Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY OF SEVERAL INDONESIAN POPULATIONS OF GIANT FRESHWATER PRAWN, Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Patterns in morphological variability have been the main basis for conventional genetic improvement program, particularly in selective breeding. Proper understanding on these patterns hence, is of crucial prerequisite before any scheme of breeding program is undertaken. This study was aimed to explore those morphological variations with emphasis on the assessment of among-population and among-trait variations and assessment of predictive traits that may serve for inter-population differentiation. A total 281 individuals representing four natural populations (Asahan, Ogan, Barito, and Ciasem) and one domesticated stock (GIMacro) were sampled and analyzed for variability in thirteen morphological traits. While descriptive analyses were applied to analyze both among-stock and among-trait variations, discriminant function analysis was used to search for the best traits for interpopulation differentiation. The relative variability, expressed in the coefficient of variation (CV), was used to compare the amount and patterns of morphometric variability both among traits and between stocks. Results showed that total body weight was the most variable trait while the length and meristic traits were of lower level. Discriminant analysis found that rostrum length and abdoment length to be the best morphological discriminators among intraspecific populations. However, the continuous natures of these traits make them have limited applicability for intraspecific population differentiation.
Economic Integration, Growth and the Environment in Africa: A Study of Nigeria

Economic integration has been lauded as a way of increasing World output based on the economies of scale property and exchange of technology, ideas and information. Two major channels through which integration contributes to growth in the literature have been identified as trade and foreign direct investment. Recently, various integration proposals have been advanced for Africa, but the efficacy of integration on growth in Africa is far from being established. Again, since economic growth is not totally divorced from environmental conditions, we explored the contributions of trade liberalization and foreign direct investment inflows on growth in Nigeria and the implications of integration on the Nigerian environment by applying the simple ordinary least squares (OLS), co-integration and error correction mechanism using data from 1970 to 2012. Our results indicate that trade openness and FDI inflows have not made substantial contributions to growth. Rather it is only capital formation that significantly aided growth in the long run. Reason for this we attributed to lack of enabling environment such as infrastructural deficiency. On the other hand, we found that economic growth and foreign direct investment into Nigeria significantly fuelled pollution while trade is beneficial both in the short and long run. We recommend provision of infrastructure, initiation and enforcement of sound environmental policy among others to enable integration to make meaningful impact in developing countries generally.
EFFECTS OF KNOB SELECTIONS ON WORK POSTURE SELECTIONS IN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES

Hand tools that fail to accommodate various hand and body postures can lead to serious injuries and potential development of hand-related musculoskeletal disorders. While some studies have shown that there are theoretical relations between different work postures and object shapes, it appears that there are no statistical analyses that investigate how the different selections of knobs affect the selections of different work postures. This paper aims to determine the effects of knob selections on the work posture selections of manual workers from several manufacturing firms. The analysis used for this study is regression analysis. The survey responses are entered into Minitab 16 for the analysis. The findings confirmed that majority of the workers normally and preferably use the knurled spherical knob for their manual work. The selection of this knob also significantly affects the selection of the work postures that they assume. The findings are useful preliminary guidelines for the development of ergonomic knob prototypes that accommodate different work postures to potentially reduce hand-related injuries at the workplace.
Efficiency of an Educational Robotic Computer-mediated Training Program for Developing Students’ Creative Thinking Skills: An Experimental Study

This research aimed at detecting the efficiency of a computerized training program based on programming the educational roboticists to develop creative thinking skills for the eighth grade basic education students at Manba'a El-Hekma School in Dhofar Governorate. Also, it investigates the nature of the proposed program, the efficiency of the program, and the significance differences between the two groups. The researcher used the experimental curriculum with the two groups; controlled and experimental to achieve the aims of the research and to test its hypotheses. The sample of the research consisted of 30 Students during the first term of the school year 2018/2019 and they were selected intentionally. Each group included 15 students. The experimental group students were trained to program the educational robotics using the computerized training program. Torrance test of creative thinking was applied before and after on the two groups, in addition to an evaluation card to the projects of the Students. The results showed that there are differences with statistical indication on the level of 0.5 between the two averages of the degrees of the experimental and the controlled groups, before and after the application of the creative thinking test and in the evaluation card of the Students' projects in the experimental group. By implication the research recommended to merge the techniques of the educational robotics and the artificial intelligence in teaching and education and training for provide the female teachers on using that technology and encouraging them to employ it in the process of teaching, using the electronic program prepared in this study.
A Wind Power Plant Feasibility Study for Bursa,Gemlik Region,Turkey

Increasing energy demand on a global scale and with the emerging constraint of conventional energy resources has forced the developing countries to improve alternative energy sources. Especially in last decades, many studies and researches have been done in order to benefit more efficiently from renewable energy sources. Wind energy as a renewable energy source has showed a greater improvement since it is sustainable, efficient and clean energy. As a natural consequence of this development, the number of wind power plants (WPP) investments has been increasing expeditiously all around the world. Correspondingly, Turkey promotes the incentives and investments to the wind power conversion systems. Thus, the external dependence on energy of Turkey will decrease with these incentives and investments. In addition to that, competitive power of Turkey in the energy sector will increase dramatically. In this study, a WPP feasibility study is released for Gemlik Bay connected with Bursa Province in which has remarkable wind potential but has not any WPP. Wind data of Gemlik applied to Windsim software; annual energy production (AEP) and capacity factor are calculated. The study shows that through 5 Vestas V90 turbines with 2-MW capacity in Gemlik Ata region, establishment of an economic WPP which has over 40 GWh/y AEP capacity is feasible.
Countercyclical Capital Bu ¤ er Proposal : an Analysis for Norway VO

This paper evaluates the ability of some macro variables, namely GDP growth, credit growth, credit to GDP ratio and property prices in guiding the accumulation of a capital bu¤er above the minimum during the credit expansion episode in Norway. We use two performance benchmarks. First, we evaluate their performance based on their skill in signalling a nancial crisis. Second, we compare their performance on the basis of their correlation with a measure of the banking systems vulnerability. The main conclusion we derive from the analysis is that the credit to GDP ratio has the best performance. Moreover, data limitations seriously a¤ect the usefulness of the Norwegian residential property price as banking crisis indicator.
Non-linear Velocity Aided Attitude Estimation and Velocity Control for Quadrotors

In this paper, we present a coupled inertial and body-fixed frame non-linear complementary velocity aided attitude filter and a linear velocity controller for quadrotors. The coupled observers provide estimates of attitude and the different velocities associated with quadrotor motion. With the estimated body-fixed frame velocity, we propose a velocity controller and show that the resulting error dynamics are asymptotically stabilised by the controller. The observer-controller scheme is exploited using an external interface to an android based phone that enables human interaction with the quadrotor. Results of the velocity aided attitude observer compared to ground truth Vicon measurements are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the estimation scheme. Results of using the an-droid based phone application in setting the desired velocities to illustrate the tracking performance of the controller are also presented.
Application of neuro-fuzzy model to estimate the characteristics of local scour downstream of stilling basins

The local scour phenomenon in the vicinity of bridge piers and stilling basins has received considerable attraction from designers due to its consequences which may endanger these structures. Various factors govern the pattern of scour evolution which results in the complexity of this phenomenon. Many researchers indicated that the use of fuzzy logic in modeling this phenomenon could be a promising alternative to reflect the vagueness and ambiguity of effective parameters. The aim of this study is to investigate the performance of a neuro-fuzzy model based on Takagi and Sugeno's theory in estimating the maximum depths, pattern and time evolution of scour hole downstream of a stilling basin of U.S.B.R. type I. The investigation was conducted under various discharges, tail-water depths (low, balanced and high), different bed materials and model sizes. The characteristics of the equilibrium state of the scour phenomenon as well as the time to reach the maximum scour depth were considered. The results showed a significant conformity between estimated and experimental data which recommends an acceptable outcome using a neuro-fuzzy model to forecast the properties of scour hole downstream of stilling basins. This would contribute to predicting the design geometry of stilling pools and taking the appropriate precautions to protect the downstream channel bed.
A Copy detection Method for Malayalam Text Documents using N-grams Model

In this paper a method of copy detection in short Malayalam text passages is proposed. Given two passages one as the source text and another as the copied text it is determined whether the second passage is plagiarized version of the source text. An algorithm for plagiarism detection using the n-gram model for word retrieval is developed and found tri-grams as the best model for comparing the Malayalam text. Based on the probability and the resemblance measures calculated from the n-gram comparison , the text is categorized on a threshold. Texts are compared by variable length n-gram(n={2,3,4}) comparisons. The experiments show that trigram model gives the average acceptable performance with affordable cost in terms of
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3 Résumé . 3 Introduction. 6 An Overview of Labour Market Trends . 10 The Skill Premium: Skill-biased Technological Change . 10 Job Polarisation: Routine-Biased Technological Change . 12 The Labour Share of Income: Capital-Biased Technological Change . 14 Creative Destruction in Labour Markets . 15 Deindustrialisation: The Rise of the Service Economy . 15 The Changing Composition of the Workforce . 16 Technology or Globalisation? 17 Premature Deindustrialisation . 18 Job Destruction: The Expanding Scope of Automation . 20 Job Creation: New Tasks, Occupations, and Industries . 23 Skill Requirements in the Digital Economy . 28 Challenges for Policy . 31 Inequality, Skill Shortages, and Social Mobility . 31 Institutions and Technology Adoption: Cross-Country Differences . 34 Labour Market Policies for Inclusive Growth . 35 Human Capital and Regional Development . 37 Conclusions. 43 References. 44
The Morality of Music A Quantitative Approach to Moral Self-licensing in Music Consumption

The aim of this master thesis was to learn about the concept of moral self-licensing in the domain of arts and culture. Therefore, this thesis looked at both, in-domain as well as cross-domain moral licensing and compared high and low culture in the domain of music. The research question this thesis tried to answer was thus to what extent moral self-licensing occurs in the domain of classical and popular music. In order for a moral licensing action to happen, the preceding action has to be evaluated as morally good. As no other research on moral licensing has been conducted yet in the cultural field, first it had to be determined what general reasons there are to evaluate an action as moral. A literature review of previous research on the topic revealed that there are three main reasons as to when an action is evaluated as being moral: the action is perceived to have beneficial effects for one’s health or physique in general, the action improves one’s selfesteem, or the action is believed to enhance how one is perceived by others. If an action is perceived as fulfilling one or more of these criteria, then it is possible that it will evoke a moral licensing action. For this thesis it was assumed that music could be ascribed with all three of those triggering reasons. Therefore this thesis conducted a laboratory experiment in order to find out if whether listening to music would indeed trigger a licensing effect and if this effect differed in its extent for classical and popular music. The data was then analysed by means of various statistical tools. It was found that the consumption of popular music does not trigger a moral licensing effect, neither indomain nor cross-domain. Listening to classical music as well did not result in indomain moral licensing; it did however evoke cross-domain moral licensing. This thesis therefore found statistical evidence that the consumption of classical music triggers a moral self-licensing effect. With its findings and by adding a new field to the scientific discourse, this thesis might contribute to the research on the concept of moral selflicensing which is conducted in various fields.
Investigating the Influence of Population andGeneration Size on GeneRepair Templates

In 2005 Lolle et al published controversial findings showing that the Arabidopsis thaliana plant repairs invalid genetic information using the grandparent as a kind of repair template. We have previously shown how a genetic repair operator (GeneRepair) can be used to correct invalid individuals in an evolutionary strategy. It has been shown that superior results are produced when the individual’s grandparent is used as the repair template in comparison to using the individual’s parent. This paper investigates whether the results produced by GeneRepair templates are affected by parameters of population size and number of generations. The results indicate that the grandparent template outperforms the parent template regardless of population or generation size. These findings further supports the controversial theory of Lolle et al.
Human Resource Management Orientation and Strategic Responses to Environmental Change

The field of HRM has attracted substantial attention both as a practice and as a field of academic research. This paper explores the HRM literature and specifically examines the relationship between the soft and hard orientations of HRM and the organization‟s business strategic response on the one hand and the environmental forces on the other. The argument is based on the premise that changes in the external environment trigger business strategic responses that in turn trigger human resource management strategic responses, but the nature of these responses is moderated by the HRM orientation practiced by an organization. From the literature evidence and the conceptual argument advanced several propositions are drawn. Firstly, the business strategic response of an organization to external stimuli influences the HRM orientation adopted. Secondly, organizations tend to adopt workforce flexibility during change but the degree and type of that flexibility will depend on the organization‟s HRM orientation. Thirdly, organizations practicing soft HRM policies are less likely to encounter confrontations with trade unions compared to those practicing hard HRM policies. Lastly, most organizations are more likely to adopt hard HRM practices during change though their HRM rhetoric is soft.
Organization Innovation and Its Implications for the Implementation of Information Systems

Many studies have indicated that organizations experience major difficulties in implementing information systems and in being able to utilize the full potential of these systems (Lyytinen & Robey, 1999; Wu, Shin, & Heng, 2007). These difficulties can be traced back to two gaps. On the one hand, between technical innovation and organizational innovation, which has been called the innovation design dilemma (Gjerding, 1992; Holbek, 1998). On the other hand, between planning activities and operating activities, which mean the social action perspective on the planning, implementation and use of information systems (Kuutti, 1994; Lyytinen, 1986). The question is which research perspectives and development characteristics define the implementation process of information systems. For this reason, we would raise a central question that applies to the implementation process of information systems. The main argument is that this is a question of a profound change in research and development approaches, as many authors emphasize (Al-Mashari, 2003; Carlsson, 2010; Gregor, 2006). In this article, the main point of view is to look at the implementation process of information systems as an organizational innovation. Here we will approach the implementation process of information systems by means of clarifying and defining the research and development approaches. The purpose is to form the concept models for implementation processes and to analyze their relationships (Meredith, 1993). With the help of these concept models, we will delineate the implementation process and its organizational dimensions. We will build a framework which serves to emphasize the factors by which one is able to define the implementation phenomenon as an organization innovation and to discern its essential characteristics and relationships, as well as its development mechanisms in practice (Eekels & Roozenburg, 1991). In this article, we will discuss the constructive systems view of the planning, implementation and use of information systems. First, as a background, different research and development approaches to the implementation process of information systems are studied. Second, a systematic component model for the planning, implementation and use process of information systems is formed and analyzed. Third based on this systematic model a case detailing the planning, implementation and use process of an ERP system is described and analyzed. As a solution, the organizational construction model of the implementation process is concluded and evaluated. Finally, future research directions are proposed and conclusions are drawn.
Application of Acoustic Full Waveform Inversion to the Synthetic Valhall Velocity Model

We assess the reliability of 2D acoustic frequency-domain fullwaveform inversion to image a shallow-water synthetic velocity model with a gas cloud. The velocity model represents the subsurface in the Valhall oil&gas field. We assess the sensitivity of FWI to the maximum offset in the acquisition, to the free-surface effects and to the accuracy of the starting models that were built by smoothing the true model, by first-arrival traveltime tomography and by stereotomography.
We present three-dimensional numerical simulations for the behavior of porous rocks under loading based on the theoretical formulation recently developed

[1] We present three-dimensional numerical simulations for the behavior of porous rocks under loading based on the theoretical formulation recently developed by Y. Hamiel et al. This theoretical formulation combines the classic Biot poroelastic theory with a damage rheology model. The numerical simulations of triaxial compression tests reproduce the gradual transition from localized brittle failure to distributed cataclastic flow with increasing pressure at high-porosity rocks. Under relatively low confining pressures (approximately lower than 100 MPa for Berea sandstone samples), porous rocks fail in a brittle mode with sharp localization of damage in a narrow deformation zone and dilatancy preceding the total failure. At these pressures the yield stress increases with confining pressure (positive slope for yield curve). In simulations with higher confining pressures, instead of dilatancy, the deformation zone has a reduced porosity due to compaction. The porosity reduction plays an essential role in strengthening the deformation zone, and therefore continuous loading of the sample leads to the progressive development of a wide deformation zone. Under relatively high confining pressures (approximately higher than 300 MPa for Berea sandstone samples), damage is nonlocalized, and the macroscopic deformation of the model corresponds to experimentally observed cataclastic flow. At these pressures the yield stress decreases with confining pressure (negative slope for yield curve). We found good agreement between the measured and calculated yield curve for Berea sandstone.
Data Reduction with Quantization Constraints for Decentralized Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks

The unknown vector estimation problem with bandwidth constrained wireless sensor network is considered. In such networks, sensor nodes make distributed observations on the unknown vector and collaborate with a fusion center to generate a final estimate. Due to power and communication bandwidth limitations, each sensor node must compress its data and transmit to the fusion center. In this paper, both centralized and decentralized estimation frameworks are developed. The closed-form solution for the centralized estimation framework is proposed. The computational complexity of decentralized estimation problem is proven to be NP-hard and a Gauss-Seidel algorithm to search for an optimal solution is also proposed. Simulation results show the good performance of the proposed algorithms.
Safe Secret Image Sharing with Fault Tolerance Key

Summary This study investigates the security of shared secret images and designs novel methods for polynomial secret image sharing to improve the security of image sharing. Conventional security systems for sharing secret images assume that all pixels are independent. However, this assumption may not always be true. Combining with cryptography methods, the proposed cryptographic method of secret image sharing has three advantages: small share size, good security, and fault tolerance. The proposed method provides more security compared to traditional secret image sharing.