Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
KAREL KLEISNER DO DOMINANT-LOOKING MALES HAVE BROWN EYES ? A FURTHER INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF IRIS COLOUR FOR DOMINANCE PERCEPTION

The eyes represent a conspicuous facial element of unique appearance; they play an important role in signalling and communication within many animal species including humans. In this paper, we investigate the possible influence of eye colour on the perception of dominance. This research is based on our previous study (Kleisner et al., 2010: Pers. Individ. Dif. 49: 59–64) showing that eye colour had a significant effect on perceived dominance. Facial photographs of university students were rated for perceived dominance. To control for a possible idiosyncratic effect of selected facial photographs, the two distinct samples were compiled. The first sample of photos consisted of 80 faces and the second of 120 faces; both were of students from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. The rating of photographs was performed by volunteers from three different regions: Prague, Ústí nad Labem (both Czech Republic), and Tartu (Estonia). Controlling for sample and location, we showed that there is no statistically significant relationship between eye colour and perceived dominance: Prague (P = 0.822), Ústí nad Labem (P = 0.778), and Tartu (P = 0.565). These negative results thus contradict the previous study, wherein males with brown eyes were perceived as more dominant than males with blue eyes. In this study we consider the possible local-specific differences and confounding random factors which might be responsible for the previous positive results on an association between eye colour and the perception of dominance.
Selecting a suitable technology : it ’ s about people and tasks

This paper reports the outcome of a user-context analysis of two interactive devices used by product assemblers in a large grocery distribution warehouse in Ottawa, Canada. One used a screen-based textual platform and a handheld device, and the other was speech-based. The former had been in use in the centre for some time, but management was trialling hands-free Interactive Voice System (IVS) at the time the study took place, to help them decide if the hand-held display units should be phased out throughout the centre. The IVS was a small battery-operated computer with scanning capabilities that acted as an interface to the backend Warehouse Management System (WMS) and the user. The hand-held device had a keypad and a barcode reader for data entry as well as a small screen display. Two versions of this technology were in use at the time, displaying either six or eight lines of text in a serif font. Both displays used a serif font. Findings showed that the main problems were less with the technologies than with work-related user performance requirements that revealed certain negative effects outlined in the paper. It was concluded that user experience theories and models in the current literature were inadequate for guiding the research, and that the HCI community needs to adopt a more nuanced approach to the definition and measurement of the user experience construct.
基于Flash ActionScript 3.0的动画设计的研究

分析了ActionScript 3. 0动画编程的原理,讲解了ActionScript 3. 0中通过Event. ENTER_FRAME事件和Ti merEvent.TI MER事件产生动画的方法。 ActionScript 3. 0动画编程要涉及到数学、物理等方面的内容,介绍了物理定律与数学知识相结合,建立物体运动的模型,再通过代码来实现的方法。
Relationships between Precalculus Students ’ Engagement and Shape Thinking

This study examines relationships between community college precalculus students’ understanding and engagement to link mathematical success to a malleable construct, and offer new insights for addressing consistently poor success rates in community college precalculus (Barnes, Cerrito, & Levi, 2004). Two-part interviews, consisting of a task and debriefing, were conducted with 8 students to investigate their shape thinking (Moore & Thompson, 2015), and engagement, conceptualized through flow theory (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975). Results suggest that students can be highly engaged in mathematics tasks regardless of understanding and that students exhibiting different ways of thinking about graph construction tended to experience different forms of engagement.
The detection of actual research topics using co-word networks

The purpose of research is to compare co-word and co-author networks from Web of science and show the possibilities of scientific priorities’ searching for scientific teams in computer science. The paper proposed a new algorithms for detecting actual research topics, which is calculated on the analysis of co-word and co-author networks. We offer to compare co-words networks of certain team and the main world’s tendencies. The algorithm is available to search common topics for international researches of scientific teams and compares cowords networks of certain team and worlds co-word network. The algorithm determines the scientific topics that are relevant to global trends, as well as the scientific clusters that perform them. The examples of calculation of the algorithm for computer science for authors from Belarus have been proposed. The results of the research can be used to determine the scientific topics of research to address the urgent needs of any country, to correct the research of organizations. Keywords—scientometrics; co-author networks; co-word network; actual research topics;computer science; Belarus.
3 D Scanning Map Building for Mobile Robot Navigation

In our daily life, we dump the waste everyday. The waste is transported to the landfill after processing. Over long time, when the wastes mix with water, the bacteria breaks down and release out harmful gas from underground. We have to collect gas information periodically for long term until production of the gas is almost terminated. Therefore there are requirements to develop a mobile robot to monitor the activity of microbial process. In this paper, we mainly elaborate development of 3D scanning device to build 3D map in landfill to be applied to the robot navigation.
Ecotourism positively affects awareness and attitudes but not conservation behaviours: a case study at Grande Riviere, Trinidad

Ecotourism is often suggested as a tool for promoting conservation but evidence for its usefulness is mixed. The success of conservation projects is widely recognized to depend upon the positive attitudes of local communities and thus it is important to know if ecotourism affects local perceptions of natural resources and conservation, as these can be important determinants of conservation behaviour. Rapid Rural Appraisal and questionnaire-based interviews were used to investigate this issue in the village of Grande Riviere, Trinidad. This has a community-based ecotourism programme for leatherback turtles Dermochelys coriacea, and is also one of the few sites where the Critically Endangered endemic Trinidad piping-guan Pipile pipile may be sighted. Topics addressed were knowledge and awareness of local conservation issues, focusing on attitudes to the environment in general, turtles and the Trinidad piping-guan. Ecotourism signiﬁcantly affected perceptions. Villagers showed more awareness and support for turtle conservation than for the piping-guan or any other wildlife. Moreover, those households directly beneﬁting from the ecotourism industry had better knowledge of local natural resources and greater general awareness of conservation issues (not limited to turtles). Other socio-economic factors such as education and income also affected attitudes and knowledge but the ecotourism effect was still present after accounting for these. Hunting was seen as the main threat to wildlife but was also a popular pastime, illustrating the potential for mismatch between attitudes and conservation behaviours.
Indoor navigation for service mobile robots using Robot Operating System (ROS)

: this paper presents implementation of indoor navigation for service mobile robots. Problems like hardware driver, odometry and sensor data stream identification are solved to set up ROS Navigation stack. The Navigation stack provide all the necessary functions for mobile robots to be autonomous. We applied the navigation on our robot and it is working pretty good. The robot reaches any given position and avoid obstacles, controlled by the navigation.
Unplanned excisions of soft tissue sarcoma : Influence on therapy and patients ’ survival Tumour-related factors correlate with the rate of unplanned excisions

Introduction: Unplanned excisions (UE) of soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are a widely known therapeutic dilemma. The atypical presentation and absence of „worrying“ features may tempt inexperienced surgeons to perform surgery. The aim of this diploma thesis was to determine the influence of unplanned excisions on further therapy and patient’s prognosis. Patients and Methods: 427 patients referred since 1998 to our institution were included. Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS Version 22.0. Tumour-, patientand treatmentrelated parameters were compared between directly referred and inappropriately excised patients. Survival analysis was carried out excluding patients with primary metastasis and amputations, resulting in 376 patients eligible. A two-sided p-value < 0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. Results: 212 patients were female and 215 male. 165 patients had undergone an UE (38.6%) prior to referral. 392 patients underwent limb-sparing surgery at our department, whereas in 35 patients, an amputation was necessary. UE-patients had significantly more often small (p<0.005) as well as superficial (p<0.005) tumours and required more often plastic reconstructions (p<0.005) than directly referred ones. Neither univariate (p=0.120) nor multivariate (p=0.147) Cox-regression-analysis revealed an altered overall-survival for UE patients, though a trend towards a slightly better prognosis was visible. In both groups, multivariate analysis identified high-grade tumours as a significant negative prognostic factor (p<0.005; HR: 3.827, 95%CI: 1.965-7.453 in directly referred patients and p=0.007; HR: 4.791, 95%CI: 1.526-15.036 in UE patients). However, in the directly referred group only age over 60 was an additional significant parameter (p=0.009; HR:2.223, 95%CI: 1.217-4.063), whereas in the UE group duration of symptoms less than 6 months (p=0.020; HR: 0.347, 95%CI: 0.142-0.849) and local recurrence (p=0.002; HR: 4.867, 95%CI: 1.764-13.422) were additional negative prognostic factors. Conclusion: Although the prognosis of STS-patients is not impaired after an UE, they require more often extensive surgery with plastic reconstruction, possibly impairing their quality of life. Additionally, local recurrence is a particularly poor prognostic factor when occurring after UE. For these reasons, UE of soft tissue sarcomas should be avoided.
Theoretical and experimental study on strain transfer of distributed optical fiber sensor *

Distributed optical fiber sensor(DOFS) is widely used because of its high resolution and high precision. However, due to strain transfer, the strain measured by the sensor is different from the actual strain. Therefore, strain transfer was analyzed on terms of theory in this paper. Then, sensors with different bonding methods were used for test to verify the reliability of the theoretical analysis. The results demonstrate that with the increase of adhesive thickness, the average strain transfer rate decreases. And the strain transfer rate increases with increasing shear modulus of adhesive. The test results are almost consistent with the theoretical analysis.
Marine and River Dune Dynamics – MARID IV – 15 & 16 April 2013-Bruges , Belgium 191 Large-eddy simulation of flow over barchan dunes

We have performed large-eddy simulations of turbule nt flow over barchan dunes in a channel with 5 diff er ng interdune spacings in the downstream direction at mod erate Reynolds number, Re∞=25,160 (based on the free stream velocity and channel height). Simulations are valid ate against experimental data (at Re∞=59,000); the largest interdune spacing (2.38 λ, where λ is the length of the barchan model) presents simil ar characteristics as the isolated dune in the experiment, indicating that at this dis tance the sheltering effect of the upstream dune is v ry weak. We provide 3D realizations of the mean and instantaneo us fl w that allows us to explain some features of the flow relevant to sediment transport. Barchan dunes induce t wo counter-rotating streamwise vortices, along each of the horns, which direct high-momentum fluid toward the centerline symmetry plane and low-momentum fluid ne ar the bed away from the centerline. Distribution of the b ed shear stress, characteristics of the separation nd reattachment regions, and instantaneous wall turbulence are discussed. The interdune spacing significantly alt ers he turbulent flow over the stoss side of the dunes. The cha racteristics of the separated-shear layer are alter ed quantitatively; the separation bubble is smaller, the separated-she ar layer is stronger, and the bed shear stress is l arger at smaller interdune spacings.
CACHE RETRIEVAL METHOD BY USING RDF

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) has been commonly used to depict assets and their associations as a piece of the semantic web. The RDF chart is one of the generally used portrayals for RDF data. Regardless, in numerous continuous application, for example, information extraction or combination, RDF diagram joined from different data sources may regularly contain questionable and clashing information (e.g., unsure names or that disregard actualities/rules), on account of the absence of nature of data sources. The formalizing the RDF information by clashing probabilistic RDF outlines, which contain the two abnormalities and vulnerability. With such a probabilistic outline model and focus on a crucial issue in reserve based question recovery the board in clashing probabilistic RDF diagrams, which recuperates sub charts from clashing probabilistic RDF charts that are isomorphic to a given inquiry diagram and with magnificent scores. So as to productively answer QA-gMatch inquiries, the proposed reserve upheld to inquiry recovery framework, which can be decreasing time delay between new hunt and store looking time. At long last, exhibiting the productivity and the viability of the proposed methodology through broad tests.
FRAMEWORK FOR RUSSIAN PLAGIARISM DETECTION USING SENTENCE EMBEDDING SIMILARITY AND NEGATIVE SAMPLING

In this paper, we propose a new approach for advanced plagiarism detection in Russian language. It is based on a classifier, dealing with two different types of sentence similarity measures: token set similarity and cosine similarity between sentence embeddings (based on pre-trained RusVectōrēs, unsupervised fastText, and supervised StarSpace models). The diversity of feature space makes it possible to detect different types of plagiarism, starting from simple copy&paste cases and ending with complex manual paraphrases. The proposed approach implies an ability to focus on the particular plagiarism type identification, allowing to train a universal model at the same time. The method shows great results on detection of different types of plagiarism and outperforms the previous approach.
Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge: Case studies in the cognitive science of science

The book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and limits of the metascientific application of both holistic and modular cognitive semantics. The case studies show that, while cognitive semantic research is able to solve problems which have traditionally been the domain of the philosophy of science, it also encounters serious limits. The prospects and the limits thus revealed suggest new research topics which in future can be tackled by cognitive semantic approaches to the cognitive science of science.
Evaluation of program specification and verification systems

Abstract : Computer systems that earn a high degree of trust must be backed by rigorous verification methods. A verification system is an interactive environment for writing formal specifications and checking formal proofs. Verification systems allow large complicated proofs to be managed and checked interactively. We desire evaluation criteria that provide a means of finding which verification system is suitable for a specific research environment and what needs of a particular project the tool satisfies, Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to develop a methodology and set of evaluation criteria to evaluate verification systems for their suitability to improve the assurance that systems meet security objectives. A specific verification system is evaluated with respect to the defined methodology. The main goals are to evaluate whether the verification system has the capability to express the properties of software systems and to evaluate whether the verification system can provide inter-level mapping, a feature required for understanding how a system meets security objectives.
Law Dome CO 2 , CH 4 and N 2 O ice core records extended to 2000 years

[1] New measurements of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations in ice from Law Dome, Antarctica reproduce published Law Dome CO2 and CH4 records, extend them back to 2000 years BP, and include N2O. They have very high air age resolution, data density and measurement precision. Firn air measurements span the past 65 years and overlap with the ice core and direct atmospheric observations. Major increases in CO2, CH4 and N2O concentrations during the past 200 years followed a period of relative stability beforehand. Decadal variations during the industrial period include the stabilization of CO2 and slowing of CH4 and N2O growth in the 1940s and 1950s. Variations of up to 10 ppm CO2, 40 ppb CH4 and 10 ppb N2O occurred throughout the preindustrial period. Methane concentrations grew by 100 ppb from AD 0 to 1800, possibly due to early anthropogenic emissions. Citation: MacFarling Meure, C. , D. Etheridge, C. Trudinger, P. Steele, R. Langenfelds, T. van Ommen, A. Smith, and J. Elkins (2006), Law Dome CO2, CH4 and N2O ice core records extended to 2000 years BP, Geophys. Res. Lett. , 33, L14810, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL026152.
The Dichotomy of Business Cycles and Economic Growth

In the aftermath of the recent global financial crisis, advanced economies have faced sluggish recoveries or long-lasting economic slowdowns. This experience has challenged the conventional dichotomy of business cycles and economic growth, which has long been central to macroeconomic analysis. Against this backdrop, we review the literature looking at the relationship between business cycles and economic growth. This study consists of three parts. First, we provide basic ideas about the relationship of business cycles and economic growth, and a simple empirical analysis on economic growth rates in advanced economies. Second, we survey studies which look at the effects of business cycles on economic growth. Specifically, we focus on hysteresis effects caused by labor market structure, firm activity and fiscal policy. Third, we review the literature looking at the effects of economic growth on business cycles, through mechanisms such as technological progress and population ageing. JEL classification: E32, O40
CAN NOVICE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS BE TRAINED TO UNDERTAKE A PEOPLE HANDLING RISK ASSESSMENT ?

People handling tasks are a source of musculoskeletal disorders in health care workers. Studies have shown that the use of ergonomic assessment tools can be effective in reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries. The Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) is a quick observational tool to assess the level of risk associated with work in the healthcare industries. The aim of this study was to determine whether novices are as accurate as experienced health professionals in the use of the REBA to rate three common people handling activities and to report on the optimal mode of training required to ensure a consistent ergonomic risk assessment is undertaken. Thirty-one participants with variable levels of experience in completing ergonomic assessments were assessed in their ability to undertake a risk assessment of three common people handling tasks using the REBA. Ten experienced health professionals (Group A, mean age 32.8 years, equal gender mix) and twenty-one novices (students in health care sciences) participated. The novices were randomly assigned to a group face-to-face 30 minute training session (N = 11, Group B, mean age 22 years, seven females) or 30 minutes to read through written instructions (N = 10, Group C, mean age of 20 years and seven females) in use of the REBA. After viewing the videos of three people handling tasks, all participants independently scored the REBA. Data collected included: a) final score on the REBA for each task (range 1 -15); b) self-perceived difficulty in completing the REBA; and c) self-perceived confidence in the completing the REBA. The self-perceived level of difficulty and confidence were scored on an 11point scale anchored at 0 = not difficult / confident, and 10 = extremely difficult / confident. Ethical approval was obtained from the institutional committee. Independent t-tests were used to compare self-perceived confidence and level of difficulty in scoring the REBA between novices and experienced health workers. One-way ANOVA was used to determine differences in REBA scores between Group A, B and C. To determine differences in variability of results between groups, the co-efficient of variation was calculated using a one-way ANOVA and Tukey post Hoc test. There was no significant difference in REBA score between novices and experienced professionals in any of the people handling tasks (p > 0.07). Novices rated the use of the REBA tool as significantly more difficult than the experienced health professionals (p = 0.03). However, the experienced health professionals were no more confident than novices in using the REBA tool (p = 0.07). Verbal instruction was no more beneficial than written instructions when educating novices in the use of the REBA (p = 0.07) although verbal training showed less variance than use of written instructions (p < 0.01).