Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Relationship between Export Revenue and Gross Domestic Product in Bangladesh: An Econometric Analysis

Export revenue is an important issue for Bangladesh. So analysis the relationship between export revenue and gross domestic product (GDP) is very crucial for the policy makers to develop our domestic economy as well as to create a good economic relationship with the global economy. The main object of this article is to investigate the relationship between export revenue and GDP in Bangladesh. To test stationary correlogram test is used. In this study, I used Granger causality and co-integration test to test the long-run relationship between GDP and export revenue in Bangladesh from 1981-2015. I found the maximum lag length for the model by using vector autoregressive (VAR) lag order selection criteria. In the model GDP was dependent variable and three variables (Remittance, Foreign direct investment, Export revenue) were the independent variables. In correlogram test, I have seen all of my variables were non-stationary at level, but after taking first difference, they became stationary. According to Granger causality test, there was bidirectional causality from export revenue to GDP in Bangladesh. Johansen co-integration test investigated that there was a long-run equilibrium relationship between export revenue and GDP but by using vector error correction model (VECM) I have seen there is no statistically significant long-run relationship between export revenue and GDP. Wald test indicated a statistically significant short-run relationship between the two variables.
Thermal instability of two-dimensional stagnation point flow with opposing vertical thermal and solutal gradients

The objective of the present paper is to examine the effects of mass transfer on the thermal instability of a two-dimensional stagnation point flow. We furthermore restrict our attention to thermal and concentration buoyancy forces which are of opposite sign and equal in magnitude. The basic flow has been obtained by solving the governing equations of continuity, momentum, energy and concentration using similarity analysis which are solved numerically using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method with shooting technique. The stability of the basic flow is then investigated in the usual fashion by making use of the normal mode decomposition. The resulting eigenvalue problem is solved numerically by means of a pseudo spectral collocation method based upon Laguerre’s functions. It is found through the calculation of neutral stability curves that concentration buoyancy parameters acts to increase the stability of the basic flow, but Lewis number acts to either increase or decrease it. Increasing Lewis number acts to increase the stability of the basic flow for Le<1, or to decrease it for Le>1. For Le=1 the basic flow is always stable.
Early wakeup: improving the drowsy cache performance

As process technology scales down, leakage power consumption becomes comparable to dynamic power consumption. The drowsy cache technique is known as one of the most popular techniques for reducing the leakage power consumption in the data cache. However, the drowsy cache is reported to degrade the processor performance significantly. In this paper, to maintain the performance of the processor with the drowsy cache technique, we propose an early wakeup technique, which predicts the next cache line to be requested by utilizing the way-prediction information. The proposed technique efficiently reduces the number of accesses to the cache lines in drowsy mode. Our simulation results show that the proposed technique reduces the extra delay due to the drowsy cache scheme by 29.6%, on average.
A Novel Wedge Diffraction Modeling Using Method of Moments ( MoM )

─ Scattering from edges and/or tips (i.e., diffraction) has long been modeled using different approaches. Initially, it was handled analytically using high frequency asymptotics (HFA). Parallel to the development in computer technology diffraction has begun to be modeled using numerical approaches also. Here, method of moments (MoM) is used to model the canonical wedge scattering problem and a novel, generally applicable procedure is introduced to extract diffracted fields and diffraction coefficients. Index Terms ─ Diffraction, high frequency asymptotics, Method of Moments (MoM), wedge.
An ILP Approach to Heat-Driven Functional Unit Binding*

As the process shrinks into the deep sub-micron technology, the design complexity continues to increase. Therefore, the heat dissipation in a modern VLSI chip is skyrocketing. In this paper, we study the functional unit binding for heat dissipation. It is well known that, if there is more inactive time interval between two consecutive operations executing in the same functional unit, the more heat reduction can be achieved. Therefore, given a scheduled data flow graph (DFG) and the functional units, our objective is to maximize the summation of inactive time intervals. An integer linear programming (ILP) approach is proposed to formally formulate this problem. Benchmark data consistently show our approach achieves good results within an acceptable run time.
Entrepreneurial Team Troika: A Call on Integrative Research of Trust, Conflict and Diversity

Durante as ultimas quatro decadas, a pesquisa em empreendedorismo tem se estabelecido como uma area legitima de investigacao, o que requer um esforco concentrado e coordenado para o estudo no contexto na atividade empreendedora. Ao fazer isso, entende-se que as equipes empreendedoras formam o nucleo da maioria das start-ups em algum momento de sua nova caminhada. Alem disso, tres aspectos cruciais desta unidade vital de analise (equipe empreendedora) sao a confianca, o conflito e a diversidade que moldam o sucesso final de uma empresa. Este artigo apresenta uma agenda de pesquisa desenvolvida contextualmente com base em uma avaliacao critica e sintese de achados da literatura apontando para uma abordagem integrativa de visualizacao dos tres topicos vis a vis a equipe empreendedora.
Sustainable Emission Control Policies: Viability Theory Approach

Kunhong Kim, Corresponding author, Professor, Department of Economics & Institute of Economy, Hallym University, 1 Hallymdaehak-gil, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, 24252 Korea. (E-mail): kimku@hallym.ac. kr; Jacek B. Krawczyk, Adjunct Academic, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University, Australia. GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia. (E-mail): jacek.krawczyk@flinders.edu. au.
Modification of Recombination-based GATEWAY TM Binary Destination Vector with Novel Promoter for Agrobacterium -mediated Transformation of Rice

The GATEWAY TM Binary Destination Vector pH7WG2 is available for easy insertion of genes for transformation into plants. The gene of interest integrates downstream of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Promoter CaMV 35S by recombination. The CaMV 35S promoter is however not suitable for transformation and expression of genes in monocots like rice. We isolated and cloned a ~1100 bp upstream region from two rice (Pokkali and IR64) Na/H antiporter genes into the GATEWAY TM promoter cloning vector pHGWFS7. The Pokkali promoter expressed the A¢-glucuronidase or GUS gene ~25-fold more efficiently than the CaMV 35S promoter in rice calli, while that of IR64 was 7-fold more. The IR64 promoter however showed efficient expression in transgenic rice leaves. The promoter from Pokkali Na/H antiporter was used to replace the CaMV 35S sequence in pH7WG2. The CaMV 35S region was cut out and the linear vector fragment blunted and T-tailed. After amplification of the promoter from Pokkali rice DNA, it was A-tailed and ligated to the modified T-vector. The resultant vector, named pH7WG3, following the nomenclature at the gateway site, www.plantgenetics. rug.ac. be/gateway, can now be used for recombination of any genes for efficient rice transformation. Key words: Recombination, Binary vector, Promoter, Transformation, Rice DOI = 10.3329/ptcb.v17i1. 1120 Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 17(1): 47-58, 2007 (June)
Advanced TSTO launch vehicles

Different variants of a Two Stage to Orbit (TSTO) launch vehicle, based on technologies available in Europe, combining a solid rocket motor and a cryogenic upper stage propelled by the Vinci engine and aiming at exploiting synergies with other on-going European programs are presented in this paper. After a first sizing based on data from existing upper stages, preliminary structural analyses and tank designs have been performed, considering different first stages, such as P120, P150 and P160. A preliminary optimisation of the first stage thrust law and of the propellant mass of the upper stage has been done.
METHODS FOR USING EXTRACELLULAR ADENOSINE INHIBITORS AND ADENOSINE RECEPTOR INHIBITORS TO ENHANCE MMUNE RESPONSE AND INFLAMMATION

Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD (US) Michail V. Sitkovsky, Boston, MA (US); Akio Ohta, Newton, MA (US) The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (US) Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 213 days. 14/067,005 Oct. 30, 2013
Cryptographic Schemes Based on Elliptic Curves over the Ring Zp[i]

Elliptic Curve Cryptography recently gained a lot of attention in industry. The principal attraction of ECC compared to RSA is that it offers equal security for a smaller key size. The present paper includes the study of two elliptic curve Ea,b and Ea,-b defined over the ring Zp[i] where i2 = -1. After showing isomorphism between Ea,b and Ea,-b. We define a composition operation (in the form of a mapping) on their union set. Then we have discussed our proposed cryptographic schemes based on the elliptic curve E = Ea,b∪Ea,-b. We also illustrate the coding of points over E, secret key exchange and encryption/decryption methods based on above said elliptic curve. Since our proposed scheme are based on elliptic curve of the particular type therefore the proposed schemes provides a highest strength-per-bit of any cryptosystem known today with smaller key size resulting in faster computations, lower power assumption and memory. Another advantage is that authentication protocols based on ECC are secure enough even if a small key size is used.
The Effect of Mechanical Vibration on Human Sperm Activity in Vitro

It is well known that sperm is a unique cell in that it has a function to be done by itself outside the body and this function is essential for species’ continuity thus sperm by its power and intact structure has to reach the ova and perform the fertilization and this journey is affected by the chemical and physical factors that might increase or decrease its ability to move or fertilize or even to survive. The aim of this study is to find the effect of vibration that is a vigorous movement with high frequency for 20min on whole seminal fluid samples as an external physical factor. 40 fresh seminal fluid samples were selected. 1ml of each semen samples was placed in the bottom of conical tube; the tube was exposure to vibration waves by using a special shaker designed for this purpose for 20 min. This shaker consist of a M540 DC motor equipped with PWM controller to control the rotational speed from 5-2400 rpm. Semen analysis was done before and after subject vibration. A significant increase (P<0.05) was found in percentage of sperm active directed motility (grade A) with a non-significant increase in sluggish motility and a non-significant decrease in percentage of immotile sperms percentage. No significant changes were founded regarded sperm morphology and count. It was concluded that vibrating seminal sample for 20min increases the overall sperms activity with significant increase in percentage of highly active directed sperms.
MERGING BLACK HOLE BINARIES IN GALACTIC NUCLEI: IMPLICATIONS FOR ADVANCED-LIGO DETECTIONS

Motivated by the recent detection of gravitational waves from the black hole binary merger GW150914, we study the dynamical evolution of (stellar-mass) black holes in galactic nuclei, where massive star clusters reside. With masses of and sizes of only a few parsecs, nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are the densest stellar systems observed in the local universe and represent a robust environment where black hole binaries can dynamically form, harden, and merge. We show that due to their large escape speeds, NSCs can retain a large fraction of their merger remnants. Successive mergers can then lead to significant growth and produce black hole mergers of several tens of solar masses similar to GW150914 and up to a few hundreds of solar masses, without the need to invoke extremely low metallicity environments. We use a semi-analytical approach to describe the dynamics of black holes in massive star clusters. Our models give a black hole binary merger rate of from NSCs, implying up to a few tens of possible detections per year with Advanced LIGO. Moreover, we find a local merger rate of for high mass black hole binaries similar to GW150914; a merger rate comparable to or higher than that of similar binaries assembled dynamically in globular clusters (GCs). Finally, we show that if all black holes receive high natal kicks, , then NSCs will dominate the local merger rate of binary black holes compared to either GCs or isolated binary evolution.
High-sensitivity temperature sensor based on Bragg grating in BDK-doped photosensitive polymer optical fiber

A single-mode polymer optical fiber (POF) with highly photosensitive core doped with benzil dimethyl ketal (BDK) is fabricated and used for writing Bragg grating through the two-beam interference method. The Bragg wavelength of the grating is about 1570 nm, while the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the reflection peak is 0.3 nm. The temperature response of POF Bragg grating is theoretically analyzed and experimentally measured in contrast to silica optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG). The result shows that the temperature character of POF Bragg grating is negative, which is opposite to the silica optical FBG. The absolute value of the temperature response of POF Bragg grating is one order of magnitude higher than that of the silica optical FBG, making POF Bragg grating appear to be very attractive for constructing temperature sensors with high resolution.
Optimal Scheduling of Building Users Electricity Consumption Based on Improved Gravitational Search Algorithm

At present, people are increasingly concerned about the problem of building load scheduling. For this problem, the building users are classified and the characteristic of building users is analyzed, a model of automatic demand response for building intelligent electricity scheduling is built and it is composed of several objective functions, such as economy, comfort and stability of family intelligent power. By building two populations include parasitic group and host group, memory and group information sharing ability about particles in particle swarm optimization are introduced to simulate biological parasitic behavior mechanism, an improved gravitational search algorithm is proposed. Finally, the veracity and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm are verified through the simulation.
AN ANALYSIS OF CAPITAL BUDGETING METHODS, THE COST OF CAPITAL AND DECISION-MAKERS IN LISTED SOUTH AFRICAN FIRMS

This study’s purpose was to link the length of decision-makers’ employment in a firm and their academic qualifications to their choice of capital budgeting methods and of cost of capital techniques. The results show that the net present value (NPV) is more popular than the internal rate of return (IRR) as a capital budgeting technique. Also, irrespective of how long respondents have been employed by a company, they all use a discount rate. However, there is a significant tendency among respondents with postgraduate qualifications to prefer the NPV as a capital budgeting technique. Thus, in South Africa, academic qualifications do play a role in decision-makers’ capital budgeting practices.
ALMOST CONVERGENCE THROUGH THE GENERALIZED DE LA VALLÉE-POUSSIN MEAN

We shall write for the set of all complex sequences . Let , ∞, and 0 denote the sets of all finite, bounded, convergent and null sequences respectively; and be the set of all convergent series. We write p:= ∑ | | ∞ for 1 p <∞. By and , we denote the sequences such that =1 for 0, 1, . , and =1 and =0 ( . For any sequence , let ∑ be its -section. Note that ∞, and 0 are Banach spaces with the sup-norm sup | |, and p (1 p <∞) are Banach spaces with the norm ∑ | | ; while is not a Banach space with respect to any norm. A sequence in a linear metric space is called if for every , there is a unique sequence of scalars such that ∑ . A sequence space with a linear topology is called a if each of the maps : defined by is continuous for all N. A -space is called an if is complete linear metric space; a is a normed -space. An -space ⊃ is said to have if every sequence has a unique representation ∑ , that is, lim . Let and be two sequence spaces and , be an infinite matrix of real or complex numbers. We write , ∑ , provided that the series on the right converges for each . If implies that , then we say that defines a matrix transformation from into , and by , we denote the class of such matrices [1]. The following is a very important result: Lemma 1.1. ([2], Theorem 1.23). Let and be spaces and , denote the set of all bounded linear operators from into .
Metal-Ligand Homeostasis in Epidermic Cells of Chernobyl AccidentLiquidators

The present article is an attempt to reveal the connection (Pearson) between potassium (K) and sodium (Na), K and zinc (Zn) levels on the basis of analytical determination of elemental content in human scalp hair (atomic emission spectrometry in 954 Chernobyl accident liquidators and 947 healthy persons). The negative K-Zn correlation and also the increase in epidermic cells K and Na and reduction of calcium (Ca) and Zn can indirectly point, in the authors opinion, to the participation of membrane ÐÐ¢Ð Ð°s (P-type) in the origin of metal-ligand homeostasis shifts and serve as oxidative and nitrosative stress discriminators.
The Level of Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction of the Insurance Industries in Indonesia

This survey aims to investigate the level of service quality, client satisfaction and the image of Indonesia in particular insurance companies to PT (Limited Liability Company) Insurance Bumiputera Bumida Palembang. Indirectly influence the quality of services to the corporate image through satisfaction. The method used was descriptive. Data obtained through the distribution of questionnaires to 285 unemployment insurance claims losses Bumida Palembang PT Asuransi Bumiputera study. Descriptive analysis that involves frequencies, means and percentages used in this study. The results showed that the effect of simultaneous five dimensions of service quality are tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy are positive and significant on unemployment claims satisfaction of 49.7%. In partial, reliability dimension has an important influence positively the most dominant to the satisfaction of jobless claims, which accounted for 27%, the next dimension significantly, dimensions responsiveness, assurance dimensions and dimensions of empathy has had a major influence positively to the satisfaction of unemployment claims that each by 21.5, 20.6, 18.1 and 19.6% of each other. Five dimensions of service quality has an indirect effect a positive image of the company PT Asuransi Palembang Bumida Bumiputera through satisfaction jobless claims, which are tangibles is 2.3%, dimensional reliability is 2.9%, dimensions responsiveness is 2.2%, dimensions guarantee is 1.9% and empathy dimension it amounted to 2.1%. Although unemployment claims satisfaction in handling insurance claims loss solutions have a positive effect and significant to the company's image is equal to 10.7%.
Statistical problems in the probabilistic prediction of climate change

Future climate change projections are constructed from simulated numerical output from a small set of global climate models—samples of opportunity known as multi‐model ensembles. Climate models do not produce probabilities, nor are they perfect representations of the real climate, and there are complex inter‐relationships due to shared model features. This creates interesting statistical challenges for making inference about the real climate.
Study of International Mentoring and Coaching Practices and their Constructive Application in the Russian System of Corporate Education and Training

The relevance of the research stems from dissimilarities between domestic and foreign experiences of mentoring and coaching in corporate education and training related to the methods and techniques aimed not only at transmitting mentor’s professional experience to young professionals but also at identifying and developing mentees’ potential, and supporting their careers. In this regard, the researchers tried to identify adaptive educational and training potential of international mentoring experience under the current conditions. The most valid approach to study this issue is an integrative approach that involves integration of domestic and international techniques and their constructive implementation into the Russian corporate training system with regard to best traditions existing in this country, realities and requirements of modern industry. The paper considers the features and characteristics of the following techniques used in international mentoring and coaching: coaching (unlocking the person’s potential), e-coaching (coaching online), tutoring (supporting the learning process, discussing the experience of knowledge transfer into practice), shadowing (observing the mentor in daily activities), supervision (supervising mentee’s professional activities and assessing his competencies levels). The authors have determined conditions for their further implementation into the Russian national system of corporate education. The analysis of international mentoring and coaching techniques, presented in the paper, may be used as a guide when developing mechanisms and algorithms of constructive extrapolation of the elements in the national system of corporate education, preserving its best traditions. OPEN ACCESS
Ant Colony Optimized Routing Strategy for Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles (EVs) have recently attracted increasing research interest, on account of environmental issues and diminishing fuel reserves. EVs are environmentally friendly but have a short driving range. EVs must utilize energy efficiently, because they travel with limited energy. Conventional vehicle routing methods are not suitable for EVs, as they do not take energy consumption into account. This study introduces an energy efficient routing method using ant colony optimization (ER-ACO) to maximize the energy efficiency. We simulated ER-ACO and compared it with other ACO techniques, including the conventional routing method and other approaches for EVs. As a result, the proposed model improved the energy efficiency in terms of both the average distance per kW and average energy consumption.