Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Novel Memetic Algorithm with Imperialist Competition as Local Search

A special position has been allocated to combinatory strategy among several solutions which are offered to solve the meta-heuristic problems. This strategy is obtained by applying different techniques in the process of problem solving. Memetic algorithms are the most famous member of this family, which are made by combining the genetic algorithms with heuristic local searches. Imperialistic competitive algorithm is used in this research as local search and its efficiency level is evaluated in solving the knapsack 1-0 problem. Obtained results revealed more efficiency of this method comparing with usual genetic algorithm; also the simulations show that it does not have any better glowing results in comparison to imperialistic competitive algorithm.
Manufacture of a Low Oxalate Mitsumame-Type Dessert Using Rhubarb Juice and Calcium Salts

Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum) juice was used to make a Japanese soft mitsumame-type dessert sweet. The dessert was prepared from extracted rhubarb juice, which was cooked with sugar, agar and guar gum, then allowed to set in sweet moulds. The total, soluble and insoluble oxalates were determined in the ingredients and the final products using HPLC chromatography. To reduce the soluble oxalate content of the dessert while retaining the colour and taste of the final product, increments of CaCl2 and CaCO3 were added to the test dessert mixes. The addition of CaCl2 reduced the pH from 3.55 ± 0.03 to pH 3.09 ± 0.02 while addition of CaCO3 increased the pH from 3.55 ± 0.03 to 4.96 ± 0.01. In both cases, the incremental addition of calcium reduced the soluble oxalate content of the sweets by converting it to insoluble oxalate.
Effects of Sound Repatriation Measure on Expatriate Satisfaction in Medicine Industry

Abstract It requires great amount of costs for cultivating a talent with international experiences. A lot of evidences show the failure of multinational corporations in human capital investment because of the expatriates leaving the companies after the end of the overseas tasks. Many expatriates leave the companies within a year, the next year, or within two years of repatriation. In this case, the loss of repatriates is the loss of multinational corporations. An international task being really successful in the repatriation process lies in the organization being able to retain the repatriates. The expatriates of Sinphar Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. are researched in this study. Total 400 copies of questionnaires were distributed. Having deducted invalid and incomplete ones, 227 valid copies were retrieved, with the retrieval rate 57%. The research results present 1. partially positive correlations between Repatriation Measure and Performance of Service in Expatriate Satisfaction, 2. significantly positive correlations between Repatriation Measure and Performance of Aspiration in Expatriate Satisfaction, and 3. the moderating effects of Personal Attribute of Expatriate on the correlations between Repatriation Measure and Expatriate Satisfaction. Suggestions for the expatriation management in medicine industry are offered in the empirical results.
Evaluation and Comparison of the Real-Time Performance of CAN and TTCAN

This article compares CAN with TTCAN (Time Triggered CAN) by hand of their ability to react to asynchronous external events. For the evaluation the method ’Distinctness of Reaction’ is utilized which is based on an orthogonal Walsh correlation. The method measures the average latency response time and the jitter when reacting to asynchronous external events. Furthermore, the measuring procedure yields the ’frequency response’ of the communication system which allows the detection of its characteristic properties. Based on the results, a discussion is carried out which enables the derivation of interesting clues in order to plan and optimize time triggered systems.
Pairs Trading Using Machine Learning: An Empirical Study

Pairs trading is a quantitative trading strategy that exploits financial markets that are out of equilibrium. By identifying a pair of stocks that historically move together, and assuming that their price difference is mean-reverting, an investor can profit from deviations from the mean by taking a long-short position in the chosen pair. Throughout the years, several trading frameworks and methods have been established in order to optimize this strategy. These methods, in particular the stochastic (residual) spread method, are mainly based on the more traditional estimation techniques, such as the Expectation Maximization algorithm. Since machine learning techniques are becoming more popular in finance, we propose to develop a framework for pairs trading using neural networks. This thesis analyzes the performance of neural networks in pairs trading applied to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) both statistically and economically, and compares the performance with the more traditional methods. The results show that recurrent neural network is superior compared to the other methods, since it generates the largest returns, around 11%, as well as the highest Sharpe and Sortino ratios.
Multilayer Capacitor Model of the Earth's Upper Crust

In this study, an equivalent electric circuit model of Earth's upper crust is proposed to explain the behavior of measurement patterns acquired from network of the earthquake forecast project. A multi-layer capacitor model having active components that couples with the monopolar probe close to the surface is used to determine earthquake precursory patterns due to structural changes in time. Equivalent circuit model was developed for a) dilatency process that is assumed to be a stress weakening reason and b) external force source that increases shear stress over the fault until sudden decrement before the earthquake. A data acquisition system consisting of 15 online measurement stations in Marmara region and a data processing center has been established three years ago. Many anomalies which can be distinguished from regular daily behavior of the signal patterns were observed that thought to be associated with the earthquakes with the magnitude greater than 4 and close less than 150 kilometers to the nearest station.
Internal curing of high strength self consolidating concrete by saturated lightweight aggregate - effects on material properties

Self-desiccation is the major source of autogenous shrinkage and crack formation in low water-binder ratio (w/b) concretes which can be reduced by internal curing. In this paper performance of high strength self consolidating concrete (HS-SCC) with w/b of 0.28 and 0.33 including autogenous shrinkage, drying shrinkage, compressive strength, and resistance to freezing-thawing was investigated. Then, for the purpose of internal curing, 25% of normal weight coarse aggregate volume was replaced with saturated lightweight aggregate (LWA) of the same size; and its effects on the material properties was studied. Two modes of external curing, moist and sealed, were applied to test specimens after demoulding. Autogenous shrinkage from 30 minutes to 24 hours after mixing was monitored continuously by a laser system. The initial and final setting time were manifested as a change of the slope of the obtained deformation curves. Shrinkage after initial setting was 860 and 685 microstrain (µe) for 0.28 and 0.33 w/b mixtures, respectively. The saturated LWA reduced these values to 80 and 295 µe, respectively. By LWA Substitution the 28day compressive strength of 0.28 w/b mixture was reduced from 108 to 89 and 98 to 87 MPa for moist and sealed cured specimen, respectively. The corresponding values for 0.33 w/b mixture was 84 to 80 and 82 to 70 MPa. Shrinkage of 0.28 w/b mixture without LWA after moist and sealed cured specimen dried for 3 weeks was about 400 µe. Shrinkage of moist and sealed cured specimen containing LWA was reduced 9% and 25%, respectively. On the contrary for 0.33 w/b mixture an increase was noticed. Freezing-thawing resistance was improved by sealed curing, decreasing w/b and substituting LWA.
Fighting and Voting: Violent Conflict and Electoral Politics

Two recent research programs—one on the sources of democratic consolidation and another on the causes and consequences of violent conflict—have tended to evolve in relative isolation. The contributions to this special issue of Journal of Conflict Resolution help to bridge this gap, through explicit theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship between fighting and voting. Armed conflict and electoral politics may be strategic substitutes, in that political actors may optimally choose to submit to the ballot box or instead attempt to impose their will by force; or they may be strategic complements, in that actors use violence to bolster their electoral aims, or use electoral returns as sources of information on underlying preferences that they exploit in armed campaigns. In either case, the distribution of popular support for contending parties can shape not only the incidence but also the type of armed conflict, and it can also influence the incentives of parties to invest in institutional mechanisms that mitigate commitment problems and help to bring violent conflicts to an end. The contributions to this issue illuminate these themes and demonstrate the value of bringing these separate research programs into closer dialogue.
INDICATORS FOR MEASURING SATISFACTION TOWARDS DESIGN QUALITY OF BUILDINGS

Design quality is an important component in measuring satisfaction towards total product quality (TPQ) of buildings, the product of construction projects. Design Quality Indicator (DQI), developed by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in the UK looking at three quality fields, i.e. functionality, build quality, and impact of building in measuring the quality of design embodied in the buildings through feedback and perceptions of all stakeholders involved in the production and use of buildings. Design quality is always a major concern in the Malaysian construction industry. With inspiration from this DQI, this study was carried out to identify indicators for measuring the satisfaction towards design quality of buildings and to evaluate the suitability of the indicators for application in the context of Malaysian construction industry. Through literature survey, 32 indicators of design quality were identified and grouped into the three design quality fields. A questionnaire survey was carried out among Malaysian construction professionals (architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, contractors and developers) to assess the identified design quality indicators in terms of their relevance and significance in the context of construction industry in Malaysia. The survey reveals that access, natural lighting, access and use, structure element, landscape, finishes, location, external environment, urban and social integration and noise are among the design quality indicators that were perceived as the most important to be looked at. In overall, all the indicators are relevant for adoption in the Malaysian construction industry to measure the satisfaction towards design quality of buildings.
LEXICAL CAUSATIVES AND CAUSATIVE ALTERNATION

B.Oyhan;:abal (IKER-UMR 5478, CNRS) After offering a brief survey of the features of causative sentences in Basque, mainly on the basis of Dixon's (2000) criteria, the paper deals with Basque lexical causatives, which can be used as either causative or unaccusative verbs. The proposed analysis assumes that lexical decomposition is carried out directly according to syntactic principles (Hale & Keyser 1993, Baker 1997, McGinnis 2000), and that different types of causative sentence (morphological vs lexical causatives) correspond to different types of phrase (VoiceP vs VP) selected by the Cause head (Pylkkiinnen 2001, 2002; Meggerdoomian 2002). The paper shows that in Basque lexical causatives the Cause head selects one of the predicates BECOME or GO only. Other intransitive verbs are excluded from lexical causativization, even those which are superficially similar verbs of change because they are absolutive monadic verbs (reflexive verbs like orraztu 'comb: verbs of happening like gertatu 'happen: or verbs of activity like jostatu 'play,). Three types of lexical causative are distinguished and analyzed following lexical decomposition: verbs of change of (physical) state, verbs of change of place and psychological causatives. Since Basque, unlike Finnish or japanese, shows a strict correlation between causation and the existence of an external argument, it is assumed that in Basque as in English, the Cause and Voice heads conjlate in lexical causatives (Pylkiinnen 2002). There are two main ways to form causative verbs in Basque, illustrated in (2a) and (2b):1 1 Abbrevations. ABS: absolutive, ART: article, AUX: auxiliary, CAU: causative, COM: comitative, DAT: dative, ERG: ergative, FOC: focus marker, FUT: future, IMP: imperfective, INE: inesive, INS: instrumental, INTER: interrogative, PL: plural, PAR: partitive, PTP: participle, RFL: reflexive. Finite verb forms such as the auxiliaries [AUX] da and du incorporate indices for the person and number of the verb's nuclear arguments, which in the literal glosses are indicated to the right ofa colon by means of English personal pronouns in the order subject> (direct or indirect) object, regardless of the sequence of morphemes in the Basque forms. Where glosses for finite forms are followed by three personal pronouns, the third index represents the dative complement (indirect object). Basque makes no grammatical distinction for the gender of third-person arguments. [ASJU Geh 46, 2003, 223-253] http://www.ehu. es/ojs/index.php/asju
Species richness changes across two trophic levels simultaneously affect prey and consumer biomass

Increasing species richness of primary producers or consumers is proposed to increase primary and secondary production; however, the consequences of biodiversity change across trophic levels has been poorly investigated. We used a controlled marine microbial system to investigate the effects of simultaneous changes in biodiversity of consumer and prey species. Consumer (ciliates) and prey (algae) richness and identity were manipulated independently in a complete factorial design. The results showed clear biodiversity effects of both consumers and prey, within and across trophic levels. We found reduced prey and increased consumer biomass with increased consumer richness, with the most diverse prey assemblage supporting the highest biomass of consumers at the highest richness of consumers. Increasing prey richness did not increase resistance to consumption when consumers were present. Instead, our results indicated enhanced energy transfer with simultaneous increasing richness of consumers and prey.
Diabetes Type 2 and Physical Activity Program: Potential Application of Risk-Engine UKPDS Score in Out-Patient Context

Diabetes mellitus Type 2 (DMT2) carries a high risk of cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. Physical activity (PA) is widely prescribed for this population. However, detection of the eventual risk level and the potential additional increase through physical exercise are of paramount importance in these patients. A model for predicting absolute risk for coronary artery disease in diabetes has been provided in the investigation by the UKPDS (United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study). The present study aims to verify the potential feasibility of the UKPDS calculation in an out-patient context, where patients with DMT2 can be selected for an exercise prescription program. All patients investigated were consecutively enrolled in the study at the time of the first clinical check-up in the outpatient center of the University of Perugia-Internal Medicine Department. A group of 101 Caucasian patients (62 males; 39 females; aged 67 ± 2 years) were studied. In agreement with the UKPDS score, gender, age, ethnicity, Body Mass Index, systolic blood pressure and smoking habits were considered. The global mean cardiovascular risk calculated by the UKPDS risk-engine was 25.8% of a first cardiovascular event within 10 years after the initial observation. Despite an absence of symptoms, the risk was globally high and in agreement with current literature. Conclusion: The data are suggestive of a potential large clinical application of UKPDS risk-engine score in an outpatient context, especially in those asymptomatic DMT2 patients potentially enrolled in a physical activity program. This pilot investigation supports the importance for immediate estimation of cardiovascular risk in DMT2 subjects to implement basic therapeutic strategies such as physical activity.
An algebraic approach to general aggregation theory: Propositional-attitude aggregators as MV-homomorphisms

This paper continues Dietrich and List's [2010] work on propositionalattitude aggregation theory, which is a generalised unication of the judgment-aggregation and probabilistic opinion-pooling literatures. We rst propose an algebraic framework for an analysis of (many-valued) propositional-attitude aggregation problems. Then we shall show that systematic propositional-attitude aggregators can be viewed as homomorphisms in the category of C.C. Chang's [1958] MV-algebras. Since the 2-element Boolean algebra as well as the real unit interval can be endowed with an MV-algebra structure, we obtain as natural corollaries two famous theorems: Arrow's theorem for judgment aggregation as well as McConway's [1981] characterisation of linear opinion pools.
Effects of Psyllium and Marve Seed Mucilages on Physical, Sensory and Staling Properties of Sponge Cake

Irreversible changes in the physicochemical properties of bakery products after baking is called staling. One of the most important issues of nutritional and economic importance in the bakery industry is to delay staling. One way to postpone staling is to apply native plant and seed hydrocolloids, especially mucilages, which have high medicinal and nutritional value and low price. Therefore, in this study, the effects of different concentrations of psyllium seed mucilage (0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1), marve mucilage (0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1) and the combination of both kinds of mucilage (up to 1%) on the physical, sensory and staling properties of sponge cake were investigated. In general, except when 1% of mucilage was used, the overall properties of sponge cake were always improved by hydrocolloid addition. The results showed that the addition of 0.25% marve combined with 0.25% psyllium significantly (P< 0.05) enhanced properties of sponge cakes (volume, overall acceptability, hardness and moisture during storage) compared with the control sample.
The adoption and termination of profit sharing for employees: does management’s attitude play a role?

ABSTRACT Examinations on the determinants of profit sharing usually focus on objective firm characteristics. Using data from manufacturing firms in Germany, this study shows that managers’ subjective attitudes towards profit sharing also play an important role in the adoption and termination of this payment scheme. Positive management attitudes are associated with an increased likelihood of adopting profit sharing. While to some extent this entails failed experimentation, positive managerial attitudes also substantially contribute to a sustained use of profit sharing. The pattern of results holds even when controlling for a variety of objective firm characteristics.
Exploring User Attitudes towards Internet Use: The Role of Gender and Age Difference

This study was conducted in Kyambogo University (KYU), Uganda to assess the impact of gender and age difference on students' attitudes towards use of internet. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 350 students were randomly selected to constitute the sample. Data was collected using a questionnaire, and analyzed descriptively using SPSS for frequencies, means, standard deviation and cross tabulation. The results indicated that there were no significant relationships between gender and age difference of undergraduate students' attitudes towards the academic use of Internet. It was recommended, that; free Internet access be provided to students at the university, students taking ICT classes be helped to purchase personal computers at subsidized prices, KYU encouraged to devise more strategies of maintaining gender balance into the students' curricula.
Dielectric dispersion and microwave dielectric study of marbles in support of radar investigations

The dielectric permittivity e' and loss e" of nine marble samples collected from open marble mines of Makarana, Rajsamand, Ambhaji and Kesariyaji of Rajasthan were studied in the frequency range 100 Hz-100 kHz and also at10.1 GHz at room temperature. It is found that the e' values of dry marbles decrease with increase in frequency in the range 100 Hz-100 kHz. All the studied marbles are governed by the Cole-Cole dielectric dispersion. The values of static dielectric constant e o , high frequency limiting dielectric constant e m o , dielectric relaxation strength Δe, distribution parameter a, and relaxation time for dipole rotation T were determined from the complex Cole-Cole plots. All these samples have α values greater than 0.5 and their Ae values vary significantly. Further, wide variation in ac conductivity σ is also observed for different samples. The effect of sample bulk density and variation in the chemical composition on low frequency and microwave permittivity of the studied marbles have been recognized. The measured values of dielectric permittivity of these marbles were also compared and discussed with the earlier reported e' values of marbles and limestones of other regions. The precise microwave dielectric measurements of marbles and recognization of their dependence on petrological and chemical composition are interesting and can be used in support of radar investigations of the Earth's geology.
Sparse Coding of Single Spoken Digits

Sparse coding is a way to represent or code a signal by using a trained, over-complete dictionary of basis functions. A sparse code has the property that very few of the basis functions are selected to reconstruct a signal. One of several interesting properties of sparse coding is that the trained dictionary captures meaningful features from the dataset. As a result, the code can be used to classify the signal since it lists the features that are present in the signal. There are several parameters of the sparse coding algorithm that has to be set, such as the size of the dictionary and the sparseness of the code. This paper investigates the influence of some of these parameters on the code and on the features that are learned by the dictionary.
EFFICIENCY OF VARIOUS FEED ADDITIVES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF BROILERS TREATED WITH T-2 TOXIN

Experiment was conducted on 160 one-day-old broiler chicks "Ross" proveniention during 21 day. This research was done with the aim to investigate performances of broilers exposed to the relatively small amount of T-2 toxin (2 mg/kg) and the possibility of prevention and/or alleviating its adverse effects by using various feed additives. Results showed negative consequences of T-2 toxin on body weight, weight gain, feed:gain ratio. All used feed additives in the concentration of 0.2% in feed: inorganic (Minazel-plus, Mz) and organic (Mycosorb, Ms) adsorbents, as well as mixed adsorbent (Mycofix-plus, Mf) mostly alleviated negative effects of T-2 toxin.