Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Qualitative Study of the Factors Influencing Student Choice: The Case of Public University in Indonesia

Like any other business institution, a higher education institution needs to understand its customer needs and wants in order to remain competitive and survive among higher education providers. Extant literature has probed the importance of student choice criteria as the decision is crucial on an individual’s future life. Although studies on student choice criteria have been carried out, none have addressed these in an Indonesian context. This paper aims to explore the factors that influence student choice in the selection of an Indonesian Public University. Qualitative research through semi-structured interviews was carried out with 48 first-year undergraduate students in five Indonesian public universities in the two most populated regions. Preliminary results indicate that students considered 25 criteria for selecting an Indonesian public university. The five most important factors are cost, reputation, proximity, job prospect and parents. The findings imply that the factor mentioned by Indonesian students might be unique to Indonesia higher education context. By determining what is important to students when they choose universities, this current study will help universities to promote their institutions and to have a greater knowledge about the underlying motivations of students for furthering study in higher education. Limitations of the study are discussed and future research direction is provided.
Analysis of Three-Dimensional Complex Fluid Flow and Temperature Distribution in the End Region of a Turbogenerator

Distribution of complex fluid flow is an important factor that affects the temperature distribution of the end parts in the end region of a turbogenerator. In this paper, a turbogenerator is considered as an example; the fluid flow velocity and pressure values obtained from flow network calculations are applied to the end region as boundary conditions, and the losses obtained from electromagnetic field calculations are applied to the end region as heat sources in a fluid and thermal coupling field. Furthermore, mathematical and geometric models of 3-D fluid and thermal coupling of the end region are established. The distributions of the complex fluid velocity and fluid temperature in the turbogenerator end region are investigated in detail. Moreover, the temperature distribution of the end parts is determined. Comparison of measurement results of the temperature of the end parts with the corresponding calculation results shows their good agreement.
α‐Lactalbumin unfolding is not sufficient to cause apoptosis, but is required for the conversion to HAMLET (human α‐lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells)

HAMLET (human α‐lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells) is a complex of human α‐lactalbumin and oleic acid (C18:1:9 cis) that kills tumor cells by an apoptosis‐like mechanism. Previous studies have shown that a conformational change is required to form HAMLET from α‐lactalbumin, and that a partially unfolded conformation is maintained in the HAMLET complex. This study examined if unfolding of α‐lactalbumin is sufficient to induce cell death. We used the bovine α‐lactalbumin Ca2+ site mutant D87A, which is unable to bind Ca2+, and thus remains partially unfolded regardless of solvent conditions. The D87A mutant protein was found to be inactive in the apoptosis assay, but could readily be converted to a HAMLET‐like complex in the presence of oleic acid. BAMLET (bovine α‐lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells) and D87A‐BAMLET complexes were both able to kill tumor cells. This activity was independent of the Ca2+site, as HAMLET maintained a high affinity for Ca2+ but D87A‐BAMLET was active with no Ca2+ bound. We conclude that partial unfolding of α‐lactalbumin is necessary but not sufficient to trigger cell death, and that the activity of HAMLET is defined both by the protein and the lipid cofactor. Furthermore, a functional Ca2+‐binding site is not required for conversion of α‐lactalbumin to the active complex or to cause cell death. This suggests that the lipid cofactor stabilizes the altered fold without interfering with the Ca2+site.
Unbounded page-based transactional memory

Exploiting thread level parallelism is paramount in the multicore era. Transactions enable programmers to expose such parallelism by greatly simplifying the multi-threaded programming model. Virtualized transactions (unbounded in space and time) are desirable, as they can increase the scope of transactions' use, and thereby further simplify a programmer's job. However, hardware support is essential to support efficient execution of unbounded transactions. In this paper, we introduce Page-based Transactional Memory to support unbounded transactions. We combine transaction bookkeeping with the virtual memory system to support fast transaction conflict detection, commit, abort, and to maintain transactions' speculative data.
Hippocampal Remapping Is Constrained by Sparseness rather than Capacity

Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex encode space with firing fields that are arranged on the nodes of spatial hexagonal lattices. Potential candidates to read out the space information of this grid code and to combine it with other sensory cues are hippocampal place cells. In this paper, we investigate a population of grid cells providing feed-forward input to place cells. The capacity of the underlying synaptic transformation is determined by both spatial acuity and the number of different spatial environments that can be represented. The codes for different environments arise from phase shifts of the periodical entorhinal cortex patterns that induce a global remapping of hippocampal place fields, i.e., a new random assignment of place fields for each environment. If only a single environment is encoded, the grid code can be read out at high acuity with only few place cells. A surplus in place cells can be used to store a space code for more environments via remapping. The number of stored environments can be increased even more efficiently by stronger recurrent inhibition and by partitioning the place cell population such that learning affects only a small fraction of them in each environment. We find that the spatial decoding acuity is much more resilient to multiple remappings than the sparseness of the place code. Since the hippocampal place code is sparse, we thus conclude that the projection from grid cells to the place cells is not using its full capacity to transfer space information. Both populations may encode different aspects of space.
The Internet- Disability or Distraction? An Analysis of Whether "Internet Addiction" Can Qualify as a Disability Under the Americans with Disabilities Act

As the Internet emerged in the 1990s, the possibility for progress seemed boundless. However, it was merely a matter of time before certain adverse consequences of the Internet began to surface. Among these was an abnormal affinity for the Internet that many have since characterized as an addiction to the Internet. While different terms have been employed to describe this problem, a body of research has developed over the last decade that recognizes the legitimacy of a condition or disorder grounded in excessive Internet use. The emergence and growth of Internet addiction has significant legal consequences for employers. While employers typically have Internet usage policies that allow them to regulate the manner in which their employees use the Internet at work, certain legal implications may be triggered when employees, who have been subject to adverse employment actions for their improper Internet use, claim that they are disabled on the basis of their Internet addiction. The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits an employer from “discriminat[ing] against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability of such individual. ” Certain addictions, such as drug addictions, have been recognized as disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Research and case studies are presenting considerable evidence that Internet addiction, like drug or other addictions, can have a similar debilitating impact on its subjects. This Comment explores the viability of a plaintiff’s claim that he or
Are defect-tolerant circuits with redundancy really cost-effective? Complete and realistic cost model

Yield enhancement for fault tolerant circuits with redundancy has been widely studied during the last years. Recent manufacturing technologies have brought out steady and significant improvement regarding contamination and defect density and have forced us to re-evaluate the economical advantages of circuits with redundancy. The main goal of this paper is to propose a realistic cost model for fault tolerant chips that includes manufacturing, test and reconfiguration processing steps. We demonstrate, with our model, how optimum and cost-effective redundancy levels can be determined, for a class of fault tolerant architectures, and we compare our results to the usual figure of merit calculation. We demonstrate that wafer test costs can have significant impact on the cost effectiveness of redundant implementation. This model also leads us to show that for a optimized fault tolerant chip, the silicon cost tends to increase as a quasi-linear function of chip area. We finally demonstrate that, considering future fault densities expected for the next decade, economical advantages of redundancy will probably vanish for most integrated circuits when they are implemented with mature processes.
Protecting your right: Attribute-based keyword search with fine-grained owner-enforced search authorization in the cloud

Search over encrypted data is a critically important enabling technique in cloud computing, where encryption-before-outsourcing is a fundamental solution to protecting user data privacy in the untrusted cloud server environment. Many secure search schemes have been focusing on the single-contributor scenario, where the outsourced dataset or the secure searchable index of the dataset are encrypted and managed by a single owner, typically based on symmetric cryptography. In this paper, we focus on a different yet more challenging scenario where the outsourced dataset can be contributed from multiple owners and are searchable by multiple users, i.e. multi-user multi-contributor case. Inspired by attribute-based encryption (ABE), we present the first attribute-based keyword search scheme with efficient user revocation (ABKS-UR) that enables scalable fine-grained (i.e. file-level) search authorization. Our scheme allows multiple owners to encrypt and outsource their data to the cloud server independently. Users can generate their own search capabilities without relying on an always online trusted authority. Fine-grained search authorization is also implemented by the owner-enforced access policy on the index of each file. Further, by incorporating proxy re-encryption and lazy re-encryption techniques, we are able to delegate heavy system update workload during user revocation to the resourceful semi-trusted cloud server. We formalize the security definition and prove the proposed ABKS-UR scheme selectively secure against chosen-keyword attack. Finally, performance evaluation shows the efficiency of our scheme.
Effects of Four Nematode Species on Fitness Costs of Pink Bollworm Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin CrylAc

ABSTRACT Evolution of resistance by pests can reduce the efficacy of transgenic crops that produce insecticidal toxins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt). In conjunction with refuges of non-Bt host plants, fitness costs can delay the evolution of resistance. Furthermore, fitness costs often vary with ecological conditions, suggesting that agricultural landscapes can be manipulated to magnify fitness costs and thereby prolong the efficacy of Bt crops. In the current study, we tested the effects of four species of entomopathogenic nematodes (Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae) on the magnitude and dominance of fitness costs of resistance to Bt toxin CrylAc in pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). For more than a decade, field populations of pink bollworm in the United States have remained susceptible to Bt cotton Gossypium hirsutum L. producing CrylAc; however, we used laboratory strains that had a mixture of susceptible and resistant individuals. In laboratory experiments, dominant fitness costs were imposed by the nematode Steinernema riobrave Cabanillas, Poinar, and Raulston but no fitness costs were imposed by Steinernema carpocapsae Weiser, Steinernema sp. (ML18 strain), or Heterorhabditis sonorensis Stock, Rivera-Orduño, and Flores-Lara. In computer simulations, evolution of resistance to CrylAc by pink bollworm was substantially delayed by treating some non-Bt cotton refuge fields with nematodes that imposed a dominant fitness cost, similar to the cost observed in laboratory experiments with S. riobrave. Based on the results here and in related studies, we conclude that entomopathogenic nematodes could bolster insect resistance management, but the success of this approach will depend on selecting the appropriate species of nematode and environment, as fitness costs were magnified by only two of five species evaluated and also depended on environmental factors.
Bean dwarf mosaic virus: a model system for the study of viral movement.

TAXONOMY Bean dwarf mosaic virus-[Colombia:1987] (BDMV-[CO:87]) is a single-stranded plant DNA virus, a member of the genus Begomovirus of the family Geminiviridae. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES BDMV virions are twinned incomplete isosahedra measuring 18 x 30 nm. The viral particle is composed of 110 subunits of coat protein, organized as 22 pentameric capsomers. Each subunit has a molecular mass of approximately 29 kDa. BDMV possesses two DNA components (designated DNA-A and DNA-B), each approximately 2.6 kb in size. HOST RANGE The natural and most important host of BDMV is the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Nicotiana benthamiana is often used as an experimental host. Common bean germplasm can be divided into two major gene pools: Andean materials, which are mostly susceptible to BDMV, and Middle American materials, which are mostly resistant to BDMV. DISEASE SYMPTOMS The symptom intensity in common bean plants depends on the stage of infection. Early infection of susceptible bean seedlings will result in severe stunting and dwarfing, leaf distortion and mottling or mosaic, as well as chlorotic or yellow spots or blotches. BDMV-infected plants usually abort their flowers or produce severely distorted pods. Late infection of susceptible plants or early infection of moderately resistant genotypes may show a mild mosaic, mottle and crumpling or an irregular distribution of variegated patches. BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES: As a member of the Begomovirus group, BDMV is transmitted from plant to plant by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. BDMV is a nonphloem-limited virus and can replicate and move in the epidermal, cortical and phloem cells. As a nonphloem-limited virus, it is sap-transmissible.
"I did it my way": moving away from the tyranny of turn-by-turn pedestrian navigation

In this article we describe a novel approach to pedestrian navigation using bearing-based haptic feedback. People are guided in the general direction of their destination via vibration, but additional exploratory navigation is stimulated by varying feedback based on the potential for taking alternative routes. We describe two mobile prototypes that were created to examine the possible benefits of the approach. The successful use of this exploratory navigation method is demonstrated in a realistic field trial, and we discuss the results and interesting participant behaviours that were recorded.
A design method for complex coefficient FIR filters with variable stopband characteristics

In this paper, we propose a design method for complex coefficients FIR variable digital filter (VDF) with changeable multicomponent in the stopband. The proposed VDF has piecewise high attenuation in the stopband, and the VDF varies some characteristics in the stopband using variable parameters. The complex filter coefficients are composed polynomial expression using variable parameters to vary the filter characteristics. The proposed method, the minimization problem for the complex coefficients FIR VDF with changeable multicomponent are formulated as semidefinite programming (SDP) in the frequency domain. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Correlation-Based Model for Evaluating Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Data of Concrete Bridge Decks

The Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has been studied for a long time as a non-destructive evaluation (NDE) technology for inspection of concrete structures. Currently, the most widely used technique for interpreting GPR data of concrete bridge decks is the one that based on the amplitudes measured at various interfaces such as asphalt-concrete, top rebar, or slab bottom. The assumption behind this technique is that a sound concrete deck should have the same reflection amplitude at these interfaces while any low number would indicate some sign of deterioration. Unfortunately, this assumption is not completely valid in most cases. As a consequence, the reported test results usually do not reflect real condition of concrete bridge decks in question. The main goal of this paper is therefore twofold: (1) to discuss the limitations of the amplitude analysis method, and (2) to propose a new model that interprets GPR data of concrete bridge decks. The model methodology is based on the comparison of GPR A-scans between two inspections, using the so-called correlation analysis. The results, indicated by the correlation coefficients, are then employed to develop a contour map that estimates different levels of deterioration. The model is then implemented to a case study in order to illustrate its methodology.
A Desktop Computer with a Reconfigurable Pentium r ©

Advancements in reconfigurable technologies, specifically FPGAs, have yielded faster, more power-efficient reconfigurable devices with enormous capacities. In our work, we provide testament to the impressive capacity of recent FPGAs by hosting a complete Pentium r © in a single FPGA chip. In addition we demonstrate how FPGAs can be used for microprocessor design space exploration while overcoming the tension between simulation speed, model accuracy, and model completeness found in traditional software simulator environments. Specifically, we perform preliminary experimentation/prototyping with an original Socket 7 based desktop processor system with typical hardware peripherals running modern operating systems such as Fedora Core 4 and Windows XP; however we have inserted a Xilinx Virtex-4 in place of the processor that should sit in the motherboard and have used the Virtex-4 to host a complete version of the Pentium r © microprocessor (which consumes less than half its resources). We can therefore apply architectural changes to the processor and evaluate their effects on the complete desktop system. We use this FPGA-based emulation system to conduct preliminary architectural experiments including growing the branch target buffer and the level 1 caches. In addition, we experimented with interfacing hardware accelerators such as DES and AES engines which resulted in a 27x speedup.
Exploring positive and negative aspects of eating disorders

Eating disorders are notoriously difficult to treat, and anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of all the psychiatric illness (Gremillion, 2003). Therefore this client group can present challenges to clinicians working with them. Those working in the area of eating disorders require research with clear clinical implications, to improve treatment and outcomes. The thesis will attempt to provide such research, with clearly stated clinical implications for treatment. The first paper in this thesis reviews the literature on the link between shame and eating disorders. This paper defines shame, then explores studies identifying the differences or similarities between shame and other self-conscious emotions, such as guilt, embarrassment and humiliation. The paper then explores the link between shame and eating disorders. The second and main paper is an empirical paper exploring shame and pride in a clinical population with a diagnosed eating disorder. The third paper explores 'pro-anorexia' websites to access whether such sites offer any advice or support that could be considered positive. The final paper is a reflective paper which explores my research journey.
NOT ALL MUSCLES MEET THE SAME FATE WHEN THEY DIE

Two general patterns of cell death are usually described in animals: necrosis and apoptosis. The former is a passive process that displays cellular swelling and lysis, while the latter involves cellular shrinkage and gene‐mediated, ATP‐dependent processes. Independent of the proximal cause of cell death, cell corpses are almost always removed by phagocytic cells. This is far from universal for all cells however, since phagocytic cells have not been noted during the programmed death of some skeletal muscles in insects. To further explore this, we used a variety of anatomical methods to examine the death of the intersegmental muscles (ISMs) of the moth Manduca sexta. The ISMs are giant cells that die during the 30h following adult emergence. At no stage examined were hemocytes or other cells associated with the sarcolemma. The failure to detect macrophages was not due to technical limitations since immunohistochemical and functional studies demonstrate their presence in the hemolymph. The absence of phagocytosis to remove ISM corpses suggests that all of the biochemical machinery required for cellular destruction is resident within the ISMs themselves. This is consistent with analysis suggesting that Manduca does not possess sufficient numbers of macrophages to consume the ISMs. Given that insects do not have adaptive immunity, the ability to use a completely cell autonomous process may be a developmental option that cannot be exploited in vertebrates.
Religion and Reaction: The Secular Political Challenge to the Religious Right

List of Figures Preface Chapter 1: The Secular Challenge to the Religious Right Chapter 2: Explaining the Growth in Seculars in the U.S. Chapter 3: Religiosity, Public Opinion, and Political Involvement Chapter 4: Party Differences, Religious "Threat," and Voter Mobilization Chapter 5: Secular and Religious Right Organizations: Challenges and Alliances Chapter 6: Case Studies in Countervailing Power Chapter 7: Conclusion Endnotes Index