Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The causal linkages among money growth, inflaion and interest rates in Ghana

This study instigates the causal linkages among money growth, inflation and interest rate in Ghana. The essence of ensuring price stability, a considerable increase in money growth that enhances economic growth and development and favorable rate of interest that encourage domestic business and foreign direct investment cannot be over emphasized. The data was extracted from two main sources. The main variable under study were money supply, interest rate and inflation rate. Other variables that affect inflation rate such as exchange rate, real gross domestic product were controlled for. Data on money supply, interest rate and exchange rate Twere extracted from world development indicator (WDI) whereas data on inflation and the GDP growth were extracted from annual report of the Central Bank. The data comprises of of missed order of cointegration. That is I (0) and I(1). So bounds test of cointegration proposed by Pesaran, Shin and Smith (2001) was used. It was found out that money growth has both short run and long run relationship with inflation and all the other variables are insignificant in influencing inflation. The Granger causality test was conducted to help find the causality among the variables of interest. The null hypothesis that inflation rate does not does not Granger cause money growth was rejected at 5% which implies that there is a uni-directional causality between inflation and money growth. It was recommended that, in an attempt of reducing inflation both in the long run and short run, increase in money supply should be reasonable.
A Physically-Based Model for Cell Plasticity and Motility

Using a physically-based approach, we set up a dynamical model for cell deformation duringmovement. Our description is based on the behavior observed in motile mammalian cells during which thefront and rear of the cell periodically exchange signals. Our simulations show that very simple dynamics,based on coupled autonomous Van der Pol oscillators, help to understand the interaction between themechanical properties of the cell structures (membrane, actin cables, focal adhesion) and the activation/de-activation of Rho and Rac-dependent protein cascades. In addition, the physically-based approach provesits relevance in the context of complex systems, where physical and chemical processes together build upthe cell response to external perturbation
CO1-1 Morphological Control in PS-b-PI-b-PDMS Triblock Copolymer by Mixed-Solvent

Introduction Various kinds of periodic morphologies in blockcopolymers have been extensively studied over decades. In addition, several researches have put emphasis toward complex systems, such as multiblock copolymers and non-linear block copolymers, and broaden the extent that various microdomain morphologies and difFurthermore, the hexagonally-packed cylinders and the lamellae are persisted in the bulk state cast from the corresponding solutions, indicating the morphologies formed in the solution can be preserved down to cast bulk state. According to the results, mix-solvent can be used as a key technique for controlling and creating a variety of ordered microdomain structures in SID triblock copolymers.
A Survey on Object Recognition Techniques

Object recognition is the necessity for the real advancement of the technology. Any machine can recognize the object based by using the object recognition techniques. This paper studies various object recognition techniques. The attributes based techniques seem to be promising for the higher accurate recognition. The attributes based classification is of two type; direct attribute based prediction and indirect attribute based prediction. The paper also gives the zero shot learning as training samples are not available for the various real world objects.
Stasis in the smaller owls from Rancho La Brea during the last glacial-interglacial climate change

Conventional evolutionary biology highlights examples like the Galápagos finches, which show rapid responses to climatic change. Previous studies of many common birds of La Brea, including Teratornis merriami, La Brea Condors ( Gymnogyps amplus ), Golden Eagles ( Aquila chrysaetos ), Bald Eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ), Californian Turkeys ( Meleagris californica ), Caracaras ( Caracara plancus prelutosus ), and Black Vultures ( Coragyps occidentalis ), as well as the two larger owls, the Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ) and the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ), showed complete stasis in size and shape through the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Are the smaller birds, especially the small owls, as unresponsive to climate change as the larger birds, or are they more like the Galápagos finches? We measured the large samples of the crow-sized Long-Eared Owl ( Asio otus ) and the robin-sized Burrowing Owl ( Athene cunicularia ) from the collections of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum to determine if they showed size or shape changes in response to the climate changes of the last 35,000 years. Even though living Burrowing Owls exhibit a weak Bergmann’s rule effect, with larger subspecies in colder climates, neither species of small owls from Rancho La Brea showed statistically significant changes in size or robustness even during the peak glacial interval at 20,000-18,000 years ago, when the climate at Rancho La Brea was dominated by coniferous forests and snowy winters. Apparently, most birds do not respond to long-term changes in climate in a simple fashion, but are ecologically flexi-ble and live in a wide range of habitats and climates without change in size or limb robustness.
Speaker recognition implemented as part of a video-editing system

With machine learning rising to prominence over the last decades, a lot of companies are doing research on how it can be applied in their products or production. Some of these companies have used machine learning with a good deal of success. This thesis proposes a solution for integrating speaker recognition in a video-editing system. The proposed solution is a proof-of-concept pipeline that is hooked into a web-based video-editing system made by a company called Vizrt[1]. This pipeline takes a video and performs speaker diarization and classification on the audio from the video. To achieve this, two types of models are applied; Gaussian Mixture Models to create a Universal Background Model, and models applying the i-vector approach for use in the clustering. From the results of the machine learning algorithms, the pipeline will produce timecodes that are sent to the video-editing system. These timecodes show where different speakers are talking. This information will be presented to the user in the system UI, where the user will have the option of correcting the results from the diarization and classification. The pipeline also adopts the results from the algorithms to provide further functionality. By using the generated timecodes, the pipeline is able to extract training data that is partitioned according to the speakers. This training data will be saved and can later be used to generate new models for the different speakers. These new models can be used in later runs through the pipeline to recognize known speakers and be improved by gathering more training data for the known speakers. The thesis shows how machine learning can be applied in a pipeline to partition an audio track without any prior trained model. Using this information could be time-saving in a video-editing process, or in the process of creating training data. The pipeline also has the potential to be expanded with further functionality. This would require the pipeline to be further integrated into the video-editing system.
Pre-notes for Sapporo seminar, March 2011 De Rham-Witt complexes and p-adic Hodge theory

1956 : • Cartier isomorphism • Serre’s Witt vector cohomology, • Dieudonné’s theory of Dieudonné modules 1963-65 : • Manin’s work on formal groups, • Gauss-Manin connection 1967 : • Cartier et al. : big Witt vectors, Cartier modules • Tate : p-divisible groups, Hodge-Tate decomposition • Monsky-Washnitzer’s cohomology • Grothendieck : crystalline cohomology 1970 : • Berthelot’s thesis • Grothendieck’s crystalline Dieudonné theory, problem of the mysterious functor • Mazur-Ogus : slopes of Frobenius (Katz inequality) 1974 : • Bloch : complex of typical curves on K-groups 1975 : • Deligne-Illusie : de Rham-Witt complex 1980 : • Fontaine’s p-adic period rings Bcris, BdR 1980-85 : • fine study of de Rham-Witt (Nygaard, Illusie-Raynaud, Ekedahl) • Bloch-Kato’s proof of Hodge-Tate decompositions (good ordinary case) • Fontaine-Messing’s proof of Ccris (dim X < p, e ≤ p − 1), syntomic cohomology • Faltings’s almost étale theory, tentative proofs of Ccris, CdR in general 1988 : • Fontaine-Jannsen’s Cst conjecture • Fontaine-Illusie-Kato : log schemes • Hyodo-Kato log crystalline cohomology, log de Rham-Witt complex • Kato’s proof of Cst (2 dim X < p− 1) 1988 . : • Berthelot’s rigid cohomology, arithmetic D-modules 1997 : • Tsuji : proof of Cst in the general case • Faltings : sketch of corrected proof of almost purity lemma and Cst (details worked out by Gabber-Ramero)
Analysis of Effect of MOV on Chaotic Ferroresonant Oscillations in unloaded Transformers by Chaos Theory

In this paper the effect of a parallel metal oxide surge arrester on the ferroresonance oscillations of transformers is studied. It is proved that ferroresonance phenomenon in transforemer can be classified in chaotic dynamics systems. In this contribution chaos occurs in system from a sequence of period doubling bifurcation (PDB). Analysis of dynamics of ferroresonant circuit is carried out using bifurcation theory. It is expected that the arresters generally cause ferroresonance drop out. Simulation has been done on a three phase power transformer with one open phase. Effect of varying input voltage is studied. The simulation results reveal that connecting the arrester to transformers poles, exhibits a great mitigating effect on ferroresonant over voltages. Phase plane along with bifurcation diagrams are also presented. Significant effect on the onset of chaos, the range of parameter values that may lead to chaos and magnitude of ferroresonant voltages is obtained, shown and tabulated.
SONIC HEDGEHOG – A MORPHOGEN WITH THERAPEUTIC IMPORTANCE

Streszczenie: Poszukiwanie genów, których bia3kowe produkty mog1 wywieraæ efekt terapeutyczny, jest podstaw1 rozwoju wspó3czesnych metod leczenia, np. terapii genowej. Angiogenna terapia genowa wykorzystuje geny koduj1ce bia3ka stymuluj1ce powstawanie nowych naczyñ krwionoœnych. Wskazuje siê, i¿ silnym induktorem powstawania naczyñ krwionoœnych jest bia3ko sonic hedgehog, które warunkuje prawid3ow1 symetriê koñczyn i narz1dów jamy brzusznej oraz bierze udzia3 w regulacji procesów ró¿nicowania komórek w czasie embriogenezy. Wstêpne badania wskazuj1, i¿ SHH mo¿e pobudzaæ proces angiogenezy poprzez regulacjê ekspresji naczyniowo-œródb3onkowego czynnika wzrostu oraz angiopoetyn. Obserwuje siê równie¿ chemotaktyczne dzia3anie SHH na œródb3onkowe komórki progenitorowe. Badania poœwiêcone charakteryzowaniu z3o¿onej œcie¿ki sygna3owej SHH wska¿1, czy proangiogenny potencja3 bia3ka sonic hedgehog przyczyni siê do postêpu w terapii genowej chorób naczyniowo-sercowych.
Reasons for Secondary School Students’ Absenteeismin Kuwait: A Qualitative Study

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف على أسباب غیاب طلبة المرحلة الثانویة بدولة الکویت. لهذا الغرض، تم تصمیم أداة مقابلة وطبقت على عینة ملائمة تکونت من عشرون طالبا وعشرة معلمین وخمسة أولیاء أمور. أشارت نتائج البحث إلى أن أسباب غیاب طلبة المرحلة الثانویة بدولة الکویت تعزى إلى عوامل متصلة بالطالب والمدرسة والأسرة. تمت مناقشة هذه العوامل وتقدیم توصیات علیها. Abstract This study aimed to explore the reasons for high rates of secondary school students’ absenteeism in Kuwait. An interview was conducted on a convenience sample, which consisted of 20 students, 10 teachers and 5 parents. The findings indicated that students’ high rate of absenteeism in Kuwait is related to a number of factors, among which student, school and family. Such factors are discussed and a number of recommendations were given based on the findings of the study.
FOR TREE WOUND RESPONSE FROM STEM INJECTION

Stem injection of imidacloprid is an available component of management strategies for hemlock woolly adelgid. Preliminary observations of similar treatments of maple and ash show that the injury sustained by injection warrants investigation of the wound response in eastern hemlock. Such investigations need adequate experimental controls to identify the role of phytoxicity of the active ingredient and the carrier formulation, delivery pressure, seasonality, and tree condition. External indicators such as bark cracks tend to underestimate the amount of cambial dieback. Evaluation of the wound response requires tree dissection. We suggest that the unintended consequences of treatment such as injection injury be considered and incorporated into the management decision process.
Perceptual Second Formant Estimation by an Auditory Filterbank

We propose in this paper a new estimation technique of the perceptual second formant based on an auditoryfilterbank. The auditory filterbank is simulated by the Gammachirp filters model centred on different frequencies as the repartition of the hair cells on the basilar membrane which are responsible of the frequency sensation. The proposed technique achieves a spectral estimation at the output of the filterbank. To validate this technique, an estimation of the second formant of the 18 synthetic cardinal vowels, analysed by Bladon and Fant, is applied. The results give minimum errors and accurate estimation values of perceptual second formant as Bladon and Fant calculation model and more accurate than other classical methods like those proposed by Carlson and Hermansky models.
Machine Learning and Class Imbalance: A Literature Survey

The rapid growth in technologies and inexpensive internet connection has increased the volume of data generated. The data generated can be used to derive lots of information and patterns. Data sets are an essential part of the Machine Learning (ML) technique. But modern data sets are suffering from class imbalance. ML does not work very well with unbalanced data sets. In this context, this paper aims to provide a systematic literature review of unbalanced data sets for ML. The collected papers on class imbalance problem for ML were 4 major categories like binary class imbalance, multi-class imbalance, binary and multi-class imbalance, and rare events class imbalance. The survey focused on, various issues in class imbalance for ML. The purpose of the present paper is to help the scholars and readers in understanding the impact of the class imbalance for ML. This article contributes to the role of unbalanced data sets and their impact on the predictive systems.
Efficacy of ultra-low volume and thermal fogging as space spray for control of adult Aedes aegypti Linnaeus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Holy Makkah (Mecca) city, KSA

Makkah (western Saudi Arabia) is one of the endemic areas of dengue fever. The efficacy of outdoor Ultra-low Volume ( UL) with cyfluthrin 5% EW, and indoor thermal fogging (TF) with deltamethrin 2% EW as space spraying (SS), at the recommended and higher dose for controlling of Aedes aegypti were evaluated in Alsharayie area of the city, following WHO standard protocols. Bioassay tests for females were carried out for sugarfed adults upon emergence (1-5) days. The efficacy of UL at different distances from the spray path (5, 15, 25, 40 and 50 m), and TF at 5 locations inside the house (center, corner, dark, window and hall) was also investigated. The data showed that the SS efficacy was significantly affected by the dose applied of pyrethroid. Tested distances from the spray path did not affect UL efficacy. Similarly, the locations of the cages indoor showed no difference on the performance of TF. However, it was observed that the TF efficiency was affected by the volume/size of the sprayed area, i.e. ≤20 m inside the rooms (73.8 to 96.6 %), compared with ≥30 m hall (57.7 to 79.7%). Regarding KdT, adults were rapidly knocked-down with UL (cyfluthrin) 29 min, when compared to TF (deltamethrin) 40 min. The results revealed that the LC50 and LC90 values for cyfluthrin against Ae. aegypti were 0.026 mg/L and 0.05 mg/L, respectively. While the respective values for deltamethrin were 0.008 mg/L and 0.015 mg/L. It can be concluded that the two pyrethroids are not effective at currently recommended doses SS against adult. Doses 300mg/L of cyfluthrin, and 160mg/L of deltamethrin proved to be more effective and recommended for the control of this vector.
Interest Rates Rigidities and the Fisher Equation

The literature on nominal interest rates rigidity does not fully address its macroeconomic implications. How nominal interest rates rigidity would interact with the Fisher equation is simple, yet the implications are surprising. If nominal rates cannot catch up to real rates, the Fisher effect becomes inverted in the short term: big enough credit crunches bring deflation and central banks must lower interest rates to stimulate inflation. The paper shows that nominal interest rates rigidity is sufficient to characterize the little we know about inflation. It also shows that, unlike for other products, the pricing of loans is influenced by past negotiated loans, generating rigidity.
AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH AND ALLIED HEALTH CARE STUDENTS REGARDING INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION AND EDUCATION IN A RURAL CLINICAL SETTING IN SOUTH AFRICA

An exploration of the experiences and perceptions of health and allied health care students regarding interprofessional collaboration and education in a rural clinical setting in South Africa was conducted. The specific objectives included:  The identification of the health and allied health care students placed within the IPC and IPE context in the rural area.  The description of the demographic placement situations and educational status of the health and allied health care students placed in the rural area.  The exploration of the experiences of students regarding interprofessional collaboration within an interprofessional educational context in a rural healthcare setting in South Africa.  The establishment of the perceptions of students regarding interprofessional education within the interprofessional education programme in a rural health care context in South Africa. An explorative, descriptive research design with a qualitative approach was applied to explore and describe the experiences and perceptions of health and allied health care students regarding interprofessional collaboration and education in a rural clinical setting in South Africa. The research aim was to explore the experiences and perceptions of health and allied health care students regarding interprofessional collaboration and education during their clinical placement in a rural health care context in South Africa. Interdisciplinary rotation schedules hampered the researcher’s ability to determine an absolute number of the accessible population at any one time. An estimated population (N=31) over a six week period included the following disciplines: Physiotherapy (n=7), Speech and Hearing Therapy (n=14), Nursing (n=6) and Medicine (n=4). The student numbers varied from day to day as the various disciplines rotated at different times. The number of students representing a specific discipline at any given time was not constant. The inclusion and exclusion criteria were set to ensure optimal clinical experience in the field, to ensure that valid data was obtained. The ultimate accessible research sample consisted of all (N=8) of the purposefully selected final year undergraduate health and allied Stellenbosch University http://scholar.sun.ac.za
DIETARY FIBER AS A NATURAL SOURCE TO PRODUCE BISCUIT HYPO GLYCEMIA AND CHOLESTEROLEMIA IN RATS

This investigation was carried out to produce biscuit consists of equal weight from different natural sources of dietary fiber. Different dietary fiber sources as defatted soybean, carrot powder and resistant starch were mixture and the chemical composition was determined in raw materials. The dietary fiber mixture were used at different levels 20, 30, 40 and 50% respectively, at preparing biscuit and the sensory evaluation was recorded and the control biscuit was made from wheat flour 72% extraction. The results showed that the defatted soybean had the highest content of fat 3.46% and protein 50.35%, whereas, the resistant starch had the highest content of total carbohydrates and total dietary fiber 98.69 and 39.56% moreover, the defatted soybean and carrot powder had the highest cellulose 14.11 and 12.01% and hemicelluloses 8.31 and 3.86%, respectively. The results of statistical analysis for sensory properties indicated that no significant difference was found between control sample and supplementation of the samples for all characteristics were evaluated of biscuits contained 20, 30 and 40% dietary fiber mixture The biological experimental for hypercholesterolemia and glycemia rat groups were fed on diets containing different dietary fiber sources mixture at different ratios. After four weeks of feeding, serum glucose, total lipids, total cholesterol and triglycerides were determined. High and low density lipoproteincholesterol in serum was determined and liver function enzyme activity (ALT) alanine and asparate (AST) transaminases were measured. At the end of experimental the results showed that increasing dietary fiber mixture in the diet had significantly decreased in levels of total cholesterol from 196.3 in control positive to 110.3 mg/dL in rats fed on 50% dietary fibers mixture. Also, triglyceride was lowered from 245.7 to 118.7 mg/dL, total lipid was decreased from 1.42 to 0.72 g/dLand glucose level was decreased from 169.3 to 120.6 mg/dL in blood serum of hypercholesterolemic rats. Meanwhile, the activities of aspartate and alanine transaminoferases were significantly reduced the actives in transaminoferases in the hypercholesterolemic rate group fed on high content of fiber mixture sources. Therefore, it may be recommended to use these sources of dietary fiber mixture in made from biscuits up to 40% and it has improved blood lipids patterns and liver functions.
EFFECT OF SOME DIFFERENT ROOTSTOCKS ON YIELD AND ITS COMPONENTS OF CUCUMBER.

In this study, the effect of different rootstocks on cucumber survivals %, plant growth, fruit, yield and quality were studied by comparing grafted plants with nongrafted ones under plastic house during the winter seasons of 2010/2011 and 2011/2012, The cucumber (Cucumis sativas L,) c.v Balqis F1, was grafted onto 6001 (C.shantosa), Strong (C.mixita), Gumbo (C.maxima), Bottle gourd (Legenaria sosiraria), Vegetable sponge (Luffa cylindrica) and pumpkin (C.moschata). C.V Balqis F1 Non-grafted plants were used as control. Grafting significantly affected survival % , stem length ,stem diameter, internodes length , leaf area , plant fresh and dry weight. Control plants had low survival %, short stem length, internodes length and low leaf area, plant fresh and dry weights in both seasons. The highest number of flower/node, per plant and fruit setting % values were obtained from plants grafted onto 6001 followed by those grafted onto strong. The highest early yield and total yield per plant as a number and weight were obtained from plants grafted onto 6001 followed by the grafted onto strong. Grafting cucumber onto 6001 significantly increased fruit weight, length and shape index.