Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cultivating a Process Approach to Writing: Student Experiences in a Developmental Course

Many developmental writing courses in colleges focus on teaching students isolated skills, with little emphasis on how such skills are applicable to the actual process of writing. This article focuses on capturing the perspectives of students enrolled in a developmental writing course designed around an explicit process-oriented pedagogy. The instructor assigned metacognitive tasks and aimed to be transparent with students about the purpose of all course activities and assignments. The findings point to the various ways students can learn to value and use a process approach when writing. The paper concludes with recommendations for helping both instructors and institutions foster a process-oriented writing culture in college classrooms. It also points to future research possibilities.
The socio-economic impacts of Singaporean cross-border tourism in Malaysia and Indonesia

Cross-border tourism is often proposed by governments as an incentive for economic growth, but critics have suggested that its impacts are, in fact, overplayed. This paper presents research in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle. It presents a study of Singaporean cross-border tourism to its neighbours and discusses its economic impacts in two locations: Kukup, a traditional fishing village in Malaysia; and Bintan island in Indonesia. The project examined the broad economic impacts of cross-border tourism on local host communities and given the lack of substantive research on this, examined employment, local ownership and economic linkages and leakages. The study found that cross-border tourism generated income, employment and some local economic linkages. Kukup had clear economic benefits with increased income and employment, but benefits were unevenly distributed between ethnic groups. The Bintan enclave had some linkages to the island economy but was reliant on immigrant labour. In both cases cross-border ethnic ties, specifically Chinese, also played an important role in the growth of cross-border tourism in the Indonesia- Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle The paper shows that cross-border tourism can be a useful addition to more conventional forms of international tourism within national tourism planning and could lead to significant economic benefits for local communities.
IMPACT OF CONTINUOUS PATIENT COUNSELLING ON KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AND PRACTICES AND MEDICATION ADHERENCE OF DIABETIC PATIENTS ATTENDING OUTPATIENT PHARMACY SERVICES

ABSTRACT Objective: The morbidity and morbidity associated with diabetes can be drastically reduced by the knowledge about diabetes mellitus and appropriate attitude toward the disease. A study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) and medication adherence patterns of diabetic patients and effect of pharmacist‑led patient education on KAP and medication adherence patterns in these patients. Methods: 400 diabetic patients of either sex, aged above 18 years were divided randomly into two groups of 200 each as control and the intervention groups. At the baseline, patients in both the groups were assessed for KAP using KAP Questionnaire and medication adherence using Morisky Adherence Questionnaire. Patients in the intervention group were counseled both verbally and by distribution of a patient education leaflets at baseline and at three consecutive follow‑ups (1 st , 2 nd , and 3 months), and patients in the control group were counseled both verbally and by distribution of patient education leaflets at the baseline and then on the follow‑up after 3 months. Both the groups were assessed repeatedly for KAP and medication adherence using same questionnaires after each counseling sessions. The mean scores of KAP and medication adherence, and the fasting blood sugar levels (FBS) at the baseline and on the follow‑up for control and the intervention groups were analyzed statistically using independent sample t‑test and Mann–Whitney U‑test. rd Results: Of 200 patients in each group, 178 females and 22 males in the intervention group (mean age 57.80±9.878 years) and 179 females and 21 males in the control group (mean age 57.57±9.438 years). A statistically significant improvement in the mean KAP and adherence scores was observed from the baseline to the final follow‑up in both groups (p≤0.001). The increase in the KAP and medication adherence scores from baseline to the follow‑up in the intervention group was found to be significantly higher than the control group. There was a reduction in the mean FBS from baseline to the follow‑up in both the groups but a statistically significant higher reduction in the mean FBS was found in the intervention group from baseline to the final follow‑up when compared to the control group (p < 0.001). Conclusion: A better KAP of diabetic patients about their disease can improve the medication adherence behavior which in turn can improve clinical outcomes. The patient education should be a continuous process, and patients should be assessed at every subsequent visit for medication adherence to achieve better health outcome. Keywords: Diabetes, Adherence, Knowledge, attitude and practices, Patient education.
Current status, likely migration and strategies to mitigate the threat to wheat production from race Ug99 (TTKS) of stem rust pathogen

Stem or black rust, caused by Puccinia graminis tritici, has historically caused severe losses to wheat (Triticum aestivum) production worldwide. Successful control of the disease for over three decades through the use of genetic resistance has resulted in a sharp decline in research activity in recent years. Detection and spread in East Africa of race TTKS, commonly known as Ug99, is of high significance as most wheat cultivars currently grown in its likely migration path, i.e. to North Africa through Arabian Peninsula and then to Middle East and Asia, are highly susceptible to this race and the environment is conducive to disease epidemics. Identifying/developing adapted resistant cultivars in a relatively short time and replacing the susceptible cultivars before rust migrates out of East Africa is the strategy to mitigate potential losses. Although several alien genes will provide resistance to this race, the long-term strategy should focus on rebuilding the ‘Sr2-complex’ (combination of slow rusting gene Sr2 with other unknown additive genes of similar nature) to achieve long-term durability. A Global Rust Initiative has been launched to monitor the further migration of this race, facilitate field testing in Kenya or Ethiopia of wheat cultivars and germplasm developed by wheat breeding programmes worldwide, understand the genetic basis of resistanceespecially the durable type, carry out targeted breeding to incorporate diverse resistance genes into key cultivars and germplasm, and enhance the capacity of national programmes. A few wheat genotypes that combine stem rust resistance with high yield potential and other necessary traits have been identified but need rigorous field testing to determine their adaptation in target areas.
Splitting strongly almost disjoint families

We say that a family A C [A]K is strongly almost disjoint if something more than just \A n B\ < n, e.g. that \A f! B\ < a < k, is assumed for A, B G A. We formulate conditions under which every such strongly a.d. family is "essentially disjoint", i.e. for each A E A there is F(A) G [A]<K so that {A \ F(A) : A G A} is disjoint. On the other hand, we get from a supercompact cardinal the consistency of GCH plus the existence of a family A C [ww-|-i]wi whose elements have pairwise finite intersections and such that it does not even have property B. This solves an old problem raised in [4]. The same example is also used to produce a graph of chromatic number 012 on u)u+i that does not contain [w,w], answering a problem from [5]. We also have applications of our results to "splitting" certain families of closed subsets of a topological space. These improve results from [3, 12 and 13].
Early Childhood Preservice Teachers’ Passion, Beliefs, and Their Sense of Teacher Efficacy

This study examined whether passion for teaching and teaching beliefs predicts preservice teachers’ sense of teacher efficacy. A total of 212 pre-service teachers enrolled in early childhood teacher education programs in the Seoul metro area of South Korea participated in this study. The results of multiple hierarchical regression analyses revealed that across all sub-areas of teacher efficacy and overall teacher efficacy, preservice teachers’ constructivist teaching belief was the most significant predictor, followed by harmonious passion. Obsessive passion was a significant predictor of preservice teachers’ sense of teacher efficacy except for efficacy in instructional strategies. Traditional belief was not a positive predictor of preservice teachers’ adaptive outcome, teacher efficacy. This study discussed educational implications for cultivating preservice teachers’ harmonious passion for teaching and the teaching profession, along with the benefits of constructivist teaching belief and practice for preservice teachers with a high level of obsessive passion in order to enhance early childhood preservice teachers’ sense of teacher efficacy and reduce the possible negative interaction effects of traditional teaching belief.
Quantifying emerging local anthropogenic emissions in the Arctic region: the ACCESS aircraft campaign experiment

AbstractArctic sea ice has decreased dramatically in the past few decades and the Arctic is increasingly open to transit shipping and natural resource extraction. However, large knowledge gaps exist regarding composition and impacts of emissions associated with these activities. Arctic hydrocarbon extraction is currently under development owing to the large oil and gas reserves in the region. Transit shipping through the Arctic as an alternative to the traditional shipping routes is currently underway. These activities are expected to increase emissions of air pollutants and climate forcers (e.g., aerosols, ozone) in the Arctic troposphere significantly in the future. The authors present the first measurements of these activities off the coast of Norway taken in summer 2012 as part of the European Arctic Climate Change, Economy, and Society (ACCESS) project. The objectives include quantifying the impact that anthropogenic activities will have on regional air pollution and understanding the connections to .
Testing of Shell Elements using Challenging Benchmark Problems

This paper presents the author’s experiences with testing the accuracy and convergence capability of the shell elements available in commercial software SAP2000 Ver. 11.0. 0 and a variant of shell element developed by the author, namely the Kriging-based curved triangular shell element (K-Shell). A set of shell benchmark problems were utilized in the tests and two of them were selected here due to its difficulty in achieving a converged solution, i.e. the pinched cylinder with end diaphragms and the Raasch challenge problem. The performance of SAP2000 and the K-Shell elements were highlighted and compared to several shell elements from literature. The results showed that the convergence of the elements was relatively slow in the pinched cylinder problem and different shell elements converged to slightly different values in the Raasch challenge problem. The lesson learned is that a user of commercial finite element software must be cautious regarding the accuracy of the computational results when using shell elements. For SAP2000 users using its shell elements, the use of a very fine mesh of the quadrilateral shell elements are recommended in engineering practice. The performance of the K-Shell can be improved if its formulation could eliminate the shear and membrane locking. Future research for the K-Shell, therefore, should be directed on developing a locking-free K-Shell.
The Arches cluster revisited

Context. Located within the central region of the Galaxy, the Arches cluster appears to be one of the youngest, densest, and most massive stellar aggregates within the Milky Way. As such, it has the potential to be uniquely instructive laboratory for the study of star formation in extreme environments and the physics of very massive stars. Aims. To realise this possibility, the fundamental physical properties of both cluster and constituent stars need to be robustly determined; tasks we attempt here. Methods. In order to accomplish these goals we provide and analyse new multi-epoch near-IR spectroscopic data obtained with the VLT/SINFONI and photometry from the HST/WFC3. We are able to stack multiple epochs of spectroscopy for individual stars in order to obtain the deepest view of the cluster members ever obtained. Results. We present spectral classifications for 88 cluster members, all of which are WNLh or O stars: a factor of three increase over previous studies. We find no further examples of Wolf–Rayet stars within the cluster; importantly no H-free examples were identified. The smooth and continuous progression in spectral morphologies from O super/hypergiants through to the WNLh cohort implies a direct evolutionary connection. We identify candidate giant and main sequence O stars spectroscopically for the first time. No products of binary evolution may be unambiguously identified despite the presence of massive binaries within the Arches. Conclusions. Notwithstanding difficulties imposed by the highly uncertain (differential) reddening to the Arches, we infer a main sequence/luminosity class V turn-off mass of ~30−38 M⊙ via the distribution of spectral types. Analysis of the eclipsing binary F2 suggests current masses of ~80 M⊙ and ~60 M⊙ for the WNLh and O hypergiant cohorts, respectively; we conclude that all classified stars have masses >20 M⊙. An age of ~2.0−3.3 Myr is suggested by the turn-off between ~O4-5 V; constraints imposed by the supergiant population and the lack of H-free WRs are consistent with this estimate. While the absence of highly evolved WC stars strongly argues against the prior occurrence of SNe within the Arches, the derived age does accommodate such events for exceptionally massive stars. Further progress will require quantitative analysis of multiple individual cluster members in addition to further spectroscopic observations to better constrain the binary and main sequence populations; nevertheless it is abundantly clear that the Arches offers an unprecedented insight into the formation, evolution and death of the most massive stars nature allows to form.
Commitment to the relationship, extradyadic sex, and AIDS preventive behavior

This study was conducted among 251 heterosexual adults in The Netherlands that included a substantial number of individuals who had had unprotected sex with a new partner. Relationship status and commitment had independent effects upon the willingness to engage in extradyadic sex above and beyond the effects of past extradyadic sex and satisfaction, and commitment was the only psychological predictor of the intention to use condoms in extradyadic sexual contacts. Commitment predicted the willingness to inform the steady partner about one's unsafe extradyadic sex and to protect the steady partner against the possible risk of HIV infection after unsafe extradyadic sex. The implications for AIDS prevention are discussed.
Effects of alcohol consumption on health and mortality

During the last 25 years, alcohol consumption has become a widely debated issue, especially due to research results, in which the beneficial effects of alcohol on health and mortality have been maintained. Research has primarily focused on two issues: the association between low consumption of alcohol and decreased mortality, mediated through decreased risks for cardiovascular diseases, and the association between wine consumption and health. This thesis deals with both of these issues, as well as the identification of high and low consumers of alcohol, by means of a questionnaire and a health examination. The differential effects of high and low alcohol consumption, as well as the differential effects of diverse alcohol beverages are investigated, using data from National Cause of Death Register, National In-Patient Register and National Cancer Register. Multivariate analysis has been conducted to investigate the effects of alcohol and the influence of confounders. The plausibility of tracing high and low consumers of alcohol, through the use of two questions about alcohol consumption included in a questionnaire has also been investigated. The effects of a single health examination, seen in relation to morbidity and mortality, traced in the proceeding 22-year period have
The impact of liquidity and size premium on equity price formation in Serbia

The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of an overall market factor, the factor related to the firm size, the factor related to the ratio of book to market value of companies, and the factor of liquidity risk on expected asset returns in the Serbian market. For this market we estimated different factor models: Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM by Sharpe, 1964), Fama-French (FF) model (1992, 1993), Liquidity-augmented CAPM (LCAPM) by Liu (2006), and combination LCAPM with FF factors. We used daily data for the period from 2005 to 2009. Using a demanding methodology and complex dataset, we found that liquidity and firm size had a significant impact on equity price formation in Serbia. On the other hand, our results suggest that the factor related to the ratio of book to market value of companies does not have an important role in asset pricing in Serbia. We found that Liu’s two-factor LCAPM model performs better in explaining stock returns than the standard CAPM and the Fama-French three-factor model. Additionally, Liu’s LCAPM may indeed be a good tool for realistic assessment of the expected asset returns. The combination of the Fama-French model and the LCAPM could improve the understanding of equilibrium in the Serbian equity market. Even though previous papers have mostly dealt with examining different factor models of developed or emerging markets worldwide, none of them has tested factor models on the countries of former Yugoslavia. This paper is the first to test the FF model and LCAPM with FF factors in the case of Serbia and the area of ex-Yugoslaviа.
A Review: Role of Medicinal Plants in Managing Population Concern

Growing human population is a serious concern all over the world, adversely affecting the society at many aspects such as development, health care, food resources and so on. Medicinal plants play an important role in the treatment of several diseases along with a positive role in the population management. At present, the application of these herbal remedies as a contraceptive measure is taken as an alternative over their synthetic counterparts because of its less side effect and lower cost. The current review present 25 plants possessing antifertility activity, reported in literature from 2011 to 2015. The review contains brief summary of experimental data of medicinal plants along with family name, part used and active constituents in a tabulated form. Current review might prove helpful for the researchers in finding a better contraceptive option; further preparations can be done by this in the terms of safety, acceptable quality and efficacy.
Differential effects of brand, ratings and region on willingness to pay: a hedonic price approach

How consumers respond to signals of a products quality plays an integral role in marketing strategy. While the effects of product characteristics such as brand, region of origin, and ratings have been studied extensively, research on how they interact with each other and the differential effects of these by market segment has not been studied. This paper provides a unique insight into the purchasing behavior of US wine consumers and shows how brand, region and ratings interact and how each has a different effect dependent on price segments and varietal. We attribute these differences to unobserved heterogeneity across consumers who respond differently to different signals of quality. Using data on retail wine purchases in the USA combined with third-party ratings, we used a fixed-effects model to analyze willingness to pay for wine. Our findings provide marketers with a guide to which product characteristics in terms of brand, ratings, and region are the most effective signals of quality to different consumer market segments.
On Statistical Properties of Sets Fulfilling Rolling-Type Conditions

Motivated by set estimation problems, we consider three closely related shape conditions for compact sets: positive reach, r-convexity, and the rolling condition. First, the relations between these shape conditions are analyzed. Second, for the estimation of sets fulfilling a rolling condition, we obtain a result of ‘full consistency’ (i.e. consistency with respect to the Hausdorff metric for the target set and for its boundary). Third, the class of uniformly bounded compact sets whose reach is not smaller than a given constant r is shown to be a P-uniformity class (in Billingsley and Topsøe's (1967) sense) and, in particular, a Glivenko-Cantelli class. Fourth, under broad conditions, the r-convex hull of the sample is proved to be a fully consistent estimator of an r-convex support in the two-dimensional case. Moreover, its boundary length is shown to converge (almost surely) to that of the underlying support. Fifth, the above results are applied to obtain new consistency statements for level set estimators based on the excess mass methodology (see Polonik (1995)).
Disease management mitigates risk of pathogen transmission from maricultured salmonids

Open marine net pens facilitate virus and sea lice transfer, occasionally leading to infections and outbreaks of disease in farmed salmon. A review of 3 salmon pathogens (infectious salmon anaemia virus [ISAV], salmon alphavirus [SAV] and the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis) shows that increased risk of exposure to neighbouring farms is inversely related to distance from and directly related to biomass at the source of infection. Epidemiological techniques integrating data from oceanography, diagnostics and pathogen shedding rates and viability contribute to improved understanding of pathogen transmission pathways among farms and permit the designation of areas of risk associated with sources of infection. Occupation of an area of risk may increase the likelihood of exposure, infection and disease among susceptible fish. Disease mitigation in mariculture occurs at 2 scales: area-based (coordinated stocking, harvesting and fallowing) and farm-based (vaccination, early pathogen detection, veterinary prescribed treatments and depopulation or early harvest in the event of viral disease). Collectively, implementation of mitigation measures results in virus disease outbreaks of shorter duration with lower mortality and therefore reduces the likelihood of pathogen transmission. In contrast, the mitigation of sea lice transmission is less likely to be effective in some areas due to the loss of parasite sensitivity to thera peutants and to dissemination of larval lice when parasites occur below management thresholds. For wild populations, risk of pathogen spillback is estimated from farm-based epidemiological data; however, validation, particularly for ISAV and SAV, is required using direct surveillance.