Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The state of sustainability reporting in universities

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review and assess the state of sustainability reporting in universities.Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of the performance level of 12 universities sustainability reports using the Graphical Assessment of Sustainability in Universities tool.Findings – The results show that sustainability reporting in universities is still in its early stages (both in numbers of institutions reporting and in level of reporting) when compared to sustainability reporting in corporations.Research limitations/implications – The research is limited by the limited number of universities that publish sustainability reports. However, the results show that universities could learn from the experiences of corporate sustainability reporting efforts, and incorporate them into their efforts as learning organisations to better align their systems with sustainability.Practical implications – University leaders and champions need to consider publishing more information on the social and edu.
ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES

Due to the fast development of Internet services and the huge amount of network traffic, it is becoming an essential issue to reduce its user-perceived latency. Although Web performance is improved by caching, cache can provide more benefit than nowadays: prefetching reduces user access time, at the expense of increasing traffic. Performance measurement of prefetching techniques are made primarily in terms of hit ratio and bandwidth usage. A significant performance factor for a prefetching algorithm in its ability to reduce latency is deciding which objects to prefetch in advance. Nevertheless, to achieve the best performance, the prefetching policy must match user access patterns and Web server characteristics. This implies that new prefetching policies must be loaded dynamically as needs change. Recent Web caches are large C++ programs, and thus adding a single prefetching policy to an existing Web cache is a daunting task. Providing multiple policies is even more complex. The essential problem is that prefetching concerns crosscut the cache structure. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a natural technique to address this issue. Actually, μDyner, a Dynamic Weaver on native code address to provide dynamic weaving of aspects targeted toward C applications. It provides lower overhead for aspect invocation than other dynamic approaches, thus meeting the performance needs of Web caches [22]. But, the unique main language supported by μDyner is the C language. The main goal of this dissertation is to realize a study on a dynamic weaving mechanism for the C++ language and upgrade μDyner to support this new feature. Keyword: Aspect-Oriented Programming, AOP, dynamic weaving, C++, prefetching, Web caches
Freundschaftssoziologie – eine neue Bindestrich-Soziologie

Erika Alleweldt, Die differenzierten Welten der Frauenfreundschaften. Eine Berliner Fallstudie. Weilerswist: Velbrück 2013, 262 S. , gb. , 29,90 € Anna Gansbergen, Freundschaften und Bildungserfolg. Eine empirische Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Freundschaften zwischen Schülern mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016, 286 S. , kt. , 49,00 € Julia Hahmann, Freundschaftstypen älterer Menschen. Von der individuellen Konstruktion der Freundschaftsrolle zum Unterstützungsnetzwerk. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2013, 355 S. , br. , 49,99 € Andreas Kraß, Ein Herz und eine Seele. Geschichte der Männerfreundschaft. Frankfurt amMain: S. Fischer Verlag 2016, 478 S. , gb. , 26,00 € Janosch Schobin, Freundschaft und Fürsorge. Bericht über eine Sozialform im Wandel. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition 2013, 264 S. , gb. , 30,00 € Janosch Schobin / Vincenz Leuschner / Sabine Flick / Erika Alleweldt / Eric Anton Heuser / Agnes Brandt, (Hrsg.), Freundschaft heute. Eine Einführung in die Freundschaftssoziologie (mit Gastbeiträgen von Andrea Knecht, Christian Kühner und Kai Marquardsen). Bielefeld: transcript 2016, 226 S. , kt. , 19.99 €
Towards the Design of Efficient and Consistent Index Structure with Minimal Write Activities for Non-Volatile Memory

Index structures can significantly accelerate the data retrieval operations in data intensive systems, such as databases. Tree structures, such as B<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{+}$</tex-math><alternatives> <inline-graphic xlink:href="zhuge-ieq1-2754381.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>-tree alike, are commonly employed as index structures; however, we found that the tree structure may not be appropriate for Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) in terms of the requirements for high-performance and high-endurance. This paper studies what is the best index structure for NVM-based systems and how to design such index structures. The design of an NVM-friendly index structure faces a lot of challenges. <italic>First</italic>, in order to prolong the lifetime of NVM, the write activities on NVM should be minimized. To this end, the index structure should be as simple as possible. The index proposed in this paper is based on the simplest data structure, i.e., linked list. <italic>Second</italic>, the simple structure brings challenges to achieve high-performance data retrieval operations. To overcome this challenge, we design a novel technique by explicitly building up a contiguous virtual address space on the linked list, such that efficient search algorithms can be performed. <italic>Third</italic>, we need to carefully consider data consistency issues in NVM-based systems, because the order of memory writes may be changed and the data content in NVM may be inconsistent due to write-back effects of CPU cache. This paper devises a novel indexing scheme, called “<bold>V</bold>irtual <bold>L</bold>inear <bold>A</bold>ddressable <bold>B</bold>uckets” (VLAB). We implement VLAB in a storage engine and plug it into MySQL. Evaluations are conducted on an NVDIMM workstation using YCSB workloads and real-world traces. Results show that write activities of the state-of-the-art indexes are 6.98 times more than ours; meanwhile, VLAB achieves 2.53 times speedup.
Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance

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Assessing the effectiveness of the community school model in closing the achievement gap for low income students of color: A case study

Most urban public school districts, including Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS), are committed to closing a persistent and entrenched achievement gap between White and middle class students and low income students and students of color. As resources remain stagnant or diminish educators need to determine where to invest District resources to maximize academic gains and quickly close gaps for the largest number of students. One option being considered in SPPS and nationally is to invest greater resources in the community schools model. “The heart of the community school is a set of partnerships between the school and community organizations to create an integrated program that combines academic and family support (Fratt, 2006, p. 67). ” This research is designed to assess the effectiveness of the community schools model in improving academic achievement for low income students of color, both nationally and in Saint Paul Public Schools. Using a mixed methodology including an electronic review of national research, collection, synthesis and analysis of Saint Paul Public Schools specific comparative trend data and supplemental interviews with Saint Paul educators, this research also seeks to clarify whether the model as an independent variable is enough to close the gap or whether it is a critical component in a multi-dimensional approach to this national dilemma. Based on a survey of the current and historical research done on the effectiveness of the community school model in improving achievement and closing the learning gap for low income students of color, it is clear that this model holds promise for Saint Paul Public Schools leaders. Assessing the Effectiveness of Community Schools – Kelly Thesis In making a recommendation to Saint Paul Public Schools leadership on whether the investment in additional community schools to support its goal of closing the achievement gap for low income students of color, the research findings suggest support for an investment in the community schools model for that purpose based on comparisons of achievement data. Assessing the Effectiveness of Community Schools – Kelly Thesis
Meta learning Framework for Automated Driving

The success of automated driving deployment is highly depending on the ability to develop an efficient and safe driving policy. The problem is well formulated under the framework of optimal control as a cost optimization problem. Model based solutions using traditional planning are efficient, but require the knowledge of the environment model. On the other hand, model free solutions suffer sample inefficiency and require too many interactions with the environment, which is infeasible in practice. Methods under the Reinforcement Learning framework usually require the notion of a reward function, which is not available in the real world. Imitation learning helps in improving sample efficiency by introducing prior knowledge obtained from the demonstrated behavior, on the risk of exact behavior cloning without generalizing to unseen environments. In this paper we propose a Meta learning framework, based on data set aggregation, to improve generalization of imitation learning algorithms. Under the proposed framework, we propose MetaDAgger, a novel algorithm which tackles the generalization issues in traditional imitation learning. We use The Open Race Car Simulator (TORCS) to test our algorithm. Results on unseen test tracks show significant improvement over traditional imitation learning algorithms, improving the learning time and sample efficiency in the same time. The results are also supported by visualization of the learnt features to prove generalization of the captured details.
Diabetes prevalence and awareness in adults in the Balçova district in Turkey.

BACKGROUND/AIM To determine the prevalence and awareness of diabetes and to evaluate associated factors in a population aged 30 and over in the Balçova district of Izmir, Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study data from 12,915 people who participated in Balçova's Heart Project were evaluated. Diabetes was defined using fasting blood glucose levels according to ADA criteria. RESULTS Diabetes prevalence was 13.0% and 87.7% of the patients were aware of the condition. Diabetes prevalence was 1.32 times higher in males, 1.31 times higher in individuals with primary school or lower level of education, 1.37 times higher in individuals who perceived their economic status as bad, 1.20 times higher in those who had quit smoking, 2.84 times higher in individuals who had chronic disease, 1.78 times higher in overweight or obese individuals, and 1.65 times higher in individuals with high blood pressure. Diabetes awareness was 1.78 times higher in women, 1.94 times higher in individuals with social security, 2.62 times higher in individuals with a chronic disease, and 3.55 times higher in individuals who perceived their economic level as poor. CONCLUSION Diabetes prevention policies and programs that aim for early diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of complications in patients should be developed and implemented for the public.
Departure from handwriting system.

Document examiners are often heard to make the statement that a certain letter is significant because it varies from system in design. This statement immediately brings to mind two obvious questions: 1. From what system does it vary? 2. How would the examiner answer during cross-examination if asked, “Mr. Witness, you have made the statement that this letter varies from system—would you please tell the court from what system it varies and what system did this person use when learning to write? ”
Fast and Efficient Deep Sparse Multi-Strength Spiking Neural Networks with Dynamic Pruning

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art accuracy for various computer vision and speech tasks. However, CNNs are computation-intensive and energy-inefficient which are difficult to be deployed in real-time systems. Event-driven Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are extremely power efficient, which provides an alternative for ultra-low power applications. But effective training methods for SNN are still lacking. Due to its spatio-temporal feature of SNN, conventional training method for CNN can not be employed in SNN. To address this problem, some researchers proposed to convert the corresponding weights of trained CNNs into the synapse weights of SNNs (CNNs-SNNs). Nevertheless, limited by the [0, 1] constraints on the SNN neuron outputs, the accuracy of the converted SNNs is impaired. Besides, as the SNN network becomes deeper, the convergence speed of SNN inference are unacceptably slow. In this work, we proposed an innovative deep multi-strength SNN (M-SNN) structure which relaxes the restriction of the neuron output spike strength while the event-driven feature for low-power implementations is maintained. Using this architecture, large scale SNN can be converted from CNN with comparable accuracy and fast inference speed. The evaluation results show 3.7 × convergence speedup. Moreover, with multi-strength spike, aggressive pruning strategies can be applied to reduce the computational operations by almost 85% while maintaining the same accuracy.
Postrainy season sorghum: Constraints and breeding approaches

Summary Due to erratic rainfall distribution, there is an increase inpopulation pressure and degradation of natural resourcesin rainfed regions and semi-arid tropics. With the currentlevel of greenhouse gas emissions and the associatedtemperature rise, the areas suitable for sorghum are likelyto increase by 9% globally, but many areas currentlysuitable for sorghum will be lost. Sorghum, cultivated inrainy and postrainy seasons in India, has great productionpotential. Postrainy season sorghum harvest, both grainand fodder fetches high market prices because of highquality and is preferred as food and feed.The improved postrainy season sorghum genotypesare not popular with farmers as they do not match M 35-1for shoot fly resistance and drought tolerance. In thispaper, constraints and the research in these areas thathave impact on the adaptation of sorghum for postrainyseason are examined. Also, the breeding approachesfollowed are described. The landrace pollinator basedhybrid approach is described and some of the hybridswith high level of heterosis for grain yield and with someof the critical traits required for postrainy seasonadaptation are presented. Finally new breedingapproaches that are being followed at ICRISAT aredelineated for diversifying the restorers and maintainersfor developing the hybrid parents and for producingheterotic hybrids for postrainy season adaptation(different soil depths). Small quantities of these lines willbe available on request from ICRISAT, Patancheru.
On the New Multiscale Rodlike Model of Polymeric Fluids

This paper is concerned with the well-posedness for the new rigid rodlike model in a polymeric fluid recently proposed by W.N. E and P.W. Zhang [Meth. Appl. Anal. , 13 (2006), pp. 181–198]. The constitutive relations considered in this work are motivated by the kinetic theory. The micro equations involve five independent spatial variables (degrees of freedom): two in the configuration domain and three in the macro flow domain. We obtain the local existence of solutions with large initial data and also global existence of solutions with small Deborah and Reynolds constants in periodic domains.
The Effect of Training Attachment Behaviors on Primipara Maternal Fetal Attachment

هديكچ : فده و همدقم : ردام يگتسبلد ـ هد يم ناشن ار شنينج و رادراب ردام طابترا نينج يفطاع هطبار رگنايب و د و رداـم نيب يناجيه دشاب يم نينج و كدوـك يعاـمتجا و يفطاـع، يتخانـش دشر ءاقترا و راوخ ريش و ردام نيب بولطم هطبار داجيا بجوم دناوت يم ددرگ . اذل رداـم يگتسـبلد نازـيم رـب يگتسبلد ياهراتفر شزومآ ريثات نييعت فده اب رضاح شهوژپ ساسا ارداـم رد نيـنج ن تسا هدش ماجنا رادراب تسخن . راك شور : يوررب هك تسا يا هلخادم عون زا شهوژپ نيا 83 ناـنز يراـمآ تيعمج زا هك دش ماجنا طيارش دجاو رادراب ردام رفن دروـم هورگ ود نيب يفداصت روط هبو هدش باختنا فده رب ينتبم يريگ هنومن شور هب يتشادهب زكارم هب هدننك هعجارم رادراب و اش دندش ميسقت ده . ردام يگتسبلد همانشسرپ و هبحاصم مرف لماش هدافتسا دروم رازبا تسا هدوب نينج . دروـم هورـگ يارـب هامكي يط يگتسبلد ياهراتفر شزومآ ياهسلاك هتعاس ود هسلج راهچ ) رابكي يا هتفه ( دش رازگرب . تـبث ياـه مرـف تدم نيا يط يگتفه لكش هب ناردام هب يگتسبلد ياهراتفر دننك ليمكت ات دش يم هداد . تـفايرد يرادراـب لوـمعم ياـه تـبقارم دهاـش هورگ دندومن . دش هديجنس هورگ ود رد هلخادم زا دعب و لبق يگتسبلد هرمن . ،ياك روذجم ياه نومزآ زا اه هداد ليلحت و هيزجت تهج دش هدافتسا يت و ينتيو نم، رشيف . جياتن : هرـمن نيگناـيم هـك داد ناشـن اـه هـتفاي بـيترت هـب دهاـش و دروـم هورـگ ود رد هـلخادم زا لـبق نيـنج رداـم يگتسـبلد 5 / 0 ± 52 / 3 و 43 / 0 ± 45 / 3 تشادن دوجو يراد ينعم فلاتخا يرامآ رظن زا هك هدوب ) 78 / 0 (p= . هـلخادم زا دعب نيگنايم نيا هكيلاح رد بيترت هب 38 / 0 ± 96 / 3 و 41 / 0 ± 42 / 3 تسا هدوب راد ينعم يرامآ فلاتخا هك هدوب ) 001 / 0 p< ( . يياهن هجيتن : نازـيم شيازـفا بـجوم دـناوت يـم يگتسـبلد ياـه راـتفر يـخرب ماجنا و شزومآ هك دهد يم ناشن شهوژپ هجيتن ردام يگتسبلد يتخانـشرتهب دـشر و راوـخ ريش و ردام نيب بولطم هطبار داجيا بجوم دوخ هبون هب هك ددرگ نينج ، و يناـجيه، ددرگ يم كدوك يعامتجا .
Vergleichende Genom- und Transkriptomanalysen zum Nachweis chromosomaler Rekombinationen und kleiner RNAs im Penicillin-Produzenten \(\textit {Penicillium chrysogenum}\)

Das bipolare heterothallische Fortpflanzungssystem des filamentosen Ascomyzeten und Penicillin-Produzenten \(\textit {Penicillium chrysogenum}\) ermoglicht es sexuelle Nachkommen zu generieren. Zum Nachweis von Rekombinationsereignissen, zwischen der DNA beider Kreuzungspartner, wurden die Genome der Parentalstamme und Nachkommen sequenziert. Mit Hilfe vergleichender Genomanalysen konnten genomweite Rekombinationen als Folge der sexuellen Fortpflanzung nachgewiesen werden. In einem zweiten Ansatz konnten, durch Sequenzierungen kleiner RNAs, erstmals Dicer-abhangige kleine RNAs endogener Herkunft in \(\textit {P. chrysogenum}\) nachgewiesen werden. Es konnten endogene \(\textit{small interfering}\) RNAs (siRNAs) und microRNA-ahnliche RNAs (milRNAs) identifiziert werden, die an einem post-transkriptionellen Mechanismus zur Genstilllegung beteiligt sind. Kreuzungen und regulatorisch wirksame kleine RNAs konnen als Werkzeug zur Manipulation von \(\textit {P. chrysogenum}\) und zur Optimierung industrieller Produktionsstamme verwendet werden.
Skeletal muscle as a molecular and cellular biomarker of disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a narrative review

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal multisystemic neurodegenerative disease with motor neurons being a primary target. Although progressive weakness is a hallmark feature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, there is considerable heterogeneity, including clinical presentation, progression, and the underlying triggers for disease initiation. Based on longitudinal studies with families harboring amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated gene mutations, it has become apparent that overt disease is preceded by a prodromal phase, possibly in years, where compensatory mechanisms delay symptom onset. Since 85–90% of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is sporadic, there is a strong need for identifying biomarkers that can detect this prodromal phase as motor neurons have limited capacity for regeneration. Current Food and Drug Administration-approved therapies work by slowing the degenerative process and are most effective early in the disease. Skeletal muscle, including the neuromuscular junction, manifests abnormalities at the earliest stages of the disease, before motor neuron loss, making it a promising source for identifying biomarkers of the prodromal phase. The accessibility of muscle through biopsy provides a lens into the distal motor system at earlier stages and in real time. The advent of “omics” technology has led to the identification of numerous dysregulated molecules in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis muscle, ranging from coding and non-coding RNAs to proteins and metabolites. This technology has opened the door for identifying biomarkers of disease activity and providing insight into disease mechanisms. A major challenge is correlating the myriad of dysregulated molecules with clinical or histological progression and understanding their relevance to presymptomatic phases of disease. There are two major goals of this review. The first is to summarize some of the biomarkers identified in human amyotrophic lateral sclerosis muscle that have a clinicopathological correlation with disease activity, evidence of a similar dysregulation in the SOD1G93A mouse during presymptomatic stages, and evidence of progressive change during disease progression. The second goal is to review the molecular pathways these biomarkers reflect and their potential role in mitigating or promoting disease progression, and as such, their potential as therapeutic targets in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
PENGARUH JARAK TANAM TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN DIAMETER Shorea parvifolia Dyer.

Usaha untuk meningkatkan produktivitas tanaman dipengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor antara lain: jarak tanam, intensitas cahaya, dan jenis tanaman. Penanaman jenis unggul dengan jarak tanam yang tepat dan sesuai dengan lingkungannya sangat menentukan keberhasilan penanaman. Shorea parvifolia Dyer. tergolong famili Dipterocarpaceae yang menjadi andalan hutan alam karena mempunyai nilai ekonomi yang signifikan dan termasuk jenis yang tumbuh cepat. Pertumbuhan S. parvifolia yang masih muda cenderung memerlukan naungan, sehingga untuk pertumbuhan awal lebih baik dengan jarak tanam yang rapat, tetapi untuk perkembangan selanjutnya jarak tanam yang lebar memberikan pertumbuhan yang lebih baik. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk memperoleh informasi besarnya pengaruh jarak tanam yang tepat terhadap pertumbuhan tanaman Sho rea parvifolia Dyer. pada kawasan hutan terbuka. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa S . parvifolia pada umur lima tahun, yang ditanam dengan jarak tanam 1 m x 1 m; 1,5 m x 1,5 m; 2 m x 2 m; dan 3 m x 3 m, mempunyai diameter berturut-turut adalah 6,7 cm; 7,3 cm; 7,3 cm; dan 8,9 cm. Sedangkan riap diameter tanaman yang berumur satu tahun; dua tahun; tiga tahun; empat tahun; dan lima tahun, berturut-turut adalah 1,61 cm; 1,20 cm; 1,94 cm; 1,32 cm; dan 1,14 cm. Apabila riap ini dapat dipertahankan selama pertumbuhannya, maka 35 tahun yang akan datang diameter pohon akan mencapai 50,47 cm. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk memperoleh informasi tentang pengaruh jarak tanam yang tepat dalam rangka meningkatkan pertumbuhan S. parvifolia , sehingga dapat dijadikan dasar pertimbangan dalam pengelolaan hutan alam.