Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Labour force participation of rural youth in plantation sector of NorthernPeninsular Malaysia

Malaysian agricultural industry is labour-intensive, especially in oil palm plantations. It is reported in 2013 that 69% of the total number of plantation worker in oil palm plantation are foreign and 31% are local. This proportion indicates the lack of interest of the local people to work in the industry which resulted in vast employment of foreign worker. It is believed that the cost of foreign worker recruitment has increased due to rising social and security problems caused by the foreign workers which incurred a hidden cost to palm oil production. This paper aims to investigate the factors of local young labour shortage in oil palm plantation sector in Perak, Perlis, and Kedah. Malaysia can reduce its dependency on foreign worker by identifying the occupational interest of rural youth in oil palm plantation. A survey questionnaire is used to collect data using random and purposive sampling method. A total number of 332 respondents from rural young labours staying in FELDA and FELCRA areas were analysed using Probit model. Results show the factors contributing to the probability to participate in oil palm plantation are age, wage, wage squared, gender, level of education, and mother’s occupation. Attraction factors that can possibly increase local youth participation in plantation sector includes improvement of working environment, job status, facility and benefit in plantation field.
How Does Firms’ Innovation Disclosure Affect Their Banking Relationships?

Firms face a trade-off between patenting, thereby disclosing innovation, and secrecy. We show that this trade-off interacts with firms’ financing choices. As a shock to innovation disclosure, we study the American Inventor’s Protection Act that made firms’ patent applications public 18 months after filing, rather than when granted. We find that such increased innovation disclosure helps firms switch lenders, resulting in lower cost of debt, and facilitates their access to syndicated-loan and public capital markets. Our evidence lends support to the idea that public-information provision through patents and private information in financial relationships are substitutes, and that innovation disclosure makes credit markets more contestable. This paper was accepted by Gustavo Manso, finance.
Clinical Comparative Study for Ultrasound-Guided Trigger-Point Needling for Myofascial Pain

Abstract Background: Most pain syndromes in clinical practice are myofascial in nature and are caused by the myofascial trigger point (MTrP) formation. Recent clinical studies show that MTrP dry needling is most effective to release myofascial pain after local twitch response (LTR) is elicited. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare trigger point dry needling (TrP-DN) under ultrasound (US) guidance with TrP-DN without US guidance for myofascial pain management. Design: This was a case series study with randomized intervention and control groups. The intervention group received dry needling with US guidance and the control group received dry needling without US guidance. Setting: The study was conducted in the Clinical Hospital Pheophania in Kyiv, Ukraine. Patients: This study included 133 patients who had myofascial pain diagnosed after assessment by clinical examination and necessary diagnostic tests. The intervention group consisted of 91 patients: 41 males and 23 females; median age 56. The co.
MARKERS OF COLLAGEN METABOLISM IN THE ASSESSMENT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the value of different markers of coll metabolism in assessing the disease process and further disease progression in patients with matory arthritis, mainly rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In a series of 59 patients with RA and knee joint effusion, the level of synovial fluid (SF) c boxyterminal telopeptide of type I collagen (ICTP), a marker for type I collagen degradation, associated with the Larsen’s grade of the corresponding joint (p < 0.001). The mean SF conc tions of ICTP and the markers of type I and III collagen synthesis (the aminoterminal propeptid type I and III procollagens, PINP and PIIINP) were higher than those in serum. In addition, levels of these markers correlated with each other in both serum and SF (p < 0.001 in both sions). In a three-year follow-up study of 44 RA patients from the abovementioned series and patients with other chronic arthritides, a high SF ICTP level turned out to reflect accelerated ra logical progression in the assessed joint (p < 0.05). Contrary to this, the results on the SF leuk level were contradictory. In a population-based cross-sectional series of 90 patients with advanced RA, elevated ba serum ICTP levels discriminated the patients with a need for total joint replacement surgery those with milder disease (p = 0.001) in a three-year follow-up. In a study of 52 patients with recent onset RA, the changes in BMD during a two-year follow were not associated with the serum level of markers of type I collagen metabolism. In this se however, the decrease in BMD (measured in the spine and the femoral neck) was smaller tha lier reported. In a three-year follow-up series of 63 patients with early RA, the patients with simultaneo elevated serum ICTP (> 4.6 μg/l) and RF positivity at baseline, had an increased risk for progre sive joint disease (an increase in Larsen’s score > 20 as assessed from radiographs of han feet) with an odds ratio of 9.1 (95% CI 2.5 to 32.9). A risk profile of this kind may be useful in ea disease assessment to identify the patients who will need the most active drug therapy.
Mesh Adaptation through r-Refinement using a Truss Network Analogy

This project investigates the use of a truss network, a structural mechanics model, as a metaphor for adapting a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh. The objective of such adaptation is to increase computational efficiency by reducing the numerical error. To drive the adaptation, or to give the scheme an understanding of accuracy, computational errors are translated into forces at mesh vertices via a so-called monitor function. The ball-vertex truss network method is employed as it offers robustness and is applicable to problems in both two and three dimensions. In support of establishing a state-of-the-art adaptive meshing tool, boundary vertices are allowed to slide along geometric boundaries in an automated manner. This is achieved via feature identification followed by the construction of 3 order bezier surface patches over boundary faces. To investigate the ability of the scheme, three numerical test cases were investigated. The first comprised an analytical case, with the aim of qualitatively assessing the ability to cluster vertices according to gradient. The developed scheme proved successful in doing this. Next, compressible transonic flow cases were considered in 2D and 3D. In both cases, the computed coefficient of lift and moment were investigated on the unrefined and refined meshes and then compared for error reduction. Improvements in accuracy of at least 60% were guaranteed, even on coarse meshes. This is viewed as a marked achievement in the sphere of robust and industrially viable r-refinement schemes.
Energy Fixation and Precipitation- Use Efficiency in a Fertilized Rangeland Ecosystem of the Northern Great Plains’

Results of a Z-year study conducted on the mixed prairie near Sidney, Montana, indicated that high rates of nitrogen (N) fertilization accompanied by phosphorus (P) were necessary to obtain maximum levels of energy fixation. Total energy fixed over a Z-year period (1969-70) by the aboveground portion of native vegetation was 1136 kcal/ma or 2384 lb. /acre yield equivalent. Single applications of 100, 300, and 900 lb. /acre of N increased the level of energy fixation 1.6-, 2.2, and 2.0-fold, respectively, when applied without P; 1.7-, 3.2, and 2.8fold, respectively, when applied with 100 lb. P/acre; and 2.0-, 3.0-, and 3.3-fold, respectively, when applied with 200 lb. P/acre. The high N-P treatment decreased the grass plus sedge portion of total yield from 77 to 70% in 1969, but increased it from 61 to 98% in 1970. Increased growth of individual plants and changes in species composition accounted for the high levels of energy fixation by the fertlilized vegetation. Precipitation-use efficiency for the 1970 growing season was 110 lb. /acre/inch on the unfertilized plots and 336 lb. /acre/inch on the high N-P treatment plots.
TRENDS IN ROAD TRAFFIC CRASHES IN TURKEY, 1980-2016

The objective of this article is to examine the trends of traffic crashes, deaths and injuries in Turkey from 1980 to 2016. A time-series methodology were used to analyze crash trends per 1000 people, 1000 driver, 1000 vehicle and a million vehicle-kilometer traveled (VKT). Furthermore, the association between economic development of Turkey and traffic crashes were explored. The effectiveness of highway investments and traffic enforcement on traffic crashes, deaths and injuries were also discussed. Results shows that even though a dramatic increase is has observed in income, vehicle ownership and VKT in Turkey, road traffic deaths has decreased by 17% in the last 26 years. However, crashes and injuries has continued to increase, and death rates are still higher than rates in the European Union (EU) countries.
A pilot study of the effects of early intervention on clinical symptoms and social functioning in psychiatric emergencies

Abstract A pilot study of the effects of early intervention by a multidisciplinary community team in patients presenting as psychiatric emergencies to an inner London teaching hospital (St. Mary's) is described. Of 22 consecutive emergency referrals, 20 agreed to be formally assessed, 18 were successfully engaged and 16 had assessments of symptoms and social functioning assessed over a four week period. There was significant improvement in clinical symptoms but no important changes in social functioning. The discordance between improvement in social function and symptoms was unexpected and may reflect the unusual social circumstances of life in metropolitan London or be a consequence of the high proportion (55%) of patients seen with personality disorders.
Time-Resolved Two Million Year Old Supernova Activity Discovered in the Earth’s Microfossil Record

T isotope 60Fe is mostly produced during the evolution of massive stars (M & 10 M ) in two steps along the course of their evolution. In the first step, during their quiescent helium and carbon shell burning phases, 60Fe is synthesized at the base of these shells by a slow neutron capture process on pre-existing stable seed nuclei, mostly by two successive neutron captures starting on stable 58Fe [1]. In the second step, shock heating within the carbon-shell, driven by the passage of the supernova (SN) blast wave, allows for the synthesis of a modest amount of 60Fe just prior to the subsequent disruption of the star and the concomitant explosive ejection of these shell mass zones, and the 60Fe within them, into the interstellar medium. The subsequent beta-decay of 60Fe, which has a half-life of t1/2 = (2.61 ± 0.04) Ma [weighted average of refs. 2, 3], gives rise to two characteristic gamma-ray lines, which have been detected in the central part of the galactic plane [4], known to be a site of massive stars, confirming the association of 60Fe formation with regions of ongoing massive star nucleosynthesis. If a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) occurs sufficiently close to our solar system, part of the ejected matter should arrive in our solar system. The best candidate mechanism for overcoming the solar wind pressure and penetrating to the Earth’s orbit is dust transport [5, 6]. Recent investigations with farinfrared to sub-millimeter telescopes suggest that CCSN ejecta are efficient dust sources [7]. For instance, copious amounts of dust with a large mass fraction contained in grains of above 0.1 μm size (and up to 4.2 μm) have recently been observed in the ejecta of supernova 2010jl [8]. During atmospheric entry, dust grains are expected to be partially or totally ablated, depending on composition, incident velocity, and angle of entry [9]. The 60Fe released in the ablated fraction will enter the terrestrial iron cycle [10] and become deposited into geological reservoirs such as marine sediments. An excess of 60Fe was already observed in ∼ 2 Ma old layers of a ferromanganese (FeMn) crust retrieved from the Pacific Ocean [5, 11, 12] and recently in lunar samples [13]. However, due to the slow growth rate of the FeMn crust, the 60Fe signal had a poor temporal resolution. This 60Fe has been attributed to a deposition of SN ejecta; though, this interpretation has been challenged by an alternate hypothesis attributing the 60Fe excess to micrometeorites [14, and references therein]. An independent indication of a recent SN interaction with our solar system was recently deduced from the spectra of cosmic ray particles [15]. In our work herein, we aimed at the analysis of the entire temporal structure of the 60Fe signature in terrestrial samples. This requires a geological reservoir with an excellent stratigraphic resolution, high 60Fe sequestration and low Fe mobility, which preserves 60Fe fluxes as they were
Dimensions Of Brand Personality In Mexico

The principal objective of this study was to develop an exploratory investigation of the dimensions of brand personality in Mexico. Furthermore, the brand personality dimensions were compared to study the differences between males and females. An estimated 400 undergraduate students participated. They were given a questionnaire to measure brand personality divided into two sessions (six brands of think products in one session and six brands of feel products in another session). However, not all the students attended class on both days, so some completed only one of the two sessions. In the end, 313 participants completed the questionnaire on the six brands of think products and 320 completed the questionnaire on the six brands of feel products. A total of seven factors were extracted from the brand personality scale: Success, Hipness/Vivacity, Sophistication, Sincerity, Domesticity/Emotionality, Ruggedness and Professionalism. The women rated the brands higher for Success and Hipness/Vivacity, while the men rated the brands higher for Domesticity/Emotionality, Ruggedness and Professionalism. The author discusses the implications of the research for marketing practice and the meaning of these brand personality dimensions in the Mexican cultural context.
NOS ADOLESCENTES THE MODERATING EFFECT OF PARENTING STYLES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY IN ADOLESCENTS

Introduction: The comorbidity between depression and social anxiety is high in adolescence. Parental emotion socialization behaviors have been associated with the development of social skills and depressive symptomatology. Objectives: This study aims to explore the moderating effect of parenting styles on the relationship between social anxiety and depression, to study the associations between them, and to analyze the relationship between parenting styles, social anxiety and depressive symptomatology in adolescents. Methods: The sample consisted of 121 parents and their children. The nature of the present study is correlational and crosssectional. Self-report instruments were used to assess social anxiety (MASQ, March, et al. 1997; Portuguese version: Salvador et al., 2015), depressive symptomatology (CDI, Kovacs, 1985; Portuguese version: Marújo, 1994) and parenting styles (PSST, Gottman & Declaire, 1997; Portuguese version: Matos, Costa, Pinheiro, Silva, & Marques, 2016). Results: It was found that social anxiety is significantly associated to depression and that the former has a predictive effect on the latter. The parenting styles revealed no significant associations with either depressive symptomatology or with social anxiety, but a moderating effect of explorer parenting style was found in the relationship between social anxiety (public performance) and depressive symptomatology. Conclusions: The present investigation confirmed the existence of a significant association between social anxiety and depressive symptomatology in adolescence and suggests an effect of parental practices of emotional socialization in this relation, which, however, should be replicated in future research. It will also be important to study the effect of parenting styles on children's emotional regulation skills and their possible mediating effect on the relationship between social anxiety and depression.
Ectopic Decidua Presenting With a Sigmoid Bowel Perforation: A Case Report

The occurrence of ectopic decidua has been observed mostly in the ovaries, uterus and cervix. Ectopic gastrointestinal deciduosis is a physiological condition. Only several cases of ectopic decidua, causing complications have been presented in literature. To the best of our knowledge, sigmoid or any other bowel perforation, caused by deciduosis, has not been previously reported in literature. Case presentation: A 40-year old patient primigravida (32 weeks of gestation) was admitted with a severe abdominal pain and obstipation. An abdominal sonography was performed but no visual cause of the pain was diagnosed. Two days after admission the episode of severe pain reappeared. An abdominal sonography and x-ray showed “free air” under both domes of diaphragm. A laparotomy was performed. No perforation of hollow viscus was found. On the fifth postoperative day, the patient started to complain about acute abdominal pain. The decision was made to perform relaparotomy (a Caesarean section and reexploration of abdominal cavity during the same operation). During the relaparotomy a part of sigmoid colon was visually altered. A microperforation on tumour-like structures was found in the sigmoid colon. A Sigmoid resection was performed. Currently the patient has no residual complaints and is enjoying her motherhood. Conclusion: We assert that ectopic decidua can result in a perforation of the hollow viscus, which is a lifethreatening condition and should always be taken into account seriously. We believe that sigmoid microperforation could have found, we had taken a more aggressive approach and performed a Caesarean section during the first operation.
THE EFFECT OF MODIFIED AUDIT OPINIONS ON SHARE PRIC ES FOR COMPANIES QUOTED AT THE NAIROBI STOCK EXCHANGE BY TANUI

ix CHAPTER ONE. 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION.1 1.1 Background to the study. 1 1.2 Statement of the problem.4 1.3 Objective of the study.5 1.4 Importance of the study.5 CHAPTER TWO. 7 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW.7 2.
Feeding value for growing cattle

In two experiments the feeding value for growing cattle of barley ensiled with wood molasses (55 Vo DM) was compared with dried barley (DB) and barley ensiled with AIV 11 solution (AIVB). Wood molasses was applied at levels of 8 (WMB8) or 16 Vo (WMBI6) of barley DM in Exp. 1 and 12 Vo (WMBI2) of barley DM in Exp. 2. The AIV II solution was used at a level of 0.3 Vo v/w. In Exp. 1 DB and WMBB were compared during period 1 and DB and WMBI6 during period 2. AIVB and WMBI2 were compared in Exp. 2. Experiment 1 was performed with 12 and Exp. 2 with 16 animals of Ayrshire and Friesian breed. The average ages of the animals at the beginning of the experiment were 126 and 100 days. The first period in Exp. 1 lasted 45 days and the second 53 days. Experiment 2 lasted 140 days. The feeding was based on barley, soybean meal and hay in Exp. 1 and on barley, rapeseed meal and grass silage in Exp. 2 and daily gain of 1200 g/d was targeted. The average proportion of barley of total DM intake averaged 61 Vo during period 1 and 59 Vo during period 2 of Exp. 1 and 54 Vo in Exp. 2. The corresponding proportions of forage of DM intake were 27, 32 and 37 Vo. The average daily gains of 1107 and 1178 g for DB and WMBB, 1182 and 1129 g for DB and WMBI6 and 1248 and 1251 g for AIVB and WMBI2 were not significantly different. Nor did the groups show any significant differences in feed conversion rate, carcass characteristics and rumen fermentation except the lower (P < 0.05) dressing percentage of the WMBI6 group in Exp. 1. Plasma urea N was higher (P < 0.01) and cholesterol lower (P < 0.01) in the AIVB group than in the WMBI2 group. Plasma concentrations of glucose, alanine aminotransferase, asparte aminotransferase and creatinine did not differ significantly in the different groups.
models for palaeoenvironmental studies Ecology of testate amoebae ( Protista ) in south-central Alaska peatlands : building transfer-function

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Faut-il ventiler les patients de réanimation dans les pays en développement?

L'objectif etait d'evaluer la mortalite des patients beneficiant d'une ventilation artificielle superieure a 6 heures, dans un service de reanimation d'un pays en developpement. Type d'etude: etude monocentrique, descriptive et prospective. Lieu de realisation: Service de reanimation (10 lits) du Centre Hospitalier Regional de Moroni, Union des Comores (centre de reference). Cent patients soumis a une ventilation artificielle, sur 633 admissions consecutives sur une duree de 10 mois. Criteres evalues: etat civil, âge, sexe, score IGS2 (index de gravite simplifie, 2° version), motif d'admission, motif et caractere urgent de la ventilation, duree en heures de la ventilation et de l'intubation, mode d'intubation, necessite d'une sedation, complications de l'intubation et de la ventilation. Mortalite hospitaliere et survie a 12 mois. La mortalite hospitaliere est de 59 %. Elle est statistiquement plus elevee chez les patients ayant un score IGS2 eleve, et chez ceux necessitant une curarisation. Le sexe, l'âge, le motif d'admission, le caractere urgent de la ventilation artificielle (VA), la necessite d'une sedation, et la survenue d'une complication de la VA ne sont pas associes a la mortalite. Le meilleur pronostic est observe pour les affections suivantes: paludisme grave, meningite, eclampsie et intoxications. 100 % des patients quittant le service (41) sont vivants 12 mois apres leur sortie. La VA, utilisee comme technique de reanimation dans un pays en developpement est associee a une mortalite peu differente de celle observee dans les reanimations occidentales. Le jeune âge des patients, le caractere aigu et la reversibilite des affections rencontrees expliquent ces «bons» resultats. Le diagnostic d'admission et l'appreciation de facteurs associes (en s'aidant eventuellement d'un score de gravite) doivent etre pris en compte pour poser l'indication de la mise en place de cette technique ou de sa poursuite. Au total la technique semble realisable et efficace, mais elle necessite experience, imagination et realisme.
Does affective commitment decrease the level of stress reported in teachers? A comparison of primary and secondary school teachers

Occupational stress has been established as a predictor of low physical and psychological well-being. Organisational commitment can act as a buffer to the adverse effects of stress. Two types of commitment (affective and continuance) were studied to determine whether they have the same buffering effect. The ASSET questionnaire was completed by 112 teachers (52 primary, 60 secondary). The two types of commitment differed in their effect on stress, with high affective commitment leading to lower levels of stress and high continuance commitment resulting in higher levels of stress. No difference was found between the reported stress levels of primary and secondary school teachers. Possible explanations for the findings, potential implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.