Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Psychophysiological and Emotional Dynamic Responses to Music : An Exploration of a Two-Dimensional Model

Psychophysiological studies of emotion have typically used static stimuli to elicit emotion (e.g. the International Affective Picture System). This work has shown positive correlations between skin conductance and activation ratings and negative correlations of corrugator electromyograph and pleasantness ratings (Lang, 1995). However, since emotional experience and associated physiological events are dynamic, it remains uncertain whether these same relationships are found over time. The current study examined this issue using music stimuli. Seventeen participants used a LabVIEW -based instrument to rate their emotional experience continuously on a twodimensional space while listening to ten different instrumental excerpts; skin conductance and corrugator EMG were simultaneously measured. Second-by-second mean skin conductance and root mean square EMG were calculated and then averaged across participants. Cross correlation plots indicated a negative correlation of corrugator EMG and pleasantness for Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade;” emotion lagged behind physiology by about eight seconds. Positive correlations between skin conductance and activation were shown for Coltrane’s “Alabama” and Tarrega’s “Gran jota” with no temporal lag between physiology and emotion. Two other excerpts actually produced a negative correlation of skin conductance and activation. Furthermore, time itself had a strong negative correlation with skin conductance (decline over time in all ten excerpts). Separate analyses for individual participants revealed more relationships consistent with the original hypothesis but also many instances of individualized responses to particular excerpts. Thus, averaging across participants obscures many relationships otherwise seen in individual analyses. It appears that skin conductance changes over time are not related so much to emotional activation as to habituation to the novelty of the stimuli.
Contingent Workers in Long-Term Care

Contingent Workers in Long-Term Care Andrew Jopson Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Norma B. Coe, PhD Health Services Background: The rise of contingent work arrangements in the U.S. has generated unease about the American workforce. A recent study estimated that healthcare now accounts for more than one in five contingent workers. Unfortunately, little is known about the extent contingent work arrangements may be occurring in fast-growing, low-wage supportive health occupations in long-term care such as, home health aides and home care aides. As the U.S. population ages and the healthcare sector becomes the largest employment, it is important to understand how these employment arrangements may jeopardize or support the health workforce Objective: This descriptive study focuses on identifying occupations in long-term care with the highest proportion of contingent workers. We compare home health aides and home care aides in contingent and traditional work arrangements to determine predictors of being in a contingent work arrangement. Methods: We used data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) March 2016 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC). Two occupational categories (nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides and personal and home care aides) were restricted by work setting (home health care services) to identify home health aides and home care aides. We identified workers in
Téléopération en présence de retard: le concept de téléopération hybride duale

Le travail que nous presentons constitue une contribution dans le domaine du controle des forces en teleoperation en presence de retards. Dans une premiere partie, nous passons en revue les systemes existants et nous montrons comment ils sont adaptes au controle des forces. Nous mettons notamment en evidence le fait que les systemes avec retour d'efforts sont inutilisables des que des retards de transmission sont presents. Les systemes a controle local des forces ne presentent pas cet inconvenient mais n'ont pas une tres bonne ergonomie: ils sont soit mal adaptes au controle des forces soit mal adaptes au controle des deplacements. Le concept de «teleoperation hybride duale» que nous proposons resoud ces problemes d'ergonomie: l'operateur peut piloter a la fois des forces et des deplacements tout en ayant de bonnes sensations kinesthesiques. Ce concept repose sur l'utilisation de la commande hybride position-force a la fois pour le robot maitre et pour le robot esclave. Dans la deuxieme partie, nous etudions trois proprietes fondamentales de la commande hybride duale: grâce a ce concept, on peut restituer simplement a l'operateur la sensation d'un environnement virtuel ; on peut utiliser les proprietes de la commande hybride pour realiser des tâches complexes en ne laissant a l'operateur que la gestion des degres de liberte pertinents ; dans certains cas, il est possible de restituer des informations sous forme kinesthesique a l'operateur sans engendrer d'instabilites. Ce travail est valide sur un site experimental compose de deux robots a six degres de liberte que nous decrivons dans une troisieme partie
Are disclosed auditor materiality thresholds informative of firms’ earnings quality? – Evidence from the revised ISA 700 audit report

Under the Financial Reporting Council’s presumption that mandating new disclosure requirement in the audit report would provide information useful to investors, we examine whether the auditor disclosed materiality threshold is associated with the firm’s earnings quality. We document that a lower threshold of materiality level is associated with a higher earnings quality, as measured by lower discretionary accruals, higher accruals quality, and less earnings smoothing. We also find some evidence that the negative association between auditor disclosed materiality threshold and earnings quality is more pronounced when the auditor is more independent, when management’s incentive to manage earnings is higher, and when there is lower information uncertainty. Overall, our results are useful to investors who rely on the new audit report disclosures to gain insights into the audit process and more importantly to infer the quality of the firm’s reported earnings. Our results could also be relevant to regulators, such as the PCAOB and IAASB, who are contemplating whether to impose similar materiality threshold disclosure requirements in audit reports.
Moderating effect of information processing capacity to investment decision making and environmental scanning / Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad ,Muhamad Jantan and Fauziah Md Taib

This study will examine the role of information processing capacity in enhancing investment decision quality and environmental scanning relationship. Cross sectional data was collected through a survey and analyzed by means of factor analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. Information processing capacity is only contingent upon technology information in order to affect the quality of investment decision. Method of scanning on the other hand will lead to quality decision only with the inclusion of information processing capacity. Use of convenience sampling may restrict the generalizability of findings. Information processing capacity is needed when scanning technology information to bring about decision quality, thus for technology related matters, firms should be investing in the information processing capacity to produce quality decision. Information processing capacity theory is genuinely new in the literature of investment decision making. This study uses decision as its unit of analysis. Keywords – environmental scanning, decision quality, information processing capacity Paper Type – Research Paper
DNA Repair: Insights from Urinary Lesion Analysis

Due to various confounding factors, namely dietary contribution and cell death, measurement of urinary 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG) has long been considered to be no more than a marker of generalised oxidative stress. Indeed, the action of no single enzyme has been reported to excise 8-oxodG from DNA. However, analysis of recent research has suggested that these confounders may be circumvented, which, combined from work from the authors' laboratory, indicates that urinary 8-oxodG has the potential to become a most important marker of oxidative damage to, and repair of, DNA.
Open loop approach to design low voltage, 400 mV, 1.3 mW, 10 GHz CMOS class-B VCO

The paper presents a method for design of LC cross-coupled oscillators based on an open loop technique and its practical application leading to a high frequency CMOS oscillator prototype. Thanks to the proposed approach, the main circuit parameters such as loaded quality factor (responsible for phase noise performance of LC oscillator) and steady-state oscillation amplitude, can be extracted without the necessity of time consuming transient simulations. The presented method is not technology specific and allows fast calculations under changing bias conditions. The proposed 130 nm CMOS prototype operates at 10 GHz from a 400mV power supply achieving an average SSB phase noise of -110 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from the carrier and a fractional bandwidth of more than 7.5%. Low average power consumption of 1.3 mW RMS, has been obtained by biasing the oscillator devices to operate in class-B i.e. VGS = VDD = Vth.
Flexibility of Adempiere Free Open Source ERP

Todays business environment has become extremely competitive, the ever changing economic tide, other various factors such as globalization, customers' high expectations may lead to uncertainty and unpredictability for business organizations. Business are forced to be more competitive, flexible, and scalable to drive growth and opportunity through the tight competition among other businesses. Tools enabling organizations to become more competitive is enterprise resource planning (ERP). The benefit resulted from ERP implementation will narrow the choice for companies, from whether they need an ERP into how much will they spent on that particular solution, especially for Small and Medium Enterprise. ERP systems are basically divided into two types, The Propetiary ERP and the Open Source ERP. The focus of this research is to investigate the flexibility in ADempiere, the Open Source ERP whith hypothesis of whether ADempiere has the flexibility to accommodate the SME needs sample and whether ADempiere can be modified with out having a programing skill.
Filter Design Considerations for an Integrated Doherty Power Amplifier – Antenna for Telecommunication Applications

A systems solution is proposed for incorporating filtering in integrated Doherty Power Amplifier - Antenna Element subsystems. It is shown that such topologies do not allow for filters in front of the antenna element, as the impedance matrix terminating the amplifiers has to conform to very stringent requirements. In the proposed system, the filtering function is split into pre- and post-filtering functions, with the latter only used for harmonic suppression, thus leaving the terminating impedance matrix unchanged at the design frequency. A case study is presented at 2.14GHz.
Angiotensinogen M235T polymorphism and left ventricular indices in treated hypertensive patients with normal coronary arteries.

OBJECTIVE Hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) are important causes of morbidity and mortality in the population. Angiotensinogen (AGT) M235T polymorphism has been associated with LVH, left ventricular dimensions, coronary artery disease and antihypertensive drug response in previous studies. We examined relationship between AGT M235T polymorphism and echocardiographic left ventricular indices in a Turkish population of treated hypertensive patients with normal coronary arteries. METHODS In this cross-sectional study a Turkish population of 92 hypertensive patients treated in our outpatient clinic were enrolled. All patients had normal coronary angiographic examinations. Genotypes for AGT M235T were determined from peripheral leukocytes. Left ventricular dimensions, mass and function indices, after adjustment for clinical covariates were analyzed by multiple regression analysis according to genotypes. RESULTS Genotype frequencies for AGT M235T were MM-24.7%, MT-52.8% and TT-22.5%. Left ventricular end-systolic (LVES) dimensions for AGT M235T MM, MT, TT genotypes were 17.9+/-4.2 mm, 19.4+/-6.2 mm, and 16.4+/-2.9 mm, respectively (p=0.08). Angiotensinogen M235T TT genotype showed a trend towards a lower LVES dimension but results were not statistically significant. Left ventricular ejection fractions for AGT M235T MM, MT, TT subgroups were 61.3+/-15.0%, 59.4+/-14.0%, and 67.8+/-8.5%, respectively (p=0.07). Angiotensinogen M235T TT genotype showed a tendency towards lower left ventricular mass index but results were not statistically significant. None of the AGT M235T genotypes predicted left ventricular dilatation, mass or function in treated hypertensive patients with normal coronary arteries. CONCLUSION Angiotensinogen M235T polymorphism was not useful to predict left ventricular mass, function, hypertrophy or dilatation in a small population of treated Turkish hypertensive patients with normal coronary arteries.
EFFECTS OF TECHNICAL AND TACTICAL CHARACTERISTICS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS

The aim of the research was to determine the effects of applied technical and tactical characteristics of table tennis players on their success in competitions. The representative sample consisted of 48 top senior table tennis players from Bosnia and Herzegovina, age 18 and 36, selected on the basis of a qualification tournament. The measuring instruments for this study included eight assessment tests for the table tennis players' technical and tactical characteristics and one test for assessing success in table tennis competitions. Technical and tactical characteristics of the participants were evaluated by five experts who analyzed the efficacy of technical and tactical characteristics of the players on a scale ranging from 1 to 5. The methods of processing the results included descriptive statistical procedures, the multiple correlation coefficient, the determinant coefficient and a multiple regression analysis. The results indicate that technical and tactical characteristics have a major impact on the player's performance and are essential for table tennis success. Based on the value of the regression coefficients and their significance, it may be concluded that the 5 variables statistically significantly contribute to the regression model are: the efficiency of the serve; the efficiency of preventing the attack of the opponent and preparation of the players’ own attack; confidence when attacking across the table; the efficiency in the active defence and the efficiency of movement during the game. In the hierarchy of significance, the most important variables are the serve efficiency and efficiency of preventing the attack of an opponent and preparation of the player's own attack. The efficiency of the serve allows an attacker to realize technical and tactical ideas and usually gain initiative in the game. By returning a serve we can prevent or at least make it harder for the opponent to attack again. A serve return can also allow us to take the initiative
Growth hormone influences collagen deposition and mechanical strength of intact rat skin. A dose-response study.

The influence of biosynthetic human growth hormone on biomechanical properties (strain at maximum load, maximum load, relative failure energy, maximum stiffness) and collagen content of intact rat skin was measured after injection of biosynthetic human growth hormone for 90 days at doses of 0.16, 1.10 and 8.33 mg.kg-1.day-1. The mechanical test showed that strain at maximum load, maximum load and relative failure energy increased with increasing doses of biosynthetic hGH. In the group receiving 8.33 mg.kg-1.day-1, skin collagen content per surface area and skin collagen concentration in per cent of dry weight were increased, whereas the fat concentration in per cent of dry weight was decreased. Also when correcting the mechanical data for cross-sectional area, a positive correlation between dose and relative failure energy was found. When dividing the mechanical data by collagen content per surface area of the skin, the maximum stress and relative failure energy reached the highest value at a dose of 1.10 mg.kg-1.day-1. The study shows that biosynthetic hGH can induce an increase in collagen content and mechanical strength of intact rat skin which is dependent on the dose of biosynthetic hGH, and that the increase in mechanical strength cannot be explained only by an increased collagen content.
An integrated production-inventory model for food products adopting a general raw material procurement policy

Studies on an integrated production-inventory model for deteriorating items have been done extensively. Most of the studies define deterioration as physical depletion of some inventories over time. This definition may not represent the deterioration characteristics of food products. The quality of food production decreases over time while the quantity remains the same. Further, in the existing models, the raw material is replenished several times (or at least once) within one production cycle. In food industries, however, a food company, for several reasons (e.g., the seasonal raw materials, discounted price, etc.) sometimes will get more benefit if it orders raw materials in a large quantity. Considering this fact, this research, therefore, is aimed at developing a more representative inventory model by (i) considering the quality losses in food and (ii) adopting a general raw material procurement policy. A mathematical model is established to represent the proposed policy in which the total profit of the system is the objective function. To evaluate the performance of the model, a numerical test was conducted. The numerical test indicates that the developed model has better performance, i.e., the total profit is 2.3% higher compared to the existing model.
A combined multivariate technique and multi criteria decision making to maintenance strategy selection

Maintenance plays a key role in reliability, availability, products quality, risk reduction, increasing efficiency, equipment safety. Miscellaneous strategies have been put forward for maintenance amongst which the most important ones are corrective, preventive, opportunistic, condition-based and predictive maintenance that considering each one's relevant industry each of them has advantages and disadvantages. In this article a methodology is proposed to select optimum maintenance strategy. In this methodology, we try to recognize effective variables (such as environmental problems, budget constraint, manpower utilization) by reviewing expert's notions and relevant specialized literature. Thereafter, by utilizing factor analysis, we will process the data so as to designate fundamental variables and summarize them in some factors. Then, we will apply the results obtained from factors analysis for designation of criteria in a hierarchy structure. Then by utilizing analytical hierarchy process, we will choose the best strategy; above mentioned stages have been used in a case study.
Discovering & Deploying Marketing Knowledge through Web Usage Mining

In the present competitive environment, organisations need to retain existing high-value customers to remain competitive. One technique that can be used to achieve greater loyalty from customers is to personalise services provided. Such customisation of services not only helps customers, by satisfying their needs, but also results in customer loyalty. Electronic commerce sites provide organisations with a lot of information about their customers - information that can be used to personalise services to customers. Web usage mining is a new discipline that addresses these needs, whose key principles are presented in this paper. They include different types of online data, novel kinds of domain knowledge, as well as the discovery of marketing intelligence itself. All concepts have been incorporated within a commercial product called EasyMiner and real-world experiments have been carried out.
A Novel Type of Wound-excited Flux-switching Vehicle Generator

This paper introduces a novel wound-excited flux-switching (WEFS) vehicle generator as a substitute of the traditional claw-pole synchronous generator. By contrast, WEFS shows the advantages of high efficiency, low maintenance cost and strong robustness. The topologies, operation principles and flux modulation principles of WEFS are illustrated firstly. Then a low-voltage and high-current WEFS vehicle generator with small shaft-diameter ratio is designed. The structural parameters of it are optimized by the finite element analysis (FEA) method, which makes its power density high and cogging torque small. In addition, the operation of WEFS is simulated under different conditions, which obtains its static characteristics, output characteristics, voltage ripples and technical specifications. The results verify the rationality and superiority of WEFS as a novel vehicle generator.
Effects of Beta‐Endorphin on Pulsatile Luteinizing Hormone and Prolactin Secretion During the Follicular Phase in the Ewe

The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of the endogenous opioid ligandβ‐endorphin on pulsatile luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion and plasma prolactin concentrations during the follicular phase of the ewe. Oestrous cycles were synchronized by injection of prostaglandin analogue and, commencing 13 h later, saline or β‐endorphin (2, 10 or 50 μg) was injected intracerebroventricularly at hourly intervals for 3 h. Treatment with β‐endorphin was followed by a significant reduction in LH pulse frequency at all doses due to almost complete cessation of pulses. There were no significant changes in LH pulse amplitude or mean LH concentrations. At the lowest dose ofβ‐endorphin, LH pulses recommenced within 3 h of the last injection in all animals and pulse frequency was not significantly different from the saline‐injected controls during the 3 h post‐treatment period. Following treatment with 10 or 50 μg β‐endorphin, LH pulse frequency remained suppressed during the 3 h post‐treatment period but was not different from saline‐treated controls on the following day. The time to the onset of the LH surge was not affected by intracerebroventricularβ‐endorphin. Plasma prolactin concentrations were significantly increased following intracereb‐roventricular injection of 10 or 50 μg β‐endorphin, declining to control values soon after treatments stopped. Intravenous administration of 50 μg β‐endorphin had no effect on LH but was accompanied by a small increase in prolactin concentrations.
Secured event-based smart meter

This article discusses information protection in the context of Event-based Energy Management Systems in consumer-centered Smart Grid with renewable energy. Authors consider hybrid real time smart metering scenario that provides both the measurement data to the Advanced Metering Infrastructure plus the real-time stream of compressive sensing events directed to the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition system. The threat is represented by an attacker that injects packets aimed to mislead the Energy Management System. Authors introduce new Security Agent that establishes interoperability between the above-mentioned subsystems aimed to mitigate said treat. The proposed method bridges the Legacy approach and the Service Orientation.