Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performers in Jiuzhaigou: from 'Authenticity of Life' to 'Authenticity of Performance' By Yang Ningdong and Chen Zao

W the development of tourism in Jiuzhaigou, China, some performers from other Tibetan areas in China have been the important symbol carriers and spokespersons. This study explores the changing process of Tibetan culture in tourism from ‘authenticity of life’ to ‘authenticity of performance’, including the feedback reaction from ‘authenticity of performance’ to ‘authenticity of life’. For the performers in Jiuzhaigou, cultural authenticity in the context of tourism relates more to a new sense of life and the reconstruction of a sense of place, which mainly originate from individual professional achievement and the enhancement of self-identity for the performers, as representatives of ‘The Host’ in the tourist destination.
High incidence of shell injuries in an isolated population of the spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca ibera) from Romania

Abstract Testudo graeca is one of the two species of tortoises from Romania, the other one being Testudo hermanni. It is well known that this species has a broad but fragmented distribution range and this fact labels this species as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List. The population of Testudo graeca ibera from the Natura 2000 site “Marine dunes from Agigea” is characterized by a high percentage of injuries (84%) from the total of 43 individuals found alive. A high percentage of individuals have injuries on all the plates from carapace and plastron. All lesions appear to be chronic, suggesting that there is a series of predisposing factors, such as: inadequate terrain (concrete, metal, broken glass and other hard objects), high-density dog population and coprophagia, which could be a sign of unbalanced nutrition. This is the first report of a population of Testudo graeca which has such a high percentage of individuals with shell damage.
Probing velocity dependent self-interacting dark matter with neutrino telescopes

Self-interacting dark matter models constitute an attractive solution to problems in structure formation on small scales. A simple realization of these models considers the dark force mediated by a light particle which can couple to the Standard Model through mixings with the photon or the Z boson. Within this scenario we investigate the sensitivity of the IceCube-DeepCore and PINGU neutrino telescopes to the associated muon neutrino flux produced by dark matter annihilations in the Sun. Despite the model's simplicity, several effects naturally appear: momentum suppressed capture by nuclei, velocity dependent dark matter self-capture, Sommerfeld enhanced annihilation, as well as the enhancement on the neutrino flux due to mediator late decays. Taking all these effects into account, we find that most of the model relevant parameter space can be tested by the three years of data already collected by the IceCube-DeepCore. We show that indirect detection through neutrinos can compete with the strong existing limits from direct detection experiments, specially in the case of isospin violation.
Adolescents Alcohol Consumption: Identification of determinants of probability to drink with special focus on social interaction

Objective: Underage drinking with increasing pattern towards binge drinking is one of the common problems in European countries. This thesis tries to explain what leads young people to participate in drinking, what is the connection between certain risk behaviours (smoking and drinking) and what role play individuals’ peers in the drinking habits of adolescent. Method: Econometric analysis is used to identify the determinants of drinking and estimate peer influence on the adolescent. Estimated models are based on the available literature on this topic and on economic theory related to addiction and social interaction. Sample used for the empirical part comes from European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs done among high school students in Czech Republic. Conclusions: Results from the analyses suggest that most common drivers of engagement in drinking are sensitivity on alcohol, friends influence, current smoking status, experience with other drugs and judgment of regular intoxication. Further analysis of causality between drinking and smoking brings evidence that first year students’ smoking and drinking arises from common causes, while for third year students smoking is more attributable to drinking behaviour. Findings from analyses on peer effect show that influence of classmates on the individual varies across genders and its magnitude and significance depends on the estimated sample. In general, peer effect has always positive sign and regardless of gender and estimated sample it significantly increases participation in drinking of adolescents who have not been drinking before high school.
Evaluation and Analysis on Security Framework Model of Cloud Computing

as for the trust model in the past neglects trust fuzziness and dynamic and it can not precisely reflect trust relations, this paper relies on idea of fuzzy logic and it puts forward evaluation model of cloud computing based on fuzzy trust, uses fuzzy comprehensive judgment method to calculate trust rank of fuzzy, establishes fuzzy control rule and authorizes cloud users corresponding authority by fuzzy decision. It introduces into time factor on calculating trust rank, which enables it better satisfy requirement of access control in the cloud computing environment. It effectively enhances security of cloud computing platform by establishing double trust and evaluation.
Developing leadership competencies: Insights from emergent junior talent-intransitions in South Africa

Leadership Development, Leadership Development Assessment, Management Development, Portfolio Assessment Increasingly, leadership development programs are being challenged to produce robust evidence of their impact on leadership competencies of participants in South Africa. If used properly, portfolio assessment of one`s own leadership development journey has the potential to depict not just learning achievement, but also leadership growth and development. A multinational corporation in South Africa outsourced to a business school a program to develop leadership of selected 15 high-performing employees who were in transition to junior management. To the end of this study, qualitative research was conducted to get a complex and detailed understanding of how these participants perceived and self-assessed their own development of a self-selected set of leadership competencies over a period of time using portfolios. As the number was small, all the 15 personal and professional development portfolios were collected and analyzed using open coding and constant comparison techniques to induce themes. Evidence in the portfolios showed that while emergent junior talents were able to identify specifically the leadership competencies they were developing, they actually had difficulties to capture strong, relevant, and dynamic pathways of how their leadership competencies evolved and developed over time. More importantly, evidence in the portfolio revealed that the internal reward system was less supportive as it valued individual achievement of own performance target even at the expense of supporting others to develop their leadership. The lack of support from mentors and colleagues stifled leadership development of participants. This paper argues that it is vitally important that an organization's own systems are integrated and coherent enough not to inadvertently impede leadership development efforts. Correspondence:
The Effects of User’s Attitude on the Intention to Purchase and to Revisit in Game Advertising

The aim of this study is to explore the effects of attitude on the user’s intention to purchase and to revisit the game. This experimental study recruited 224 subjects on a voluntary basis through random sampling using a survey method. A questionnaire was used as an instrument to gather the data for this study. Data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. The results found that attitude significantly affected the purchase intention of games advertised and significantly influenced users’ intention to revisit the game.Keywords: Attitude; Game advertising; Purchase intention; Revisit the gameeISSN 2398-4295 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i13. 153
Bio-inspired Design of High-speed Transmission Line

Abstract—Regarding Signal integrity (SI) degradation problem in printed circuit boards, conventional design techniques based on the impedance-matching theory cannot work any longer in the GHz-domain. In this paper, we propose a novel bioinspired SI improvement design methodology using genetic algorithms. We apply our proposed methodology to real memory bus systems and demonstrate its effectiveness using prototypes.
Entropy, competitiveness and UEFA football ranking

This paper intends to explore the utilization of entropy through football, generalizing the interpretation of entropy. We consider it as a measure of competitiveness of football leagues and relate it to the UEFA ranking, which ranks yearly the performance of countries in European Cups. We expect that more competitive leagues, meaning that a championship is more leveled, have a better UEFA ranking. Correlating entropy with UEFA ranking, we find evidence of that relationship
Conceptual Study for an Autonomous Rotorcraft for Extreme Altitudes

This paper is devoted to lightweight rotary wing UAVs for applications at extreme high altitudes of up to 9000m, such as search and rescue as well as different types of environmental monitoring. Up to now, such rotary wing UAVs have not been available. Consequently, experience in design and operation of rotary wing UAVs in such environments is lacking. This situation motivates our team from DLR and TUM to work on an all-electric prototype of this kind of rotary wing UAV. The first experimental missions should be performed at altitudes of 5000 to 9000m above sea level. This paper shows the project’s current status and preliminary results. We present procedures for preliminary rotor designs and electrical power supplies as well as a tool developed for exploration of the influence of critical design parameters from a mission based point of view. Using the described procedures and the tool, we present the preliminary design of the UAV prototype, which is a synchropter with two counter-rotating and intermeshing rotors. Some of preliminary calculations were verified with flight experiments (hover performance) at different altitudes of up to 5200m above sea level. The results presented, illustrate the feasibility of developing rotary wing UAVs for selected applications at extremely high altitudes and will be the cornerstone for a detailed design of the first prototype.
Survey of RDF Storage Managers

This paper surveys RDF storage manager imple- mentations that belong to a kind of database system treating locally stored RDF triples. They are systematically classified in accordance with the properties of single and multiple process technologies that include the following types: triple table, index structure, query, string translation method, join optimization method, cache, data distribution method, query process distribu- tion method, stream process, and resource sharing architecture. This classification is applied to 3store, 4store, Virtuoso, RDF- 3X, Hexastore, Apache Jena, SW-Store, BitMat, AllegroGraph, and Hadoop/HBase. While the classification structure is presented for each of them, detecting differences between them has become easy. The classification revealed that there will be room for further improvement of the efficient query process by developing multi- process technologies.
Nonlocal superconducting correlations in graphene in the quantum Hall regime

We study Andreev processes and nonlocal transport in a three-terminal graphene-superconductor hybrid system under a quantizing perpendicular magnetic field [G. -H. Lee et al., Nat. Phys. 13, 693 (2017)]. We find that the amplitude of the crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) processes crucially depends on the orientation of the lattice. By employing Landauer-B\"uttiker scattering theory, we find that CAR is generally very small for a zigzag edge, while for an armchair edge it can be larger than the normal transmission, thereby resulting in a negative nonlocal resistance. In the case of an armchair edge and with a wide superconducting region (as compared to the superconducting coherence length), CAR exhibits large oscillations as a function of the magnetic field due to interference effects. This results in sign changes of the nonlocal resistance.
Further refinement of the nature of the communication impairment in Cornelia de Lange syndrome

Purpose – Research into the communication skills of individuals with Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is extremely limited. This paper aims to evaluate the nature of these skills and impairments in CdLS using a detailed informant assessment of pre-verbal communication skills. Design/methodology/approach – The study used the Pre-verbal Communication Schedule to evaluate communication skills in individuals with CdLS (n=14), aged five to14 years. The group was compared with a contrast group of individuals with Cri du Chat syndrome (CdCS; n=14) who were matched for age and intellectual ability. Findings – A significant difference was identified in understanding non-vocal communication (p<0.005), with the CdLS group showing a greater deficit. These findings indicate the presence of a syndrome-specific deficit in understanding non-verbal communication in individuals with CdLS and suggest that there may be a dissociation between the processing of verbal and non-verbal communication. Originality/value – The find.
High Pressure Processing: A Potential Technology for Processing and Preservation of Dairy Foods

Traditionally, food is preserved by heat treatment to achieve inactivation of undesirable microbes and give an acceptable shelf life but, it can adversely affect the flavour and nutritional value of some foods. Thus, a number of non-thermal technologies have been studied in recent years; for example, high-pressure (HP) treatment, pulsed electric fields, ionization radiation and ultra-sonication. Of these, HPP probably represents the most promising new possibility for preserving and preparing food products with improved functional and microbiological properties. Theoretically pressure-temperature operational conditions for HPP treatment of foods may range from 100 to 1000 MPa at -20°C to 121°C, depending on the process and the nature of the food resulting. HPP as a clean label technology has found a growing acceptance in the food industry for producing high-quality foods.
Xenon-based anesthesia: theory and practice

Xenon has been in use as an anesthetic for more than 50 years. Although it exhibits some of the properties of an ideal anesthetic, the technical complexity of xenon equipment and the high cost of the gas have prevented widespread use of xenon anesthesia. The main beneficial features of xenon anesthesia are fast induction and emergence because of low solubility in blood and tissues, along with remarkably stable hemodynamics even in patients with impaired cardiac function. Xenon has proven to be a safe and well-tolerated anesthetic in clinical trials. The primary mechanism by which xenon produces anesthesia - antagonism at the neuronal N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor - and the absence of vasodilating effects distinguish xenon from most other inhaled and intravenous anesthetics. In addition, xenon can protect cells from ischemia-reperfusion damage. This effect was demonstrated in myocardium and neuronal cells as well. Myocardial and cerebral infarction sizes after ischemia can be reduced substantially by xenon, even when administered after the initial insult. Because of its high cost, routine xenon anesthesia may be justified only if it is associated with fewer perioperative complications, shorter duration of hospital stay or significant reduction of perioperative risk. Clinical studies to identify a specific group of patients in which these requirements are met are still lacking.
International Conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION Vol. XXIV No 2 2018 APPROACHES TO THE MODERN CONCEPT OF DIGITAL MARKETING

In a complex, modern and flexible economy in a continuous and rapid evolution, individual consumers, on the one hand, and organizational buyers, on the other hand, have more and more financial resources that allow them to act in the conditions of using the methods , the modern means and systems applicable in the practice of acquisitions that have expanded considerably in the digital environment. Digital marketing, originally called "electronic marketing" or "internet marketing", first appeared in the form of various techniques implemented by pioneering companies that sold their products through the internet in the early 1990s. According to specialists, the definition of traditional marketing can easily be adapted to digital marketing, seen as a set of strategies and tactics that are executed through digital channels to achieve corporate goals (often to increase shareholder profits) in a time and budget defined period of time.
An Innovative Wavelet Threshold Denoising Method for Environmental Drift of Fiber Optic Gyro

Fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) is a core component in modern inertial technology. However, the precision and performance of FOG will be degraded by environmental drift, especially in complex temperature environment. As the modeling performance is affected by the noises in the output data of FOG, an improved wavelet threshold value based on Allan variance and Classical variance is proposed for discrete wavelet analysis to decompose the temperature drift trend item and noise items. Firstly, the relationship of Allan variance and Classical variance is introduced by analyzing the drawback of traditional wavelet threshold. Secondly, an improved threshold is put forward based on Allan variance and Classical variance which overcomes the shortcoming of traditional wavelet threshold method. Finally, the innovative threshold algorithm is experimentally evaluated on FOG. The mathematical evaluation results show that the new method can get better signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and gain the reconstruction signal of the higher correlation coefficient (CC). As an experimental validation, the nonlinear capability of error back propagation neural network (BP neural network) is used to fit the drift trend item and find out the complex relationship between the FOG drift and temperature, and the final processing results indicate that the new denoising method can get better root of mean square error (MSE).
Exploratory procedures employed by visually impaired and blind children during joint book reading

Illustrations in storybooks not only provide a source of interest in children but support language development and literacy skills. A better understanding of how to communicate stories through tactile illustrations is a central issue for practitioners and researchers who work with visually impaired children. Recognizing tactile illustrations implies precisely perceiving the shapes and being able to associate meaning to theses representations. This study focused on the way tactile pictures were haptically explored by visually impaired and blind children during joint book reading. The aim was to determine how the task and the type of illustrations promote the haptic exploration. Children seemed to be more active and used more often the contours following procedure when they have to find the meaning of the pictures than when the meaning was given to them through reading. The 3D illustrations led to the use of more different exploratory procedures than the 2D illustrations.
Development of a Novel Fractional Order Sliding Mode Controller for a Gun Control System

To solve the nonlinearity phenomenon of a Gun Control System (GCS), a novel Fractional order Sliding Mode Control (FoSMC) strategy is proposed in this study. By inducing the fractional order calculus, a Fractional Order PID (FOPID) type sliding surface is especially designed and consequently an equivalent control discipline with fractional order dynamics is induced. The saturation function is employed as the switch function. By numerical simulation, the dynamic characteristics of the FoSMC based control system are analyzed and compared with Conventional Sliding Mode Control (CSMC) system. The results demonstrate that the FoSMC system could reach up to the equilibrium state more smoothly, which shall significantly suppress the inherent chatter effects. Besides, the FoSMC based gun control system is of high response rate, better positioning accuracy and high robustness, which is suitable for fast, smooth and accurate adjustments of the gun.
Size and Weight Fraction of Solvent Crystals in Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) Gel Prepared from Dimethylsulfoxide/Water Solution

The size and weight fraction of crystals of pure ice or dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) in poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) gel prepared from a mixed solvent of DMSO/water were determined from melting peaks observed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The depression of the melting point with respect to the equilibrium melting point and the melting enthalpy gave the crystal size and weight fraction, respectively. The sizes were in the range of a few nm to tens of nm, depending on the composition ratio of the mixed solvent (DMSO/water) and the polymer concentration. Based on the weight fraction, the critical condition at which the whole solvent became non-freezable was estimated, and it was found to depend on both the PVA concentration and the DMSO/water ratio. When the solvent was pure water, the critical PVA concentration was as high as 86.4 wt%, while for pure DMSO solvent it was 50.1 wt%.
Context-Aware System Applied in Industrial Assembly Environment

The objective of this paper is to present an ongoing development of a context-aware system used within industrial environments. The core of the system is so-called Cognitive Model for Robot Group Control. This model is based on well-known concepts of Ubiquitous Computing, and is used to control robot behaviours in specially designed industrial environments. By using sensors integrated within the environment, the system is able to track and analyse changes, and update its informational buffer appropriately. Based on freshly collected information, the Model is able to provide a transformation of high-level contextual information to lower-level information that is much more suitable and understandable for technical systems. The Model uses semantically defined knowledge to define domain of interest, and Bayesian Network reasoning to deal with the uncertain events and ambiguity scenarios that characterize our naturally unstructured world.