Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EXERCISE AND QUALITY OF LIFE Volume 7, Issue 1, June 2015 UDC 613.9:159.923.31 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY SATISFACTION AND PSYCHOPHYSICAL HEALTH

Body satisfaction has become immensely popular topic over the last couple of decades, and yet, there are still so many undiscovered aspects of the phenomenon which actively influence people’s everyday lives. In this study, we’ve been investigating the connection between body satisfaction and self-rated symptoms of psychophysical health. Sample comprised 393 women, aged 19 to 76, with different socio-economic status. In order to determine the differences in psychophysical health between women who are satisfied with their body and those who are not, discriminant analysis was applied. Obtained discriminant factor was significant (Wilks’ lambda=0.79; p level<0.01) which indicate that there is a significant difference in the level of psychophysical health between women who are satisfied with their body and those who are not. Results of this study show that women who are dissatisfied with their body appearance are more likely to experience some symptoms of poor psychophysical health (nervousness and irritability, fatigue, anxiety, digestive problems, poor productivity, lack of energy and depressive thoughts) compared to the women who are satisfied with their body appearance.
Multistrategic Behaviour of Croatian Banks

The paper analyses whether Croatian banks simultaneously use both price and non‐price strategies in producing loans and deposits as their outputs in a monopolistically competitive setting, based on a spatial competition model for the period between 2004 and 2010. Obtained elasticity coefficients of demand for banks' products show that banks rely mostly on their interest rate policies, but also on physical presence in the market in order to maximize their profits, and are also sensitive to similar decisions made by other banks. The comparison between demand elasticities for the pre‐crisis and crisis/post‐crisis periods shows that demand for loans became more sensitive to the banks' choice of interest rates as economic conditions worsened, while the decrease of deposit interest rates influenced the weakened deposit demand sensitivity to interest rate strategies.
Supplemental Document for “Matrix Completion with Covariate Information”

This document provides supplementary material to the article “Matrix Completion with Covariate Information” written by the same authors. S1 Proof of Propositions Proof of Proposition 1. We have E ∥Xβ +B −W ◦Θ∗ ◦ Y ∥2F = ∥Xβ +B∥2F − 2 ⟨Xβ +B,E (W ◦Θ ∗ ◦ Y )⟩+ E ∥W ◦Θ∗ ◦ Y ∥2F = ∥(Xβ +B)− (Xβ0 +B0)∥2F − ∥Xβ0 +B0∥ 2 F + ∑ ij ( (Xβ0)ij +B0ij )2 + σ2 ij θij , due to Conditions C1(a) and C4. For any minimizer (βs,Bs) of R, we have Xβ0+B0 = Xβs+Bs, which implies X(β0−βs) = Bs−B0. Since Bs−B0 ∈ N (X), we can conclude both Xβs = Xβ0 ∗Xiaojun Mao is Ph.D. candidate, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA (Email: mxjki@iastate.edu). †Author of Correspondence. Song Xi Chen is Chair Professor, Department of Business Statistics and Econometrics, Guanghua School of Management and Center for Statistical Science, Peking University, Beijing 100651, China (Email: csx@gsm.pku.edu.cn). His research is partially supported by Chinas National Key Research Special Program Grants 2016YFC0207701 and 2015CB856000, and National Natural Science Foundation of China grants 11131002, 71532001 and 71371016. ‡Raymond K. W. Wong is Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA (Email: raywong@stat.tamu.edu). His research is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants DMS-1612985 and DMS-1711952 (subcontract).
ANOMALY BASED HOST INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM USING ANALYSIS OF SYSTEM CALLS

Security is always a major concern of any organization. An intrusion detection system (IDS) is necessary to detect the malicious activities over a network or single system. An ID is the most useful approach to safe guard single system and the computer networks from various malicious activities. There are two categories of intrusion detection system is available host based intrusion detection system (HIDS) and network based intrusion detection system (NIDS). NIDS is mainly used to detect the malicious activates in the network. HIDS is used for detecting attacks in the single system. For an intruder, it is difficult to compromise a system being protected with Host Based Intrusion Detection System. HIDS continuously monitors the system audit and event logs to safe guard the execution of programs. Design a host based intrusion detection system with less false alarm rate is major challenge. The proposed scheme of anomaly based host intrusion detection method is to detect the malicious activities based on the analysis of system calls with less false alarm rate. An increase in detection rate in the existing anomaly host-based intrusion detection systems results in increased in false alarm rate. This leads to the development of a new method of host-based intrusion detection system with high detection rate and less false alarm rate. The gathered system calls sequences are analysed to determine the activities are normal or malicious. It is very difficult to identify the malicious activity by analyzing huge log file. Here system is designed, which uses Harmony search based K-Means clustering approach for detecting the intrusion in system calls.
Performance degradation comparisons and failure mechanism of silver metal oxide contact materials in relays application by simulation

The electrical properties of the contact material play a key role in the reliability of the automation system. Generally speaking, the performance indicators of the contact materials include contact resistance, resistance to fusion welding, corrosion resistance, hardness, strength and other related parameters [19]. Qualified contact materials should have good electrical and thermal conductivity, and should also have good mechanical, chemical, and arc-resistant properties as well [18]. In the working process of the contacts of the switch apparatus, there are complex mechanical, electrical, thermal and arc energy conversions, so the traditional analysis method cannot effectively analyze the failure mechanism of low-voltage electrical appliances[10]. Because the silver-based contact material has good conductivity and thermal conductivity and has high oxidation resistance and small contact resistance, it is widely used in the field of low-voltage relays application [15]. AgSnO2, AgCdO and AgNi composite contact materials are widely used for controlling products [9]. It is well known that the electrical life of a low-voltage switching devices is directly related to factors such as switching load conditions, ZhaoBin WANG WeiYan LI Shang SHANG Zhan WANG ChunYang HAN
Teachers’ Awareness and Utilization of Innovative Teaching Strategies in Secondary School Science in Benue State, Nigeria

This contribution reviews the extent of science teachers’ awareness of some selected innovative teaching strategies and their application at secondary school level in Benue State, Nigeria. The extent to which the mean utilization differs across teachers’ age, experience and professional background on subject basis was also determined. A sample of one hundred and sixty teachers from a teacher population size of 986 responded to 19 selected teaching strategies used as questionnaire items in this study. The study found that the level of teacher awareness of innovative strategies was high but that only a few of the strategies were being effectively utilized by the teachers. Recommendations were made based on the findings, which include effective teaching of application techniques of the various innovative strategies to student teachers in training and organizing workshops on the effective use of these strategies to science teachers by experts across the state.
Optimized Lightweight Thread Framework for Mobile Devices

One of the main changes in the current Linux is that the Linux thread model is transferred from an existing thread model to Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) for scalability and high performance. Each user-space thread is implemented as a corresponding kernel thread for fast creation and termination; 1:1 mapping model. Multiple threads in a single process can make better use of multiple processor cores. Since a user-level thread is implemented as a corresponding kernel thread, it is individually schedulable and manageable. Each thread in a multi-processor system will be able to run simultaneously in different CPU. NPTL in Linux 2.6 improves scalability and performance of server and desktop over Linux 2.4. But, it is inadequate on embedded systems such as mobile phone and DTV, since embedded systems have limited physical resources including CPU clock-speed and memory capacity. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight thread framework to enhance NPTL on GLIBC/EGLIBC for embedded devices. Our solution consists of (1) stack management to reduce memory footprint, (2) thread scheduling to improve responsiveness, and (3) developer support for debugging and profiling. These approaches provide a cost effective development opportunity to the embedded developers of commercial mobile devices.
Automatic Performance of Black and White n.2 : The Influence of Emotions Over Aleatoric Music

Black and White n.2 is a piece of aleatoric music by Franco Donatoni. Conceived as a set of 120 exercises for piano, it uses a nonconventional way to encode the score. Some elements of the composition are left to chance, thus they should be extemporarily determined by the performer. In this work, human choices are performed by an automatic system. The algorithms designed and described here extract emotionrelated information from a video input and consequently create in real time an instance of the piece. Finally, the paper presents the case study of Black and Byte, an application implemented to test such algorithms.
OP-ICES190182 1..14

Trait-based simplifications of plankton community structure require accurate assessment of trait values as expressed in situ. Yet planktonic organisms live suspended in a fluid medium and often bear elongate appendages, delicate feeding structures, and mucous houses that are badly damaged upon capture or removal from the fluid environment. Fixatives further distort organisms. In situ imaging of zooplankton from a fully autonomous Zooglider reveals a suite of trait characteristics that often differ markedly from those inferred from conventionally sampled plankton. In situ images show fragile feeding appendages in natural hunting postures, including reticulate networks of rhizopods, feeding tentacles of cnidarians, and tentilla of ctenophores; defensive spines and setae of copepods; intact mucous houses of appendicularians; and other structures that are not discernible in conventionally collected zooplankton. Postures characteristic of dormant copepods can be identified and the presence of egg sacs detected. Intact, elongate diatom chains that are much longer than measured in sampled specimens are resolvable in situ. The ability to image marine snow, as well as small-scale fluid deformations, reveals micro-habitat structure that may alter organismal behaviour. Trait-based representations of planktonic organisms in biogeochemical cycles need to consider naturally occurring traits expressed by freely suspended planktonic organisms in situ.
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY BETWEEN GENDER PERCEPTION AND FEMININE ROLE STRESS

The purpose of this research is to analyze the mediating role of psychological safety on the relationship between gender perception and feminine role stress. Psychological safety states psychological mood of a member of an organisation, when sharing his/her ideas or suggesting new proposals. Gender roles load with a charge of certain behaviours to individuals on the basis of sex according to Bem’s Gender Schema and Berger’s Expectation States Theories. The sample is composed of female employees (n=195) in a factory. According to the results of analysis, mediating effect of psychological safety is observed.
A Survey of Difficulty Control Methods on Computationally Hard Problems in Blockchain

The blockchain technology for decentralized ledgers is gathering attention recently. One of the processes in the blockchain technology is to search a solution of a given instance of some computationally difficult problem, and to show an evidence of the found solution as a “proof”. The search is executed by miners and the searching time depends on the hardness of the instance. In some cryptocurrencies which employ the blockchain technology, the average searching time is dynamically controlled, which is called difficulty control. In this paper, we report a memo on the survey of the difficulty control.
PRESERVICE TEACHER’S REFLECTIVE PRACTICE: GUIDE FOR LEARNING ABOUT TEACHING

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reflections of a pre-service teacher who has practices consistent with traditional teaching style during the act of planning the lesson, the teaching of the lesson and at the end of the lesson. Data was collected during the spring semester of 2011-2012 academic year. Qualitative design was used to collect and analyze data. The framework used in this study was developed by Artzt and Armour-Thomas (1996) for reflection on teacher cognition and instructional practice. Results revealed that when pre-service teacher had traditional teaching practice, the discrepancies between teaching at the university and at the elementary school became more obvious and reflections became less useful. Creating environments that pre-service teachers can reflect on their instructional practices could help them in enhancing their awareness towards the complexities of classroom environments.
The Relationship between Higher Education and Job Opportunities in Malaysia

This paper aims to examine the relationship between higher education and job opportunities in Malaysia. Annual data on higher education and unemployment rate from 1982 to 2012 were collected. The Johansen cointegration method was conducted and the results show that there is a longrun relationship between higher education and unemployment rate. However, the relationship between the variables does not exist in the shortrun.
Acacetin protective myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury and inhibits apoptosis of H9c2 cardiomyocytes via the PI3K-Akt pathway

Acacetin (5,7-dihydroxy-4’-methoxyflavone) a natural flavonoid compound extracted from natural plants, exhibits a wide range of biological activities, including antioxidant and anti-myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. However, its mechanism protective of anti-myocardial I/R injury remains unknown. This study aimed to investigate the effect of acacetin protective myocardial I/R injury and potential molecular mechanisms of cardiomyocytes apoptosis. Pre-treatment with acacetin markedly reduced infarct size, increased reactive oxygen species (SOD) activity, and decreased malondialdehyde (MDA) levels in rats with I/R. In addition, histopathology showed that cellular edema and infiltration of inflammatory cells were alleviated in myocardial tissues. Furthermore, acacetin pre-treatment significantly augmented cell viability and decreased levels of creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB). Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) was also reduced in H9c2 cells subjected to Hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R). The potential mechanism involved activation of PI3K-Akt signaling in cardiomyocytes. Taken together, acacetin was protective against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury and inhibited apoptosis of H9c2 cardiomyocytes. Therefore, acacetin treatment represents a promising strategy for ischemic heart disease.
Características colposcópicas de las lesiones cervicales relacionadas con el virus del papiloma humano de alto riesgo

Objetivo. Debido a que el virus del papiloma humano de alto riesgo (VPHar) es el factor necesario para el desarrollo de lesiones cervicales de alto grado, puede ser útil conocer las diferencias colposcópicas entre las lesiones VPHar‐positivas y VPHar‐negativas. Hemos evaluado si existen diferencias colposcópicas entre las lesiones VPHar‐positivas o VPHar‐negativas. Materiales y métodos. Esta investigación se realizó como un estudio de casos y controles retrospectivos. Diseñamos un sistema de puntuación para los criterios colposcópicos que podrían ser relevantes para distinguir las lesiones VPHar‐positivas de las VPHar‐negativas. Se analizaron imágenes colposcópicas de pacientes que acudían al Centro Médico de la Universidad VU, Países Bajos, en quienes se había realizado una prueba de la reacción en cadena de la polimerasa GP5+/6+ para el VPHar dentro del mes siguiente al examen colposcópico (n = 507). Resultados. La visibilidad de la zona de transformación (corregida según la edad), un modelo de punteado (muy) grueso e irregular y una lesión extensa (> 25% del cérvix visible) se asociaron más a menudo a una prueba positiva para el VPHar (p = 0,001, odds ratio [OR] = 2,29, IC 95% = 1,41‐3,73; p = 0,036, OR 2,37, IC 95% = 1,08‐5,19; y p = 0,044, OR = 1,78, IC 95% = 1,08‐2,94, respectivamente). Tras la corrección respecto al diagnóstico histológico, la diferencia entre las lesiones VPHar‐positivas y VPHar‐negativas en cuanto a la visibilidad de la zona de transformación y el tamaño de la lesión siguió siendo estadísticamente significativa (OR = 2,44, IC 95% = 1,35‐4,41 y OR = 1,92, IC 95% = 1,04‐3,54, respectivamente). Conclusiones. Este estudio indica que la visibilidad de la zona de transformación, el patrón de punteado (muy) grueso y el mayor tamaño de la lesión eran las principales características colposcópicas asociadas a una prueba positiva para el VPHar. ▪
Corporate Survival: Analysis of Financial Distress and Corporate Turnaround of the UK Retail Industry

This study is undertaken to analyse the financial distress of businesses and how financially distressed businesses turnaround. A multiple discriminant model is developed. Samples for the study are 20 companies with two or more consecutive losses which have ceased to operate classified as failed companies; and 20 companies with two consecutive losses followed by profits, also classified as recovered companies. This data set is also used to find out how the financially distressed companies turnaround. Research results indicate that the model has 65% and 80% classification accuracies for failed and recovered companies respectively. The results for the descriptive statistics obtained through a bivariate analysis indicate that corporate turnaround is dependent on company size and management turnover.
A Model-Based Design Approach for Stability Assessment, Control Tuning and Verification in Off-Grid Hybrid Power Plants

This paper proposes detailed and practical guidance on applying model-based design (MBD) for voltage and frequency stability assessments, control tuning and verification of off-grid hybrid power plants (HPPs) comprising both grid-forming and grid-feeding inverter units and synchronous generation. First, the requirement specifications are defined by means of system, functional and model requirements. Secondly, a modular approach for state-space modelling of the distributed energy resources (DERs) is presented. Flexible merging of subsystems by properly defining input and output vectors is highlighted to describe the dynamics of the HPP during various operating states. Eigenvalue (EV) and participation factor (PF) analyses demonstrate the necessity of assessing small-signal stability over a wide range of operational scenarios. A sensitivity analysis shows the impact of relevant system parameters on critical EVs and enables one to finally design and tune the central HPP controller (HPPC). The rapid control prototyping and control verification stages are accomplished by means of discrete-time domain models being used in both off-line simulation studies and real-time hardware-in-the-loop (RT-HIL) testing. The outcome of this paper is targeted at off-grid HPP operators seeking to achieve a proof-of-concept on stable voltage and frequency regulation. Nonetheless, the overall methodology is applicable to on-grid HPPs, too.
ANTS DO HISTORY MATCHING IN HYDROLOGY

Hydrology models are important supporting tools for managing water resources. The reliability of the model depends on the estimated model parameters. The parameters can be calibrated through a process known as history matching (HM). In this paper, two HM methods inspired by ant behaviours (continuous Ant Colony Optimisation (ACOR)) and Diversity Ant Colony Optimisation (DACOR)) are investigated. Each of these methods were used to calibrate five sensitive input parameters of the Land Use Change Incorporated Catchment (LUCICAT) hydrology model for the Dandalups catchment (Western Australia) in order to match 33 years of historical streamflow. The performances of each method were then compared in terms of the accuracy via average root mean square error (RMSE), variation in RMSE, computational time and reduction of input parameter uncertainty. These methods lead to over 15% improvement on the current available results.
HEURISTIC AUDITING STRATEGY FOR CLOUD CONSISTENCY

In this work we provide Data Integrity verification and consistency services for different data storage systems in cloud by supporting public auditability and data dynamics. These two components are integrated to solve internal and external threats for data security. Consistency is the property that guarantees that all parties interested in a given piece of information get updated each time it changes. In the context of massive distributed systems that now operate on a world scale, and looking into cloud computing in particular, consistency needs and integrity of data to be traded for decision support activity and get efficient item set result based on the caas. In this paper we discuss on whether cloud provides promised level of consistency or not, local and global auditing mechanisms are used for ordering operations and heuristic auditing strategy (HAS) to reveal as many violations possible and quantify them and enable to maintain data integrity proof by read and write permission that are provided by data owner to the data consumer (end user) for accessing the cloud storage system. The data owner can also audit the data integrity in the corresponding cloud for verifying whether the data is safe or not.
SOIL WATER RELATIONSHIPS

Basic relations of soil water and soil water flow important in irrigation design are presented, and methods to measure soil water content, pressure head, and conductivity are outlined. The calculation of infiltration rates and the measurement of soil infiltration parameters are discussed, as well as many of the complexities and challenges in applying current understanding to irrigation situations.
How to Make Budget Process Reform Politically Feasible

This paper proposes a strategy for increasing the political feasibility of reforming the federal budget process. Widespread discontent with the process suggests that the time has come to reform it, but two perspectives from political science, rational institutionalism, and historical institutionalism, suggest that the barriers to reform are still high. For advocates to overcome these barriers, they must describe how reforms will create results that politicians value. The reforms suggested in this report would increase the ability to establish strategic priorities and allocate resources towards those priorities, and that greater capacity would promote fiscal sustainability. To make these reforms politically achievable, advocates should: