Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MANDIBULAR CONTRIBUTION TO VOWEL-INTRINSIC F0

The vowel-intrinsic fundamental frequency (IF0) is a universal tendency for high vowels to have higher F0 than low vowels. The “tongue pull” hypothesis is the most successful account of IF0, but other factors seem to play a role as well. Few studies have investigated the articulatory correlates of IF0, and their results are somewhat inconsistent. Here we extended such investigation and analyzed the data from two large articulatory corpora with 40 speakers and 124,341 vowel samples. Our results showed that both tongue height and jaw height significantly correlate with F0. However, after we removed the tongue height effect from F0, the jaw effect remains the same degree of correlation with the residual, while the reverse was not true for the tongue height effect. Thus our results support the hypothesis that the underlying mechanism for IF0 is at least as much controlled by mandibular position as it is by tongue height.
Cloud Security based on the Homomorphic Encryption

Cloud computing provides services rather than products; where it offers many benefits to clients who pay to use hardware and software resources. There are many advantages of using cloud computing such as low cost, easy to maintain, and available resources. The main challenge in the Cloud system is how to obtain a highly secured system against attackers. For this reason, methods were developed to increase the security level in different techniques. This paper aims to review these techniques with their security challenges by presenting the most popular cloud techniques and applications. Homomorphic Encryption method in cloud computing is presented in this paper as a solution to increase the security of the data. By using this method, a client can perform an operation on encrypted data without being decrypted which is the same result as the computation applied to decrypted data. Finally, the reviewed security techniques are discussed with some recommendations that might be used to raise the required security level in such a system. Keywords—Cloud computing; homomorphic encryption; security
Feature Space Visualization with Spatial Similarity Maps for Pathological Speech Data

The feature vectors of a data set encode information about relations between speaker groups, clusters and outliers. Based on the assumption that these relations are conserved within the spatial properties of feature vectors, we introduce similarity maps to visualize consistencies and deviations in magnitude and orientation between two feature vectors. We also present an iterative approach to find subspaces of a high-dimensional feature space that encode information about predefined speaker clusters. The methods were evaluated with two different data sets, one from chronically hoarse speakers and a second one from Parkinson’s Disease patients and a healthy control group. The results showed that similarity maps provide a decent visualization of speaker groups and the spatial properties of their respective feature vectors. With the iterative optimization, it was possible to find features that show pronounced spatial differences between predefined clusters.
Effect of High Pressure Homogenization on the Activity and Stability of Protease from Bacillus Licheniformis LBA 46 in Different pH Values

Alkaline proteases have great importance in the pharmaceutical, textile, food industries and research studies. High pressure is an emerging and relatively new technology that is capable of modifying various molecules. The use of High Pressure Homogenization (HPH) has been widely evaluated in the modulation of enzyme activity, either to inactivate, improve or stabilize its activity. The effect of HPH treatment on Bacillus licheniformis LBA 46 semi-purified protease activity was investigated at different pH values and temperatures of activity. The enzyme was treated up to 200 MPa at pH 4, 7 and 9 and the residual activity was evaluated on the day of the treatment and after 24 h of refrigerated storage. The protease activity and stability measured at 40, 60 and 90 ° C between the control and the treated samples showed similar residual activity values. This suggests that the enzyme was resistant to the HPH treatment (50-200 MPa). Though HPH is a promising method to change enzymes characteristics, it was not able to change the protease from Bacillus licheniformis LBA 46.
DETERMINATION OF VITAMIN C IN SOME BOSNIAN CRATAEGUS L . SPECIES

Vitamin C or ascorbic acid content has been determined by spectrophotometric method in fruits of some Bosnian hawthorns (Crataegus L). species. Spectrophotometric method used in this study is based on the kinetic reaction between Vitamin C and methylene blue. Measurements were carried out at absorption maximum, λmax= 665 nm. Titrimetric method was used as the reference method for comparison of the obtained results. We found that the lowest content of vitamin C was 106.12 mg/100 g of a dry sample in fruits of the C. monogyna, and the highest level of Vitamin C was found in the C. microphylla (231.96 mg/100 g of a dry sample) fruits. Recoveries of the results obtained by the spectrophotometric method were 101.4% 108.0% with relative standard deviation (RSD) values ranging between 0.40% 3.37%. Obtained results showed that fruits of studied Crataegus L. species are a good source of vitamin C with its potential to be used in food industry as the natural antioxidant.
Risky Money Weakly Separable ? A Stochastic Approach

Using non-parametric weak separability tests that are extended to allow for measurement errors in the data, a broad group of UK monetary assets is found to be weakly separable from consumer goods and leisure over the larger part of the nineties. Financial innovations have made assets with substantial interest rate risk (e.g. unit trusts) more liquid and recent developments in monetary aggregation theory dealt with risk and risk aversion in the calculation of user costs. It is, however, not possible to find any weakly separable group of assets that contains ‘risky’ assets in the current sample. JEL Codes: C43, D11, D12, and E41
Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy : Case Report and Diagnostic Overview

Spinal and bulbar muscle atrophy (SBMA), frequently known as Kennedy disease is an X-linked recessive disease. SBMA is characterized by bulbar and limb muscle weakness, atrophy and fasciculation, along with endocrine abnormalities leading to gynecomastia and infertility. The incidence of SBMA is 1/30,000 male births. It is caused by the repeated expansion of CAG on the X chromosome. The age of presentation depends on the numbers of CAG repeats, with an average of 43 years and the progression of the disease is slow, an estimated 2% decrease in muscle strength per year. Diagnosis of SBMA is made by NCS and needle EMG, which are a standard part of the evaluation of motor neuron disease. SMBA is often confused with other motor neuron disease, and definitive diagnosis is always required. We present a case of a 53-year-old male who presents with leg weakness and was initially treated as lumbar radiculopathy and was later diagnosed as SBMA.
No . 33-2005 THE WAY TO LISBON-A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT

Nearly five years after the agreement to the Lisbon targets the overall picture is very mixed. Some indicators show that Europe does not approach but instead distances itself from the Lisbon targets. This report investigates several aspects of growth enhancing policies and questions the preferred comparison of the EU with the US. It analyses the implications of creating an internal market and indicates that competition enhancing policy primarily depends on the commitment and implementation by the Member States.
INFLUENCE OF APPLYING EFFECTIVE MICROORGANISM ( EM ) IN CONTROLLING AMMONIA AND HYDROGEN SULPHIDE FROM POULTRY MANURE

Poultry layer houses are mostly open house system that generally faced with flies and odour and has become nuisance factors to society and the environment. This study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of applying EM in controlling pollutant gas emission at poultry layer house. A commercial poultry layer farm was selected. Two treatments were carried out, the control without any application of microorganisms and the treated group with commercial microorganism application. Atmospheric ammonia and hydrogen sulphide were measured using a special instrument called ‘multi-gas detector’. The levels of ammonia and hydrogen sulphide were measured twice a week. Odour production cannot be completely prevented on a farm. Therefore, most odour control methods are designed to keep or dissipate odours within the farm boundary, thus minimising odour complaints from surrounding neighbours. This paper reports that applying of effective microorganisms into the manure showed some positive inf luence in controlling atmospheric ammonia levels.
LIFE HISTORY AND STOCK STATUS OF SCALLOPED SPINY LOBSTER ( Panulirus homarus ) IN PRIGI BAY , EAST JAVA PROVINCE , INDONESIA : ANALYZING THE POTENTIAL FOR STOCK ENHANCEMENT

Scalloped spiny lobster (Panulirus homarus) is one of the dominant lobster species that are captured and traded in Indonesia. Lobster catch in certain fishery areas such as in Southern Java are declining. This can be caused by many factors such as high intensity of fishing or loss of habitat which could limit recruitment. Stock enhancement could be an option to overcome recruitment limitation. Designing effective stock enhancement programmes requires preliminary research into ecological conditions, life history of the species used, status of the wild stock, and the nature and intensity of the fishery. This study attempts to analyse data from a tag-recapture experiment intended to evaluate the potential for lobster stock enhancement in Prigi Bay in southern Java. The objectives of this study were to (1) obtain information about life history and population dynamics of scalloped spiny lobster in Prigi Bay as basic information for potential stock enhancement in the future, (2) gather information about exploitation of the stock and fishing activity and how it may influence a stock enhancement program, and (3) determine how future data collection should be carried out to increase the accuracy of evaluating the potential for lobster stock enhancement. The best-fit Von Bertalanffy growth model of scalloped spiny lobster in Prigi was Lt = 106[1-e]. The lobster has a long-life span and slow growth. Estimates based on growth parameters (L∞ and k) for lobsters from catch (untagged) was L∞= 106 mm CL and k= 0.3 year 1 while for tagged lobster was L∞= 77 mm CL and k=0.98 year. Estimated total mortality (Z) of untagged lobster was 1.74 year, natural mortality (M) 0.58 year, fishing mortality (F) 1.16 year and exploitation rate (E) 0.67 year. Estimated natural mortality of tagged lobsters was 1.4 year, which was higher than untagged lobster. Assessment of stock status was based on the spawning potential ratio (SPR). Different scenarios of growth parameters yielded SPR values of 0.04 (4%), 0.2 (20%) and 0.29 (29%), indicating a risk status as heavily exploited. This study provided initial information for potential stock enhancement; however, further study with complete and comprehensive data is urgently needed since there were some weaknesses in this study, such as incomplete time series of catch data, little detailed length at maturity data, and a short monitoring period of released lobster. In the future, it will be essential to record catch data before stock enhancement is conducted, as well as design a comprehensive experimental stock enhancement programme that includes continued monitoring.
The Impact of Population Growth to the Agriculture Land Conversion and Sustainability of Subak as World Cultural Heritage

Culture of agriculture in Bali has its own uniqueness that is the organization of farmers known as subak. Subak is a community organization with members of farm households that prioritize regulating rice field irrigation system for its members that are used in rice cultivation. UNESCO has established subak landscape as world cultural heritage, one of which is Subak Pulagan in Gianyar Regency. The objectives of this research are: (1) to know the impact of population growth on agriculture land conversion; (2) to know the impact of population growth and agriculture land conversion to subak sustainability; and (3) to know the indirect effect of population growth on subak sustainability through agriculture land conversion. The population is 160 farmers, and the sample is 62 farmers. Data analysis method used in this research is SEM-PLS. The results showed that the population growth had a positive and significant impact on the conversion of agricultural land. However, the population growth has no significant effect on the sustainability of subak, while the conversion of agricultural land has a negative and significant impact on subak sustainability. Indirectly, the population growth significantly influences the subak sustainability by the nature of full mediation.
The narrative mind. Embodied narratives in the light of conceptualization hypotheses

Narrative psychology claims that autobiographical, verbal narratives are crucial for constructing our selves. In philosophy, Daniel Dennett posits that the Self is a result of narrative activity. The former hardly explains how verbal, autobiographical narratives cause a felt, continuous Self via the psychological world of the human being in direct way. The latter’s assumption is that Self is only an abstraction, it does not really exist, but it would have to explain how having a Self can be felt, if it is only a fiction. In my suggestion, the conceptualization hypothesis of the embodied cognition movement can help solve these problems. This hypothesis is combinable with the narrative theory of self, but it claims that if language and thinking is embodied, then verbal narratives must be embodied too. In this approach, narratives come from the organism-environment interaction, and later these narratives as small, bodily stories can assist thinking and give structural basis to understand verbal narratives.
Online Generative Adversary Network Based Measurement Recovery in False Data Injection Attacks: A Cyber-Physical Approach

State estimation plays a critical role in maintaining operational stability of a power system, which is however vulnerable to attacks. False data injection (FDI) attacks can manipulate the state estimation results through tampering the measurement data. In this paper, a cyber-physical model is proposed to defend against FDI attacks. It judiciously integrates a physical model which captures ideal measurements, with a generative adversarial network (GAN) based data model which captures the deviations from ideal measurements. To improve computation efficiency of GAN, a new smooth training technique is developed, and an online adaptive window idea is explored to maintain the state estimation integrity in real time. The simulation results on IEEE 30-bus system and IEEE 118-bus system demonstrate that our defense technique can accurately recover the state estimation data manipulated by FDI attacks. The resulting recovered measurements are sufficiently close to the true measurements, with the error lower than <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1.5e^{-5}$</tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2e^{-2}$</tex-math></inline-formula> p.u. in terms of voltage amplitude and phase angle, respectively.
Using Metaheuristic Approaches in Web Document Clustering in Web Search

Internet is a gigantic information resource, which is rapidly growing day by day as more and more data are being added to the World Wide Web. With the rapid growth of web documents on the internet, it is becoming difficult to organize, analyze and present these documents efficiently. Clustering can act as a key player in organizing such a hefty amount of documents into groups. The performance of the IR system could be improved by document clustering. It has been found that HTML tags which have particular meanings could be used to enhance the performance of IR system. This paper provides a brief survey of the available literature on a web search in which HTML tags have been used in information retrieval and Meta-heuristics approaches used in web document clustering.
ffect of pelleting temperature and probiotic supplementation on rowth performance and immune function of broilers fed aize / soy-based diets

The aim of the present experiment was to examine the effect of pelleting temperature and a probiotic supplementation based on three Bacillus subtilis strains on growth performance and the immune function of broilers fed maize/soy-based diets. The experimental design was a 2 × 3 factorial arrangement of treatments evaluating two levels of probiotic supplementation (without or with 1.5 × 105 cfu/g feed) and three pelleting temperatures (75, 85 and 90 ◦C). Each treatment was fed ad libitum to 8 pens of 22 male broilers, in both the starter (1–21 day) and the grower (22–42 day) phases. On day 21 and 42, 6 birds per treatment were randomly selected to measure blood immunoglobulin M (IgM) and immunoglobulin A (IgA), production of reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI) and duodenal secretory IgA. Data were analysed by two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) using the general linear model (GLM) procedure of statistical analysis software (SAS). During the starter phase (1–21 day), pelleting temperature had no effect (P>0.05) on broiler performance. However, probiotic supplementation tended to reduce feed intake (P=0.055) compared to unsupplemented diets with no effect (P>0.05) on weight gain or feed conversion. During the finisher phase (22–42 day) and over the entire period (1–42 day) pelleting temperature at 85 ◦C reduced (P<0.05) weight gain compared to those fed diet pelleted at 75 or 90 ◦C. Probiotic supplementation reduced (P<0.05) feed intake and improved (P<0.05) feed conversion. No interactions (P>0.05) were observed for any of the measured performance parameters during the overall period. There was no effect (P>0.05) of dietary treatments on the measured blood IgM, IgA and ROI. Probiotic supplementation and pelleting temperatures (85 and 90 ◦C) increased (P<0.05) the concentration of secretory IgA in the duodenum on day 21. On day 42 an interaction (P<0.01) between probiotic and pelleting temperature was observed for the duodenal concentration of secretory IgA. In probiotic supplemented diets, pelleting temperature at 90 ◦C reduced the concentration of secretory IgA compared to diets pelleted at 75 or 85 ◦C. In conclusion, the results of this study suggest that increased pelleting temperature and probiotic supplementation stimulate duodenal secretory IgA production during the starter phase (1–21 day). Furthermore, over the entire period (1–42 day), probiotic supplementation based on three Bacillus subtilis strains improved feed conversion ratio in broilers fed maize/soy diets, regardless of the pelleting temperature used. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. ∗ Corresponding author at: Danisco Animal Nutrition, Marlborough, SN8 1XN, UK. Tel. : +44 1672517787; fax: +44 1672517 778. E-mail address: Ahmed.amerah@dupont.com (A.M. Amerah). 377-8401 © 2013 Elsevier B.V. ttp://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.anifeedsci. 2013.01. 002 Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. 56 A.M. Amerah et al. / Animal Feed Science and Technology 180 (2013) 55– 63
Human Resource Practices Implemented in Vietnamese SMEs: A Second Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis

This paper reports the findings of an empirical study examining the determinants of human resource (HR) practices based on High performance work system (HPWS) in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam. It uses structural equation modeling to analyze data collecte1d from 159 samples of line managers working in limited and joint stock companies. It specifically focuses on a system of HR practices implemented in Vietnam, including job description and appraisal, extensive training, employee security, internal mobility, selective staffing and incentive reward. Research findings suggest that there is considerable diversity among SMEs in relation to their use of HR practices. Research implications and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
Celebrity endorsement and its impact on buying behaviour of college students : A study in Shivamogga city Mrs

The presence of celebrity in an advertisement is likely to influence the buying decision for a product and such advertisement create awareness about the product which can increase the purchase intention and consequently increases the sales. For the study researcher has considered only three important attributes, the first one is celebrity expertise which refers to the depth of knowledge the celebrity has perceived to have regarding the subject on which celebrity is communicating, the second attribute which researcher has considered is celebrity popularity which refers to name and fame of the celebrity as an endorser and the third one is celebrity image which refers to impression obtained by a celebrity in the eyes of society as an endorser. 250 student respondents are the sample size for this study to examine the impact of celebrity endorsement on students buying behaviour. The data of 250 respondents is collected through questionnaire and results were behaviour through the SPSS. Moreover, the tested attributes of celebrity show positive relationship with the buying behaviour and brand perception as well. It also proved that there is a significant impact of celebrity endorsement on the buying behaviour. Finally, the results of the study further proved that there is a significant impact of celebrity endorsement on the buying behaviour of customers.
Invitro Antihelmintic Activities of Four Medicinal Plants against Haemonchus contortus

In vitro experiments were conducted to find out the anthelmintic effects of crude aqueous extracts of the leaves of Cordia africana, Achyranthes aspera, Croton macrostachyus and Schinus molle against adults of live H. contortus and the efficacy of these crude aqueous extracts of leaves were determined based on the mortality rate of the adult parasite. The plants tested for the efficacy at 4mg/ml of the aqueous extracts of Cordia africana, Achyrantus aspera, Schinus molle and Croton macrostachyus was 95%, 90%, 80% and 70% respectively against the adult stage of Haemonchus contortus. The efficacy of Albendazole against the adult parasite, on the other hand, was dose dependent and all the adult worms were dead at a concentration of 0.5mg/ml within 24 hours. The overall findings of the current study indicated that most of the plants have potential anthelmintic effect and further in vitro and in vivo evaluation should proceed using these plants
FYP Final Report Entity Resolution via Canonicalization

Nowadays, open knowledge base has been a research topic of much interest. Open knowledge base usually serves as the fundamental data layer of many Natural Language Processing tasks and significantly affects their performance. However, large open knowledge base usually suffer from low accuracy and high redundancy which requires further canonicalization. Canonicalization is the process of determining whether two mentions having the same identity. This project presents a state of the art canonicalization system called MLCE which utilizes the embedding method. This report reviews some current open KB canonicalization systems such as GHMS and CESI. It also discusses the detailed procedure as well as the rational. Finally, the experimental setup, results and corresponding analysis are presented at the end of this report.