Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Experiment in Mind-Mapping and Argument-Mapping: Tools for Assessing Outcomes in the Business Curriculum.

Distinguished from other teaching-learning tools, such as mind and concept mapping in which students draw pictures and concepts and show relationships and correlation between them to demonstrate their own understanding of complex concepts, argument mapping is used to demonstrate clarity of reasoning, based on supporting evidence, and come to a conclusion, which enhances business decision making skills, a common learning outcome in the business curriculum. In this study on business education, argument mapping was demonstrated as an effective methodology to assess student learning and conceptualization of a business and as a useful classroom activity to present a business problem and have students develop business solutions, as individuals or in groups. The paper describes classroom-based evidence from an introductory business course, in which students developed an argument map and then shared their work to stimulate discussion about the business problem/argument to be solved and appropriate business decisions to make.
Instructional Methods and Curricula for “Values Conscious Design”

Values at Play (VAP) is a project that aims to investigate the role of social, moral, and political values in digital games. A primary goal of the project has been to develop a systematic approach to considering values in the design process. Another goal, complementary to this one, has been to create and disseminate curricula and instructional materials for introducing students to our approach, and, more broadly, to “values conscious” design. This paper provides an overview of curricula and instructional materials created to date, as used in a number of graduate and undergraduate game design courses.
Co-inoculation with Rhizobium and Bacillus sp. to improve the phosphorus availability and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).

Intensive cropping has resulted-in wide spread deficiency of nutrients in most of the soils and situation is becoming more serious because of a increase in the use of high priced chemical fertilizers and their negative influence on the environment. Exploitation of biological intervention mainly phosphate solublizing bacteria (PSB) has attracted great attention, as they have enormous potential in providing soil phosphorus for plant growth, by increasing the availability of accumulated phosphate through solubilization. A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of Rhizobium and Bacillus, alone and in combination on the yield parameters of wheat. Uniform dose of N and K (160 and 60 kg ha), while two levels of P (57 and 114 kg ha) were applied as Urea, SOP and SSP, respectively. Bacillus and Rhizobium were applied as seed coating to wheat (Var. Sehar 2006). Results revealed that number of tillers (370.3 m), spike length (13.50 cm), number of grains (46 spike), grain yield (6171 kg ha), biomass (17.00 t ha), grain protein (11.84%) and 1000 grain weight (62 g) were higher in co-inoculation of Rhizobium and Bacillus. It was also recorded that coinoculation of Rhizobium and Bacillus improved the grain yield up to 17.5% as compared to control. In single inoculation Bacillus gave better result and showed an increase of 7.7% in grain yield. Phosphorus uptake by grains (25.29 kg ha) was maximized by co-inoculation followed by Bacillus inoculation. Available phosphorus in post harvest sample of soil was recorded (16.27 mg kg) which was significantly higher than all other treatments. Results clearly demonstrated that co-inoculation of Rhizobium and Bacillus sp enhanced the availability of phosphorus and exert positive effect on the growth and yield of crop.
Hyperglycemia in transported neonates: A tertiary care experience

Introduction: Hyperglycemia is common in low birth weight and sick neonates which affect them adversely due to hyperosmolarity. As these neonates need often referral to higher setup, maintenance of euglycemia during transport should be emphasized. Objective: To know the prevalence of hyperglycemia on admission among outborn neonates and analyze the association of different transport variables and other clinical parameters with it. Methods: An observational, analytical, and cross-sectional study was designed and conducted on outborn neonates, enrolled by simple consecutive sampling from November 2014 to October 2016. All data were analyzed using SPSS version 24 and Microsoft Excel version 16 software. Results: Out of 394 outborn neonates, 33.75% were hyperglycemic. 76.4% newborns were transported by ambulance, 94.9% were stabilized before referral, 61.2% had accompanying paramedics, 86.5% neonates given intravenous fluid (IVF) during transport, 61.4% transported by moderately equipped, and 38.6% by poorly equipped vehicle. Admission hyperglycemia was significantly associated with variables such as gestational age, birth asphyxia, type of transport vehicle, duration of transport, IVF during transport, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, and neonatal jaundice with p<0.05. Logistic regression model taking variable which shows a strong association, we can predict 70.3% time correctly the hyperglycemia on admission. Conclusion: Prevalence of hyperglycemia found to be quite common in referred neonates. Although there is quite improvement in neonatal transport due to the implementation of various government transport schemes for patients, specialized neonatal transport service with accompanied skill personnel and care during transport is a long way to go.
HOME RANGE SIZE OF BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS IN BURNED FORESTS OF SOUTHWESTERN IDAHO

Abstract We examined home range size of Black-backed Woodpeckers (Picoides arcticus) in burned ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) / Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests of southwestern Idaho during 2000 and 2002 (6 and 8 years following fire). Home range size for 4 adult males during the post-fledging period was 115.6–420.9 ha using the 95% fixed-kernel method, and 150.4–766.1 ha using the 100% minimum convex polygon method. Smoothed bootstrap estimates (95%) were 130.0–521.9 ha. Home range sizes were significantly smaller 6 years after fire than 8 years after fire. Each male had from 2 to 8 areas of concentrated use within his home range. We provide recommendations for estimating area requirements of Black-backed Woodpeckers in post-fire ponderosa pine / Douglas-fir forests.
NICHE PARTITION OF TWO INVASIVE INSECT SPECIES

Invasive organisms are among major threats to biodiversity. Insects, due to their mobility and short life cycle represent a vast category of expanding organisms. The black locust (Robinia pseudacacia) is also an alien species to Europe but due to the relatively long history of naturalization, it is integrated in most of central Europe landscapes. A process of natural enemy acquisitions is taking place and two new pests affect stands, hedgerows and windbreaks where R. pseudacacia vegetates: Parectopa robiniella and Phyllonorycter robiniella (Lepidoptera Gracillariidae). A heavy infestation mostly with the newly introduced Phyllonorycter robiniella was observed in western and central Romania during 2003-2004. In many cases, leaves presented also mines of Parectopa robiniella. The mines of Phyllonorycter robiniella were attacked by several natural enemies: birds predated pupae, Beauveria bassiana was isolated from mines where larvae mortality was reported and also pupae of parasitoids where found in several cases. Having the same target, the foliage of the host and being members of the same guild, mining insects utilize the same niche. The study is interested in separating the niche components, mostly spatial of the two species based on the analysis of the results of C score of association. The shape of mines and their extension on the leaflet blade were assessed using image analysis. Rezumat: Organismele invazive sunt printre ameninţările majore la adresa biodiversităţii. Insectele, datorită mobilităţii şi ciclului scurt de viaţă reprezintă o categorie vastă de organisme aflate în expansiune. Salcâmul (Robina pseudacacia) este de asemenea o specie exotică pentru Europa dar datorită istoriei îndelungate de naturalizare, s-a integrat in cele mai multe din peisajele central europene. Un proces de achiziţie de duşmani naturali are loc in prezent şi doi noi dăunători afectează arboretele, aliniamentele şi perdelele forestiere în care vegetează R. pseudacacia: Parectopa robiniella şi Phyllonorycte robiniella (Lepidoptera:Gracillariidae). Între anii 2003-2004 a fost observată o infestare puternică în vestul şi centrul României cu specia nou introdusă, Phyllonorycter robiniella. În multe cazuri, frunzele prezentau şi mine de Paretopa robiniella. Minele de Phyllonorycter robiniella au fost atacate de câţiva duşmani naturali: păsările au prădat minele, Beauveria bassiana a fost izolată din din mine în care a fost observată mortalitatea larvelor şi de asemenea, pupe de parazitoizi au fost găsite în câteva cazuri. Având aceeaşi ţintă, foliajul plantei gazdă şi fiind membrii ai aceleaşi bresle, insectele miniere utilizează aceeaşi nişă. Studiul este interesat de separarea componentelor nişei spaţiale a celor două specii pe baza analizei rezultatelor aplicării testului C de asociere. Forma minelor şi extinderea pe foliole a fost determinată prin analiză de imagine.
Addressing the Low Skill Levels of University Undergraduates in the United Kingdom

There seems to be an increasing problem with basic skills acquisition for young people in the UK. Lower levels of facility with literacy and numeracy than older generations are being reported, including for those with higher levels of education. In this article, we attribute the problem to prevalent fixed mindsets, resulting in a lack of attention to developing both narrative and scientific modes of thought in all learners, and also to the important affective domain: beliefs, attitudes and emotions. This can lead to the unintended exclusion of learners within certain subjects, based on their existing strengths and weaknesses. We propose the development of a newly sensitive and inclusive approach, rooted in the use of both narrative and scientific modes of thoughts across all subject areas, developing growth mindsets, promoting academic resilience and using the ‘growth zone model’ explicitly with learners.
Economic Development, Institutional Quality and Regional integration: Evidence from Africa Countries

The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence about the determinants of per capita income in African countries, with particular attention to the affects of governance institutional quality and sub regional integration on income level. We use a sample of 49 countries from the period 1996-2004 and the Generalized Method of Moments Estimation model for dynamic panel, proposed by Arellano and Bond (1991). The results show that African regional groups with better institutions, higher degrees of regional integration cooperation, higher rates of investment in human capital and lower rates of population growth, show a higher level of per capita income
RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF INTRACRANIAL AND INTRASPINAL SPACE OCCUPYING LESIONS AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTER- A FIVE YEAR STUDY

Background: Tumors of Central Nervous System constitute approximately 2% of all malignancies. Cancers of the central nervous system (CNS) are considered to be among the most notorious of all cancers. Low-grade cns tumors have been found over time to progress to high grade tumors. CNS is a common site for metastasis from other organs. Due to newer techniques used in radio diagnosis and stereotactic biopsies, more & more CNS tumors are being diagnosed & are being operated upon. Aims and objectives: The objective of this article is to provide an overview of intracranial and intraspinal space occupying lesions at a single tertiary care referral center. The aim was to study incidence of various lesions in light of the WHO classification of tumours of the central nervous system, 2016 and to study relevant statistics. Material and methods: A total of 124 cases were received between January,2007 & December, 2011 at Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College and Hospital, Pune. Intraoperative diagnosis was desired in 70 cases. The final diagnoses in all the cases were made on Hematoxylin and Eosin stained slides of routinely processed tissue. Results: Neoplastic lesions comprised 83.88 %, including metastatic tumors while 16.12 % were nonneoplastic. A wide range of histopathological spectrum of CNS tumors was observed and was classified according to WHO classification of CNS tumors, 2016. The primary CNS tumors were graded from Grade I to IV according to WHO grading system, 2016. Astrocytic tumors constituted the largest category with 33 cases and most of the astrocytomas were grade II at the time of diagnosis. Incidence was more in females than males and maximum number of lesions were seen in fifth and sixth decades of life. Conclusion: This study highlights the histological diversity of CNS tumors in both adults and children. The most common destructive but nonneoplastic lesions like, infections/abscesses, infarct and cysts can be diagnosed, by crush cytology and frozen section for the definitive management.
TOPIC MODELING FOR ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE -Enriching topic modeling with linguistic information to analyze Swedish housing policies

This work investigates how the method of topic modeling can be applied to investigate the public discourse of Swedish housing policies. The data used to represent this discourse is both from the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, and Swedish newstexts. The lack of housing and current housing crisis in Sweden makes this a relevant area to study. Topic modeling is an unsupervised probabilistic method for finding topics in large collections of data. This is a popular method for examining public discourse, however there is a lack of including linguistic information in the preprocessing steps of it. Therefore, this work also investigates what effect linguistically informed preprocessing has on topic modeling. Three types of linguistic information are selected and investigated. These are part of speech, dependency relations and lemmatization. Based on these, filters are created for the data. The filters are applied to a test set (a subset of the original data), and a topic model is trained on each filtered version of this test set. The resulting topics from each model are evaluated by both humans and the computational methods perplexity and semantic coherence, and the results from the respective evaluation methods are compared. The semantic coherence named cv is found to have a higher correlation with human ratings than the npmi coherence. Perplexity is found to not correlate well with human ratings. Filtering the data based on part of speech is found to most improve the topic quality. Non-lemmatized topics are found to be rated higher than lemmatized topics. Topics from the filters based on dependency relations are found to have low ratings. Based on the human ratings, an optimum model for respective data set is chosen. The selected topic models are applied to the data, and the results are used for to exemplify how one can use them for analysis. Topic modeling is found to be a suitable method for the intended analysis.
Some sampling considerations in the design of effective strategies for monitoring sediment associated transport

The sediment-associated component frequently accounts for a major proportion of the load of many substances transported by rivers, such as nutrients, heavy metals and radionuclides. However, many monitoring programmes which aim to assess river loads are based on traditional approaches to water quality monitoring and fail to take account of existing knowledge regarding the behaviour of suspended sediment in rivers and the problems of measuring suspended sediment loads. In consequence, the resultant load estimates may be unreliable. Data obtained from the River Exe in Devon, UK are used to demonstrate some of the considerations which need to be taken into account in obtaining reliable assessments of the loads of sediment-associated substances and to emphasise the need for greater interaction between water quality and sediment monitoring programmes.
– 04 Understanding Perpetual R & D Races

This paper presents an experimental study of dynamic indefinite horizon R&D races with uncertainty and multiple prizes. The theoretical predictions are highly sensitive: small parameter changes determine whether technological competition is sustained, or converges into a market structure with an entrenched leadership and lower aggregate R&D. The subjects’ strategies are far less sensitive. In most treatments, the R&D races tend to converge to entrenched leadership. Investment is highest when rivals are close. This stylized fact, and so the usefulness of neck-to-neck competition in general, is largely unrelated to rivalry concerns but can be explained using a quantal response extension of Markov perfection. JEL Classification Codes: C72, C91, O31.
Automatic Identification of Close Languages - Case study: Malay and Indonesian

Identifying the language of an unknown text is not a new problem but what is new is the task of identifying close languages. Malay and Indonesian as many other languages are very similar, and therefore it is a real difficulty to search, retrieve, classify, and above all translate texts written in one of the two languages. We have built a language identifier to determine whether the text is written in Malay or Indonesian which could be used in any similar situation. It uses the frequency and rank of trigrams of characters, the lists of exclusive words, and the format of numbers. The trigrams are derived from the most frequent words in each language. The current program contains as language models: Malay/Indonesian (661 trigrams), Dutch (826 trigrams), English (652 trigrams), French (579 trigrams), and German (482 trigrams). The trigrams of an unknown text are searched in each language model. The language of the input text is the language having the highest ratio in “number of shared trigrams / total number of trigrams” and “number of winner trigrams / number of shared trigrams”. If the language found at trigram search level is ’Malay or Indonesian’, the text is then scanned by searching the format of numbers and of some exclusive words.
Maximum Entropy Niche-Based Modeling (Maxent) of Potential Geographical Distribution of Coreura albicosta (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Ctenuchina) in Mexico

Abstract There are many butterfly and moth species in Mexico whose possible areas of distribution are still largely unknown. Some are endemic and rare but are not yet protected by the Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010 (Environmental protection—Native species of flora and fauna from Mexico). An example is the moth Coreura albicosta Draudt (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Ctenuchina), a rare and apparently endemic species known from southern Mexican cloud forest habitats. To document the distribution of this species, ArcView was used to map its known distribution in Mexico. Maxent models were used to predict C. albicosta's potential distribution. Results indicate that C. albicosta is distributed exclusively in high altitudes along mountainous cloud forests of the Sierra Madre Oriental and the mountains of Chiapas. The Maxent model proved to be highly reliable (AUC = 0.984), and the ability to predict the excluded grid in every model was high (88.9%). Environmental variables with a large contribution to the model were vegetation type and mean annual precipitation. Only 1.0% of the species' known distribution and 6.8% of the potentially favorable grids coincided with the existing network of spaces protected in Mexico. Results emphasize the need to promote the conservation of this endemic cloud forest species and support the proposed inclusion of C. albicosta in the Mexican legislation for species protection with the purpose of conservation.
Hypoadrenalism in patients with fatigue and rheumatic disease

Many patients with rheumatic disease complain of fatigue. Clinicians may interpret this as part of the disease process in the absence of anaemia or hypothyroidism, and sometimes respond with the empiric addition of steroids to therapy. The possibility of true hypoadrenalism is only occasionally considered, and little data exists on the frequency with which it coexists with rheumatic disease. Random serum cortisol may be requested by clinicians to help exclude hypoadrenalism as a factor in fatigue. We undertook a survey to assess how frequently this test was of clinical relevance, what was done in patients with low results, and which patients were most likely to have true adrenal failure. All random cortisol assays requested by the members of a rheumatological team over one year were identified and the notes examined retrospectively. The indication for the request, the result, the ultimate clinical diagnosis and all prior diagnoses were recorded. Where further investigations were undertaken, these too were noted. The results were compared to those in an age and gender matched population of patients with general medical conditions (excluding endocrine disorders) for whom cortisol assays had also been requested. Random cortisol was requested by a team of four consultants in 74 patients with a variety of rheumatic disorders over 12 months, usually because of unexplained fatigue. Among the control group of 75 medical patients, the commonest reasons for requesting cortisol assay were fatigue, low sodium and unexplained anaemia. Mean cortisol levels were significantly higher in medical patients (512 nmol/L) than those with rheumatic disease (351 nmol/L) [P=0.04]. The results were low (<200 nmol/L) in 14 rheumatic patients and 7 medical patients. Among these 21 individuals, synacthen tests were performed in 16 and were indicative of hypoadrenalism in 6 cases. Further investigations revealed primary hypoadrenalism in 3 patients, with tertiary adrenal suppression from oral steroids in three others. All six of these patients had underlying rheumatic disorders, usually RA (3) or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (2). None of the medical patients had an abnormal synacthen test. Fatigue in patients with rheumatic disease may be a presenting feature of hypoadrenalism. Although adrenal failure is rare in medical patients with anaemia, hyponatraemia or fatigue, patients with rheumatic disease and unexplained fatigue merit a random cortisol. If this is low, synacthen testing may be appropriate. Steroids should not be commenced empirically in such patients until hypoadrenalism has been excluded, as a significant minority will have genuine primary adrenal failure, usually due to autoimmune disease.