Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
On the modular structure and evolvability of the Internet of Things architectures

—The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) is an important evolution for current businesses. The ﬁeld of IoT is maturing and best practice solutions are emerging. However, as organizations are confronted with increasing and faster changes in their environment, applications using IoT should be able to adapt and evolve accordingly. This paper assesses the ability to implement changes in best practice IoT applications, using Normalized Systems Theory as a theoretical basis. Subsequently, a new architecture addressing some identiﬁed evolvability issues is proposed. In contrast to existing prescriptive work focusing on the interoperability and standardization of IoT applications, this paper evaluates design choices from the perspective of the ability to evolve.
HUBUNGAN PROFIL LIPID DENGAN LAMA RAWATAN PASIEN STROKE ISKEMIK DI BADAN LAYANAN UMUM DAERAH RUMAH SAKIT UMUM CUT MEUTIA KABUPATEN ACEH UTARA

Stroke merupakan penyebab kematian ketiga di dunia dan merupakan penyebab kematian utama dengan peningkatan prevalensi yang signifikan setiap tahunnya di Indonesia. Stroke iskemik sering disebabkan kelainan profil lipid darah yaitu peningkatan LDL, trigliserida dan kolesterol total serta penurunan HDL. Tingginya kadar LDL, trigliserida dan kolesterol total menyebabkan kelainan pada pembuluh darah sehingga menjadi salah satu faktor risiko penyebab stroke iskemik yang berpengaruh pada keluaran setelah serangan stroke. Kadar HDL yang rendah setelah serangan stroke akan mengakibatkan hambatan pemulihan dan peningkatan mortalitas. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisis hubungan antara profil lipid dengan lama rawatan pasien stroke iskemik. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian observasional analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Analisis data menggunakan analisis univariat dan bivariat dengan uji korelasi Pearson. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di BLUD RSU Cut Meutia Kabupaten Aceh Utara menggunakan teknik total sampling. Sampel penelitian ini berjumlah 98 pasien. Rata-rata kadar profil lipid pasien saat mulai dirawat adalah LDL: 155,70 mg/dL, HDL 44,04mg/dL, trigliserida 152,13 mg/dL dan kolesterol total 232,74 mg/dL. Rata-rata lama perawatan pasien di rumah sakit adalah 5 hari. Terdapat hubungan antara kadar LDL (r=0,275; p 0,01). Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa semakin tinggi kadar LDL dan kolesterol total serta semakin rendah kadar HDL saat mulai dirawat maka lama rawatan semakin panjang. Kata Kunci : stroke iskemik; LDL; HDL; trigliserida; kolesterol total; lama rawatan
FACTORS AFFECTING WORK MOTIVATION OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the factors affecting the motivation of civil servants at the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province. Based on data collected from 181 officers at the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province, researchers processed all data by SPSS with some techniques such as: descriptive statistics, Cronbach's Alpha, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Multivariate Regression Analysis. The research results show that there are 6 factors affecting the motivation of officers at the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province, including: (i) Working conditions; (ii) Nature of work; (iii) Career development opportunities; (iv) Income and benefits; (v) Relationship with leaders and (vi) Relationships with colleagues. Based on the research results, a number of solutions have been proposed to improve the work motivation in the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue.Keywords: work motivation, civil servants, Thua Thien Hue Provincial People's Committee
Neighborhood Material Deprivation Is Associated with Childhood Asthma Development: Analysis of Prospective Administrative Data

Rationale Material deprivation has been proposed as a more comprehensive measure of socioeconomic status than parental income. Stronger associations between childhood emergency department visits for asthma and air pollution have been demonstrated among children living in neighborhoods with high levels of deprivation, but the associations with asthma development and ongoing asthma are not known. Objectives We determined the associations between neighborhood material deprivation and the development of new and ongoing childhood asthma. Methods Prospectively collected administrative data housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences were examined for Toronto children born from 1997 to 2003. Neighborhood material deprivation, comprising no high school graduation, lone parent families, government transfers, unemployment, low income, and homes needing major repairs, was reported in the Ontario Marginalization Index. Incident asthma was defined by the time of entry into the Ontario Asthma Surveillance Information System (OASIS) database. We measured the risk of incident asthma using Cox proportional hazards models and the associations between ongoing asthma visits and deprivation by year of life with generalized linear mixed models. Results OASIS asthma criteria were met for 21% of the 326,383 children. After adjustment for characteristics strongly associated with asthma, including male sex, prematurity, obesity, and atopic conditions other than asthma, children with high birth neighborhood deprivation were at increased risk of incident asthma (HR 1.11; 95% CI, 1.09–1.13). High deprivation in a given year of life was associated with increased odds of ongoing asthma during that year of life (OR 1.03; 95% CI, 1.02–1.05). Conclusions Children living in high-deprivation neighborhoods are at increased risk of incident and ongoing asthma. This study suggests that neighborhood material deprivation may represent a helpful tool for evaluating the effects of disparities in health and social advantages on the likelihood of developing and continuing to need healthcare visits for ongoing childhood asthma.
Counseling intervention for native mothers with autism spectrum disorder (asd) children

The purpose of the study was to explore the experiences of native mothers with autistic children in Kuching, Sarawak. The research focused on the challenges faced by native mothers with autistic children, their coping strategies, and participation in counseling intervention. This is a qualitative-based research with three native mothers with autistic children, employing approximately 30 until 45 minutes semi-structured interview sessions. Outcome of the interview sessions were categorized into four major themes and nine sub-themes. Recommendation of counseling intervention include psychoeducational, which aim to provide information to native mothers with regards to autism-related knowledge, skills, and techniques to handling autistic children.
Charon: A Secure Cloud-of-Clouds System for Storing and Sharing Big Data

We present <sc>Charon</sc>, a cloud-backed storage system capable of storing and sharing big data in a secure, reliable, and efficient way using multiple cloud providers and storage repositories to comply with the legal requirements of sensitive personal data. <sc>Charon</sc> implements three distinguishing features: (1) it does not require trust on any single entity, (2) it does not require any client-managed server, and (3) it efficiently deals with large files over a set of geo-dispersed storage services. Besides that, we developed a novel Byzantine-resilient data-centric leasing protocol to avoid write-write conflicts between clients accessing shared repositories. We evaluate <sc>Charon</sc> using micro and application-based benchmarks simulating representative workflows from bioinformatics, a prominent big data domain. The results show that our unique design is not only feasible but also presents an end-to-end performance of up to <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2.5\times$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo>. </mml:mo><mml:mn>5</mml:mn><mml:mo>×</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="cogo-ieq1-2916856.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula> better than other cloud-backed solutions.
A quoi servent les normes ? Etude de la relation entre performance et normes de système de management : bilan et méthodologie

Book and Kuszla ( 2013 ) consider that two complementary logics must be studied regarding to management : that of the financial performance and that of the technico-economic performance. Traditionally the accent was put in the years of strong stable growth on the financial performance. The arrival of a context of change and the necessity of adapting itself to phenomena of break, questioned this simplified functioning. It is in this context that it is interesting to wonder how management system standards impact on organizations performance. This study will bring us to develop in a last part the methodological problems peculiars to the observation of the MSS.
Formation of a single poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) micro-droplet in water by coupling of photothermal effects and an optical force

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) exhibits phase separation with lower critical solution temperature (LCST). In the 1990s, Masuhara and co-workers reported the first demonstration of optical trapping of PNIPAM forming a micrometer-sized polymer droplet. Since then, this technique has attracted much attention to create a molecular assembly in a microspace. In the present study, we targeted poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) (PDEA), which has an analogous chemical structure to PNIPAM. We demonstrated that optical tweezers formed the unique micro-morphologies of a phase separated PDEA droplet. Fluorescence microscopic images and Raman spectra of the PDEA droplet showed that a lot of smaller-sized water-rich micro-domains were inhomogeneously formed in the droplet. Such unique phase separation behavior was never observed in steady-state heating of an aqueous PDEA solution above its LCST. Our results indicate that a novel micro-structure can be formed by coupling of an optical gradient force and a local temperature elevation.
Segmentation of medical image volumes using intrinsic shape information

v Acknowledgments . vii List of Illustrations . xv List of Tables . xviii Chapter 1 Segmentation of Medical Image Volumes . 19 1.1 Computed-Tomography Angiography . 21 1.2 Editing of Image Volumes . 23 1.2. 1 Manual Tracing . 23 1.2. 2 Propagation of Operations Throughout a Sequence . 26 1.2. 3 Intensity Thresholding . 26 1.2. 4 Connectivity . 31 1.2. 5 Use of Shape Information . 31 1.2. 6 Summary . 32 1.3 Specific Aims . 32 1.4 Proposed Framework for Segmentation . 33 1.5 Research Hypothesis . 35 1.6 Significance . 36 1.7 Dissertation Roadmap . 36
A computational model of sound recognition used to analyze the capacity and adaptability in learning vowel classes

Sound recognition is likely to initiate early in auditory processing and use stored representations (spectrotemporal templates) to compare against spectral information from auditory brainstem responses over time. A computational model of sound recognition is developed using neurobiologically plausible operations. The adaptability and number of templates required for the computational model to correctly recognize 10 Klatt-synthesized vowels is determined to be around 1250 templates when trained with random fundamental frequencies from the male pitch range and randomized variation of the first three formants of each vowel. To investigate the ability to adapt to noise and other unheard vowel utterances, test sets with 1000 randomly generated Klatt vowels in babble at signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of 20 dB, 10 dB, 5 dB, 0 dB, and 􀀀5 dB are generated. The vowel recognition rates at each SNR are 99.7%, 99.6%, 97.0%, 77.6%, and 54.0%, respectively. Also, a test set of four vowel recordings from four speakers is tested with no noise, giving 100% recognition rate. These data suggest that storage of auditory representations for speech at the spectrotemporal resolution of the auditory nerve over a typical range of spoken pitch does not require excessive memory resources or computing to implement on parallel computer systems.
The effectiveness of policy makers during uncertain environment: Evidence from a set of emerging market economies

This paper ascertain the effect of changes in the domestic interest rate on exchange rate movement, using monthly data from a set of emerging market economies. The central banks are responding to the exchange rate movements in addition to the other core variables, namely, inflation gap and the output gap. In addition, countries with a high degree of financial openness are more responsive to the movement in the exchange rate, but this has weakened the effectiveness of disinflationary policy. Policy makers should behave pre-emptive and necessitate the exchange rate adjustment as alternative policy choice, in the calculus of formulating policy rule.
Inclusive Language in Spanish as Interpellation to Educational Authorities

The aim of this commentary is to discuss and promote discussion on some linguistic and pedagogical issues around the use of gender inclusive language, particularly the -e morpheme in plural forms, in Spanish. Its speakers are experiencing and becoming aware of language change in real time concerning the use of morphosyntactic choices that seek embrace gender equality, diversity, representation, and diversity. This language change impacts directly on formal education and educational administrators who are under pressure not only from different social actors but also from their own beliefs on whether they should promote, ignore, or mitigate the linguistic changes that society is producing through their situated practices. Against this background, to what extent are educational authorities professionally prepared to encourage academic discussions on inclusive language in education? How can applied linguists help? Having these questions as our Southern Cross, our commentary lies at the intersection of language change and educational authorities’ professional knowledge.
Modes of Meaning in High School Science Modes of Meaning in High School Science Modes of Meaning in High School Science

Using the framework of systemic functional grammar, the study reported on here compares two modes of presenting the same scientific topic: in a physics textbook and in interactive teacher talk. Three aspects of scientific meaning making are analyzed: representations of physical and mental reality, lexical packaging, and the rhetorical structure of reasoning. Both the textbook and teacher talk use verbs of action to represent scientific processes, but the teacher talk constructs the teacher and students as active participants in these processes, while the textbook constructs the readers as distant observers. The textbook contains more grammatical metaphors, which are frequently left unpacked, whereas in the teacher talk grammatical metaphors are always unpacked. Both the textbook and the teacher talk show similar thematic organization but while this is explicit in the textbook, in the teacher talk it is interactionally constructed. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings for the socialization of students to science discourse through different instructional modes.
Review: Care and compromise: developing a conceptual framework for work-related stress

This paper discusses the concept of care and compromise in relation to working in health care and throws open numerous avenues of discussion that need to be addressed. Undoubtedly, it cannot be disputed that the pressures of organisation and production on the one hand, and the threatening polarisation between evidence-based practice and caring on the other, can result in schisms for the practitioner. As suggested by the authors, this could be related to disparities between organisational and personal philosophies of care, the elusive theory/practice gap or the perceived contradiction between the use of evidence and the provision of care. It is, however, interesting that the authors choose to link the concept of emotional labour to these disparities in their paper. Teaching nurses to cope with the emotional labour of their work has been underscored in the past decade when reflection and reflective practice have been related to increasing the practitioner’s awareness of improving and maintaining the quality of care for the client with little, if any, specific reference to emotional labour on the part of the practitioner (Baart and Grijpdonck, 2008; Freshwater, 2002; Freshwater et al., 2008; Johns, 2002, 2006; Johns and Freshwater, 1998; Palmer et al., 1994; Watson, 1985). The current move towards illuminating and understanding the emotional labour involved with health care in general and nursing in particular can be seen as an attempt to rectify what I see as a risk of reflection and reflective practice. Reflective sessions, clinical supervision, intervision and the like have worked admirably to make health care practitioners aware of their work environment, the dilemmas they face and their personal philosophy of care within the reality of lacking and diminishing financial and manpower resources, and the increased complexity of care within primary and secondary care. By implementing reflective practice the methods of coping with organisational issues from behind an ‘objective, professional screen’ have been replaced by a personal involvement which complicates the boundaries that need to be set between personal involvement and professional distance when dealing with the messiness of everyday nursing practice (Esterhuizen, 2006; Esterhuizen and Freshwater, 2008). So from this perspective, the
Musical Rhythm for Linguists: A Response to Justin London

Musical timing is a rich, complex phenomenon which changes across cultures, periods and styles and requires highly explicit terminology in order to communicate clearly between music theorists, psychologists, neuroscientists, performers and indeed with linguists. Here I respond to Justin London's opening paper by outlining and expanding upon his key points and raising additional questions regarding the neural basis and the functional role of musical timing.
A Child’s Language Acquisition: The Metathesis Phenomena

Metathesis is one of the unique phenomena among the children during their language acquisition phase. This research aims at investigating the metathesis phenomena happens in a child. The research method used in this research is qualitative method, especially case study. The results of this research show that the metathesis phenomena happen in that child is related to 16 phonemes. It includes pure metathesis in the same syllable phonemes, pure metathesis in the different syllables phonemes, metathesis followed by phonemes addition, metathesis followed by phonemes omission, and metathesis followed by both of them. The findings from this research will be the basis in conducting the following relevant studies.
A new Optimal Power Flow Algorithms using Particle Swarm Optimization by Matlab. Program

This paper study, Particle Swarm Optimization for the solution of the optimal power flow (OPF) is studied. Traditionally, classical optimization methods were used to effectively solve OPF. But more recently due to incorporation of Flexible A.C. Transmission System (FACTS) devices and deregulation of a power sector, the traditional concepts and practices of power systems are superimposed by an economic market management. So OPF have become complex. (FACTS) family using power electronics to control power flow and improve transient stability on power grids [1]. In recent years, Artificial Intelligence methods (GA etc) have emerged which can solve highly complex OPF problems. 30-bus system has been studied to show the effectiveness of the algorithm.
Modeling the 1783–1784 Laki Eruption in Iceland: 1. Aerosol Evolution and Global Stratospheric Circulation Impacts

The 1783–1784 CE Laki flood lava eruption began on 8 June 1783. Over the course of 8 months, the eruption released approximately 122 Tg of sulfur dioxide gas into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere above Iceland. Previous studies that have examined the impact of the Laki eruption on sulfate aerosol and climate have either used an aerosol model coupled off‐line to a general circulation model (GCM) or used a GCM with incomplete aerosol microphysics. Here, we study the impact on stratospheric aerosol evolution and stratospheric and tropospheric circulation using a fully coupled GCM with complete aerosol microphysics, the Community Earth System Model version 1, with the Whole Atmosphere Chemistry Climate Model high‐top atmosphere component. Simulations indicate that the Laki aerosols had peak average effective radii of approximately 0.4 μm in Northern Hemisphere (NH) middle and high latitudes, with peak average effective radii of 0.25 μm in NH tropics and 0.2 μm in the Southern Hemisphere. We find that the Laki aerosols are transported globally and have significant impacts on the circulation in both hemispheres, strengthening the Southern Hemisphere polar vortex and shifting the tropospheric NH subtropical jet equatorward.
INVESTIGASI DAMPAK UKURAN PERUSAHAAN, KEPEMILIKAN MANAJERIAL, KOMPENSASI EKSEKUTIF DAN LEVERAGE TERHADAP EARNINGS MANAGEMENT

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh ukuran perusahaan, kepemilikan manajerial, kompensasi eksekutif dan leverage terhadap earnings management. Ukuran perusahan diukur dengan ln total asset, kepemilikan manajerial diukur dengan ln total kompensasi, leverage diukur dengan perbandingan antara total utang dengan total asset, sedangkan earnings management diukur dengan model Stubben, 2010. Sampel penelitian merupakan perusahaan manufaktur pada sub sector food & Beverage yang terdaftar di BEI dengan jumlah 12 perusahaan selama periode 2011-2015. Metode pengumpulan sampel dengan purposive sampling. Metode analisis data menggunakan regresi logistic dengan program SPSS 23. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa levereage berpengaruh signifikan dan positif, sedangkan variabel lainnya tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap earnings management. Kata Kunci: Earnings Management, Model Stubben, ukuran perusahaan, kepemilikan manjerial, kompensasi eksekutif, leverage
Adsorption Mechanism of Hydrated Pb(OH)~+ on the Kaolinite(001) Surface

The adsorption behavior of Pb(OH)+on the basal octahedral(001) surface of kaolinite has been investigated using the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof generalized gradient approximation(GGA-PBE) of density functional theory with periodic slab models, where the water environment was considered. The coordination geometry, coordination number, preferred adsorption position, and adsorption type were examined, with binding energy estimated. All the monodentate and bidentate complexes exhibited hemi- directed geometry with coordination numbers of 3-5. Site of"Ou"with"up"hydrogen was more favorable for monodentate complex than site of"Ol"with"lying"hydrogen. Monodentate complexation of"Ou"site with a high binding energy of-182.60 kJ·mol-1should be the most preferred adsorption mode, while bidentate complexation on"OuOl"site of single Al center was also probable. The stability of adsorption complex was found closely related to the hydrogen bonding interactions between surface Oland H in aqua ligands of Pb(II). Mulliken population and density of states analyses showed that coupling of Pb 6p with the antibonding Pb 6s―O 2p states was the primary orbital interaction between Pb(II) and the surface oxygen. Hydrogen complexation occupied a much large proportion in the joint coordination structure of bidentate complex, where bonding state filling predominatedfor the Pb―Olinteraction.