Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Keeping afloat: how ACE organisations adapt in uncertain times

This paper reports on research exploring the adaptiveness of providers within the NSW Adult and Community Education (ACE) sector. It examines how a number of ACE centres understand and apply adaptiveness and considers the contexts that they operate within. The research, sponsored by the NSW Board of ACE, sought to identify how ACE centres adapt in the context of substantial changes in their operating environment over recent years. The literature on adaptiveness is replete with overlapping and interacting terminology such as ambidexterity, agility, learning-centred, generativity, resilience, and sustainability, to describe an organisation’s responses. The different ways organisations respond to change can be seen as falling within one of five approaches co-ordinated, planned change; reactive change; disaster recovery; pre-emptive response to a changing environment; and sustainability over time. How then might we understand the concept and practice of adaptiveness as it applies to ACE providers, especially given the often competing expectations placed on centres by their clients and their funding providers? The researchers developed a model of distinct but overlapping factors Knowledge, Culture, Strategy and Resources and conducted interviews with a selection of ACE leaders and community stakeholders. Drawing on this framework the paper outlines ways the providers are adapting within the constraints of current funding arrangements.
Losses in three-phase transformers at load balancing

A mathematical model of a transformer that takes into account the type of magnetic circuit, as well as losses in its constructive elements from zero sequence currents is proposed. The nature of the dependence of the transformer losses on the difference in the conductivities of the loads of individual phases is shown with the total conductivity unchanged. Based on the results of computer simulation, the relationship between the total power losses and the unbalance coefficients of the zero and negative sequence and coefficient of asymmetry is determined. An estimate is given for reducing additional power losses in transformers when using a three-phase load equalization device. The appearance of the experimental sample of the load balancing unit is presented. key
Optimizing Restaurant-Table Configurations

Excerpt] Having the right-size tables in a position to be combined with other tables to serve large parties can yield additional revenue at virtually no added cost. This article focuses on restaurants with walk-in customers (no reservations are taken), where a host or hostess seats the parties and where parties are seated separately. Restaurants of this kind are common in the United States (e.g., TGIF, Chili’s, Applebee’s). Specifically, this article examines the issue of which tables should be combinable with which other tables. “Combinability” is the ability to create a larger table from adjacent smaller tables. For example, combinability would allow two adjacent 4-top tables to be combined to seat parties of up eight people. ’ In an earlier investigation I found that, in many cases, having tables dedicated to specific party sizes was preferable to having combinable tables. * The reason for this was that placing tables on hold, while waiting for customers to depart an adjacent table that can then be combined with the empty onhold table, imposes a non-productive idle time for the on-hold tables.
Everybody Hurts: Banking Crises and Individual Wellbeing

We investigate whether banking crises affect individuals' subjective wellbeing (SWB) in eighteen European countries between 1980-2011. We address the potential endogeneity between banking crises and SWB by exploiting spatial and temporal differences in banking crises episodes. We find negative, robust, pronounced and highly persistent effects for events prior to 2007. The 2007-2008 crash lowered SWB in countries that had previously experienced a credit boom. Individuals living in regions hosting financial centres suffer bigger losses. Yet, the impact is similar across socio-demographic groups. These effects extend beyond changes in macroeconomic factors, wealth and fiscal policies: they are hidden psychological costs.
SIMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AC-DC INTERLEAVED BOOST CONVERTER WITH VOLTAGE MULTIPLIER FOR PHEV

A Plug in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a hybrid vehicle which employs battery to power up the vehicle motor and it has higher efficiency and low cost compared to the conventional internal combustion engine based vehicle. In PHEV, the charging and discharging of battery is accomplished using a power electronic converter system. This paper focuses on the implementation of an AC-DC interleaved boost converter with voltage multiplier cells for charging of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). The IBC topology with switched capacitor and coupled inductor is chosen for this work. The proposed AC-DC converter is employed to reduce the ripples at the input and output along with multiplier block to reduce the narrow turn off periods. The output of IBC is fed to a bidirectional DC-DC converter for charging the battery in PHEV. Simulation of the proposed converter is studied in MATLAB. The performance parameters of the converter are computed. Simulation results are verified practically.
CODE SWITCHING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LINGUISTIC SYSTEM OF SIMULTANEOUS BILINGUAL CHILDREN

Code switching and code mixing are the phenomena commonly seen done by a bilingual. This behavior is influenced by several aspects such as the linguistic system, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and language competence of the bilingual. If children are able to distinguish two different languages since early age, they will be considered simultaneous bilinguals. They show that they develop multiple, rather than single, linguistic systems. However, it was understood that code switching and code mixing were due to the failure in using proper words, language features, and sociolinguistic competence. Yet, recent studies have shown that bilingual children are able to use both languages proficiently with no signs of confusion or failure in language use. This ability also does not hinder their cognitive development.
The Effects of Self-Initiated Activity and Appraisal on Mood.

ABSTRACT Self-initiation of activities by individuals may have an affect on their mood. To study the relationship between the appraisal ofiself-initiated activities and dimensions of positive or negative affect 36 graduate students (22 female and 14 male) engaging in a total of 202 activities appraised dimensions of the activities and responded to a 60-adjective Mood Checklist (M. A. Zevon and A. Tellegen) before and after each activity. Activities reported were academic, leisure, work related, daily living, and miscellaneous pursuits. cults showed that the expectation of pleasure and control over participation appraisal dimensions were important in accounting for post-activity positive affect but not for post-activity negative affect. The subject's usual level of enjoyment in the activity was not an important contributor to post-activity positive affect. Overall, the results lend support to the distinction between self-initiated and prompted engagement in activity and their effects on mood. (EN)
Audience Characteristics and Bundling: A Hedonic Analysis of Magazine Advertising Rates

Increasingly, magazines are able to offer potential advertisers all their readers (pure bundling), only specific reader segments (pure components pricing), or a combination of the two (mixed bundling). Using data on advertising rates and reader demographics, the authors estimate the implicit prices of reader characteristics within a hedonic framework. The results suggest that the magnitude of the price and revenue premiums earned by “unbundling” a magazine's readers can be substantial.
Chlorophylls and xanthophylls of crop plants as dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC)

Natural dyes have become a viable alternative to expensive and rare organic sensitizers because of their low cost, easy attainability, abundance of supply of raw materials and environmental friendliness. Chlorophyll, the most abundant pigment, can be extracted from plant leaves with simple and inexpensive methods, but it’s difﬁ cult to use as a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) sensitizer due to the absence of OH and COOH groups. The opposite is true for xanthophylls, a particular class of carotenoids that contain free hydroxyl groups and thus may be considered as potential DSSC sensitizers. In this work we describe a new and inexpensive method of chlorophyll extraction from leaves based on the use of a basic solvent that provides the creation of COOH groups, allowing chlorophyll binding on the TiO2 layer. This modiﬁ ed chlorophyll dye showed a higher DSSC efﬁ ciency level (0.72%) compared to xanthophylls, which had lower efﬁciency.
Capacity Fade Mechanisms and Side Reactions in Lithium‐Ion Batteries

The capacity of a lithium-ion battery decreases during cycling. This capacity loss or fade occurs due to several different mechanisms which are due to or are associated with unwanted side reactions that occur in these batteries. These reactions occur during overcharge or overdischarge and cause electrolyte decomposition, passive film formation, active material dissolution, and other phenomena. These capacity loss mechanisms are not included in the present lithium-ion battery mathematical models available in the open literature. Consequently, these models cannot be used to predict cell performance during cycling and under abuse conditions. This article presents a review of the current literature on capacity fade mechanisms and attempts to describe the information needed and the directions that may be taken to include these mechanisms in advanced lithium-ion battery models.
Determining the changes in commuting after the Ionian Motorway's construction

Commuting refers to the act of daily intercity traveling for employment purposes and constitutes a multidimensional phenomenon that is determined by a set of socioeconomic and geopolitical factors. This article studies how the commuting phenomenon is affected by changes in transport infrastructures and, in particular, after the construction of the Ionian Motorway that suggests one of the biggest infrastructure-works of the modern history at the West Greece and Epirus. A multi-regressive methodological framework is constructed for the analysis of commuting flows, applying three different versions of linear and generalized linear regression models, where the significant predictor variables elected per model are compared and found to converge into a single Newtonian gravity model. Finally, this paper estimates and illustrates the changes of the Ionian Motorway’s construction, based on the commuting model that was constructed at the multi-regressive analysis.
Evaluasi Kualitas Layanan Bioskop X dan Y dengan Competitive Zone of Tolerance based Importance-Performance Analysis (CZIPA)

Abstrak Perkembangan pesat industri film di Indonesia menyebabkan kemunculan beberapa usaha bioskop. Bioskop X, sebagai salah satu bioskop yang baru muncul di industri film, memiliki pesaing Bioskop Y yang telah menguasai pangsa pasar industri film Indonesia lebih dahulu. Agar kedua perusahaan tersebut dapat mengetahui kedudukan bersaingnya, maka dalam penelitian ini dilakukan benchmark dengan metode Competitive Zone of Tolerance based Importance-Performance Analysis (CZIPA). Dimensi yang terlibat yaitu tangible, responsiveness, empathy, assurance, reliability, availability, price dan promosi. CZIPA digunakan untuk mengetahui indikator kualitas layanan unggulan yang dimiliki oleh masingmasing bioskop, serta menyusun prioritas layanan yang perlu ditingkatkan. Data primer dikumpukan melalui kuisioner online terhadap 121 responden. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa masalah utama yang dihadapi bioskop X adalah promosi yang tidak menjangkau semua media dan tidak tersedianya aplikasi pembelian tiket secara online. Pada bioskop Y, masalah utamanya adalah promosi yang diberikan tidak dapat mempertahankan jumlah pengunjung. Beberapa saran perbaikan strategis kemudian disusun berdasarkan temuan tersebut.
Characterization of Intermediate Conductance K + Channels in Submandibular Gland Acinar Cells

to 0.55±0.33 (n=5, Pģ0.05) at the maximum channel activity. The degree of BK channel activation induced by the same concentration of CCh was lower than that of IK channels; Po value was 0.011±0.003 and 0.027±0.005 in control and during CCh stimulation (n=3), respectively. The result suggests that IK channels exist in salivary acinar cells and its channel activity is regulated by muscaricinic and ǰ - adrenergic agonist. We conclude that IK channels also play a putative role in secretion as well as the BK channels in rat submandibular gland acinar cells.
A comprehensive HST BVI catalogue of star clusters in five Hickson compact groups of galaxies

We present a photometric catalogue of star cluster candidates in Hickson compact groups (HCGs) 7, 31, 42, 59, and 92, based on observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. The catalogue contains precise cluster positions (right ascension and declination), magnitudes, and colours in the BVI filters. The number of detected sources ranges from 2200 to 5600 per group, from which we construct the high-confidence sample by applying a number of criteria designed to reduce foreground and background contaminants. Furthermore, the high-confidence cluster candidates for each of the 16 galaxies in our sample are split into two subpopulations: one that may contain young star clusters and one that is dominated by globular older clusters. The ratio of young star cluster to globular cluster candidates varies from group to group, from equal numbers to the extreme of HCG 31 which has a ratio of 8 to 1, due to a recent starburst induced by interactions in the group. We find that the number of blue clusters with MV < −9 correlates well with the current star formation rate in an individual galaxy, while the number of globular cluster candidates with MV < −7.8 correlates well (though with large scatter) with the stellar mass. Analyses of the high-confidence sample presented in this paper show that star clusters can be successfully used to infer the gross star formation history of the host groups and therefore determine their placement in a proposed evolutionary sequence for compact galaxy groups.
A theory of strategic entrepreneurship

This paper examines the integration of entrepreneurship and strategy to develop a conceptual framework of strategic entrepreneurship. This framework is then considered in the context of potentially entrepreneurial and strategic activity undertaken by 12 of the 17 state-owned enterprises [SOEs] operating in New Zealand in 2006. Based on a review of documents, observation, and interviews with SOE executives, case studies were constructed and analysed to compare and contrast strategic entrepreneurship in practice. Of the four activities classified as strategic entrepreneurship, findings reveal distinct elements within these activities, such as leveraging from core skills and resources from a strategic perspective, and innovation from an entrepreneurship perspective.
Linking Northern European Infrastructures for Improving the Accessibility and Documentation of Complex Resources

This paper describes our integration efforts in two Northern European language infrastructures. Specifically, this work has been a collaboration between the META-NORD team at the University of Bergen and the INESS project, a large treebanking infrastructure project in Norway, in developing and documenting two complex resources, as well as making these accessible to the R&D community.
CIT: A Cluster Identification Tool based on Biclustering and Hierarchical Clustering

Cluster analysis is one of the most popular techniques applied in microarray data studies. Thousands of genes can be analyzed within minutes if cluster analysis is embedded in a computational tool. With such modern technologies, it has now become easier to find practical manifestations of microarray data in the fields of pharmacogenomics, cancer genetics and biological network construction. With this project work, we have developed a cluster identifying tool, i.e. CIT which is based on two different clustering methodologies namely; Biclustering and Hierarchical Clustering. We intend to embrace new possibilities in CIT in future, like; dendogram view, interactive outputs etc.
Ammonium Removal by Nitrifying Bacteria Biofilm on Limestone and Bioball Substrate Established in Freshwater Trickling Biofilter

Ammonium, regarded as a major nitrogen pollutant in aquaculture, can be removed by biofilm formation in a biofilter. This research aimed to study ammonium removal on two kinds of substrates: limestone and bioball. Experiments were conducted through three consecutive steps: (1) Biofilter component set up (a trickling filter and substrate) of four groups; limestone substrate (LC), bioball substrate (BC), limestone substrate with nitrifying bacteria (LT) and bioball substrate with nitrifying bacteria (BT); (2) Monitoring biofilters performance for 15 days, where at day-0, 50 ppm ammonium was added into each system and at day-5 the ammonium level in all systems were adjusted to 70 ppm; (3) Enumeration of microbiome making up biofilm during biofilter conditioning period. In this current study, even though ammonium removal was observed in all experimental groups, inoculation of nitrifying bacteria significantly increased the ammonium oxidation rate. After 5 days, both treatment groups inoculated with nitrifying bacteria (LT and BT) degraded ammonium to 2.20-2.25 ppm, while the control groups (LC and BC) degraded ammonium to 12.38-16.59 ppm only. After ammonium adjustment, both treatment groups inoculated with nitrifying bacteria (LT and BT) degraded ammonium to 1.40-2.41 ppm, while the control groups (LC and BC) degraded ammonium to 17.06-23.53 ppm only. The total ammonium removal over 15 days of biofilter monitoring were 33.10% day-1 and 30.95% day-1 for LT and BT group, respectively, and 15.12% day-1 and 11.94% day-1 for LC and BC group, respectively. Biofilm formation on all groups showed the presence of ammonium and nitrite oxidizing bacteria (AOB and NOB) as well as heterotrophic bacteria. In the treatment groups AOB and NOB pioneered the biofilm formation, in contrast with the control groups where heterotrophic bacteria were the pioneer.
Cutting government deficits: Economic science or class war?

The financial crisis of 2008 was widely blamed on reckless and predatory behaviour by the banks, and public debate therefore centred on supporting employment and reforming the financial system. But during 2010, the focus of attention has shifted to the deficits and debts of governments, which are widely believed to be excessive and unsustainable. It is argued here that cutting government deficits is not an economic necessity, but a strategy for justifying attacks on the living standards of workers and heading off reforms that might threaten the power of the ruling classes.
The External Effect of Urban Schooling Attainment on Workers’ Incomes in Ecuador

We estimate the direct and external effects of levels of schooling on personal income in Ecuador in 2011, using data for 69,653 individuals in 567 municipalities. Using a Mincerian model that includes municipal levels of schooling and the size of the municipality and controls for endogeneity, we find that each year of individual schooling raises individual income by 8.5 percent and each year of municipal schooling raises individual income by 2.2 percent. The external effect of an additional year of schooling is larger for workers with more schooling, for those with higher incomes, and for those in more educated municipalities.
Customer satisfaction : a study of bank customer retention in New Zealand

Customer retention is an important element of banking strategy in today’s increasingly competitive environment. Bank management must identify and improve upon factors that can limit customer defection. These include employee performance and professionalism, willingness to solve problems, friendliness, level of knowledge, communication skills, and selling skills, among others. Furthermore, customer defection can also be reduced through adjustments in a bank’s rates, policies and branch locations (Leeds, 1992). Clearly, there are compelling arguments for bank management to carefully consider the factors that might increase customer retention rates. Several studies have emphasised the significance of customer retention in the banking industry (see Dawkins and Reichheld, 1990; Marple and Zimmerman, 1999; Page et al., 1996; Fisher, 2001). However, there has been little effort to investigate factors that might lead to customer retention. Most of the published research has focused on the impact of individual constructs, without attempting to link them in a model to further explore or explain retention. If retention criteria are not well managed, customers might still leave their banks, no matter how hard bankers try to retain them. This paper examines the impact of several retention-relevant constructs that influence consumers’ decisions to stay with or leave their banks in New Zealand. These constructs were rated by customers as having strong effects on loyalty to their banks. Demographic characteristics (i.e. age, gender, educational level and income) were also assessed for their contribution to intentions of staying with or finding alternative banks. Results suggest that the most important constructs were customer satisfaction, followed by corporate image and switching barriers. There was also evidence that customers’ age groups and level of education contributed to explaining respondents' propensity to stay with their current banks. JEL Classification: G20, M30
Model of tropospheric ion composition : A first attempt

Recent atmospheric ion composition measurements in the troposphere have revealed the presence of several new families of ions below the tropopause, which had not been observed above this level. In a chemical model of tropospheric positive ions, several new channels are proposed to explain this observation, and the presence of very heavy clustered aerosol ions (charged ultrafine particles) are considered. Parent neutral compounds, that are responsible for the formation of positive cluster ions in the troposphere, include ammonia, pyridine, picoline, lutidine, acetone, etc. Model results show that the clustered aerosol ions are dominant near the surface, above which pyridinated cluster ions are most abundant up to about 5 km altitude. Above 7 km, ions having acetone as parent neutral species are in majority. Ammonia and methyl cyanide cluster ions are found to be less abundant as compared to the above. Above 13 km the relative abundance of methyl cyanide cluster ions is rapidly increasing, which suggests that the present model results conform with stratospheric ion models. Experimental data suggest, however, that the concentration of pyridinated compounds is highly variable from one location to another and that the relative abundance of ammonia cluster ions could be high in some remote environments. Similarly, our model shows that NO3 -. HNO3 (H2O)n, HSO4 -, and NO3 —core families of ions are the most abundant negative ions in the troposphere during nighttime. The first family dominates below 6 km, whereas the second type dominates between 6 and 10 km. NO3 —core ions are the most abundant ions above 10 km. However, some observational data suggest a dramatic increase in the concentration of sulfuric acid vapor, malonic acid, and methane sulfonic acid during daytime with a related change in the negative ion composition. Our model suggests that under these conditions HSO4 —core ions are the dominant ions below 10 km altitude.