Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Efficiency and Import Penetration on the Productivity of Textile Industry and Textile Products

Although textile industry and textile products belong to the strategic sub sector of manufacturing industry in Indonesia, they are facing pro-blems on the availability of energy, old production machines, and the flooding of imported products into the domestic market. This study is aimed to analyze the efficiency and productivity as performance indicators and how the efficiency and import penetration affect the productivity of textile industry and textile products. The methods of data analysis used in this research are divided in two phases. The first phase, the non-metric approach of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to measure the efficiency and productivity. Secondly, the fixed effect model of econometric regression approach is used to find out the effects of efficiency and import penetration on the productivity of textile industry and textile products. The result shows that the average level of efficiency of textile industry and textile products during the period of 2004 – 2008 is about 40 percent with a growth rate of average productivity increases 2.4 percent. Whereas, the econometric estimation results indicate that the increase of efficiency will positively and significantly affect the productivity of textile industry and textile products. On the other hand, the increase of import penetration will negatively affect the productivity of this industry. Keywords: Efficiency, Productivity, Import Penetration, DEA, Fixed Effect
Funktionsorientiertes Interaktionsmodell zur Simulation menschlicher Bewegungen während der Nutzer-Produkt Interaktion

The perceived value of many products is determined essentially by how well their properties harmonize with the individual abilities and needs of the people who use them. Digital human models offer the possibility to analyze human-product interactions on the basis of virtual prototypes which facilitates ergonomic testing already in early stages of the design process. This however requires an algorithmic prediction of human behavior which is still an open issue in the field of digital human modelling. In this contribution a functional interaction model is proposed that describes user product-interactions on the basis of required manipulations of the products physical state. On this basis optimal control procedures can be employed to predict human motion and posture.
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms

This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality rate (measured between 1950 and 2009); (2) the prevalence of different types of health deficiencies obtained from Statistics Sweden's Survey on Living Conditions (ULF, 1975-2005); (3) the utilization of health care from the inpatient register (1968-2008). We also study the development of the relative health between disability insurance recipients and non-recipients. Finally, we study the effect of the introduction of less strict eligibility criteria for older workers in 1970 and 1972 as well as the subsequent abolishment of these rules in 1991 and 1997, respectively.
A Tutorial On LTE Evolved UTRAN (EUTRAN) and LTE Self Organizing Networks (SON)

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my guide, Dr. R. Stephen Gibbs for his continued support and belief in me. This thesis work would not have been possible without his guidance and support. I am forever indebted to my parents and family for their love, support, and encouragement. Their belief in me during my entire life, especially during my graduate studies made this endeavor simple. Finally, I would like to thank my friends at UTA, especially my colleagues in Radio Study The third-generation (3G) cellular communication technology, Universal Mobile Terrestrial System (UMTS), based on Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), has been widely deployed all over the world providing faster download speeds for data (packet) communications. To further improve the throughput and overall performance of the cellular communication system established by UMTS, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in November 2004 launched an ambitious project called the Long Term Evolution (LTE) of UMTS. This would ensure the continued competitiveness of the UMTS in the future. The technical specifications of the LTE project are formally known as the Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (EUTRAN). The main features of LTE are high peak data rate, flexibility of spectrum usage, low latency times, higher capacity per cell, etc. The radio interface of LTE is based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) in the downlink and Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) in the uplink. LTE undergoes a major design change in its Core Network Architecture. The previously used separate cores for Voice and Data in 3G are v being replaced by a single packet based or an all-IP core in LTE. This evolution of the Core Network is commonly referred to as System Architecture Evolution (SAE). As we move towards the end of the year 2010, several service providers are set to launch their LTE services in markets across USA. LTE services are already available in some markets in Europe, and the performance so far has been impressive. As a marketing gimmick, LTE is being said and launched as a 4G technology, which in reality is still a 3.9G technology. For LTE to be truly called a 4G technology, it has to undergo some fine improvisations in order to meet the requirements for 4G technology set forth by International Telecommunication Union (ITU). With this goal set in mind, the 3GPP Standards Committee is further …
The Presence and Effect of the Winner's Curse in the Market for Audit Services: An Experimental Market Examination

We argue that the market for audit services resembles a common value procurement auction in that there is common uncertainty regarding audit cost and auditors generate a private estimate of cost prior to quoting a price. We examine two audit markets that take this form of market institution. First, we examine a simple market setting where auditors determine only price and interact with robot clients. Next, we examine an enriched market setting that incorporates theoretically important features of the market for audit services. We find that auditors in the simple audit market learn to avoid the winner's curse with pricing experience but this learning effect is hindered in the enriched market. Auditors in the enriched market reduce audit effort when they suffer the winner's curse. Our evidence suggests that low balling can occur due to the winner's curse, and this source of low balling poses a threat to audit quality.
Question classification using support vector machine and pattern matching

Question classification plays a crucial role in the question answering system, and it aim to accurately assign one or more labels to question based on expected answer type. Nonetheless, classifying user's question is a very challenging task due to the flexibility of Natural Language where a question can be written in many different forms and information within the sentence may not be enough to effectively to classify the question. Limited researches have focused on question classification for Arabic question answering. In this research we used support vector machine (SVM) and pattern matching to classify question into three main classes which are "Who", "Where" and "What". The SVM leverage features such as n-gram and WordNet. The WordNet is used to map words in questions to their synonyms that have the same meaning. Five pattern were introduced to analyze "What" question and label the questions with "definition", "person", "location" or "object". The dataset set used in this research consist of 200 question about Hadith from Sahih Al Bukhari. The experimental result scored F-measure at 95.2%, 84.6%, and 83.6% respectively for "Who", "Where" and "What". The result show that the SVM classifier is useful to classify question in Arabic language.
The HIV pandemic: local and global implications.

Twenty-five years into the HIV pandemic, many lessons have been learned about the evolving pandemic. Our knowledge of prevention, treatment, and care has advanced; and at a country level responses have been varied. This book sets out ambitiously in breadth and geographical coverage to capture these experiences and lessons. The 50 chapters of this book span a full and comprehensive spectrum of topics from epidemiology; advances in knowledge in pathogenesis and implications for prevention, treatment, and care; country responses to the epidemic; as well as global and national responses. The concluding chapters attempt to synthesize this diverse range of experiences and make recommendations on strengthening the response to the HIV pandemic globally and at a country level. A particular strength of the book is the contributions of a diverse range of experts from across the globe and the structure and organization of the chapters. In reflecting on country examples where an effective response has been mounted, the book considers whether the correct lessons have been drawn on and how these lessons help other countries enhance efficiency, effectiveness, access, and acceptability of interventions. The editors also underscore that whilst effective responses involve well functioning and well resourced health systems the issues and challenges require more than a medical/health systems response. Domestic ownership, multisectoral commitment, human rights, and gender issues are some of the additional considerations reflected on. The need for a long-term view to responding to the epidemic and one that shifts from being reactive to proactive is underscored. The concluding chapters draw on the country-level case studies to try to better understand which health systems appear to have done well in responding to epidemic and which aspects of health system are more influential in shaping an effective response. The intention is to draw on the lessons learned to guide similar countries and their responses. To what extent factors such as gross domestic product, per capita income, history, how health systems are financed, allocation of resources, how systems are structured, type and levels of governance, and quality of health system are predictive and generalizable for effective responses at a country level are examined. This is a timely and useful text for donors, policy makers, program managers, students, and public health practitioners. Notwithstanding the challenge of undertaking comparative studies where differences in quantity and quality of data can be vast and the field is rapidly changing, this book addresses several important issues and fills an important gap particularly in relation to how different countries have responded to the epidemic and how health systems have changed to respond to the epidemic. With the increasing shift in focus from prevention to include care and treatment, an understanding of features and characteristics of health care delivery systems that ensure effective responses is critical.
Automatic Gamma Gray-level Correction of Uneven Illumination Image

The resolution ratio is relatively poor and a lot of information is covered for the uneven illumination of the photograph, in order to better removal of light effects and reproduce truly plain circumstances, this paper present an improved Gamma non -linear functions of gray-level correction and have realized the amendment carrying out gradation to varying degrees on different pixel. In addition, the main body of this paper analyses the impacts of the function parameters over adjustment result, according to the distribution of pixels to determine function parameters automatically, the gray-level of the uneven illumination image is amended automatically. Experiment proved that the method compared with other methods that have better correctional results.
Supply Chain Strategies

Supply Chain Strategies: Customer Driven and Customer Focused highlights the main challenges facing organizations wanting to select, design and implement successful supply chain strategies in an increasingly global and competitive environment. The text features discussion questions at the end of each chapter to promote learning, and numerous industry examples to ilustrate key concepts within chapters. Each chapter discusses the issues in relation to previous literature, contemporary practices and the lesson to be learned from different industries where successful management of supply chains has improved organizational and industry level profitability. The text includes a number of industry examples, thereby giving a wide-ranging approach to the topic.
Operating System Techniques for Reducing Processor State Pollution

Operating System Techniques for Reducing Processor State Pollution Livio Soares Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2012 Application performance onmodern processors has become increasingly dictated by the use of on-chip structures, such as caches and look-aside buffers. The hierarchical (multi-leveled) design of processor structures, the ubiquity of multicore processor architectures, as well as the increasing relative cost of accessingmemory have all contributed to this condition. Our thesis is that operating systems should provide services and mechanisms for applications to more efficiently utilize onchip processor structures. As such, this dissertation demonstrates how the operating system can improve processor efficiency of applications through specific techniques. Two operating system services are investigated: (1) improving secondary and last-level cache utilization through a run-time cache filtering technique, and (2) improving the processor efficiency of system intensive applications through a new exception-less system call mechanism. With the first mechanism, we introduce the concept of a software pollute buffer and show that it can be used effectively at run-time, with assistance from commodity hardware performance counters, to reduce pollution of secondary on-chip caches. In the second mechanism, we are able to decouple application and operating system execution, showing the benefits of the reduced interference in various processor components such as the first level instruction and data caches, second level caches and branch predictor. We show that exception-less system calls are particularly effective on modern multicore processors. We explore two ways for applications to use exception-less system calls. The first way, which is completely transparent to the application, uses multi-threading to hide asynchronous communication between the operating system kernel and the application. In the second way, we propose that applications can directly use the exception-less system call interface by designing programs that follow an event-driven architecture.
Ryzyko międzyorganizacyjnych relacji kooperacyjnych

Przedsiebiorstwa funkcjonujące w dzisiejszym świecie, chcąc nie tylko utrzymac swoją pozycje na rynku, ale takze zyskiwac nowe przewagi konkurencyjne, coraz cześciej podejmują decyzje o zwiekszaniu zakresu i intensywności wspolpracy. Nalezy jednak zauwazyc, iz wraz z rozwojem kooperacji pojawiają sie nowe, do tej pory nieznane lub slabo rozpoznane źrodla ryzyka. Na powyzszym gruncie ustanowiono cel badan, jaki stanowi identyfikacja obszarow ryzyka miedzyorganizacyjnych relacji kooperacyjnych, ktore są dla przedsiebiorstw najwiekszym zagrozeniem. Realizacji celu posluzyly badania empiryczne przeprowadzone z wykorzystaniem metody poglebionego badania ankietowego oraz wywiadu bezpośredniego na probie 244 podmiotow zlokalizowanych w Polsce. Zebrany material empiryczny przetworzono za pomocą analizy czynnikowej, ktora pozwolila na wyodrebnienie najistotniejszych dla polskich przedsiebiorcow sfer ryzyka kooperacji, ktore hamują rozwoj jednostek gospodarczych, stanowiąc istotne zagrozenie w procesie nawiązywania, utrzymywania, rozbudowy czy tez finalizowania wiezi pomiedzy przedsiebiorstwami.
Podnoszenie konkurencyjności obszarów recepcji turystycznej jako zadanie organizacji nimi zarządzających

Streszczenie: Podstawowym celem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie znaczenia konkurencyjności jako zadania organizacji zarządzających obszarami recepcji turystycznej (DMO). Dokonano przeglądu definicji konkurencyjności, jednocześnie akcentując, iż zagadnienie to jest stosunkowo różnie pojmowane w literaturze naukowej. W dalszej kolejności przedstawiono wybrane poglądy naukowców na temat znaczenia konkurencyjności w odniesieniu do sektora turystycznego, a w szczególności do obszarów recepcji turystycznej (ORT). Przeprowadzona analiza jednoznacznie wykazała, że z punktu widzenia rozwoju określonych ORT zagadnienie konkurencyjności ma priorytetowe znaczenie. Podkreślono, że znaczną rolę w zakresie podnoszenia konkurencyjności ORT powinny odgrywać organizacje zarządzające obszarami recepcji turystycznej. Badania przeprowadzone wśród 184 europejskich DMO wykazały, że podnoszenie konkurencyjności obszarów recepcji turystycznej jest uznawane jako działanie o dużym znaczeniu.
Individual Factors Influencing Utilization of Research4Life Databases by National Agricultural Research Institute Scientists in Nigeria

ABSTRACT This study is part of a doctoral thesis investigating individual factors influencing utilization of Research4Life databases by NARI scientists in Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive research design of the correlational type. From a population of 1,205, 744 scientists were selected using simple random and stratified random sampling techniques. The questionnaire used for data collection consisted of 105 questions arranged in five sections. Percentage, mean, correlation, and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. Results indicate that six individual factors influenced utilization of Research4Life databases. Computer anxiety and computer and Internet self-efficacy made significant contributions to utilization of Research4Life databases.
Ryzyko inwestowania w spółki budowlane notowane na GPW w Warszawie a koniunktura w budownictwie

Celem artykulu jest ocena poziomu ryzyka inwestowania w akcje spolek budowlanych notowanych na GPW w Warszawie w kontekście koniunktury w budownictwie. Do ekstrakcji cyklu koniunkturalnego w budownictwie zastosowano metode Bry-Boschan. Oceny ryzyka dokonano za pomocą ekonometrycznych modeli wyceny kapitalowej, tj. modeli Sharpe’a oraz CAPM. Poprawnośc oszacowanych modeli zweryfikowano za pomocą odpowiednich testow statystycznych. Cykl koniunkturalny w budownictwie zostal wyodrebniony na podstawie danych miesiecznych pochodzących z testow koniunktury. Do oszacowania ryzyka wykorzystano miesieczne ceny akcji spolek budowlanych notowanych na GPW w Warszawie w latach 2000–2015. Poziom ryzyka spolek budowlanych notowanych na GPW reagowal na zmiany koniunktury w budownictwie w latach 2000–2015. W wiekszości badanych podmiotow zaobserwowano, ze w trakcie trwania dekoniunktury wartości parametru beta byly wyzsze niz w okresach ozywienia i prosperity.
Designing for Lifelong Sports Experience

In recent years, design for behaviour change by means of design and technology has been the focus of a large body of research. Advancements in personal informatics systems and applications of these in research have testified to the potential of design for behaviour change strategies in the context of sports and exercise. However, these efforts have been mainly focused at people who are new to sports and not so much at people who are already active. With the success of design for behaviour change studies, this group of more active users (i.e., active exercisers) with an interest in personal informatics has grown. The needs of this group of users are different from those who are unable or unwilling to change their activity behaviour. While the latter might lack knowledge and motivation to change behaviour, active exercisers are already motivated and are willing to stay physically active. Thus, this paper draws out the need and importance of a shift in the focus of designing for physical activity tracking, and discusses the significance of designing for lifelong sports experience.
Bank Performance in China: A Perspective from Bank Efficiency, Risk-taking and Market Competition

Abstract The current paper contributes to the empirical literature on bank profitability by testing the joint-impact of different types of risk, competition in different banking markets and different types of efficiency on bank profitability using a sample of Chinese commercial banks over the period 2003–2017. In particular, we fill in the gap of the empirical studies by examining the impact of efficiency on profitability when banks undertake different levels of risk-taking behaviour and face different degrees of competition. The results show that competition in the Chinese banking markets (deposit market, loan market and non-interest income market) is stronger over the period 2003–2005 and also 2014–2017. In addition, it is found that bank size, cost efficiency, profit efficiency and inflation are significantly related to bank profitability. Finally, we find that the positive impact of cost efficiency on profitability is stronger when banks undertake higher levels of risk and face more competition.
Doing well by doing good — CSR in a global context

Nowadays, there is a general understanding that stakeholders are crucial for the successful enterprise. There is also a need to think about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a global context. Never before corporations enjoyed so much power and authority. Corporations need to evolve, re-think their strategies and change their processes accordingly. However, as of now, there is no agreed way of measuring overall sustainability of actions of each company. There is a great need for holistic studies of CSR, analyzing in details the value created, from stakeholders point of view. This paper is an attempt to propose a way of looking at corporate social responsibility in line with current methodologies and frameworks focusing on value creation. Currently there is no one definition of global CSR to be used, nor there is one comprehensive methodology to describe it. Instead there is abundance of theories and frameworks. This paper proposes one definition and presents a method of analysis of the global corporate commitment to CSR approach. The main concern of this paper is to offer an insight into different ways companies can create value for various stakeholders groups. To narrow the scope of the conducted analysis, the authors identified 13 companies, potential sustainability winners, from products industry Analyzed were both, CSR execution capacity and CSR value creation assessed on basis of compliance with identified CSR basic actions catalogue. Conducted analysis indicated that products companies are aware of needs and expectations of various stakeholders and are good at meeting them. Although assessed companies managed to link sustainability with their strategies, they did not achieve transforming sustainability into core of their business.