Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Leaving home in Europe: the experience of cohorts born around 1960

In this paper we analyse the leaving home experience of men and women born around 1960 in 16 European countries. We use extensive empirical evidence from Fertility and Family Survey data, providing a large-scale comparison. We focus on some key indicators of the process of leaving home: the timing, sequencing and synchronisation of leaving home with the end of education and the formation of a first union. As far as these dimensions of leaving home are concerned, Europe appears to be extremely heterogeneous, and explaining this will undoubtedly be a challenge. The complex interplay between the present economic situation of young people and long-term institutional and cultural factors is thought to be the main driving factor. Our findings constitute a benchmark against which subsequent behaviour, such as that of cohorts coming of age after the fall of the Iron Curtain, could be compared. (AUTHORS)
Students concept understanding of fluid static based on the types of teaching

This research aims to know the concept understanding of student are taught by guided inquiry based learning and conventional based learning. Subjects in this study are high school students as much as 2 classes and each class consists of 32 students, both classes are homogen. The data was collected by conceptual test in the multiple choice form with the students argumentation of the answer. The data analysis used is qualitative descriptive method. The results of the study showed that the average of class that was using guided inquiry based learning is 78.44 while the class with use conventional based learning is 65.16. Based on these data, the guided inquiry model is an effective learning model used to improve students concept understanding.
Strategies to Promote Market-Oriented Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries: A Case of Kenya

Smallholder Agriculture is key to livelihoods of many rural households in developing and transition economies. In Kenya, small farms account for over 75% of total agricultural production and nearly 50% of the marketed output. Despite favourable trends in global development drivers such as rising population, per capita incomes and emerging urban dietary preferences, most smallholder farmers remain poor. This study sought to characterize agricultural commercialization trends, identify and prioritize constraints to participation in markets, analyse determinants of percentage of output sold, and explore strategies to promote market-oriented production. A participatory Rapid Rural Appraisal approach, household survey and a Truncated Regression model were used. A sample of 224 farmers: 76 of them growing maize, 77 involved in horticulture (kales and tomatoes) and 71 practising dairy, were interviewed in one peri-urban and one rural district (Kiambu and Kisii, respectively). Results show that in rural areas, lower levels of output are sold and fewer farmers participate in markets compared to the peri-urban areas. Opportunities for profitable commercial agriculture are observed in growing demand, emerging food preferences and intensive farming. At village-level, market participation is hampered by poor quality and high cost of inputs, high transportation costs, high market charges and unreliable market information. At the household-level, the determinants of percentage of output sold are producer prices, market information arrangement, output, distance to the market, share of non-farm income and gender. Strategies are suggested to improve rural input supply, institutional and regulatory framework, enhance value addition and strengthen market information provision.
Do Consumers Prefer More Choice ? Moderating Effects of Regulatory

The purpose of our paper is to understand the nature of the relationship between assortment size and consumer’s reactions to the choice task and the chosen alternative. Consistent with past research, we argue that the relationship between assortment size and consumer’s reactions to the chosen alternative is non-linear. More importantly, we also propose that regulatory focus moderates the relationship between assortment size and consumer reactions to the choice task and the chosen alternative. We present our findings from two studies and discuss implications for marketers.
Can blood tests at ER admission predict presence of no-reflow in STEMI patients? A cardiac magnetic resonance study

Poster: "ECR 2013 / C-0965 / Can blood tests at ER admission predict presence of no-reflow in STEMI patients? A cardiac magnetic resonance study" by: "A. Damascelli, F. De Cobelli, A. Esposito, M. Cava, G. Benedetti, A. Durante, A. Latib, P. G. Camici, A. Del Maschio; Milan/IT"
The demand for money in Greece 1962 to 1998

The paper examines the demand for narrow money in Greece over the period 1962 to 1998. The data is tested to examine the order of integration. Estimation of the demand function follows the two step methodology. The first step entails the specification of the long run equilibrium relationship between real narrow money, the index for industrial production (a proxy for real income), an interest rate and the rate of inflation through the estimation of the cointegrating vector by the Johansen technique. The second step involves an Error Correction Equation being estimated to provide the short-run dynamics. Finally the model is simulated to see how well it tracks the actual values of the dependent variable.
Comparative study of the content and profiles of macronutrients in spelt and wheat, a review

Etude comparative des teneurs et profils des macronutriments de l'epeautre et du ble. L'epeautre (Triticum spelta) est un ble hexaploide, vetu, au rachis cassant qui presente des caracteristiques agronomiques d'interet. Il est utilise en alimentation animale et humaine et se developpe particulierement sur le segment des produits naturels. L'epeautre se distingue du froment par ses teneurs superieures en proteines (15,6versus 14,9 %) et lipides (2,5 versus 2,1 %) et ses teneurs inferieures en fibres insolubles (9,3 versus 11,2 %) et fibres totales (10,9 versus 14,9 %). Les teneurs en amidon, sucres et fibres solubles ne presentent pas de differences importantes. Une diversite qualitative au niveau des proteines, des arabinoxylanes et des acides gras est observee.
Towards an innovative and creative social entrepreneurship in driving sustainable change beyond the millennium: A microfinance practitioner’s perspective

Social entrepreneurship has grown into a global movement that is producing solutions to the world’s toughest problems and transforming the way we think about social change.However, despite the popularity of this approach particularly through its microfinance schemes, it is a field that remains under-theorized and less scrutinized. This paper, therefore, attempts to critically examine key cross-cutting issues to microfinance. In doing so, it will delve into actual economic and social impacts of microfinance in Asia and Europe, rather than providing a robust critique of its technical methodologies, a popular approach recommended by almost all microfinance institutions.Among critical issues that will be explored include challenges of social entrepreneurship especially as it relates to the global mission of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to reduce long-term poverty.Finally, the paper offers policy recommendation that will strengthen the current practice of social entrepreneurship which includes setting up a revolving fund to finance emerging social entrepreneurs so as to complement the existing model of direct financing of MFI.It is hopeful that these recommendations will drive sustainable change of poverty reduction beyond the millennium.
Corporate Governance Attributes, Firm Performance and Directors’ Remuneration

This study investigated corporate governance attributes, firm performance and directors’ remuneration as evidenced by quoted firms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The specific objectives examined: the effect and relationship between Board size, Board independence, director ownership, chief executive officer (CEO) Duality, Audit Committee Independence, firm performance and firm size with directors’ remuneration.In view of this, 100 firms were selected using stratified purposive sampling technique. Data were collected Historical data on the dependent and independent variables were extracted from the financial statements and accounts of the sampled firms over the period of 5 years from 2008-. 2012, employing the Panel Least Square regression statistical instrument employed This study found that board size, firm performance and firm size has significant effect on directors remuneration, while, board independence, ownership structure, CEO duality and Audit committee have no significant (negative) relationship with directors remuneration. Conclusively, good corporate governance is crucial in assessment and fixing of directors remuneration and resolving the agency problems. Keywords: Corporate Governance, Board Size, Firm Performance, Firm Size, Directors’ Remuneration.
Quantifying local rainfall dynamics and uncertain boundary conditions into a nested regional‐local flood modeling system

Inflow discharge and outflow stage estimates for hydraulic flood models are generally derived from river gauge data. Uncertainties in the measured inflow data and the neglect of rainfall‐runoff contributions to the modeled domain downstream of the gauging locations can have a significant impact on these estimated “whole reach” inflows and consequently on flood predictions. In this study, a method to incorporate rating curve uncertainty and local rainfall‐runoff dynamics into the predictions of a reach‐scale flood model is proposed. The methodology is applied to the July 2007 floods of the River Severn in UK. Discharge uncertainty bounds are generated applying a nonparametric local weighted regression approach to stage‐discharge measurements for two gauging stations. Measured rainfall downstream from these locations is used as input to a series of subcatchment regional hydrological model to quantify additional local inflows along the main channel. A regional simplified‐physics hydraulic model is then applied to combine these contributions and generate an ensemble of discharge and water elevation time series at the boundaries of a local‐scale high complexity hydraulic model. Finally, the effect of these rainfall dynamics and uncertain boundary conditions are evaluated on the local‐scale model. Accurate prediction of the flood peak was obtained with the proposed method, which was only possible by resolving the additional complexity of the extreme rainfall contributions over the modeled area. The findings highlight the importance of estimating boundary condition uncertainty and local rainfall contributions for accurate prediction of river flows and inundation at regional scales.
Issues in forest restoration: Forest restoration treatments: Their effect on wildland fire suppression costs

We modeled the effects of proposed forest restoration treatments in Arizona's Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) on fire behavior characteristics and fire suppression costs. We found two significant factors that help explain total wildfire suppression costs: 1) distance from the wildfire to the wildland-urban interface and 2) the proportion of fires with high burn severity. Given our results, we estimate a range for wildland suppression costs at $706-$825 per acre for the current conditions of the 4FRI landscape. After the proposed forest restoration treatments, the suppression costs should be reduced to $287-$327 per acre for the same size fire.
Electrostatic micro power generation from low-frequency vibration such as human motion

We developed an electrostatic micro power generator for low-frequency energy harvesting applications. This micro power generator consists of a new vibration structure and a new electret structure (stripe masked electret). The advantage of this micro power generator is the high power generation structure of both the controlled gap between electrodes and long-range movement at low frequency. This generator shows 40 µW of power output at very low frequency vibration (2 Hz, 0.4 G).
Searching for Smart City definition: a comprehensive proposal

During the latest years, smart city projects have been more and more popular and widespread all over the world. The continuous increasing of city’s population and the complexity of city management drive local governments towards the strong use of technologies to support a higher quality of urban spaces and a better offering of public services. The fascination of smart cities, able to link high technology, green environment and well-being for citizens, interests all the municipalities, independently on their dimensions, geographical area or culture. However, the concept of smart city is far from to be unambiguous. Several experiences all over the world show that cities define themselves as smart, but the meaning attributed to this word is different each time. Smart city concept has been growing from empirical experience, therefore a systemic theoretical study about this phenomenon still lacks. In this paper, the author aims to propose a comprehensive and verified definition of smart city, based on both a deep literature investigation about smart city studies and a large survey of smart city projects in the international panorama. The goal of this work is not only to provide a clear framework about this interesting and current topic, but also to support local governments and public administrations in effective smart city implementation, able to create public value and well being for citizens and environmental sustainability in the urban space.
A new indole-type alkaloid from the roots of Clematis florida var. plena

Abstract One new indole-type alkaloid, α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→6)-β-D- glucopyranosyl 6-methoxy-3-indolecarbonate (1), together with three known alkaloids (2–4), one aromatic acid (5) and five known saponins (6–10), was isolated from the roots of Clematis florida var. plena. Their structures were established by NMR spectroscopic analysis and acid hydrolysis. In in vivo anti-inflammatory activity, n-butanol extract was found to be potent against ear edema in mice, with inhibition rate of 48.7% at a dose of 800 mg/kg. Furthermore, compounds 8 and 9 obtained from the n-butanol extract exhibited significant anti-inflammatory activities with inhibition rates of 50.9% and 54.7% at a dose of 200 mg/kg. Graphical Abstract
Entrepreneurial dynamics and institutional changes

Contemporary literature has paid considerable attention to the relationships between formal and informal institutions and early stage firms’ behaviours in different institutional settings in recent years. Given a constantly changing business environment in which companies are operating, there is a need to continuously study how they deal with new challenges and how they achieve new goals. It is essential for not only nascent but also experienced entrepreneurs to discover new dynamics in order to stay at a competitive level. This special issue of Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business aims to explore the role of dynamics that interact with institutional changes in surviving and growing ventures. We present the nine articles with a variety of studied contexts, which shed some light on how companies or organisations keep up with institutional changes at both macro and micro level, by actively transforming business practices and entrepreneurial processes.
The Impact of Color Space and Intensity Normalization to Face Detection Performance

In this study, human face detection have been widely conducted and it is still interesting to be research. In this research, strong impact of color space for face i.e., many and multi faces detection by using YIQ, YCbCr, HSV, HSL, CIELAB, and CIELUV are proposed. In this experiment, intensity normality method in one of the color space channel and tested the faces using Android based have been developed. The faces multi image datasets came from social media, mobile phone and digital camera. In this experiment, the color space YCbCr percentage value with the image initial value detection before processing are 67.15%, 75.00%, and 64.58% have been reached. Then, after the normalization process are 83.21%, 87.12%, and 80.21% have been increased. Furthermore, this study showed that color space of YCbCr have reached improvement percentage
On the controllability of the 1-D isentropic Euler equation

We study the controllability problem for the one-dimensional Euler isentropic system, both in Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates, by means of boundary controls, in the context of weak entropy solutions. We give a sufficient condition on the initial and final states under which the first one can be steered to the latter.
Conceptualisations of Welfare Deservingness by Polish Migrants in the UK

Abstract The issue of reconciling ethnic diversity with the welfare state is a subject of long-standing theoretical debate. In particular, it remains unclear to what extent a shared national identity is necessary for endorsing claims to welfare at the individual and societal levels. Surveys show that migrants are seen as the least deserving category of welfare recipients. Yet migrants’ own views are rarely considered. Based on a qualitative study, this paper explores how Polish migrants residing in London conceptualised their deservingness to British welfare benefits and social housing. It finds a strong preference for conditionality of welfare predicated on contributions through work, payment of taxes and law abidance. Such conditionality applied to both in-group and out-group members thus transcending identity-based claims. These contributions were seen as both necessary and sufficient for laying claims to the British welfare system. Solely needs-based claims were seen as problematic.
Behavioral Corporate Finance

Behavioral Corporate Finance provides new and testable explanations for long-standing corporate-finance puzzles by applying insights from psychology to the behavior of investors, managers, and third parties (e. g., analysts or bankers). This chapter gives an overview of the three leading streams of research and quantifies publication output and trends in the field. It emphasizes how Behavioral Corporate Finance has contributed to the broader field of Behavioral Economics. One contribution arises from the identification of biased behavior (also) in successful professionals, such as CEOs, entrepreneurs, or analysts. This evidence constitutes a significant departure from the prior focus on individual investors and consumers, where biases could be interpreted as `low ability,' and it implies much broader applicability and implications of behavioral biases. A related contribution is the emphasis on individual heterogeneity, i. e. , the careful consideration of the type of biases that are plausible for which type of individual and situation.
The Effect of Lifestyle, Perception, Satisfaction, and Preference on The Online Re-purchase Intention

The objective of this research was to analyze the effect of lifestyle, perception, satisfaction, and preference on the online re-purchase intention. The data are collected from 218 women consumers who have bought Muslim clothing through e-commerce (Hijup) and social network (Instagram) at least two times in the last three months. The data are analyzed using t-test and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The result of this research indicates that lifestyle has a significant effect on perception, perception has an effect on satisfaction, satisfaction has an effect on preference, and preference has an effect on re-purchase intention. Meanwhile, satisfaction has no significant effect on re-purchase intention in both models.
Prioritizing Production Planning Problems and Normalizing Percent Plan Complete Data Using Six Sigma

The Last Planner System (LPS), with its now-famous PPC metric, has been used on many projects and has proven to be an effective production planning and control tool. Application of the LPS typically results in unearthing numerous problems with the production planning process and procedures that a contractor utilizes. With limited time and budgets, the construction manager needs a method to prioritize the process improvement initiatives to undertake. This paper explores the use of six-sigma based metrics and techniques to better reveal the efficacy of the production planning process as well as identify the common-cause and special-cause deviations in the production planning process. The paper will report on the adaptation of sixsigma metrics and techniques to data collected from an actual construction project. The results suggest that the developed tools will assist in focusing process improvement efforts. The sixsigma metric developed also provides a better basis for the normalization of the PPC metric such that intra-company and inter-company production processes can be compared for benchmarking and process improvement purposes.
Current research toward optimizing dosing of first-line antituberculosis treatment

ABSTRACT Introduction: Drug concentrations in tuberculosis patients on standard regimens vary widely with clinically important consequences. Areas covered: We review the available literature identifying factors correlated with pharmacokinetic variability of antituberculosis drugs. Based on population pharmacokinetic models and the weight, height, and sex distributions in a large data base of African tuberculosis patients, we propose simplified weight-based doses of the available fixed dose combination(FDC) for adults with drug susceptible tuberculosis. Emerging studies will support optimized weight-based dosing for children. Other sources of important pharmacokinetic variability include genetic variants, drug-drug interactions, formulation quality, and methods of preparation and administration. Expert commentary: Optimized weight band-based dosing will result in more equitable distribution of drug exposures by weight. The use of high doses of isoniazid in patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis would be safer and more effective if a feasible test was developed to allow stratified dosing according to acetylator type. There is an urgent need for more suitable formulations of many second-line drugs for children. The adoption of new technologies and efficient FDC design may allow further advances for patients and treatment programs. Lastly, current efforts to ensure adequate quality of antituberculosis drug products are not preventing the use of substandard products to treat patients with tuberculosis.
A high-speed and low-voltage associative co-processor with Hamming distance ordering using word-parallel and hierarchical search architecture

We present a new concept and its circuit implementation for a high-speed and low-voltage associative co-processor with Hamming distance ordering. A hierarchical search architecture keeps high speed in large input number. Our circuit implementation allows unlimited data base capacity and achieves low-voltage operation under 1.0 V for SoC applications, which are difficult for the conventional analog approaches. The search logic embedded in a memory cell realizes word-parallel Hamming distance ordering for high-speed sorting/routing applications as well as near/nearest-match detection for recognition. Our fabricated 0.18 /spl mu/m 64-bit 32-word associative co-processor operates at 411.5 MHz and 40.0 MHz at 1.8 V and 0.75 V respectively.