Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Medicare Expansion as a Path as well as a Destination: Achieving Universal Insurance through a New Politics of Medicare

Growing interest in “Medicare for All” has revived hopes for universal health insurance. Yet serious disagreements remain over how to expand Medicare and how far to move toward a universal Medicare system. In this article, I consider these disagreements in light of what we know about “policy feedback”—the ways in which policies, once enacted, reshape public opinion, governing institutions, and political organizations. Rather than focusing on the “political feasibility” of proposals for Medicare expansion, I focus on their “policy sustainability”: whether proposals, once enacted, can be established in place, entrenched over time, and expanded and improved as circumstances change. Achieving these “three E’s,” I argue, requires a flexible approach that builds on the current system (and hence falls short of Medicare for All) but also contains a universal coverage guarantee and other provisions designed to create strong feedback effects conducive to the expansion of Medicare over time.
Compromiso organizacional y promedio escolar en estudiantes de maestría: el efecto moderador de las tendencias alocéntricas e idiocéntricas

El objetivo de este trabajo fue examinar la relación del compromiso organizacional con el promedio escolar en estudiantes de la Maestría en Administración de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. También se analizó si las tendencias alocéntricas e idiocéntricas de los alumnos moderan esta relación. Se aplicó una encuesta en la universidad mencionada (n = 80). Los resultados indican que el compromiso organizacional y el promedio escolar tienen una relación negativa que se amplifica cuando las tendencias alocéntricas son altas y que se reduce cuando las altas son las tendencias idiocéntricas. En general, el compromiso organizacional es deseable para las organizaciones pero podría tener efectos perniciosos en las calificaciones de las personas que estudian y trabajan.
A Bandwidth Assignment Method for Downloading Large Files with Time Constraints

—In recent years, the numbers of requests to down-load large ﬁles via large high-speed computer networks have been increasing rapidly. Typically, these requests are handled in a “best effort” manner, resulting in unpredictable completion times. In this paper, we consider a model where a download request either must be completed by a user-speciﬁed deadline or must be rejected if the deadline cannot be satisﬁed. We propose a dynamic bandwidth assignment method for reducing the call-blocking probability in a bandwidth-guaranteed network. Finally, we present simulations that show its excellent performance.
A Theory of Nanoparticle Growth and a Theory of Thin Film Nucleation

Author(s): Mastandrea, James P. | Advisor(s): Chrzan, Daryl C | Abstract: This dissertation is divided into two parts. The first will discuss a theory that was identified to narrow the size distribution of nanoparticles grown via ion beam synthesis (IBS). Specifically, a simple mathematical argument explains a processing route for the ion beam synthesis of nanoclusters with a narrowed size distribution. The key idea is that growth conditions for which the average nanocluster size is increasing rapidly can lead to narrowed size distributions. Modeling candidate processes using a self-consistent, mean-field theory shows that normalized nanocluster size distributions with full-width at half-maximum of 17% of the average can be attained.The second part presents a theory for nucleation in confined high-aspect ratio thin films. Specifically, classical nucleation theory is used to consider the solidification of a melt confined between two planar surfaces. The critical nuclei shapes and the associated nucleation energy barriers are computed as a function of the thickness of the film, and the film's relevant bulk and interface energies. The analysis is then repeated for the melting transition, and expressions for the depression and elevation of the melting temperature are found. A nucleus morphology diagram is constructed. This diagram presents the lowest energy morphology of the nuclei, as well as melting points, as a function of the system parameters. Using the nucleus morphology diagram, experimental and system parameters that allow for the desired nucleation behavior can be identified. Furthermore, the nucleus morphology diagram illustrates a region of parameter space where the film is predicted to solidify above its thermodynamic bulk melting temperature, a behavior termed presolidification. The theory is used to predict the temperature at which nucleation of the solid phase and liquid phase are expected for Ge between two glass substrates. Furthermore, a possible route for controlling the orientation of the film is identified as confinement of the film can lead to a large range of solid phase nucleation temperatures, which are a function of the system's interfacial free energies. By controlling the growth temperature, certain orientations may not be able to nucleate thereby reducing the possible number of orientations within a film.
Participating Life Annuities Incorporating Longevity Risk Sharing Arrangements

In this paper we develop a conceptual framework for the payout phase in which annuity providers and policyholders share longevity and investment risks in a ‡exible way. To be more precise, we develop an participating life annuity product in which systematic longevity risk, i.e., the risk associated with systematic deviations from mortality rates extracted from prospective life tables derived for the Portuguese population, is shared between both counterparties. This will address some of the main demand and supply constraints in annuity markets, namely the inexistence of prospective life tables for the Portuguese population, the perception of unfair pricing, the consideration of bequest motives, adverse selection problems or the lack of . nancial instruments to hedge against longevity risk. Contrary to traditional GSA’s, in which surviving policyholders bear both systematic and unsystematic longevity risk, we devise a contract in which, in exchange for a relatively small premium, annuitants will bear only the part of longevity that exceeds pre-determined thresholds. JEL Code: G19, G22, G23
Online Shopping Behaviour Technology Advancement: A Great Change in Consumer Behaviour

Internet has gained status of as a dynamic commercial platform, more than a rich source of communication. It has intensified the complexities of the simple act of buying. “Google” has become the generic term for “searching information”. Traditional buying by individuals has taken the complex mixture of store, mall, television, internet, mobile- based shopping. Not only developed western-countries but even Asian countries, with poor infrastructure and low internet penetration rates, are equally adopting online buying. Online shopping refers to the recent trends of being able to buy everything from home or the process of researching and purchasing products or services over the internet. Many companies have realized that the consumer behaviour transformation is unavoidable trend, and thus change their marketing strategy. The digital environment has a growing effect on consumer's mind and buying behaviour. In an online shopping environment, interactive decision may have an influence on aid customer decision making. Each customer is becoming more interactive, and though online reviews customers can influence other potential buyers' behaviors. One of the most research oriented area of marketing discipline is consumer behavior. There are plethoras of quantitative and qualitative studies resulting into a robust set of different theories available on buying behavior. Azjen (as cited in Kim & Park, 1991) claims that online shopping provides convenience for consumers such as time saving and search convenience if compared to the traditional way of shopping, For online shopping behavior the stages involved in online shopping can be divided into: Attitude formation, Intention, Adopting and continuation with online buying. Most important factor that influence online shopping attitude, motivation, trust, risk, demographics, websites etc. are widely researched and reported. The clear understanding of the online buying behavior can provide the opportunities for designing new capabilities and strategies that would quench online buyer’s thrust on value.
Frames and Actors: Translating Talent Management Strategy to Latin America

ABSTRACT Multinational enterprises (MNEs) transfer their corporate strategies to subsidiaries globally, and in so doing, embark on a translation process. Despite the prevalence of MNEs and their investments in emerging economies, little is known about how local factors affect key actors when translating corporate talent management (CTM) strategies to these regions. This study draws from the translation and talent management literatures to explore the travel of ideas in the context of CTM. Relevant frames (narratives that emerge around actions) and actors are proposed and explored empirically in a qualitative study of 76 employees across an Australian mining MNE with subsidiaries located in Latin America. The findings support extant literature as well as uncovering new frames (categorized in external or corporate, and internal or local) and actors (including non-managerial) as part of the translation process. The findings suggest the need to balance talent management strategies between corporate and subsidiaries by being aware of internal and external frames including in both urban and rural locations. This understanding provides further clarification of the global versus local paradox faced by MNEs. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
Proposal for Advanced Attribute-based Encryption in Mobile Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing design through which shared resources are given to gadgets on request. Its a rising yet encouraging worldview to incorporating cell phones into distributed computing, and the reconciliation performs in the cloud based progressive multi-client information shared environment. With coordinating into distributed computing, security issues, for example, information privacy and user authority may arise in the mobile cloud computing system, and it is worried as the fundamental requirements to the advancements of portable distributed computing. With a specific end goal to give protected and secure operation, a progressive get to control technique utilizing altered various leveled trait based encryption (M-HABE) and a changed three-layer structure is proposed in this paper. In a particular portable distributed computing model, colossal information which might be from a wide range of cell phones, for example, advanced cells, worked telephones and PDAs thus on can be controlled and observed by the system, and the information can be touchy to unapproved outsider and imperative to legitimate clients too. The novel plan fundamentally concentrates on the information handling, putting away and getting to, which is intended to guarantee the clients with lawful experts to get relating characterized information and to confine unlawful clients and unapproved legitimate clients access the information, which makes it to a great degree appropriate for the mobile cloud computing paradigms.
Using Cross-Entropy Value of Code for Better Defect Prediction

Defect prediction is meaningful because it can assist software inspection by predicting defective code locations and improving software reliability. Many software features are designed for defect prediction models to identify potential bugs, but no one feature set can perform well in most cases yet. To improve defect prediction, this paper proposes a new code feature, the cross-entropy value of the sequence of code’s abstract syntax tree nodes (CE-AST), and develops a neural language model for feature measurement. To evaluate the effectiveness of CE-AST, we first investigate its discrimination for defect-proneness. Experiments on 12 Java projects show that CE-AST is more discriminative than 45% of twenty widely used traditional features. Furthermore, we investigate CE-AST’s contribution to defect prediction. Combined with different traditional feature suites to feed prediction models, CE-AST can bring performance improvements of 4.7% in Precision, 2.5% in Recall, and 3.5% in F1 on average.
Smoke and Smoked Fish Production

Smoking is a way of preserving the fish which, after previous salting, are processed with organic components contained in the smoke during incomplete combustion (pyrolysis) of wood. Smoke contains volatile aromatic substances that gives specific features to meat (attractive appearance, color, taste, smell) and have a bactericidal effect. Smoked fish is tasty and nutritious product, ready for use without or with further cooking or processing. Besides useful, smoke contains harmful substances that have carcinogenic properties. Quality of smoked fish depends on many factors such as: type of fish, diet, condition and treatment before smoking (fresh, frozen), the method of salting, heat treatment, the way of smoking etc. Depending on the temperature of smoking chamber, smoking can be: cold, warm and hot, and depending on the environment in which smoking is conducted there are different smoking ways: smoking with smoke, smoking without smoke and mixed smoking. When smoking with smoke, fish is processed in a smoke-air mixture, which is forrmed during the direct combustion of wood. Smoking without smoke is processing fish with smoke preparations obtained by smoke or its components. Fish smoked with smoke preparations does not contain harmful components, because smoke preparations were previously purified from these substances. Liquid smoke (smoke aqueous solution), which is sufficiently studied, available and has minimal potential toxicity, attracts more attention today.
A multimodal biometric approach for the recognition of finger print, palm print and hand vein using fuzzy vault

For the security reasons, person identification has got primary place by means of some of the physiological features. In this paper, multimodal biometry is utilised for the person identification with the help of three physiological features such as finger print, palm print and hand vein. Initially, in the pre-processing stage, the unwanted portions, noise content and the blur effects are removed from the input finger print, palm print and hand vein images. The features from these three modalities are extracted. The combined feature vector is obtained by chaff points and extracted features. After getting the combined feature vector points, the secret key points are added with the combined feature vector points to generate the fuzzy vault. Finally, in the recognition stage, test person's combined vector is compared with the fuzzy vault database. Now we can obtain the corresponding finger print, hand vein and palm print images.
Global Identity and Preference for Environmentally Friendly Products: The Role of Personal Responsibility

This research tests the idea that a salient global identity positively affects people’s willingness to pay for environmentally friendly products. Results from a large-scale multi-nation survey (N = 75,934) as well as two studies (N = 322) conducted in Singapore supported this prediction. We found that participants with a more (vs. less) dominant global identity indicated greater support for environmentally friendly products and exhibited increased pro-environmental behavior. We further show that the effect is driven by a stronger feeling of personal responsibility toward the environment among individuals who possess a dominant global identity. Findings from this research suggest that the formation of stronger global identity, a psychological consequence of increasing globalization, can have an important impact on people’s pro-environmental behavior.
Effects of Public Green Space on Acute Psychophysiological Stress Response: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Contact with nature is widely considered to ameliorate psychological stress, but the empirical support for a causal link is limited. We conducted a systematic review to synthesize and critically assess the evidence. Six electronic databases were searched. Twenty-six studies evaluated the difference between the effect of natural environments and that of a suitable control on the acute psychophysiological stress response. Eighteen studies were rated as being of moderate quality, four studies of low quality, and four studies of high quality. Meta-analyses indicated that seated relaxation (g = .5, p = .06) and walking (g = .3, p = .02) in natural environments enhanced heart rate variability more than the same activities in control conditions. Cortisol concentration measures were inconsistent. While intuitively and theoretically sound, the empirical support for acute stress-reducing effects of immersion in natural environments is tentative due to small sample sizes and methodological weaknesses in the studies. We provide guidelines for future research.
Human Face Super-Resolution Based on Hybrid Algorithm

Aiming at the problems of image super-resolution algorithm with many convolutional neural networks, such as large parameters, large computational complexity and blurred image texture, we propose a new algorithm model. The classical convolutional neural network is improved, the convolution kernel size is adjusted, and the parameters are reduced; the pooling layer is added to reduce the dimension. Reduced computational complexity, increased learning rate, and reduced training time. The iterative back-projection algorithm is combined with the convolutional neural network to create a new algorithm model. The experimental results show that compared with the traditional facial illusion method, the proposed method can obtain better performance.
Synchronization of Critical Infrastructures Dependent Upon GNSS: Current Vulnerabilities and Protection Provided by New Signals

Many infrastructures that shape our lifestyle depend on the GPS. Even though not used for positioning, these infrastructures need GPS to derive a precise time synchronization necessary for their operations. Examples are power distribution grids, gateways for financial transactions, and telecommunication networks. However, GPS receivers, and more in general global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, are vulnerable to interference. This makes GNSS-dependent infrastructures prone to time synchronization errors. This paper addresses the vulnerability of GNSS receivers to the intentional injection of counterfeit signals, an operation known as “spoofing. ” The analysis is backed by a campaign of tests conducted on three receivers suitable for applications that use GNSS-based synchronization. A battery of spoofing attacks, targeting the control of the output time reference of these receivers, is purposely simulated with lab instrumentation. The effects of such attacks on the receivers’ measurements are observed and quantified; they prove that the vulnerability of GNSS receivers to malevolent radio attacks is a quantifiable reality, but such attacks “leave traces” that could trigger their detection. The purpose of this paper is to increase awareness, though not alarm, about the risk represented by time spoofing on application domains used to look at GNSS as a commodity. This paper shows that reducing this risk is possible at both receiver and system level.
Community Schools as a Vehicle for Social Justice and Equity

A deficit narrative of academic success in low-performing schools is articulated in cultural norms set by those who fail to understand how poverty and racial inequality manifests through daily interactions, beliefs, and biases. Work to address race and poverty are emotional, complicated, and challenging because the concepts are avoided, minimized, or disputed by a dominant narrative and privileged cultures that oppress students of color. This chapter is not about a study of race or poverty nor does it seek to forward understanding of how race and class intersect. Instead, it focuses on the ways a university has promoted social justice and equity in the development of community schools. This work encompasses: the influence of change through advocacy and policy, issues of school culture and climate, and shared leadership. It recognizes emerging perceptions impacting health, violence, and food security that cause socio/emotional issues not considered when critically addressing issues of race and poverty. Therefore, community schools are a vehicle for social justice and equity.
A Comparative Study: Existentialism in No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre and Shadowless by Hasan Ali Toptaş

Existentialism has influenced a lot of literary works throughout history. Existentialism can be studied in literary works by means of foregrounding the existential themes and techniques. Some of these themes are being, change, freedom, selfcognizance, isolation, responsibility, free-will, and alienation. Traversing the boundary between philosophy and literature, this essay aims to analyse the existential themes of Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit or Huis Clos (1944) and Hasan Ali Toptas’s Shadowless1 or Golgesizler (1993) with an intertextual and comparative approach. This essay considers Sartre’s No Exit and Toptas’s Shadowless as postmodern texts. Before exploring the existentialist themes and techniques in No Exit and Shadowless, this study aims to discuss the tradition of existentialism in literature. After presenting an introductory review on such existentialist concepts in literature as existence, essence, freedom, angst, and absurd, some recurrent themes in Sartre’s and Toptas’s works will be highlighted and analysed. After a brief exploration of the influence of existentialism on Turkish literature, the essay will focus on the textual analysis. No Exit will be analysed from the perspective provided by such concepts as “being-for-itself”, “being-for-other”, “isolation and claustrophobic existence”; as for Shadowless, “being and nothingness” and “anxiety of uncertainty, emptiness and meaninglessness” will serve as the existential themes reflected in the novel. Within the framework of existentialism, an intertextual approach to and a comparative analysis of Shadowless from Turkish Literature along with No Exit from French Literature is an attempt of situating Modern Turkish Literature within the broader regional and global context. As a last point, this paper also aims to contribute both to critical studies on Sartre’s work and scholarship on the woks of Hasan Ali Toptas work whose works of fiction have rarely been discussed from a comparative or world literature studies perspective.
Factors Incluencing The Effectiveness Of Blended Learning Among Students In Uniten, Muadzam

E-learning had become an efficient way of learning among education institutions. It combines online delivery with classroom interactions and live instructions among students through group of learners. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors influencing the effectiveness of blended learning among students in University Tenaga Nasional, Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Campus in Muadzam Shah. The respondents chosen are from all courses offered in UNITEN. The questionnaire is use as an instrument to collect data from respondents that consist of two aspects; (1) teaching method and, (2) class environment. Blended Learning Framework perspective is an integration of face to face learning and online learning, to improve the learning experience. It can be enhanced through the innovation of information and communications technology. As a result, UNITEN student displayed higher understanding with blended learning method, thus blended learning method is an effective way to be used for teaching and learning process