Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Geographies of Religion and Development: Rebuilding Sacred Spaces in Aceh, Indonesia, after the Tsunami

The relationship between development and religion is an uneasy one. Since the invention of modernisation theory in the 1950s religion has been marginalised—seen as something that would fade as secularisation increased. Although this has not occurred, religion is still considered a taboo subject which falls outside the gamut of development, despite the religiosity of many faith-based development organisations, donors, and recipient communities. In this paper I emphasise the importance of religion to development by tracing religious influences within transnational development networks operating in Aceh, Indonesia, after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Religious influences are analysed amongst donor communities in Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa; within the activities of religious NGOs in Aceh; amongst recipient communities; and in the physical landscape of Aceh, where the rebuilding of sacred spaces has been slow and difficult. It is argued that the current approach to religion within development, and much development research, is outdated and inappropriate, reflecting and enforcing particular Western divisions between church and state. For more effective aid which attends to local concerns and priorities, transnational development networks need to acknowledge, incorporate, and involve religious spaces and institutions rather than continue to promote a culture of secularism.
Accounting's past, present and future: the unifying power of history

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to revisit the special issue of Design/methodology/approach - A retrospective and prospective essay focusing on developments in the historical accounting literature. Findings - The special issue's advocacy of critical and interpretive histories of accounting's past has influenced subsequent research, particularly within the various research themes identified in the issue. The most significant aspect of this influence has been the engagement of increasing numbers of accounting historians with theoretical perspectives and analytical frameworks. Research limitations/implications - The present study examines the content and impact of a single journal issue. It explores future research possibilities, which inevitably involves speculation. Originality/value - In addressing recent developments in the literature through the lens of the special issue, the paper emphasises the unifying power of history and offers ideas, insights and reflections that may assist in stimulating originality in future studies of accounting's past.
Gen-Adler: The generalized Adler's equation for injection locking analysis in oscillators

Injection locking analysis based on classical Adler's equation is limited to LC oscillators as it is dependent on quality factor. In this paper, we present the Generalized Adler's equation applicable for injection locking analysis on oscillators independent of the circuit topology. The equation is obtained by averaging the PPV phase macromodel. The procedure is considerably simple and handy to determine the locking range for arbitrary shape small AC injection signal. Analytical equations for injection locking dynamics are formulated using the Generalized Adler's equation and validated with the PPV simulations.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE ASSESSMENTS OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING OF HOSPITALIZED GERIATRIC PATIENTS BY NURSES ON ACUTE GERIATRIC WARDS

arrest, only four of whom were resuscitated. The mortality was higher in women than in men (58% vs 49%, Po.01), although incidence was higher in men than in women (14 vs 9 per 100,000, Po.001). Fatal cases were older than nonfatal ones (77 vs 65, Po .001) and were found more often in colder months than in warmer months (January, 60%, October, 46%, Po.02). The total number of deaths during bathing in Japan for 1999 to 2000 was estimated by adjusting the present result to the stratified national age distribution and using annual data obtained from the Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Examiner’s Office, where 22.3% (2,264/10,132) of all unnatural deaths in Tokyo were autopsied (Figure 1). The annual number of deaths during bathing in Japan is estimated to be 14,134. This figure is almost identical to the estimation based on the total number of drowning deaths in Japan (3,205) and the average proportion of drowning deaths to total deaths during bathing between 1990 and 1999 in Tokyo (22%) (3,205/0.22 5 14,568). Because three fourths of the victims were estimated to be aged 65 and older and the number exceeds the total deaths due to traffic accidents, death during bathing is a sociocultural challenge for the aged Japanese society.
Texts by J. Rowling’s Fans as Means of Conveying Subcultural Values

The article covers the process of evolution of J. Rowling’s fans’ verbal creative work. The research is devoted to a variety of texts made by fans including forms of Internet-lore and fanfiction, a phenomenon close both to literature and folklore by nature, a kind of narratives developing on the Internet and highly popular with avid admirers of the Harry Potter series. The author has been observing the subculture of Harry Potter fans since 2003 and has made a number of important conclusions about the nature of fanfiction, its genres, its connection to the original books by J. Rowling on the level of interpreting mythological archetypes and attitudes of fanfiction author’s to Rowling’s style and set of values. The article regards the above mentioned problems following the author’s earlier thesis and focuses on the modern stage in the development of fans’ texts including memes and demotivators posted by users of social networking services and conveying the values already expressed in the older form of subcultural creative work—fanfiction.
On the decidability and finite controllability of query processing in databases with incomplete information

In this paper we study queries over relational databases with integrity constraints (ICs). The main problem we analyze is OWA query answering, i.e., query answering over a database with ICs under open-world assumption. The kinds of ICs that we consider are functional dependencies (in particular key dependencies) and inclusion dependencies; the query languages we consider are conjunctive queries (CQs), union of conjunctive queries (UCQs), CQs and UCQs with negation and/or inequality. We present a set of results about the decidability and finite controllability of OWA query answering under ICs. In particular: (i) we identify the decidability/undecidability frontier for OWA query answering under different combinations of the ICs allowed and the query language allowed; (ii) we study OWA query answering both over finite databases and over unrestricted databases, and identify the cases in which such a problem is finitely controllable, i.e., when OWA query answering over finite databases coincides with OWA query answering over unrestricted databases. Moreover, we are able to easily turn the above results into new results about implication of ICs and query containment under ICs, due to the deep relationship between OWA query answering and these two classical problems in database theory. In particular, we close two long-standing open problems in query containment, since we prove finite controllability of containment of conjunctive queries both under arbitrary inclusion dependencies and under key and foreign key dependencies. Besides their theoretical interest, we believe that the results of our investigation are very relevant in many research areas which have recently dealt with databases under an incomplete information assumption: e.g., view-based information access, ontology-based information systems, data integration, data exchange, and peer-to-peer information systems.
An efficient method for vision-based fire detection using SVM classification

In this paper, we present a new vision-based algorithm for fire detection problem. The algorithm consists of three main tasks: pixel-based processing to identify potential fire blobs, blob-based statistical feature extraction, and a support vector machine classifier. In pixel-based processing phase, five feature vectors based on RGB color space are used to classify a pixel by using a Bayes classifier to build a potential fire mask (PFM) of image. Next step, a potential fire blob mask (PFBM) is computed by using the difference between two consecutive PFM and a recover technique. In blob-based phase, for each potential blob in a potential fire blobs image (PFBI) an 7-feature vector are evaluated; this vector includes three statistical features of colour, four texture parameters and one shape roundness parameter. Finally, a SVM classifier is designed and trained for distinguish a potential fire blob are fire or fire-like object. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.
Transmission of bovine viral diarrhea virus among white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Cattle persistently infected (PI) with bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), a pestivirus in the family Flaviviridae, are an important source of viral transmission to susceptible hosts. Persistent BVDV infections have been identified in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the most abundant free-ranging ruminant in North America. As PI deer shed BVDV similarly to PI cattle, maintenance of BVDV within white-tailed deer populations may be possible. To date, intraspecific transmission of BVDV in white-tailed deer has not been evaluated, which prompted this study. Six pregnant white-tailed deer were captured in the first trimester of pregnancy and cohabitated with a PI white-tailed deer. Cohabitation with the PI deer resulted in BVDV infection in all does, as indicated by seroconversion. All does gave birth to live fawns and no reproductive losses were observed. At birth, evidence of BVDV infection was identified in two singlet fawns, of which one was determined to be PI by repeated serum reverse transcription nested PCR, whole blood virus isolation and immunohistochemistry. This study demonstrates for the first time that BVDV transmission may occur among white-tailed deer. The birth of a PI fawn through contact to a PI white-tailed deer indicates that under appropriate circumstances, BVDV may be maintained in white-tailed deer by congenital infection.
On Performance Resilient Scheduling for Scientific Workflows in HPC Systems with Constrained Storage Resources

Although the storage capacity is rapidly increasing, the size of datasets is also ever-growing, especially for those workflows in HPC that perform the parameter sweep studies. Consequently, the deadlock caused by the storage competition between concurrent workflow instances is still a major pragmatic concern and storage management remains important for high performance and throughput computing. In practice, there are various ways to this issue, ranging from admission control to deadlock resolution. Despite being a simple solution, the admission control is conservative and not space efficient to storage utilization. Therefore, in this paper, we study the performance of the deadlock resolution approach by proposing a resource allocation algorithm which is performance resilient to the workflows characterized by different features. The algorithm is designed based on our previous result, called DDS, which takes advantages of the dataflow information of the workflow to resolve deadlock based on detection&recovery principle. We improve DDS to allow it to not only resolve the deadlock but also overcome the performance anomaly, a not yet investigated problem in our previous studies. We thus called the improved algorithm performance-resilience algorithm, denoted as DDS+. The studies in this paper can be viewed as a follow-up research on DDS and show the performance behavior of the improved algorithm in various conditions. Therefore, the results in this paper are more useful to adapt DDS+ to the workflows with different characteristics in reality while keeping the performance stable.
Sublobar dysplasia—A clinicopathologic report after successful epilepsy surgery

We report the clinical presentation, neuroradiologic characteristics, and detailed histopathologic findings in a unique case of drug‐resistant focal epilepsy due to sublobar dysplasia (SLD), treated successfully by resection of the malformed cortex. Histopathology with leptomeningeal and subcortical heterotopia, disturbance of cortical lamination and marked cortical and subcortical astrocytosis, but absence of balloon cells, points to a disorder of neuronal migration and organization rather than proliferation in SLD. The additional presence of a lateral proboscis and meningocele in our case as well as further associated callosal and cerebellar anomalies may suggest an etiologic unknown damage of pathways controlling the embryogenesis of craniofacial field processes.
Regulation of Hepatitis C Virus Translation and Infectious Virus Production by the MicroRNA miR-122

ABSTRACT miR-122 is a liver-specific microRNA that positively regulates hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA abundance and is essential for production of infectious HCV. Using a genetic approach, we show that its ability to enhance yields of infectious virus is dependent upon two miR-122-binding sites near the 5′ end of the HCV genome, S1 and S2. Viral RNA with base substitutions in both S1 and S2 failed to produce infectious virus in transfected cells, while virus production was rescued to near-wild-type levels in cells supplemented with a complementary miR-122 mutant. A comparison of mutants with substitutions in only one site revealed S1 to be dominant, as an S2 but not S1 mutant produced high virus yields in cells supplemented with wild-type miR-122. Translation of HCV RNA was reduced over 50% by mutations in either S1 or S2 and was partially rescued by transfection of the complementary miR-122 mutant. Unlike the case for virus replication, however, both sites function equally in regulating translation. We conclude that miR-122 promotes replication by binding directly to both sites in the genomic RNA and, at least in part, by stimulating internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-mediated translation. However, a comparison of the replication capacities of the double-binding-site mutant and an IRES mutant with a quantitatively equivalent defect in translation suggests that the decrement in translation associated with loss of miR-122 binding is insufficient to explain the profound defect in virus production by the double mutant. miR-122 is thus likely to act at an additional step in the virus life cycle.
The thermal equation of state of (Mg, Fe)SiO3 bridgmanite (perovskite) and implications for lower mantle structures

The high‐pressure/high‐temperature equation of state (EOS) of synthetic 13% Fe‐bearing bridgmanite (Mg silicate perovskite) is measured using powder X‐ray diffraction in a laser‐heated diamond anvil cell with a quasi‐hydrostatic neon pressure medium. We compare these results, which are consistent with previous 300 K sound speed and compression studies, with a reanalysis of Fe‐free Mg end‐member data from Tange et al. (2012) to determine the effect of iron on bridgmanite's thermoelastic properties. EOS parameters are incorporated into an ideal lattice mixing model to probe the behavior of bridgmanite at deep mantle conditions. With this model, a nearly pure bridgmanite mantle composition is shown to be inconsistent with density and compressibility profiles of the lower mantle. We also explore the buoyant stability of bridgmanite over a range of temperatures and compositions expected for Large Low‐Shear Velocity Provinces, concluding that bridgmanite‐dominated thermochemical piles are more likely to be passive dense layers externally supported by convection, rather than internally supported metastable domes. The metastable dome scenario is estimated to have a relative likelihood of only 4–7%, given the narrow range of compositions and temperatures consistent with seismic constraints. If buoyantly supported, such structures could not have remained stable with greater thermal contrast early in Earth's history, ruling out formation scenarios involving a large concentration of heat producing elements.
The Critical Period for Early Intervention

Abstract Therapeutic intervention in psychotic disorders has been evolving steadily in recent years with notable changes in the content of treatment (e.g., atypical neuroleptics and the cognitive/psychosocial interventions) and the locus of care. While the therapeutic focus continues to emphasize acute and treatment symptoms, and longer-term interventions, for example assertive community treatment, the primary and secondary prevention of psychosis has received little attention since Cameron's (1938) pioneering work. It is now believed that the variables influencing the early phase of psychosis are sufficiently well developed to begin exploring their therapeutic implications. More speculatively, the early phase of psychosis is believed to be formative in biological, psychological, and social terms, thus affording major opportunities for secondary prevention. Three key elements of an early intervention strategy are proposed: early detection of “at-risk” mental states; early treatment of first psychotic episode; and interventions targeted during the early phase of psychosis (the “critical period”).
Reducing Signaling and Respecting Time-Scales in Cross-Layer Protocols Design for Wireless Networks

Current proposals for joint power and rate allocation protocols in ad hoc networks require a large signaling overhead, and do not adhere to the natural time-scales of transport and power control mechanisms. We present a solution that overcomes these issues. We pose the protocol design as a network utility maximization problem and adopt primal decomposition techniques to devise a novel distributed cross-layer design for transport and physical layer that achieves the optimal network operation. Our solution has several attractive features compared to alternatives: it adheres to the natural time-scale separation between rapid power control updates and slower end-to-end rate adjustments; it allows simplified power control mechanisms with reduced signalling requirements, and distributed slow rate cross-layer signalling mechanisms; and it maintains feasibility at each iteration. We validate the theoretical framework and compare the solution alternatives with numerical examples.
Testing the Generalizability of the ISO Model for Nursing Diagnoses

The purpose of this study was to explore whether the ISO reference terminology model for nursing diagnoses could be generalized to the MDS data set that, like nursing terminologies standardizes expressions of the concepts within and relevant to the domain of nursing practice. We first constructed paraphrased expressions of the rubrics from the data set. Next we dissected those expressions into the reference model domains of focus and judgment, recorded any qualifiers required for either domain, and semantic links required to represent associative relations. Our findings demonstrate that the ISO model for nursing diagnoses is generalizable to the MDS data set, however expansions to the model are required if the model is to be used to represent objects rather than terms.
As implicações do bullying na auto-estima de adolescentes

In this study we aim at investigating adolescents involved in bullying as victims, aggressor or victim/aggressor or even witness. We are interested in identifying the differences in their self-esteem according to gender. The participants, 465 adolescents (52.7% males), completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and a bullying questionnaire. Results showed an interaction between gender and the participants’ roles in bullying in relation to self-esteem. Post-hoc analyses showed that in the victims/aggressors group, boys revealed higher self-esteem than the girls. Male witnesses presented higher self-esteem than victims. Female aggressors presented higher self-esteem than the victims/aggressors group. The results also show that bullying is a very common phenomenon which bring about different implications for girls and boys self-esteem. We propose new studies to clarify some of these issues.
Bayesian estimate of Australian humpback whale calving interval under sparse resighting rates: 1987–2009

This study estimates a calving interval for humpback whales from a longterm photo-ID catalogue of 2,973 individuals resighted in Hervey Bay, East Australia. The study proposes a modification of two existing methods to handle partial identification of sex and age-classes of whales from visual surveys. One method truncates the data to just breeding females and discards all resighting events prior to the first observed breeding event. The second method utilises the multi-stage mark recapture (MSMR) framework and multi-event extension to include all resighted individuals and their entire encounter history. The performance of each method is assessed and the conditioning required to handle ambiguity of sex and age-classes is detailed, which is subtly different from most other mark-recapture methods. Both truncation and the multi-event methods led to similar estimates of calving intervals: 2.98 years (95% CI: 2.27–3.51) and 2.78 years (95% CI: 2.23–3.68) respectively. More importantly, estimates were more sensitive to the exact specification of resighting probabilities among age and sex classes than to the type of conditioning. However, the multi-event framework resulted in more precise estimates of other important life-history parameters such as apparent survival, and included a wider constituency of age and sex classes.
MLESAC tracking with 2D revolute-prismatic articulated models

A model for tracking articulated objects is proposed using a 2D revolute-prismatic joint. An extension of the RANSAC and MLESAC algorithms incorporating feature weights is used to perform robust tracking. The models are suitable for tracking certain human body structures. Limbs are modelled as constrained planar patches. A patch can rotate about a joint point that is displaced relative to the previous patch. A scenario in which the forearm is tracked is used to illustrate the method.
Dynamic pull-down menu organization in run-time by analyzing menu selection behaviors

Event-based self-adaptation of user interface (UI) is introduced in this paper as an approach to solving problems in current static and dynamic UI approaches. Our approach does not require extra information about the user or the context, but uses events which can be gathered easily. Our approach adopts the concept of an agent to make externalization of UI adaptation, that is, no need to make intensive modification of the internal logic of an application. At the current stage of research, this paper focuses only on the menu organization aspect of UI design, where menu categorization and ordering can be accomplished dynamically based on userpsilas menu selection behaviors. The outcome of the approach is to show enhanced job performance by reducing time for menu search and occurrence for false selection. It is expected that many menu-driven systems can improve the usability by adopting our approach.