Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PROGRAM ON HOUSING AND URBAN POLICY CONFERENCE PAPER SERIES NEW TOOLS FOR SIMULATING HOUSING CHOICES

There are indications that the current generation of models used to simulate the geography of housing choice has reached the limits of its usefulness under existing specifications. The relative stasis in residential choice modeling—and urban simulation in general—contrasts with simulation efforts in other disciplines, where techniques, theories, and ideas drawn from computation and complexity studies are revitalizing the ways in which we conceptualize, understand, and model real-world phenomena. Many of these concepts and methodologies are applicable to housing choice simulation. Indeed, in many cases, ideas from computation and complexity studies—often clustered under the collective term of geocomputation, as they apply to geography—are ideally suited to the simulation of residential location dynamics. However, there exist several obstructions to their successful use for these puropses, particularly as regards the capacity of these methodologies to handle top-down dynamics in urban systems. This paper presents a framework for developing a hybrid model for urban geographic simulation generally and discusses some of the imposing barriers against innovation in this field. The framework infuses approaches derived from geocomputation and complexity with standard techniques that have been tried and tested in operational land-use and transport simulation. As a proof-of-concept exercise, a micro-model of residential location has been developed with a view to hybridization. The model mixes cellular automata and multi-agent approaches and is formulated so as to interface with meso-models at a higher scale.
Recently Developed New, Sensitive, Time-Effective and Cost-Effective Diagnostic Tests of Malaria

Malaria is world’s predominant morbidity and mortality causing infectious disease. Diagnosis of Plasmodium infections in febrile persons, residing in malaria endemic areas, is a pre-requisite for proper malarial treatment. The presently available dipstick antigen detection (RDT), microscopic (Giemsa stained smear on slide) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests of malaria are poor in sensitivity, time consuming, and expensive. Recently developed rolling circle enhanced enzyme activity detection (REEAD)- and micromagnetic resonance reflaxometric (MMR)- test are amenable to deployment in field conditions and are highly accurate; and cost- and time-ef fective. The properties of all three conventional and two new malaria tests have been compared here and have been shown to be complementary for usage, under hospital laboratory and field conditions.
Excited state hyperfine structures in 133Cs using quantum beat spectroscopy

Quantum beats arising from the hyperfine interaction were observed in the fluorescence produced when the 8D3/2, 9D3/2, and 10D3/2 states of 133Cs radiatively decayed to the 6P1/2 state. The period of the beats equals the reciprocal of the magnetic dipole coupling constant a since the 133Cs nucleus has a negligibly small electric quadrupole moment. The results are a = 3.95 ± 0.01, 2.38 ± 0.01, and 1.54 ± 0.02 MHz for the 8D3/2, 9D3/2, and 10D3/2 states, respectively.
A new method for solving fully fuzzy linear Bilevel programming problems

In this paper, a new method is proposed to find the fuzzy optimal solution of fully fuzzy linear Bilevel programming (FFLBLP) problems by representing all the parameters as triangular fuzzy numbers. In the proposed method, the given FFLBLP problem is decomposed into three crisp linear programming (CLP) problems with bounded variables constraints, the three CLP problems are solved separately and by using its optimal solutions, the fuzzy optimal solution to the given FFLBLP is obtained. The proposed method is easy to understand and to apply for finding the fuzzy optimal solution of FFLBLP occurring in real life situations.
Resonant enhancement in leptogenesis

Vanilla leptogenesis within the type I seesaw framework requires the mass scale of the right-handed neutrinos to be above 109 GeV. This lower bound can be avoided if at least two of the sterile states are almost mass degenerate, which leads to an enhancement of the decay asymmetry. Leptogenesis models that can be tested in current and upcoming experiments often rely on this resonant enhancement, and a systematic and consistent description is therefore necessary for phenomenological applications. In this review article, we give an overview of different methods that have been used to study the saturation of the resonant enhancement when the mass difference becomes comparable to the characteristic width of the Majorana neutrinos. In this limit, coherent flavor transitions start to play a decisive role, and off-diagonal correlations in flavor space have to be taken into account. We compare various formalisms that have been used to describe the resonant regime and discuss under which circumstances the resonant enhancement can be captured by simplified expressions for the CP asymmetry. Finally, we briefly review some of the phenomenological aspects of resonant leptogenesis.
An Investigation of the Computer-mediated Communication of Emotions

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is one of the most widely utilized c ommunication techniques in the business world. However, little is known about the effectiveness of CMC in communicating affective information (i.e., em otions). A primary o bjective of t his p aper is to investigate whether CMC can t ransfer affective information an d, if so, the extent to whi ch CMC transfers such information. This paper pro poses a co nceptual m odel and investigates t he i mpact of emotional message cue, emotion words, linguistic markers, and paralinguistic cues. The research design involved 225 students who participated i n a 2 x 3 x 3 l aboratory experiment. The results indicate t hat affective information ca n be transferred through CMC. Message receivers were able to de tect the sender's emotion by (1) associating the message content with pos itive or n egative emotions, (2) u sing emotion c ues su ch as emotion w ords, linguistic markers, and paralinguistic c ues, and (3) t hrough the combination o f these techniques. The results f urther i ndicate that message receivers i ndicated a h igher degree o f senders' emotions w hen the number o f em otion cues in the message increased. T he paper c oncludes w ith implications for pract itioners and directions for f uture research.
Microalgae for the production of bulk chemicals and biofuels

The feasibility of microalgae production for biodiesel was discussed. Although algae are not yet produced at large scale for bulk applications, there are opportunities to develop this process in a sustainable way. It remains unlikely, however, that the process will be developed for biodiesel as the only end product from microalgae. In order to develop a more sustainable and economically feasible process, all biomass components (e.g. proteins, lipids, carbohydrates) should be used and therefore biorefining of microalgae is very important for the selective separation and use of the functional biomass components. If biorefining of microalgae is applied, lipids should be fractionated into lipids for biodiesel, lipids as a feedstock for the chemical industry and ω‐3 fatty acids, proteins and carbohydrates for food, feed and bulk chemicals, and the oxygen produced should be recovered also. If, in addition, production of algae is done on residual nutrient feedstocks and CO2, and production of microalgae is done on a large scale against low production costs, production of bulk chemicals and fuels from microalgae will become economically feasible.
Wine Marketing: Impact of Demographic Factors of Serbian Consumers On the Choice of Wine

Abstract How consumers will behave when buying wine depends on many factors, among which economic, social, demographic, psychological and situational ones are highlighted. Research in wine consumer attitudes in Serbia is aimed at creating appropriate marketing strategies. This paper analyses the influences of demographic factors on wine consumption.Special attention was paid to the impact of the wine characteristics that affect the decision to buy the local or imported wines with geographical origin. It should be added that wine tourism is particularly important in increasing the sales of wine by direct and indirect means.To this aim, 1.705 wine buyers and consumers were interviewed during 2015. Based on Chi-test, it has been proven that the age group affects the decision on the purchase of wine. Understanding consumer motivation is possible through an adequate marketing approach which will provide increased sales of domestic wine and the quicker development of the national market.
MeProRisk - a Tool Box for Evaluating and Reducing Risks in Exploration, Development, and Operation of Geothermal Reservoirs

In developing geothermal resources there is a high risk of failure compared to hydrocarbon exploration. The MeProRisk projects aims at improving the strategies in all phases of the reservoir life cycle. It is a joint enterprise of three German universities and two companies: RWTH Aachen; FU Berlin; University of Kiel; Geophysica GmbH (Aachen); and RWE Dea AG (Hamburg). It is funded for three years by the German Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF). The key idea of this project is to understand the development of a given reservoir as an iterative process. Starting from existing geological information and geophysical data, one or more conceptual models will emerge which will be used for first numerical simulation, forward and inverse. The models will be progressively refined by including reliable rock properties based on a statistical analysis and geological fine structure deduced from sophisticated seismic interpretation. The use of inverse simulation techniques in a broad sense will not only finally yield an optimal model but provide estimates of uncertainty and resolution for the model. This information is useful for further optimizations of experiments, not the least important of which is comprised of choosing the locations of new exploration wells.
Isoelectric point prediction from the amino acid sequence of a protein

Proteins often do not migrate as expected in two dimensional electrophoresis based on their primary sequence. The predicted isoelectric point (pi) frequently does not coincide with experimental pi values obtained in the laboratory. The reasons for these differences led to this study. Initially, 2DE data from the E. coli proteome was collected and formatted. This dataset was split into three parts each consisting ofdifferent levels of pi discrepancy (Apl). The protein sequence data for each Apl subset was run through a pipeline. At each stage of the pipeline the data were analyzed by comparing each of the three Apl subsets to one another. The pipeline consisted of a naive approach (considering individual amino acid frequencies), followed by the application four different alphabets to represent sequences in a simpler way by grouping similar amino acids based on their charge, functional, chemical, and hydrophobic properties . The final step in the pipeline involved investigating the dipeptides of all of these sequences using both the 20 amino acid alphabet and the simplified groupings. An evaluation of the alphabet dipeptide analysis demonstrated the existence of certain dipeptide sequences which correlate well with differences between predicted pi and experimental pi.
Moving-Average approximations of random ε-correlated processes

The paper considers approximations of time-continuous ε-correlated random processes by interpolation of time-discrete Moving-Average processes. These approximations are helpful for Monte-Carlo simulations of the response of systems containing random parameters described by ε-correlated processes. The paper focuses on the approximation of stationary ε-correlated processes with a prescribed correlation function. Numerical results are presented.
How much do we know about the role of vitamin D in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus

Vitamin D is an essential steroid hormone. The role of Vitamin D in mineral metabolism and skeletal health as related to calcium homeostasis is well established. In addition to this role, vitamin D has been recently accepted also as immune modulator and thus it could be possibly implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This review focuses on the question: „Is vitamin D deficiency involved in the pathogenesis of SLE or is it a consequence of the disease state? ” and comments the known positive effects of vitamin D supplementation on SLE disease activity.
The current status of teaching staff innovation competence in Ugandan universities: perceptions of managers, teachers, and students

How competent are university teaching staff to deliver effectively their present and future university duties in Uganda? This question was explored in this study by collecting data from managers (n = 90), teachers (n = 126), and students (n = 179) through a questionnaire administered at Kyambogo University. The results show that teacher performance in the role of innovating; knowledge society facilitating; collaborating and networking; higher education designing and developing; and entrepreneurship, could not be considered as satisfactory. It was also established that there are significant differences in the perception of the aforesaid among the respondent categories. The findings suggest that urgent intervention is needed to develop teacher innovation competence if Uganda wants to have an effective higher education. This study also highlights the centrality of using various internal key stakeholders in the educational system such as students and educational managers if effective teacher performance evaluation is to be attained in universities.
Happy moves? Assessing the impact of subjective well-being on the emigration decision

Recent literature suggests that higher levels of subjective well-being (happiness and life satisfaction) lead to greater productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. The governments of migrant-receiving countries should, therefore, be interested in attracting happy migrants, as this can reduce the burden on the welfare state and facilitate migrants’ integration into the host society. To determine how people select into migration on the basis of subjective well-being, we study causal effects of life satisfaction on emigration intentions in 29 post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Instrumental variable analysis suggests that higher levels of life satisfaction have a positive effect on the probability of reporting intentions to migrate, i.e. prospective migrants are positively selected on subjective well-being.
Selection and implementation of integrated systems in Ohio libraries

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the William H. Hannon Library at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@lmu.edu. Repository Citation Radcliff, Carolyn and Gatten, Jeffrey, "Selection and Implementation of Integrated Systems in Ohio Libraries" (1991). LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations. 88. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/librarian_pubs/88
High/low-impedance transmission-line and coupled-line filter networks for differential phase shifters

Two compact and simple to design differential phase shifter topologies, based on high/low-impedance transmission-line sections and open-ended coupled-line sections, are presented for the first time. The basic circuit theory for single section topologies is reviewed, leading to design equations and graphs for direct circuit synthesis. Balanced topologies and multiple section designs are also proposed improving the performance and feasibility of the phase shifters. Two planar microstrip single section differential phase shifter hybrids, at a centre frequency of 12 GHz and a 45 and 135° phase difference have been designed and manufactured. The designs have a simulated 0.5 dB amplitude and 1° phase imbalance over more than 25 and 40% bandwidth, respectively. Experimental results verify the circuit performance and feasibility of the proposed differential phase shifters.
Comparative study of static and dynamic neural network models for nonlinear time series forecasting

During the recent decades, neural network models have been focused upon by researchers due to their more real performance and on this basis different types of these models have been used in forecasting. Now, there is this question that which kind of these models has more explanatory power in forecasting the future processes of the stock. In line with this, the present paper made a comparison between static and dynamic neural network models in forecasting the return of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) index in order to find the best model to be used for forecasting this series (as a nonlinear financial time series). The data were collected daily from 25/3/2009 to 22/10/2011. The models examined in this study included two static models (Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems or ANFIS and Multi-layer Feed-forward Neural Network or MFNN) and a dynamic model (nonlinear neural network autoregressive model or NNAR). The findings showed that based on the Mean Square Error and Root Mean Square Error criteria, ANFIS model had a much higher forecasting ability compared to other models.
Preparation of Wood Adhesives Based on Soybean Meal Modified with PEGDA as a Crosslinker and Viscosity Reducer

To increase the water resistance and reduce the viscosity of soybean meal (SM)-based non-formaldehyde wood adhesives, polyethyleneglycol diacrylate (PEGDA) used as crosslinker and viscosity reducer was introduced into the SM adhesive system. The apparent viscosity was evaluated by rheological measurements; gel content and water absorption of adhesives, the wet shear strength of plywood bonded with these modified adhesives were tested to evaluate their water resistance. In addition, the crosslink structures of modified adhesives were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and solid-state 13C NMR analysis. The results indicated that all of the SM adhesives were pseudoplastic fluids with the property of shear-thinning. The viscosity of modified SM adhesives effectively decreased by 35% compared with the addition of PEGDA, and the wet shear strength of their bonded plywood increased; the wet shear strength of plywood bonded with 4% PEGDA-modified SM adhesive increased 114.2% compared to SM adhesive. FTIR spectroscopy and solid-state 13C NMR analysis demonstrated that the crosslinking reaction of the PEGDA occurred successfully during the curing process of PEGDA modified SM adhesive, and no crosslinking reaction between the PEGDA and soy meal adhesive appeared to have occurred. Interpenetrating networks (IPNs) might be formed between the cured PEGDA and SM adhesive system.
MULTI-MATERIAL DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF A BUS BODY STRUCTURE

In the recent years the safety and eco-friendliness have gained much of attention of the automotive stakeholders. These two characteristics are especially important in the case of mass transportation vehicles, such as buses or coaches, which are in continues use for long periods of time, covering significant distances. In such situations, the economical aspects play major role for the transportation companies which try to minimize operational costs of their fleet, by choosing vehicles with reduced fuel consumption. In order to obtain improvements in all the mentioned areas and hence to strengthen their position on the market, bus manufacturers have recently turned their attention to multimaterial design strategies. Structures built in that manner consist not only of regular steel parts, but contain also a mix of components made from various lightweight materials like aluminum alloys or composites, which allow for significant reduction in vehicle curb weight. However, due to the differences in mechanical characteristics which are especially evident in the case of laminates, the material substitution is not a straightforward task. In order to find the material distribution pattern that meets all the requirements, a great number of prototypic numerical models must be prepared and tested. To ease the search for the final solution, optimization techniques can be applied into the design process, allowing for automatic design modifications and assessment of the obtained results. The paper presents an attempt of enhancing the operational characteristics of a bus body structure with simultaneous reduction in the structural weight. In order to find the optimal component configuration, a multimaterial optimization was employed and supplemented by sensitivity and robustness analyses. Such a technique helps to discriminate the over-optimized solutions that are often pointed out as the most desirable by the optimization algorithms which neglect the uncertainties of the analysed system.
INTERNAL CONSISTENCY OF MEDICAL STUDENTS' SCORES IN GENERAL AND BAISC SCIENCE EXAMS, KERMAN UNIVERSITY, IRAN

Background and purpose: Course-based assessment is a method to gather, analyze, disseminate, and use course data to improve student learning. We assessed the associations between medical students’ scores in basic sciences and general courses in a university in Iran and compared these scores with their scores in comprehensive exam. Methods: We collected the scores of medical students in their courses and also in their comprehensive exam in Kerman University in eight consecutive years (1995-2002). Using a hierarchical cluster analysis and discrimination index, the internal consistency of students’ scores was assessed. Results: Generally, females were more successful. In addition, age had a strong negative correlation with academic achievement. The temporal variations in students’ achievements were more or less constant. Students’ scores in anatomy, biochemistry, histology, immunology, medical English, microbiology and physiology had the greatest discrimination indices and also stronger intra-cluster correlations. Conclusion: It seems that a cluster analysis and the discrimination index are powerful approaches to be used in a course-based assessment and to check the validity of students’ scores.
The Birth of Sustainable Development

Environmental disasters, economical crises and social challenges urged the mankind to go back to the drawing table and think fundamentally. That led to the birth of a new term named sustainable development coined by the former Norwegian prime minister namely Gr Brundtland. Despite numerous research and studies on different aspect of sustainable development, very few studies have covered the history of this concept. "The birth of sustainable development" intends to throw insight on the emergence of this term through a historical research methodology. The paper highlighted the nomad beliefs, various religions, notions, declarations and international land mark sustainable development events. The results expose that the sustainable development concept has been coined 25 years ago; nevertheless, it has been practiced for thousands of years and even by primitive people. The historical review also indicates that despite all of the efforts of international community, the current situation of the world in term of sustainable development is not satisfactory. Keywords—history, pre Stockholm, Theory of Limit, sustainable development