Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Games and Feints as Pedagogy: Using Game Theory and Reverse Logic to Teach Conflict Reporting

This article presents a successful experiment in the use of two innovative pedagogic methods – game theory and ‘reverse logic’ – to overcome problems in the sustained adoption of good practices in reporting conflict during a workshop for broadcast journalists in Nepal organised by UNESCO and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). The article outlines how the strategy for using game theory and reverse logic was designed and implemented to Volume 2 number 1 Journalism Education page 11 Articles allow discovery of principles and to promote longer term ownership of the journalistic values that are consistent with conflict resolution and peace-building. It goes on to describe workshop activities and relates them to issues in transformative learning and value education. It evaluates student reactions and engagement and the extent to which the use of game theory and reverse logic led to the adoption of desired values.
gricultural e-government services : An implementation ramework and case study

Governments around the world have welcomed with much expectation e-government as a means for modernizing and optimizing the public service provision. However, there are several constraints to be surpassed for the successful provision of public services electronically. This study proposes a framework for putting traditional public services online, combining organization, management and technology advancements. It identifies stakeholders who will create or use the public service, describes and models the service, implements the e-government service and evaluates it. Workflow patterns are adopted in order to model the service in a well defined, flexible and reusable graphical way, achieving organizational interoperability of all involved stakeholders. Web services are used for implementing the e-government service as a cost-effective and technical interoperable solution. The framework has been tested for the case of an agricultural public service of the Greek Ministry of Agriculture. The development of the egovernment service has been based on an open source solution and is available online. The evaluation of the service has been based on the TAM model and farmers’ characteristics. Furthermore, the overall value of the framework for the agricultural sector has been assessed. Concluding, the framework may serve as a roadmap for deploying e-government systems and services. Its application in the agricultural sector has provided promising results and evinced that it can be considered as a cost-effective and simple s of o process, achieving aspect
I-theory on depth vs width: hierarchical function composition

Deep learning networks with convolution, pooling and subsampling are a special case of hierarchical architectures, which can be represented by trees (such as binary trees). Hierarchical as well as shallow networks can approximate functions of several variables, in particular those that are compositions of low dimensional functions. We show that the power of a deep network architecture with respect to a shallow network is rather independent of the specific nonlinear operations in the network and depends instead on the the behavior of the VC-dimension. A shallow network can approximate compositional functions with the same error of a deep network but at the cost of a VC-dimension that is exponential instead than quadratic in the dimensionality of the function. To complete the argument we argue that there exist visual computations that are intrinsically compositional. In particular, we prove that recognition invariant to translation cannot be computed by shallow networks in the presence of clutter. Finally, a general framework that includes the compositional case is sketched. The key condition that allows tall, thin networks to be nicer that short, fat networks is that the target input-output function must be sparse in a certain technical sense. This work was supported by the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), funded by NSF STC award CCF 1231216. I-theory on depth vs width: hierarchical function composition Tomaso Poggio with Fabio Anselmi and Lorenzo Rosasco
COMMENT Pulse wave velocity , central aortic pressure , and arterial reflection waves in white coat hypertension

White coat hypertension (WCH) is defined as office blood pressure (BP) of >140/90 mmHg but otherwise normal BP in untreated individuals. BP is assessed ideally by ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM), by self-measurement on at least three occasions, and more than once by office measurement. WCH, first described by Pickering in the 1980s, should not be confused with the white coat effect or alerting reaction, a rise in BP in the presence of a physician that occurs in normotensives as well as hypertensives, irrespective of whether they are under antihypertensive therapy. For many authors, the alerting reaction and WCH are expressions of the same pathophysiological phenomenon. They are distinguished in two ways. Firstly, the mechanism behind the alerting reaction may not be the same as that underlying WCH, as pointed out by Pickering, who suggested that the alerting reaction may be an adaptive physiological response by the sympathetic nervous system. Secondly, WCH is only found in untreated individuals. In their study published in this issue of the Journal, Almeida et al. restrict the diagnosis of WCH to untreated individuals. The requirement for subjects to be untreated
The long-time adaptation of coelacanths to moderate deep water: reviewing the evidences

− The evolutionary history of coelacanths is long and complex with indications of adaptations to different aquatic environments. Fossil coelacanths are registered in shallow brackish, fresh or marine waters, while extant coelacanths inhabit moderate deep marine environments. Here we review some evidences of this long-time adaptation to moderate deep waters, focusing mainly on the hypothesis of bimodal respiration (gas exchange through gills and lungs) in most fossil coelacanths and on the aquatic gas exchange and the presence of a non-functional lung in the extant coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae. Another morphological evidence is the high rate of lipid accumulation in the whole body of L. chalumnae. Camila CUPELLO1*, Gaël CLÉMENT2, François J. MEUNIER3, Marc HERBIN4, Yoshitaka YABUMOTO5 and
Evaluation of On-chip Decoupling Capacitor ’ s Effect on AES Cryptographic Circuit

Power Analysis (PA) attack and Electromagnetic Analysis (EMA) attack reveal a secret key on cryptographic circuits by measuring power variation and electromagnetic radiation during the cryptographic operations, respectively. Inserting decoupling capacitors reduces a PA leak; however, a resistance against EMA attack is not well-known. We fabricated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptographic chips with and without on-chip decoupling capacitors, and evaluated the resistance against PA and EMA attack. This paper presents that the on-chip decoupling capacitors make vulnerable to EMA attack using Hamming-weight model.
CenPRIS WP 110/09 Directors’ Pay-Performance: A Study on Malaysian Government Linked Companies

Directors’ Pay-Performance: A Study on Malaysian Government Linked Companies This paper examines pay-performance framework of Malaysian Government Linked Companies (GLCs) for the financial year 2001-2006 using panel regression approach. The GLCs pay determinant is modeled upon 4 core groups, namely, accounting ratios, company size, market measurement and board structure. In short, accounting ratios are found to be significantly positive linked to pay and company size remains the dominant pay determinant. Our empirical findings suggest that corporate governance compliance is not reflected in paid. The insignificant abnormal returns imply that GLCs board adopts a prudent risk management policy. The Achilles heel of GLCs is the failure of independent directors to be effective internal monitors of the company. The insignificant relationship is indeed puzzling as GLCs fulfill the minimum 33% threshold required by the Malaysian code of corporate governance as reported in Securities Commission (2007).
Of AcutE APPENdIcItIS IN GERIAtRIc PAtIENtS – LItERAtuRE REvIEw

Demographic changes associated with the aging population mean that surgeons increasingly have contact and make decisions about treating patients from the oldest age groups. the aim of the study was to review the literature concerning the treatment of acute appendicitis in patients over the age of 60 years old. material and methods. A review of the literature published in the years 2000-2015 has been carried out using the PubMed database. The initial number of results corresponding to the query in English, „appendicitis (MeSH) AND elderly (MeSH)” was 260. Selection based on the titles, abstracts, and eventually whole articles, ultimately resulted in 11 papers concerning the treatment of appendicitis in patients above 60 years of age. Results. Nine papers were retrospective and 2 were prospective. In total, the studies included 82,852 patients. Laparoscopic appendectomy was associated with a lower mortality rate, a smaller number of postoperative complications and a shorter length of hospital stay, which led to it being recommended by most authors. Four of the ten papers demonstrated that the patients who were qualified for laparoscopic surgery had less comorbidity and were in a lower ASA (American Society of Anaesthesiology) category. Antibiotic therapy as an independent method was assessed in one study in a group of elderly people, on a selected group of 26 patients, and its effectiveness was shown to be 70%. Most studies, however, are highly heterogeneous which significantly hindered comparisons. conclusions. Currently, laparoscopic appendectomy seems to be the treatment of choice in the elderly with acute appendicitis. Antibiotic therapy, as an independent method of treatment of acute appendicitis, cannot currently be recommended. However, further, prospective, and better-designed studies are needed, involving a larger number of patients, and primarily dedicated to the elderly.
Estimation of An Object Using 2 D Images

Images are used to record and represent information, they are present everywhere and influence how we perceive information about a particular subject. In this paper, we propose a unique method for estimation of the volume of a solid object with the help of image processing without 3D reconstruction. The input to our system consists of mere images of the object of interest from different views. Present methods to estimate the volume of an object with the help of images such as the one involving Monte Carlo method require minimum five images, whereas the idea proposed by us requires 2-3 images depending on the type of the object. It is advantageous over water displacement method for volume calculation as the object is not tempered during the process. The proposed idea incorporates edge detection, image segmentation, and feature extraction to identify the object and find its dimensions, after which, the object is broken down into infinitesimally slices along International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics Volume 114 No. 12 2017, 333-341 ISSN: 1311-8080 (printed version); ISSN: 1314-3395 (on-line version) url: http://www.ijpam.eu Special Issue ijpam.eu
PROSPECTIVE PHYSICISTS' AND PHYSICS TEACHERS' CONTENT KNOWLEDGE — FIRST RESULTS OF A GERMANY-WIDE STUDY —

At present, education of prospective physicists and physics teachers at German universities is not able to compensate differences in competencies and prior knowledge because there are almost no systematic concepts for a specific and adaptive support available. This is, amongst others, due to a lack of precise, sophisticated and valid instruments for measuring content knowledge. In this context, most of the available instruments are limited to physics education at school level. The few existing approaches focusing on university level can be characterized as fundamental research regarding the structure of competencies. They cannot be used as a basis for adaptive support strategies. Against this background, a model of physics content knowledge in the domain of mechanics has been developed which includes (1) the use of content knowledge (UoCK) for solving classical physics test items, (2) the use of experiments and models (UoEM) for planning and interpreting experiments and (3) aspects regarding the nature of science and scientific inquiry as part of physicists' or physics teachers' professional beliefs. It was used to develop a corresponding comprehensive test and to describe the test items by using difficulty generating item characteristics. Based on the introduced model, the results of an assessment with about 300 participants at German universities, prospective physicists and physics teachers, will be used for empirical verification of a model of competence levels which can be the basis of adequate support of university students on specific levels in the future. The paper gives a brief summary of the model of content knowledge and proceeds with presenting the students' results regarding their content knowledge as well as their ability to plan and interpret experiments. Furthermore the difficulty generating item characteristics as a means to define and describe competence levels are presented.
GROUP TRAINING OF ANGER MANAGEMENT ON AGGRESSIVENESS OF GIRL STUDENTS

Introduction: The basic skills taught in mental health management of human emotion. The aim of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of anger management training on aggression of girl students. Method: This is an experimental study as pretest, posttest with control group. The population of 400 girls adolescents in the 2014-2015 academic years in Mohammadieh city of whom 74 students that had high aggression scores, 30 of them were selected randomly to groups in both test and control group that 15 subjects were assigned randomly. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90-minute training while the control group received no intervention. Perry's Aggression Questionnaire was performed in experimental and control groups before and after intervention. Data was analyzed by using multivariate analysis of covariance. Results showed that aggressive treatment group compared to the control group decreased significantly Conclusion: Anger management training methods of cognitive behavioral therapy on the effective aggression.
Dexmedetomidine in pediatric intravenous general anesthesia without tracheal intubation

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the application of dexmedetomidine in pediatric intravenous general anesthesia without tracheal intubation. Methods: From January 2014 to January 2017, a total of 152 children that received intravenous general anesthesia without tracheal intubation, before scheduled surgeries, were recruited in this study. They were divided into an observation group (n=82) and a control group (n=70) by means of a random number table. For children in the observation group, intravenous infusion of dexmedetomidine was administered at 1.0 μg/kg within 10 minutes after initiation of intravenous anesthesia. When complete, the maintaining dose was pumped intravenously at 1.0 μg/kg/h and then propofol at 1-2 mg/kg per hour. The 70 children in the control group received equal doses of normal saline during intravenous general anesthesia. Time for leaving the post-anesthesia care unit (PACT), awakening time, scores on the pediatric anesthesia emergence delirium (PAED) scale, adverse events in the recovery period, heart rates (HR), mean arterial pressure (MAP), serum cortisol, and aldosterone levels at different time points were compared between the two study groups. Results: Time for leaving from the PACT and awakening time of children were insignificantly different between the observation group and control group (P>0.05). PAED scores for postoperative emergence delirium (ED) and incidences of pain and restlessness in the recovery period in the observation group were all remarkably lower than the control group (all P<0.05). At different time points (10 min, 20 min, and 30 min after dexmedetomidine or normal saline pump infusion and at the end of surgery), slower heart rates (HR), higher mean arterial pressure (MAP), and lower cortisol and aldosterone levels of children were noted in the observation group compared to control group (all P<0.05). Conclusion: The application of dexmedetomidine to pediatric intravenous general anesthesia, without tracheal intubation, can lead to stabilization of the circulatory system, relieve stress response, and effectively reduce restlessness and pain during the recovery period. Thus, it is worthy of extensive clinical use.
Subduction zone segmentation and controls on ear thquake rupture : The 2004 and 2005 Sumatra ear thquakes

Consortium Participants: University of Southampton (Lead institution): Timothy Henstock (Consortium PI), Lisa McNeill, Jon Bull, Simon Dean University of Oxford: Shamita Das, Philip England University of Cambridge: Frederik Tilmann, Penny Barton, Keith Priestley University of Liverpool: Andreas Rietbrock British Geological Survey: David Tappin National Oceanography Centre, Southampton: Douglas Masson, Russell Wynn Major International Collaborators: LIPI, Indonesia: Hery Harjono (Director of Research Center for Geotechnology), Haryadi Permana, Danny Natawidjaja BPPT, Indonesia: Yusuf Djajadihardja IPG Paris, France: Satish Singh, Paul Tapponnier, Francis Lucazeau California Institute of Technology, USA: Kerry Sieh, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Robert Clayton Oregon State University, USA: Chris Goldfinger IFM-GEOMAR, Germany: Heidrun Kopp Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Germany: Christoph Gaedicke Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India: Supriyo Mitra
Current State and Modeling of Research Topics in Cybersecurity and Data Science

Arguably, the two domains closely related to information technology recently gaining the most attention are ‘cybersecurity’ and ‘data science’. Yet, the intersection of both domains often faces the conundrum of discussions intermingled with ill-understood concepts and terminologies. A topic model is desired to illuminate significant concepts and terminologies, straddling in cybersecurity and data science. Also, the hope exists to knowledge-discover under-researched topics and concepts, yet deserving more attention for the intersection crossing both domains. Motivated by these, then retaining most of the already accepted IMCIC (the International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics, and Cybernetics) 2019 conference paper’s content and supplementing it with implicit design activities while conducting the research, this study attempts to take on a challenge to model cybersecurity and data science topics clustered with significant concepts and terminologies, grounded on a textmining approach based on the recent scholarly articles published between 2012 and 2018. As the means to the end of modeling topic clusters, the research is approached with a text-mining technique, comprised of key-phrases extraction, topic modeling, and visualization. The trained LDA Model in the research analyzed and generated significant terms from the text-corpus from 48 articles and found that six latent topic clusters comprised the key terms. Afterwards, the researchers labeled the six topic clusters for future cybersecurity and data science researchers as follows: Advanced/Unseen Attack Detection, Contextual Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Applied Domain, Data-Driven Adversary, Power System in Cybersecurity, and Vulnerability Management. The subsequent qualitative evaluation of the articles found the LDA Model supplied the six topic clusters in unveiling latent concepts and terminologies in cybersecurity and data science to enlighten both domains. The main contribution of this research is the identification of key concepts in the topic clusters and text-mining key-phrases from the recent scholarly articles focusing on cybersecurity and data science. By undertaking this research, this study aims to advance the fields of cybersecurity and data science. Besides the main contribution, the additional research contributions are as follows: First, the topic modeling approached using text-mining makes the cybersecurity domain unearth the terminologies that make IST (Information Systems and Technology) researchers investigate further. Secondly, using the result of the study’s analysis, IST researchers can decide terms of interest and further investigate the articles that supplied the terms.
A New Planar Multioctave Broadband Traveling-Wave Beam-Scan Array Antenna

This paper presents a new approach for broadband planar phased array antenna, in which the array elements are traveling-wave antennas comprised of planar 2-dimensional frequencyindependent antennas closely spaced above a conducting ground plane. Adjacent array elements are strongly coupled or directly connected. The present approach has the potential to achieve 10:1 bandwidth for wide-angle beam scan.
Authenticity, Quality, and Loyalty: Local Food and Sustainable Tourism Experience

The sustainability of rural development, both economic and environmental, has been increasingly linking to local food, which plays an indispensable role by preserving traditional culture, attracting tourists, and supporting the regional economy. However, the authenticity and quality of local food have not been fully convinced as competitive advantages by most practitioners. Little is known about how authenticity affects quality attributes, tourist satisfaction, and tourist loyalty. Thus, this study examines the role of authenticity in the quality–satisfaction–loyalty framework. The field research was performed in Shunde County, Guangdong Province, China. The results challenge the traditional view of quality attributes by highlighting that authenticity is a key antecedent to the quality–satisfaction–loyalty framework of food tourism. In contrast, the relationships among quality attributes, tourist satisfaction, and tourist loyalty are contingent on the extent to which food tourists perceive the authenticity of rural local food.
Capturing Conceptual Development through the Embodied-Based Experience in Infinite Sets Comparison

Designing pedagogical experience to serve as groundwork on which to build an understanding of abstract concepts is a challenging mission for educators. Much research has found that embodied activities could facilitate conceptual metaphor for students to understand such concepts. This study has captured the trajectory of reasoning occurred during the embodied-based experience designed for the infinity concept. The participants, 42 secondary students who had never been exposed to the formal concept of infinity, passed through a designed series of making-sense tasks, so called the Embodied-Based Activity of Infinite Sets Comparison (EBIC). The EBIC intervention was conducted in 2 phases; (i) careful observation of 2 voluntary students, and (ii) integration for 40-classroom practice. The first phase was to examine the students’ conceptual development through their utterances, actions and inscriptions. Open-ended questions were used to capture the students’ insights and reasoning in the second phase. The qualitative data was collected and mined to associate pairability and Cantor’s metaphor. The finding showed the reasoning trajectory of some participants and the shift from improper reasoning to 1-1 correspondence pairing of countably infinite sets. This mathematical thinking shift was a consequence of conceptual embodiment, outlining the analysis of the embodied-based experience to develop abstract reasoning.