Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Social and Emotional Loneliness Among Divorced and Married Men and Women : Comparing the Deficit and Cognitive PerspectivesDYSKTRA

Data from the 1998 survey “Divorce in the Netherlands” (N = 2,223) are used to analyze differences in loneliness among divorced and married men and women. The results indicate that it makes sense to distinguish social from emotional loneliness. This is consistent with the deficit perspective, which posits that the absence of specific types of relationships is associated with specific forms of loneliness. Whereas social loneliness is largely attributable to support network deficits, emotional loneliness is associated with the absence of a partner. In line with the cognitive perspective, the results show that greater insight into loneliness is obtained when discrepancies in relationships are considered. Divorcees who attach great importance to having a partner and people whose marriages are conflict ridden tend to have the highest levels of emotional loneliness. Our study shows that to explain loneliness, one should take not only characteristics of people’s relationships into consideration, but also their relationship preferences. The investment hypothesis, which also follows from the cognitive perspective, is not supported by the data. There is no indication that those who attach greater importance to having a partner invest less in relationships with friends, relatives, and colleagues and therefore show high levels of social loneliness. Consistent gender differences are observed: Men, regardless of partner status, tend to attach greater importance to having a partner than do women, and they tend to have smaller support networks and higher levels of social loneliness. Among the divorced, men are more apt to suffer from emotional loneliness than are women.
Induced Corrosion of Carbon Steel and Stainless Steel in Alkaline Ground Water – Composition and Metabolic Functionality of Biofilm – 14391

Low and intermediate level nuclear waste composed mainly of carbon and stainless steel produced during operation, maintenance and decommissioning of nuclear power plants is disposed of in underground repository, which will be exposed to groundwater. The corrosive effect of groundwater and microbes naturally occurring in groundwater on carbon and stainless steel is assumed to be decreased, when pH of the groundwater has increased due to its contact with the concrete of the repository silos. Nevertheless, after one-year exposure to the repository environment, including the alkaline effect of concrete, the formation of biofilm on the steel surfaces was not completely inhibited, but mainly slowed down. According to weight loss determinations the presence of concrete clearly diminished the corrosion rates of carbon steel at least in the early stages of biofilm formation. No corrosion or biofilm were detected on the surfaces of stainless steel. Our results demonstrate that especially methylotrophic bacteria of the α-proteobacterial clade play a main role in the initial biofilm formation under repository conditions.
ON POLYGONAL APPROXIMATION TECHNIQUES OF THE DIGITAL PLANAR CURVES

A fast review and analysis are conceded for various recent polygonal approximation techniques of a digital planner curves. The goal of the review paper is to provide a summary of selected recent existing polygonal approximation techniques of the digital planar curves. The fundamental principles followed in this paper are to classify the different approaches and solution based. Briefly demonstrates how these approaches are reflecting in approximation of the closed curves. This paper has full clarity on the analysis of the results and performance of algorithms discussed. Goal is to motivation the researcher to understand the pros and cons of the discussed algorithm.
Effect of CNT Morphology on the Interfacial Properties of Nanocomposites

Most existing studies assume CNTs to be straight and uniformly dispersed within the polymer matrix. In this work, we investigate the effect of waviness and agglomeration on the interfacial properties of CNT-reinforced epoxy composites. MD simulations of numerical pull-out tests were carried out of CNTs, with different curvatures and bundle diameters, fully embedded in an epoxy resin to evaluate the corresponding interfacial shear strength. The results of our MD simulations revealed the following. The pull-out force of the curved CNTs is significantly higher than its straight counterpart and increases further with the increase in the waviness of the CNTs. It also reveals that agglomeration of CNTs leads to a reduction in the ISS and poor load transferability, and that this reduction is governed by the size of the agglomerate. The simulation results were also used to develop a generalized relation for the ISS that takes into consideration the effect of waviness and agglomeration of CNTs of CNT-polymer composites.
Does market power encourage audit compliance ? Theory and Evidence

Efficient allocation of capital requires both competition and accurate information on firm performance. However, producing credible financial information is not costless, nor is the independent verification of its accuracy. Firms in more competitive industries may try to avoid these costs and misrepresent their financial performance to investors, a practice known as earnings management. This paper develops a game theoretic model, that captures the potential relationship between industry competition, compliance with accounting regulations and the quality of independent audits. The theoretical model shows that whether compliance and audit quality increases or decreases with competition, depends on two offsetting considerations: (1) the product market effect, where firms in more competitive industries, with narrow profits margins may evade regulation in order to increase their profits; and (2) the audit market effect, where firms facing more competition may wish to increase their demand for a quality audit in order to signal the reliability of their financial statements and access capital markets at a lower cost. By estimating the structural parameters of this model using a Full Information Maximum Likelihood approach we find that firms in industries with greater competition have both lower levels of compliance, and employ lower quality audits, suggesting the product market effect is dominant. These results both help settle the academic debate on the role competition plays in firms’ compliance with accounting regulations as well as serve as a guide to policymakers seeking to increase enforcement. J.E. L. classification: L13, L15, K42
UDAO: A Next-Generation Unified Data Analytics Optimizer

Big data analytics systems today still lack the ability to take user performance goals and budgetary constraints, collectively referred to as "objectives", and automatically configure an analytic job to achieve the objectives. This paper presents UDAO, a unified data analytics optimizer that can automatically determine the parameters of the runtime system, collectively called a job configuration, for general dataflow programs based on user objectives. UDAO embodies key techniques including in-situ modeling, which learns a model for each user objective in the same computing environment as the job is run, and multi-objective optimization, which computes a Pareto optimal set of job configurations to reveal tradeoffs between different objectives. Using benchmarks developed based on industry needs, our demonstration will allow the user to explore (1) learned models to gain insights into how various parameters affect user objectives; (2) Pareto frontiers to understand interesting tradeoffs between different objectives and how a configuration recommended by the optimizer explores these tradeoffs; (3) end-to-end benefits that UDAO can provide over default configurations or those manually tuned by engineers.
MAC protocol with clock synchronization correction for a practical infrastructure monitoring system

Sensor networks for infrastructure monitoring systems require battery-operated sensing nodes with a lifetime of 10 years, a standardized technology, and low engineering costs. Receiver-initiated transmission and coordinated sampled listening are promising power-saving communication methods that can be used for infrastructure monitoring. First, we compared receiver-initiated transmission and coordinated sampled listening from the viewpoint of power consumption and communication success probability. The results of the comparison showed that if we can continue coordinated sampled listening synchronous communication mode, we can satisfy the low power consumption performance required for infrastructure monitoring. However, coordinated sampled listening synchronous communication cannot be maintained for a longer period owing to performance variations of the clock crystal oscillator (CXO). We solved this problem by developing energy efficient system-media access control protocol (NES MAC), a MAC protocol with the additional function of correcting the dispersion of CXO and maintaining synchronization for a long time. NES-MAC is fully compatible with coordinated sampled listening. Furthermore, NES-MAC also has a high power-saving effect when communicating with normal coordinated sampled listening. Therefore, it is possible to expand the network easily and economically without affecting the power-saving performance. In addition, we found that through actual equipment evaluation that sensor nodes that adopt NES-MAC can operate for more than 10 years with two CR123A-type batteries.
Mistaking “Governance” for “Politics”: Foreign Aid, Democracy and the Construction of Civil Society

Through a long and uneven process of diffusion, the idea of civil society has entrenched itself within a diverse array of cultural and intellectual settings. One of the contexts into which it has been “received” is what can loosely be termed the development profession. The community of scholars, consultants, activists, and policy analysts that influence policymaking in national governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations have constructed an elaborate discourse around the role played by civil society in the process of social, economic and political change in post-colonial societies. Because of the influence of this community on foreign aid priorities -which today encompasses issues of how political life is organised -it occupies a unique niche in contemporary political theory, representing a common locus for both the reception of the idea of civil society and its retransmission to aidrecipient countries.
Effective of Augmented Reality (AR) in Marketing Communication; A Case Study on Brand Interactive Advertising

— In this research will examine the new way of digital marketing technology technique as AR which is combining the real world and virtual world in wide large targeting in “Big Idea” and Augmented reality allied the amusement of digital marketing in whole world. The objective of advertising is to come up with the augmented reality is the latest digital technology in the field of advertising area. Augmented reality in Marketing advertising (ARMA) have found a unique and interactive way to engage audience with the company brand. In summary, the primary intention of this project is to bring up or raise the awareness of augmented reality in present and future especially in the marketing and advertising filed.
LICHEN GROWTH ON A ACTIVE MEDIAL MORAINE,

Abundant specimens of lichens, including Rhizocarpongeographicum, are reported from an active medial moraine on Storbreen, southern Norway. The size and distribution of two crustose and two foliose species a re d escribed . Inferences are made regarding the age, origin a nd population d ynamics of the lichens. Some implica tions of the observations for li chenometric dating a nd use of lichens as indica tors of moraine stability are discussed. R EsuME. Croissance des lichens sur une moraine midiane active, ]otunheimen, Norvege. D'abondants exemplaires d e lichens, parmi lesquels Rhizocarpon geographicum, ont ete trouves sur une mora ine mediane active sur le Storbreen d a ns le sud de la Norvege. La ta ille et la distribution de d eux especes a croutes e t de deux especes a feuill es sont decrites. Des deductions sont faites sur I'iige, I'origine e t la dynamique des popula tions de lichens. On discute quclques consequences des observations faites concernant le datage Iichenometrique et I'usage d es lichens com me indicateurs de la stabilite d es moraines. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG . Flechtenwachstum all! einer aktiven Mittel-Moriine, ]otllllheimen, Norwegen. Vielfaltige Arten von Flechten, einsch liesslich Rhizocarpon geographicum, find en sich a uf einer aktiven Mittel-Morane a uf d em Storbreen in Sud-Norwegen. Grosse und Verteilung zweier Krustosen und zweier foliosen Arten werden beschrieben. Schlusse a uf d as Alter, die H erkunft und Verbreitungsdynamik der Flechten werden gezogen. Ein ige Auswirkungen der Beobachtungen fUr die lichenometrische Da tierung und die Bedeutung von Flechten als Indikatoren fur die Stabilitat von Moranen werden diskutiert.
Factors associated with the level of physical activities among non-academic staffs in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of a public university in Selangor, Malaysia

Introduction: Many Malaysians does not engage in regular physical activity. The objective of this study was to deter-mine the factors associated with the level of physical activity among non-academics staff in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire consisting socio-demographic, International Physical Activity Questionnaires (short form) and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) scales to measure the level of physical activity and association with psychosocial and environmental factors. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects (JKEUPM). Data was analysed using the SPSS 20.0. A p value of ≤ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Results: The response rate was 84% or 120 respondents. 68 (56.7%) respondents was found to have a good level of physical activity. Majority of them were women (70 [58.3%]), aged of < 33 years old (72 [60.0 %]), Malays (113 [94.2%]), and had tertiary education (81[67.5%]). There are significant associations between socio-demographic factors [gender (p=0.013), age (p=0.025) and level of education (p=0.020)] and environmental factor (performing physical activity at gymnasium (p=0.021)) with the level of physical activity on univariate analysis. On multivariate logistic regression, lower educational level (OR 2.96, p=0.016) and performing physical activity at gymnasium/sport centres (OR 4.66, p= 0.026) were associated with engaging with physical activity. Conclusion: Majority of the respondents have a good level of physical activity. Interventions should be planned for staffs otherwise identified as not having a good level of physical activity.
Lichen extracts regulate the expression of BMP7 via miR-194-5p targeting to decrease the risk atrial fibrillation.

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac supraventricular arrhythmia, affects more than 5 million people worldwide. Increasing evidence has demonstrated that genetic factors play an important role in the pathogenesis of AF, and multiple genes responsible for AF have been identified. A better understanding of the genetic mechanism underlying AF would be expected to lead to more accurate risk stratification of AF and optimal clinical treatment strategies. METHODS Immunofluorescence staining was performed to find the components which would have effects on the H9c2 cells development. The changes of BMP7 and miR-194-5p expressions were detected before and after Human Cardiac Myocytes (HCM) were treated with Lichen extraction. In order to confirm whether Lichen could increase the expression of BMP7 through inhibiting the expression of miR-194-5p, the mRNA levels of BMP7 and miR-194-5p were determined in HCM before and after the treatment of Lichen on the conditions that miR-194-5p was over-expressed or not. RESULTS After 48 hours' treatment with 20 µg/mL Lichen extracts, the Collagen I expression level significantly decreased. The expressions of several genes in H9c2 cells could were changed after the treatment of Lichen extracts and some mRNA of them could also be targeted by miR-194-5p including BMP7. Lichen could depress the expression of miR-194-5p in HCM no matter miR-194-5p was overexpressed or not and correspondingly, the expression of BMP7 could be increased in both conditions. CONCLUSIONS It is indicated that Lichen extracts could regulate the expression of atrial fibrillation-associated genes via miR-194-5a targeting.
A New Approach to Goals-Based Wealth Management

We introduce a novel framework for goals-based wealth management (GBWM), where risk is understood as the probability of investors not attaining their goals, not just the standard deviation of investors' portfolios. Our framework is based on a foundation of developments in behavioral economics and finance and is consistent with modern portfolio theory. Using a simple geometric analysis, we determine a specifi c portfolio that matches each individual investor's stated goals. Our approach requires information from the investor about their goals, elicited in a clear manner that market research shows is superior to common current practices. This new approach can improve the communication between advisors and clients and produce better advice for enabling clients to attain their goals with high probability through the use of efficient portfolios.
A Qualitative Evaluation of Environment-Function Fit

| Article Psychologists’ offices have been largely absent from contemporary theoretical and methodological discussions of therapeutic environments. Research on environmental stressors, healing environments, psychiatric facilities, and the transactions between a psychologist and client during a therapy session suggest that psychologists’ offices are significant for the psychologists who work there daily and the clients who visit them. To address the gap in the literature, we examined the relationship between psychologists and their office environments in an exploratory, qualitative study using interviews and projective measures. Projective measures included cognitive mapping exercises and photographs taken of the psychologist’s and client's views of each office. We interviewed 10 licensed psychologists about how they perceived—and how they believed their clients perceived— their office environments. Content analyses of the interviews revealed that the environmental responses psychologists used in their office designs met the needs imposed by therapeutic transactions. In addition, environmental responses helped psychologists adapt difficult spaces to the ongoing needs of therapy. Implications include design recommendations for psychologists and designers. The training of psychologists also should give greater consideration to office design. Sensitivity to office design could differentiate psychologists from their competitors. This is especially important in contemporary healthcare, where healing designs offer a competitive advantage. Academy Journal Home Letter from the Editor The Design of Psychologists' Offices: A Qualitative Evaluation of Environment-Function Fit Nicholas J. Watkins, PhD,
Optimal Taxation with Multiple Incomes and Types Preliminary-Thanks not to quote

We derive an optimal nonlinear income tax formula in the case where taxpayers have several incomes and can differ along multiple unobservable dimensions. We show that the tax perturbation approach of Golosov, Tsyvinski, and Werquin (2014) and the mechanism design approach of Mirrlees (1976) lead to the same optimal tax formula. We also decompose the design of the optimal tax system in two steps: which taxpayers are assigned to the same tax liability (the design of isotax curves) and which tax liability is assigned to the each isotax curve. The solution to the second step is characterized by an ABC formula as Diamond (1998) and Saez (2001), in which welfare weights and behavioral elasticities are averaged among all taxpayers located on the same isotax curves. Applying our model to the optimal household tax problem, our numerical results display isotax curves that are almost linear and parallel, except close to the boundaries of the income domain.
www.econstor.eu Taxes in Cities

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient features affecting local tax setting in an urban context. Urban local governments on average raise some ten percent of total tax revenue in OECD countries and around half that share in non-OECD countries. We show that most cities are highly fragmented: urban areas with more than 500,000 inhabitants are divided into 74 local jurisdictions on average. The vast majority of these cities are characterized by a central municipality that strongly dominates the remaining jurisdictions in terms of population. These empirical regularities imply that an analysis of urban taxation needs to take account of three particular features: interdependence among tax-setting authorities (horizontally and vertically), jurisdictional size asymmetries, and the potential for agglomeration economies. We survey the relevant theoretical and empirical literatures, focusing in particular on models of asymmetric tax competition, of taxation and income sorting and of taxation in the presence of agglomeration rents. JEL-Code: H710, H730, R280, R510.
Applying Customer Relationship Management Principles in a Sales-Oriented Engineering Organisation

Increasing levels of competition for customers have challenged organisations to adopt strategies to acquire new customers and to retain existing customers. The strategies to acquire new customers, regain lost customers and retain existing customers form part of customer relationship management. In the past years, the company in this study has lost customers and sales opportunities that also translate into a loss of profit. The current study was undertaken within the context of a company that is part of a global organisation providing engineering products and services and operating as a sales unit in South Africa. The main objectives of the study were to assess the current application of customer relationship management in the case study company; and to identify the challenges thereof with the purpose of developing strategies to close the gap. The study employed survey research and questionnaires as the research strategy and a data collection method. The results of the study indicate that the case study company paid more attention to customer focus, organisational culture and organisational compatibility. Information technology and department collaboration were identified as the areas which require improvement for the company to realize the benefit of effective customer relationship management and implementation.