Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
P o S ( F P C P 2 0 1 6 ) 0 4 0 ATLAS / CMS Upgrades

Precision studies of the Standard Model (SM) and searches of the physics beyond the SM are ongoing at the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A luminosity upgrade of LHC is planned, and the collider after the upgrade is called High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The integrated luminosity of 300 fb−1 and 3000 fb−1 are foreseen for LHC and HLLHC, respectively. The increased luminosity provides a significant challenge for the experiments, including higher radiation dose, higher particle rate, higher pileup, and higher event rate. The upgrades are essential for the ATLAS and CMS experiments in various aspects, and the planning is underway. With the high statistics data, Higgs boson couplings to fermions are expected to be measured with a precision of the order of percent for various flavors, which provides precision tests of the Yukawa terms of the Lagrangian. A measurement of the Bs,d meson and top quark decays through flavor changing neutral current processes provides the probes for the physics beyond the SM.
The concept of phosphorus index for identification of phosphorus loss risk: I. The literature review.

Phosphorus is the plant nutrient most often linked with impairment of surface water. The phosphorus index (PI) approach is developed and widely applied in the USA as well as it has been adopted in several European countries, especially in Scandinavia with main aim to estimate the risk of phosphorus loss from agricultural areas to surface waters. There is no “standard” PI, as a result scientists try to develop new versions of PI to account for specific regional conditions. Consequently, a great variety of different versions and modifications of phosphorus indices are presented. The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of the development of the risk identification tool (phosphorus index) to measure the risk of phosphorus losses from agriculture fields already at a farm level. The design of phosphorus index is based on the original PI and later versions of the model for prediction of the phosphorus load from agriculture field to nearest water body, taking into account findings in phosphorus research and local environmental experts’ judgments.
Kargo Hizmetlerine İlişkin Müşteri Şikayetleri: Bir İçerik Analizi - Consumer Complaints About Shipment Services: A Content Analysis

Consumer complaints, which have been the subject of numerous studies in the literature, have gained a new dimension with the proliferation of the internet. Consumers can quickly and easily access the views of other consumers and share their complaints electronically, thanks to e-WOM, which means that consumers can share comments about their companies, products and services electronically. With the Internet, the spread of the trade has increased the competition in the cargo sector and also increased the importance of service quality with consumer comments. In this context, in this www.sikayetvar. com site that is one of the sources for e-WOM, the content of the complaints in the cargo service category was analyzed and the causes of M. Yanar Gürce – P. Tosun 9/3 (2017) 177-196 İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi Journal of Business Research-Türk 178 the complaints were examined. The reasons for the selection of cargo services for analysis are, while the studies can be found in which the quality of service of logistic activities is investigated in different cultures in different sectors; there are relatively few studies on cargo services in the literature. As a result of the frequency analyses obtained from the data within the scope of the research, the subjects that the consumers most complain about have been identified as the services are not actualized as promised on time, that the products and services are not delivered to the customers timely and that imperfect service deliveries provided by the company employees.
The Global Financial Crisis Impact on Ethnic Diversity of Sri Lanka Boards

This study investigates the link between ethnic minority directors and agency conflict in Sri Lankan listed companies during a global financial crisis. Due to social and economic pressures in recent decades, ethnic minorities now make up a larger proportion of directors on corporate boards in Sri Lanka. In addition, the global financial crisis has increased demand for boards to strengthen their ethnic diversity in workplaces. This study shows that while Sri Lankan boards increased the number of ethnic minority directors during the global financial crisis, heterogeneous boards increased company agency costs. This evidence provides insights for governments and policy makers as they consider board ethnic diversification in an emerging and highly uncertain environment.
Strategies Application in Project Evaluation - The Case of Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project (BHP), Sierra Leone

This paper discusses environmental sustainability vis-à-vis regulatory compliance and environmental policy issues as related to the challenges and benefits being experienced by the Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project (BHP) in Sierra Leone. The paper’s goal is to present strategies by applying established theoretical concepts and frameworks to the BHP case. It examines some critical success factors that could be integrated into best practice management, especially in the face of future environmental and socio-economic challenges. It shows that BHPs’ critical success factors depend on the project’s peculiar historic and organizational context. The assumption is that achieving environmental compliance in view of responding to public expectations, and recognizing business opportunities, are critical success factors for BHP. The paper focuses on the Environmental Mitigation and Area Development (EMAD) component of the project as opposed to project contracts and technical assistance. The authors believe that the EMAD component has a direct influence on the livelihood of the people, and as such, it could be used to gain further insights into BHP. If effectively implemented, the EMAD component may become one of the most significant strategic management initiatives taken by BHP in complying with environmental regulations, in reaping potential benefits, and in putting the project in a better position for future financial assistance. As such, this paper’s main focus is on activities related to EMAD and recommends the adoption of a competitive strategy like a focused low-cost strategy that will provide the project with a strategic advantage whilst capitalizing on the World Bank’s Dam Planning/Management Action Plan (DAMAP).
Integration of GaAsP on Si for High Efficiency Tandem Solar Cells

Greater utilization of photovoltaic (PV) systems in utility-scale, aerospace, and military applications can be achieved by increasing module efficiency. Higher efficiency reduces the balance-of-systems and installation costs, comprising about half of utility-scale PV costs, since less area is required for a given power. Advances in aerospace and military PV technology, from unmanned vehicles to soldier-portable power, are dependent on increasing the specific power of PV modules which is attainable with efficiency improvements. Crystalline Si (c-Si) currently dominates the PV market but its efficiency record is approaching the theoretically limiting efficiency. Multi-junction cells can be employed to improve efficiency above the single-junction Shockley-Queisser limit as achieved in III-V materials, but these typically are hindered by high costs. Integration of III-V and Si into a tandem (dual-junction) cell may offer an optimal combination of high efficiency and low cost. Maximum theoretical efficiency for a tandem with a Si bottom cell occurs with a top cell bandgap of ~1.7 eV. GaAsxP1-x (referred to as GaAsP) is an attractive top cell due to its direct and tunable bandgap in addition to the smallest lattice mismatch among ~1.7 eV materials. My group has grown the highest efficiency GaAsP top cells to date relying on highquality GaP/Si templates and compositionally graded GaAsP buffers. For this project, Crosslight TCAD software was utilized to simulate the device performance in comparison to experimental published work and explore the potential for improvement with increased material quality, decreased front reflection, and reduced top contact coverage. Simulations results predicted a pathway to a 20% efficient GaAsP top cell and therefore toward a 30% efficient tandem with c-Si, through a combination of design of an optimized anti-reflection coating, design of a top contact with 1% mesa coverage, electron minority carrier lifetime improvement to 1ns, and reducing parasitic loss from shunting.
Risk assessment of and targeted intervention for falls in the elderly based on the relationship between physical function levels and risk factors for falls

Although fall experience is an important predictor of future falls, clinicians place too much emphasis on this factor during risk assessment of falls. This study aimed to determine individuals with high and low fall risk on the basis of the relationship between physical function levels [competence in performing activities of daily living (ADL)] and risk factors for falls (fall experience, locomotive organ impairment, and potential for falling). Participants were 1057 independent community-dwelling elderly individuals. ADL competence and the status of risk factors for falls were evaluated using a questionnaire and the relationship between the two was determined. We calculated the cumulative relative frequency curves for ADL scores after categorizing the participants into several groups according to combinations of risk factors and analyzed those combinations that showed wide individual differences in the cumulative relative frequency curves. Intergroup differences when the participants were categorized on the basis of fall experience alone were small; however, those when the participants were categorized on the basis of locomotive impairment and potential for falling were much greater. On classifying the participants into eight groups on the basis of locomotive organ health, fall risk, and fall experience, we found that fallers with locomotive impairment and a high fall risk exhibited the lowest ADL scores while fallers without locomotive impairment and with a low fall risk exhibited the highest ADL scores. Fall risk assessments that are overtly dependent on fall experience are fundamentally limited. Grouping key risk factors can help in determining target groups, including highrisk fallers, low-risk fallers, and high-risk nonfallers, which require primary preventive measures among the community-dwelling elderly.
Tackling Fluid Tangles Complexity by Knot Polynomials

In this paper we present an application of a new technique, based on recent work done by Liu & Ricca (2012), to quantify structural complexity by means of topological methods. These rely on the derivation of the Jones polynomial from the helicity of ideal fluid flows. The techniques discussed here can be extended and applied to real fluid flows subject to continuous topological restructuring.
Exploring Natural Language Processing Methods for Finno-Ugric Langages

This paper presents some preliminary experiments concerning the automatic processing of Finno-Ugric languages with computers. We present symbolic methods as well as machine learning ones. Given the lack of corpora for some languages , we think finite-state transducers may sometimes be the best approach where only little data are available for learning. We also consider some machine learning approaches that could be valuably applied in this context, more specifically lightly supervised techniques involving a reduced sample of annotated data and larger amounts of non annotated data. Lastly we present the LAKME project that will explore new techniques for parsing morphology-rich languages.
The effect of enforcing some direct tax law

Article history: Received January 20, 2014 Accepted 5 July 2014 Available online July 9 2014 Regarding to the role of tax in the economy as the most stable and constant source of income and also due to the fact that there was no success in achieving fiscal goals by the government during its economic and developmental programs, paying attention to and making effort in this domain is regarded as a necessity in any country. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of enforcing Article 181 of Direct Tax Law on extent of taxpayers’ satisfaction, increase of trust, increase of tax compliance or decrease of tax evasion in Isfahan, Iran. The present study consists of a main hypothesis and four sub-hypotheses. Data were collected from 100 companies regarding their performance during 200 years. Article 181 of Direct Tax Code was implemented upon these companies over the period 2006-2011. Hypotheses of the study were evaluated. The results of the study, in survey and post-event pivot, showed that enforcing Article 181 of Direct Tax Law in Isfahan was effective. However, its effect was not significant regarding increase of taxpayers’ familiarity and acquaintance with Tax Office and its functions in Isfahan; it increased tax compliance, decreased tax evasion by the taxpayers, increased taxpayers’ satisfaction and helped them trust on Tax Office and its performance. © 2014 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Can the High Quality of Internal Control Promote the Fulfillment of Corporate Social Responsibility in Energy Enterprises

It’s an inherent requirement for the energy enterprises to effectively fulfill their corporate social responsibility in order to realize their sustainable development along with the society. Taking the listed corporations in energy industry as the research samples, this paper analyzed the influence of internal control quality on corporate social responsibility. The study drew the following conclusions: Based on the stakeholder theory, the fulfillment of energy enterprises’ social responsibility could be evaluated from various levels, like shareholders, government, customers and employees. The high quality of internal control significantly promoted the fulfillment of corporate social responsibility in the levels of shareholders and government, but it was not so significant in the levels of customers and employees. These conclusions have provided theoretical guidance for the energy enterprises to upraise their internal control quality and to facilitate their fulfillment of corporate social responsibility in view of different stakeholders. Besides, direct evidence support has also been offered for the practical application of “Application Guidance for Enterprise Internal Control -Social Responsibility” and “Operation Guidance for the Internal Control of Petroleum and Petrochemical Industry”. Keywords-energy enterprises; internal control; corporate social responsibility
Vibrations of Biaxially Tensioned-embedded Nanoplates for Nanoparticle Delivery

It is aimed to investigate vibrations of an embedded nanoplate subjected to biaxially applied loads and a moving nanoparticle. To this end, the nanoplate and the moving nanoparticle in order are modeled via nonlocal Kirchhoff plate theory and a rigid body. The mass weight of the moving nanoparticle, and its friction with the upper surface of the nanoplate are taken into account in the proposed model. For a more general study of the problem, the dimensionless equations of motion are obtained. The in- and out-of-plane displacements of the nanoplate are discretized in the space and time using assumed mode and generalized Newmark-β methods, respectively. The roles of the moving nanoparticle velocity, small-scale parameter, biaxially tension forces, and the lateral stiffness of the surrounding medium on the displacements of the nanoplate are addressed and discussed.
Towards Clouds @ home : Integration of Virtualization in Desktop Grids with OAR and BOINC

Volunteer computing is the name of the use of end-user resources to do highperformance computations. Two of the biggest challenges of volunteer computing nowadays is to facilitate the application development work of the scientists, and to allow the client to donate in an isolated and transparent way. If a volunteer computing system isn't easy to use by the scientist, scientists will avoid using it regardless of the computing power available. If it isn't easy to use by the volunteer, it will drive volunteers away and harness less computing power. This work describes clouds@home, which is a project to integrate virtual machines running on desktop hosts into the OAR scheduler to make them computing nodes of a virtual cluster. With clouds@home, the scientist must keep only a single version for a single compilation target of its application, thereby reducing the burden of application development. He also isn't bound to any particular API. The volunteer is further protected by the virtual machine monitor isolation layer.
Synthesis & characterization of yttria-stabilised zirconia (YSZ) hollow fibre support for Pd based membrane

i List of Figures . iv List of Tables . vi List of Symbols. vii Abbreviation . viii Chapter 1 . 1 1. Background . 1 1.1 Research objectives . 2 Chapter 2 . 3 2. Literature review . 3 2.1 Support for palladium based membrane . 5 2.1.1 Porous vycor glass supports . 5 2.1. 2 Porous metal supports . 6 2.1. 3 Porous ceramic supports . 7 2.2 Palladium based membranes . 9 2.2.1 Unsupported Pd membranes . 9 2.2.2 Supported membranes . 9 2.3 Fabrication processes of ceramic supports and membranes . 10 2.3. 1 Slip casting method. 11 2.3. 2 Tape casting method . 12 2.3. 3 Pressing method . 13 2.3. 4 Extrusion method . 14 2.3. 5 Sol-Gel process . 14 2.3. 5.1 Particulate sol-gel process . 15 2.3. 5.2 Polymeric sol-gel process . 16 2.3. 6 Dry-wet spinning . 16 2.4 Preparation of hollow fibre ceramic membranes using dry-wet spinning . 17
Quaderni di Dipartimento Objective Bayesian Search of Gaussian DAG Models with Non-local Priors

Directed Acyclic Graphical (DAG) models are increasingly employed in the study of physical and biological systems, where directed edges between vertices are used to model direct influences between variables. Identifying the graph from data is a challenging endeavor, which can be more reasonably tackled if the variables are assumed to satisfy a given ordering; in this case, we simply have to estimate the presence or absence of each possible edge, whose direction is established by the ordering of the variables. We propose an objective Bayesian methodology for model search over the space of Gaussian DAG models, which only requires default non-local priors as inputs. Priors of this kind are especially suited to learn sparse graphs, because they allow a faster learning rate, relative to ordinary local priors, when the true unknown sampling distribution belongs to a simple model. We implement an efficient stochastic search algorithm, which deals effectively with data sets having sample size smaller than the number of variables. We apply our method to a variety of simulated and real data sets.
Dimensions of biodiversity in Chesapeake Bay demersal fishes: patterns and drivers through space and time

Biodiversity has typically been described in terms of species richness and composition, but theory and growing empirical evidence indicate that the diversity of functional traits, the breadth of evolutionary relationships, and the equitability with which individuals or biomass are distributed among species better characterize patterns and processes within ecosystems. Yet, the advantages of including such data come at the expense of measuring traits, sequencing genes, and counting or weighing individuals, and it remains unclear whether this greater resolution yields substantial benefits in describing diversity. We summarized a decade of high-resolution trawl data from a bimonthly trawl survey to investigate spatial and seasonal patterns of demersal fish diversity in the Chesapeake Bay, USA, with the goal of identifying areas and times of mismatch between different dimensions of diversity, and their response to environmental forcing. We found moderate to strong positive relationships among all metrics of diversity, and that functional and phylogenetic differences were well-reflected in an index derived from taxonomic (Linnaean) hierarchy. Compared with species richness and species diversity, functional, phylogenetic, and taxonomic indices peaked later in the year, which was a consequence of the distribution of biomass among functionally and evolutionarily divergent species. Generalized additive models revealed that spatial, temporal, and environmental variables explained roughly similar proportions of deviance across all aspects of diversity, suggesting that these three factors do not differentially affect the functional and phylogenetic aspects of community structure. We conclude that an index of diversity derived from taxonomic hierarchy served well as a practical surrogate for functional and phylogenetic diversity of the demersal fish community in this system. We also emphasize the importance of evenness in understanding diversity patterns, especially since most ecological communities in nature are dominated by one or few species.
MODEL FOR GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE: PEOPLE, PROCESS AND TECHNOLOGY

In the knowledge society; enterprises are more and more concerned with knowledge management as a key factor for improving their efficiency and competitiveness, notably their innovative capabilities. In the long run, an organization has to take right decisions at right time. During the last more than a decade, it has been seen that business organizations are increasingly adopting for various models for knowledge management. In this paper, after having put down background theory and assumptions, a model for global knowledge management within the enterprise (MGKME) has been presented and the operating elements of this model, which are essentials to ensure the organizational learning process, are discussed. Operating elements leads people to use appropriate concepts, methods and tools of management. This paper also touches upon the how to leverage ICT for the knowledge management.
The effect of tree genetic diversity on insect herbivory varies with insect abundance

Variance in edibility among plant genotypes is expected to be a key driver of plant genetic diversity (PGD) effects on abundance of insect herbivores and resulting herbivory. Yet, herbivore foraging behavior and leaf consumption may be also context-dependent and, in particular, influenced by herbivore density, which remains unexplored. We used a combination of field and laboratory experiments with saplings from four half-sib families (henceforth, families) of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) to test how PGD and herbivore density interactively affect herbivory. Insect herbivory was assessed in a common garden experiment with plots containing all possible combinations of individuals from one to four oak families. Herbivore density was manipulated by spraying insecticide in a factorial design. Complementary feeding trials with gypsy moth larvae (Lymantria dispar) were used to further explore the mechanisms underlying observed patterns in the field. Herbivory decreased with increasing PGD under normal herbivore density, but not under reduced herbivore abundance. The most damaged oak family in the field was also the most consumed in non-choice tests and was consistently preferred over other families in choice tests. Trials showed that the presence of less edible families in the diet reduced overall consumption by gypsy moth larvae. Under field conditions, the most edible family consistently benefited most from being associated with less edible, neighboring genotypes. Our results demonstrate that small-scale PGD can provide associational resistance to insect herbivory, probably through change in herbivore foraging activity. Importantly, they also reveal that the magnitude of genetic diversity effect depends on herbivore density.