Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
She's Leaving Home: A Large Sample Investigation of the Empty Nest Syndrome

This study considers life satisfaction in relation to the empty nest syndrome, which is a situation where there are feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the parental home. In particular, the investigation considers the significance of Identity Economics when applied to parents experiencing a reduction in well-being following an extended period of child-rearing. The origins of the empty nest syndrome are first considered briefly before conducting an economic analysis of life satisfaction using the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our particular focus is the change in the subjective well-being of the individuals who become empty nesters, taking advantage of the richness of this dataset. As a result, this is the first large sample economic analysis of its kind to use identity to evaluate the effects of becoming “empty nest” parents in a systematic way.
High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state Zn–MnO2 battery based on MnO2 nanorod arrays coated 3D porous nitrogen-doped carbon cloth

Aqueous Zn–MnO2 batteries have great potential as flexible energy storage devices owing to their low cost, high energy density, safety, and environmental friendliness. However, their development is plagued by the poor cycling stability, and the use of heavy zinc foil as the anode is antithetical to the flexible devices. Herein, we construct a high-performance and stable flexible rechargeable quasi-solid-state Zn–MnO2 battery using MnO2 nanorod arrays and tiny Zn nanoparticles uniformly deposited on N-doped porous carbon cloth as the free-standing cathode and anode, respectively. The 3D porous nitrogen-doped carbon cloth substrate with high electric conductivity and good flexibility serves as an ideal support for guest active materials of MnO2 nanorod arrays and tiny Zn nanoparticles, which can effectively buffer the volume change giving rise to good cycling ability. Significantly, the device is able to deliver a remarkable capacity of 353 mA h g−1 and good cycling stability (93.6% after 1000 cycles) in an aqueous electrolyte. Moreover, when using PVA/ZnCl2/MnSO4 gel as the electrolyte, the as-fabricated quasi-solid-state Zn–MnO2 battery still achieves a high energy density of 440 W h kg−1, high power density of 7.9 kW kg−1 and excellent cycling ability. This work heralds new opportunities in the development of high-performance, low-cost, safe and flexible electronic devices.
Improving the Cultivated Area for the Ramadi Irrigation Project By Using Water Evaluation and Planning Model (WEAP)

In this study, the water evaluation and planning WEAP model was used to improve the Ramadi irrigation project with 28342 hectares and annual budget 326 million m/ year for the period (2018-2019). The results showed the total water used was 111.5 million m/year and equalled 34.2% of Ramadi irrigation budget. The annual production was 39.3 million Kg/year for Ramadi irrigation, and total economic returns 16.04 million $/year. The study proposal two scenarios to improve the cultivated area. The first scenario increased water volume of the current year from 111.5 million m/year to 272.12 million m/year, which caused increased in annual productivity from 39.3 million Kg/year to 144.57 million Kg/year, and economic return rose from 16.04 million $/year to 65.25 million $/year. The second scenario record increased in annual production for the current year from 39.3 million Kg/year to 192.27 million Kg/year and economic return from 16.04 million $/year to 86.79 million $/year when using additional pumps for project 2, 3 and project 5. Also, the convey loss increased from 16.72 million m/year for the current year to 48.47 million m/year when applying the second scenario, which equals 15% from the water budget of Ramadi irrigation.
Controls on Stream Water Age in a Saturation Overland Flow‐Dominated Catchment

Water age and flow pathways should be related; however, it is still generally unclear how integrated catchment runoff generation mechanisms result in streamflow age distributions at the outlet. Here, we combine field observations of runoff generation at the Dry Creek catchment with StorAge Selection (SAS) age models to explore the relationship between stream water age and runoff pathways. Dry Creek is a 3.5 km2 catchment in the Northern California Coast Ranges with a Mediterranean climate, and, despite an average rainfall of ≈1,800 mm/yr, is an oak savannah due to the limited hillslope water storage capacity. Runoff lag to peak—after initial seasonal wet‐up—is rapid (∼1–2 hr), and total annual streamflow consists predominantly of saturation overland flow, based on field mapping of saturated extents and an inferred runoff threshold for the expansion of saturation extent beyond the geomorphic channel. SAS modeling based on daily isotope sampling reveals that streamflow is typically older than 1 day. Since streamflow primarily consists of overland flow, a significant portion of overland flow must not be event‐rain but instead derive from older, nonevent groundwater returning to the surface, consistent with field observations of exfiltrating head gradients, return flow through macropores, and extensive saturation days after storm events. We conclude that even in a watershed fed primarily by overland flow, runoff is primarily not composed of event water. Our findings have implications for the interpretation of stream chemistry and the assumptions built into widely used hydrograph separation inferences, namely, the assumption that overland flow consists of new (event) water.
Effect of two insect diets on the intestinal commensal microbiome of healthy Salmo trutta vr. trutta

Background The balance of the intestinal commensal microbiome of fish and other animals plays an important role in the physiological processes of healthy animals, contributes to the defense against pathogens, stimulates the immune system and facilitates nutrient metabolism. In the last decade, the use of insects in fish nutrition has been increasing exponentially, although little is known regarding the effects of insect meals on the fish gastrointestinal tract. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of two insect diets containing mealworm (MW) and superworm (SW) on the microbiome of the digesta of sea trout fingerlings and the relative abundances of different taxa among communities under controlled conditions.Results The insect meals produced a similar weight gain and survival rate to sea trout fed fishmeal. The most abundant bacterial phylum in all the treatment groups was Firmicutes followed by Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria, and significant differences in the amount of Cyanobacteria were observed in the SW group. Conclusions The insect meals did not produce differences in the three most abundant phyla in the sea trout digesta. However, the effect of each type of meal on the lower taxonomic levels was evident, particularly in the case of the superworm meal. These microbiome differences indicated that mealworm meal was more related to fishmeal than superworm meal. Our results highlight the potential effects of insect meals, such as mealworm and superworm meals, on the microbiota of sea trout.
Measuring logical competences and soft skills when enrolling in a university degree course

Logical abilities are a ubiquitous ingredient in all those contexts that take into account soft skills, argumentative skills or critical thinking. However, the relationship between logical models and the enhancement of these abilities is rarely explicitly considered. Two aspects of the issue are particularly critical in our opinion, namely: (i) the lack of statistically relevant data concerning these competences; (ii) the absence of reliable indices that might be used to measure and detect the possession of abilities underlying the above-mentioned soft skills. This paper addresses both aspects of this topic by presenting the results of a research that we conducted in between October and December 2020 on students enrolled in various degree courses at the University of Florence. To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest available database on the subject in the Italian University System to date1 . It has been obtained by a three-stage initiative. We started from an “entrance” examination for assessing the students’ initial abilities. This test comprised ten questions, each of which was centered on a specific reasoning construct. The results we have collected show that there is a widespread lack of understanding of basic patterns that are common in the everyday way of arguing. Students then underwent a short training course, using formal logic techniques in order to strengthen their abilities, and afterwards took an “exit” examination, replicating the structure and the questions difficulty of the entrance one in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the course. Results show that the training was beneficial.
Evaluation of 3D Body Shape Predictions Based on Features

The human body comes in many sizes and shapes. For design purposes, it is useful to be able to quickly simulate a virtual mannequin of a customer. A statistical shape model can be used for this purpose, because it describes the main variations of body shape inside the model’s population. From this model, the specific features of each person in the population are known. Therefore, a mapping between the shape model parameters and specific features can be calculated, which allows adjusting the body shape, in an intuitive way. In this work, we have investigated how accurate a body shape can be predicted based on a set of features and which features are most suitable for this purpose. Height, weight, and hip circumference appeared to be the most suitable features to accurately predict the body shape.
Networks of historic houses as a strategic option for sustainable tourism development: the Venetian Villas case.

This paper aims to demonstrate the role of networks of historic houses as a possible strategic asset for territorial and tourism development, both for the diversification and innovation of the offer of mature destinations as well as for the development of minor ones. In particular, a specific case study will be presented, namely the system of over 4,000 Venetian Villas located in Northern Italy (specifically in the Veneto Region) around which an increasingly organized tourist offer is taking shape, based on experiential proposals that see the Villas as a base for the discovery of the landscape and the typical features of the surrounding area. This case has been studied in terms of the prevailing business conducted within the Venetian Villas and the reference market and has been related to other good practices in Italy and in Europe. The study has made it possible to highlight that the success of the development of a system of historic houses, besides the value of the residences from a network perspective, lies in the harmonious integration with the other local resources, e.g. the wine product in the case of the Venetian Villas, in order to achieve immersive experiences which are rich in meaning for tourists and create widespread effects in the area. The study has recognized that, given the specific tourism demand interested in this attraction and considering that such dwellings are generally inserted in a prestigious landscape, the only reasonable path to follow is sustainable development with the aim to safeguard authenticity.
Corporate budget governance through the operating managers engagement: Does locus of control matter?

In the past decades, budgetary participation has attracted increasing attention (Brownell, 1981; Amir et al., 2021; Brownell & Hirst, 1986; Chenhall & Brownell, 1988; Murray, 1990; Brownell & Dunk, 1991; Krenl, 1992; Baccouri & Hassouna, 2017; Her, Shin, & Pae, 2019; Lau, Scully, & Lee, 2018; Lleo, Viles, Jurburg, & Santos, 2020; Sofyani, Santo, Najda, & Al-maghribi, 2020; Apriwandi & Supriyono, 2021; Santos, Beuren, & Marques, 2021). Budgetary participation a as defined is whereby process subordinates are given the opportunity to get involved in and have an influence on the budget setting process (Brownell, 1992). It refers to the practice of allowing managers to participate in the decisions by which budgets are established to measure and evaluate their performance (Swieringa & Moncur, 1975; Shields & Shields, 1998). According to the behavioral approach in accounting, budgetary participation the attitudes of influence can individuals at work (Chong, Eg & Leong gleton, , the work, and with 2005), including satisfaction the (Viseu company feeling of being part of the , Pinto, Borralha, & de Jesus, 2020). The relationship between budgetary participation and job satisfaction has attracted many researchers (Nguyên, 2019; Brownell, 1981; Cheng, Chen, & Shih, 2014; Kahar 2016; Chariti, & Rohman, , Becker & Green, Maurice, Bonach, 1962; Moris & , 2012; Abstract
Assessing limitation factors and thresholds for macroinvertebrate communities in response to land use gradients

Transformations of land use from natural to anthropic type have been recognized as a significant trigger which degenerate the aquatic ecological quality seriously. However, there was still lack of enough evidence which the extent of changes in land use should be set as a biodiversity conservation target to protect aquatic ecosystem. To understand the corresponding variations of aquatic organisms to environmental gradients and set the conservation threshold values for land use, data of physicochemical parameters and macroinvertebrate communities were sampled in the Hun-Tai River Basin during 2009 and 2010. The main objectives of the present study were (i) to explore limiting factors that affect the distribution of macroinvertebrate communities with land use gradients, (ii) to estimate thresholds for the conservation of macroinvertebrate communities derived from generalized additive models (GAMs) and Threshold Indicator Taxa ANalysis (TITAN), respectively. The results indicated that macroinvertebrate communities’ structure and integrity were strongly negative with nutrient, organic contaminants content, %CropArea and %ImperviousArea. Under a precaution perspective and given current levels of land use, this research might provide some useful strategies for appropriate land exploitation management and improving water quality and biodiversity conservation in river ecological restoration.
Merging Multiple 3 D Face Reconstructions

In this paper we present a method to merge multiple 3D face reconstructions into one common reconstruction of higher quality. The individual three-dimensional face reconstructions are computed by a multi-camera stereo-matching system from different perspectives. Using 4-Points Congruent Sets and Iterative Closest Point the individual reconstructions are registered. Then, the registered reconstructions are merged based on point distance and reconstruction tenacity. To optimize the parameters in the merging step a kernel-based point cloud filter is used. Finally, this filter is applied to smooth the merged reconstruction. With this approach we are able to fill holes in the individual reconstruction and improve the overall visual quality.
Marketing Strategy: Pricing strategies and its influence on consumer purchasing decision

The current study aimed to examine pricing strategies as a determining factor in influencing consumer behavior. The present research applied quantitative research method via adapting questionnaire from academic sources. The sample size for the current study is 162 which gathered via random sampling method. The results show that Penetration Pricing has significant positive influence on consumer behavior at 5% level. The results show that Price Skimming has significant positive influence on consumer behavior at 5% level. The results show that marketing sharing sites has significant positive influence on consumer behavior at 5% level. The results show that blog has significant positive influence on consumer behavior at 5% level. The results show that Competitive Pricing has significant positive influence on consumer behavior at 5% level. Moreover, all beta value is higher than . 001. All models have very high adjusted R2 indicating the ability of the models explaining the variation of consumer behavior due to variation of independent variables is very high. The F-value shows that the explanatory variables are jointly statistically significant in the model and the Durbin-Watson (DW) statistics reveals that there is autocorrelation in the models.
Shear‐wave velocity structure of the Sinai subplate from receiver function analysis

SUMMARY Teleseismic data observed at seven broad-band stations located in and adjacent to the Sinai subplate were analysed using the receiver function method for estimating the velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle. The receiver function method is based on the analysis and interpretation of P‐S converted phases and associated surface multiples that originate at seismic discontinuities beneath the receiver. The main converted P‐S phases are from the base of a near-surface sedimentary layer located in the upper crust, at the Moho, in the subMoho upper mantle, at the 410- and 660-km seismic discontinuities. The velocity structure of the crust and the upper mantle varies within the Sinai subplate. A complicated crustal structure is suggested for the Cyprus arc, which marks the northern boundary of the Sinai subplate, with a Moho depth of 28 km. In the area of the Dead Sea Fault (DSF), which marks the eastern boundary of the Sinai subplate, Moho depth increases from north to south from approximately 27 km beneath station MRNI located in northern Israel to approximately 34 km beneath station EIL located north of the Gulf of Aqaba. Away from the DSF, a crustal thickness of 34‐36 km is indicated at HITJ located in the Arabian Plate and KEG located in the African Plate. A low-velocity zone (LVZ) beginning at approximately 60-km depth is inferred beneath stations located close to the DSF. This boundary is interpreted as the lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary (LAB). The shallow LAB may be the top of a highly deformed mantle zone and may have facilitated the formation of the DSF some 15 Ma.
A DUAL BANDPASS FILTER DESIGN USING STRONG COUPLING, EVANESCENT MODE AND MODULAR CONCEPT

This paper presents a new design concept of a dual bandpass filter. Based on the strong coupling between two resonators, a dual 1-pole band-pass filter is designed and is used as the basic building block. By providing appropriate weak coupling between these building blocks, a higher-order dual bandpass filter can be realized. In addition, these building blocks can be stacked vertically and/or horizontally to construct a compact filter. In this way, by using 3D full wave EM and circuit cosimulation, the simulation time required in the design stage can be reduced. In addition, it also provides a way to post-tune each building block individually and further reduces the time required in prototype post tuning process. However, using this design approach, the band separation ratio is limited by the physically achievable coupling. For demonstration, an L-band dual 4-pole bandpass filter is designed with passband frequencies of 1.2 GHz ∼ 1.255 GHz and 1.55 GHz ∼ 1.6 GHz. To reduce the size of the filter and obtain a wide stopband bandwidth, a suitable evanescent mode cavity is used to realize the resonant structure. The measurement result shows that the insertion losses of the low passband and high passband are 1.03 dB ∼ 2.00 dB and 1.02 dB ∼ 1.75 dB, respectively; the return loss of both passbands is better than 15 dB. Furthermore, up to 5 GHz, the stopband rejection level is better than 80 dB.
Abstractive text summarization for Hungarian

In our research we have created a text summarization software tool for Hungarian using multilingual and Hungarian BERT-based models. Two types of text summarization method exist: abstractive and extractive. The abstractive summarization is more similar to human generated summarization. Target summaries may include phrases that the original text does not necessarily contain. This method generates the summarized text by applying keywords that were extracted from the original text. The extractive method summarizes the text by using the most important extracted phrases or sentences from the original text. In our research we have built both abstractive and extractive models for Hungarian. For abstractive models, we have used a multilingual BERT model and Hungarian monolingual BERT models. For extractive summarization, in addition to the BERT models, we have also made experiments with ELECTRA models. We find that the Hungarian monolingual models outperformed the multilingual BERT model in all cases. Furthermore, the ELECTRA small models achieved higher results than some of the BERT models. This result is important because the ELECTRA small models have much fewer parameters and were trained on only 1 GPU within a couple of days. Another important consideration is that the ELECTRA models are much smaller than the BERT models, which is important for the end users. To our best knowledge the first extractive and abstractive summarization systems reported in the present paper are the first such systems for Hungarian.
10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2009) EXPLORING AFRICAN TONE SCALES

Key-finding is a central topic in Western music analysis and development of MIR tools. However, most approaches rely on the Western 12-tone scale, which is not universally used. African music does not follow a fixed tone scale. In order to classify and study African tone scales, we developed a system in which the pitch is first analyzed on a continuous scale. Peak analysis is then applied on these data to extract the actual scale used. This system has been applied to a selection of African music, it allows us to look for similarities using cross-correlation. Thus it provides an interesting tool for query-by-example and database management in collections of ethnic music which can not be simply classified according to keys. Next to this the data can be used for ethnomusicological research. The study of the intervals used in this collection, e.g., gives us evidence for Western influence, with recent recordings having a tendency to use more regular intervals.
Characterization of the terahertz frequency optical constants of tourmaline

The absorption coefficient and refractive index of the tourmaline in different directions have been firstly characterized by the terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. Results show that the absorption and refractive index of terahertz are much related with the tourmaline structure. And the absorption along the optical axis direction is more sensitive than that of the vertical direction. Such a result indicates that the identification and characterization of crystals as well as minerals can be realized by the THz method.
The importance of retaining physical functions to prevent skeletal‐related events in multiple myeloma patients with bone disease

This study was undertaken to identify baseline conditions and triggering factors for skeletal‐related events (SRE) in multiple myeloma (MM) patients treated with denosumab. During the median follow‐up of 17 months, SRE occurred in 6 out of 52 newly diagnosed patients and in 5 out of 23 relapsed/refractory patients. Bone fractures occurred by falling down due to orthostatic hypotension and/or muscle weakness in three out of four cases with amyloid light‐chain (AL) amyloidosis. A loss of balance and falling down appear to be triggering factors for SRE, especially in frail MM patients with AL amyloidosis, indicating the importance of retaining physical functions to prevent SRE.