Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Galhau : Are the regulations implemented to guarantee financial stability compatible with the required acceleration in euro area growth ?

It is an honour for me to speak before you this afternoon and I wish to warmly thank your Chairman Michel Pébereau for his kind invitation. We also have with us at this illustrious gathering some of my most renowned predecessors: Jacques de Larosière and Jean-Claude Trichet. I am very pleased that the topic you have chosen for this year is that of reforms. This term is often given too little prominence in France, between our supposed taste for revolutions and our actual conservatism. We have to turn to Alexis de Tocqueville in order to attempt to bring back the patience of enduring effort to our history: “[The French Revolution] took the world by surprise; yet it was the mere natural result of very long labours, the sudden and violent termination of a task which had successively engaged ten generations of men”. The example of our neighbours, from Germany to Spain, is today nevertheless illuminating in this respect: reforms work in Europe. They are the way, the only way, to make compatible our European social model, which is legitimate, and economic growth, which is essential in order to reduce unemployment and to finance our future.
Development of High RF Power Solid State Amplifiers at SOLEIL

At SOLEIL, 5 solid state amplifiers (SSA) provide the required 352 MHz CW power : 1 x 35 kW for the Booster (BO) cavity and 4 x 180 kW for the 4 superconducting cavities of the Storage Ring (SR). Based on a design fully developed in house, they consist in a combination of a large number of 330 W elementary modules (1 x 147 in the BO and 4 x 724 in the SR) with MOSFET transistors, integrated circulators and individual power supplies. After 5 years of operation, this innovative design has proved itself and demonstrated that it is an attractive alternative to the vacuum tube amplifiers, featuring an outstanding reliability and a MTBF > 1 year. In the meantime, thanks to the acquired expertise and the arrival of the 6 th generation transistors, SOLEIL has carried out developments which led to doubling the power of the elementary module (700 W @ 352 MHz & 500 MHz) while improving the performance in terms of gain, linearity, efficiency and thermal stress. This approach was also extended to frequencies from the FM to L band. The increasing interest in this technology has led SOLEIL to collaborate with several other laboratories and conclude a transfer of know-how to the French company, ELTA-AREVA.
The diet of the Dutch : Results of the first two years of the Dutch National Food Consumption Survey 2012-2016

De afgelopen vijf jaar zijn Nederlanders minder aardappelen, vetten en olien, alcoholische dranken, zuivel, koek en gebak en vlees gaan eten. De consumptie van niet-alcoholische dranken en kruidenmixen en sauzen is toegenomen. De hoeveelheid groente en graanproducten bleef ongeveer gelijk. Kinderen zijn 20 procent meer fruit gaan eten ten opzichte van vijf jaar geleden. Dit zijn de bevindingen van de eerste twee onderzoeksjaren van de nieuwe voedselconsumptiepeiling van 2012-2016. Wat eten we en hoeveel? Brood en vlees zijn populair: dit eten we 6 a 7 dagen per week. Vis en peulvruchten worden minder vaak gegeten (1 dag per week of minder). De samenstelling van het voedingsmiddelenpakket verschilt nauwelijks per leeftijd. Uitzondering hierop is dat kinderen relatief meer zuivel en fruit eten en volwassenen meer drinken (zowel alcoholische als non-alcoholische dranken). In totaal consumeert een Nederlander gemiddeld ruim 3 kg per dag aan eten en drinken. Bijna 2 kg hiervan is in de vorm van dranken (thee, koffie, water, frisdranken, alcohol en andere dranken). Waar eten we? Nederlanders eten vooral thuis (80 procent). Voedingsmiddelen die vaker buitenshuis worden gegeten zijn koek en gebak, fruit en vis. Alcoholische dranken en vis worden relatief vaak in restaurants gebruikt. Adolescenten en volwassenen eten relatief meer op school of op het werk (respectievelijk 15 en 19 procent), ouderen juist meer thuis (85 procent). Tussentijds rapport Het RIVM onderzoekt de consumptie in Nederland van 1- tot 79-jarigen in de periode 2012-2016. Dit rapport geeft de resultaten voor de periode 2012-2014 voor de soorten voedingsmiddelen die worden gegeten en gedronken, hoeveel, waar en wanneer. En of de voedselconsumptie is veranderd vergeleken met 5 jaar eerder. Dit zijn de tussenresultaten op basis van gegevens van ruim tweeduizend kinderen en volwassenen. De eindresultaten over de volledige onderzoeksperiode worden en de betekenis voor de gezondheid worden in 2018 verwacht.
Biogeography-Based Optimization with Orthogonal Crossover

Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is a new biogeography inspired, population-based algorithm, which mainly uses migration operator to share information among solutions. Similar to crossover operator in genetic algorithm, migration operator is a probabilistic operator and only generates the vertex of a hyperrectangle defined by the emigration and immigration vectors. Therefore, the exploration ability of BBO may be limited. Orthogonal crossover operator with quantization technique (QOX) is based on orthogonal design and can generate representative solution in solution space. In this paper, a BBO variant is presented through embedding the QOX operator in BBO algorithm. Additionally, a modified migration equation is used to improve the population diversity. Several experiments are conducted on 23 benchmark functions. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is capable of locating the optimal or closed-to-optimal solution. Comparisons with other variants of BBO algorithms and state-of-the-art orthogonal-based evolutionary algorithms demonstrate that our proposed algorithm possesses faster global convergence rate, high-precision solution, and stronger robustness. Finally, the analysis result of the performance of QOX indicates that QOX plays a key role in the proposed algorithm.
Characterization of a micromachined parylene-based thermal C-shape actuator

This paper describes the design, fabrication and characterization of parylene-based C-shape actuators. The actuators flatten out in response to temperature changes created by ohmic heating of built-in thin film resistors. The devices are fabricated by micromachining processes using parylene C and four metal layers. Mathematical modeling of operation temperature, displacement and load capacity was carried out and verified experimentally. The device operates on less than 0.33 V input voltage and 90 mA input current. During operation, the temperature of the actuator is less than 32 °C. This actuator has an 11 µN load capacity, 5 mm of tip displacement and a bandwidth of 1.4 Hz.
Exploring the Improved Personal Credit Scoring Model of Ant Financial Services in its Disruptive Innovation Process

Ant Financial Services, by taking cloud computing and big data as underlying facilities and credit system as basis, opens up low-end small and micro and individual customer market which is not satisfied in traditional financial market by disruptive service modes and concepts. "Sesame Credit" with unique digital credit means, aiming at accurately measuring personal credit score, is one of the key links for Ant Financial Services to carry out disruptive innovation. Sesame Credit is in open beta period, in spite of wide attention and remarkable achievement, it is still at the experimental stage with certain limitations. Thus, this paper first discloses the disruptive innovation characteristics that Ant Financial Services has, then analyses and discusses the scoring of Sesame Credit, and finally on this basis proposes an improved personal credit scoring model. Index Terms - Ant financial services; Disruptive innovation; Sesame credit scoring; Improved personal credit scoring model. 1. Introduction Internet finance market is positioned at "small and micro" level, characterized by small amount, fastness, and convenience, and it thus has outstanding advantages in the sector of small and micro finance (1). Internet finance constantly innovates credit means by using big data mining technology to greatly reduce credit and financing costs of small and micro enterprises (2) as well as information asymmetry. The key of the healthy development of Internet finance is to deepen the credit system. The improved and perfected credit system enhances the financial risk management level and the efficiency of resource allocation, thus it better provides convenient services to low-end long- tailed users in the financial market and achieves disruptive innovation in the financial sector. Ant Financial Services subordinate to Alibaba Group, as a typical representative of Internet financial companies, establishes Sesame Credit, the China's first personal digital credit throughout history, in the support of Internet platform, cloud computing, and big data technologies. It can serve low- end micro and small and individual customer markets where cannot be satisfied in the traditional financial market. Sesame Credit is still in open beta period but has the room for improvement in the objective acquisition of data (3) as well as for improvement in the accurate scoring (4). Therefore, this paper first discloses the disruptive innovation characteristics of Ant Financial Services, then analyses and discusses Sesame Credit scoring, and finally on this basis proposes the improved personal credit scoring model to provide reference for personal credit scoring.
The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies. II. Bimodality of the Distribution of Central Surface Brightnesses

The Ursa Major Cluster appears to be unevolved and made up of H I-rich spiral galaxies such as those one finds in the field. B, R, I, K' photometry has been obtained for 79 galaxies, including 62 in a complete sample with Mb,iB<-16. ͫ5 (with a distance to the cluster of 15.5 Mpc). The K' information is particularly important for the present discussion because it is not seriously affected by obscuration. There is reasonably convincing evidence that the distribution of exponential disk central surface brightnesses is bimodal. There is roughly an order of magnitude difference in the mean luminosity densities of high and low surface brightness disks. Disks avoid the domain between the high and low surface brightness zones. The few intermediate surface brightness examples in the sample all have significant neighbors within a projected distance of 80 kpc. The high surface brightness galaxies exhibit a range -21m<Mb,iB<-17m, while the low surface brightness galaxies are found with -19m<Mb,iB down to the completion limit. High and low surface brightness galaxies in the overlap regime -19m<Mb,iB<-17m that are indistinguishable in luminosity-line width plots have very distinct locations in surface brightness-scale length plots. The existence of separate high and low surface brightness families suggests that there are discrete radial configurations that are stable. Galaxies are driven into one of these regimes. The high surface brightness state has a lower luminosity cutoff. It is likely that the high surface brightness galaxies are dominated by dissipational matter at their centers, while the low surface brightness galaxies are dark matter dominated. The high surface brightness family subdivides into those with and without substantial bulges. In either case, these galaxies have essentially the same exponential disk central surface brightnesses. Evidently, there are two thresholds, probably controlled by angular momentum content or transfer. Passing from high to low specific angular momentum, there is first the transition from low surface brightness to high surface brightness regimes, and then the transition from exponential disk to disk plus bulge regimes.
CONTINUOUS RESPONSE EVALUATION OF DIGITAL VIDEO CLIPS OVER THE INTERNET

I have great privilege to attend and co-present our research paper entitled “Continuous Response Evaluation of Digital Clips over the Internet” with Dr. Griff Richards at the EDULEARN09 Conference, Barcelona, Spain between July 6 and July 8, 2009. The Edulearn09 Conference has counted with 340 oral presentations and 80 posters. We have presented our paper on July 7, 2009. The paper is well received by the audiences. They are interested in our innovative continuous response system. They would like to know if AU can make the system and technologies available for their project use. Overall, The audiences have provided favorable response to our presentation and are impressed with our E-learning project. We see this conference as a good opportunity for us to raise AU research profile and showcase our excellence in E-learning research and scholarship. This multidisciplinary and multicultural experience also allows us to share ideas and learn from each other with people coming from more than 65 countries. The paper has been published in the conference proceedings.
Perceptual Training Effects on the Acquisition of English Stress by Brazilian Learners

This study investigates the effects of perceptual training on Brazilian English language learners’ ability to acquire preantepenultimate stress, or stress on the fourth to last syllable. Since preantepenultimate stress assignment is infrequent in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), it was initially hypothesized that BP speakers would store few examples of this pattern. The training was performed in five sessions and included stress identification tasks followed by immediate feedback. Results confirm the training significantly improved study participants’ perception and production of preantepenultimate syllable stress assignment. Furthermore, participants generalized acquired production patterns to unfamiliar words and retained these patterns for two months after training concluded. With frequent perceptual training, it is believed BP speakers could create a new category of English words with preantepenultimate syllable stress. This study demonstrates that perception training, typically used for the perception or the production of sounds, can also be used to improve the production of L2 stress assignment with very positive results.
Impact of Sea Surface Temperature on COSMO Forecasts of a Medicane over the Western Mediterranean Sea

The paper describes and analyzes the sensitivity of an operational atmospheric model to different SST (sea surface temperature) estimates. The model's sensitivity has been analyzed in a Medicane (Mediterranean hurricane) test case. Numerical simulations have been performed using the COSMO (consortium for small-scale modeling) atmospheric model, in the COSMO-ME configuration. The model results show that the model is capable of capturing the position, timing and intensity of the cyclone. Sensitivity experiments have been carried out using different SSTs surface boundary conditions for the COSMO forecasts. Four different experiments have been carried out: the first two using SST fields obtained from the OSTIA (operational sea surface temperature and sea ice analysis) system, while the other two using the SST analyses and forecasts from MFS (Mediterranean Forecasting System, Tonani et al., 2015; Pinardi and Coppini, 2010). The different boundary conditions determine differences in the trajectory, pressure minimum and wind intensity of the simulated Medicane. The sensitivity experiments showed that a colder than real SST field determines a weakening of the minimum pressure at the vortex center. MFS SST analyses and forecasts allow the COSMO model to simulate more realistic minimum pressure values, trajectories and wind speeds. It was found that MFS SST forecast, as surface boundary conditions for COSMO-ME runs, determines a significant improvement, compared to ASCAT observations, in terms of wind intensity forecast as well as cyclone dimension and location.
Documenting the advantages and limitations of different classes of molecular markers in a well-established phylogeographic context: lessons from the Iberian endemic Golden-striped salamander, Chioglossa lusitanica (Caudata: Salamandridae)

Previous analyses of mitochondrial (mt)DNA and allozymes covering the range of the Iberian endemic golden-striped salamander, Chioglossa lusitanica, suggested a Pleistocene split of the historical species distribution into two population units (north and south of the Mondego river), postglacial expansion into the northernmost extant range, and secondary contact with neutral diffusion of genes close to the Mondego river. We extended analysis of molecular variation over the species range using seven microsatellite loci and the nuclear β-fibrinogen intron 7 (β-fibint7). Both microsatellites and β-fibint7 showed moderate to high levels of population structure, concordant with patterns detected with mtDNA and allozymes; and a general pattern of isolation-by-distance, contrasting the marked differentiation of two population groups suggested by mtDNA and allozymes. Bayesian multilocus analyses showed contrasting results as populations north and south of the Douro river were clearly differentiated based on microsatellites, whereas allozymes revealed differentiation north and south of the Mondego river. Additionally, decreased microsatellite variability in the north supported the hypothesis of postglacial colonization of this region. The well-documented evolutionary history of C. lusitanica provides an excellent framework within which the advantages and limitations of different classes of markers can be evaluated in defining patterns of population substructure and inferring evolutionary processes across distinct spatio-temporal scales. The present study serves as a cautionary note for investigations that rely on a single type of molecular marker, especially when the organism under study exhibits a widespread distribution and complex natural history. © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, 95, 371–387.
The relationship between R&D and competition : reconciling theory and evidence

The hypothesis of a hump-shaped relationship between innovation and competition due to Aghion, Bloom, Blundell, Griffith, and Howitt (2005), has been tested for different data sets without garnering conclusive support. In this paper we argue that this lack of agreement is because of a difference in approaches to measuring innovation (either in terms of R&D outcomes or by R&D effort). We develop a unified tractable general-equilibrium framework, in which, while R&D outcomes are a hump-shaped function of competition, R&D effort can be observed to be either increasing, decreasing, or hump-shaped. This enables our paper, first, to reconcile the conclusions by Aghion et al. (2005) with more recent results and, second, to inform further attempts to identify the hump-shaped relationship in data.
THE PARTY FAMILY AND ITS STUDY

Although the notion of the party family, with the various cross-national and cross-temporal similarities it implies, underlies much of the standard work on comparative party politics, it nevertheless remains one of the most undertheorized and least specified approaches to the general classification of parties. Four of the principal approaches that are used to identify party families are discussed: origins and sociology, transnational links, policy and ideology, and party name. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are assessed, as are some of the more generic problems that may be associated with all four approaches. The two approaches that appear best suited to the specification and classification of party families are those based on the origin of parties and their ideology, but these should be developed in parallel rather than as alternatives. Both tap into what parties are rather than what parties do and hence are more likely to uncover core identities and shared political goals.
Some computations of generalized Hilbert-Kunz function and multiplicity

Let $R$ be a local ring of characteristic $p>0$ which is $F$-finite and has perfect residue field. We compute the generalized Hilbert-Kunz invariant for certain modules over several classes of rings: hypersurfaces of finite representation type, toric rings, $F$-regular rings.
Utilization and Improvement of the Adsorption Method for Sampling PCDD/Fs from a Sinter Plant

ABSTRACTIn this work, the Adsorption Method for Sampling (AMESA) is developed to collect long-term samples of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) from stacks. However, the variation of in duration might affect the analytical results due to the memory effect in the AMESA. This research is one of the very few reports of using AMESA in sinter plants. Eight long-term AMESA (LA) samples were collected, followed by 16 parallel short-term AMESA (SA) and manual (SM) samples. The LA reports good correlations (R = 0.82–0.83) between PCDD/F emissions and the recovery feedstock, which can be further used for emission reduction. However, the breakthrough effects of the highly chlorinated PCDD/Fs is in the range of 6–14% in LA samples, and these are further improved by increasing the glass wool and adsorbent (with higher specific surface area, lower pore size, and higher polarity) packing, and finally reduced to 5.17%. For the short-term sampling, a maximum difference of 170% occurred between SA and SM, if the sampling strategy suddenly changed from LA to SA. The PCDD/F memory effect remained for the first 8 SA samples, with the dominant 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HpCDD and OCDD. Therefore, five post-washings for the AMESA system took place to successfully reduce the PCDD/F residual mass to > 0.2% of a normal LA. Unfortunately, these residuals were still equal to 51.4% of a normal SA. Therefore, it is not suggested that AMESA replace the current manual sampling method without any modification. According to this study, both the breakthrough and memory effects could be inhibited. Finally, a new inspection system, including both AMESA and short-term samples, is then proposed for improving the PCDD/F control strategy in Taiwan.
Revisiting the Relevance of Collaborative Governance to Korean Public Administration

Skepticism as to the relevance of collaborative governance theory and practice is often found in the literature on Korean public administration. It is not always clear, however, why and how collaborative governance is irrelevant. The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relevance of collaborative governance theory to South Korean public administration from the perspective of statelessness of the United States via three theoretical approaches: descriptive and explanatory, normative, and instrumental. Although collaborative governance can generate desirable public values related to participatory democracy, this paper suggests that if we are to apply the practice to Korean public administration, we need to develop an empirical theory of collaborative governance that incorporates the characteristics of a strong state and an instrumental theory of collaborative governance that explicitly considers group dynamics within the indigenous culture. To do this, furthermore, we first need to consider the degree to which Korean civil society appreciates the values related to collaborative governance.
Title Efficient low-frequency integral equation solver for wirelesspower transfer modeling

In this paper, the wireless power transfer system based on magnetic-coupled resonators is modeled and optimized by using low-frequency integral equation solver. For the lowfrequency transfer system, the mesh size after discretization is usually much smaller than the wavelength. Hence, the lowfrequency solvers are proposed to model this kind of structures with tiny meshes. After the spiral resonators are determined at specific frequency, we only need to optimize the distance between resonators and two loops. The numerical results show that we are no need to re-mesh the whole transfer system during the distance searching procedure, and the optimized distance can be easily obtained. Index Terms — Low-frequency solvers, integral equation, wireless power transfer, magnetic-coupled resonators.