Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Post-Adoption Behavior of Mobile Internet Users : A Model-Based Comparison between Continuers and Discontinuers Hoyoung

Many mobile Internet users are not continuing to use mobile Internet services after initial use. This study aims to explore how such users (discontinuers) differ from ongoing users (continuers) in terms of accepting mobile Internet technology. We propose an adoption model for the mobile Internet consisting of seven critical factors. An on-line survey was conducted on the basis of this model to compare continuers and discontinuers. The survey results show that discontinuers are more sensitive to usefulness and social influences in using mobile Internet services, while continuers are more sensitive to ubiquitous connectivity.
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN INDIAN LANGUAGES: A CASE STUDY ON CROSS -LINGUAL AND MULTI -LINGUAL

In today’s world of globalization, local languages storage and retrieval is essential for the developing nations like India. As our country is diversified by languages and only 10% of population is aware of English language, this diversity of languages is becoming barrier to understand and acquainted in digital world. It has been found that when services are provided in local languages, it has been strongly accepted and used. A new methodology called ‘Information Retrieval in Multilingual Environment’ and provides the functionality of processing and retrieval of Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati, Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada etc., A Cross Lingual Information Retrieval System retrieves the Indian language documents in response to query given in English or any Indian language.
Journal of Technology Management in China Consumer behavior dynamics of Chinese minorities

Purpose – Meat consumption decisions within a religious context can differ significantly from purchase decisions where religion does not play a key role. The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of Halal meat consumption within a Chinese Muslim population using the “marketing theory of planned behavior”. The role of self-identity as a Muslim and dietary acculturation in the host culture is investigated. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a questionnaire survey. Cross-sectional data were collected through a survey of 368 Muslim participants, mainly from Xinjiang province in China. Data were analyzed by a series of regression analyses to test the model and the moderating effects of self-identity and dietary acculturation on behavioral intention. Findings – The results indicate that motivation to comply with religious requirements, and personal conviction, have a positive attitude toward behavioral intention to consume Halal meat. However, perceived control has a negative relationship with behavioral intention to eat Halal meat among Muslims. Results also show that in general, Halal meat consumption is determined by the pressure of others, personal conviction, and the perceived control. Practical implications – For marketing managers, Muslims with a low Muslim identity can be motivated to buy Halal meat by communicating through slogans that focus on the individual’s opportunity to make his or her own choice(s). Originality/value – This paper will prove valuable to food-policy decision makers and food marketers, who might pursue identity and/or acculturation-related strategies in their distribution and communication efforts targeting the growing Halal food market segment in China and globally.
EVALUATION OF CONTROL STRATEGIES THROUGH A DOUBLY DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT MODEL

A within-day and day-to-day dynamic assignment model for a general network has been proposed recently. The model follows a nonequilibrium approach, in which flow fluctuations are modeled as a stochastic process. It includes a model of dynamic network loading for computing within-day variable arc flows from path flows. In this paper, the sensitivity and the operational characteristics of the model are tested by analyzing some effects of control measures on a small realistic network. The results of these applications show that the proposed model is a valid tool to estimate the effectiveness of some traffic engineering measures and informative systems. It also appears that some control measures cannot be assessed correctly without the explicit simulation of the demand elasticity over departure times and of the day-to-day adjustment process determined by users' memory and forecasting.
Cassini?Huygens results on Titan's surface

Our understanding of Titan, Saturn's largest satellite, has recently been consid- erably enhanced, thanks to the Cassini-Huygens mission. Since the Saturn Orbit Injection in July 2004, the probe has been harvesting new insights of the Kronian system. In par- ticular, this mission orchestrated a climax on January 14, 2005 with the descent of the Huygens probe into Titan's thick atmosphere. The orbiter and the lander have providedus with picturesqueviews of extraterrestrial landscapes, new in compositionbut reassuringly Earth-like in shape. Thus, Saturn's largest satellite displays chains of mountains, fields of dark and damp dunes, lakes and possibly geologic activity. As on Earth, landscapes on Titan are eroded and modeled by some alien hydrology: dendritic systems, hydrocarbon lakes, and methane clouds imply periods of heavy rainfalls, even though rain was never observed directly. Titan's surface also proved to be geologically active - today or in the recent past - given the small number of impact craters listed to date, as well as a few possible cryovolcanic features. We attempt hereafter a synthesis of the most significant results of the Cassini-Huygens endeavor, with emphasis on the surface.
ETHOLOGICALLY-DETERMINED RESPONSES OF MALE MICE IN NEW DYADIC ENCOUNTERS REFLECT THEIR PREVIOUS 'SOCIAL STATUS'

This study examines the importance of dominance or submissiveness in pairs of mice, on their performance in subsequent agonistic encounters. Animals were housed in pairs for three days, and, on the basis of their behaviour patterns (attack, threat, submission, avoidance), were classified as dominants or subordinates. Subsequently, behaviour of dominants confronting dominants, dominants confronting new subordinates and subordinates confronting subordinates were video-taped and behaviour evaluated using an ethologically-based analysis. Submissive and dominant animals showed behavioural characteristics that clearly reflect their previous social status and were less influenced by an immediate evaluation of the opponent. In the course of this experiment, dominant animals showed relatively little defensive/avoidance behaviour, irrespective of the type of opponent. Submissive counterparts, acutely showed no offensive behaviour when confronting dominants or submissives. Behavioural elements other than strictly agonistic ones are influenced by the previous status of male mice.
The Focussed Information Criterion

A variety of model selection criteria have been developed, of general and specific types. Most of these aim at selecting a single model with good overall properties, e.g. formulated via average prediction quality or shortest estimated overall distance to the in some sense true model. The Akaike, the Bayesian and the deviance information criteria AIC, BIC, DIC, along with many suitable variations, are eminent examples of such methods, and are in frequent use. These methods are however not concerned with the actual use of the selected model, which varies with context and application. The present paper takes the view that the model selector should instead focus on the parameter singled out for interest; in particular, a model which gives good precision for one estimand may be worse when used for inference for another estimand. We develop a method which for given focus parameter estimates the precision of any submodel-based estimator. The framework is that of large-sample likelihood inference. Using an unbiased estimate of limiting risk, we propose a focussed information criterion for model selection, the FIC. We investigate and discuss properties of the method, establish some connections to the AIC, and illustrate its use in a variety of situations.
Export Prices and Increasing World Competition: Evidence from French, German, and Italian Pricing Behaviour

The paper compares the export price strategies of France, Germany and Italy using a large and common pool of manufacturing products and destination markets. Our results suggest that pricing-to-market (PTM) is not widespread among French and German exporters, whereas Italian one do adopt more often such a pricing strategy. The standard claim that product specific characteristics play a major role in determining PTM finds little support in our result, which find almost no regularity across products. On the other hand, the hypothesis of an homogeneous behavior across destination countries (even for the same products) is strongly rejected. This suggests that export price changes are mainly determined by source and destination market characteristics. Something similar applies to profit margins as well: the latter move rather homogeneously across products but differently across destinations. Within this heterogeneity, we find that on average profit margins have either remained stable or augmented in the last three decades, so that increased international integration seems not to have reduced firms market power.
Effect of Random Assigning of Initial Contention Window Value on Performance of Persistent Relay CSMA with and without Binary Exponential Backoff Algorithm

Based on IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), Persistent Relay Carrier Sense Multiple Access (PRCSMA) was proposed for cooperative transmission with two or more relay nodes. We propose random assigning of the initial Contention Window (CW) value of each relay node at the beginning of cooperation phase in PRCSMA and evaluate its performance with and without binary exponential baskoff (BEB) algorithm. Each relay node independently and randomly selects its initial CW value among a predefined set of integers, while in the original PRCSMA, a relay node fixes its CW value to a common given integer. Numerical results obtained from computer simulation reveal that the proposed protocol can improve the performance of the original PRCSMA. The proposed protocol makes it possible to reduce the possibility of frame collisions among relay nodes and successfully reduce the duration of cooperation. Also, the results demonstrate that the BEB algorithm is inefficient for PRCSMA, since it introduces redundant idle slots and more collision slots before the first success of frame transmission
The Economic Determinants Of The Brazilian Term Structure Of Interest Rates

The purpose of the present study is to identify the effects of monetary policy and macroeconomic shocks on the dynamics of the Brazilian term structure of interest rates. We estimate a near-VAR under the identification scheme proposed by Christiano et al. (1996, 1999). The results resemble that of the US economy: monetary policy shocks flatten the term structure of interest rates. Nevertheless, we find that monetary policy shocks in Brazil appear to explain a significant larger share of the dynamics of the term structure than in the USA. Finally, we also study the importance of standard macroeconomic variables, as GDP, inflation and specially, a measure of country risk for the dynamics of the term structure in Brazil. The empirical evidence allows us to infer that as the Brazilian term structure of interest rates increase its maturities, the more important will macroeconomic shocks be to its determination.
Time Capsules: A Cultural History

This is a cultural history of 5000 years of time capsules and other related information transfers across time. It examines both the formal and the popular culture aspects of the time capsule, from its roots in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian building-foundation deposits to the present utilization of spacecraft probes and other extreme locations. The deposits of 3000 BCE had no definite date and time to be opened; in 1876 CE came the idea of target-dated deposits. Also discussed are how "real" time capsules work, notional and archaelogical time capsules, the height of the time capsule's popularity from 1935 to 1982, the preservation of writings in time capsules, keeping time in a perpetual futurescape, and turn of the century hype surrounding millennium time capsules.
Data Analytics and Decision- Making in Education: Towards the Educational Data Scientist as a Key Actor in Schools and Higher Education Institutions.

In this chapter, we outline the importance of data usage for improving policymaking (at the system level), management of educational institutions and pedagogical approaches in the classroom. We illustrate how traditional data analyses are becoming gradually substituted by more sophisticated forms of analytics, and we provide a classification for these recent movements (in particular learning analytics, academic analytics and educational data mining). After having illustrated some examples of recent applications, we warn against potential risks of inadequate analytics in education, and list a number of barriers that impede the widespread application of better data use. As implications, we call for a development of a more robust professional role of data scientists applied to education, with the aim of sustaining and reinforcing a positive data-driven approach to decision making in the educational field.
A Trace and Maximal Eigen Value Analysis of Spot-forward Forex Rates in OECD Countries

In the new era towards a globalised economy, countries worldwide are confronting each other in implementing an international economic policy to support each other's overall balance in their government policies through the exchange rate as one of its policies. The issues of forward premium puzzle in the foreign exchange market remains unsolved despite tremendous efforts have been made by researchers using various econometric methods for the last two and a half decades. The objective of the present study is to investigate the weak and semi-strong efficiency of the foreign exchange market in the OECD countries. The data from period 2000 to 2007 were analysed using cointegration test (Johansen, 1998) and found that the forex market in the OECD countries is inefficient.
Interactive Differential Segmentation of the Prostate using Graph-Cuts with a Feature Detector-based Boundary Term

In this paper we present a modified boundary term for Graph-Cuts, which enables the latter to couple with feature detectors that return a confidence with respect to the detected image feature. Such detectors lead to improved localisation of boundaries in challenging images, which are often undetected by the implicit intensity-based edge detection scheme of the original method. This is particularly true for medical image segmentation, due to complex organ appearance, partial volume effect and weak intensity contrast at boundaries. The novel term is validated via its application to the differential segmentation of the prostate. The results demonstrate considerable improvement over classical Graph-Cuts of the Central Gland / Peripheral Zone separation when it is coupled with a SUSAN edge detector.
Influence of Customer Satisfaction on Service Quality and Trust Relationship in Malaysian Rural Tourism

The main purpose of this study is to develop a mediating effect understanding of customer satisfaction on service quality and trust relationship in Malaysia rural tourism. The model was developed and later tested by adopting the partial Least Square (PLS) procedure on data collected from a survey that yielded 295 usable questionnaires. The findings showed that service quality enhances satisfaction in Malaysia rural tourism. It was also revealed that satisfaction partially mediates the relationship between service quality and trust. In future more research needs to be carried out to explore the role of satisfaction in Malaysia rural tourism industry. It is important to do the study utilizing experimental design by capturing longitudinal data in Malaysia rural tourism industry using robust measures. The findings imply that the relationship between satisfaction and profitability may reside in satisfaction’s influence on trust, and that satisfaction plays a crucial function within the Malaysia rural tourism industry. This research is one of the first known attempts to use PLS to test a mediation effect.
Six Proper Motion Pairs Measured with the 2-meter Faulkes Telescope North

Multiple observations were made of six faint common proper motion pairs with the 2-meter Faulkes Telescope North on Haleakala by Maui middle school and high school students and their support- ers. Of the six pairs, two are reported as newly discovered proper motion binaries. Individual reductions versus a single 'track and stack' reduction were compared.
Use of Micro Blogging Services in Mass Emergency Situations in Different Countries

This paper presents how people use the Micro blogging (MB) services in emergency situations, and proposing a methodology for investigating if and how cultural differences affect communications broadcasted by people who were on the ground during emergency events. This paper addresses issues of the attributes in micro-blog posts generated during different emergency situations, and the recent political incidents in Syria, Libya, and Egypt are examined, analyzed, and studied in depth detail. The current investigation, approach and methodology were described. The method will help to build for the future awareness detection in social networks. MB services through Social Networking (SN) sites by people in different countries are a common communication channel.
Intrusion detection system using decision tree-based attribute weighted AODE

: The number and severity of the network attacks have increased in past few years. So for securing the network from different network attacks, intrusion detection system (IDS) plays a key role. Detection of the intrusive activities by using resource intensive intelligent algorithms has been possible because of advancements in computing performance in terms of processing power and storage. In this paper, an efficient data mining algorithm called Naïve Bayes for anomaly based network intrusion detection has been implemented. However, Naïve Bayes assumes attributes are independent of each other, the same may affect the accuracy of the system. To solve this attribute independence issue and to increase accuracy another data mining algorithm named Averaged One Dependence Estimator i. e. AODE is implemented. And to improve the performance of AODE further another algorithm has been proposed named Decision Tree-based Attribute Weighted AODE (DTWAODE). In DTWAODE Decision Tree is used & weight is assigned to each attribute. The weight is set according to its depth in the decision tree building on the training samples. The training sample used is NSL KDD-99 data set. The performance of Naïve Bayes, AODE & DTWAODE is studied and analyzed on the NSL KDD-99 intrusion benchmark data set and the accuracy is calculated.
INVESTIGATION OF THE IN VITRO REGENERATION OF SOME MEDICAL AND AROMATIC WILD PLANT SPECIES

Ferula orientalis L. , Chaerophyllum macrospermum (Spreng.) Fisch. & C.A. Mey. , and Eremurus spectabilis M.Bieb are among the medically and aromatically important wild plant species. This study was conducted to obtain in vitro shoot regeneration from different plant segments in these three species. For this purpose, different plant segments (rhizome, leaf, or single-node explants) were cultured in Murashige and Skoog medium with the addition of either 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4D) (0.5–2.0 mg/l) or 2,4-D combined with 6-Benzylaminopurine (BAP) (1.0–2.0 mg/l). For the singlenode explants of Ferula orientalis L. , the highest shoot number per explant (3.0 shoots/explant) was obtained in the medium with 0.5 mg/l 2,4-D + 2.0 mg/l BAP added. For Chaerophyllum macrospermum (Spreng.) Fisch. & C.A. Mey. , the highest shoot number per explant (2.5 shoots/explant) was obtained in the medium with 1.0 mg/l 2,4-D + 2.0 mg/l BAP added. For Eremurus spectabilis M.Bieb. , shoot formation was not observed in either of the explant types (leaf or rhizome) in any of the medium combinations. In further studies, the combined applications of 2mg/l or above doses of BAP and lower auxin concentrations may be useful for in vitro shoot regeneration in Ferula orientalis L. and Chaerophyllum macrospermum (Spreng.) Fisch. & C.A. Mey.
Rethinking Tracking Practices: What Teachers Say.

Under the different sides of discussion on the tracking, we attempted to understand how teachers and administrators evaluate tracking system in their school. We gathered data from teachers who employed in one of the government mandated schools in west part of Turkey. In this single case study, we collected data from 16 teachers, 1 administrator and 1 school counselor through the semi-structured interviews. The school that we gathered data has long term tracking experience on secondary level. We analyzed the data through a descriptive analyze method and discussed the results under the light of theoretical base. According to the findings, teachers usually define tracking as dividing students according to their abilities, intelligences, academic achievement levels or potential situations. The pros of the applications are improving upper class students' success, while the cons' are some of the psychological side effects and damages on students. Teachers also mentioned that relationship among classes is disconnected. And, usually there is more discipline problems in lower ability group class, while a teacher emphasized that there are different type of discipline problems in different ability classes.
Multi-Area Load Frequency Control Using Ip Controller Tuned By Harmony Search

In multi area electric power systems if a large load is suddenly connected (or disconnected) to the system, or if a generating unit is suddenly disconnected by the protection equipment, there will be a long-term distortion in the power balance between that delivered by the turbines and that consumed by the loads. This imbalance is initially covered from the kinetic energy of rotating rotors of turbines, generators and motors and, as a result, the frequency in the system will change. Therefore The Load Frequency Control (LFC) problem is one of the most important subjects in the electric power system operation and control. In practical systems, the conventional PI type controllers are carried out for LFC. In order to overcome the drawbacks of the conventional PI controllers, numerous techniques have been proposed in literatures. In this paper an IP type controller is considered for LFC problem. The parameters of the proposed IP controller are tuned using Harmony Search (HS) method. A multi area electric power system with a wide range of parametric uncertainties is given to illustrate proposed method. To show effectiveness of the proposed method, a PI type controller optimized by HS is incorporated in order to comparison with the proposed IP controller. The simulation results on a multi area electric power system emphasis on the viability and feasibility of the proposed method in LFC problem.