Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EU-CIRCLE : A pan-European framework for strengthening critical infrastructure resilience to climate change Project taxonomy and methodology – Climate-weather change terminology and methodology

The paper presents climate-weather change terminology, selected from the fourth chapter of the report prepared in the scope of the EU-CIRCLE project. This project titled “A pan-European framework for strengthening Critical Infrastructure resilience to climate change – EU-CIRCLE” is realized under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. The improved terms and definitions coming from this chapter are presented. Moreover, methodology related to climate-weather change in the scope of project issues is introduced.
Empirical Essays in International Trade

When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have to fall according to the accession agreement. This paper evaluates this 2007-2014 trade liberalization by building an applied general equilibrium model and calibrating it to the Vietnamese data. The model pays careful attention to the fact that Vietnam has many state-owned enterprises that do not behave in a profit maximizing way. The model simulations show that the WTO imposed tariff reforms will reduce the overall welfare level of the Vietnamese households. Moreover, the biggest loss of income will take place among the poor rural households in Vietnam. We propose other tariff reforms that both raise overall welfare and reduce income inequality. JEL Codes: F14, F17, C68.
Adopting Organic Wheat: Grower Motivations and Concerns

Introduction In recent years, the demand for organic products has increased rapidly. The Organic Trade Association found the percentage share of at-home organic food purchases in 2015 had more than doubled since 2005 to 5% of the total share and organic retail sales in the U.S. were $43.3 billion in 2015 (USDA-ERS, 2017). For organic wheat products, such as bread and baked goods, the demand currently exceeds the supply (Koory, 2018). With the increasing demand for organic wheat flour, Ardent Mills, a major supplier of flour in North America, is now attempting to meet the demand with its Organic Initiative 2019 (Ardent Mills, 2015). The initiative will assist growers with adoption of organic wheat and the associated concerns. However, a recent study of wheat producers in the western United States found that wheat growers were actually transitioning out of organic production due to concerns about pest control and profitability (Curtis and Quarnstrom, 2019). Growers that had adopted organic methods did so due to the potential profit and their personal values at the time of transition. This fact sheet provides an overview of the study results by discussing grower motivations for adopting organic methods, as well as grower concerns regarding organic production.
PENGARUH INFLASI DAN TINGKAT BUNGA TERHADAP INDEKS HARGA SAHAM GABUNGAN (IHSG) PADA BURSA EFEK INDONESIA

The unstable monetary situation as reflected in the interest rates and inflation resulting in chaos in the economy. This shows the close macroeconomics impact on stock price indices in the stock market. The purpose of this study is to assess and analyze the influence of the variables of macro-economic indicator s of inflation and interest rates on stock price performance index over the period 20 12 to 201 4 . Technique analysis in this study using multiple linear regression method using the independent variable inflation and interest rates on the Composite Index. Data obtained from the Monthly Statistic, Indonesia Stock Exchange, Economic Indicators of the Central Bureau of Statistic, Monthly Report of Bank Indonesia and the Indonesian Capital Market Directory. The result showed that the Composite Index in Indonesia Stock Exchange has a relationship but not too significant to inflationary and interest rate variables. While inflation and interest rates simultaneously affect the JCI. Simultaneously the macro variables affect inflation and interest rates of 88.4% against 11.6% JCI rest explained by other factors.
ANALYSING THE SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING CONTENT OF LEADING ARAB AIRPORTS

The research highlights the importance of social media in airport marketing on Facebook (as a leading social media marketing platform in this field). The social media marketing content of major Arab airports on Facebook are analyzed with an aim to explore the most common marketing messages / themes used on selected sites. The analysis covers the marketing content of leading airports in Egypt (Cairo international airport), the United Arab of Emirates (Dubai -Sharjah), Saudi Arabia, (King Abdul-AzizKing Khaled) Qatar (Hamad), Kuwait, Muscat and Bahrain. The research mainly aims to explore new methods to increase the popularity of leading Arab airports‟ on Facebook. The study proposes specific types / categories of marketing messages that can guarantee a high level of likeability and better level of engagement among travelers. The primary findings confirm that major Arab airports can improve their level of likeability among users on Facebook by designing and posting a more effective selection of marketing message types on their respective sites. The research concluded the most popular marketing message types among users by using a computer-assisted quantitative content analysis tool.
Valproic acid exposure decreases neurogenic potential of outer radial glia in human brain organoids

Valproic acid (VPA) exposure during pregnancy leads to a higher risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) susceptibility in offspring. Human dorsal forebrain organoids were used to recapitulate course of cortical neurogenesis in the developing human brain. Combining morphological characterization with massive parallel RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) on organoids to analyze the pathogenic effects caused by VPA exposure and critical signaling pathway. We found that VPA exposure in organoids caused a reduction in the size and impairment in the proliferation and expansion of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) in a dose-dependent manner. VPA exposure typically decreased the production of outer radial glia-like cells (oRGs), a subtype of NPCs contributing to mammalian neocortical expansion and delayed their fate toward upper-layer neurons. Transcriptomics analysis revealed that VPA exposure influenced ASD risk gene expression in organoids, which markedly overlapped with irregulated genes in brains or organoids originating from ASD patients. We also identified that VPA-mediated Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway activation is essential for sustaining cortical neurogenesis and oRGs output. Taken together, our study establishes the use of dorsal forebrain organoids as an effective platform for modeling VPA-induced teratogenic pathways involved in the cortical neurogenesis and oRGs output, which might contribute to ASD pathogenesis in the developing brain.
Fabrication of embossed capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers using sacrificial release process

An embossed capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) is a device with embossed membrane that works in the collapse mode to improve output pressure in transmission. In this paper, a six-mask sacrificial release process is proposed for fabricating embossed CMUT arrays. Based on this process, the embossed pattern CMUTs were firstly fabricated. By using of electroplating methods, annular embossed patterns made of nickel were grown on the full top electrodes of CMUTs. The dimensions of the embossed pattern were about 3.0 μm in width and 1.4 μm in height. The resonant frequencies of the embossed CMUT array were 6.4MHz and 8.7MHz when the device worked in the conventional and the collapse mode, respectively.
Indonesian Dataset Expansion of Microsoft Research Video Description Corpus and Its Similarity Analysis

This paper describes the academic base of an openly Indonesian dataset in Mendeley Data with DOI: 10.17632/d7vx5cc92y.1 [1]. The dataset is an Indonesian language expansion of Microsoft research video description corpus, an open dataset contains about 120 thousand sentences. The dataset is a useful resource because the sentences are a set of roughly parallel descriptions of more than 2,000 video snippets of 35 languages. Both paraphrase and bilingual relation are available but Indonesian description is not available in the dataset. Therefore, this paper describes the research effort to expand the dataset for the Indonesian language. The research collected 43,753 description texts of 1,959 short videos, parallel with Microsoft’s dataset. Adding more value to the dataset, similarity metrics calculations of the texts were done. The metrics were Cosine, Jaccard, euclidian, and Manhattan with average results were 0.22, 0.33, 2.38, and 6.08 respectively.
Security enhancement on an anonymous authentication scheme for wireless communications using smart cards

Abstract With the development of wireless communication technology, user anonymity authentication for wireless communication network has become increasingly important. In this paper, we revisit an anonymous authentication scheme for wireless communications using smart cards presented by Lu et al. in 2015. We show that, this scheme is vulnerable to off-line password guessing attack, man-in-the-middle attack in session key change phase, trace attack and unsuccessful key agreement. To fix these identified drawbacks, we proposed an enhanced anonymous authentication scheme. The proposed scheme is provably secure and protects active and passive attacks under ECCDH assumption in the random oracle model. Further, we compared the proposed scheme with other related protocol. The results shows that the proposed scheme is practically suitable for wireless environments.
Towards Semantic Geo/BI: A Novel Approach for Semantically Enriching Geo/BI Data with OWL Ontological Layers (OOLAP and ODW) to Enable Semantic Exploration, Analysis and Discovery of Geospatial Business Intelligence Knowledge

To contribute in filling up the semantic gap in data warehouses and OLAP data cubes, and enable semantic exploration and reasoning on them, this paper highlights the need for semantically augmenting Geo/BI data with convenient semantic relations, and provides OWL-based ontologies (ODW and OOLAP) which are capable of replicating data warehouses (respectively OLAP data cubes) in the form semantic data with respect of Geo/BI data structures, and which enable the possibility of augmenting these semantic BI data with semantic relations. Moreover, the paper demonstrates how ODW and OOLAP ontologies can be combined to current Geo/BI data structures to deliver either pure semantic Geo/BI data or mixed semantically interrelated Geo/BI data to business professionals.
An integrated physiology, cytology, and proteomics analysis reveals a network of sugarcane protoplast responses to enzymolysis

The protoplast experimental system eis an effective tool for functional genomics and cell fusion breeding. However, the physiological and molecular mechanisms of protoplast response to enzymolysis are not clear, which has become a major obstacle to protoplast regeneration. Here, we used physiological, cytological, proteomics and gene expression analysis to compare the young leaves of sugarcane and enzymolized protoplasts. After enzymatic digestion, we obtained protoplasts with viability of > 90%. Meanwhile, the content of malondialdehyde, an oxidation product, increased in the protoplasts following enzymolysis, and the activity of antioxidant enzymes, such as peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT), acid peroxidase (APX), and O2-, significantly decreased. Cytologic analysis results showed that, post enzymolysis, the cell membranes were perforated to different degrees, the nuclear activity was weakened, the nucleolus structure was not obvious, and the microtubules depolymerized and formed several short rod-like structures in protoplasts. In this study, a proteomics approaches was used to identify proteins of protoplasts in response to the enzymatic digestion process. GO, KEGG, and KOG enrichment analyses revealed that the abundant proteins were mainly involved in bioenergetic metabolism, cellular processes, osmotic stress, and redox homeostasis of protoplasts, which allow for protein biosynthesis or degradation. RT-qPCR analysis revealed that the expression of osmotic stress resistance genes, such as DREB, WRKY, MAPK4, and NAC, was upregulated, while that of key regeneration genes, such as CyclinD3, CyclinA, CyclinB, Cdc2, PSK, CESA, and GAUT, was significantly downregulated in the protoplasts. Hierarchical clustering and identification of redox proteins and oxidation products showed that these proteins were involved in dynamic networks in response to oxidative stress after enzymolysis. Our findings can facilitate the development of a standard system to produce regenerated protoplasts using molecular markers and antibody detection of enzymolysis.
The evolution of herd behavior: Will herding disappear over time?

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolutionary nature of herding phenomenon in the context of a frontier stock market, the Colombo Stock Exchange of Sri Lanka. Design/methodology/approach This study applies the cross-sectional absolute deviation methodology for daily frequencies of data of all the common stocks listed during the period from April 2000 to March 2018. The regression coefficients are estimated by using both the ordinary least square and the quantile regression procedures. Findings The findings reveal significant changes to the pattern of herding over different market periods, each with specific characteristics. Herding is strongly evident in up and down market days in the 2000-2009 period, during which the market was highly uncertain with the impact of the political instability of the country due to the Civil War on the stock trading. Even after this Civil War period, herd tendency is strongly manifested toward the up market direction as a result of the investors’ optimism about the country’s economy and political stability, which caused to a speculative bubble in the market. After that, it is turned into negative herding due to the panic selling occurred in view of the uncertainty of the inflated prices, which led to a market crash. Notably, herding appears to be consistently absent over the period after the crash, despite the presence of herd motives such as high market uncertainties triggered by political instability and economic crisis during that period. Research limitations/implications The findings suggest that herd behavior is an evolving phenomenon in financial markets. Consistent with the adaptive market hypothesis, the absence of herding evident after the market crash could be attributed to the investors’ learning of the irrationality of herding/negative herding for adapting to market conditions. As a result, herding and negative herding tendencies declined and disappeared at the aggregate market level. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by providing novel evidence on the evolutionary nature of behavioral biases, particularly herding, as predicted by the adaptive market hypothesis. With the application of the quantile regression procedure, in addition to customary used ordinary least squares approach, it also provides robust evidence on this phenomenon.
Spatial Persistence of Agglomeration in Software Publishing

We use geocoded administrative establishment data in Texas to estimate the effects of localization economies on the spatial persistence of industrial employment in the software industry. The choice of the software industry allows us to distinguish between the spatial persistence of employment due to human capital spillovers from that due to the labor pool channel. Unlike previous research, this analysis is independent of administrative boundaries. The results suggest that a location, defined as a 1-mile radius circle, with an initial concentration of software industry employment retains a disproportionate number of employees 6 years later despite significant job turnover. Software industry employment in surrounding areas has small effects. The results are not driven by higher establishment growth rates in high concentration locations or by differences in survival probabilities. They are fully explained by: (i) the retention by other establishments in a location of jobs lost by an establishment in that location, and (ii) an increased propensity of software establishments to enter in or near locations with prior software establishment presence. The entry effect diminishes sharply beyond one mile. We demonstrate that these findings are more consistent with labor channel effects than with human capital spillovers.
OPTIMISASI PENJADWALAN EKONOMIS PLTG PADA PLTGU TAMBAK LOROK DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE CUCKOO SEARCH ALGORITHM

Pembangkit tenaga listrik thermal merupakan suatu pembangkit yang menghasilkan energi listrik yang berasal dari energi thermal . Energi thermal bisa dihasilkan melalui pembakaran bahan bakar berupa gas ataupun batubara. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, pada pembangkit tenaga listrik thermal konsumsi bahan bakar sangatlah mempengaruhi biaya produksi energi listrik, sehingga diperlukan suatu teknik pengoperasian pembangkit yang optimum. Pada Penelitian ini Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) diusulkan sebagai metode optimisasi konsumsi bahan bakar pada generator Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Gas (PLTG) di Unit Bisnis Pembangkit (UBP) Semarang dalam permasalahan penjadwalan ekonomis. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dihasilkan adanya penghematan antara metode CSA dengan iterasi lambda dan metode CSA dengan prakiraan total konsumsi bahan bakar generator PLTG di UBP Semarang. Pada perbandingan antara metode CSA dengan iterasi lambda dihasilkan bahwa optimisasi CSA menghasilkan total konsumsi bahan bakar yang lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan metode iterasi lambda, dimana terjadi penghematan sebesar 27.331,53 MMBTU. Pada perbandingan antara metode CSA dengan praakiraan total konsumsi bahan bakar PLTG UBP Semarang dihasilkan bahwa optimisasi CSA menghasilkan total konsumsi bahan bakar yang lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan prakiraan total konsumsi bahan bakar PLTG UBP Semarang, dimana terjadi penghematan sebesar 31.667,51 MMBTU.
The network of empire and universal capitalism: imperialism and the laws of capitalist competition

Imperialism in the context of capitalism has been explained either in terms of the suspension of the laws of capitalist competition, or by focusing on the relationship of capitalism with pre-capitalist regions. This paper puts forward a theory of imperialism that is specific and internal to capitalism. The argument put forward in this paper is that the critical element of the empire of capital is the manner in which imperial power is exercised to bring the workers across the globe under the dominion of the network of capitalist relations. The distinctive logic of imperialism is understood to arise from the use of imperial power to expand the pool of available surplus value available for capital as a whole to exploit. It can be interpreted as the network externality of expanding the web of control of capital.
Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Struktur Modal Perusahaan Aneka Industri Yang Terdaftar Di BEI

The purpose of this empirical research is to obtain empirical evidence about the influence of profitability, liquidity, and asset growth on the capital structure. As of the purposes to determine the effect of asset growth was moderated by interest rate on the capital structure on company listed on the stock exchange from 2013-2017. This research uses data varias industries that were selected using purposive sampling method for a total of 150 data in five years. The data used in this research are secondary data in the form of financial statements. The results show that profitability and asset growth moderated by interest rate affect to capital structure, whereas liquidity and asset growth does not affect to capital structure. Simultaneously, the testing shows independent variable have a significant impact on the capital structure. Testing results show that the coefficient of determination before moderated of 77.83% dependen variable is affected by the independent variable, while the remaining 22.17% is explained by other variables. Testing results show that the coefficient of determination after moderated increase of 0.63% to be 77.83%
Design of Single-Topology Continuously Scalable-Conversion-Ratio Switched- Capacitor DC–DC Converters

This paper introduces a fundamentally different type of switched-capacitor dc–dc converter with large voltage swing flying capacitors, which is made efficient using advanced multiphasing soft charging. A single-capacitor topology is derived that behaves like a gyrator and achieves a continuously scalable-conversion-ratio with high efficiency. A circuit fabricated in a 28-nm CMOS process demonstrates the working principle of the presented topology and advances the state of the art by achieving a peak efficiency of 93%, and a single-topology 0.9–2.03-V output voltage range with more than 90% efficiency at an input voltage of 2 V.
Adventures in Monitorability

LUCA ACETO, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy and Reykjavik University, Iceland ANTONIS ACHILLEOS, Reykjavik University, Iceland ADRIAN FRANCALANZA, University of Malta, Malta ANNA INGÓLFSDÓTTIR, Reykjavik University, Iceland KAROLIINA LEHTINEN, Kiel University, Germany and University of Liverpool, United Kingdom This paper establishes a comprehensive theory of runtime monitorability for Hennessy-Milner logic with recursion, a very expressive variant of the modal μ-calculus. It investigates the monitorability of that logic with a linear-time semantics and then compares the obtained results with ones that were previously presented in the literature for a branching-time setting. Our work establishes an expressiveness hierarchy of monitorable fragments of Hennessy-Milner logic with recursion in a linear-time setting and exactly identifies what kinds of guarantees can be given using runtime monitors for each type of specification. Each fragment is shown to be complete, in the sense that it can express all properties that can be monitored under the corresponding guarantees. The study is carried out using a principled approach to monitoring that connects the semantics of the logic and the operational semantics of monitors. The proposed framework supports the automatic, compositional synthesis of correct monitors from monitorable properties. Additional
Modeling Local Spatial Dependence in Shaping Population Distribution

This study proposes to investigate the effectiveness of modeling local spatial dependence through a conditionally autoregressive process (CAR) to picture the population distribution across space. Following the current literature, the idea is to model individual location preferences by focusing on a selected sample of location determinants but also taking into account spatial dependence in location choices. By exploiting a Bayesian setting, our novelty is to include spatial CAR census random effects that have been found to be effective in enhancing the role of spatial proximity. Our results indicate that to effectively control for the spatial dimension in location choices, one needs to define both a global indicator for space structure and local spatial dependence which has become increasingly important in recent decades.