Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effects of E‑book Reading Purposes and Screen Formats on Reading Performance and Cognitive Loads of College Students

＜Abstract＞ As e‑books have become prevalent during the past few years screen design of e‑book readers (EBRs has also become a key issue for better readability; EBR screen design should be such that it supports the reading process. The purpose of reading is important in determining a reader’s strategy for text comprehension because readers adjust their thinking process to fit the purpose. This study therefore examines the effect of EBR screen formats designed to improve readability on reading performance and cognitive loads. The results revealed that reading for entertainment demanded the least mental effort. When participants were reading for study their self‑evaluation was higher than those of other groups. One interesting result was that the response time for secondary tasks was fastest when a reader’s purpose was study using a multiple screen format EBR. Multiple screen format yielded better results by increasing mental effort and perceived ease of use. This result indicates that the multiple screen format is useful in managing the cognitive process of reading for study to organize information.
Visualization of trouble information extracted from Twitter

The World Wide Web contains a huge number of online documents that are easily accessible. One of the important information for business companies is trouble information of a product as the risk management. In this paper, we report a method for visualization of trouble information extracted from Twitter by using a bootstrapping approach. First, we apply the tweets with trouble information into a clustering method. Then, we visualize the clustered tweets by using a three-stage approach. Finally, we analyze the trouble information with the visualization method, and then discuss the results.
Stochastic Demand-hydraulic Model of Water Distribution Systems

Recent years, the expansion of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and the installation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) have become common in water utilities, thanks to the advances in telemetry technologies. As a result, research interests have been focused on how to utilized these online data sources to improve system operations. However, as an important means of predictive analysis, the traditional hydraulic models could not be applied in a real-time scenario due to the unobserved spatially distributed water demands. This study presents the research efforts on an integrated stochastic demand-hydraulic model that assimilates hydraulic observations and estimates water demands in real-time. The water demands are modeled as a statistical time series with the time steps aligned with the Extended Period Simulation (EPS) of network hydraulics. In the first part of the research, the Box-Jenkins time series methodology was applied to short-term water demand series. Two observed data sets of aggregated water demands, one from a SCADA system and the other from an AMI system, were collected and analyzed. The double-seasonal auto-regressive models were identified for both data sets to characterize the periodicity and the short-range auto-correlation. The time series models were then estimated and utilized in the forecasting of shortterm water demands. Results show that the time series models produce more accurate forecasts than the traditional models of demand patterns. A software toolkit
PENGGUNAAN MEDIA KAHOOT! DALAM PEMBELAJARAN STRUKTUR BAHASA INGGRIS Studi Kasus: Mahasiswa Sekolah Vokasi – Institut Pertanian Bogor

Para mahasiswa dari Sekolah Vokasi IPB perlu menguasai beberapa Struktur Bahasa Inggris untuk membantu mereka memahami teks, menulis paragraf pendek, dan menggunakan bahasa tersebutdalam komunikasimereka sehari-hari. Untuk membuat mereka termotivasi dan tertarik untuk mengerjakan latihan-latihan materi pelajaran Bahasa Inggris dan tersedia fasilitas pendukung yang memadai, KAHOOT! Game, media pembelajaran online yang populer, diperkenalkan kepada mereka. Game ini diberikan diakhir pembelajaran dan topik yang diberikan sesuai dengan Topik dalam diktat seperti Tenses, Voice, dan Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences. Untuk mengetahui apakah game ini bermanfaat untuk mahasiswa dan dapat memotivasi mereka dalam belajar bahasa Inggris, kuesioner dibagikan kepada mahasiswa pada akhir semester. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa KAHOOT! Game ini menarik dan membantu dalam meningkatkan penguasaan mereka terhadap materi yang diberikan di setiap sesi. Disamping itu, game ini dapat meningkatkan daya saing mereka di antara teman-teman mereka dan meningkatkan minat dan motivasi dalam belajar Bahasa Inggris. Kata Kunci: Kahoot! , media pembelajaran online, minat, motivasi, struktur Bahasa Inggris
Introduction to cognitive radar with an industrial point of view

Cognition is the set of all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge: attention, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and computation, problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language, etc. Human cognition is conscious and unconscious, concrete or abstract, as well as intuitive (like knowledge of a language) and conceptual (like a model of a language). Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge. Cognition can also be artificial.
Takeover Times in Highly Automated Driving (Level 3)

Automated vehicles in which the driver can allow the vehicle to do all the work on certain parts of the trip and no longer has to monitor anything are currently being developed by many automotive manufacturers. When there are driving tasks that these highly automated vehicles can no longer handle, control must be returned to the driver. The driver must have sufficient time to take over manual control of the vehicle safely and easily. An empirical study was designed and conducted to find out when full physical and cognitive control over a vehicle was reestablished after a phase of highly automated driving. For that reason takeover scenarios and secondary tasks of varying complexity were developed and tested in a static driving simulator with 60 subjects aged from 20 to 76. The effect of a driver being “out of the loop” was analyzed, in particular. In some experimental conditions, the driver was thus completely uninvolved in the task of driving, and distracted by a secondary task, at the time of the takeover request. After a drive with a high level of distraction, 90 percent of the drivers looked at the road again for the first time after 3-4 seconds, had their hands on the steering wheel and their feet on the pedals after 6-7 seconds and had switched off the automated system after 7-8 seconds. However, if you look at the first glance at the mirror and the glance at the speedometer as indicators of awareness of the driving situation, you see that 12-15 seconds are required. These reactions, which are required in order to understand the current traffic situation, are thus delayed by up to 5 seconds compared to the reactions of drivers in manual control in the same situation. When the reactions of monitoring drivers and drivers with the maximum level of distraction are compared with those of drivers in manual control, there are generally delays in all reactions. This was clearest in the case of distracted drivers. But even drivers who were monitoring the situation (partially automated driving) had delayed reactions compared to drivers in manual control. It should be noted here that the times were ascertained in a driving simulator and thus can only be understood as an approximation of the time required for a takeover in a real vehicle. However, more recent studies do indicate that times ascertained in a simulator correlate well with those in a real vehicle. It should also be emphasized that the takeover time alone cannot be an adequate measure of the quality of a takeover. The times must always be seen in connection with other measures of the quality of the takeover. This include the quality of the safety of the takeover and the fullness of the driver's awareness of the situation during the takeover. The takeover process is one of the key challenges in automated driving. It is possible to create a safe takeover when certain findings will be considered.
Para qué casarnos si ni siquiera tenemos casa: capitalización de la política gay en Chile

“Para qué casarnos si ni siquiera tenemos casa. Para qué casarse y seguir el yugo heterosexual ¿Con el matrimonio homosexual quienes ganan? , ¿ganan los gays? , ¿dejarán de asesinarnos? Con el matrimonio homosexual ganan sólo las isapres, las AFP y las constructoras inmobiliarias que tendrán más clientes en sus cuentas. Mientras homosexuales de clase alta se quieren casar las mujeres en las poblaciones siguen estando obligadas a parir, siguen pariendo, no paran de parir obreros, profesionales desclasados ̈.
On the use of Asynchrony in achieving Extensibility and High Performance in an object Storage System

An object store provides persistence for an object-oriented database or a special-purpose application such as CAD or hypermedia. In this thesis we examine the architecture of an object store in light of the following developments: the cost of network latency is increasing rapidly in relation to other I/O costs, users demand increased availability without the added cost of redundancy, and new application domains require specialized secondary search structures for high performance. We determined that these problems could not be solved within any existing object store architecture: solving all of them required fundamental changes in the design of the object store. We present a novel architecture which takes advantage of asynchrony to alleviate latency problems, increase availability, and enable extensibility. We analyze the performance of our prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of such an approach. Our asynchronous cache-coherency protocol in combination with client disk catching greatly reduces the cost of network latency. However, without the correct invalidation protocol, an unacceptable number of aborts results. We experimentally evaluate several invalidation protocols and introduce a new protocol that provides both low network overhead and fewer aborts. We introduce a recovery algorithm that improves on the popular and efficient write-ahead logging. No-undo, no-redo write-ahead logging requires no updates to the database partition during recovery, reducing recovery to a single analysis scan of the log. The redos are applied on demand as the objects are read or asynchronously after recovery. Our novel architecture allows new secondary storage structures to extend the client interface. The new structure is encapsulated in a storage class. The storage class abstraction integrates the new structure with transaction management to provide semantically consistent atomic transactions.
Transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the South African higher education institutions

Abstract The practice of organisational culture plays a major role in enhancing organisational and sustainable growth through innovative leadership and a sound sense of community. In order to create the right culture, sustainability must be embedded in the institution’s or organisation’s day-to-day decisions and processes. This paper acknowledges the need to explore organisational culture and sustainability in more general terms and across a more diverse range of contexts, but owing to space restrictions and in a desire to focus and to be concise, the focus is drawn to a particular selected group of higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa. HEIs are generally managed according to a mission statement and objectives that are shared commonly in order to build and sustain the organisational culture of these institutions so that they remain relevant and focused. Indeed, it could be claimed that organisational culture is the channel through which the vision of the institution flows or is impeded since a vision is undergirded by the differing values, norms and beliefs of various social groups which are intrinsic to HEIs. Organisational culture in South Africa has been influenced by the historical background of a divided society subject to apartheid laws such as the Natives Land Act (1913), the Group Areas Act (1950), the Population Registration Act (1950) and the Extension of University Education Act (1959). The latter was meant to exclude non-whites from accessing HEIs as per legislations passed by the apartheid regime. In light of this context, this paper examines organisational culture and sustainability in certain (selected) South African HEIs, and analyses elements embedded in organisational culture, which make it difficult for those HEIs to transform according to the expectations of government and society in recent times. The ways in which higher education institutions practise their organisational culture and how they tackle sustainability as part of their transformation remain significant in governance and the development of the HEIs in South Africa.
Determinantes y evolución entre precios y cantidades de las exportaciones industriales de Colombia: un estudio a partir de un modelo de Panel-VAR

Este documento describe el comportamiento de las exportaciones colombianas de bienes industriales a partir de un enfoque que desagrega entre precios (en dolares) y volumenes. A partir de un modelo Panel-VAR por sectores, se cuantifican los principales determinantes que inciden tanto en la formacion de precios de los exportadores colombianos relativos a los internacionales como en la demanda de sus productos. Se encuentra que la demanda externa es la variable de mayor incidencia para el desempeno exportador, en especial por su efecto mas que proporcional sobre los volumenes despachados. Adicionalmente, el valor de la elasticidad de los precios relativos en dolares ante movimientos del tipo de cambio real es bajo, pero estadisticamente significativo, es decir, depreciaciones (o apreciaciones) del tipo de cambio real reducen (o aumentan) los precios de exportacion de manufacturas colombianas en relacion a los internacionales. Tambien se encuentra que este abaratamiento (o encarecimiento) de las manufacturas colombianas frente a las de sus competidores se traduce en un aumento (o reduccion), pero menos que proporcional, de las cantidades exportadas. **** ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this paper is to examine the behavior of the Colombian exports of industrial goods based on an approach that separate the export value into prices (in USA dollars) and volumes. We quantify the effect of the main determinants that explain both the relative price formation of Colombian exporters and the demand for their products. The econometric methodology relies on a Panel vector autoregression (VAR) model with sectors. The results indicate that external demand has the greatest effect on Colombian industrial exports, especially due to the more than proportional impact on quantities shipped. Furthermore, real exchange rate elasticity of relative prices in dollars is low but statistically significant, which means that depreciations (appreciations) of the real exchange rate reduce (increase) the Colombian export prices relative to the international prices. Moreover, a reduction (increase) of relative prices of Colombian manufactures could cause a less than proportional increase (reduction) in the exported quantities.
Causation in Securities and Financial Product Disclosure Cases: An Analysis and Critique

This article critically examines the approach adopted by the courts to causation in securities and financial product disclosure cases, where a plaintiff alleges loss as a result of defective disclosure by a product issuer. The article argues that the reliance approach should be rejected as the sole approach to causation in securities and financial product disclosure cases. The article gives two principal arguments in support of this claim. Firstly, the reliance approach, by insisting that causation may only be established by proving reliance on the disclosure document, implicitly assumes a ‘rational choice’ approach to investor decision-making which, as demonstrated by a significant body of behavioural research, does not accurately reflect the reality of investor decision-making. Secondly, the reliance approach sits at odds with other developments in securities cases and misleading and deceptive conduct jurisprudence. I argue that the courts should recognise that causation may potentially be demonstrated in a variety of ways other than reliance on the disclosure document, including reliance on sources such as communications from financial advisers, newspapers, online sources, briefings, investor roadshows, social media and other marketing practices.
Children And The Law The Essential Readings

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Aplikasi Ensiklopedia Pakaian Adat Dunia Berbasis Android

The rapid development of technology and with the disruptive technology make multimedia developers continuously innovate in making specific information products. Internet as a source of information can be used as a reference to seek various information such as information about custom clothing from around the world. In addition to sources from the internet, many available information about custom clothing for example in print. The use of both media is found a variety of problems that Internet users must search for one by one information and readers should find information custom clothing one by one following details and explanations. The problem is solved by creating a digital encyclopedia about custom clothing in digital form based on multimedia technology using mobile application with Android operating system. The method for multimedia software engineering uses Luther method with its stages of concept, design, collecting material, assembly, testing, and distribution. The end result of this research in the form of multimedia products encyclopedia custom clothing in the form of android applications. Product test results have been passed using functionality testing and all functions can run well and in accordance with the concept. From the results of the survey on beta test results obtained 83% which states that the application is feasible to use.
Signal processing methods for robust heart rate estimation from multimodal Physiological signals

Cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of world–wide mortality. Heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) are important health parameters to monitor functioning of heart of cardiac patients. Multimodal physiological signals namely; Electrocardiogram, Arterial Blood Pressure, Photoplethysmogram, Electroencephalogram, Electrooculogram, Electromyogram etc. are recorded in ICU for close monitoring of vital health parameters of critically ill patients. However, Electrocardiogram (ECG), that provides direct measure of heart rate, is often corrupted by noise or is missing and the heart rate estimated from such signals would be erroneous. Thus, there is a need for development of methods for robust heart rate estimation especially when ECG is either noisy or missing. This thesis investigates the development of appropriate signal processing techniques for robust heart rate estimation from fusion of cardiovascular signals with non-cardiovascular (NC) signals that are not related to cardiac activities but contain some markers of heart beats. The signals used in proposed study are ECG, Arterial Blood Pressure (ABP), Electroencephalogram (EEG), Electro-oculogram (EOG) and Electromyogram (EMG). A novel slope sum function and Teager-Kaiser Energy (SSF-TKE) method is developed for ECG artifacts detection in NC signals. It requires neither additional ECG channel nor a priori user input. Results from evaluation on standard databases have shown that SSF-TKE method is a highly effective technique for R-peak artifacts detection in non-cardiovascular signals contaminated with ECG artifacts. The use of SSF-TKE method is then explored in R-peak detection in ECG signal. SSFTKE is a simple method for R-peak detection that does not consider detail morphology of ECG, except steep slopes, amplitude and periodicity of QRS complex. This method has achieved excellent R-peak detection performance across a number of standard databases with variety of signal morphology. Experiments have demonstrated that SSF-TKE algorithm is highly resistance to different types of ECG noises and its beat detection performance is superior to well known QRS detectors, ‘gqrs’ and ‘epltd’ in noisy signals and in ECG signals with pacemaker beats. A new statistical and rhythm based beat SQI method has been developed for assessment of signal quality of cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular signals. It is based on rhythm of
Porównanie wyników pomiarów czujnikami inklinometrycznymi z pomiarami GNSS w monitoringu permanentnym przemieszczeń obiektów

In the paper the results of surveys conducted by means of two surveying systems are presented. One of the systems is a precise electronic inclinometer (Fig. 2), while the other is a set of two GNSS receivers. The devices are installed on one building. The study of the results consisted in calculating changes in the object’s inclinations recorded locally by the inclinometer and comparing them with the changes of coordinates of points marked on the basis of satellite surveys conducted by means of the PPP technique. The analyses were aimed at revealing the similarities in the building deformations recorded by the devices. The surveys were performed on the building which belongs to the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. In Fig. 1A the localisation of the building on the area of the university is presented, whereas Fig. 1B shows the approximate position of the surveying devices on the object. The study presents the results of observations related to the changes in the object’s inclination which were recorded from 22 March 2013 to 31 March 2013. The unprocessed observation data from the NIVEL device was processed by the comparison of changes in the object’s inclinations in daily intervals. The coordinates of the KRAW and KRA1 points were marked by means of the PPP technique, also in a daily interval. The results of the comparison for the whole analysed period of timeafter the subtraction of the average valueare presented in Fig. 4.
Durability Guarantee in Software Transactional Memory

Non-volatile memories are next generation storage devices which maintain data on memory cell regardless of system power. However, non-volatile memories are hard to guarantee transaction’s ACID properties when abnormal system crash occurs. In this paper, we implement fail-safe software transactional memory(F-STM). F-STM guarantee durability by locating F-STM’s data structure to non-volatile memory. Using F-STM, computer structure based on non-volatile memory can provide data integrity.