interviews with stakeholders from a university and a hospital and focus group discussions with healthcare professionals in the hospital. Semi-structured questions were developed as a guide for the interviews and discussions. All interviews and discussions were recorded. The six steps of Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis methodology were implemented in determining the themes. The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) checklist was employed in reporting of findings. Participants indicated that support from the government and perceived benefits of IPP were facilitators for IPP. However, the participants mostly mentioned the barriers of IPP including lack of competencies for IPP and lack of understanding of the role of other healthcare professionals as barriers to the implementation of IPP. This showed that these were the barriers identified to the implementation of IPP in the study hospital. Despite the fact that participants were supportive of IPP, the participants identified some barriers to the implementation of IPP in the study hospital. The implementation requires support of the government, professional organisations, and stakeholders at the university and hospital levels.
Beyond the use of food supplements: An empirical analysis in Italy

This paper aims to profile Italian food supplements used by consumers based upon their psychometric patterns and demographic characteristics. The FTNS scale is used to assess empirically and evaluate the role of technophobic/technophilic consumer traits in determining the decision whether or not to consume supplements and vitamins and the frequency of their consumption. An ad-hoc survey was carried out in 2012 involving 400 residents of a metropolitan area in southern Italy. Our results show that women have a higher consumption frequency of dietary supplements, while age, BMI and education influence the propensity to consume. As regards food habits, the propensity to use dietary supplements is positively associated to the consumption of bread and pasta, red meat and pulses, and negatively with the consumption of fruit and cheese. Finally, the research supports the role of technophobic traits as consistent and significant determinants of the consumption frequency of dietary supplements.
Managing the Evolution of Cooperation

Management scholars have long stressed the importance of evolutionary processses for inter-firm cooperation but have mostly missed the promising opportunity to incorporate ideas from evolutionary theories into the analysis of collaborative arrangements. In this paper, we first present three rules for the evolution of cooperation - kinship selection, direct reciprocity, and indirect reciprocity. Second, we apply our theoretical considerations, enriched with ideas from cultural anthropology, to the context of a specific and particularly attractive type of cooperative arrangement, the franchise form of organization. Third, we provide a preliminary empirical test with regards to conditions under which evolutionary modes can secure cooperative behavior. We conclude by summarizing our results and deriving fertile areas for further research.
Captatio Benevolentiae: Potential Risks and Benefits of Flattering the Audience in a Public Political Speech

Given that flattery is a form of impression management and a persuasive tool in interpersonal communication, two experiments investigated the effect of a (fictitious) political candidate praising the audience during a meeting. The flattery was addressed to the social category to which participants belong (direct flattery condition) or to another social category (observed flattery condition). The flattering message (vs. control condition) employed in the context of a public speech induced a more positive candidate evaluation on both the members of the flattered audience and the observers. The effect was not mediated by degree of message scrutiny, nor by suspicion of source ulterior motives, and it was not moderated by the level of identification with the audience. This suggests that the compliment to the audience leads the members of the flattered category to reciprocate liking and the observers to transfer the source’s attitude recursively (TAR effect). Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Addressing the social care crisis in the United Kingdom: the けマ;ェキI H┌ノノWデげ of telecare policy

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A Genetic Structure of the Early Immigrants (Mukkalathor) of Tamil Nadu as Inferred From Autosomal Loci

Abstract Genomic affinity based on eight human – specific polymorphic insertion/ deletion loci was studied in an early immigrant population, Thevar group, of Tamil Nadu, South India. They are traditionally agriculturists, culturally homogenous and endogamous. The seven Aluelements (AluAPO, AluCD4, AluPV92, AluFXIIIB, AluACE, Alu PLAT, AluD1) and one nuclear insertion of mitochondrial DNA segment (mtNUC) were analyzed for all the DNA samples. All these loci showed high levels of polymorphism in caste populations of Tamil Nadu, thereby reflecting their common ancestry. The significant greater inter-individual variation and the moderate population differentiation probably indicate genetic closeness of these populations. The present study populations were also compared with six other caste populations of Tamil Nadu for which the data were available. Phylogenetic analysis of these populations broadly corresponds to their known ethno-historical affinities.
A Review Of Multimodal Biometric Authentication Systems

: Authentication is the process of validating the identity of a person based on certain input that the person provides. Authentication has become a major topic of research due to the increasing number of attacks on computer networks around the globe. This review paper focuses on multimodal biometric authentication systems in use today. The aim is to elicit the best combination of authentication factors for multimodal use. We study the strengths and weakness of selected biometric mechanisms and recommend novel solutions to include in multimodal biometric systems to improve on the current biometric drawbacks. We believe this paper will provide security researchers some useful insight whilst designing better biometric systems
A FAST MULTILEVEL ALGORITHM FOR THE SOLUTION OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS OF CONDUCTIVE-RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER EQUATIONS I N TWO SPACE DIMENSIONS

In this paper we describe a fast multilevel algorithm for the solutio n of a system of nonlinear integrodifferential equations that model steady-state combined conductive-radiati ve heat transfer in two space dimensions. This extends our previous work in one space dimension. We formulat e the equations as a compact fixed point problem with the temperature as the unknown. The fixed point map requires both a Poisson solve and a transport solve for its evaluation. As a solver for both the transport problem and the full s ystem we apply the Atkinson-Brakhage algorithm, using Newton-GMRES as the solver on the coarse mesh. We compare our so lver choices with Newton-GMRES. Under modest stability and convergence assumptions on the transport so lve , we prove convergence of the multilevel method for the complete system.
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century

Greil Marcus, author of "Mystery Train", widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. 'I am an antichrist! ' shouted singer Johnny Rotten - where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise. This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands - demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life - seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris-based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and '60s; the rioting students and workers of May '68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; and, the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage "Anarchy in the U.K.", and "God Save the Queen". Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, "Lipstick Traces" is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, "Lipstick Traces" tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
A Computational Model of Pragma-dialectics as a Tool for its Analysis and Appraisal

The overall goal of this paper is to show that computational modelling of argumentation theories is a useful tool to deepen them. Specifically, it provides a basic computational formalization of part of Pragma-dialectics’ model of a critical discussion, which serves as a basis for analyzing this influential theory of argumentation. Such analysis reveals some weaknesses and leaves some questions opened for Pragma-dialectics. Particularly, it shows that the model of a critical discussion is not independent of the model of reasoning/inference chosen, because, while it performs differently with different models of reasoning, it does not work well with some of them. Résumé: L'objectif global de cette étude est de montrer que la modélisation informatique des théories de l'argumentation est un outil utile pour les approfondir. Plus précisément, il offre une formalisation de calcul de base d'une partie du modèle de la Pragma-dialectique d'une discussion critique, qui sert de base pour analyser cette théorie influente de l'argumentation. Cette analyse révèle certaines faiblesses et laisse quelques questions ouvertes pour la Pragma-dialectique. En particulier, elle montre que le modèle d'une discussion critique n’est pas indépendant du modèle de raisonnement / inférence choisi, parce que, d'une part, il opère différemment avec différents modèles de raisonnement et, d'autre part, il ne fonctionne pas bien avec certains d'entre eux.
ANALYZING RUNOFF DYNAMICS THROUGH PARAMETERIZING A HYDROLOGICAL MODEL IN A WATERSHED: A CASE STUDY IN UPPER SERAYU BASIN, CENTRAL JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA

This research constructed a hydrological model by means of available data, hydrological equations, and GIS program to find out the runoff dynamic on the study area. The runoff dynamic was analyzed by describing runoff on different land cover types, figuring the correlation between hydrological component and runoff, calculating the sensitivities of the hydrological components to runoff, and identifying the response of runoff to possible land cover change. The model resulted that the highest runoff occurred on built up area and the lowest occurred on cultivation area. Infiltration was also the hydrological component that mostly influenced runoff. Replacing forest, shrub, and plantation by cultivation greatly reduced runoff up to 49 %. Enlarging forest area increased runoff about 12 %. Based on those findings, the hydrological component having the strongest correlation with runoff gave the most influence to runoff change, and enlarging forest area does not always decrease runoff.
A new approach to the development of a nonlinear model for micro-Pelton turbines

In this study, a new approach that is closer to the real turbine without abandoning the advantages of nonlinear modeling simplicity compromising the simplicity of the nonlinear model is proposed. The purpose of the study is to contribute to making theoretical studies of microhydroelectr power plants (MHPPs) more realistic. Studies on their control, especially frequency control, have increased with the expansion of grid-connected power plants. However, some problems have occurred when converting simulation studies of the frequency control to practical studies. The reasons for these problems are that the systems cannot be modeled completely. In this study, �rst, the nonlinear model equations of a Pelton turbine are primarily constituted. The efficiency curve of the turbine is then obtained experimentally and added to the nonlinear model. The simulation results are compared with the data obtained from the prototype MHPP with a Pelton turbine developed in the laboratory. Finally, it is seen that the proposed method is successful. Thus, with the help of the proposed method, theoretical studies that researchers do can be easily converted into practical applications.
The Two Sides of Interventionist Causation

Pearl and Woodward are both well-known advocates of interventionist causation. What is less well-known is the interesting relationship between their respective accounts. In this paper we discuss the different perspectives of causation these two accounts present and show that they are two sides of the same coin. Pearl’s focus is on leveraging global network constraints to correctly identify local causal relations. The rules by which global causal structures are composed from distinct causal relations are precisely defined by the global constraints. Woodward’s focus, however, is on the use of local manipulation to identify single causal relations that then compose into global causal structures. The rules by which this composition takes place emerge as a result of local interventionist constraints (or so the claim goes). We contend that the complete picture of causality to be found between these two perspectives from the interventionist tradition must recognise both the global constraints of the sort identified by Pearl and the local constraints of the sort identified by Woodward, and the interplay between them: Pearl requires the possibility of local interventions and Woodward requires a global statistical framework within which to build composite causal structures.
Imaging of Cracks and Weak Spots in Steel and Aluminium Plate Rolls

Because of several - sometimes extreme - complications caused by cracks and weak spots in a metal industry roll, it is of great importance to detect these defects in time. Measurements on rolls with artificial- and natural defects have been performed. An imaging operator is introduced, which uses the measurement data to depict the correct locations of the scatterers in the roll. Even when almost 95% of the original measurement data is discarded, the defects in the roll can still be detected. This thesis shows how these imperfections cause deviations in the eddy current measurement setup and presents how the deviations can be used to locate these defects in the steel. The roll is modeled as a conductive half space after which the inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation will be solved to find the electromagnetic fields inside the steel. Defects are modeled as small spheroids with respect to the wavelength, which makes it possible to find the fields inside these scatterers. Furthermore, an equation is found which relates deviations in receiver signals to the electric- and magnetic fields and contrasts in the roll. The quasi-static approach is used to simplify this equation, after which results are shown for different defects and antenna configurations. Similar outcomes are obtained when the measurement data is compared to the theory.