nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
The Animal in Me: Enhancing Emotion Recognition in Adolescents with Autism Using Animal Filters
Venue: Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Year: 2019

People with autism are often characterized as having difficulties with theory of mind abilities such as emotion recognition. However, rather than being a pervasive deficit of 'mindblindness, a number of studies suggests these difficulties vary by context, and when people with autism mindread non human agents, such as animals or cartoons, these abilities improve. To replicate this effect, 15 adolescents with both autism and intellectual disability participated in a test of facial emotion recognition, with both human and animal faces. Participants performed significantly better on the animal version of the assessment compared to the human version, and human rather than animal scores were the strongest predictor of symptom severity. These results were shown to be primarily driven by improvement in recognition of the emotions happiness and anger in animal rather than human faces. Implications with regards to social motivation and theory of mind interventions are discussed.
Assessing Author Identifiers: Preparing for a Linked Data Approach to Name Authority Control in an Institutional Repository Context
Venue: Journal of Library Metadata
Year: 2019

Linked data solutions for name authority control in digital libraries are an area of growing interest, particularly among institutional repositories (IRs) This article first considers the shift from traditional authority files to author identifiers, highlighting some of the challenges and possibilities. An analysis of author name strings in Duke University's open access repository, DukeSpace, is conducted to identify a suitable source of author URIs for Duke's newly launched repository for research data. Does one of the three prominent international authority sources Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) and Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) demonstrate the most comprehensive uptake? Finally, recommendations surrounding a technical approach to leveraging author Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) at Duke are briefly considered.
IMPACT OF ADDUCTOR STRENGTHENING ON SPRINT TIME AND AGILITY IN FOOTBALL PLAYERS
Year: 2020

The ability to tackle and dribble the ball swiftly past the rival player forms an important ball based football skill. Agility plays a crucial role for the players to gain good control over the ball. A combination of good agility with good sprint time is undoubtedly a distinguishing characteristic of elite level players. Football as a sport requires a rapid change of directions and speed several times during a match. This particular action requires the player to apply force rapidly into the ground, thereby putting a lot of stress on the adductor muscles. This research paper focuses on the impact of hip adductor exercises and their influence on agility and sprint time in football players.  This interventional study was carried out on 131 male elite level football players playing from clubs and football academies in and around Mumbai city. All the players were assessed for 30 M sprint test, T Test, and Dribble time test to assess sprint and agility pre and post intervention. An adductor strengthening intervention consisting of 8 exercises were performed for over four weeks.  Paired T test was used to analyze the data, which showed statically significant improvement with p value 0.000 <0.05) in the 30M sprint test, T Test, and Dribble time post four weeks of intervention.  We concluded that the adductor training intervention helped improve the sprint time and agility in football players. As the intervention helped improving performance in football players, it should be introduced in the routine conditioning program of the players.
Factors Influencing Female Students' Classroom Participation: A Case Study of Mauritanian Tertiary Students
Year: 2018

Mauritanian classroom has been regarded as male public space. This has affected the academic achievement of female students, which in turn is likely to influence negatively their social, economic and political visibilities. As such, females' participation in the classroom activities becomes an inviting topic to be explored. The current study, thereby, aims to unveil the reasons of highly inhibited and highly exuberant female students in the classroom. In so doing, observations and interviews were carried out on 8 students studying at the Modern University of Nouakchott. The findings revealed that inhibition, depreciation of participation, devaluation of speech in mixed environment, peers' negative comments, and distant and/or female professors, were the main factors hindering female students' participation. Factors that have been rated as strong promoters of participation, however, were: positive perception of participation, "modern thinking," wellrounded knowledge about the topic, the type of topic studied, accessible professors, and learner centered approach.
Co movement dynamics between global sukuk and bond markets
Venue: International Journal of Emerging Markets
Year: 2019

Market links (and price discovery) between financial assets and lead lag relationships are topics of interest for financial economists, financial managers and analysts. The lead lag relationship analysis should consider both short and long term investors. From a portfolio diversification perspective, the first type of investor is generally more interested in determining the co movement of financial assets at higher frequencies, which are short run fluctuations, while the latter concentrates on the relationship at lower frequencies, or long run fluctuations. The paper aims to discuss these issues.  For this study, a technique was employed known as the wavelet approach, which has recently been imported to finance from engineering sciences to study the co movement dynamics between global sukuk and bond markets. Data cover the period from January 2010 to December 2015.  The results indicate that: there is no unidirectional causality from developed market bond indices to Malaysia and Dow Jones indices, which is promising for fixed income investors of a developed market; and in relation to emerging markets, the Malaysian sukuk market has a bidirectional causality with Indonesia, Malaysia, India and South Korea bond indices but not China bond indices, while in terms of the Dow Jones sukuk index, there is no unidirectional causality between the listed emerging markets and the sukuk index except Indonesia's market during the sample period.  This analysis provides evidence regarding the timely and appropriate measure of correlation changes and the behaviour of sukuk and bond indices globally, which is beneficial to the management of sukuk and bond portfolios.  The evidence hitherto unexplored, which was produced by the application of a wavelet cross correlation amongst the selected sukuk and bond indices, provides robust and useful information for international financial analysts as well as long and short term investors.
Kesesuaian Implementasi Prinsip Ta'awun Dana Tabarru' pada Asuransi Syariah terhadap Fatwa DSN no. 53(Studi Kasus pada PT. Asuransi Takaful Keluarga Surabaya)
Year: 2012

Kesesuaian Implementasi Prinsip Ta'awun Dana Tabarru' pada Asuransi Syariah terhadap Fatwa DSN no. 53(Studi Kasus pada PT. Asuransi Takaful Keluarga Surabaya) ISI Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana penggunaan dana tabarru' pada asuransi syariah PT. Asuransi Takaful Keluarga dikaitkan dengan dasar peraturannya yaitu fatwa DSN no. 53 Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan menggunakan pendekatan studi kasus. Wawancara dilakukan kepada 10 pegawai PT. Asuransi Takaful Keluarga dan 5 peserta PT. Asuransi Takaful Keluarga. Data sekunder dari penelitian ini diperoleh dari buku buku terkait asuransi syariah, jurnal, materi perkuliahan dan sumber lain yang relevan Hasil penelitian adalah PT. Asuransi Takaful Keluarga telah menggunakan dana tabarru' sesuai dengan fatwa DSN no. 53, hal ini telah berdampak pada peningkatan kepercayaan masyarakat terhadap PT. Asuransi Takaful Keluarga
Antifungal Effects of Synthetic Human Beta defensin 3 C15 Peptide on Candida albicans infected Root Dentin
Venue: Journal of endodontics
Year: 2017

The aim of this study was to assess the antifungal efficacy of a synthetic human beta defensin 3 C15 peptide (HBD3 C15) in Candida albicans infected human root dentin.  Standardized root dentin blocks were prepared (6 mm thick, 0.7 mm wide canal) from single rooted human permanent premolars and infected with C. albicans for 3 weeks. They were randomly divided into 4 groups (n 8/group) and their canals were filled with calcium hydroxide (CH) HBD3 C15 peptide, or chlorhexidine digluconate (CHX, 2% as disinfectants or saline as control. After 1 week of disinfection, dentinal debris were harvested at depths of 200 and 400 &mgr;m from the canal lumen, and incubated in Yeast broth for 72 hours at 37degC. Then, colony forming units (CFU) were measured to assess the antifungal efficacy of each medicament and analyzed statistically.  All medicaments showed significantly lower CFU than saline (P .05) and their antifungal efficacies were similar at both 200 and 400 &mgr;m tubular depths (P .05) HBD3 C15 had similar antifungal efficacy to that of CHX at both depths (P .05) and both medicaments had significantly lower CFU than CH at both depths (P .05)  In this ex vivo model of C. albicans infected human root dentin, the antifungal efficacy of synthetic HBD3 C15 was comparable with CHX. HighlightsCandida albicans biofilm is closely related to initiation and persistence of refractory apical periodontitis.Antifungal efficacy of various intracanal medicaments were assessed in C. albicans infected human root dentin.In C. albicans infected human dentin blocks, root canals were covered by mature biofilms with tubular penetration of 400 &mgr;m.In this standardized ex vivo model, chlorhexidine and synthetic human &bgr; defensin 3 C15 peptide were similar and highly effective at reducing C. albicans CFU, whereas calcium hydroxide had limited efficacy.
Hypomelanose d'Ito a propos de 4 cas au Senegal
Year: 2018

Introduction L'hypomelanose d'Ito est un syndrome neurocutane congenital rare caracterise par la presence de lesions hypopigmentees le long des lignes de Blasko associees a des manifestations systemiques. Observation Nous en rapportons 4 observations chez des enfants ages entre de 8 a 20 mois. Ils presentaient tous une epilepsie, un retard de developpement psychomoteur et des lesions hypopigmentees diffuses. L'electroencephalogramme montrait des lesions irritatives diffuses ou focales sur un rythme de fond normal ou ralenti. Le scanner cerebral etait normal chez 2 enfants et montrait un cas d'atrophie hemispherique. Malgre un traitement antiepileptique et une reeducation psychomotrice l' amelioration clinique etait restee pauvre avec persistance d'une epilepsie pharcoresistante et d'un retard des acquisitions psymotrices.  C'est un syndrome sporadique, non lie au sexe. Le phenotype cutane serait la consequence d'un mosaicisme monogenique ou chromosomique. La frequence des anomalies neurocutanees est estimee entre 30 et 94 Des malformations cerebrales sont parfois associees a ce syndrome. Le traitement est symptomatique et multidisciplinaire. Plusieurs auteurs ont note un caractere pharmacoresistant de l'epilepsie. Conclusion L'hypomelanose d'Ito est une maladie congenitale multisystemique a predominance neurocutane. Une meilleure comprehension des facteurs genetiques sous jacents faciliterait la prise en charge dans une approche multidisciplinaire.
From a literature review to a conceptual framework for sustainable supply chain management
Year: 2008

Academic and corporate interest in sustainable supply chain management has risen considerably in recent years. This can be seen by the number of papers published and in particular by journal special issues. To establish the field further, the purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it offers a literature review on sustainable supply chain management taking 191 papers published from 1994 to 2007 into account. Second, it offers a conceptual framework to summarize the research in this field comprising three parts. As starting point related triggers are identified. This allows putting forward two distinct strategies: (1) supplier management for risks and performance, and (2) supply chain management for sustainable products. It is evident that research is still dominated by green/environmental issues. Social aspects and also the integration of the three dimensions of sustainability are still rare. Both practitioners in companies and academics might find the review useful, as it outlines major lines of research in the field. Further, it discusses specific features of sustainable supply chains as well as limitations of existing research; this should stimulate further research.
Sample Preservation, DNA or RNA Extraction and Data Analysis for High Throughput Phytoplankton Community Sequencing
Venue: Front. Microbiol.
Year: 2017

Phytoplankton is the basis for aquatic food webs and mirrors the water quality. Conventionally, phytoplankton analysis has been done using time consuming and partly subjective microscopic observations, but next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies provide promising potential for rapid automated examination of environmental samples. Because many phytoplankton species have tough cell walls, methods for cell lysis and DNA or RNA isolation need to be efficient to allow unbiased nucleic acid retrieval. Here, we analyzed how two phytoplankton preservation methods, three commercial DNA extraction kits and their improvements, three RNA extraction methods, and two data analysis procedures affected the results of the NGS analysis. A mock community was pooled from phytoplankton species with variation in nucleus size and cell wall hardness. Although the study showed potential for studying Lugol preserved sample collections, it demonstrated critical challenges in the DNA based phytoplankton analysis in overall. The 18S rRNA gene sequencing output was highly affected by the variation in the rRNA gene copy numbers per cell, while sample preservation and nucleic acid extraction methods formed another source of variation. At the top, sequence specific variation in the data quality introduced unexpected bioinformatics bias when the sliding window method was used for the quality trimming of the Ion Torrent data. While DNA based analyses did not correlate with biomasses or cell numbers of the mock community, rRNA based analyses were less affected by different RNA extraction procedures and had better match with the biomasses, dry weight and carbon contents, and are therefore recommended for quantitative phytoplankton analyses.
IoT device management framework for smart home scenarios
Venue: 2015 IEEE 4th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)
Year: 2015

The paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT) requires pervasive connectivity to billions of heterogeneous devices. In recent time, rapid growth of IoT devices in smart home environment envisioned a wide range of novel services and applications. However, due to the inherent heterogeneity, home environment is becoming complex making device management extremely difficult. This paper proposes a lightweight IoT device management framework for smart home services. The framework can be deployed at home gateways and consumer smart devices. A prototype implementation and performance evaluation results are also presented.
Cloud Computing: Evolution and Challenges
Year: 2017

Cloud computing is a most the present progressing technology which enables the organizations or indiv iduals to share various services in a seamless and cost effective manner over the network on public/private networks using WAN, LAN or VPN. Virtualizat ion, grid computing and utility computing are the most popular emerged technologies which are used in cloud computing and developed as a great technology to end users. The idea of virtualization is utilized as a strategy which permits sharing of single physical instance of an application or resource among different association's clients. A grid computing application is processor concentrated software that splits up its processing into little lump then each piece is handled as an individual procedure and this is adopted in cloud computing. The main advantage with cloud computing is having utility computing concept which is Pay per Use model and also offers computational resources on demand as a metered service. In this paper, how cloud computing is evolved from the most popular technologies and the five essential characteristics/of ferings of cloud computing application is presented in this paper. The various deployment, service models and challenges in cloud computing are addressed in this paper.
Effects of drought and re flooding on growth and photosynthesis of Carex schmidtii Meinsh: Implication for tussock restoration
Venue: Ecological Indicators
Year: 2019

Drought and flood are two common stresses on the growth and photosynthesis of wetland plants. Wetland plants experience the alternating drought flooding conditions over an irregular time scale. In order to investigate the effects of hydrological fluctuations on plant growth and photosynthesis, we subjected Carex schmidtii (a tussock forming species) to five alternating drought flooding conditions: consecutive drying treatment (D) moist treatment (W) and re flooding treatments (RT) after 30 days (DF30) 40 days (DF40) and 60 days (DF60) of drought. Results showed that both D and RT had positive or negative interactive effects on the growth and photosynthesis of C. schmidtii. D treatment increased leaf area (21.69% and plant mass (24.40% by the 60th day; plant height and chlorophyll content decreased by 18.03% and 17.93% compared with those obtained under W conditions, respectively. RT were found to successfully recovery plant mass, chlorophyll content and photosynthesis of C. schmidtii, whereas flooding condition inhibited plant performance in the late growth stage. DF30 conditions contributed to C. schmidtii tussocks having a rapid in response to alternating drought flooding conditions compared to DF40 and DF60 treatments. Compared to plant traits and photosynthetic parameters in the early growth stages, C. schmidtii is much more sensitive to consecutive drying and re flooding in the middle growth stages. Results indicated C. schmidtii to be suitably adapted to hydrological fluctuations in the early growth stage, and RT initiated in the first 60 days can effectively recover plant growth and photosynthesis. The findings provide invaluable supporting information for the restoration and management of C. schmidtii tussocks in sedge wetlands.
A GL Model on Thermo Elastic Interaction in a Poroelastic Material Using Finite Element Method
Venue: Symmetry
Year: 2020

The purpose of this study is to provide a method to investigate the effects of thermal relaxation times in a poroelastic material by using the finite element method. The formulations are applied under the Green and Lindsay model, with four thermal relaxation times. Due to the complex governing equation, the finite element method has been used to solve these problems. All physical quantities are presented as symmetric and asymmetric tensors. The effects of thermal relaxation times and porosity in a poro thermoelastic medium are studied. Numerical computations for temperatures, displacements and stresses for the liquid and the solid are presented graphically.
Seeing Green: The Re discovery of Plants and Nature's Wisdom
Year: 2013

In this article, I endeavor to recount the odd history of how we have come to perceive plants like we do, and illustrate how plants themselves perceive and sense the world and, most importantly, what they can tell us about Nature. Through examples of the ingenious ways plants have evolved to thrive, I engage the idea that our modern society is afflicted by a severe disorder known as plant blindness a pervasive condition inherited from our forefather Aristotle and accountable for the current state of vegetal disregard and hence environmental dilapidation. I propose that the solution to this state of affairs rests in a radical change of perspective, one that brings the prevailing, yet defective, Aristotelian paradigm together with its expectations on how Nature should behave to an end. Enacted, such change releases us into a new experience of reality, where the coherent nature of Nature is revealed.
Being Strategy: From Positioning To Confirmation
Year: 2017

In the legacy era, the concept of positioning remains at the core of marketing strategy. It is a product's or service's "being strategy" It articulates the goals that a consumer will achieve by using a brand and explains why it is superior to other means of accomplishing this goal. Al Ries and Jack Trout (1981) in their legendary book Positioning: The Battle of Your Mind, said that marketing war unfolds not in the market, but in the minds of customers. It is a war fought to snatch away a piece of land (space) in the minds of customers. In the book, the authors define positioning as what you do to the mind of the prospect and not what you do to a product. Each successful product, brand, and company has managed to gain a strong and unique position in the minds of customers.
La protection des civils par les operations de maintien de la paix de l'ONU
Year: 2016

Les echecs des operations de maintien de la paix de l'ONU au Rwanda et en Bosnie ont grandement entame l'image des Casques bleus, impuissants face aux massacres et atrocites dont ils etaient temoins. Or depuis 1999, la protection des civils a connu une expansion et une normalisation institutionnelles au sein des Nations unies, tant dans la doctrine que dans les pratiques. En l'invoquant comme la tache prioritaire des operations de paix, le Conseil de securite et le Secretariat se sont investis dans un developpement essentiel du concept de protection des civils. De meme, les activites des peacekeepers sur le terrain ont confirme ces inflexions. La Mission des Nations unies en Republique democratique du Congo (MONUC, puis MONUSCO) laboratoire des pratiques de protection depuis 15 ans, a demontre une hyperactivite remarquable pour proteger les populations. De nombreux outils et mecanismes specifiques ont ete developpes pour renforcer les capacites de reponse aux besoins de protection, et les soldats de la paix ont demontre qu'ils pouvaient exploiter un pan immense de pratiques operationnelles pour proteger les civils, de la simple presence dissuasive aux operations offensives contre les groupes armes. Cette these demontre les evolutions conceptuelles et pratiques qui sont advenues et met en lumiere les facteurs influencant la mise en oeuvre concrete de cette politique de protection, desormais centrale dans le maintien de la paix de l'ONU. Elle explore la dynamique institutionnelle d'une part, et la dynamique politique d'autre part, dessinant toutes deux les contours des pratiques de protection, et pouvant tantot reduire, tantot accroitre leur efficience.