Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Short-Term and Medium-Term Impact of Retirement on Sport Activity, Self-Reported Health, and Social Activity of Women and Men in Poland

Background. The aim of this study was to assess how retirement affects the short-term (up to 2 years after retirement) and medium-term (2-4 years) sport/exercise activity (S/EA) of Poles. To gain a broader context for interpretation, the effect of retirement on self-rated health status, attitudes, social activity, and sexual life was analysed. Methods. A quasiexperiment utilizing data from the longitudinal study Social Diagnosis and radius-matching method was conducted. Retiring men and women were matched with similar, nonretiring ones to make comparisons of differences in S/EA and other outcomes interpretable in terms of causality. Results. Retirement does not have a significant effect in the short term on S/EA of men (p=.440) and women (p=.340). The satisfaction of men with their health status in this period was improved (p=.007), although they more often declared health problems that impaired their everyday functioning (p=.045). Women rarely reported serious health problems (p=.024). In the medium perspective, retirement had the effect on reducing S/EA in men (p=.012) and various dimensions of their social life. Although men tend to worry more often about their health (p<0.001), they are less likely to suffer from problems with moving (p=.001) and fatigue (p=.013). Despite the fact that women are more often satisfied with their health (p=.027), they also more often complain about heart or chest pain (p=.010), body pain (p=.009), and fatigue (p=.007). Conclusion. It is necessary to prepare employees for retirement much earlier than in the preretirement age. In addition to raising awareness of the effect of S/EA functions, it is necessary to monitor the physical activity of employees and to use appropriate programmes for (1) maintaining motivation among employees who are physically active before they retire and (2) raising awareness and encouraging physical activity in employees who are physically passive.
THE ANNALS OF “DUNAREA DE JOS” UNIVERSITY OF GALATI

Camera calibration is a necessary step in 3D vision in order to extract metric information from 2D images. A camera is considered to be calibrated when the parameters of the camera are known (i.e. principal distance, lens distorsion, focal length etc.). In this paper we deal with a single camera calibration method and with the help of this method we try to find the intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters. The method was implemented with succes in the programming and simulation environment Matlab.
THE ANNALS OF " DUNAREA DE JOS " UNIVERSITY OF GALATI FASCICLE

Hybrid systems have received a lot of attention in the past decade and a number of different models have been proposed in order to establish mathematical framework that is able to handle both continuous and discrete aspects. This contribution is focused on two models: hybrid automata and hybrid control systems with continuousdiscrete interface and the importance of clock models is emphasized. Simple and relevant examples, some taken from the literature, accompany the presentation.
The impact of financial risks on economic growth in EU-15

This paper examines the impact of financial risks on economic growth in the first 15 Member States of the European Union, considering 1995-2014 period and aims to lay down a new explanatory model of economic growth, based mainly on the behavioral reactivity of the financial disruptions mentioned above. The model was estimated through the panel estimated generalized least squares method and included additional control variables in order to strengthen the research conducted. Our goal consists in the examination of the financial risks in the European Union and in the estimation of their impact on economic growth.
THE ANNALS OF “DUNĂREA DE JOS” UNIVERSITY OF GALATI

The purpose of the paper was to develop an application that is capable to upload a picture and analyze it in order to determine melanoma lesions using artificial intelligence techniques. The proposed application is designed to use a previously trained convolutional neural network to recognize melanoma. For training, the examples from two known benchmarks were used and several attempts were made to find the best model driven by the neural network. The predictability rate is 0.95. The average time for obtaining the respond is 7 seconds.
Octupole correlations in low-lying states of 150 Nd and 150 Sm and their impact on neutrinoless double-β decay

We present a generator-coordinate calculation, based on a relativistic energy-density functional, of the low-lying spectra in the isotopes Nd and Sm and of the nuclear matrix element that governs the neutrinoless double-β decay of the first isotope to the second. We carefully examine the impact of octupole correlations on both nuclear structure and the double-β decay matrix element. Octupole correlations turn out to reduce quadrupole collectivity in both nuclei. Shape fluctuations, however, dilute the effects of octupole deformation on the double-β decay matrix element, so that the overall octupole-induced quenching is only about 7%.
Parallel Applications for the Masses

With a new generation of astrophysical simulations and surveys on the horizon the astrophysics community is faced with the exciting challenge of how to process and analyze an apparently ever increasing data volume. Developing algorithms that scale with the size of data and utilize efficiently the massively parallel compute resources that are coming on line does, however, require substantial expertise in parallel algorithms. The steep learning curve associated with developing in this environment limits the number of astronomers who actually utilize Petabyte data sets there by hindering our ability to extract information from surveys in which we invest many hundreds of man years of work. We discuss here the development of algorithms for astronomy ranging from correlation functions to the tracking of moving sources that can be implemented on single and multiprocessor machines. We describe a framework, Ntropy, that we have developed to ease the movement of serial algorithms to massively parallel systems. Our experience has shown that not only does our library save development time, it also delivers an increase in serial performance. Furthermore, Ntropy makes it easy for an astronomer with little or no parallel programming experience to quickly scale their application to a distributed multiprocessor environment. By minimizing development time for efficient and scalable data analysis, we enable widescale knowledge discovery on massive datasets.
D ec 2 01 5 Measurement-feedback formalism meets information reservoirs

There have been two distinct formalisms of thermodynamics of information: One is the measurement-feedback formalism, which concerns bipartite systems with measurement and feedback processes, and the other is the information reservoir formalism, which considers bit sequences as a thermodynamic fuel. In this paper, we derive a second-law-like inequality by applying the measurement-feedback formalism to information reservoirs, which provides a stronger bound of extractable work than any other known inequality in the same setup. In addition, we demonstrate that the Mandal-Jarzynski model, which is a prominent model of the information reservoir formalism, is equivalent to a model obtained by the contraction of a bipartite system with autonomous measurement and feedback. Our results provide a unified view on the measurement-feedback and the information-reservoir formalisms. PACS numbers: 05.70. Ln, 05.40. -a, 87.10. Mn, 87.16. Nn. Measurement-feedback formalism meets information reservoirs 2
PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE TURKISH VERSION OF THE EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION SCALE FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

This study aimed to adapt the Emotional Communication Scale, which assesses emotional communication in healthcare professionals in Türkiye, into Turkish and investigate its psychometric properties. This study has a methodological design for the psychometric testing and validation of the Emotional Communication Scale. The mean age of participants was 31.31 years (SD = 9.94), with ages ranging from 19 to 60; of the 197 participants, 46 (23.4%) were males and 151 (76.6%) were females. In the first stage of the study, language equivalence was ensured. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted with the IBM AMOS 24.0 package program for construct validity. According to the CFA results, the Turkish version of the scale has 14 items and 3-dimensional structure, as in the English version. The model fit indices of the scale were acceptable (χ2/df=1.92, CFI=0.94, TLI=0.92, IFI=0.94, GFI=0.91, RMSEA=0.07, and SRMR=0.03). The item-total correlation coefficients of the scale ranged between 0.510 and 0.643. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.885 for the whole scale, 0.838 for the communicative proactivity, 0.770 for the openness authenticity, and 0.680 for the listening. The Turkish version of the Emotional Communication Scale is a measurement tool with high content validity and internal consistency that can be used to assess the emotional communication attitudes of healthcare professionals. The scale can help healthcare professionals determine their attitudes toward emotional communication. Therefore, this tool will aid in developing training programs for communication, design, and evaluation of training processes aimed at helping professionals working in the healthcare field.
Psychometric Properties of the Turkish Version of the Children’s Saving Inventory in a Clinical Sample

Objective: The Children’s Saving Inventory (CSI) is a measurement tool developed to assess hoarding behavior in children. This study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the CSI in a clinical sample of children and adolescents. Materials and Methods: The study sample consisted of 52 children and adolescents diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder in the 8-17 age group and their families. As a structured diagnostic interview, the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA) was applied to all participants included in the research. Hoarding disorder (HD) diagnosis was made clinically by considering the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) diagnostic criteria. The Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale Symptom Checklist (CY-BOCS) was administered by an experienced clinician. The parents and children filled out the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory—Child Version (OCI-CV) and CSI scales independently. Results: The 20-item CSI Turkish version demonstrated good internal consistency. This 4-factor structure of the scale was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Children’s Saving Inventory showed convergent and discriminant validity with the OCI-CV and CY-BOCS subscales, and the higher CSI total scores in children and adolescents diagnosed with HD confirmed the construct validity. Conclusion: These findings support the use of the CSI Turkish version as a valid and reliable scale to investigate the hoarding behavior of children and adolescents in a clinical sample. In addition, the CSI Turkish version is currently the only validated instrument to evaluate hoarding behavior in children and adolescents, as rated by parents in Türkiye.
Price transmission on the Hungarian milk market

There has been little systematic analysis of the extent to which organic farming policies have influenced growth in the organic sector. Analyses of organic farming policy instruments, for the most part, provide extensive and detailed reviews of instruments applied either in a single country or across countries. Hence, there is a great need to examine systematically whether there is a relationship between the introduction of organic farming policies and the growth of the organic food sector, and whether particular designs of organic farming policies are more effective than others. In this paper, we take the first step in the endeavour of analysing the effects of organic farming by undertaking an econometric analysis of the relationship between organic farming policies in Denmark and the UK and their effects on the number of farmers and growers converting to organic production.
B 98 , 195314 ( 2018 ) g-factor of electrons in gate-defined quantum dots in a strong in-plane magnetic field

Peter Stano,1,2,3 Chen-Hsuan Hsu,1 Marcel Serina,4 Leon C. Camenzind,4 Dominik M. Zumbühl,4 and Daniel Loss1,4 1RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 2Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan 3Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 11 Bratislava, Slovakia 4Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
Evaluation of Random Forests for detection and localization of cattle eyes

In a time when cattle herds grow continually larger the need for automatic methods to detect diseases is ever increasing. One possible method to discover diseases is to use thermal images and automatic head and eye detectors. In this thesis an eye detector and a head detector is implemented using the Random Forests classifier. During the implementation the classifier is evaluated using three different descriptors: Histogram of Oriented Gradients, Local Binary Patterns, and a descriptor based on pixel differences. An alternative classifier, the Support Vector Machine, is also evaluated for comparison against Random Forests. The thesis results show that Histogram of Oriented Gradients performs well as a description of cattle heads, while Local Binary Patterns performs well as a description of cattle eyes. The provided descriptor performs almost equally well in both cases. The results also show that Random Forests performs approximately as good as the Support Vector Machine, when the Support Vector Machine is paired with Local Binary Patterns for both heads and eyes. Finally the thesis results indicate that it is easier to detect and locate cattle heads than it is to detect and locate cattle eyes. For eyes, combining a head detector and an eye detector is shown to give a better result than only using an eye detector. In this combination heads are first detected in images, followed by using the eye detector in areas classified as heads.
Income Differences and Prices of Tradables

Empirical studies flnd a strong positive relationship between a country’s per-capita income and price level of tradable goods. Among alternative explanations of this observation, I focus on variable mark-ups by flrms. Mark-ups that vary with destinations’ incomes are evident from a clothing manufacturer’s online catalogue featuring unit prices of identical goods sold in 24 countries. Such price discrimination on the basis of income suggests that flrms exploit lower price elasticity of demand for identical goods in richer countries. In order to capture that, I introduce non-homothetic preferences in a model of trade with product difierentiation and heterogeneity in flrm productivity. The model helps bring theory and data closer along a key dimension: it generates positively related prices and incomes, while preserving desirable features of flrm behavior and trade ∞ows of existing frameworks. Quantitatively, the model suggests that variable mark-ups can account for as much as a third of the observed positive relationship between prices of tradables and income across a large sample of countries. JEL Classiflcation: E31, F12, F15, L11
Recent Advances in Computational Design of Organic Materials for Corrosion Protection of Steel in Aqueous Media

Cost of corrosion studies have been undertaken by several countries including the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, India and China. In the United States (USA) the awareness of the cost of corrosion has been maintained at a high level. Professor Uhlig; the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Battelle Columbus Laboratories (BCL); and CC Technologies Laboratories (CC), along with NACE International and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), have contributed to the current knowledge on the cost of corrosion. In the United Kingdom (U.K.), the Hoar Committee has played a stellar role in estimating the cost of corrosion. In Japan, three approaches (Uhlig method, Hoar method, and NBS-BCL model) have been used. In India, the Uhlig method was followed in 1958, while the NBS-BCL model was adopted in 1986. Countries have attempted to relate the cost of corrosion to their gross national product (GNP). The common findings of these studies revealed that the annual cost of corrosion ranged from approximately 1 to 5 percent of Gross National Product (GDP) of each nation. In a widely-cited study (NACE Corrosion Costs Study) by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, NACE, the direct cost of corrosion in the U.S. was estimated to equal $276 Billion in 1998, approximately 3.1 % of GDP (Fig.1) [1]. A significant milestone in the effect of corrosion on the U.S. economy occurs in 2012 when the total cost of corrosion in the US exceeds $1 trillion annually for the first time [2]. The annual cost of corrosion worldwide is estimated at $ 2.2 Trillion (2010), which is about 3 % of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) of $ 73.33 Trillion [3]. This amount is staggering and could be use to provide food and basic social
Postoperative Urinary RetentionAnesthetic and Perioperative Considerations

Urinary retention is common after anesthesia and surgery, reported incidence of between 5% and 70%. Comorbidities, type of surgery, and type of anesthesia influence the development of postoperative urinary retention (POUR). The authors review the overall incidence and mechanisms of POUR associated with surgery, anesthesia and analgesia. Ultrasound has been shown to provide an accurate assessment of urinary bladder volume and a guide to the management of POUR. Recommendations for urinary catheterization in the perioperative setting vary widely, influenced by many factors, including surgical factors, type of anesthesia, comorbidities, local policies, and personal preferences. Inappropriate management of POUR may be responsible for bladder overdistension, urinary tract infection, and catheter-related complications. An evidence-based approach to prevention and management of POUR during the perioperative period is proposed.
Paramagnetism in the Kagome compounds ( Zn , Mg , Cd ) Cu 3 ( OH ) 6 Cl 2 – Supplemental Material –

Yasir Iqbal, Harald O. Jeschke, Johannes Reuther, 4 Roser Valent́ı, I. I. Mazin, Martin Greiter, and Ronny Thomale Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Julius-Maximilian’s University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Straße 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Fachbereich Physik, Free University of Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy, D-14109 Berlin, Germany Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6390, 4555 Overlook Ave, SW, Washington, DC 20375, United States of America (Dated: July 21, 2015)
Density Evolution for LDPC Codes on the BEC

Example 2.3. Let R(n, l, r) be the regular code ensemble, for n ∈ rN, defined by an ensemble of Tanner graphs chosen as follows. First, define n variable nodes, each with l edge sockets, and label the sockets from 1 to nl. Then, define nl/r check nodes, each with r edge sockets and label the edge sockets from 1 to nl. Next, pick a uniform random permutation σ on nl elements. The construction is completed by attaching, for i = 1, . , nl, the i-th variable node socket to the σ(i)-th check node socket. Since the resulting graph can have multiple edges connecting the same vertices, this defines a random bipartite multigraph. To get a valid parity-check matrix, one must also collapse multiple edges. All multiple edges are replaced by a single edge if the edge multiplicity is odd. Otherwise, the edge is removed because all edges cancel if the edge multiplicity is even.
4 40 Gb / s CMOS Distributed Amplifier for Fiber-Optic Communication Systems

A distributed amplifier for 40Gb/s fiber-optic communication systems is designed in 0. 18μm CMOS technology. The modified source degeneration technique with an RC combination provides a wide bandwidth and flat gain profile. Micro-strip line (MSL) consisting of metal1 and metal6 is used in layout design to realize accurate characteristic impedance. A 4dB gain and a 39GHz bandwidth in which the gain variation is within 1dB and confirmed a clear 40Gb/s output waveform. These results indicate that this technique is suitable for increasing bandwidth.
Comparison of the dynamics of particles in a flow field with the reynolds and favre filtered flow velocities

A parametric study has been undertaken using direct numerical simulations (DNS) of forced compressible particleladen flow in order to determine the validity of the comparison between PIV flow fields and LES Reynolds/Favre filtered flow fields. This requires solving the 3D NavierStokes equations and particle dynamics in a periodic domain where important parameters include the Reynolds number, Mach number, Particle diameter, filter width and ratio of solenoidal to dilatational dissipation. Tentative results of the simulations are presented.
Topic Modeling The Red Pill

The Men’s Rights Activism (MRA) movement and its sub-movement The Red Pill (TRP), has flourished online, offering support and advice to men who feel their masculinity is being challenged by societal shifts. Whilst some insightful studies have been carried out, the small samples analysed by researchers limits the scope of studies, which is small compared to the large amounts of data that TRP produces. By extracting a significant quantity of content from a prominent MRA website, ReturnOfKings.com (RoK), whose creator is one of the most prominent figures in the manosphere and who has been featured in multiple studies. Research already completed can be expanded upon with topic modelling and neural networked machine learning, computational analysis that is proposed to augment methodologies of open coding by automatically and unbiasedly analysing conceptual clusters. The successes and limitations of this computational methodology shed light on its further uses in sociological research and has answered the question: What can topic modeling demonstrate about the men’s rights activism movement’s prescriptive masculinity? This methodology not only proved that it could replicate the results of a previous study, but also delivered insights into an increasingly political focus within TRP, and deeper perspectives into the concepts identified within the movement.
The Effect of the H-1b Quota on Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor

The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. This cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and non-profit research institutions. Existing H-1B holders seeking to renew their visa were also exempt from the quota. Using a triple difference approach, this paper demonstrates that cap restrictions significantly reduced the employment of new H-1B workers in for-profit firms relative to what would have occurred in an unconstrained environment. Employment of similar natives in for-profit firms did not change, consistent with a low degree of substitutability between H-1B and native workers. The restriction also redistributed H-1Bs toward computer-related occupations, Indian-born workers, and firms using the H-1B program intensively.