Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Detection and avoidance of water loss through municipality taps in India by using smart taps and ICT

Global climate change and the rapid population growth have been seriously impacting water sources. The existing traditional water distribution network (WDN) fails to manage proper water distribution according to the consumption rate. The current situation demands an intelligent water management and treatment model to keep water available in the long run. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is a combination of the Internet of Things and information which introduces machine-to-machine communication with data for management. An ICT-based WDN which helps in monitoring excessive water supply and preventing water loss is proposed. The designed architecture is based on a heterogeneous wireless sensor network (WSN) and a smart tap which detects water loss and communicates the report to the utility centre. A fault-tolerant WSN routing scheme to handle the faulty situation during the transmission process is also proposed. The district of Sambalpur in Odisha, India is the chosen location for this study.
Creencias populares acerca de la curación del cáncer de próstata y cérvico uterino y experiencias de aplicación en pacientes de una institución de salud de Bogotá

El presente estudio se realizo con el objetivo de descubrir, en pacientes que asistian al Centro Javeriano de Oncologia, las creencias populares acerca de la curacion del cancer cervico uterino y prostatico, y sus experiencias de aplicacion, con el proposito de tener una mejor comprension del componente cultural al respecto y aportar nuevos conocimientos que puedan servir como base para ofrecer un cuidado de enfermeria culturalmente congruente. La investigacion se realizo con un abordaje cualitativo y enfoque fenomenologico, utilizando la tecnica de entrevistas semiestructuradas profundas. La unidad de analisis estuvo conformada por siete pacientes, con edades entre 40 y 65 anos, de los cuales, cinco eran hombres y dos mujeres, procedentes de diferentes regiones del pais. El estudio permitio concluir que entre los pacientes enfermos de cancer de prostata y de cuello uterino, se presentan casos en los cuales se hace uso de practicas curativas complementarias a los tratamientos convencionales, suministrados por las entidades de salud, basados en las creencias populares, principalmente fundamentados en la fe, en los milagros y la utilizacion de extractos de plantas y sustancias extraidas de algunos animales. La experiencia de estas practicas populares ha sido referida por las y los pacientes como favorable, desde algun punto de vista, en la mayoria de los casos
Female Leaders: Paths to Leadership in the Florida State Legislature

Female Leaders: Paths to Leadership in a State Legislature by Heather Conaway Roberson MA, University of South Florida, 1999 BA, Maryville College, 1993 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Public Policy and Administration Walden University June 2019
e RA . 5 N ( AS 8537 / A ] fl THE MULTI LEVEL SINGLE LINKAGE METHOD FOR UNCONSTAINED AND CONSTRAINED GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION

The more successful methods for unconstrained global optimization of an arbitrary multimodal objective function are of a stochastic nature and involve a combination of sampling and local search techniques. In this class, the recently developed Multi Level Single Linkage method combines attractive theoretical properties with excellent computational properties. We describe this method below, and discuss its computational behaviour and its extension to constrained global optimization.
A Consumer Approach to Branded Wines

Concentrates on the elements of creating commercially successful wine brands through focusing on the three major areas for international wine and spirits companies ‐ the UK, the USA and Canada. Believes that the greatest body of consumer research has been undertaken in the UK and that in the absence of any other research from these markets the UK experience for the basis of this summary. Delves into the current wine market and consumer behaviour, segmenting this into a series of ways and types and categorisations. Investigates country of origin regarding wines and lists these giving a breakdown on each.
The recursivity of internet governance research

This special issue of Internet Policy Review is the second to bring together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). The conference in Montreal, in October 2018, was organised around the theme of "Transnational materialities". As explained in the editorial to this issue, the contributions map the larger debate on internet governance research in terms of perspectives rather than disciplines. The eleven papers in this issue span a wide range of topics, including normative perspectives on how platforms shape democracy, conceptual perspectives on how to think platform power, and social and legal views on data-driven governance.
Model Design of Management Competences and Its Implementation Process for SMES: Diagnostic Evaluation of the Retail Sector

The changing and globalizing environment in business has resulted in increasing competition in markets and sectors. These factors drive the search for better strategic management tools that increase business results. SMEs are at the center of these changes with management needs and problems. These SMEs search for human capital with appropriate profiles and competencies that match the management requirements. The existence of this "competitive gap" is a barrier that impacts the survival and growth of SMEs. The present research proposes a model of managerial competencies and its implementation process. This model is easy to understand for SMEs, to increase the development of specific managerial competencies. The impact reduces the mortality rate and increase business as a result. The research methodology was exploratory, descriptive and propositional. The sample size was determined from a stratified probabilistic sampling with a 95% confidence level. The research instrument was applied to 371 partners and managers. The validity and reliability of the instrument was determined by Alfha de Cronbach with a score of 0.86. We propose a model of management competencies and its implementation is established with its own design. The methodology is new, non-theoretical in application, easy to understand, useful to SMEs, easy to use, and promotes the development of specific managerial competencies. The model is selected by the manager or partner. The model seeks to impact the stability and survival of SMEs in the Municipality of Saltillo in the State of Coahuila
General Algebraic Modeling System

Complex economic models offer a wide range of options for simulation runs and return a vast amount of data, which can be explored and exploited in various ways. The GAMS Graphical Interface Generator (GGIG) enables interaction with such economic models through a Java-based user interface. Originally developed for the Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact (CAPRI) modeling system, GGIG generates a basic graphical user interface (GUI) for GAMS projects based on XML files. These files define the controls for simulation runs and subsequent processing of results. GGIG is currently used in a number of economic and agricultural modeling projects around the world, including the Policy Evaluation Model of the OECD and the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). High-Level Modeling The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is a high-level modeling system for mathematical programming problems. GAMS is tailored for complex, large-scale modeling applications, and allows you to build large maintainable models that can be adapted quickly to new situations. Models are fully portable from one computer platform to another.
Macromagnetic Simulation for Reservoir Computing Utilizing Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

The figures-of-merit for reservoir computing (RC), using spintronics devices called magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), are evaluated. RC is a type of recurrent neural network. The input information is stored in certain parts of the reservoir, and computation can be performed by optimizing a linear transform matrix for the output. While all the network characteristics should be controlled in a general recurrent neural network, such optimization is not necessary for RC. The reservoir only has to possess a non-linear response with memory effect. In this paper, macromagnetic simulation is conducted for the spin-dynamics in MTJs, for reservoir computing. It is determined that the MTJ-system possesses the memory effect and non-linearity required for RC. With RC using 5-7 MTJs, high performance can be obtained, similar to an echo-state network with 20-30 nodes, even if there are no magnetic and/or electrical interactions between the magnetizations.
What Motivates Young Technology-Literate Consumers in Densely Populated Areas?

In this chapter, the authors analyze the cultural, technological, and psychological factors that influence online young technology-literate consumer behavior in a densely populated urban area. This chapter starts with a literature review of factors that can explain the online behavior of people from various demographic and cultural backgrounds including education, occupation, income level, gender, ethnicity, and age (as a control). The authors also reviewed several empirical studies that examine online consumer behavior in India, where the population is the second highest in the world and a leader in global technology services. The purpose of the study is to develop a multi-cultural model that could predict the emerging shopping pattern of young and highly connected consumers in the high technology use metropolitan area, specifically in Northern India. The results can be used to generalize other online consumer behavior in other similar highly populated communities where internet technology use is high. What Motivates Young Technology-Literate Consumers in Densely Populated Areas?
Global active noise control of a one-dimensional acoustic duct using a feedback controller

The active noise control of a one-dimensional hard-walled duct with a partially dissipative boundary condition is addressed. Previous techniques have attacked this problem by developing adaptive filters designed to cancel acoustic noise at a single measurement location. The work presented here applies modern, state space, control theory to globally reduce noise levels in a one-dimensional acoustic enclosure rather than at a single location. This global control requires only the addition of a single response measurement microphone and control speaker to the open-loop system
The role of corporate social responsibility on Employees organizational commitment; with a mediating affect of organizational justice: A case of Gondar City, Bank sector, Ethiopia

Abstract The idea of social responsibility of business is based upon the concept that business is something more than a purely economic institution. This study investigates the role of corporate social responsibility on employee’s organizational commitment with the mediating role of organizational justice. The study population was Bank sectors employees operating at Gondar city. The data was collected with the help of structured questionnaire from 153 employees, the study were used proportional stratified sampling and simple random sampling method as sample design. The instrument to measure employee’s perceptions towards CSR actions of corporation was adopted from Turker (2006). It incorporates four dimensions of CSR including such as economical, legal, ethical and discretionary responsibility. Organizational justice was measured by a scale developed by Niehoff and Moorman (1993) it consists three dimensions: distributive justice; procedural justice; and interactional justice Moreover Meye, Allen and Smith (1993) revised Organizational Commitment Scales were used to measure the dependant variable organizational commitment. The multiple Regression and hierarchical regression were used to analyze the data. The major findings of the study were, corporate social responsibility factors significantly predict organizational commitments and organizational justice. Also organization justice has a partial mediating affect between corporate social responsibility and organizational commitment
Acceso a la información pública y su reutilización en las comunidades autónomas: evaluación de la reutilización de datos abiertos

Se analiza la situacion en materia de acceso a la informacion del sector publico y su reutilizacion en las comunidades autonomas de Espana. Para ello se utiliza Meloda, metrica para evaluar la reutilizacion de datos publicados en los portales de datos abiertos. Ademas, se estudia la correlacion del numero de conjuntos de datos disponibles en los portales de datos abiertos, el Indice de Transparencia Internacional de las comunidades autonomas y la media de Meloda para cada comunidad autonoma. Se han estudiado 2.165 conjuntos de datos. El 95,15% de los datos publicados en el Estado Espanol por comunidades autonomas en portales de datos abiertos son de reutilizacion avanzada o de reutilizacion avanzada con alguna caracteristica mejorable. Las comunidades que estan liderando este proceso son Aragon, Cataluna, Comunidad Foral de Navarra y Pais Vasco.
m2ACO: Multi-agent Path Planning Algorithm for Web3D Mountain Scenario

Mountain scenario data is large and complex for there are large amount of semantic information in it. That is the reason why it is difficult for computer to calculate an accurate path in real-time for multi-agent marching in mountain scenario. The paper proposed an m2ACO (multi-agent in mountain environment using ACO) algorithm for multi-agent path planning in Web3D technology. And the pgACO (planar grid ACO) and A* path planning algorithm have been implemented in this paper to compare with the m2ACO algorithm. The experimental results show that the m2ACO is more accurate than the other kinds of path planning algorithms.
Field Opacity and Practice-Outcome Decoupling: Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains

Although firms in diverse industries increasingly adopt private regulation of labor standards for workers in their global supply chains, growing scholarly evidence suggests that this approach has not generated sustainable improvements in working conditions for those workers. The authors draw on recent developments in institutional theory regarding the development of opaque institutional fields that cause the decoupling between practices and outcomes to develop a new explanation for the lack of sustainable improvement in labor practices in supply chains. Using qualitative and quantitative data from a global apparel supplier and a global home products retailer, they demonstrate the various ways in which opacity causes decoupling between private regulation practices of global firms and outcomes for workers in supply chains.
Improved Injection Current Controller in Single-Phase Shunt Active Power Filters

Nowadays shunt active power filters (SAPFs) are one of the most versatile and efficient solutions in the correction of the load power factor and the compensation of current harmonics generated by non-linear loads. The injection current controller, which must achieve that the compensation current track the reference one, is one of the basic components of the controller of a SAPF. This work presents a new method to control the injection current using a digital predictive algorithm, which allows an optimal compensation in stationary state and during variations in the load current and in the source voltage. Results obtained in simulation tests and experimentally on a laboratory prototype confirm and validate the proposed technique.
Factors Affecting Sustainability of Donor Funded Food Security Projects in Tharaka South Sub-County, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya

Project activities have been used to solve food insecurity problems. However, despite efforts made by the Government and other development partners to implement food security projects in areas of need project activities collapse after the withdrawal of support by donors limiting sustainability these projects. Therefore, this study sought to fill this gap by investigating factors which affect sustainability of donor funded food security projects in Tharaka South Sub-County, Tharaka Nithi County using there source based and stakeholder theories. The study was exploratory and was executed through a descriptive survey and targeted donor funded food security projects which included Njaa Marufuku, National Agriculture Sector Extension Policy, Food for Asset and Mount Kenya East Pilot Project for Natural Resource Management (MKEPP). The study used both simple random and purposive sampling methods in a population of 400 community project beneficiaries, Social Development Officer, project officers and opinion leaders and a sample of 238 respondents was adopted. Questionnaires with both closed ended and open-ended questions were used as the main research instruments to solicit information and the data obtained was coded and subjected to analysis using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Out of sample of 238, 227 respondents filled in and submitted the questionnaires making a response rate of 95% respectively. It was observed that community involvement and sustainability of donor funded food security projects correlated positively and significantly (r=0.548, p=0.000); Institution capacity and sustainability of donor funded food security projects correlated positively and significantly (r=0.521, p=0.000) and roles of donors and sustainability of donor funded food security projects correlated positively (r=0.534, p=0.000). Finally, the study established that donors play a very important role in ensuring sustainability of donor funded food security projects.
Efficient similarity computations on parallel machines using data shaping

Similarity computation is a fundamental operation in all forms of data. Big Data is, typically, characterized by attributes such as volume, velocity, variety, veracity, etc. In general, Big Data variety appears as structured, semi-structured or unstructured forms. The volume of Big Data in general, and semi-structured data in particular, is increasing at a phenomenal rate. Big Data phenomenon is posing new set of challenges to similarity computation problems occurring in semi-structured data. Technology and processor architecture trends suggest very strongly that future processors shall have ten’s of thousands of cores (hardware threads). Another crucial trend is that ratio between on-chip and off-chip memory to core counts is decreasing. State-of-the-art parallel computing platforms such as General Purpose Graphics Processors (GPUs) and MICs are promising for high performance as well high throughput computing. However, processing semistructured component of Big Data efficiently using parallel computing systems (e.g. GPUs) is challenging. Reason being most of the emerging platforms (e.g. GPUs) are organized as Single Instruction Multiple Thread/Data machines which are highly structured, where several cores (streaming processors) operate in lock-step manner, or they require a high degree of task-level parallelism. We argue that effective and efficient solutions to key similarity computation problems need to operate in a synergistic manner with the underlying computing hardware. Moreover, semistructured form input data needs to be shaped or reorganized with the goal to exploit the enormous computing power of state-of-the-art highly threaded architectures such as GPUs. For example, shaping input data (via encoding) with minimal data-dependence can facilitate flexible and concurrent computations on high throughput accelerators/co-processors such as GPU, MIC, etc.
Sensors in IoE: A Review

Internet of everything (IoE) is the popular technology in the industry. IoE platforms deliver various kinds of intelligence using sensors. Sensors are autonomous and work as smarter. In this paper we have portrayed the different types of sensors, with their applications in various domains. This paper also discusses the factors that determine the suitability of sensors, various challenges, and solutions for sensors in IoE.
The interaction effect of formal and informal institutions on the development of entrepreneurial activity : a panel data analysis for emerging economies

I DECLARATION . III ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . IV PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS DURING PHD . V TABLE OF CONTENTS . VI LIST OF FIGURES . XI LIST OF TABLES . XII LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS . XIII CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 RESEARCH OVERVIEW. 1 1.2 RESEARCH PROBLEM . 2 1.3 RESEARCH NEEDS . 2 1.4 THE APPLICABILITY OF THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL TO THE STUDY . 3 1.5 RESEARCH AIM AND OBJECTIVES . 5 1.6 RESEARCH DESIGN . 6 1.7 THESIS OUTLINE . 7 CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE . 9 2.
Componentes culturais e as práticas de descarte de resíduos sólidos no Brasil e na Alemanha

O objetivo principal dessa pesquisa e investigar a relacao entre os componentes culturais e as praticas individuais de descarte de residuos solidos no contexto de estudantes universitarios de Fortaleza e de Bremen. Para atingir esse objetivo, optou-se por realizar uma pesquisa qualitativa com inspiracao etnografica, de natureza exploratoria e descritiva, sob o paradigma interpretativista (BURRELL; MORGAN, 1987). Quanto aos meios, ela esta classificada como documental e de campo. Durante quase 6 meses, foram coletados dados na cidade de Bremen, na Alemanha, e, durante mais 6 meses, na cidade de Fortaleza. Nesse tempo, foram realizadas observacoes, anotacoes, entrevistas e fotografias relacionadas com a tematica estudada, com imersao do pesquisador na cultura local dos estudantes. Os resultados mostraram que o descarte dos residuos solidos e uma preocupacao constante na Alemanha. A separacao de lixo para a reciclagem e a principal pratica de descarte. Ja no Brasil, a principal pratica e o descarte de todos residuos em apenas uma lixeira, o chamado lixo comum. Ademais, varios elementos da cultura material e dos sistemas de comunicacao e linguagem estao envolvidos nessa pratica. Na cultura material dos dois paises, as instituicoes emergiram com um ponto forte, reforcando essas praticas. Ja dentro dos sistemas de comunicacao e linguagem, a comunicacao verbal e nao-verbal foram essenciais para que todos mantivessem um padrao socialmente aceitavel de praticas e essas praticas sejam passadas por geracoes, dificultando a mudanca.
A Case on the Change of Useful Life of Fixed Assets Under K-IFRS

유형자산의 내용연수는 감가상각비를 결정하는 중요한 요인 중 하나이지만 실제 재무회계 교 과서와 강의에서는 매우 소홀하게 다루어져 왔다. 그 이유는 내용연수 결정과 관련된 기업회계 기준이 너무 포괄적이어서 대부분 기업이 재무보고목적으로 별도의 내용연수를 결정하기 보다 는 세법에서 정해진 내용연수를 준용하는 경향이 있었기 때문이다. 그러나 K-IFRS에서는 유형자산의 각 부분이 전체 원가에 대해 중요한 비중을 차지하는 경 우 해당 부분을 구분하여 감가상각 할 수 있도록 하고 있으며 내용연수를 매 회계연도 말에 주 기적으로 재검토할 것을 규정함으로써 종전과 달리 내용연수 결정은 중요한 회계의사결정이 되 었다. 또한 법인세법에서도 새롭게 K-IFRS 도입기업을 위한 감가상각특례규정을 마련함에 따 라 K-IFRS 도입기업의 내용연수 변경은 더욱 가속화될 것으로 보인다. 본 사례연구는 K-IFRS 도입에 따라 실제로 내용연수를 변경한 기업을 대상으로 내용연수 변경을 위한 검토과정과 변경효과 등을 검토하였다. 본 연구의 사례를 통하여 내용연수 변경으 로 인하여 재무보고뿐만 아니라 세무보고와 회계감사에도 이에 따른 중요한 변화들이 예상된다 는 것을 보여주고자 하였다. 본 사례를 활용함으로써 학생들이 지금까지 소홀히 생각했던 유형자산의 내용연수가 K-IFRS 도입 이후, 재무회계, 세무회계, 회계감사 전반에 걸쳐 얼마나 중요한 회계의사결정인지를 깨닫 는 계기가 될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.