Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cloud Based Dynamic Workflow with QOS For Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis

Lately, there is a growing interest in the use of cloud computing for scientific applications, including scientific workflows. Key attractions of cloud include the payas-you-go model and elasticity. While the elasticity offered by the clouds can be beneficial for many applications and use-scenarios, it also imposes significant challenges in the development of applications or services. For example, no general framework exists that can enable a scientific workflow to execute in a dynamic fashion with QOS (Quality of Service) support, i.e. exploiting elasticity of clouds and automatically allocating and deallocating resources to meet time and/or cost constraints while providing the desired quality of results the user needs. This thesis presents a case-study in creating a dynamic cloud workflow implementation with QOS of a scientific application. We work with MassMatrix, an application which searches proteins and peptides from tandem mass spectrometry data. In order to use cloud resources, we first parallelize the search method used in this algorithm. Next, we create a flexible workflow using the Pegasus Workflow Management System from ISI. We then add a new dynamic resource allocation module, which can use fewer or a larger number of resources based on a time constraint specified by the user. Finally we extend this to include the QOS support to provide the user with the desired quality of results. We use the desired quality metric to calculate the values of the application parameters. The desired quality metric refers to the parameters
Identificação de personalidade de atletas olímpicos: uma análise exploratória de narrativa com mineração de textos

A capacidade de imaginar diferencia os humanos de qualquer outro ser animado. Analisar o passado, planejar o futuro e atuar no presente a partir de experiências vividas é uma prerrogativa humana que permitiu à espécie chegar ao nível de desenvolvimento conhecido até o momento. As questões relacionadas ao Olimpismo têm mobilizado a sociedade e a comunidade acadêmica. Assim, considerando-se as características particulares de atletas olímpicos, neste trabalho é apresentado um estudo preliminar da relação entre traços de personalidade e padrões de textos extraídos de entrevistas transcritas. São apresentadas análises conjuntas entre os resultados de um teste psicológico de traços de personalidade e uma análise exploratória do texto de uma entrevista realizada com um atleta olímpico. Tal análise do texto é realizada com o apoio de métodos de processamento automático de textos. Acredita-se que os resultados corroboram para o estudo de associações entre o conteúdo mais frequentemente presente em narrativas e o cruzamento de dados com luz às teorias psicológicas de traços de personalidade.
Family Firm Values Explaining Family Firm Heterogeneity

Family firm heterogeneity results in reduced predictability of firm behavior as well as inconsistent results regarding research on family firm behavior. We argue that family firm heterogeneity is based, among other factors, on values heterogeneity. In order to lay the ground for future research, we develop a taxonomy of family firms based on values. Using values theory, we identify six value categories, resulting in five family firm types with five distinct value profiles. Second, we posit family firm values profiles are distinct to the group of family firms as nonfamily firms do not display similar value profiles.
Application of lexical bundles from biotechnical research articles in ESP teaching

This paper presents the possibility of applying a list of lexical bundles that have been singled out as the most common or typical in the texts of native English speakers. These bundles belong to biotechnical research articles and this study reveals how lists of pedagogically useful lexical bundles could be transferred to teaching materials intended for non-native speakers who aim to master their writing skills for the purpose of writing research papers in English in the field of biotechnology. Lexical bundles occurring in all subcorpora of biotechnical articles, i.e. the subcorpora of forestry, landscape architecture, ecological engineering and wood processing point to those groups of lexical bundles whose proper use should first be adopted by the authors of biotechnical articles, while the results of their classification and further analyses provide materials for exercises which aim to teach their use. In this way, our research responds to the invitation of the study Chen and Baker (2010), which urges pedagogues and publishers to use more results of automated corpus research in teaching.
Social Capital, Product Market Competition and Corporate Disclosure of Proprietary Information

We examine the impact of social capital in local communities on corporate disclosure of proprietary information. Firms located in communities with higher social capital care more about the collective interests of the local communities. While the disclosure of proprietary information has the benefit of improving stock prices, the proprietary information revealed can be exploited by the firm’s product market rivals to its disadvantage and impose significant costs on both investors and the local community. Thus, when managers take the interests of local communities into consideration, they will view the disclosure of proprietary information to be a more costly action compared to those who only consider investors’ interests alone. Our empirical analysis confirms that firms located in communities with higher levels of social capital are associated with less disclosure of proprietary information. In addition, we find that the negative association between social capital and the disclosure of proprietary information is more pronounced for firms facing higher proprietary cost, with lower external financing dependence or with higher long-term institutional ownership.
The Effect of the Metacognitive Support via Pedagogical Agent on Self-Regulation Skills

Flipped Classroom (FC) has become an increasingly popular model in many disciplines in today’s educational system. In order for the FC model to be effective, it is important for the student to have self-regulation skills. It is especially important that students have advanced self-regulatory skills so that the online learning process of the FC model can be successfully completed. It is believed that the metacognitive support (MS) provided by the pedagogical agent during the online process of the FC model will contribute to the development of self-regulation skills of the students. The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of MS via pedagogical agent in the FC model on students’ self-regulation skills.The research was carried out according to experimental design, and the participants of the research consist of 102 university students. The data of the study were collected using self-regulated learning scale. As a result of the research, it was seen that the students of the experimental group who were provided MS with the pedagogic agent were found to have a statistically significant higher level of self-regulation skills than the control group students who were not provided with MS. Several suggestions have been made for the use of pedagogical agent-assisted MS in the design of FC courses.
"I don't always look at memes, but when I do, it's for a class": Using Memes to Demonstrate Language Rules

This activity uses Internet memes to demonstrate the pervasiveness of language rules and culture’s effect on language in online culture. Numerous introductory communication courses include a discussion on verbal communication that focuses on language rules and the effects of culture on verbal communication. The most relevant language rules for memes are the regulative rules that guide action and how we use language (Cronen, Pearce, & Harris, 1979). In this exercise, students analyze and evaluate language rules present in popular online memes. The students identify the language rule utilized in each of a pre-chosen set of Internet memes and generate at least three memes of their own that fit within the theme and language rules of the meme as a communication form. Students also answer questions regarding culture’s role in meme topics and language choices.
Comparative Analysis of Search Algorithms

Nowadays many artificial intelligence search algorithms are available to figure out the problem of shortest path finding. The paper presents the detailed study of informed search and uninformed search techniques. The paper focuses more towards uninformed search strategies such as BFS, DFS, and UCS and informed search strategies like A*, and Best First Search. The paper includes working of search techniques, their merits, and demerits, where these algorithms are applicable, also open and closed list for each algorithm are shown. At last comparison of search techniques based on complexity, optimality and completeness are presented in tabular form.
The Effects of Interaction between Internal Auditor and Audit Committee on Fraud Detection in Malaysia

This study aims to examine the effect of interaction between internal auditor and audit committee on fraud detection in Malaysia. Specific interaction is firstly; audit committee approving the appointment of chief audit executive, the evaluation of chief audit executive, the dismissal of chief audit executive, the internal audit budget and the internal audit plan or program. Secondly, audit committee’s involvement in reviewing internal auditor’s work specifically; providing input for the internal audit plan, reviewing the results of internal auditing related to financial reporting, reviewing the results of internal auditing related to internal control, reviewing the results of internal auditing related to compliance with laws and regulation, reviewing the internal audit involvement in management responses to internal audit suggestions, reviewing the difficulties or scope restrictions encountered by internal auditors and reviewing the coordination between internal auditors and external auditors. Survey questionnaires were mailed to internal auditors attached to 782 companies listed on Bursa Malaysia’s main market. The results of this study suggest that involvement of audit committee in approving chief audit executives’ matters is insignificant on internal auditors’ contribution to fraud detection. However, audit committee’s involvement in reviewing internal auditors’ work significantly influence the internal auditors’ contribution in fraud detection.
Language Modelling for Handwriting Recognition

This thesis is about the design of a complete processing chain dedicated to unconstrained handwriting recognition. Three main difficulties are adressed: pre-processing, optical modeling and language modeling. The pre-processing stage is related to extracting properly the text lines to be recognized from the document image. An iterative text line segmentation method using oriented steerable filters was developed for this purpose. The difficulty in the optical modeling stage lies in style diversity of the handwriting scripts. Statistical optical models are traditionally used to tackle this problem such as Hidden Markov models (HMM-GMM) and more recently recurrent neural networks (BLSTM-CTC). Using BLSTM we achieve state of the art performance on the RIMES (for French) and IAM (for English) datasets. The language modeling stage implies the integration of a lexicon and a statistical language model to the recognition processing chain in order to constrain the recognition hypotheses to the most probable sequence of words (sentence) from the language point of view. The difficulty at this stage is related to the finding the optimal vocabulary with minimum Out-Of-Vocabulary words rate (OOV). Enhanced language modeling approaches has been introduced by using sub-lexical units made of syllables or multigrams. The sub-lexical units cover an important portion of the OOV words. Then the language coverage depends on the domain of the language model training corpus, thus the need to train the language model with in domain data. The recognition system performance with the sub-lexical units outperformes the traditional recognition systems that use words or characters language models, in case of high OOV rates. Otherwise equivalent performances are obtained with a compact sub-lexical language model. Thanks to the compact lexicon size of the sub-lexical units, a unified multilingual recognition system has been designed. The unified system performance have been evaluated on the RIMES and IAM datasets. The unified multilingual system shows enhanced recognition performance over the specialized systems, especially when a unified optical model is used.
Flexibiliteit in balans: flexibilisering en de gevolgen voor werkgever èn werknemer

Flexibilisering is een vast gegeven geworden in het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven. De tijd is echter rijp voor een verdere ontwikkeling van bedrijfsinterne flexibiliteit. Hierbij is van belang om een balans te vinden tussen de belangen van het bedrijf en die van de werknemers. Duurzaam is het kernbegrip. Dat wil zeggen flexibilisering zo vormgeven dat zowel recht gedaan wordt aan het aanpassingsvermogen van bedrijven op langere termijn, als aan het blijvend gezond, vakbekwaam en gemotiveerd inzetbaar houden van medewerkers. In dit rapport worden verschillende vormen van flexibilisering gepresenteerd zowel vanuit bedrijfsperspectief als vanuit het perspectief van de werknemer. In hoeverre gaan verschillende vormen van flexibilisering samen of ontstaan ze afzonderlijk? Wat zijn de gevolgen van de verschillende flexibiliseringsstrategieen voor de concurrentiepositie van de bedrijven en de bedrijfsprestaties, voor de arbeidsomstandigheden en gezondheidsrisico's, voor werknemersbetrokkenheid en binding, voor loopbanen en competentieontwikkeling? Dit rapport is gebaseerd op analyses van data van ruim 3600 bedrijven en ruim 11000 werknemers, verzameld via het SZW-werkgeverspanel 1998.
The Impact of Test Code Summary to Understand the System Behaviour

In the recent past, a new agile methodology, Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) has been developed which aims to describe a system in terms of behaviour, which helps stakeholders understand the system behaviour and in communication with project members. However, existing projects do not have the advantage of explaining the system in terms of behaviour as in BDD, instead are often done through documentation. Through our paper, we propose a tool to automatically generate high-level context summaries of the test classes describing the behaviour in existing projects. The paper describes how we developed a tool that the behaviour of the system can be summarized from the test cases. In evaluating our approach, we found that the automatically generated summary from a test class 1) is helpful to the stakeholders in order to understand the behaviour of a part in a system, and 2) partially approaches a BDD scenario.
Land Capability and Suitability Mapping in Some Areas of North-Western Coast, Egypt

The objectives of this work are to assess soil suitability and capability for agricultural use in Al-Hwallah region, North-western coast of Egypt by to accomplish the agriculture outgrowth using Land Use Suitability Evaluation Tool (LUSET) and Stori index. The study area is located in the North-western coastal plain in Matrouh Government. It is delimited by longitudes 27° 32' 0" – 27° 35' 0" E and latitudes 31° 7' 0" – 31° 12' 0" N with an area about 13.65 km2. Fourteen soil profiles were dug and pedo-morphologically described. Thermic and torric are the common temperature and moisture regimes of the investigated area.Based on the field survey, laboratory analysis, and Landsat 8 image interpretation in collaboration with GIS, the physiographic units were extracted.Five main landforms were recognized as follows Piedmont, Foot Slope, Back Slope, Summit and Escarpment. Typic Haplocalcids, Typic Torripasamments and Typic Torriorthents are the dominant soils. According to the land capability assessment by the modified Stori index, the studied soils were categorized in to grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, and grade 4 but grade 3 and 4 are the most common with an area 3.5 km2 and 5.77 km2 respectively. According to LUSET suitability results, the most suitable crops in the study area are alfalfa watermelon, barley, wheat, sorghum and olives. The evaluation results indicate that the main limiting factors for agriculture soil suitability in the studied area were soil texture, shallow soil depth, excess of salts and lime.
Social Commerce Success Factors and Customer Satisfaction: Facebook Brand Page Platform

Social networking has experienced a huge transformation over a few decades. As one of the most popular social network, Facebook has become a powerful tool in business activities. The studies that related to the Information System (IS) success factors on Facebook application and social commerce user satisfaction are limited. This study aims to investigate the social commerce user satisfaction towards the application by examining the influence of Information System Success (ISS) factors; Information Quality, System Quality and Service Quality. In this study, 354 questionnaires were collected from three Facebook ’ s consumer product brand pages. The result revealed that Information Quality factor has major influences compared to other factors toward customer satisfaction among the social commerce users with. Meanwhile the factor of Service Quality for the Facebo ok’s br and pages was excluded from the research because the items are irrelevant with the variable.
Entrainement, préparation physique et physiologique cardio-respiratoire appliquée au rugby à XV

Le rugby a XV est un sport collectif qui se caracterise en match par des courses et des collisions de hauteintensite tres variables selon les positions. La premiere partie des travaux, qui s’est centree sur l’analyse del’activite par centrale d’analyse cinematique, a mis en evidence une activite de haute intensite plus importante enCoupe d’Europe qu’en TOP14 qui varie selon les cinq postes de jeu en termes de repetitions d’efforts et dedistances parcourues a haute intensite notamment chez les avants. De plus, ces activites de haute intensitediminuent en premiere et deuxieme mi-temps et sont differentes selon les positions. En effet, une diminution plusprecoce est observee chez les avants et les trois-quarts ailes, qui est majoree au niveau des accelerations entre lesdeux dernieres periodes d’un match pour les avants demontrant un impact de la fatigue. A l’inverse, les arrieresarrivent globalement a maintenir une intensite elevee. Ainsi, au regard des resultats de la premiere partie, ladeuxieme partie des travaux a consiste en la mise en place d’un entrainement par repetition de sprints en hypoxieinduite par hypoventilation a bas volume pulmonaire. Celui-ci a permis une amelioration significative de lacapacite a repeter des sprints apres sept seances d’entrainement par hypoventilation chez les joueurs tres entraines,alors qu’aucun changement n’a ete observe dans le groupe normoxie. L’entrainement en rugby a XV se caracterisepar la repetition d’efforts de haute intensite a dominante dynamique (courses) et statique (musculation, phases decombat) qui vont impacter le remodelage du ventricule gauche de maniere specifique. La troisieme partie a montre,a partir d’echocardiographies de repos en mode 2D-strain, une hypertrophie physiologique majoree chez les avantscomparativement aux arrieres. Cette hypertrophie s’accompagne d’une augmentation des pressions de remplissageet une diminution de la relaxation lors de la diastole, notamment chez les avants. Enfin, malgre une torsionventriculaire inchangee, les rotations et les vitesses de rotation sont plus grandes au niveau basal et plus faibles auniveau apical chez les joueurs de rugby a XV. Ainsi, cette these CIFRE apporte de nouvelles donnees au niveaude l’analyse de l’activite, des methodes d’entrainement facilement applicables pour l’entraineur, ainsi que desdonnees plus specifiques a l’evaluation cardiaque de repos pour le clinicien.
Organization and Management of Tourist Attractions. Case Studies of Lower Silesia Projects

Atrakcje turystyczne zmieniają sie dynamicznie w zakresie formy, lokalizacji, skali i sposobu kreacji. Potwierdzeniem tej tezy są zaprezentowane w pracy wybrane atrakcje turystyczne Dolnego Śląska, wykreowane w okresie ostatnich 25 lat. Są one zjawiskiem waznym dla turystyki, gdyz pelnią szczegolną funkcje w tworzeniu regionalnego pro¬duktu turystycznego. Jednak rola atrakcji turystycznych w tym zakresie sie zmienia. Oczekiwania uczestnikow ruchu turystycznego i organizatorow turystyki podlegają ewolucji, co skutkuje zmianami na rynku atrakcji turystycznych, traktowanych przez nich w kategorii zlozonego w swojej konstrukcji i efektywnie zarządzanego produktu turystycznego.
Strengthening the Regional Dimension of Hydromet Services in Southeast Asia

Current hydromet conditions in the Southeast Asia (SEA) region along with expected future conditions highlight the need for continued investment in modernizing hydrometeorological services in the SEA region. Given that similar hazards face Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), and Vietnam, and that the countries have similar data and hydromet information needs, there are benefits to taking a regional approach to monitoring and forecasting hazardous hydromet conditions. The countries have different capabilities, but nonetheless, with more intense hazardous hydromet events taking place and likely to occur in the future, building a regional dimension to hydromet services can save on the cost of capital infrastructure as well as sustainable operation and maintenance. A number of initiatives that focus on the different stages of the monitoring and forecasting process - such as data collection, forecasting, dissemination of impact-based forecasts and early warnings, and delivery of weather, climate, and hydrological services - can be utilized by sub regional and national hydromet service providers, including in the SEA region. Existing regional frameworks and initiatives in the SEA region can help address some of the major challenges that national hydrometeorological service providers face.
Quality Strategies for Customer Loyalty in an E-Service Environment

This chapter focuses on the issue of quality strategies for attaining customer loyalty in an e-service environment. It takes into consideration the key relationship between e-service quality and customer loyalty. A case of mobile banking service acted as the basis for the formulation of quality strategies for customer retention. This study was conducted by a survey with a sample size of 524 mobile banking users in the state of Punjab in India. The survey instrument utilized the E-S-QUAL, E-RecS-QUAL, and loyalty scales proposed in the earlier research studies. Furthermore, the data generated was analyzed by using the statistical multiple regression. Findings of this chapter give important implications to the delivery of e-service for mobile banking. It could help service providers to gain proper insights into the issue of managing the customers in a virtual environment. Quality Strategies for Customer Loyalty in an E-Service Environment: A Case of M-Banking Customers