Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Determinant Of Community Preference On The Development Of Surabaya ( East Java Province )Tourism

Regression multinomial logit was used in this study to identify factors that influence willingness to pay and interest of respondents in the development of heritage tourism in Kota Lama Surabaya. The results show that purpose of being in Surabaya, type of work, preferred type of tourism, gender, age, and income simultaneously affect the respondents’ answers towards interest and willingness to pay. In the first scenario, variables that have been shown to partially affect a visitor's preferences are the purpose of being in Surabaya, preferred tours, age, occupation, and income. Meanwhile, in the second scenario, variables that have been shown to significantly affect the visitor's preference are type of job, gender, age, purpose of being in Surabaya and income. Keyword: multinomial logit regression, heritage tourism, determinant, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 25-07-2018 Date of acceptance: 08-08-2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Colon Cancer: A Clinician’s Perspective in 2019

Colon cancer is a common preventable cancer. With the adoption of widespread colon cancer screening in the developed countries, the incidence and mortality of colon cancer have decreased in the targeted population. But unfortunately, the incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC) have been increasing over the last 25 years in the young adults below the age of 50. There is disparity in benefit, i.e. reduction in risk of death between right-sided and left-sided colon cancer by screening colonoscopy. The reason could be multifactorial and various measures have been taken to decrease this disparity. Although most of the screened populations are average risk individuals, a minority of the population have various risk factors for developing colon cancer and need to follow specific colon cancer screening guidelines. Gene mutations (adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), deleted in colon cancer (DCC), K-ras, p53, B-Raf proto-oncogene serine/threonine kinase (BRAF), mismatch repair genes) and microsatellite instability lead to the development of colon cancer. Although various non-invasive methods of colon cancer screening are now available, colonoscopy remains the gold standard of colon cancer screening and adenoma detection rate is now being used as the quality metrics in screening colonoscopy. Although Multi-Society Task Force (MSTF) and American College of Physicians (ACP) recommend initiating screening colonoscopy at age 50 years in all individuals except African Americans who should begin screening colonoscopy at age 45 years, the American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends initiating screening colonoscopy at age 45 years in all individuals irrespective of race and ethnicity. Low-volume split-dose prep has been found to be as effective as high-volume split-dose prep and more tolerable to patients with increased compliance. Boston bowel preparation scale is recommended to measure the quality of colon cleansing. CRC is curative if it is diagnosed at an early stage but various palliative treatment options (endoscopic, oncologic and surgical) are available in advanced stages of this cancer. Adequate number of lymph node assessment during surgery is essential in accurate staging of CRC. Checkpoint inhibitors have been found to have dramatic response and durable clinical benefit in dMMR/MSI-H metastatic CRC. Different genetic and immune-oncologic research trials are ongoing for early detection and better management of CRC.
Joint Failures in Kinematically Redondant Manipulators

Robots are frequently used for operations in hostile environments. The very nature of these environments, however, increases the likelihood of robot failures. Common failuretolerance techniques rely on effective failure detection and identification. Since a failure may not always be successfully identified, or, even if identified, may not be identified soon enough, it becomes important to consider the behavior of manipulators with unidentified failures. This work investigates the behavior of robots experiencing unidentified locked-joint failures in a general class of tasks characterized by point-to-point motion. Based on the analysis, a procedure for workspace evaluation is developed that allows for the identification of regions in the manipulator's workspace in which tasks may be completed even with such failures. ©2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Voltage sag Mitigation in distribution system using Fuzzy logic based STATCOM

In distribution systems, sudden change in load draws non-sinusoidal currents and causes the load harmonics, excessive neutral currents creates disturbance and changes in Power factor. Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) is used to provide reactive power to the transmission line. In this paper proposes with Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) to tune PI controller gain values under different operating condition. Tuned values operate with PI controller and provides gate signal to voltage source converter which decides amount of reactive power to be injected into bus. Power factor value also improved. This method not affected by the initial gain settings, changes of system conditions and produces better and desired response. By providing reactive power and power factor correction system performance increased and also improves voltage regulation.
Clustering Of Images Based On Image Properties

Image Properties are used for the analysis of quality of the given image. The Intensity images, Contrast images, Weibull images and Fractal images are extracted from the input images. Eight basic image properties are calculated for these images. Analysis is made for the different Properties. Clustering is made on different types of images based on discriminative properties. Images are classified by using K-means method. Then analysis is made on the different clusters.
‘Yes, I can!’ The Development of Self-Efficacy for Negotiating during a Four-day Simulation

Shortly after the United Nations (UN) organisation was established in 1945, the first Model United nations (MUN)-simulation already arose in March 1947. Since then, MUNsimulations have been implemented all over the world (Muldoon 1995). Above all, they are a well-appreciated type of simulation because of their clear real-world degree (Obendorf and Randerson 2013). Three important features characterize this verisimilitude. First, MUNsimulations always use cases, which put contemporary transnational issues on the agenda, e.g. nuclear proliferation and nuclear disarmament. Second, participants are allocated specific roles, such as representatives of a UN member state, a UN observer state/body or even nonstate actors. When preparing for the simulation, this allocated role guides participant’s research on the case-topic and other transnational and diplomatic issues of concern (CrossleyFrolick 2010; Obendorf and Randerson 2013). Third, during the simulation of an existing UN body, such as the Security Council or the General Assembly, participants apply the rules of debating procedure and practice diplomacy and public speaking (Obendorf and Randerson 2013).
Economic Returns to Rural Infrastructure Investment

As directed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) created the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) discretionary grant program for surface transportation infrastructure projects. Through 2013, there have been five rounds of the grant program. TIGER uses a multi-step competitive application process to award surface transportation funds. TIGER applications are initially screened by US DOT’s staff of technical experts. For projects forwarded by the review team, US DOT economic experts then review the applicant’s benefit-cost analysis (BCA) and attempt to determine the likelihood that the benefits exceeded costs (i.e. not the applicant’s self-determination). The final awardees are then selected by a Review Team of Modal Administrators and DOT Office of the Secretary level officials. The purpose of this paper is to discuss many of the common errors in preparing, and issues in reviewing the applicant’s BCA and in making a net benefit determination. A secondary purpose is to determine if the most deserving projects, based on an applicant’s BCA and the likelihood that benefits exceeded costs, are more likely to receive grant funding. We do so for the second through the fifth rounds of the program.
Tonogenesis in Southern Cushitic (Common West Rift)

Although most of the modern Afroasiatic (AA) languages are tone languages (Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic, but not Semitic, Berber, and Egyptian), it has not been possible to reconstruct a tone system at the AA level in a convincing way. While Orel & Stolbova 1995 leave out the issue altogether, Ehret (1995: 67-70) struggles to account for the presence of tone in the modern descendents of both major branches of his AA subclassification (Omotic and Erythraic, the only exception being Boreafrasian (i.e. Egyptian, Berber, and Semitic) at his subgroup level), by reconstructing a three-way tonemic opposition of word-tones (falling, rising, level) for AA which, he concedes, might also reflect a system of three syllable tones (high, low, mid), but discarding the option of an alternative analysis as stress. His reconstruction could only be regarded as highly hypothetical, since – as pointed out in Wolff’s review (2000: 135) – the situation in Boreafrasian might as well reflect the original AA state, all the more since it has proved so far impossible to reconstruct tone for the intermediary levels, e.g. Chadic, for which Wolff 1987 rather favours the interpretation of internal independent innovations by tonogenesis. At the present state of knowledge, it is safer to withstand the temptation of historical speculation at great time depth and rather concentrate on efforts at low level historical reconstruction in order to see how far tonological distinctions actually reach back into the past within the individual subgroups of Afroasiatic. In this sense I will explore the Southern Cushitic tonological situation.
QUANTIFYING THE RISK ON BANKSÃ¢ÂÂ RETURNS ARISING FROM FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: AN ASYMMETRIC GARCH APPROACH TO VALUE-AT-RISK

The rapid global technology revolution has raised serious concerns on what could be its long run impact on banks, especially with its attendant technological unemployment. The on-going debate in literature whether and to what degree financial technology adoption will emit risk to bank profitability is examined in this study. The trade-off analysis and a family of symmetric and asymmetric GARCH approach to Value-at-Risk (VaR-GARCH) based on the camel and value at risk theoretical framework were used to determine potential risk and estimate the conditional variance of bank returns in a panel of thirty-four African countries for the period 2002-2018. The Kupiec log likelihood ratio test and mean relative scaled bias used to evaluate the models’ accuracy and efficiency levels respectively found that the best model to estimate the conditional variance of bank returns is the exponential GARCH (1, 1) with student-t distribution. The worse expected loss on banks’ return due to FinTechs adoption will not exceed 3.01% at 95% confidence interval. Therefore, with a higher FinTechs’ risk/standard-deviations than that of banks’ return and a high VaR value of bank returns, it implies that aside banks, FinTechs also emits risks to other sectors, therefore this study recommends that African economies will benefit from FinTechs diffusion through improved financial service delivery only when a substantial level of collaboration between bank financial institutions and FinTechs companies is reached.
System Design and Implementation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle “Matsya”

“Matsya” is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by a team of students at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). Developed over a design cycle of seven months, Matsya is capable of localizing itself in an underwater environment and complete some predefined real life tasks for the Robosub 2012 competition. Majority of the subsystems have been developed and manufactured in-house. To facilitate navigation, the vehicle takes feedback from visual, inertial and pressure sensors. It is well equipped with all the necessary hardware support to process the same and control the actuators. The current version has 5 degrees of freedom and is a platform for integration of all basic systems of mechanical (hull and frame), electronics (power management, motion controller, SBC and sensors) and software (Image processing, debugging platform and control systems). With several innovations in design and flexibility in user experience, the vehicle is a test bench for development and testing of different AUV motion planning algorithms.
Use of Discrete Sine Transform for A Novel Image Denoising Technique

In this paper, we propose a new multiresolution image denoising technique using Discrete Sine Transform. Wavelet techniques have been in use for multiresolution image processing. Discrete Cosine Transform is also extensively used for image compression. Similar to the Discrete Wavelet and Discrete Cosine Transform it is now found that Discrete Sine Transform also possess some good qualities for image processing; specifically for image denoising. Algorithm for image denoising using Discrete Sine Transform is proposed with simulation works for experimental verification. The method is computationally efficient and simple in theory and application.
ILL-POSEDNESS FOR A CLASS OF EQUATIONS ARISING IN HYDRODYNAMICS

Many questions related to well-posedness/ill-posedness in critical spaces for hydrodynamic equations have been open for many years. Some of them have only recently been settled. In this article we give a new approach to studying norm inflation (in some critical spaces) for a wide class of equations arising in hydrodynamics. As an application, we prove strong ill-posedness of the d-dimensional Euler equations in the class C ∩L. We give two proofs of this result in sections 8 and 9.
Comendador Adoption of Opinion Mining in the Faculty Performance Evaluation System by the Students Using Naïve Bayes Algorithm

The paper promotes adoption of Opinion Mining in the faculty performance evaluation system by the students using Naïve Bayes algorithm. The study may help the university administrators to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the faculty members based on the textual evaluation made by the students written either in English or in Filipino language. The system provides graphical representation of the evaluation result in pie chart with the percentage of positive and negative feedback of the students. Based on the result of the survey, the respondents highly recommend the proposed system. Thus, the school administrators and educators will be more aware about the sentiments and concerns of the students. The reports generated from the developed system could be utilized to enhance the performance of the concerned faculty. In addition, the output from the objective evaluation of the teacher’s performance could also be used as a basis for merit, awards, and/or promotion. Furthermore, the said innovation may encourage as well as improve fact-based decision making for university stakeholders.
Slowing Light Using Quantum-Dot Laser Amplifiers

This thesis explores the novel use of semiconductor lasers as optical delay lines. Slowing light using vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) is explained and simulated using the VCSEL amplifier model. Simulated results and experimental result are qualitatively in a good agreement. With the aid of the filter phase analysis, the simulations explain that group delay increases with increased modal gain and decreases with increased modulation frequency. Besides, the simulations predict the VCSEL’s capability of delaying single-tone sinusoidal signal of 1 to 5 GHz. On the other hand, RF delay or optical delay using injection-locking of VCSELs is studied experimentally in the thesis. Optical spectra show that the VCSEL is not in the stable-locking range. The VCSEL acts as a regenerative amplifier, making one of the signal side band much larger than the other.
Anytime Motion Replanning in State Lattices for Wheeled Robots

Autonomous robots require robust and fast motion planning algorithms to operate in complex real environments. In the last years, motion planning in state lattices has emerged as a powerful paradigm to real time path planning taking into account the kinematic restrictions of the vehicle. The approach requires the definition of the state lattice and the off-line calculation of the motion primitives. Therefore, motion planning is transformed into a search problem over a directed graph. In this paper, we apply the state lattice approach for motion planning of wheeled robots usign the AD* algorithm. Thus, the planning algorithm is anytime and dynamic, i.e., the path is improved incrementally and, also, the algorithm can replan. Results of different tests on a Pioneer P3-DX show the validity of the proposal.
Prevention of Phishing Attacks Based on Discriminative Key Point Features of WebPages

Phishing is the combination of social engineering and technical exploits designed to convince a victim to provide personal information, usually for the monetary gain of the attacker (Phisher). Attempts to stop phishing by preventing a user from interacting with a malicious web site have shown to be ineffective. In this paper, present an effective image-based anti-phishing scheme based on discriminative key point features in WebPages. We use an invariant content descriptor, the Contrast Context Histogram (CCH), to compute the similarity degree between suspicious pages and authentic pages. To determine whether two images are similar, a common approach involves extracting a vector of salient features from each image, and computing the distance between the vectors, which is taken as the degree of visual difference between the two images. The results show that the proposed scheme achieves high accuracy and low error rates.
Exploring New Ways to Improve Treatment Outcome of Colorectal Liver Metastases

markdownabstractChemotherapeutic agents are part of the multimodality approach for treatment in patients with CRLM. The associated toxicity is major limitation to their use, and leads to early discontinuation of treatment. Therefore, the aim of the studies described in this thesis was to describe two experimental subjects to ameliorate chemotherapeutic treatment in the multi-modality approach of colorectal liver metastases: the impact on the circadian clock and dietary restriction.
Identity Politics, Core State Powers and Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond

This article concentrates on the path from the development of collective identities to the integration of core state powers. Firstly, we focus on the European experience. We argue that the identities of political, economic, and social elites have been crucial for the evolution of European integration. With regard to mass public opinion, European integration has been made possible by a consensus of EU citizens with inclusive national identities. Most recently, the politicization of EU affairs in many member states has been driven by populist forces mobilizing minorities with exclusive nationalist identities. Secondly, we discuss the extent to which insights from Europe have travelled to other regions of the world. Elites involved in region‐building almost always develop identity narratives linking their national experience to the respective regions. Moreover, there is evidence that the difference between inclusive and exclusive nationalist identifications has also travelled beyond Europe.
Evaluación del gradiente de perfusión endoepicárdico con ecocardiografía de contraste Assessment of the endoepicardial perfusion gradient with contrast echocardiograph y

Introducción: El cociente endoepicárdico de flujo sanguíneo mtocárdico es un parámetro muy sensible de isquemia. El objetivo de e\te estudio es estudiar la perfusión miocárdica en endocardio y epicardio con ecocardiografía de contraste (EC) y analizar la correlación de diferentes parametros obtenidos con un patrón oro, las microesferas calorimétricas (MS). Métodos: Se realizó EC en tiempo real con Sonovue en ll cerdos con un método de cancelación de pulso, el cohet~nr colrIK~CIJ~ i,nagirtg (Acuson-Siemens), en condiciones basales y tras reducir el flujo de la descendente anterior en un 50%. En cada fase, se obtuvieron curvas de tiempo-vtdeointensidad (VDI) de endocardio y epicardio de septo anterior (SA) y una reglón control, la pared posterior (PP). Tras ajustar a una exponencial se determinaron los parámetros A (pico de VDI), B (pendiente de la curva de VDI), AxB y se compararon con el fluyo miocárdico determinado por MS en las mismas reglones. Resultados: El protocolo se completó en siete animales. Con isquemia, el cociente endoepicárdico de flujo descendió significativamente en el septo antertor (l,O8 2 0,39 a 0,68 f 0,15, p = 0,009), pero no en la región control. Análogamente pasó con los parámetros derivados de la EC: el cociente endoepicárdico de AxB fue el que más disminuyó con la isquemia (0,98 + O,l4 1j.5 0,42 t O,l4, p = 0,OOOS). En la región control no hubo cambios significativos en ningún parámetro. La mejor correlación con MS se obtuvo con el cociente endoepicárdico de AxB (r = 0,70, p = 0,0005). Conclusiones: La EC en tiempo real permite cuantificar la perfusión de endocardio y epicardio. El cociente endoepicárdico de AxB e\ el parámetro que muestra mejor correlación con el cociente endoepicárdico de flujo.
HPV: Vaccination Rates Increase and Infection Rate Decreases

HPV: Vaccination Rates Increase and Infection Rate Decreases By Margaret Leer [1] Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 11:16 AM Human papillomavirus, known as HPV, is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and a principal cause of cervical cancer. The Food and Drug Administration has approved, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended, two HPV vaccines—Cervarix and Gardasil. Both prevent certain types of HPV that cause cervical cancer. Since the vaccine was introduced in 2006, the prevalence of the vaccine-type HPV has dropped by 56 percent.
Toward Learning Boolean Functions from Positive Examples

In this article we investigate learning of boolean functions with two special focuses: (i) we consider that a sample with only positive examples is given to the learner (and hence no membership queries are allowed); and (ii) the function we consider are true on a sparse set, namely whose cardinality is far smaller than 2 where n is the number of variables of the problem instance. After motivating this problem, we provide a conceptual solution of how much to generalize beyond the sample and where. We introduce an empirical greedy algorithm to address the problem under study and illustrate it on an example.