Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dust Grains in Stars , the Interstellar Medium , and the Solar System

Studies of astrophysical dust grains in circumstellar shells, the interstellar medium (ISM), and the solar system, may provide information about stellar evolution and about physical conditions in the primitive solar nebula. Infrared observations give information about the mineral composition and size distribution of the grains. Grain materials identified in sources external to the solar system include silicates, silicon carbide, amorphous carbon, and possibly hydrocarbon compounds. The nucleation and growth of astrophysical carbon grains has been documented by infrared observations of classical novae. In the solar system, dust is known to be a major constituent of comet nuclei, and infrared spectroscopy of comets during perihelion passage has shown that the ablated material contains silicates, amorphous carbon, and hydrocarbons. Cometary grains resemble extra-solar-system grains in some ways, but there is evidence for additional processing of the grain materials in comets. Comets are discussed as a possible source for zodiacal dusL Solar system grain materials have been sampled by the collection of micrometeorites and by isolating microscopic inclusions in meteorites. Meteorite inclusions exhibit several chemical abundance anomalies that are similar to those predicted to be produced in the explosive nucleosynthesis that accompanies novae and supernovae. The possible connections between extra-solar-system astrophysical dust grains and the grains in the solar system are explored. A recent suggestion that grains are rapidly destroyed in the interstellar medium by supernova shocks is discussed. Experiments to establish the relationships between extra-solar-system astrophysical grains
Adult Congenital Heart Disease: A Practical Guide

Congenital heart disease with its worldwide incidence of 1% is the most common inborn defect. Increasingly, patients are living into adulthood, with ongoing congenital heart and other medical needs. Sadly, only a small minority have specialist follow-up. However, all patients see their family doctor and may also seek advice from other health professionals. This practical guide with its straightforward a,b,c approach is written for those professionals.
EnCoRe: Ensuring Consent and Revocation

This paper draws on evidence from a series of expert focus groups to question the function of “informed consent” in online transactions. Informed consent and related concepts have a key role in much privacy research and are an integral part of much data protection legislation. The research methodology used in this paper was focus groups with expert participants and the paper describes this approach in detail. Four expert groups, with participants from civil society organizations, data protection professionals, public sector organizations and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) took part in the focus groups which ran for a total of 10 hours. This paper reports on the results from the focus groups in terms of a) privacy policies, b) control over the use of personal data, c) consent as a response to regulatory requirements and d) the nature of informed consent. The evidence from the focus groups questions the extent to which informed consent operates in online interactions. This suggests a number of novel research directions that arise from the analysis. The paper ends by suggesting alternative ways of addressing “informed consent” in online interactions.
Strategic resource allocation in entrepreneurial businesses during epidemic growth periods

To entrepreneurial businesses, epidemic growth dynamics can be an attractive and a daunting proposition at the same time. Rapid, widespread growth of sales numbers is certainly attractive, but it can easily turn into a hazard, when the business becomes overwhelmed by demand, mistimes investment decisions, loses orders and hurts its reputation. Surprisingly, research that guides entrepreneurial businesses in allocating their constrained resources during periods of epidemic growth is scarce. To that end, the author reviews extant literature to extract the pertinent process characteristics of epidemic growth in a business context, and combines them with archival case evidence to inform entrepreneurial ventures in the strategic resource allocation during epidemic growth periods. Overall, the results from this study indicate that a better understanding of epidemic dynamics will benefit investment and planning decisions. More specifically, the findings suggest that entrepreneurial, resource-constrained businesses can maximize the benefits during epidemic growth periods, if they allocate their Marketing and Operations resources with focus and in accordance with the stages of the epidemic growth process.
Abstract Invariant Polynomials on Tensors Under the Action of a Product of Orthogonal Groups by

Invariant Polynomials on Tensors Under the Action of a Product of Orthogonal Groups by Lauren Kelly Williams The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 2013 Under the Supervision of Professor Jeb F. Willenbring Let K be the product On1×On2×· · ·×Onr of orthogonal groups. Let V = ⊗i=1C , the r-fold tensor product of defining representations of each orthogonal factor. We compute a stable formula for the dimension of the K-invariant algebra of degree d homogeneous polynomial functions on V . To accomplish this, we compute a formula for the number of matchings which commute with a fixed permutation. Finally, we provide formulas for the invariants and describe a bijection between a basis for the space of invariants and the isomorphism classes of certain r-regular graphs on d vertices, as well as a method of associating each invariant to other combinatorial settings such as phylogenetic trees.
2 Domestic and Foreign Banks in Germany : Do They Differ ?

The German banking market is notorious for its low degree of market penetration by foreign financial institutions, suggesting that markets serviced by domestic and foreign banks are segmented. This paper employs a number of tests to determine whether activities of domestic and foreign banks are related. Using data for the years 1986-1999, we fail to find evidence for similarities in the activities of domestic and foreign banks. This holds across the two types of domestic banks (large and savings banks) and across four different activities (loans and deposits of banks and non-banks) considered.
Application of Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) in Determination of Risk Factors of Fatigue and General Health among the Employees of Petrochemical Companies

Abstract Background : In this cross-sectional study, 501 employees of petrochemical companies were selected by simple sampling method. Methods : Data were collected using Swedish Occupational Fatigue Inventory (SOFI-20), Occupational Fatigue/Exhaustion Recovery (OFER-15), and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). To identify the factors associated with fatigue and general health, we used ordinary least squares regression (OLS) and SUR and the results were compared. The analysis showed that satisfaction, mental disorder and sleepiness were the important factors associated with fatigue among these workers. However, the SUR estimator provided higher precision of the estimates than the OLS estimator as the parameters obtained by SUR are characterized by lower standard errors. As the models are intended to predict the fatigue risk factors, we particularly focused on the SUR method because it assesses the precision of the model in predicting fatigue determination. SUR estimators performed consistently better than the OLS estimators since SUR takes the correlation between error terms into account. Results : The findings showed that the study population were young and almost had a low job tenure. The correlation test showed that there was a significant relationship between fatigue and general health with job satisfaction (p=0.05), sleep disorder (p=0.01) and mental disorder (p=0.001). Finally, the analysis showed that fatigue as the result of work was affected by some organizational and individual risk factors, among which "general health status" in general fatigue and "job satisfaction and mental disorders" in mental, physical, shift work, chronic and acute fatigue had the most effect. Conclusion : The prevalence of fatigue among the study population was assessed high. Thus, elimination and reduction of casual risk factors are necessary to reduce the prevalence of fatigue at work environmental.
Is there a Gender Gap in Preferences for Public Spending? Evidence from Germany

In several empirical contributions researchers have found a gender gap in preferences for public spending. This paper analyzes the persistence of these gender gaps when income differences between individuals are taken into consideration. Using survey data from the years 1996 and 2006 of German respondents, we show that gender gaps in preferences vanish when we control for individual income relative to the German median income. The larger this income ratio, the lower the preferences for social security (health care, retirement and unemployment) but the larger the preferences for education spending. Controlling for pseudo individual income (the actual available income if income is shared between all household members), gender gaps in health care and retirement reappear. This may reflect an insurance motive of women who fear to lose the benefits from sharing income within the household.
The Contribution of Functional Load on Children’s Vocalic Development

Children’s phonology is replete with regular, predictable phenomena that nevertheless differ from adults. Discrepancies between adult and child speech cannot solely be attributed to environmental input, so immature motor development is often cited. Normally-developing children quickly acquire the motor skills and segment planning necessary to avoid these “errors. ” But phonological development continues well into late-childhood. For example, age and segment duration/variability are negatively correlated in English and French. Here we present contradictory data from Chuquisaca Quechua that show children producing shorter vowel durations than adults and attribute this to the role of functional load (FL). Interest in FL as an explanatory device for phoneme merger and segment inventories has recently resurfaced, but extension of the metric to phonological acquisition has been limited. FL is an important concept to apply to children’s speech development because children’s relatively smaller lexicons may lead them to make different generalizations regarding the relative importance of certain phonological contrasts. We test this hypothesis in Chuquisaca Quechua, a language where we predict maximal distinctiveness between adult and child lexica due to the language’s morphological structure. We find that FL addresses this developmental pattern in the children’s vowels.
Evaluation of belgian energy market models with demand response

Energy markets worldwide are evolving towards smart grids. The value network of the current energy market will be subject to changing actors and roles in the evolution towards smart grids. There are several ways in which the market could respond to these changes, depending on who will take up newly emerging responsibilities. We consider the architecture of a large-scale pilot that was conducted within the Flemish Linear project and model the current energy market. Drawing upon the insights derived from the pilot and the current models, we propose several possible future market models that could take place when smart meters will be implemented and opportunities for demand response will emerge. Subsequently, the different models are evaluated by means of a PEST analysis.
Eco-innovation analysis with DEA: An application to OECD countries

Government regulations require businesses to improve their processes and products/services in a green and sustainable manner. For being environmentally friendly, businesses should invest more on eco-innovation practices. Firms eco-innovate to promote eco-efficiency and sustainability. This paper evaluates the eco-innovation performance of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries with data envelopment analysis (DEA). Output oriented CCR (Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes) is applied because of more desirability of outputs for decision makers. Data were gathered from the World bank database and global innovation index report. Findings show that for most OECD countries, energy use and ecological sustainability are more important than other inputs and outputs for enhancing eco-innovation.
Adaptive neighbor Synthetic Minority Oversampling TEchnique under 1NN outcast handling

Journal: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology Manuscript ID SJST-2015-0116.R2 Manuscript Type: Original Article Date Submitted by the Author: 13-May-2016 Complete List of Authors: Siriseriwan, Wacharasak; Chulalongkorn University, Mathematics and Computer science Sinapiromsaran, Krung; Chulalongkorn University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Keyword: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Chapter 1 Sound Simulation and Co-simulation for Robotics

Safety is a major concern in robotics: for example, regulations for industrial robots often require them to be kept in cages, and autonomous vehicles currently cannot be certified for civil aviation. The ability to provide safety evidence can create significant opportunities. Yet, the programming techniques in use involve, on one hand, advanced robotics technology, and, on the other, outdated approaches to validation and verification of software controllers (either in isolation or in the context of a specific robotic hardware platform and environment). Figure 1.1 indicates, in bold, the artefacts that are currently engineered in typical developments. The other artefacts are either provided on an ad hoc basis by particular tools or missing. In a first development phase, a state machine is often used to define the controller. If relevant, timed and probabilistic behaviours are recorded informally. For simulation, if the tool of choice does not provide adequate hardware and environment models, they need to be adapted or developed. A main difficulty is reasoning about the effect of the environment or recording assumptions about it. Connections between the artefacts are tenuous. We propose here extensions and restrictions to INTO-SysML [2], a SysML [31] profile for cyber-physical systems. Our goal is to support modelling of robotic applications, including facilities to specify time, probabilities, the robotic platform, and the environment. SysML is a UML-based language that is becoming a de facto standard for systems, rather than just software, modelling. The INTO-SysML profile restricts the use of SysML block and internal block diagrams to characterise a collection of potentially heterogenous (co-)models as typically required for describing cyber-physical systems. These models may be written using a variety of notations adopting a variety of modelling paradigms. The definition of a collection of models
A Multi-Actor Study of Adult Children and Their Parents in Complex Families: Design and Content of the OKiN Survey

This data brief gives an overview of the background, design, and content of the multi-actor OKiN survey (Ouders en Kinderen in Nederland; Parents and Children in The Netherlands). The purpose of OKiN is to examine the individual consequences of family complexity for intergenerational relations, intergenerational reproduction, and individual health and well-being. Another goal of OKiN is to generate detailed and nationally representative descriptive information on the types and degrees of family complexity that contemporary adult generations in The Netherlands (adults born between 1971 and 1991) have experienced when they were growing up. Unique features of the OKiN data are (i) the oversample of persons who grew up with separated and/or widowed parents, and persons who grew up with a step-parent; (ii) the double multi-actor design (i.e. primary respondents (anchors) report about multiple parent figures and parent figures (alters) report about multiple children); and (iii) the systematic probing of relations to and characteristics of all parent figures in the respondent’s life. The brief provides the first descriptive findings about the OKiN respondents.
10 Discrete Time Mixed LQR / H ∞ Control Problems

This chapter will consider two discrete time mixed LQR/ H∞ control problems. One is the discrete time state feedback mixed LQR/ H∞ control problem, another is the non-fragile discrete time state feedback mixed LQR/ H∞ control problem. Motivation for mixed LQR/ H∞ control problem is to combine the LQR and suboptimal H∞ controller design theories, and achieve simultaneously the performance of the two problems. As is well known, the performance measure in optimal LQR control theory is the quadratic performance index, defined in the time-domain as
Asymptotic Mean Squared Prediction Error of L 2 Boosting Estimator under Misspecified Models

A rigorous analysis of the L2Boosting predictor is given in a highdimensional linear regression model. Instead of boosting the predictor using the weak greedy algorithm (WGA) in Bühlmann (2006), this paper focuses on the weak orthogonal greedy algorithm (WOGA) because of its traceable statistical properties. We explore the variable sequences determined by WOGA, and thereby give an asymptotic expression for the mean-squared prediction error (MSPE) of the corresponding Boosting predictor. This expression shows an algebraic tradeoff between the bias and variance terms. Finally, simulation results suggest that the Boosting predictor based on WOGA outperforms the one based on WGA in terms of MSPE, offering an interesting direction for future research.
Optimal maps for the L 2-Wasserstein distance ∗

In this paper we analize properties of the maps that give optimal transportation plans for the L--Wasserstein distance. The main topics treated include existence, measurability, continuity, uniqueness and convergence with respect to the weak convergence of probability measures. Moreover, we obtain the continuity of the optimal maps with respect ot the weak convergence what includes, in particular, the consistency of the empirical optimal maps.
P o S ( S S C 2 0 1 5 ) 0 5 4 High Resolution Spectroscopic Abundance Analysis of Metal-Poor Stars

We calibrate current stellar evolution models at very low metallicities typical of the oldest GCs by performing a differential abundance analysis of eight low metallicity main sequence (MS) stars with HST parallaxes and high resolution spectra from the Keck/HIRES and Magellan/MIKE spectrographs. While our 1D, LTE, spectroscopic atmosphere parameters provide good agreement with HST parallaxes, there is significant disagreement with temperature/gravity parameters indicated by observed colors and Dartmouth isochrones. We are unable to determine whether the color-temperature relations or excitation temperatures are more reliable. By use of our differential method we find similar chemical abundances for our stars determined with 1D (MARCS and Kurucz) model atmospheres and average 〈3D〉 models of Magic et al (2013). Preliminary results of a Monte Carlo method used to define a suite of models applicable at low metallicity and MSfitting and age dating of nine GCs are presented. With calibrated metal-poor models we would like to determine if the abundance distributions in GCs are discrete or continuous. The availability of the SALT HRS and Magellan/MIKE high resolution spectrographs enables us to obtain data with spectral resolution higher than most studies being performed. We were awarded 48 hours on SALT HRS to obtain high resolution spectra of RGB stars in NGC 6681 and NGC 6584 with a S/N≥ 100. We have supplemented this data with additional Magellan/MIKE observations of RGB stars in NGC 6681 and will apply for time to target NGC 6584.
Aalborg Universitet Improved LVRT Grid Code under Islanding Condition

The grid code Low Voltage Ride Through (LVRT) requires Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) to remain connected to the grid following the voltage sags resulting from disturbances. The LVRT pattern is based on voltage sag magnitude and its duration at Point of Common Coupling (PCC) and only voltage reflects the internal dynamics of RES. Therefore, making decision on RES connectivity to the grid just relying on one variable, i.e. voltage, may not be the best decision for wide range of possible combinational and cascading events leading to islanding. This paper proposes a novel LVRT characteristic in which all of applicable and determinant variables of RES are considered. If the RES safely and securely operates inside continuous operating range of rotor speed and current, the grid voltage and current, the RES interruption is diffidently avoided to keep supporting of power system.
Return to work : One and two years follow-up after interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation . A study based on the Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation

Citation for published version (APA): Rivano, M. , Persson, E. , Stålnacke, B-M. , Schult, M-L. , & Monika, L. (2019). Return to work: One and two years follow-up after interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation. A study based on the Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation. Journal of rehabilitation medicine : official journal of the UEMS European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 51(4), 281-289. https://doi.org/10.2340/16501977-2544
( 5 S ) , 295-309 305 chain is “ Rasulullahshallallahu ' alaihiwasallam → Ibnu ' Abbas → Ubaidullah bin Abdullah → AzZuhri → YunusdanMa ' mar → Abdullah →

Text document expresses enormous sort of information traditional database. Unstructured data, particularly free running text data has to be transformed into a structured data. Extracting information from text is part of NLP process. The implementation of the NER algorithm for NLP is normally influenced by the domain of the studies. Besides, there is no existing system that is designed to detect the types of named entity in hadith text, develop POS tags and rule based extraction for narrator’s name in Hadith Text in the Malay language. The POS tags were developed from 1000 hadith te tags were created involving a total of 256 words which is part of narrator’s names. The rule based was developed to determine five types of narrator’s chain. Further research will determine the relationship between each narrator and the constr
Graph-Search and Differential Equations for Time-Optimal Vessel Route Planning in Dynamic Ocean Waves

Time-optimal paths are evaluated by VISIR (“discoVerIng Safe and effIcient Routes”), a graph-search ship routing model, with respect to the solution of the fundamental differential equations governing optimal paths in a dynamic wind-wave environment. The evaluation exercise makes use of identical setups: topological constraints, dynamic wave environmental conditions, and vessel-ocean parametrizations, while advection by external currents is not considered. The emphasis is on predicting the time-optimal ship headings and Speeds Through Water constrained by dynamic ocean wave fields. VISIR upgrades regarding angular resolution, time-interpolation, and static navigational safety constraints are introduced. The deviations of the graph-search results relative to the solution of the exact differential equations in both the path duration and length are assessed. They are found to be of the order of the discretization errors, with VISIR’s solution converging to that of the differential equation for sufficient resolution.