Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Does being an athlete help a woman? Examining how subtle bias in perceptions of leadership potential differentially impact male and female athletes

El presente trabajo estudia las percepciones con relacion al potencial de liderazgo de atletas hombres y mujeres, evaluando particularmente como aquellos que sostienen un sesgo sutil hacia las mujeres influencian estas percepciones. Se evaluaron doscientos treinta y un participantes (n = 231), atletas hombres o mujeres (en un deporte de genero neutro o genero especifico) u hombres o mujeres no atletas, con relacion a su potencial de liderazgo en un contexto simulado de empleo. Adicionalmente, se midio el nivel de sexismo entre los participantes. Se analizaron los resultados para evaluar la interaccion entre participacion en deportes, sexo del postulante y nivel de sexismo del participante. Por si misma, la participacion en deportes no afecto el puntaje de potencial de liderazgo de las mujeres postulantes a un trabajo, sin embargo, los hallazgos apoyaron la presencia de un sutil sesgo hacia las atletas y no atletas mujeres, entre cierto tipo de evaluadores. Especificamente, los evaluadores que calificaron mas alto en sexismo, tendieron a evaluar a las mujeres atletas tan alto en potencial de liderazgo como a las mujeres no atletas. Estos hallazgos se discuten en el contexto de la teoria de congruencia de rol.
Coastal cod and north-east Arctic cod - do they mingle at the spawning grounds in Lofoten?

Abstract Cod (Gadus morhua L.) off northern Norway are divided into two main groups. The north-east Arctic cod (NAC) migrate southwards from the Barents Sea to the main spawning area near the Lofoten Islands on the coast off northern Norway. Coastal cod (CC) are relatively stationary, live and spawn along the entire Norwegian coast, including near the Lofoten Islands. In order to test if the two groups physically intermingle at the spawning grounds, cod were sampled by trawl and Danish seine at the traditionally important spawning grounds near the Lofoten Islands during the spawning season in 1995-97. Cod from 24 samples were examined for haemoglobin alleles, length, sex and stage of sexual maturity. The results indicate that: (I) NAC and CC did not mingle randomly. (2) However, specimens from both groups may stay simultaneously at the same local spawning ground within an area of less than 0.012 km2- (3) Distribution of NAC and CC overlapped vertically, although NAC was more abundant than CC in samples fr.
Optical Method for Automatic Slider Misalignment Detection

Mounting a slider to the suspension arm typically requires the use of epoxy as adhesive. The process of attaching the two parts begins with placing a droplet of epoxy on the suspension arm at the designated location. A robot arm places a slider on top of the adhesive with accurate position and orientation. While waiting for the epoxy to cured, the slider may be drifted along the x- and y-axes, or rotated above the z-axis causing slider misalignment. This leads to defective parts in the production of the hard disk. Therefore, we propose an automatic slider misalignment detection system by using computer vision technique. The system must accurately perform the misalignment detection at a su‐ciently fast rate to meet the real-time requirements from the production line.
Estimating the Effectiveness and Feasibility of a Game-based Project for Early Foreign Language Learning

This paper outlines the rationale for and the purpose of designing and implementing a project aiming to make very young EFL learners develop their language skills through their involvement in interactive psychomotor activities. The project, which is a part of a broader longitudinal project having introduced EFL in the first primary school grade, was implemented in two 2 nd grade Greek classrooms with a total of 44 seven year old children. Multisensory teaching was followed through the use of a combination of activities: classroom creative activities included memory and word games, drawings, constructions, role-play games, pantomime as well as songs. In the gym, children participated in physical activities such as races, chases and hopscotch as well as dance and music activities, with the aim to improve their oral communicative skills and creativity. In order to examine the effectiveness and feasibility of the project, an evaluation study was conducted by using a pre- and post- language test and journals kept by the teachers. It was evident that the project had a positive effect on developing very young learners’ language skills, and on enhancing their motivation to participate in psychomotor activities.
A Joint Learning Approach to Face Detection in Wavelet Compressed Domain

Face detection has been an important and active research topic in computer vision and image processing. In recent years, learning-based face detection algorithms have prevailed with successful applications. In this paper, we propose a new face detection algorithm that works directly in wavelet compressed domain. In order to simplify the processes of image decompression and feature extraction, we modify the AdaBoost learning algorithm to select a set of complimentary joint-coefficient classifiers and integrate them to achieve optimal face detection. Since the face detection on the wavelet compression domain is restricted by the limited discrimination power of the designated feature space, the proposed learning mechanism is developed to achieve the best discrimination from the restricted feature space. The major contributions in the proposed AdaBoost face detection learning algorithm contain the feature space warping, joint feature representation, ID3-like plane quantization, and weak probabilistic classifier, which dramatically increase the discrimination power of the face classifier. Experimental results on the CBCL benchmark and the MIT
The Possibility of Knowledge Sharing Not Affected To Innovation Aptitude: A Study of Home Industries In North Sulawesi Province Indonesia

This article divided into several section whereas section introduction, section covers theory, previous research and developing research hypothesis, section research method, section contains research results and discussion. The researches was conducted in North Sulawesi due to its fascinating development. This research uses an explanatory research design by applying a survey approach. This method enables research findings to be generalized across persons, settings, and time. Selected respondents are invited respondent for sake of suceeding this research. Invited respondent as many as 300 home industry owners or manager from several home industry in Manado city and Minahasa county. From 300 phase one survey invitations only 207 invitation attended and asked to fill in the provided questionnaire sheet. Then second phase survey sent to 207 invitation attended in phase one and only 123 attended. Data collection and compiling report also article writing in this research costs one and a half year, from March 2012 till August 2013. The resuls show that all hypothesis that testing are accepted. This research result can also be interpreted to confirm the results of research which contradicts copy that has been described in the previous section.
Assessment of different formation scenarios for the ring system of (10199) Chariklo

R.D. acknowledges the support of MINECO for his Ramon y Cajal Contract. Funding from Spanish funding form grant AYA-2014-56637-C2-1-P is acknowledged, as is the Proyecto de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucia, J. A. 2012-FQM1776. FEDER funds are also acknowledged. R.D. acknowledges the support of MINECO for his Ramon Cajal Contract. Funding from Spanish funding from grant AYA-2014-56637-C2-1-P is acknowledged, as is the Proyecto de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucia, J. A. 2012- FQM1776. FEDER funds are also acknowledged. M.D.M. acknowledges the support of Min CyT ANPCyt PicT 1144/2013 and the support of the travel grant from CONICET and CSiC.
APPLICATION OF FLASHED LIGHTING PROGRAM IN NAKED NECK CHICKENS (SHARKASI) MANAGEMENT

The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of application flash lighting program on performance and physiological status of naked neck chickens. Three hundred and sixty, four weeks old birds were randomly distributed into 6 experimental groups (3 replicates of 20 birds each) and housed in floor pens. The first group (control group, C), birds were maintained under 12 hrs and 16 hrs common light (CL) per day during the growing and laying periods, respectively. While, in the other groups, birds were exposed to light flashes for 10 minute/hour (T1), 20 minute/hour (T2), 30 minute/hour (T3), 40 minute/hour (T4) and 50 minute/hour (T5) for 12 and 16 hrs light/day during the growing and laying periods, respectively. Main results indicated that light flashes program significantly (P≤0.05) improved growth efficiency, carcass dressing percentage, breast percentage, abdominal fat percentage, egg laying rate, egg shell thickness, sexual parameters and healthy status. Also, estradiol hormone significantly (P≤0.05) increased by application of flash lighting program. However, long period of light flashes program recorded the worst values as in general performance and welfare (H / L ratio and tonic immobility values). Insignificant (P>0.05) effect were observed in drumstick, femur, liver, heart, gizzard, most blood components, egg shape or yolk, Haugh units, leg problems, plumage conditions, bone lengths, age at sexual maturity, genital organs and hatchability percentages. From an economical point of view, it is observed that the birds exposed to light flashes periods for 10 to 30 minutes/hour were superior to that of birds in other groups. Using short periods of light flashes might be suitable as alternative light to continuous or common light for managing Sharkasi chicken in sight and stimulation of internal organs or hormones release without oppositely affecting the physiological response, healthy traits and welfare.
Is there more than one linkage between Social Network and Inequality

The paper aims to analyse how income inequality affects social networks strength in fourteen European Countries. We introduce some new evidences by using the ECHP for testing the networks-inequality nexus and being able to construct directly inequality indices from the microdata as well their decomposition. In particular, we focus on two main point: firstly, we analyse how total income inequality could be related to social network; secondly, we introduce the "clustered network" definition, by decomposing total income inequality based on the education level. We test the existence of a pluralism linkage between Social Network and Inequality and many results confirm that the linkage is neither unambiguous nor unidirectional. We introduce and stress some important issue. First, we use di erent levels of social network: narrow, wide and anonymous; second, we use different inequality indexes (different sensitiveness to changes at different part of the income distribution); third, the ambiguous linkage could be explained on one hand by the positive role of emulation and reciprocity behaviors and on the other hand by negative ones of the envy, amoral familism and keeping up with the Joneses mechanisms. Finally, we stress the different roles of within and between components of inequality. Our idea is that higher income inequality - related to the changing education premia - could affect social network formation among individuals through two different channels: higher inequality among di erent educated ind ividuals could raise (clustered networks), while higher inequality among similars could halt the social networks.
Effect of follicular diameter, time of first cleavage and H3K4 methylation on embryo production rates of Bos indicus cattle

This study aimed investigate the relationship between epigenetics, follicular diameter and cleavage speed, by evaluating the developmental potential and occurence of H3K4 monomethylation of early-, intermediate- and late-cleaving Bos indicus embryos from in vitro fertilized oocytes originating from follicles up to 2 mm in diameter or between 4 and 8 mm in diameter. Oocytes (n = 699) from small follicles (? 2 mm) and 639 oocytes from large follicles (4-8 mm) were punched from 1,982 Bos indicus’ slaughterhouse ovaries. After maturation and in vitro fertilization (IVF), the cultured embryos were separated into early (? 28 h post-IVF), intermediate (> 28 h and ? 34 h post-IVF) and late (> 34 h and ? 54 h post-IVF) cleavage groups. Blastocysts were subjected to an immunofluorescence assessment for H3K4me investigation. The blastocyst rate for large follicles (36.3%) was higher than that for small follicles (22.9%, P < 0.05). In addition, blastocyst rates for early and intermediate cleavage groups (45.3% and 33.8%, respectively) were higher than that for late cleavage group (13.5%, P < 0.05). The blastocysts from all groups displayed H3K4me staining by immunofluorescence, particularly intense in what seemed to be trophectoderm cells and weak or absent in cells seemingly from the inner cell mass. For the first time for indicus embryos, data from this study demonstrate that higher blastocyst embryo rates are obtained from embryos that cleave within 34 h after fertilization and from those produced from follicles of 4-8 mm in diameter, indicating a greater ability of these embryos to develop to the stage of embryonic preimplantation. This is the first article demonstrating the occurrence of H3K4me in cattle embryos; its presence in all the evaluated blastocysts suggests that this histone modification plays a key role in maintaining embryo viability at preimplantation stage.
Alteration of gene expression, superoxide anion radical and lipid peroxidation induced by lead toxicity in leaves of Lepidium sativum.

1 SUMMARY A rapid change in gene expression in plants in response to stress is important for environmental adaptation. An mRNA differential display technique was used in this study to analyze alterations in gene expression in Lepidium sativum in response to different concentrations of lead. The relationship of differential expression patterns to the identification of cDNAs induced during lead toxicity was determined. Polymorphism was detected under lead toxicity and the differentially expressed genes in stressed seedlings were strongly and rapidly induced under higher lead concentrations (400 and 600 ppm), whereas induction was delayed and transcripts accumulated to a lower level under lower concentrations (100 and 200 ppm). A great variation in isoforms of different antioxidant enzymes, e.g. superoxide dismutase (SOD; EC1.15.1.1), catalase (CAT; EC1.11.1.6.) and ascorbate peroxidase (APx; EC1.11.1.11) were detected in response to lead treatments. Lead toxicity increased lipid peroxidation and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation especially at higher concentrations, but the increase was significantly lower at lower concentrations. The results obtained indicate that the pattern of antioxidant isozymes are affected upon exposure of L. sativum seedlings to lead and the variations are concentration dependent. Within such response patterns, gene expression is a valuable stress marker in ecophysiological studies.
A Preliminary Study of Fingerprint Quality Assessment of Minutiae Template

Fingerprint quality is an essential factor to be considered for both enrollment and authentication phase due to the impact on the performance of biometric system. This study focuses on analyzing whether it is possible to evaluate fingerprint quality via minutiae-based template only. In order to achieve such a purpose, this study proposed several minutiae-based features which are mostly inspired by researches relating to fingerprint minutiae. Experimental results show that features computed in this study are able to contribute to fingerprint quality es-timation. Experiments have been condcuted on three FVC databases, and the result also has been estimated by using quality metric evaluation approach.
Changes of Photosynthetic Activity and Carbohydrate Content in Resurrection Plant Caragana korshinskii during Dehydration and Rehydration

The effects of extreme drought stress and subsequent re-hydration on photosynthetic activity and carbohydrate content were investigated in resurrection plant Caragana korshinskii. Extreme drought stress was imposed by withholding water and covering plants with a polyvinyl chloride sheet during rain 53 days after all leaves had shed. Thereafter, plants were watered at 7-day intervals. Drought-induced leaf abscission and photosynthetic rate drastically decreased, while carbohydrate concentration increased in stems and in leaves prior to leaf abscission. Re-hydration promoted the emergence of new leaves, reactivated photosynthetic machinery function, and reduced soluble carbohydrate, sucrose and fructose concentrations. The results indicate that C. korshinskii plants are able to sustain drought stress through leaf abscission and carbohydrate concentration accumulation in stems. The high carbohydrate concentration in stems can stimulate the emergence of new leaves and regrowth if soil moisture reaches a normal level.
The impact of human resource management practices in innovation culture Case Study: Bank of Palestine in Gaza strip

The purpose of this study is to determine the degree of correlation between HRM practices and innovation culture and the degree of the impact of each HRM practice on the innovation culture.Data of this study are obtained from Bank Of Palestine (BoP), triangulation mixed method is used in this study, by using quantitative and qualitative analysis in order to get three points upon the factors being studied through questionnaires distributed to BoPsI´ employees in different branches in Gaza strip, and interview with the HR manager of BoP and a focus group with BoPI´s HR team. The results of this study concluded that there is a correlation between HRM practices and innovation culture. The HRM practices, which include staffing process, compensation, employee and labor relations, training and development, safety and health and communication, and participation, should be implemented in a holistic system and not in isolation in order to best stimulate innovation culture. The study recommended the pre-evaluation tests should be changed to better measure employeesI´ creativity, flexibility and ability to take risks which all lead to a better innovation culture.
A Study of Defensive Mechanisms Employed by Two Species of Nudibranchs using Toxicity and Unpalatability Analyses

Nudibranchs are marine invertebrates that have developed an intriguing defense mechanism, including warning coloration and the use of chemicals accumulated through their sponge diet. The goal of this study was to determine whether the strength of chemical defenses differs between dietary and accumulated secondary metabolites for two species: Glossodoris vespa and Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. First, NMR spectroscopy was used to not only identify specific compounds in the mantle (outer covering) and the viscera (gut) but also to analyze the possibility of nudibranch species transporting more toxic compounds for defensive purposes. Next, toxicity (brine shrimp) and palatability (Palaemon shrimp) assays were used to examine whether accumulated compounds differ in anti-predator activity. The results of this study show increased toxicity in the mantle compared to the viscera for both species. and while both species exhibited the possibility of selective sequestration, Glossodoris vespa hinted that nudibranchs may have other methods of chemical sequestration including chemical modification that would explain why more toxic and unpalatable compounds are found in the mantle. However, there was no significant change in unpalatability between the mantle and the viscera. Finally, comparisons between genera that have mantle dermal formations along the mantle rim (Glossodoris) and those that have mantle dermal formations concentrated in the mantle horn (Ceratosoma) show that despite varying classes of dietary chemicals and selectivity of sequestration, both species exhibited a chemical arsenal in the mantle that was more toxic than dietary metabolites, suggesting that toxicity is an important part of their defensive strategy.
Modelling in innovative design using systems engineering

Due to new challenges of market, companies increasingly expect to offer innovative products and improve the ability of innovative design. Innovative design is high interactive social process in which product, organization and knowledge are interrelated. The increasing numbers of internal components, as well as the relationships within each dimension and across dimensions, cause the complexity of innovative design. In order to managing uncertainty caused by complexity, we develop the descriptive models and the management model of innovative design by utilizing system engineering.
Civil-Military-Islamist Relations: An Opinion on Democracy, Islamist Militancy and Praetorianism in Pakistan

This research report has specially been written in the context, to highlight the relations between civil, military, Islamization and Islamists, their role and practices to remain in power and advancement of their views, and all these three have been alternatively cooperative and antagonistic. Pakistan has been under the military rule for more than half of its history, Pakistan is a young and violent nation and make struggle for its survival since inception. Due to the presence of Islamists and their dominant and violent activities, has caused unbearable damage to the democratic process in establishing strong, stable, advanced nation. These actors have played a crucial role in creating the Pakistan of today. What role a civilian government can play, while interacting with the ever present military and the Islamists.
Security Issue - A Metrics Perspective

Security measurement in software is becoming a somewhat mature field, as evidenced by professional and international standards, specialized conferences, and several decades of literature and research. In spite of this history, security till date is a qualitative measure. For the past 20 years, the International computer security community has been developing criteria and methodologies for the security evaluation of IT products and systems The evaluation processes are highly qualitative as all the evaluation evidence, evaluator’s qualification and experience, and evaluation methods are often difficult to quantify. Though every organization in some way or another is measuring the security of software, but still no standard metrics for measuring security of an information system is defined. This paper is an attempt to analyze security measurement methods by different people at different places and bring them all to a common point, which in the future can lead to a standard security metrics.
A NOVEL HYBRID EDGE DETECTION TECHNIQUE: ABC-FA

Image processing is a vast research field with diversified set of practices utilized in so many application areas such as military, security, medical imaging, machine learning and computer vision based on extracted useful information from any kind of image data. Edges within images are undoubtedly accepted as one of the most significant features providing substantial practical information for various applications working on top of miscellaneous optimization algorithms to achieve better results. Artificial Bee Colony and Firefly algorithms are recently developed optimization algorithms and are used to obtain better results for various problems. In this study, a novel hybrid optimization technique is proposed by combining those algorithms aiming better quality in edge detection on grayscale images. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with individual performances of Artificial Bee Colony algorithm and the fundamental edge detection methods . T he results are demonstrated that the proposed method is encouraging and also produces meaningful results for similar applications.