Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Towards a Personal Briefing Assistant

We describe a system intended to help report writers produce summaries of important activities based on weekly interviews by members of a project. A key element of such a system is to learn different user and audience preferences in order to produce tailored summaries. The system learns desired qualities of summaries based on observation of user selection behavior, and builds a regression-based model using item features as parameters. The system’s assistance consists of presenting the writer with a successively better order list of items from which to choose. The results with the assistance of our system show a significant improvement in average precision (and other metrics) by the end of the learning period as compared to the baseline of no learning. We also report our ongoing work of automatic feature extraction to make this approach domain independent.
Paddy husk support and rice bran for the production of glucoamylase by Aspergillus niger

Aspergillus niger CFTRI 1105 was cultivated on solid medium for glucoamylase production. Glucoamylase activity obtained was 83.7 U g -1 DFR (Dry Fermentation Residue) in a medium containing rice bran (100 g), corn flour (2 g), stock mineral solution (10 mL) and tap water (90 mL). When corn flour (2 g) in the medium was substituted with soya flour (2 g) no significant increase in glucoamylase was observed. The effects of soya flour, urea and peptone at the same elemental nitrogen concentration as with corn flour as carbon source on glucoamylase production were investigated. Supplementation with soya flour gave the highest glucoamylase activity (121 U g -1 DFR) at 72 h and addition of paddy husk to a medium containing corn and soya flour altered the enzyme production from 121 U g -1 DFR to 71.3 U g -1 DFR. Addition of gingili oil and coconut oil to the medium caused no improvement in glucoamylase production.
EVALUATION OF THE DOMINANT PROTEIN FROM WHOLE-CELL HEATING METHOD USING MALDI-TOF/TOF MASS SPECTROMETRY

Immunoglobulin G (IgG) are the essential tools in diagnostic kits. The whole-cell is still considered to be used for animal‘s immunization to produce IgG. The goal of this study was to determine dominant protein on the Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H7-induced typical antibody response also determined by MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry. The heating method was conducted at 71 °C and 83 °C for antigen preparation. The proteins were characterized using SDS-PAGE and evaluated by MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry. The present study reported that the dominant polyclonal antibody inducing protein was ompC E. coli. The evaluation of mass spectra by MALDI-TOF/TOF might help to identify the dominant polyclonal antibody inducing protein in future preparation of diagnostic kits.
Multi-Purpose Drones for Coverage and Transport Applications

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become important in many applications including last-mile deliveries, surveillance and monitoring, and wireless networks. This paper aims to design UAV trajectories that simultaneously perform multiple tasks. We aim to design UAV trajectories that efficiently perform some transportation operation (e.g., package delivery), and at the same time provide uniform coverage over a neighborhood area which is needed for applications such as network coverage, Internet of Things (IoT) devices data collection, wireless power transfer, and surveillance. We first consider multi-task UAVs for a simplified scenario where the neighborhood area is a circular region where UAV missions start from the center and the destinations are assumed to be uniformly distributed on the circle boundary. We propose a trajectory process such that if according to which the UAV’s move, a uniform coverage can be achieved while the transport (delivery) efficiency is still preserved. We then consider a more practical scenario in which the transport destinations are arbitrarily distributed in an arbitrarily-shaped region. We show that simultaneous uniform coverage and efficient transport trajectory (e.g. package delivery) is possible for such realistic scenarios. This is shown using both rigorous analysis as well as simulations.
Effect of cycling on body composition and lipid profiles among sedentary boys

Sixty subjects were randomly assigned to either experimental group (30) or control group (30). Physical examination and medical checkup at the initiation of the study yielded norminal results in all the subjects and none of the subjects received any medication during the period of the study. The experimental group underwent cycling training programme for a period of 16 weeks, whereas the control group maintained their regular routine activities. The training load was gradually increased from 60% to 80%. Sixteen weeks (slow continuous run) training was imparted with sessions increasing from 3 to 5 per week and the duration increasing from 30 minutes to 55 minutes. BMI, total cholesterol, HDL, LDL and triglycerides of both groups were assessed before and after the training programme. The data was statistically analyzed by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) using SPSS statistical computer package. The results of the study showed that there was significant difference among the adjusted post test mean of experimental and control group.
STUDY OF MIS MULTICRYSRALINE SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL

State-of-the-art of multicrystalline Silicon (mc-Si) material with minority carrier diffusion lengths exceeding the wafer thickness is commercially available today. It is expected that the diffusion length to wafer thickness ratio will be increasing further due to improved material quality and due to the trend towards thinner wafers to reduce material costs. As a result, the open circuit voltage, Voc decreases with increasing temperature according the ratio Voc/T = 0.00337 mVK. The output power decrease with increasing temperature mainly because of a decrease in the photovoltaic and fill factor of the current voltage characteristic. This happens in samples which have P /T =  0.00048 WK, FF / T = 0.002 %K, and R / T =  0.021  K. In order to fully exploit the material quality, a solar cell process that includes excellent rear surface passivity is needed. In this paper solar cell results from thin mc-Si solar cells with silicon nitride front and rear surface passivity are presented. Furthermore, the most important loss mechanisms with respect to thin mc-Si cells namely : (i) optical losses, (ii) losses due to rear surface recombination and (iii) losses due to the series resistance caused by local rear contact schemes with dielectric passivity are discussed. The light trapping effect of this structure is also confirmed reflection at the weakly absorbed wavelength.
The Effect of Corporate Governance on Foreign Direct Investment in Jordanian Commercial Banks Listed at Amman Stock Exchange

This study aimed to provide evidence of whether or not the corporate governance & foreign direct investment indicators of the Jordanian commercial banks listed at Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) are affected by variables that were proposed and to provide the important indicators of the relationship of corporate governance that can be used by the Jordanian commercial banks to attract the foreign direct investment. The study population consists of 13 Jordanian commercial banks governance of the Jordanian banks listed at Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The study founds that there is a direct positive relationship between profitability -measured either by Earnings per share (EPS) and Return on assets (ROA) and corporate governance. In contrast, a negative direct relationship between each of liquidity, return on equity (ROE), and the size of the company with corporate governance, finally the study found a positive direct relationship between corporate governance and foreign direct investment.
Cognitive framing through political catchwords – A short assessment of Croatian media neutrality 1 Introduction

The political arena is full of different text genres, through which different political parties, politicians and their political programs try to manipulate the voters, i.e. electors. These text genres influence the public through different media, whereby the media have their own political preferences based on different economic and moral ideologies. Text genres in political campaigns communicate persuasive messages using different forms. One of the main forms of political manipulation is the cognitive framing process. Cognitive framing gives the structure and context for understanding political texts and their content. This paper researches political catchwords, a text genre which has not yet been examined properly in the theory of text linguistic analysis or the theory of communication in politics. The definition of a political catchword in our research will be based on the hypothesis that one cannot exist without an image, photograph, picture or other paralinguistic means giving it a context for the persuasive content of the catchword itself. To prove this, we examined a corpus of 14 examples of the text genre political catchword, taken from the left-wing newspaper Novi list and the right-wing newspaper Večernji list during the 2016 Croatian political campaign. The texts are examined at three different levels of analysis: the communication-pragmatic, thematic and language-stylistic levels. The text linguistic analysis shows that thematic and language text schemes are a successful method of political persuasion and manipulation. The analysis of the text genre political catchword in this work provides insights into the neutrality of the Croatian media.
Practice Note: Economic Consequences of Joint audits

Since 2005, France is the only European country requiring mandatory joint audits for companies listed on the stock market. In the Green Paper issued in 2010, entitled “Audit policy: Lessons from the crisis”, the European Commission proposed the introduction of mandatory joint audits for European listed companies to limit audit market concentration. However, the new European regulation passed in 2014 does not include the obligation to hire two auditors who co-sign the audit report. Nevertheless, some countries (e.g., The Netherlands, the UK) still discuss the opportunity to introduce mandatory joint audits, which leads us to ask the following question: Should other countries introduce mandatory joint audits or should France abandon this specific system? To provide some answers to this question, we summarize the academic literature on joint audits in France to better understand its economic consequences. Overall, empirical research shows that, when compared to other European countries, the French market is not less concentrated (in terms of audit fees captured by Big 4 firms), but companies pay more audit fees without any significant improvement in audit quality (and financial reporting quality). Additional evidence shows that audit quality and audit fees are sensitive to the pair of auditors. However, balanced worked between a Big 4 firm and a non-Big 4 firm, which was suggested by the European Commission, does not lead to a better quality-price ratio of audit services. Taken together, the findings suggest that the joint audits system is not efficient, because the quality-price ratio of audit services in France is worse than that of other countries. Based on the Danish experience, we posit that the abandonment of mandatory joint audits in France may reduce audit fees without any reduction of audit quality.
Hedge Funds: Bubble or New Paradigm? The Asset Management Industry is Leaning Towards Absolute Return Objectives and Risk Management

To some, hedge fund investing is a bubble, to others absolute return strategies is a New Paradigm in asset management. Reality is probably somewhere in between. On one hand expectations of high positive absolute returns from hedge funds when equity markets fall are probably too exaggerated. On the other hand, the focus on positive absolute returns and defining risk in a valueat-risk context might be in the process of replacing the relative return approach. Bubble or New Paradigm in Asset Management?
Does Regulatory Reform of Cumulative Voting Improve Minority Shareholder Protection?

It remains controversial whether cumulative voting (CV) can improve corporate governance. With hand-collected director-level data, we conduct DID-style analysis of China’s CV reform by using CV firms and control groups derived from alternative matching methods. We find that CV raises the board representation of non-controlling substantial shareholders, especially in a subsample whose top ten shareholders are unrelated. CV enhances the “disinterestedness” of outside directors. CV-elected directors have better professional and educational qualifications. CV firms without related top ten shareholders display higher Tobin's Q and market-to-book ratio. But the incremental improvements are insufficient to curb tunneling activities and increase accounting performances.
Surfing on (or drowning under?) the threshold

corresponding to an instantaneous “quench” to zero temperature. If the energy function is convex, e.g. quadratic, then the gradient descent always asymptotically converges to its absolute minimum, the ground state of the system. If, however, the energy function is “rough”, i.e. it has a lot of local minima and saddle points (Fig. 1), then (i) the gradient descent might remain trapped for very long time in the vicinity of saddles, where the gradient is very small, before eventually reaching a minimum, and (ii) a different minimum will be reached depending on the initial condition – hence, in general, the final minimum will not be the absolute one. Rough energy functions are far from being exotic objects: they are routinely encountered in many important fundamental and practical problems. Some examples are: optimization problems such as the traveling salesman problem, i.e. the problem of finding the minimum path connecting a set of cities, where H is the distance traveled along a given path w [1]; glassy materials such as silicates, where H is the potential energy due to pair interactions of atoms in positions w [2]; a population of bacteria trying to maximize their fitness, where H is the negative of fitness and w is a coordinate in genotypic space [3]; and, of course, training a neural network to perform some task such as classification, where w are the neuronal weights and H[w] is the cost of misclassifying the training data [4]. Understanding the properties of the gradient descent dynamics is very important in all these applications. In particular, one would like to characterize the distribution P∞[w∞] of
Modeling Human Brain Connectomes using Structured Neural Networks

Generalizations of neural network architectures to arbitrarily structured data, e.g. graphs, have opened new opportunities for applying data-driven learning to novel scientiﬁc domains, in particular brain network analysis. While classical approaches have relied on hand-engineering statistical descriptors from structural or functional connectomes of human brains to build predictive models, there is growing interest in leveraging deep learning techniques. Though the human connectome is often viewed as a graph deﬁned with each node indicating to a brain region, and the edges representing neural connections, we argue that existing graph neural network solutions, that are built on the assumption of information diffusion, are not directly applicable. Consequently, we develop a structured network architecture that uses the connectome to constrain the message passing between two network layers representing edges and nodes respectively. Using connectomes from the Human Connectome Project (HCP), we show that proposed approach can effectively predict meta-information such as age and gender, and accurately recover the volumes of different brain regions, which are known to be encoded in the connectomes.
How Customers Interpret and Use Comparative Graphics of Their Energy Use

Comparative energy information is one method energy policymakers have employed to motivate consumers to reduce their energy use. The US appliance labeling program, for example, has used graphical displays to illustrate the differences in energy consumption among home appliances. Little is known, however, about how consumers interpret various graphical displays and/or how they use the information. Additionally, subtleties in the accuracy with which these graphical displays convey the underlying data have yet to be addressed in the research literature.
Effect of the Presence of Diblock Copolymer on the Nonlinear Elastic and Viscoelastic Properties of Elastomeric Triblock Copolymers

The mechanical properties of blends of triblock and diblock copolymers of polystyrene (PS) and polyisoprene (PI) containing 15 wt % PS have been investigated with tensile tests, relaxation tests, dynamic mechanical tests, and hysteresis tests. The properties of binary triblock/diblock blends have been investigated in parallel with those of the same blends diluted with 60 wt % of a low molecular weight but high-Tg solvent, miscible with the PI component but not with the PS domains. Both binary and ternary blends show a nonlinear elastic behavior at large strains, which can be analyzed with rubber elasticity models, and a pronounced nonlinear viscoelastic behavior at intermediate strains. The analysis of the viscoelastic behavior beyond the linear regime shows that the proportion of PI blocks effectively bridging two PS domains controls the deformation of the blends at large strains, while the small and intermediate strain behavior is controlled by the density of entanglements in the rubbery component and b.
ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE CONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS

In these notes we present a short, mostly self-contained proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis. The development is topos-theoretic: we shall be presenting a specific topos which can model ZFC for which the continuum hypothesis fails. This demonstrates the connection between the logical methods of forcing, Beth semantics and Grothendieck toposes. This development closely follows that given in MacLane and Moerdijk [16, Chapter 6], a simplification of the original proof given in Cohen [2]. With these notes I hope to illustrate the elegant topos theoretic approach to forcing results that has become increasingly common in logic, type theory, and mathematics at large. The concluding section 5 contains a number of interesting and related developments for the curious reader. 1. Background These notes are not meant to serve as a complete introduction to topos theory. Therefore, the background section of these notes, rather than being the first 5 chapters of MacLane and Moerdijk [16] or Johnstone [15] will contain more or less an accumulation of definitions and lemmas that we will need. These will be more useful for ensuring that I have things to reference than for the reader to learn. It also comes with the moderate advantage that I get to inflict the my peculiarities upon you dear reader. We begin by defining the notion of an elementary topos. Definition 1.1. An elementary topos E is a category that • has all finite limits • is cartesian closed • has a subobject classifier The topos that we are interested in will be ones that satisfy certain characteristics making them into a model of ZFC. Modeling the axiom of choice, the law of the excluded middle, and the existence of infinite sets in particular present challenges. The next set of definitions are the categorical analogs of these traits. Definition 1.2. A natural number object (NNO) is an object N ∈ C with arrows s : N → N and z : 1 → N so that for any object A ∈ C with f : 1 → A and g : A → A, there exists a unique h so that 1 N N
Ab initio potentials for weakly interacting systems: Homonuclear rare gas dimers

A series of high-level ab initio interatomic potentials for the homonuclear rare gas dimers He2, Ne2, and Ar2 is presented, with predictions of rovibrational spectroscopic parameters and second virial coefficients. These potentials were created by using d-aug-cc-pVnZ, n = D,T,Q basis sets, MP4 and CCSD(T) correlation energy treatments, the counterpoise correction to the basis set superposition error, and extrapolation schemes for estimating complete basis set (CBS) limits. A careful FCI correction was added to our best He2 CCSD(T) potential. The characteristic parameters De, Re, k, and σ of the ab initio potentials were compared with those of reliable empirical and ab initio potentials. Our best results for He2 recovered 99.9% of Janzen's SAPT2 well depth Janzen, A.R. ; Aziz, R.A. J Chem Phys 1997, 107, 914–919. In the case of Ar2, we recovered 99.8% of Aziz's HFDID1 well depth Aziz, R.A. J Chem Phys 1993, 99, 4518–4525. For neon, second virial coefficients typically came to within 0.5–1.0 cm3mol−1 of experimental values and rovibrational energy levels exhibited errors of about 1.4 cm−1. Our best argon results exhibited second virial coefficients in agreement of 0.25 cm3mol−1 with experiment and rovibrational energy level errors around 0.2 cm−1. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem 95: 303–312, 2003
SoundRecover The importance of wide perceptual bandwidth

It is particularly important for people with hearing impairment to be able to perceive and discriminate highfrequency sounds easily and accurately. These signals contain information about speech that benefits intelligibility, especially in some common noisy listening conditions. Clear perception of such sounds can also provide valuable localization cues and specific benefits for speech production. Recently, some advanced digital hearing instruments have been introduced that are claimed to provide extended bandwidth, and therefore improved amplification of high-frequency sounds. However, the bandwidth, measured using electroacoustic techniques, is not necessarily representative of the perceptual bandwidth obtained with real fittings. When the perceptual bandwidth is estimated taking into account the audiogram configuration of each hearing-impaired listener, it can be demonstrated that the greater amplification of high frequencies expected with extended-bandwidth devices is difficult to achieve in practice. In contrast, the Phonak proprietary non-linear frequency-compression scheme, SoundRecover, can effectively extend perceptual bandwidth by improving audibility and discrimination of highfrequency signals.
Obsesif Kompulsif Bozukluk Hastalarının İnsanların Bakış İşaretine Spontan Olarak Odaklanmaları Bozuktur: Bir Göz İzleme Çalışması 2

Yöntem: Obsesif kompulsif bozukluk grubu ve kontrol grubuna kısaltılmış bir sosyal mesafe algılama testi uygulanmıştır. Bu testte bedenleri ön tarafa bakarken kafaları birbirlerine veya birbirlerinin aksi yöne bakan iki karikatürün olduğu resimler kullanılmıştır. Katılımcılar bu test sırasında karikatürler arasındaki mesafeleri bloklar arasındaki mesafelerle kıyaslamaya çalışırken, bir göz izleme aleti ile göz hareketleri kaydedildi. Kayıttan önce alt kenarı karikatürlerin omuz bölgesinde olan bir dikdörtgen alan görsel odaklanmalar için ilgi alanı olarak belirlendi. Test sırasında karikatürlerin göründüğü resimler ekranda iken, hastalar ve kontrollerin bu bölgenin içine yaptıkları görsel odaklanmaların sayı ve süreleri kaydedildi ve karşılaştırıldı.
Assessment of mandibular buccal shelf for an ideal miniscrew implantation site using Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

The introduction of absolute anchorage in orthodontics has changed the way we see treatment planning of an orthodontic case. It has increased the envelope of tooth movement by fixed orthodontic appliances. The position of these miniscrews is based on the mechanical requirement for a particular case (14). The most commonly used sites are the maxillary alveolar process, retromolar area, palate, mandibular and maxillary buccal alveolar processes (2-6).