Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of US-China Trade War on the Volatility of China’s Soybean Futures —Based on GARCH Models

The US-China trade war has lasted for more than a year, while due to the hysteresis in macro data, the impact on the economies of the two countries, especially the passive part—China, has not fully manifested. This paper explores the impact of trade war on China’s economy from the perspective of the soybean futures market which is sensitive to tariff changes. In the course of research, it is found that the yield series of futures contracts have obvious conditional heteroscedasticity. In order to further explore the symmetry of the yield of the futures market, the GARCH and EGARCH model are applied to model the data for a comparative analysis. Meanwhile, considering the characteristics of the leptokurtosis and fat-tail of the yield data, the T distribution and GED distribution are added to the model to compare the fitting effect of residuals with the traditional normal distribution. Among the 6 GARCH and EGARCH models based on different residual distributions, the AIC criterion is used to select the best fitting model. Then, a dummy variable is added to the variance equation of the selected model to estimate the impact of trade war on the volatilities of China’s soybean futures market. Keywords—US-China trade war; Soybean futures; Market volatility; GARCH models
ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION, AND PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF Bacillus subtilis WITH BROAD-RANGE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY FROM MUONG KHUONG CHILLI SAUCE

Bacillus subtilis is usually found in foods such as dry cured sausages, cheeses, traditional fermented milks, etc., in which they cooperate with other microorganisms during fermentation, release amylases, lipases and proteases. B. subtilis not only play with probiotic role but also produce antimicrobial substance. Muong Khuong chilli sauce is a naturally fermented product derived from Muong Khuong special peppers without heat treatment and is able to be preserved in ambient conditions for 1.5-2 years. Amongst 512 types of colonies, 48 Bacillus sp. strains were isolated from 80 chilli samples. Their ability against pathogenic bacteria was determined using the agar-well diffusion method through measuring the inhibition zone diameter. The four pathogenic bacteria strains tested were Escherichia coli RG1.1, Salmonella typhi GT4.3, Listeria monocytogenes MI2.6, and Staphylococcus aureus TS1.9. The results of 16S rRNA genotype sequencing for the two strains, TO43.13 and TO53.2, that had broad-range antimicrobial activity indicated that the TO43.13 sequence was homologous up to 95% with B. subtilis BcX1 (JX504009.1) and B. subtilis EPP2 2 (JQ308548.1). The TO53.2 strain sequence was homologous up to 94% with the two strains B. subtilis PeLg-1 (FR687210.1) and B. subtilis YT2 (HQ143571.1). The optimal conditions for the growth and development of these two strains were with a 0.6% concentrations of NaCl, a pH of 7, and a temperature of 35°C.
Efficacy of homeopathic medicines in the treatment of uterine fibroids

Uterine fibroid is the highly prevalent disease of females affecting almost half of the world female population. Homeopathic remedies are being used for treatment of female disorders including uterine fibroids from centuries. The article aims in describing the efficacy of homeopathic remedies in managing uterine fibroids. The use of homeopathic remedies is rising in the modern area and is proved effective in clinical practice. However, scientific research studies are needed to be done to validate the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies in the treatment of uterine fibroids.
An Invitation to the Rogers – Ramanujan Identities Reviewed by Krishnaswami Alladi

He sent (4) along with dozens of startling results of great variety in his first of two letters in 1913 to G. H. Hardy (1877–1947) of Cambridge University (see [4, p. 8]). It was a result such as this that made Hardy realize that Ramanujan was a genius in the class of Euler or Jacobi for sheer manipulative ability. Ramanujan’s continued fraction plays a central role in the theory of modular forms and has links with the fundamental elliptic modular function j(τ). We provide a brief description of this now. The modular group Γ(1) is the set of 2×2matrices with integer entries having determinant 1, where a matrix A is identified with its negative −A. This is because Γ(1) is
Integrating corpus-linguistic and conversation-analytic transcription in XML.rev2

In this short paper I wish to sketch out the research opportunities that come with the recent addition to BNCweb of very large numbers of audio files for the spoken component in the BNC. I argue that the availability of the audio files enables researchers not only to correct the orthographic transcripts, but also to re-transcribe the conversations using conversation-analytic transcription. Finally, I demonstrate that the CA transcripts can be integrated into the BNC’s XML annotation network and illustrate how XML query tools such as XPath and XQuery can be used to efficiently exploit the XML network.
Olivine Alteration of Shergottite Northwest Africa 10416

Introduction: Studying secondary alteration phases in martian meteorites, allow us to form hypotheses regarding martian water-rock reaction processes [1]. The initial step in these studies and the aim of this work is to identify whether the secondary alteration phases are terrestrial or martian. Northwest Africa (NWA) 10416 is an olivine-phyric martian Shergottite with olivine grains that show orange-brown altered cores and clear unaltered rims (Fig. 1). Based on the olivine alteration, previous studies have suggested a formation model for this meteorite which incorporates magma mixing and assimilation [2,3,4]. We have performed microanalysis of these olivine grains by various techniques in order to help test whether the olivine core alteration is terrestrial or not; the results of which we present here.
Forces opposing sustainability transformations: institutionalization of ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management

Moving toward new ways of governing ecosystems in varied contexts worldwide is likely to be a critical part of achieving the global Sustainable Development Goals, yet understanding of the tensions between forces driving and opposing such sustainability transformations is very limited. Here, I shed light on this critical research and policy domain by applying participatory actor and influence mapping (Net-Map) and innovation histories methods to understand the power relations and social processes involved in enabling and blocking the institutionalization of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management (EAFM) in the Philippines. Drawing upon a case study of an intermunicipal alliance in Lanuza Bay, the results highlight how challenges such as vested and divergent interests, corruption, weak coordination between levels of government, and the particular contingencies of place conspire to weaken and undermine initial EAFM successes. I conclude that agents of resistance, the role of power and agency, and socio-political realities need to be central to resilience conceptualizations of sustainability transformations.
Project 4 : Controlling the Chaotic Logistic Map Chaos

"What is chaos good for? " I am frequently asked this excellent question. Chaos is certainly descriptive of the world around us, but there is more. Chaos models the world around us and it can be mastered! This paper presents the topic of controlling chaos in a way which is accessible to undergraduate students. In addition, there is perhaps no better way to drive home the fact that chaos describes a deterministic process than by controlling it. The apparent oxymoron between the words "chaos" and "control" arises from confusion between English versus mathematical definitions of the word "chaos. " Chaos has earned a negative connotation, following the English word definition, "great disorder or confusion," [1]. Quite to the contrary, the mathematical notion of chaos explains that data which seems to be randomly generated may have actually been generated by a deterministic and ordered process. According to the well accepted definition of Devaney, a one-dimensional map of the form
Evaluating school closure policies at the municipality level for mitigating influenza spread

1 Detailed methods 2 1.1 Socio-demographic model . 2 1.2 Time-use data . 2 1.3 Dynamic allocation of individuals . 3 1.4 Estimating contact patterns within schools . 4 1.5 Transmission model . 4 1.6 Model calibration . 6
Görüntü İşleme İle 3 Eksenli Robot Mekanizması Üzerinde

In this study, the creation of the text entered via the interface with letters/numbers on a black background have been studied with a camera mounted on three-axis carrier system. After analyzing the letters of the word and is compared with data in the database and the position of the letter/number is determined. The location determination is done with MATLAB image processing methods. Letters/numbers whose position is determined is held with vacuum holder and words is formed again. Carrying operation to determined position of letters/numbers.
LONG-TERM MONITORING OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PATTERN IN PAIN PATIENTS

The goal of this paper is to present a new device that allows for the long-term monitoring of ambulatory physical activity including the tools for the analysis and the assessment of various mobility-related parameters. Based on small autonomous sensing unit recorders the system allows unconstrained and continuous recording of the movements during daily activity. Periods of lying, sitting, standing and walking are first estimated. Subsequently, the long-range fluctuations of these activities are analyzed using nonlinear methods to identify specific patterns in time-series of activities. Using this methodology in chronic pain patients treated with spinal cord stimulation we found that pain relief is associated with a change in the temporal organization of the spontaneous physical activity.
Revealing and Dismantling Ideological Media Texts

The purpose of this study is to reveal and dismantle ideology on media texts based on the form of exclusion and inclusion. The research is a qualitative study that assessed using critical discourse analysis based on Theo Van Leeuwen perspective. The data in this study is the verbal (e.g.words, phrases, clauses, and sentences) and nonverbal (e.g.context unbiased opinions about current events discussion, reviews about the issues that are loaded, and the subjective mind editor). Sources of data obtained from headlines in Kompas and Fajar Newspaper published in March and April 2015. The data collection technique used is the technique of documentation, reading technique, and taking notes technique. The results showed that the disclosure and dismantling ideological media texts using the two strategies, namely: 1) the exclusion in the form of passive and noun and 2) the inclusion in the form of differentiation, abstraction, categorization, and associations. Keywords—Revealing; dismantling; ideological media text
Abstract für des PVS-Sonderheft 2009 „Identität, Institutionen

Quantitative research on the factors leading to the onset of internal conflict has, inter alia, highlighted the role of hybrid regimes. These political systems are said to lack the repressive apparatus of autocratic regimes as well as institutions for a peaceful resolution of disputes common to democracies, resulting in a significantly higher risk of civil war. At the same time, this strand of research has identified a close linear correlation between state fragility and conflict risk – the weaker state institutions are, the more likely the conflict. However, the relationship between these three factors (state fragility, regime type, and conflict risk) seems to be less straightforward than these findings suggest. This paper presents preliminary results from a series of exploratory studies of 15 cases of state collapse, the most extreme form of state fragility. What virtually all of these cases have in common is that, in the years leading up to the breakdown, they were governed by strongly autocratic governments. Regime type played a crucial role in this process, either through a personalization of politics, or by provoking the radicalisation and militarization of political actors. However, if such a link holds up to further inquiry, we would be faced with a puzzle: If state fragility raises conflict risk, why do hybrid regimes increase the likelihood of conflict while autocracies increase the likelihood of state collapse? In the final part, the paper sketches out a research agenda that would be able to resolve this contradiction. * University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Development and Peace (Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden – INEF), Geibelstr. 41, D-47057 Duisburg, Phone 0203/379-4316, email: daniel.lambach@inef.uni-due.de
Curing process modification of a ‘self-cured’ injection molding material: Effect on water sorption and solubility

Objectives: to determine water sorption and solubility of ‘self-cured’ IvoBase Hybrid material in 2 curing techniques and immersion times in water, and to compare them to ‘heat-cured’ SR Ivocap High Impact material. Materials and Methods: disc shaped (50 mm diameter and 0.5 mm thickness) of SR Ivocap High Impact was cured in water at 100°C for 35 minutes, then at 25°C for 30 minutes (Ivocap wet curing). IvoBase system was either processed via the IvoBase injection machine programme at 120°C (IvoBase dry curing) or cured by the same method as SR Ivocap (IvoBase wet curing). The specimens were kept in the desiccator containing freshly dried silica gel, weighed daily until their mass (m1) was constant to 0.2 mg and, the volume (V) were recorded. The conditioned specimens were immersed in distilled water for 7 days and 30 days. The specimen weight (m2) were recorded after removal from the water. The specimens were reconditioned to constant mass (m3) in the desiccator. Then water sorption (wsp) and water solubility (wsl) at 7 days and 30 days were calculated. Two-way ANOVA was used to analyze the data. Results: water sorption of Ivocap wet curing, IvoBase dry curing and IvoBase wet curing were 20.8±0.5, 22.4±0.9 and 23.2±0.3 μg/mm respectively for 7 days immersion and 21.8±0.9, 22.6±1.1 and 23.9±0.1 μg/mm respectively for 30 days immersion. The water solubility were 0.83±0.01, 0.33±0.04 and 0.69±0.03 μg/mm respectively for 7 days immersion and 0.89±0.05, 0.62±0.08 and 0.65±0.02 μg/mm respectively for 30 days immersion. Water sorption of IvoBase material was significantly higher than that of Ivocap at 7 days and 30 days (p<0.05). On the contrary, water solubility of Ivocap material was significantly higher than that of IvoBase (p<0.05). While the 2 methods of curing IvoBase did not affect the material water sorption but water solubility at 7 days water storage of IvoBase cured at 100C was significantly higher than the material cured via the automated instrument. All the specimens passed the ISO 20795-1 requirement for water sorption not exceeding 32 μg/mm and water solubility not exceeding 1.6 μg/mm. Conclusion: Water sorption of IvoBase material was significantly higher than that of Ivocap but water solubility of Ivocap material was significantly higher than that of IvoBase. The methods of curing IvoBase did not affect the material water sorption but these had an influence on water solubility significantly.
The Industrial Applicability of PEA Space Charge Measurements, for Performance Optimization of HVDC Power Cables

Cable manufacturing industries are constantly trying to improve the electrical performance of power cables. During the years, it was found that one of the most relevant degradation factors influencing the cable lifetime is the presence of space charge in the insulation layer. To detect the accumulated charge, the pulsed electro-acoustic (PEA) method is the most used technique. Despite the wide use of the PEA cell, several issues are still present. In particular, the PEA output signal is strongly disturbed by the acoustic waves reflections within the PEA cell. This causes the distortion of the output signal and therefore the misinterpretation of the charge profiles. This, in turn, may result in an incorrect cable characterization from the space charge phenomenon point of view. In 2017, due to the proved degradation effect of the space charge accumulation phenomenon, the IEEE Std 1732 was developed. This standard describes the steps to be followed for the space charge measurement in cables specimens during pre-qualification or type tests. Therefore, cable manufacturing industries started to take a particular interest in these measures. In the light of this, the aim of the present work is to highlight that the enacted standard is not easily applicable since various problems are still present in the PEA method for cables. In particular, in this work, the effect of multiple reflected signals due to the different interfaces involved, but also the effect of the signal attenuation due to cable dielectric thickness, as well as the effect of the PEA cell ground electrode thickness in the output charge profile, are reported. These issues have been demonstrated by means of an experimental test carried out on a full-size cable in the Prysmian Group High Voltage laboratory. To better understand the PEA cell output signal formation, a PEA cell model was developed in a previous work and it has been experimentally validated here. In particular, simulations have been useful to highlight the effect of the reflection phenomena due to the PEA cell ground electrode thickness on the basis of the specimen under test features. Moreover, by analyzing the simulation results, it was possible to separate the main signal from the reflected waves and, in turn, to calculate the suitable ground electrode thickness for the cable specimen under test.
Occlusion detection and surface completion in 3D reconstruction of man-made environments

This paper presents the methods for the quality improvement of the man-made environments reconstruction. The 3D model is created from the set of images without any user interaction. Some generic assumptions about the scene geometry are used; for example continuity of surfaces, piecewise planar scene or frequent parallelism and orthogonality between planes and lines. This information is employed to reduce the ambiguity of the 3D reconstruction and for the occlusion recovery. Method for the completion of the occluded surfaces is presented. First, the position of missing parts of the scene is detected and then the gaps are filled by the most suitable shape.
Novel Forced Stack based Power-on-Reset circuit for low energy application

This novel article describes both the function of Power-on Reset (POR) and the strategies for low energy application, when used with dual-supply SoC’s. The article demonstrates why to avoid discrete PORs and PORs internal to processors. It concludes with explanations of voltage sequencing, voltage tracking, and reset sequencing. Design of a low-energy power-ON reset (POR) circuit is proposed to reduce the energy consumed by the stable supply of the dual supply static random access memory (SRAM) using FET devices, as the other supply is ramping up. The proposed design is based on stacking of pull-up and pull-down transistor in push-pull output stage also called sleepy approach to reduce the energy consumption of POR circuit. Proposed design offers 0. 1735μs delay which is 8.2% lower than POR-LE while offers 1.2% higher power dissipation than POR-LE. But the multiplication of power and delay (is also called energy) is 7% smaller than POR-LE. KeywordsPOR, activation time, wake-up time, sequencing.
Genetik und Neurochemische Biomarker bei Amyotropher Lateralsklerose und Frontotemporaler Lobärdegeneration

Zusammenfassung Die Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose (ALS) und die Gruppe der Frontotemporalen Lobärdegenerationen (FTLD) sind progredient neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, die bei der ALS zu einer schweren kontinuierlich fortscheitenden Lähmung der Muskulatur und schließlich respiratorischer Insuffizienz und bei der FTLD zu einer zunehmenden Störung des Verhaltens, der Sprache und in manchen Fällen der Motorik führt. In den letzten Jahren rückte die klinische Überlappung der beiden Krankheitsbilder wieder in den Vordergrund, nachdem man aggregiertes TDP-43 im Zytoplasma von Nervenzellen als gemeinsame histopathologische Veränderung gefunden hat. Es wurde die Hypothese formuliert, dass es sich bei beiden Krankheitsbildern um die Pole eines sowohl klinischen als auch pathophysiologischen Kontinuums handelt. Zunächst konnten als möglicher molekularer Mechanismus Mutationen im TDP-43-Gen nachgewiesen werden. Weiterhin wurde eine pathologische Repeat-Expansion auf Chromosom 9 – C9orf72 – beschrieben, die in Europa mit etwa 25 bis 30% aller genetisch bedingten ALS-Erkrankungen und etwa 11% aller genetisch bedingten FTLD-Erkrankungen assoziiert ist. Interessant ist, dass auch bis zu 20% der zunächst sporadisch Erkrankten eine C9orf72 Expansion aufweisen. Bei asymptomatischen Genträgern und bei sporadischen Formen der Erkrankung bereitet vor allem im Frühstadium der Erkrankungen das rechtzeitige Erkennen und richtige Einordnen der Symptome von ALS und FTLD Schwierigkeiten. Zur besseren differenzialdiagnostischen und prognostischen Einschätzung sind daher zuverlässige Biomarker nötig.
Title : Rapid PCR Tests for MRSA in Hospitalized Patients : Diagnostic Accuracy

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AnyLog: a Grand Unification of the Internet of Things

AnyLog is a decentralized platform for data publishing, sharing, and querying IoT (Internet of Things) data that enables an unlimited number of independent participants to publish and access the contents of IoT datasets stored across the participants. AnyLog provides decentralized publishing and querying functionality over structured data in an analogous fashion to how the world wide web (WWW) enables decentralized publishing and accessing of unstructured data. However, AnyLog differs from the traditional WWW in the way that it provides incentives and ﬁnancial reward for performing tasks that are critical to the well-being of the system as a whole, including contribution, integration, storing, and processing of data, as well as protecting the conﬁdentiality, integrity, and availability of that data. Another difference is how Anylog enforces good behavior by the participants through a collection of methods, including blockchain, secure enclaves, and state channels.