Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Customer Perception On Products, Pricing, Service Quality, Towards Customer’s Quality Relationships And Loyalty Of Domestic Airlines, Indonesia

Aviation services industry is an important industry that holds Indonesia. Indonesia has approximately 17 thousand islands scattered with a long coastline over 5,000 kilometers. Air transport is an essential component for connecting approximately 250 million people with a population growth of 1.49 percent annually. Air transport services become business areas that are needed by today's modern society. This study aims to quantify the relationship between customer perceptions on the concept or product, price, service quality and relationship quality on customer loyalty of domestic airline in Indonesia. This study took a sample of 300 respondents. The data analyzed using SEM (Structural Equation Modeling). The results of this study is theoretical findings suggests that the product has a significant positive effect on trust, customer satisfaction and loyalty, but positive effect is insignificant on commitment. The price has significant positive effect on trust, commitment, satisfaction, but positive effect is insignificant on loyalty. Service quality has a significant positive effect on trust, commitment, satisfaction, but positive effect is insignificant on loyalty. Trust has significant positive effect on satisfaction and loyalty. Commitment has significant positive effect on loyalty, but positive effect is insignificant on loyalty. Satisfaction has significant positive effect on satisfaction and loyalty.
Heterogeneity among agent types and second-best management for non-market ecological services

Second-best management affects different agent types differently, and heterogeneity among agents may create instances when only second best management is feasible. Capital-theoretic bioeconomic modeling often has imposed representative agent assumptions that may not capture this heterogeneity. Interactions between agent heterogeneity and second-best management have received little attention. Such heterogeneity is particularly important when management actions do not directly affect extensive margin decisions. We employ a microparameter model in a dynamic bioeconomic model to incorporate agent heterogeneity and intensive and extensive margin decisions for a nonmarket good, recreational fishing. The model yields qualitatively different management recommendations when a representative agent is assumed than when heterogeneity is included using the microparameter approach.
TRIAL DESIGNS THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY OPTIMIZE THE POPULATION ENROLLED AND THE TREATMENT ALLOCATION PROBABILITIES

Standard randomized trials may have lower than desired power when the treatment effect is only strong in certain subpopulations. This may occur, for example, in populations with varying disease severities or when subpopulations carry distinct biomarkers and only those who are biomarker positive respond to treatment. To address such situations, we develop a new trial design that combines two types of preplanned rules for updating how the trial is conducted based on data accrued during the trial. The aim is a design with greater overall power and that can better determine subpopulation specific treatment effects, while maintaining strong control of the familywise Type I error rate. The first component of our design involves response-adaptive randomization, in which the probability of being assigned to the treatment or control arm is updated during the trial to target an optimal allocation. The second component of our design involves enrichment, where the criteria for patient enrollment may be modified to help learn which subpopulations benefit from the treatment. We do a simulation study to compare the power of our design, which we call a response-adaptive enrichment design, to three simpler designs: a standard randomized trial design, a response-adaptive design, and an enrichment design. Our simulation study compares these designs in scenarios that arise from the problem of testing the effectiveness of a hypothetical new
A Reconsideration of the Safety of Piled Bridge Foundations in Liquefiable Soils

ABSTRACT The collapse of piled foundations in liquefiable soil has been observed in the majority of recent strong earthquakes. This paper critically reviews the current understanding of pile failure in liquefiable deposits, making reference to modern design codes such as JRA (1996), and taking the well-documented failure of the Showa Bridge in the 1964 Niigata earthquake as an example of what must be avoided. It is shown that the current understanding cannot explain some observations of pile failure. The current method of pile design under earthquake loading is based on a lateral loading mechanism where inertia and drag due to slope movement (lateral spreading) induce bending in the pile, and where axial load effects are ignored. It is demonstrated here, however, that axial loads can be a dominant factor in collapse due to seismic liquefaction, due to the progressive onset of pile buckling when lateral soil resistance is removed. Additional design considerations based on the avoidance of buckling effects are formulated after back analysing fifteen case histories of pile foundation performance during past earthquakes, and verified using dynamic centrifuge modelling. Some practical implications of the omission of axial loads from previous design verifications are highlighted.
Towards the Source of Thoughts

The objective of this article is to study a deeply prereflective dimension of our subjective experience. This dimension is gestural and rhythmic, has precise transmodal sensorial submodalities, and seems to play an essential role in the process of emergence of all thought and understanding. In the first part of the article, using examples, we try to draw the attention of the reader to this dimension in his subjective experience. In the second part, we attempt to explain the difficulties and describe the interior process of becoming aware of it. Then we describe the structural characteristics of this dimension, and the different types of ‘interior gestures’ which enable us to connect ourselves with it. Finally, we formulate a genetic hypothesis about the role of this dimension in cognition, on the basis of which we suggest some research paths in the neuroscientific, educational and existential domains.
MicroRNAs: new tools for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy in HCC?

MicroRNAs are evolutionary conserved small non-coding RNAs involved in the regulation of gene expression and protein translation. Many studies have shown that they play a crucial role in driving organ and tissue differentiation during embryogenesis and in the fine-tuning of fundamental biological processes, such as proliferation and apoptosis. Growing evidence indicates that their deregulation plays an important role in cancer onset and progression as well, where they act as oncogenes or oncosuppressors. In this review we highlight the most recent findings on the role of microRNAs in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), by analyzing the possible mechanisms by which they contribute to this neoplasm. Moreover, we discuss the possible role of circulating miRNAs as biomarkers, a field that needs urgent improvement in the clinical surveillance of HCC, and the fascinating possibility of using them as therapeutic targets or drugs themselves.
Plant water relations and photosynthetic activity in three Tunisian chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes subjected to drought

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important food crop grown under rainfed conditions in Mediterranean regions in which drought is a major limiting factor for production. In these areas little attention is given to legumes, and efforts to identify drought-tolerant genotypes are primarily focused on major cereal crops. In the current study a greenhouse experiment was conducted to assess the effects of drought stress on plant growth, photosynthesis, and water relations in 3 Tunisian chickpea genotypes (Cicer arietinum L.). Drought was applied, and soil humidity was maintained at 30% of field capacity (stressed plants) or 100% of field capaci ty (control plants) for 3 weeks. A close relationship between plant growth, and photosynthesis and leaf water status was observed. In comparison to Chetoui and Kesseb, Amdoun exhibited the greatest plant growth and photosynthetic activity, the lowest drought intensity index, and important osmotic adjustment under drought stress. Water use efficiency clearly differentiated the studied genotypes.
Dynamics of Electricity Demand in Lesotho: A Kalman Filter Approach

Abstract This study provides an empirical analysis of the time-varying price and income elasticities of electricity demand in Lesotho for the period 1995-2012 using the Kalman filter approach. The results reveal that economic growth has been one of the main drivers of electricity consumption in Lesotho while electricity prices are found to play a less significant role since they are monopoly-driven and relatively low when compared to international standards. These findings imply that increases in electricity prices in Lesotho might not have a significant impact on consumption in the short-run. However, if the real electricity prices become too high over time, consumers might change their behavior and sensitivity to price and hence, energy policymakers will need to reconsider their impact in the long-run. Furthermore, several exogenous shocks seem to have affected the sensitivity of electricity demand during the period prior to regulation, which made individuals, businesses and agencies to be more sensitive to electricity costs. On the other hand, the period after regulation has been characterized by more stable and declining sensitivity of electricity demand. Therefore, factors such as regulation and changes in the country’s economic activities appear to have affected both price and income elasticities of electricity demand in Lesotho.
AN M/G/M TYPE QUEUE WITH TIME HOMOGENEOUS BREAKDOWNS AND DETERMINISTIC REPAIR TIMES

We investigate the steady state behaviour of a single server queue with Poisson arrivals and arbitrary (general) service times. The system is prone to random breakdowns and just after a breakdown the server undergoes repairs of a fixed (constant) duration. The supplementary variable technique is employed to find explicitly the probability generating function of the number in the system and the mean number in the system. Some particular cases of interest are discussed and some known results are derived as special cases.
The impact of organisational culture on the adaptation of newly employed nurses to the work environment

Usually newly employed nurses find adjusting to a work setting a challenging experience. Their successful adaptation to their work situation is greatly influenced by the socialisation process inherent in the organisational culture. The newly employed nurse often finds that the norms are unclear, confusing and restrictive. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of organisational culture on the adaptation of newly employed nurses to the work environment. A descriptive quantitative survey was employed to explore the constructs of organisational culture that have a positive or a negative impact on the adaptation of newly employed nurses to the work setting. Constructs such as conflict resolution, employee participation, human resource orientation, goal clarity, identification with the organisation, locus of control and management style were examined. Participants expressed their views as to what constructs of organisational culture had a positive or a negative impact on their adjustment to the work settings. For the culture to serve its function it must be perceived as correct and valid and if it is perceived that way, it automatically follows that it must be taught to newcomers.
High‐Throughput Multiparametric Screening of Solution Processed Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

One of the major bottlenecks in the development of organic photovoltaics is the time needed to evaluate each material system. This time ranges from weeks to months if different variables such as blend composition, thickness, annealing, and additives are to be explored. In this study, the use of lateral gradients is proposed in order to evaluate the photovoltaic potential of a material system up to 50 times faster. A platform that combines blade coating using controllable velocity profiles (thickness gradients) with multichannel dispensers (composition gradients) and controlled lateral annealing variations (nanostructure gradients) is introduced. These samples are then analyzed using photocurrent and Raman imaging in order to correlate one to one the device performance, thickness, composition, and annealing temperature. The strength of the developed technology is shown by optimizing three different systems, namely PCDTBT:PC70BM, PTB7‐Th:PC70BM, and PffBT4T‐2OD:PC70BM, obtaining efficiencies ≈5%, 8%, and 9.5%, respectively, using less than 10 mg of each polymer in the process.
LANDMINE DETECTION BY MEANS OF GROUND PENETRATING RADAR: A MODEL-BASED APPROACH

The presence of landmines poses a worldwide humanitarian problem. Often, these mines are difficult to detect with metal detectors. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a promising technology for the detection of landmines with low metal content. Automatic landmine detection typically consists of two steps, namely preprocessing (or clutter removal) and classification. In this paper the clutter removal algorithm consists of a nonlinear frequency domain filter followed by principal component based filtering. Principal component analysis is performed in the frequency domain to build a background model for the clutter. The latter model is removed from the observed data in the log-frequency domain in order to preserve the phase component of the spectrum. Finally, the data is normalized and transformed to the time domain. The results presented in this paper show a marked improvement in the ability to remove general background clutter. Classification is performed on the basis of the prediction performance of neural network time-series models of the various classes of GPR responses. The classification system can correctly identify the position of metal anti-tank (AT) mines. It can also recognize specific examples of low metal AT and (anti-personnel) AP mines, but does have a low generalization ability for such mines.
Chemical mass balance of 300 °C non-volatile particles at the tropospheric research site Melpitz, Germany

In the fine-particle mode (aerodynamic diameter < 1 µm) non-volatile material has been associated with black carbon (BC) and low-volatile organics and, to a lesser ex- tent, with sea salt and mineral dust. This work analyzes non- volatile particles at the tropospheric research station Mel- pitz (Germany), combining experimental methods such as a mobility particle-size spectrometer (3-800 nm), a thermod- enuder operating at 300 C, a multi-angle absorption pho- tometer (MAAP), and an aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS). The data were collected during two atmospheric field exper- iments in May-June 2008 as well as February-March 2009. As a basic result, we detected average non-volatile particle- volume fractions of 11± 3 % (2008) and 17± 8 % (2009). In both periods, BC was in close linear correlation with the non- volatile fraction, but not sufficient to quantitatively explain the non-volatile particle mass concentration. Based on the assumption that BC is not altered by the heating process, the non-volatile particle mass fraction could be explained by the sum of black carbon (47 % in summer, 59 % in winter) and a non-volatile organic contribution estimated as part of the low-volatility oxygenated organic aerosol (LV-OOA) (53 % in summer, 41 % in winter); the latter was identified from AMS data by factor analysis. Our results suggest that LV- OOA was more volatile in summer (May-June 2008) than in winter (February-March 2009) which was linked to a differ- ence in oxidation levels (lower in summer). Although car- bonaceous compounds dominated the sub-µm non-volatile particle mass fraction most of the time, a cross-sensitivity to partially volatile aerosol particles of maritime origin could be seen. These marine particles could be distinguished, however from the carbonaceous particles by a characteristic parti- cle volume-size distribution. The paper discusses the uncer- tainty of the volatility measurements and outlines the possi- ble merits of volatility analysis as part of continuous atmo- spheric aerosol measurements.
Preliminary findings of finger independency and visual force control in children with DCD

Finger independency and visual force control were studied in children with DCD. Five children, 9 to10 years of age, diagnosed with DCD and five age-matched typically developing children were asked to perform two isometric tasks, maximum voluntary force production (MVF) and visual force control (VFC), in seven different finger conditions [Index (I), Middle (M), Ring (R), Little (L) IM, IMR, and IMRL]. For the VFC tasks, the participants were asked to continuously control their finger forces at 20% of the MVF. To examine finger force independency, maximum voluntary force (MVF), force enslaving (FE) and force sharing (FS) values were computed. To analyze the ability of children with DCD to visually control their finger forces, the following performance measures were calculated: rate of force change, initial overshoot, coefficient of variation (CV), root mean square error (RMSe), and inter-trial variability. The results from the MVF task showed that children with DCD as compared with TD children (a) produced similar levels of maximum finger force; (b) demonstrated less finger independency; (c) had similar finger-force sharing patterns. In addition, from the VFC task we found (d) larger performance errors in children with DCD; (e) and lower inter-trial consistency as compared to their TD peers. Our preliminary findings suggest that the impairments in manipulative skills often observed in children with DCD during everyday activities may be related to deficits in finger independency. Additionally we found that children with DCD do not have difficulties in reducing the number of joint/muscle-level degrees of freedom in order to achieve a common motor task.
Synthesis and Characterization of a Hollow Spherical Form of Monolayer Aluminosilicate

Hollow spherical particles of aluminosilicate having diameters of 80 to 100 Å and high electric charge were synthesized by heating solutions containing Si and Al concentrations of about 2 mM (Si/Al molar ratio = 1.0–1.2; pH = 9.0) at 95°–100°C for 7 days. Electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, and infrared spectroscopy suggested that the walls of the spherical particles consisted of monolayer aluminosilicate, most probably having a 1:1 layer structure. Chemical analysis supported this supposition but indicated modifications as shown in the formula (Si1.85Alo0.62)IV(Al1.38)VI(OH)4.10O4. 96Na0.62, compared with (Si2)lv(Al2)VI(OH)4O5 for an ideal 1:1 layer silicate. High-resolution 29Si and 27A1 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy indicated the substitution of Al for Si in the tetrahedral sheet, the presence of A1IV and A1VI, and the presence of Si bonded through oxygen to three Al atoms and one H. A natural counterpart of the synthesized aluminosilicate may be a precursor of halloysites formed by weathering of volcanic ash and pumice and have a close structural relation with allophane and imogolite
Research of dynamic effects in the process of operation of linear comparator

Topicality of the problem is the fact that in the process of increasing the quality of line scale gage calibration vibrations have substantial influence. In order to assess vibration influence we need to solve a lot of science and engineering tasks. To accomplish mathematical analysis we confronted with a lot of difficulties in creating of the analytical model and in finding of the values of coefficients. For this solution we need to make thorough analysis of the means for line scale measurements, because most of the coefficients we could only find by making experimental measurements and processing of their results.
Co-Inheritance Of Y-Chromosome Haplogroups And Lineages In ‘Parayi Petta Panthirukulam’: An Evaluation Of Human Motifs In A Popular Folktale In Kerala, India.

Parayi petta panthirukulamis a popular folktale in Kerala, India. People with the family names and caste affiliations accounted in the folktale, who are believed to be the descendants of Vararuchi, live in Shoranur, Pattambi and Thrithala of Palakkad district of Kerala state. Despite the huge difference in their caste and social ranks, these families are traditionally bound together by rituals and religious customs. Six male individuals each were identified from six lineages of Vararuchi and their blood samples were collected from the selected individuals on FTA cards (Whatman) after obtaining their informed consent. The blood stain on FTA cards was used for PCR reactions following manufactures protocol. Haplotypes were determined at 17 Y-chromosome loci using a AMPFlSTR Yfiler Kit (Applied Biosystems) following the instructions of the manufacturer. Haplogroup affinity of each individual was predicted based on the haplotype data using the online software WhitAtheys Haplogroup Predictor . Based on the results we concluded that true descendants of Vararuchis sons may have been either extinct through time due to different genetical or social reasons or severely declined in relation to the descendants of the own men of a family lineage.
xEV Simulator Virtual Prototyping of Electrified Vehicles Using Real Data

One way of reducing the emissions in the vehicle industry is to use electrified vehicles. An important method when developing new vehicles is to use simulations. In this thesis the possibility of developing a simulation tool that uses real log data as input, to anticipate the energy consumption of an identical vehicle body as the logged one but with a modeled electric powertrain, is investigated. Logged data of an electric and a conventional vehicle are analyzed to understand which signals are needed and how these signals are either measured or calculated. Further the signals are used to calculate the external forces that acts on the vehicle. The estimated external forces are used as inputs to the simulation tool to enable simulation. The results have shown that it is possible to calculate the external forces that acts on a logged vehicle during motion. When comparing the external forces for a specified route, driven with different versions of the same vehicle body but with different powertrains, it shows that the forces are approximately the same, which indicates that the method works. The simulation results show that the variations in the results are within 5% when verifying the log data from an electric vehicle with a simulated electric powertrain consisting of the same powertrain components. The developed simulation tool can be used to simulate an electrical powertrain, with input parameters based on a logged conventional vehicle.
Contact precipitation for defluoridation of water

IN SPITE OF the fact that millions of people in developing countries are suffering from fluorosis, mainly due to the high fluoride concentrations in their drinking water, no method of defluoridation of water has been reported to be carried out successfully as a routine in any of these countries so far. This is quite remarkable, especially when taking into consideration that several defluoridation methods have been studied in details and even reported as appropriate methods, for quite a number of years (Bulusu et al. 1979). This oddity is probably due to the fact that the available defluoridation methods do have disadvantages. Some of these are what may be designated as killer disadvantages, in the sense that the method turn out to be unsustainable under the given socioeconomical conditions. As killer disadvantages of defluoridation methods could be mentioned: