Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE INFLUENCE OF GAME MECHANICS AND IN-GAME CHARACTER IN MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES (MMOG) TO TEAMWORK PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM IN ACCOUNTING, DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY

This research examines the influence of game mechanics and in-game character in massively multiplayer online game to teamwork performance of students in the International Program in Accounting, Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Brawijaya. This research used quantitative method. Sampling method used in this research was purposive sampling which resulted in 52 students who play online games. Data was gathered from the respondents using questionnaire. Answers from respondents were scored based on Likert Scale. Hypothesis was tested using t Test and F test. Partially, this research explains that game mechanics significantly affect teamwork while in-game character does not. Simultaneously, both independent variable affect teamwork. These results show that game mechanics and in-game character in massively multiplayer online games give significant influence to students who play them and that behaviour affects positively in students real life and future. Keywords : Teamwork performance, In- Game Character, Game Mechanics, MMOG
Social Network Analysis as an Organizational Diagnostic Tool: The Case of Small Business in Russia

The science of social networks is at the intersection of computer science, communication studies, mathematics and sociology.The first area is already “invested” by communications networks, hardware and software, and has attracted many users. Communication science studies the network not only as a computer network, but also as a network of discourse. Contributions of mathematics are the theory of graphs and various related calculations. “Weak” in this triad is a sociological interpretation of quantitative ratios network. The purpose of this work is defining the concept of social network analysis (SNA) as an organizational diagnostic “tool” and its implementation is using a quantitative analysis method. The article considers the following questions: The definition of the diagnostic process in relation to social networking organization; the possibility of social networking quantitative analysis; the illustration of how to use the theory of social capital as a sociological basis for the social networks diagnostics in the small business and the calculations of illustrative indicators and real networks in the case of a small business organization in Russia. Data processing was carried out with the use of UciNet. As a result, the classes (diagnosis) of organizational social networks are offered, and opportunities, along with their limits of the application of quantitative indicators making up the method of SNA to diagnose the network of organizations with a variety of responses, are presented.
Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of preservative-free fixed combination of tafluprost 0.0015%/timolol 0.5% versus concomitant use of the ingredients.

PURPOSE To compare efficacy, safety, and tolerability of the preservative-free fixed combination (FC) and non-fixed combination (NFC) of tafluprost 0.0015% and timolol 0.5% in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension. METHODS This 6-month, prospective, randomized, double-masked, active-controlled, parallel group, multicenter phase III study was performed in patients with ocular hypertension and open-angle glaucoma with untreated intraocular pressure (IOP) ≥23 and ≤36 mmHg at baseline. RESULTS Four hundred patients washed out from IOP-lowering medication were randomized, 201 received the FC, and 199 received the NFC. Mean time-wise IOP decreases from baseline ranged from -7.3 to -9.1 mmHg (29.6%-34.6%) in the FC and from -7.5 to -9.4 mmHg (30.7%-36.0%) in the NFC arm [per-protocol (PP) dataset, P<0.0001 compared with baseline for both groups]. At month 6, the estimated overall treatment difference (FC-NFC) was 0.308 mmHg (PP dataset, 95% confidence interval from -0.194 to 0.810 mmHg). An IOP decrease ≥30% was achieved in 58.3% and 66.9% of the patients in the FC and NFC groups, respectively (PP dataset; P=0.105); an IOP decrease ≥35% was achieved in 36.6% and 43.1% of patients in the FC and NFC groups, respectively (PP dataset; P=0.297). Patients with ocular adverse events were evenly distributed in both groups. The most common side effect, conjunctival/ocular hyperemia was found in 8% and 5% of patients in the FC and NFC arms, respectively. CONCLUSIONS All measures of IOP reduction for FC of preservative-free tafluprost/timolol were statistically and clinically significant and non-inferior to those of the NFC, throughout the 6-month study period.
Memory Recall for International Gestures

The current project reviewed relevant research in the area of emblem gestures and created an electronic library of gestures that incorporates established population norms by culture and region. In order to present this information to assist learning and remembering the information, four displays were used (text only, text with gender-neutral and expressionneutral image, text with contextually relevant image, or text with detailed image of gesture) with 16 gestures (eight with the same meaning across countries, eight with different meanings). Accuracy was measured for the first set of 32 questions (learning) and the second set of 32 questions (transfer of knowledge to novel stimuli). Results showed a clear benefit for gestures with the same meaning across cultures. In addition, use of the detailed image produced significantly higher accuracy than textual information alone.
Foot strike patterns in veteran runners with respect to the increase of the speed and fatigue

Introduction: In the last few decades the number of participants in the popular endurance races has increased,especially for athletes in the category of veterans (over 35 years), as well as the number of organized events. Objective: To analyze the foot strike patterns in veteran runners with respect to an increase of speed and fatigue. Methods: Participation of 43 athletes, 40 men (mean age: 41.3±1.10 years old) and 3 women (mean age: 44.3±3.17 years old). After warm-up, three running protocols were performed: comfortable pace, competition pace and competicion pace until the increase two values of the Borg scale, freely chosen by each athlete. Foot strike patterns (contact surface, lateral rotation and tilting of the foot) and a time sequence were analyzed by high-speed video. Results: 84.5% of the athletes had rearfoot, increasing with the speed and fatigue. Among 52.7% of the athletes had mild external rotation and 69% had mild lateral tilt. No relationship was found between athletes, either with or without lesions in the foot strike patterns on the three race protocols. The contact time was higher in rearfoot regarding the rest of the types of foot strike patterns in comfortable running and competition pace. Conclusion: The findings of this study may be relevant for the design of athletic shoes and contribute information on the relationship between the foot strike patterns of the veteran runner and the risk of injuries.
Regresión de la calcificación vascular en un paciente tratado con cinacalcet: informe de un caso

The purpose of this case report is to describe the regression of vascular calcifications (VC) in a patient with secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) after having added cinacalcet to her treatment. We present the clinical case of a 48-year-old woman with chronic renal failure secondary to tubulointerstitial disease. She was being treated with long-term haemodialysis (HD) and underwent two kidney transplants with transplantectomies. The patient presented with severe SHPT caused by parathyroid gland hypertrophy. The radiology test showed signs of VC in the radial and interdigital arteries, and VC in a linear arrangement were observed in both breasts on the mammography. Cinacalcet was added to her treatment with vitamin D derivatives and phosphate-binding agents, which resulted in a good control of mineral metabolism. The radiology test showed that the calcification in the interdigital artery had disappeared and that the bone appeared to be more structured. The mammography also showed regression of the VC. To conclude, cinacalcet may have potential for regression of VC in patients with SHPT.
On-line signature verification using dynamic time warping with positional coordinates

This paper gives a view of the signature verification approached through the dynamic time warping. Warping is performed in a subspace of the observation space to enhance the important differences between the tested signatures. Very good results were obtained for the alignment based only on the pen position data. The templates were created using 5 signatures of each person thus enabling to estimate the spreads of signature components and use them for threshold scaling. For 170 volunteers we obtained 1.86% false rejections with false acceptance rate of 1.04%. The algorithms have a cascade form, which simplifies and speeds up the calculations.
A Study on Development of Improvement Guidelines of Smart Accessibility for the Disabled

In current knowledge and information society, digital divide is a big concern for all. That is, the disabled have some troubles to enjoy their daily life. Recently, numerous ICT and smart devices are available for the disabled as well as the non-disabled. For the disabled, improving smart accessibility is very important to live in smart environment. The purpose of this paper is to present some practical guidelines for improving smart accessibility for the disabled. The improvement guidelines are developed based on the existing mobile accessibility guidelines and modifying them for better adaptability for the disabled. Our principles are as follows: avoidance of large image, contrast between background and input window color, avoidance of colored chart and graph, avoidance of tabular format, avoidance of blue or violet light use, provision of scanning contents, provision of alternatives for sound information, provision of speech recognition service, provision of sensory perception service, and provision of emotional information service, respectively.
Shared representations and the translation process: A recursive model

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate automated processing during translation. We provide evidence from a translation priming study which suggests that translation involves activation of shared lexico-semantic and syntactical representations, i.e., the activation of features of both source and target language items which share one single cognitive representation. We argue that activation of shared representations facilitates automated processing. The paper revises the literal translation hypothesis and the monitor model (Ivir 1981; Toury 1995; Tirkkonen-Condit 2005), and re-defines it in terms of findings from translation process research. On the basis of the evidence, we propose a recursive model of translation.
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEACHING AND RESEARCH

points raised above. It might not be inappropriate to conclude by offering some alterna tive views on research and teaching-but without providing any supporting evidence for them at this stage. These suggestions could well form part of a research agenda at a later stage. First, it is a grey world; there is no simple relationship to be found-or to be expected between research and teaching. Secondly, engagement in research can be both helpful and detrimental to effective teaching. Thirdly, good teaching requires commitment to good teaching; good teaching should not necessarily be.expected to occur through commitment to other, non-teaching activities. Fourthly, good teaching can be found where research activity and a research ethos are completely absent. (Consider, for example, of the highly effective training provided by many commercial training departments and organisations). Fifthly, before we can disentangle the nature of the relationship between teaching and research, we must first be clear as to what we mean when we use the words ' teaching ' and ' research '. Finally, the task of establishing the links between research and teaching is likely to be rather more complex than just comparing two simple summary measurements. However, despite the technical difficulties that may be involved, a thorough-going study of the relationship between research and teaching is long overdue. Until it has been carried out, we will be little the wiser about the interactions that occur in our institutions of higher education whenever individuals practice the twin crafts of teaching and research.
Periodic broadcast technique for scalable VCR-like interactivity

Periodic broadcast techniques have been demonstrated to effectively deliver the popular media contents with short startup delay. Due to the broadcast nature, this approach optimizes the server streams sharing by default. With essentially no overhead in scheduling user requests, these server-push schemes easily accomplish better service scalability than other elaborate client-pull designs. Unfortunately, there has been no support for interactive VCR-like services. Users are only allowed to playback the media title in a regular fashion. In this paper, we propose a novel streaming protocol to compensate for such shortage. The idea is to recursively split the successive video frames into several disjoint groups. Yet, different groups are served by the corresponding clusters of server channels at the reduced delivery capacity. With such design, each client is allowed to individually fulfill the specific interactivity requirement by tuning to the proper channels in the clusters with no server intervention. Consequently, the scalability of interactive services is maximized with no sacrifice on the support of the regular service demands. The performance study demonstrates significant server bandwidth saving can be realized using the proposed technique.
Silent data corruption in SATA arrays: A solution

Recent large academic studies have identified the surprising frequency of silent read failures that are not identified or resolved in enterprise SATA disk arrays despite the typical integrity functions. Such errors result in corrupt data being provided by the disk array to the application without any notification or warning, potentially leading to erroneous operations and results. This “silent data corruption” includes misdirected writes, partial writes, and data path corruption with evidence pointing to the errors being uncaught in 1 in 90 drives. By using an extended data integrity feature, silent data corruption can be identified and handled so that corrupt data is not sent to the application. Furthermore, data that otherwise would be lost can be recovered.
Bedeutung der Biotechnologie beim Rind in Europa

Zusammenfassung Die Biotechnologie in der Reproduktionsmedizin bietet vielfältige Anwendungsbereiche und beinhaltet ein hohes Innovationspotenzial bei Nutztieren. Angesichts der globalen Entwicklungen können die neuen Erkenntnisse und Techniken wichtige Hilfsmittel sein, um zukünftigen Herausforderungen besser begegnen zu können. So kann der Einsatz biotechnologischer Verfahren im Bereich der Tierproduktion die Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit ausreichenden Mengen qualitativ hochwertiger Nahrungsmittel gewährleisten. Tiergenetische Ressourcen lassen sich durch die Anlage von Sperma- und Embryonenbanken erhalten. Durch die frühzeitige Diagnose von Erbfehlern, die Erzeugung von Nachkommen mit vorherbestimmtem Geschlecht und die Vermeidung von Zuchttiertransporten durch die Versendung tiefgefrorener Embryonen kommt es zu einer Verbesserung des Tierschutzes. Eine besondere Anwendungsmöglichkeit bietet sich außerdem durch den Einsatz speziesübergreifender Modelle, die auch für die assistierten Reproduktionstechniken in der Humanmedizin eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Daraus resultiert nicht nur in Deutschland ein erhöhter Bedarf in der Nutzung der biotechnologischen Verfahren und deren Weiterentwicklung durch die Förderung von Forschungsprojekten.
[Effect of precipitation and seasonal period on the patterns of commuting to school in children and adolescents from Granada].

BACKGROUND Active commuting (walking or cycling) to school contributes to increase physical activity levels in young people. Meteorological conditions might have a remarkable influence on this behaviour. OBJECTIVE The aim is to study the impact of the rainfall and seasonality on the mode of commuting to primary school or secondary school in children and adolescents from Granada. METHODS A total of 384 students (166 children and 218 adolescents) between 8-18 years from 2 different schools (primary and secondary schools) of Granada took part in the research. Participants filled a questionnaire about their weekly pattern on the mode of commuting to school in the three seasons of the academic year. Data about the rainfall in those three weeks was obtained from the National Agency of Meteorology. The association between rainfall and seasonality with mode of commuting to school was studied by McNemar test. RESULTS No significant associations were spotted between the rainfall and the seasonality with mode of commuting in children and adolescents (p>0.05) except for: a) a positive effect of rainfall in the percentage of children who usually walked to school between a rainy day and a non-rainy day in spring (p=0.031) and b) a weak effect of the seasonality on the percentage of children and adolescents who usually walk between autumn and winter (45.8% and 37.5% walk to school) and between autumn and spring (59.7% and 56%) respectively (p=0.07). CONCLUSIONS The meteorological conditions do not seem to influence the mode of commuting to school in children and adolescents from Granada, which might indicate that this behavior keeps a constant pattern throughout the whole academic year.
Effects of fluoride on caries development and progression using intra-oral models.

This paper reviews the use of Intraoral model systems to help elucidate the role of fluoride and. its mechanism of action in caries prevention. The Intraoral models currently in use were found to be of three general types. The most widely used system has consisted of a removable appliance that relies on the use of dacron gauze or a recessed sample to enhance plaque formation. Similarly, the banding model of Ogaard requires the presence of orthodontic band material to produce a plaque accumulation niche for demineralization, while the crown single-section technique relies mainly on placement of the sections in plaque-retentive areas (below contact points). In general, the models may be used for the assessment of food cariogenicity, an evaluation of de- and re-mineralization, and measurement of fluoride incorporation into enamel or root substrates.On evaluation of lesion initiation and progression in vivo, it is apparent that few non-destructive in vivo techniques are available that offer the sensitivity of.
A Visual Approach to Investigating System Behaviour of NUMA Systems and Job Scheduling Processes in HPC Clusters

As multicore architectures become mainstream, an in-depth understanding of how applications behave on these architectures is crucial for performance optimization and energy efficiency. However, the increased complexity of modern hardware and the variability of system topology within these multicore systems make optimization challenging. This thesis focuses on providing programmers with an alternative, effective, and direct means to understand program behaviour using visualization techniques. Our work involves a visual approach to investigate applications and operating system behaviour on NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) systems as well as job scheduling processes in HPC (High Performance Computing) clusters. Our client-server architecture facilitates real-time analysis and supports multiple concurrent users. The visualization tools proposed in this work overcome the complexity of these systems, transforming data and processes into a set of immediately comprehensible visual representations. Users can visualize the trace data from multiple perspectives, either in a real-time or non-real-time manner. The tools can also be easily adapted for visualizing different systems. In this thesis, we present the design of the visualization tools, discuss our experiences gained from the development of the tools, and demonstrate how these tools allow users to gain valuable insights into the systems they are studying. The proposed visualization tools run on the targeted iOS platform (iPads), offering users mobility as well as an unique experience of monitoring and analyzing system behaviour via an intuitive, multi-touch interface.
Analysis of Allele Specific Expression - A Survey

Allele specific expression is essential for cellular programming and development and the diversity of cellular phenotypes. Traditional analysis methods utilize RNA and depend on single nucleotide polymorphisms, thus to suffer from limited amount of materials for analysis. The rapid development of next-generation sequencing technologies provides more comprehensive and powerful approaches to analyze the genomic, epigenetic, and transcriptomic data, and further to detect and measure allele specific expressions. It will potentially enhance the understanding of the allele specific expressions, their complexities, and the effect on biological processes. In this paper, we extensively review the state-of-art enabling technologies and tools to analyze, detect, and measure allele specific expressions, compare their features, and point out the future trend of the methods.
An introduction to historical linguistics

All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics, the study of language change over time. It covers all major areas of historical linguistics, presenting concepts in a concise manner. While examples are given from a wide range of languages, most major concepts and techniques are illustrated by material drawn from the languages of Australia and the Pacific. This edition has been substantially revised and rewritten. Further exercises have been added for student use, and there are new sections on language planning and language contact.
A Systematic Review of the Effect of Inhaled Essential Oils on Sleep

Abstract Objective: Sleep disturbances are recognized as an important health and public health problem that affects physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being. Inhalation of essential oils may be a safe alternative to pharmaceutical interventions for mild to moderate sleep disturbances. Quantitative human studies on the effect of inhaled essential oils on sleep that were published between 1990 to 2012 were reviewed. Methods: Ovid Medline, PsychINFO, CINAHL, Science Direct, and PubMed databases were searched to extract articles that evaluated the effect of inhaled essential oils on sleep in humans. Results: The search yielded 15 quantitative studies, including 11 randomized controlled trials that examined hypnotic effects of inhalation of essential oils. A majority of the study findings suggested a positive effect of essential oils on sleep. Lavender was the most frequently studied essential oil. No adverse events were reported. Conclusions: Inhalation of essential oils may be considered for peo.