Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Management of Constructability Knowledge for Design Integration using Textual Latent Semantic Analysis

Constructability problems are common on the construction site, due to lack of construction experience in the design team and absence of tools to address constructability. This study investigates how tacit semantic constructability knowledge/experience can be mined from typical project documentation and made dynamically and meaningfully accessible for gauging future designs. The method employs singular value decomposition (SVD), dimensionality reduction and similarity measurements, used in textual latent semantic analysis (LSA). It has been found that with limited training data, in the form of unstructured textual descriptions of ad hoc constructability problems, intuitive semantic correlations can be inferred between design features and associated constructability issues. The method poses an adaptive, predictive approach to addressing constructability problems and emulates the human reasoning process of recognizing potential problem cases from past experience upon inquiry or design review. The system is yet a conceptual prototype; the development for practical implementation is an ongoing endeavor.
Characterization and Modeling of a Highly Reliable ONO Antifuse for High-Performance FPGA and PROM

The characteristics and reliability of ONO (oxide-nitride-oxide) anti-fuse devices prepared basing on 0. 6µm SOI CMOS process have been studied experimentally and theoretically. The intrinsic principles of ONO dielectric breakdown were investigated with tunneling and emission models. It has been found that the conduction mechanisms of ONO dielectrics under high electric field (>10MV/cm) mainly obeys Fowler-Nordheim (F-N) tunneling and Poole-Frenkel (P-F) emission and Ohmic transport models. Meanwhile, the nitrogen depth distribution and the composition of the ONO stack films have been accurately determined using SIMS and EDX, respectively. The results indicate that the nitrogen concentration of interface between tunneling oxide and N+ sub-silicon is higher than that of interface between top oxide and N+ poly-silicon, which can contribute to prove the difference of top and bottom electrode interface barriers according to energy band diagrams of ONO anti-fuse devices. Besides, it is also found that the average breakdown voltage of ONO anti-fuse arrays and that of distribution decrease with increasing the number of anti-fuse cells, and the result is attributed to traps density of various areas. Moreover, the programming resistance of ONO anti-fuse cells and programming circuits decreases with increasing programming current, and the programming resistance of ONO anti-fuse cells can reach less than 200 ohm/cont when programming current is above 5mA. And the life of unprogrammed ONO anti-fuse devices can reach more than 40 years under an electric stress of 5.5v at the temperature from 25°C to 125°C. So, it can be concluded that the characteristics and reliability of the proposed ONO anti-fuse elements are suitable for applications in FPGA and PROM.
Interest Margin versus Small Medium Enterprises Financing: Does Bank Ownership Matter?

The Indonesian government wants to promote small and medium enterprise financing as a type of relationship lending while at the same time reducing interest margins. Otherwise, relationship lending tends to lead into high levels of interest margins. This paper examines the relationship between SME financing and interest margin in Indonesia using panel data on 124 banks in Indonesia from 2008 to 2014. Furthermore, we also identify the direction of SME financing in relation to the ownership of banks. We use panel data regression and GMM methods to ensure the robustness of the result. The overall results suggest that SME financing positively increases the interest margin since relationship lending charges greater margins for each transaction. The results confirm the regulatory conflict between the interests of promoting small/medium enterprise financing and reducing the interest margin. However, we find a difference in sign and significance level of SME financing for each type of bank ownership as the result of SME financing readiness. Type of Paper: Empirical
Reaction Diffusion and Formation of Cu11In9 and In27Ni10 Phases in the Couple of Indium-Substrates

The reaction diffusion between indium solder and Au deposited (Ni and Cu) substrates was investigated. For the identification of intermetallic compounds, both Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and X-Ray Diffractometry (XRD) were employed. Experimental results showed that the intermetallic compounds, such as Cu11In9 and In27Ni10, were observed for different substrates, respectively. Additionally, the growth rate of these intermetallic compounds was increased with the reaction temperature and time. We found that the growth of the intermetallic compound followsthe parabolic law, which indicatesthat layer growth of the intermetallic compound wasmainly controlled by volume diffusion over the temperature range. The apparent activation energies for intermetallic compound growth were 37.06 kJ/mol for Cu11In9 and 86.14 kJ/mol for In27Ni10, respectively.
Versuch einer Bestimmung von Psychopathie bei nach § 21/2 StGB im österreichischen Maßnahmenvollzug Untergebrachten mittels Pupillometrie

An Attempt at Determining Psychopathic Personality Traits in Criminally Responsible Mentally and Disordered Offenders According to § 21/2 of the Austrian Criminal Code by Means of Pupillometry. The aim of the present study was to determine whether pupillometry is able to identify psychopathic personality traits in criminally responsible mentally disordered offenders (§ 21/2 StGB). Psychopathic disorder has not only behavioral but also psychophysiological correlates, which may be evaluated by pupillometry. This might make it possible to diagnose psychopathy by means of a non-invasive method without causing too much stress to the patient and in a further step to adapt therapeutic measures accordingly, which could prove the practical relevance of this diagnostic tool. The activation of the pupillary muscle by the autonomic nervous system cannot be controlled deliberately. Thus, manipulation is highly improbable or even impossible, which is of great importance in a forensic context. As personality disorder patients show a higher pupillary activation than those with solely mental retardation or organic disorders, pupillometry might make an essential contribution to the diagnosis of psychopathy. The present investigation is the fi rst to focus on the research question described above. Results suggest that mainly the parameter of activation (pupillary diameter) might play an important role in reliably diagnosing psychopathic personality traits, as it refl ects pupillary reagibility to various stimuli. As described above, in psychopathic disorder, the cognitive reaction to different – mainly emotional – stimuli is reduced. Although results are still somewhat ambiguous and further investigations are necessary, in the future pupillometry might be a valuable tool in the diagnosis of psychopathy. J Neurol Neurochir Psychiatr 2013; 14 (1 Online).
Power Quality Improvement in Solar-Wind based Power System using BESS

As solar photovoltaic and wind based power generation becomes more commonplace, the inherent intermittency of the solar and wind resource poses one of the great challenges to those who would design and implement the next generation smart grid. Specifically, grid-tied solar power generation is a distributed resource whose output can change extremely rapidly, resulting in many issues for the distribution system operator with a large quantity of installed photovoltaic devices. Battery energy storage systems are increasingly being used to help integrate solar and wind power into the grid. These systems are capable of absorbing and delivering both real and reactive power with sub-second response times. With these capabilities, battery energy storage systems can mitigate such issues with solar-wind power generation as ramp rate, frequency, and voltage issues. Beyond these applications focusing on system stability, energy storage control systems can also be integrated with energy markets to make the solar and wind resource more economical. Providing a high-level introduction to this application area, this paper presents an overview of the challenges of integrating solar and wind power to the electricity distribution system. In this paper a solar-wind based power system model is made. To smoothen the intermittency of the solar and wind resources a battery energy storage system (BESS) is employed. The battery energy storage system stores the energy when excess power is available and releases the stored energy when demand is higher than the supply. A PI controller based control scheme is implemented for this purpose and an MPPT is used for wind turbine to extract the maximum power from the wind resource. The validity of the control scheme is checked through the MATLAB simulation of the solar-wind based power system.
THE DETERMINATION OF THE PHENOLIC COMPOSITION, ANTIOXIDATIVE ACTIVITY AND HEAVY METALS IN THE EXTRACTS OF Calendula officinalis L.

The content of total phenols, flavonoids and antioxidant activities of different plant extracts of Callendula Officinalis L. , used in Serbian traditional medicine were determined. The phenol content was determined by using UV-Vis measurements at 765 nm in the tested plant extracts obtained by standard extraction of Calendula officinalis L. The tested extracts, examined by DPPH method showed a high antioxidant activity that correlated significantly with the content of phenols and flavonoids. All tested extracts exhibited a strong scavenging activity against DPPH radicals (more than 96,8%). The contents of metals (Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn, Cd, Cr, and Pb) were determined by the flame atomic absorption spectrometer. Toxic metals, such as Cd, Cr, and Pb were not detected in the studied plant materials. The content of other metals in the plants and their extracts were low, except for iron. We examined the correlation of metals (Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn) and the phenolic compounds content in the extracts. The studied plants from the Southeast Serbia are suitable for the preparation of teas and herbal extracts due to the low content of toxic metals (Zn, Fe, Cu, and Mn), a high content of phenolic compounds and a high antioxidant activity.
Information Systems Risk and Audit Planning

Auditing standard setters worldwide are focusing greater attention on the importance of corporate controls in general, and on information systems in particular. However, there is relatively little research on the nature of specific control risks in actual companies, and on the auditor's response to those risks. In this study, we examine client characteristics identified by external auditors for actual audit clients, which are relevant to two important areas of systems risk: system security and management information quality. To perform the study, we describe the types of client characteristics identified by the auditors as being relevant to planning, and relate those characteristics to systems risk assessments and testing plans. We find that auditors identify both systems risk factors (risk-increasing characteristics) and positive factors (risk-decreasing characteristics), although risk factors predominate. Systems risk factors are identified for a high proportion of clients, even those with relatively low risk assessments. Most frequently identified risk factors relate to system security, management style and competence, and outdated systems. We find that risk assessments increase with the number of identified risk factors for management information quality, but not for EDP security. Categorizing risk factors into COSO categories, we find that audit procedure planning for EDP security is associated with risk factors relating to control activities but not to control environment. For management information quality, audit procedure planning is associated with control environment and information/communication risk factors. The implications of these findings for audit research and practice are discussed.
Deflated BiCG with an Application to Model Reduction

Most calculations in model reduction involve the solutions of a sequence of dual linear systems with multiple right-hand sides. To solve such systems efficiently, a new deflated BiCG method is explored in this paper. The proposed algorithm uses harmonic Ritz vectors to approximate left and right invariant subspaces inexpensively via small descenting direction vectors found by subsequent runs of deflated BiCG and then derives the deflated subspaces for the next pair of dual linear systems. This process leads to faster convergence for the next pair of systems. Numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Asymptotic Expansion Approaches in Finance: Applications to Currency Options

This chapter presents a basic of the methodology so-called an asymptotic expansion approach, and applies this method to approximation of prices of currency options with a libor market model of interest rates and stochastic volatility models of spot exchange rates. The scheme enables us to derive closed-form approximation formulas for pricing currency options even with high flexibility of the underlying model; we do not model a foreign exchange rate's variance such as in Heston [27], but its volatility that follows a general time-inhomogeneous Markovian process. Further, the correlations among all the factors such as domestic and foreign interest rates, a spot foreign exchange rate and its volatility, are allowed. At the end of this chapter some numerical examples are provided and the pricing formula is applied to the calibration of volatility surfaces in the JPY/USD option market.
Weak Coupling of the Symmetric Galerkin BEM with FEM for Potential and Elastostatic Problems

With reference to potential and elastostatic problems, a BEM-FEM coupling procedure, based on the symmetric Galerkin version of the BEM, is developed; the continuity conditions at the interface of the BE and FE subdomains are enforced in weak form; the global linear system is characterized by a symmetric coefficient matrix. The procedure is numerically tested with reference first to 2D potential problems and successively to 3D elastoplastic problems (with plastic strains confined to the FE subdomain). keyword: Finite element method, Symmetric Galerkin boundary element method, Weak coupling
DESIGN OF RECONFIGURABLE MULTIPLE ELEMENTS MICROSTRIP RECTANGULAR LINEAR ARRAY ANTENNA

This paper presents a reconfigurable multiple element microstrip rectangular linear array antenna integrated with radio frequency (RF) switches. The corporate feed design concept is used to excite the linear array antenna that consists of 8 elements of rectangular patches at 5.8 GHz. Two PIN diode switches were deployed at the feeding line to activate the two arrays of patches that are located on the left and right sides of the antenna structure. The behavior of the reconfigurable multiple element linear antenna array system has been investigated with respect to the beam shaping characteristic. The comparisons of the performance between two structures, with and without Wilkinson Power Divider (WPD) are discussed in this paper. Two different beam patterns were achieved through the reconfigurable antenna at different number of elements design that incorporates with PIN diode switches and modified WPD concept. The simulation and the measurement results for 4 and 8 elements array antenna structure are presented.
THE DETERMINATION ON THE USE OF E-LEARNING SYSTEMS IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN JAKARTA

This research aims at determining the effect of computer self-efficacy (CSE) on the system quality, information quality, service quality, usage, user satisfaction, and individual impact by using a model of success of Delone and McLean information system. This research was conducted on students using e-learning system in higher education. The population used in this study is 144.686 students with a total sample of 178. The sampling method used is proportional random sampling. The analysis tool used is the Generalized Structured Component Analysis (GSCA). The results of this research show that CSE significantly influences the system quality, information quality, service quality, usage, and user satisfaction. System quality significantly influences the quality of information, usage, and user satisfaction. The information quality significantly influences the usage and user satisfaction. Service quality significantly influences the usage and user satisfaction. User satisfaction significantly influSences the individual impact. The result of this research also shows that the better CSE students have will further improve the system quality, information quality, service quality, usage, and individual impact. The better the students’ perceptions on the quality system, information quality, and service quality will further improve the usage and user satisfaction. The better usage will have an impact on user satisfaction which later has an impact on individual performance.
Comparison of Body Composition Assessment Techniques in Older Adults

Body composition is an important measurement for health assessments in older adults. The purpose of this study was to evaluate percent body fat (%BF) estimations in older adults by the Tanita, a two-compartment model (Siri 2-C) and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) compared to a three-compartment model (Lohman 3-C). Fifty­ two females and fifty men between the ages of 54 and 75y volunteered for the study. The estimate of% BF from the Tanita was measured using the 'adult' mode. The Bod Pod was used to determine body density (Db) for the 2-C and 3-C. DXA was used to obtain an estimate of3⁄4BF, and determine BMC for use in the 3-C. Compared to the 3-C estimate of %BF (26.1 ± 1.0% ), %BF in males was significantly underestimated by Tanita (22.1 ± 0.8%), and overestimated by 2-C (27.6 ± 0.9%) and DXA (28.6 ± 0.9%) (P < 0.001). The bias and limits of agreement for all methods in males were: Tanita, -3.93 ± 10.3; 2-C, 1.53 ± 3.38; DXA, 2.51 ± 6.36. Compared to the 3-C estimate of3⁄4BF (39.2 %), %BF in females was significantly underestimated by Tanita (36.4 ± 1.2%; P < 0.001) and overestimated by DXA (40.5 ± 1.2%; P = 0.013). There was no significant difference in females between the 3-C and 2-C estimates of3⁄4BF (39.2 ± 1.2% vs. 39.3 ± 1.2%, respectively, P > 0.05). The bias and limits of agreement for all methods in females were: Tanita, -2.85 ± 8.66; 2-C, 0.05 ± 3.24; DXA 1.27 ± 5.64. This study suggests that the techniques used in this investigation are not interchangeable when estimating %BF in older adults.
Determinants of Corporate Capital Structure: Evidence from Non-financial Listed French Firms

This paper analyses firms’ characteristics that influence managers’ decisions about how to finance their companies. It also aims to study which financial theory better explains those decisions that affect the capital structure of the firms. Our empirical study uses panel data and OLS estimations with cross-section fixed effects and year dummy variables. The sample includes 436 non-financial listed French firms, over the period from 2007 to 2013 (3052 firm-year observations). In the empirical study to test the results’ sensitivity to the use of debt with different maturities we use two regressions and hence two dependent variables: the total debt and the long term debt. The independent variables that we use are the tangibility of assets, the profitability, the firm size, the growth opportunities and the non-debt tax shields. All independent variables exhibit explanatory power and the results are robust to the use of debt with different maturities. The empirical results show that there is no leading theory in explaining managers’ decisions about how to finance firms. Additionally, the sample was divided into pre-crisis (2007-2008) and crisis (2009-2013) periods, the results show a substantial change of the influence of the tangibility of assets, as a result of the financial crisis.
Role of bacterial bioagent, Pasteuria penetrans in the management of root knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita by altering the lifecycle

Pasteuria penetrans is a bacterial hyper parasite of nematodes. The influence of P. penetrans infestation on life cycle of root knot nematode was studied in tomato. One day after inoculation, 40.0 per cent of P. penetrans encumbered J2 and 63.7 per cent of healthy J2 had penetrated into the roots of tomato (t>0.05) showing that J2 parasitized by the hyper-parasite were less infective than the healthy one. Infection of M. incognita by P. penetrans resulted in slight delay in the completion of life cycle. The duration of all post-parasitic stages of the parasitizing nematodes took longer time for development and the adult stage was reached in 30 days as against 24 days for non-parasitized nematodes. Sex ratio was affected by P. penetrans infection. Number of males produced were high from healthy J2 when compared to the P. penetransinfected. P. penetrans-infected females were milky white in colour and males were filled with spores. As a result of lower parasitization by nematodes, fewer galls were formed when plants were inoculated with P. penetrans-encumbered J2. The number of galls under inoculation with P. penetrans-infected J2 were 18.3/plant as against 35.0/plant when inoculated with healthy juveniles (t>0.05). Influence of P. penetrans on delaying nematode lifecycle and various developmental stages are discussed in this research paper.
TWO DIMENSIONAL MULTI-PORT METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE

In this paper, two dimensional multi-port method is used to analyze substrate integrated waveguide by using Green's function approach to obtain the impedance matrix of equivalent planar structure. Modes propagation constant of substrate integrated waveguide, as a periodic structure, is calculated by applying Floquet's theorem on the impedance matrix of a unit cell. Field distribution of the propagating mode is obtained by this method. Results obtained by this method are verifled, in a broad range of dimensions, by comparing with published results and also those calculated by commercial electromagnetic simulator, HFSS. Electromagnetic band gaps and mode conversion phenomenon as properties of periodic structures are also observed and investigated. Mode conversion in SIW is reported for the flrst time by our proposed method.
Improve Volatility Forecasting with Realized Semivariance-Evidences from Intra-Day Large Data Sets in Chinese

Realized semivariance is reported more informative than realized variance. This paper employs a new modeling approach for the realized semivariance inspired by Chou (2005) in order to capture the asymmetry of volatility in financial markets better. With high frequency data from Shanghai stock market in Chinese, the empirical results, which uses four types of volatility proxies including squared daily returns, daily high-low price ranges, realized variance, and realized range consistently, indicate that this model sharpens the forecast power of existing volatility models in terms of GARCH type models. Mincer-Zarnowitz regression and four loss functions are employed for the assessments in out of the sample forecasting.