Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Characteristics of body water distribution in healthy adults measured by multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis

Objective: To investigate the characteristics of the ratio of extracellular water (ECW) to total body water (TBW) volume (ECW/TBW) in a large group of healthy adults, measured by multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance (bioimpedance) analysis (MF-BIA). Subjects and methods: The correlation between ECW and TBW was studied in 957 healthy adults who underwent general medical examinations. Differences between measured and predicted ECW from ECW–TBW correlation equations (ΔECW) were calculated, and possible factors for non-zero ΔECW were explored. To investigate the influence of percent fat mass (%FM) on ECW/TBW, the ECW/TBW values of “lean” and “obese” groups, classified by %FM, were compared. ECW/TBW was also compared between “non-obese” and “obese class I-II” groups, classified by the body mass index for both genders. Results: ECW and TBW showed strong positive correlations in both genders. ΔECW was within ±0.2 L and increased with advancing age; ECW/ TBW also increased. There were no significant differences in ECW/TBW between the “lean” and “obese” groups in either gender, or between the “non-obese” and “obese class I-II” groups in the female group. Conclusions: ECW/TBW measured by MF-BIA was considered to be an index of body water distribution in healthy adults ranging from “lean” to “obese class I-II,” which is not significantly affected by body fat.
The Influence of Work Ethic and Organizational Culture on Teachers Professionalsm and Organizational Support as Variable Moderating in Private Vocational High School (SMK) Muhammadiyah 5 Kisaran, Indonesia

The purpose of this study is to know the influence of work ethic and culture organization to professional teachers and support organization as variable moderating in Private Vocational High School (Smk) Muhammadiyah 5 Kisaran. The research is kind of quantitative research with analytical descriptive study. The research is population research with a population of about 40 teachers productive. This research result indicate (1) there is the influence of work ethic on teacher professionalism with a path coefficient value of 0,033, (2) there is an influence of organizational culture on teacher professionalism with a path coefficient value of 0,488, (3) there is an influence of work ethic and organizational culture on teacher professionalism with a path coefficient value of 0,933, and (4) there is a positive and significant influence of organizational support to strengthen the work ethic and organizational culture towards teacher professionalism with a path coefficient value of 0,566 with variable conclusions acceptable.
Part-of-Speech Tagging for Under-Resourced and Morphologically Rich Languages - The Case of Amharic

This paper presents part-of-speech (POS) tagging experiments conducted to identify the best method for under-resourced and morphologically rich languages. The experiments have been conducted using different tagging strategies and different training data sizes for Amharic. Experiments on word segmentation and tag hypotheses combination have also been conducted to improve tagging accuracy. The results showed that methods like MBT are good for under-resourced languages. Moreover, segmenting words composed of morphemes of different POS tags and tag hypotheses combination are promising directions to improve tagging performance for under-resourced and morphologically rich languages.
The effect of adding probiotic Saccharomyces cerevisiae on dietary antibiotic-free on production performance and intestinal lactic acid bacteria growth of broiler chicken

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of using yeast named Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a probiotic in the maintenance of broiler chickens that are free from antibiotic administration and to obtain the most efficient dose of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a feed additive. The success of this study supports the government's program for the future that will prohibit antibiotics usage in poultry feed, especially broiler chickens. This study consisted of 5 treatments and 5 replications for each treatment. Each replication consisted of 10 heads of broiler chicken aged 14 days. Treatment I = formulation feed (control) without yeast addition (P0), treatment II = control plus yeast 0.5 g/kg of feed (0.05%) (P1), treatment III = control plus 1 g/kg of feed (0.1%) (P2), treatment IV = control plus yeast 1.5 g/kg of feed (0.15%) (P3), and treatment V = BR1 commercial feed (K). Observations were carried out since the chickens aged 14 days to harvested on aged 35 days. Data were analysed using one way analysis of completely randomized design (CRD) by IBM SPSS Statistics 23. Significantly different results were followed by Duncan's new multiple range test (DMRT) to determine differences between treatments. The results of this study indicate that the addition of S. cerevisiae up to 1.5 g/kg of feed (0.15%) on dietary free-antibiotics did not affect production performance (P1, P2, P3) compared to control (P0), however still lower than broilers fed BR1 commercial feed (K). Addition of S. cerevisiae as probiotic on dietary free-antibiotic had a greater role for improving health status by 0% mortality and tends to increase lactic acid bacteria in the duodenum intestinal tract.
Volunteer Clouds: From Volunteer Computing to Interconnected Infrastructures

Cloud Computing (CC) offers simple and cost effective outsourcing in dynamic service environments and allows the construction of service-based applications extensible with the latest achievements of diverse research areas. CC is built using dedicated and reliable resources and provides uniform seemingly unlimited capacities. Volunteer Computing (VC) on the other hand uses volatile, heterogeneous and unreliable resources. This chapter per the authors makes an attempt starting from a definition for Cloud Computing to identify the required steps and formulate a definition for what can be considered as the next evolutionary stage for Volunteer Computing: Volunteer Clouds (VCl). There are many idiosyncrasies of VC to overcome (e.g., volatility, heterogeneity, reliability, responsiveness, scalability, etc.). Heterogeneity exists in VC at different levels. The vision of CC promises to provide a homogeneous environment. The goal of this chapter per the authors is to identify methods and propose solutions that tackle the heterogeneities and thus, make a step towards Volunteer Clouds.
UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE NETWORKS IN WATERSHED GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

The Bow River Basin Council (BRBC) functions as both an environmental governance network (EGN) and a bridging organization for watershed management in the Calgary region of southwestern Alberta, Canada. BRBC’s structure and function are examined to understand its role in inter-jurisdictional, cross-sectoral watershed management. EGNs such as BRBC emerge in complex social-ecological systems, and influence policy development and municipal participation in watershed management activities, manage information flows, and close functional cross-scalar “gaps” in government policy and regulation. Self-selecting and voluntary, BRBC stakeholders reflect multiple and sometimes competing sectoral interests in water and watershed management. EGNs such as BRBC may be structured to function as bridging organizations, brokering between actors in the watershed to achieve common watershed management objectives. The BRBC performs valuable functions for social learning, co-creation of knowledge, and collaborative and adaptive watershed management planning. Reflexive legal processes may provide the necessary procedural mechanisms to legitimize BRBC’s decision-making processes and co-created watershed management plans.
Sociolinguistic effects on loanword phonology: Topic in speech and cultural image

There is variation in the pronunciation of loanwords, because they can be pronounced with native sounds or non-native sounds. For example, loanwords from te reo Māori to New Zealand English (NZE) are sometimes pronounced with native rhotic sounds (e.g., ko[ɹ]u and ma[ɹ]ae) and sometimes with non-native rhotic sounds (e.g., ko[ɾ]u and ma[ɾ]ae). This study aims to explore the relationship between the selection of a variant in loanword phonology and situation-specific sociolinguistic factors such as topic in speech and cultural images. Additionally, we explore the effects of speaker- and word-specific sociolinguistic factors on the likelihood of choosing a variant. In order to explore these effects, a set of two experiments was conducted, and the results demonstrate that the selection of a variant in NZE loanword phonology is influenced by some sociolinguistic factors. It is argued that these findings can be encapsulated by an exemplar-based approach. More specifically, they can be neatly captured by positing that exemplars with native sounds and those with non-native sounds are represented in the cognitive system of a borrower and updated on the basis of linguistic experience, and exemplars with non-native sounds are stored in relation to a social category associated with the source language and its culture.
Building Entrepreneurial Mindsets in the Classroom

Finding a well-paying job that actually require a degree is and will remain the most challenging task for today’s young graduates. One of the solutions that the literature suggested is to encourage college graduate students to start their own businesses. The focus of our research is on Entrepreneurship Education (EE) and the purpose of the study was to examine students ‘attitude in relation to entrepreneurship education. This paper incorporates data gathered using the EAO (Entrepreneurial Attitudes Orientation), at the beginning and end of a hybrid-formatted entrepreneurship course, taken by students with varying degrees of interest in starting and running a business or becoming an entrepreneur. The EAO tool included questions that assess achievement, innovation, personal control and self-esteem. Our research provided a useful approach for assessing student learning outcomes in entrepreneurship education and encourages the development of “cultification” that would include innovative assignments and activities to be incorporated into entrepreneurship classes that would specifically help to develop entrepreneurial attitudes and an entrepreneurial mindset as part of the course syllabus and intended outcomes.
A Compressed Sensing Framework for Monte Carlo Transport Simulations Using Random Disjoint Tallies

ABSTRACT In this work, we present a methodology for using compressed sensing ideas to reduce the memory footprint of a Monte Carlo simulation where the scalar flux over the entire problem is desired. We first introduce the idea of disjoint tallies, i.e., Monte Carlo particle tallies that are not contiguous in space. Then we give a prescription for choosing these tallies randomly and performing a local reconstruction using a small number of these tallies based on minimizing the total variation (TV) norm of the reconstruction. Results for a TRIGA reactor simulation indicate that our method can give accurate flux maps for thermal and fast fluxes using about 10% the total number of tallies. Additionally, we present evidence that our procedure improves the solution when statistical noise is present. We believe that our work could provide capability necessary for data reduction and solution analysis for exascale computing due to the local nature of our reconstruction.
“The Bureaucratic Politics of the European Union: the case of the EU´s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia”

The 2011 and 2015 reviews of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) has put a stronger focus on the target countries ́ selective compliance as regards to EU norms. In existing literature on Europeanization, selective compliance has often been clarified by looking further into target countries ́ domestic factors, such as the mismatch between domestic policies and EU norms, their geopolitical context or the nature of their political regimes, thus overshadowing the impact of EU ́s complex institutional structure on rule transfer processes. Role theory has underlined role conflicts within the EU ́s institutional structure but has, nonetheless, neglected to account for how the EU ́s international role(s) has been contested between EU institutions, from within. This article argues that role theory needs to re-shift its focus on the political settings in which international organizations are embedded, by better integrating the bureaucratic politics ́ theoretical framework. This article maintains that the case of intra-role conflicts between the EU ́s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia and other EU bureaucratic agencies, and their effects on Georgia ́s selective compliance, is a promising research avenue for providing a better understanding on how rule transfer processes work.
Detecting Malicious Packet Dropping Using Traffic Patterns in MANET

Ad hoc networks are gaining presence with the proliferation of cheap wireless devices and the need to keep them connected. Individual applications and larger missions. such as those of tactical sensor networks. require secure data transmission among wireless devices. Security remains a major challenge for such networks. Current protocols employ encryption and authentication techniques for secure message exchange. but given the limitations and innately insecure nature of ad-hoc networks. such mechanisms may not suffice. A security breach can. for example, be a network-level denial-of-service (DoS) attack, passive eavesdropping, or physical layer jamming to degrade communication channels. In a multihop network, an intruder node can degrade communication quality by simply dropping packets that arc meant to be relayed (forwarded). The network could then misinterpret the cause of packet loss as congestion instead of malicious activity. In this paper, we suggest that traffic transmission patterns be selected to facilitate verification by a receiver. Such traffic patterns are used in concert with suboptimal MAC that preserves the statistical regularity from hop to hop. This general technique for intrusion detection is therefore suitable for networks that are not bandwidth limited but have strict security requirements, e.g., certain kinds of tactical sensor networks.
A POSSIBLE IMPACT OF CULTURAL FACTORS ON THE EXPECTATIONS ON THE CONTENT OF ISLAMIC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The financial reporting is considered to be a ‘universal’ language of business, the efforts to harmonize and standardize it are dictated by conviction, that the usefulness of financial and non-financial information delivered this way can be improved and might facilitate comparisons of companies operating around the world, etc. However, the real perception of information generated by financial statements is made by real people, not by the economic model of homo oeconomicus, that is why psychological and cultural factors are extremely important in the analysis of this process. There is a lack of comprehensive studies on this subject. Most of publications are contributory. The research is based on the critical review of the subject literature and using mostly the method of induction, the impact of selected cultural conditions on the formulation of expectations on the content of the financial statements is examined and proved. The example of Muslim countries is used as the beginning of series of articles in the taken subject. Keywords: accounting harmonization, cultural factors, decision-making, financial reporting, Islam.
Handgelenksdenervierung nach Wilhelm

Untersucht wurden alle Patienten der Klinik fur Plastische Chirurgie in den Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Kliniken Bergmannsheil Bochum, die sich von 1984 bis 1997 einer Handgelenksdenervierung nach Wilhelm unterzogen. Die Durchfuhrung erfolgte in Form einer retrospektiven Studie. Es wurden mittels Fragebogen und Auswertung der Krankengeschichten die Schmerz-, Beweglichkeits- und Kraftentwicklung beurteilt. Wir untersuchten Einflusskriterien wie z.B. praoperative Schmerzdauer, Grunderkrankungen, und Operationseffektivitat auf die Schmerzentwicklung. Im postoperativen Ergebnis kam es bei 68% der Patienten und in der Langzeitbeobachtung bei 72% zu einer Schmerzbesserung. Eine Beweglichkeits- bzw. Kraftbesserung konnte bei 53% bzw. 42% der Patienten beobachtet werden. Neue Ansatze bietet diese Arbeit fur die Diskussion um eine evtl. fruhzeitige Denervierung und um die Effektivitat der praoperativen Testung.
The Irrational Ant Model as an Alternative Strategy in Increasing Business Competitiveness: a Theoretical Study

This study will explain in theory about the Irrational Ant Model to increase business competitiveness. This model is built on the analogy of ant behavior. Ants have unique behavior. One of its uniqueness is in getting food for their needs. Ants will tend to choose foods that other ants have visited, although there are relatively similar food alternatives. This action is irrational in human view, because it consumes the energy and time to queue in getting the food. This ant action is also often played by humans in choosing or buying a product or service. This irrational attitude can be utilized in strategies to increase competitiveness by businesses and businesses. The Irrational Ant model consists of seven factors that compose it: location in ant nests, there are sugar there are ants, herding ants first, making a crowd of ants, building a network of ants, giving satisfaction, and maintaining loyalty.
AUTOMATED FIRMWARE VERIFICATION USING FIRMWARE-HARDWARE INTERACTION PATTERNS

Firmware refers to low-level software that is tied to a specific hardware platform. For instance, low-level drivers that physically interface with the peripherals are an example of firmware. An emerging trend in system design is to implement complex system management functions in firmware rather than hardware. For example, firmware has grown to include software that manages critical hardware platform functions such as power management. As the scale and the importance of firmware is increasing, its validation becomes a critical part of system validation. Firmware validation relies on having good models of the interacting hardware components because firmware needs to be shipped with the hardware and shares many of the same critical design concerns as the hardware. This is generally addressed through cosimulating C/C++ based firmware code and HDL (including SystemC) hardware models, which are usually not available until the late design stages. However, co-simulation tends to be slow, and is further exacerbated by the large number of possible interleavings between the concurrent firmware and hardware threads. Typically, in co-simulation, the thread scheduler, such as the SystemC scheduler, only explores a small number of possible firmware-hardware interleavings and thus may miss critical bugs. A firmware function is mostly reactive: it continuously provides a service, with a clear start and end, in response to inputs from its interacting software or hardware layer (i.e., the environment). Thus, a firmware function is often inherently associated with an infinite loop structure. This often makes it impossible to guarantee the completeness of the verification results. To this end, I address two key problems in this thesis. First, I describe how to co-design firmware with the system components at the service function level, also referred to as the transaction level. Second, I discuss how to validate firmware interactions with their connected hardware modules while pruning the verification search space and ensuring com-
Producing the patchwork: the hidden work of mothers in organizing child care

ABSTRACT This article aims to explore how child care is organized in families, documenting how mothers produce their individual child care solution, or “patchwork”, within the context of Canada’s underfunded and fragmented child care system. In a sample of 109 mothers from Alberta, Canada, where child care is conceptualized as primarily a private family responsibility, we use an ecocultural theoretical framework and a gender lens to 1) identify the constraints that influenced what kinds of child care mothers used, 2) explore the organization of day-to-day child care arrangements, and 3) explicate the accommodations and flexibility required to sustain the family routine. We show that in addition to previously recognized categories of child care—formal, informal, and mixed—families also used multiple informal and parent-plus (i.e., parental plus non-parental) child care. The procurement and management of child care—particularly when multiple care providers were involved—was gendered, often invisible, and required substantial accommodations and flexibility by mothers. We propose a day-care plus policy model of child care, where formal arrangements are supplemented as required. This policy model could help families avoid the complex scenarios we conceptualize as chaotic flexibility and assist families in achieving sustainable flexibility in the organization of care.
Automatic Testing of Web Services in Haskell Platform

As a concrete alternative to the development of distributed and connected applications, the Web Service (WS) technique is attracting more and more attention. WS testing is important because it will help the consumers to assess many WS quality attributes such as robustness. We in this paper present a framework with Haskell modules (such as QuickCheck, SmallCheck, HUnit and HSX) for automatically generating and invoking WS based on their WSDL specifications. Based on QuickCheck and HSX, we can quickly generate a number of WS tests and easily execute them with QuickCheck properties. With the help of HUnit, we can easily organize our WS test plan. In particular, a WS test suite can more easily be computed "on the fly" than in other test frameworks. Moreover, the nature of Haskell such as powerful abstraction facilities can provide unmatched support for WS regression testing.
Hash Algorithm for Finding Associations between Genes

Association rules are those that narrate the relationships prevailing between attributes present in the database. Every rule mining algorithm generate promising items (frequent items) from which, the rules are framed. These rules try to state the items that are most related and how much one item is closer and depending on the other item. But the rules generated are enormous in number. Filtering out the useful patterns becomes difficult. The paper proposes a Hash based algorithm for extracting only the fruitful patterns at a faster rate. The work has been done using R language, and executed in R data mining Toolkit. Comparative study of Hash algorithm with respect to other algorithms shows that the Hash algorithm behaves better than all the other existing algorithms. It has been tested against various benchmark datasets like Adult, Genome, Cancer datasets using various rule interestingness measures like Lift, Confidence, Interest, Support etc.