Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparing styles of parent-child conversation: The influence on children's conduct problems and emotion knowledge

This preliminary study conducted across Canberra and Wellington was the first to compare the effectiveness of two styles of maternal-reminiscing as an adjunct to Parent Management Training (PMT) for mothers of children ranging from four to eight-years-old (M = 63.1, SD = 14.4 months) with conduct problems. This was a manualised six session intervention. Parents in both conditions received PMT. Parents were asked to reminisce with their child about shared events using their allocated style of maternal reminiscing. The W-D-E condition drew on research by Van Bergen, Salmon, Dadds, and Allen (2009) which encouraged mothers to use 'wh' questions and detailed descriptive information about the even. The R-U-S style extended on the research by Ensor and Hughes (2008) in which mothers were encouraged to be responsive and allow their child to lead the conversation. Both conditions placed a direct focus on discussing emotion, including labels, behaviours, causes and consequences of emotion. As expected, both condition showed a significant decrease in conduct problem severity and a significant increase in aspects of children‟s emotion knowledge between pre- and immediately post-intervention. However, there were no significant differences between conditions with respect to children‟s conduct problems severity and emotion knowledge. Given that the literature supports a link between deficits in emotion knowledge and children‟s conduct problems, and that parental discussion of emotion supports children‟s developing socioemotional development, the current preliminary study extends on the work by Salmon, Dadds, Allen, and Hawes (2009) in which efforts are being made to integrate emotion components with PMT.
Marijuana, Guns, Crocodiles and Submarines: Economies of Desire in the Purari Delta

Traded down the Purari River by male youth through a network of friends, kuku dipi, as marijuana is known in the Purari Delta, is consumed locally, and traded for guns it is rumoured that the American Mafia bring in submarines. The movement of kuku dipi is part of a constellation of informal trade that has emerged alongside the large-scale logging and oil projects in the Gulf Province. These networks involve the exchange of alcohol, pornography and radios by logging ship crews for live birds, crocodile skins and other local flora and fauna. Numerous sets of speculations have arisen about the seen and unseen transactions that these exchanges are felt to entail. Focusing on aspects of kuku dipi's use and movement in the Delta, I examine some of the explanations and anxieties around this illicit commodity. Doing so provides insight into kuku dipi's social impact and illuminates how the Purari's engagement in this trade is an attempt to transcend and cope with the economic and political disparities caused by the current resource extraction projects.
Plant Age and Growing Season Nutritional Content Relationships of Three Artemisia tridentata Subspecies

Abstract The effect of plant age on growing season chemical compositions and rumen fermentation characteristics was determined for three subspecies of big sagebrush: basin (Artemisia tridentata [Nutt.] subsp. tridentata), mountain (A. tridentata subsp. vaseyana [Rybd.] Beetle), and Wyoming (A. tridentata subsp. wyomingensis [Beetle and Young]). In vitro dry matter (IVDMD) and organic matter (IVOMD) disappearance, ammonia nitrogen (NH3N), and volatile fatty acid (VFA) content were determined at the end of two fermentation periods (24 h and 48 h) by combining rumen inocula with age-classified vegetative samples from each sagebrush subspecies. An additional one-way analysis of variance was performed to investigate potential differences among subspecies in IVDMD, IVOMD, total VFA, and NH3N following a 48-h fermentation period. Crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber (ADF), and acid detergent lignin (ADL) components were also compared among sagebrush subspecies. Age class responses were variable across the spectrum of sagebrush subspecies and response variables. Where plant age effects were indicated, the small numeric differences probably have little biological or ecological significance. Mountain sagebrush was lower in IVOMD and total VFA concentrations (P < 0.0001) than basin and Wyoming. NH3N concentration and CP were higher (P < 0.0001) in basin sagebrush than the other two subspecies, while Wyoming sagebrush was higher in NDF, ADF, and ADL than basin and mountain subspecies (P < 0.0001). NH3N concentration for all three subspecies was lower than the minimum level (20 mg · 100 mL−1) required for uninhibited rumen activity. Overall, this research questions the contention that older sagebrush plants offer less nutritional value than younger ones, at least for growing season conditions. The results also provide information that can be utilized in designing supplementation strategies for domestic animals on diets with characteristically high utilization of big sagebrush.
Implementing Imaging Facilities and Multimedia in Teaching Veterinary Anatomy

_______________________________________________________________________________________ with 20 images received December 2007; accepted for publication January 2008    Abstract   The fast waves of inventions and modifications of the high tech equipments in the last century converted the plane images into 2-dimensions and three-dimension ones. The appearances of the different multimedia facilities, as well as the prevalence of new pet animal species in the markets such as ostriches, Guinea pigs, hamsters, turtles, . etc necessitate another and new conception in the morphology and anatomy teaching fields. To reach the gross anatomy tutorial of the international level we have to follow the same steps and use the same tools and means used all over the world.
Does Microfinance Fill the Funding Gap for Microentrepreneurs? A Conceptual Analysis of Entrepreneurship Seeding in Impoverished Nations

We address the role microfinance institutions (MFIs) play in funding entrepreneurial ventures and present a distinction between the types of entrepreneurs that seek MFI and traditional venture funding. We argue that microfinance can serve successfully as seed financing for microentrepreneurs in under-developed economies around the world. By comparing bootstrapping and private equity seed-financing in developed economies to microfinance seed-financing in impoverished economies, we show that the different entrepreneurial characteristics in the two economies have similar funding gaps but are solved with different sources of funding.
Personal best goal and self-regulation as predictors of mathematics achievement: A multilevel structural equation model

This study aimed to identify personal best goal and self-regulation as predictors of mathematics achievement for primary students. The sample comprised 3,821 (2,021 males and 1,800 females) students between Grades 3 to Grade 5 at 26 primary schools in Hong Kong. Students' personal best goals and self-regulation were used to predict their mathematics achievement six months later. Multilevel structural equation models were fitted to the data using the MPLUS software. Results showed that after controlling for student gender and grade level, students' personal best goal predicted their subsequent mathematics achievement. In contrast, self-regulation had no direct effect on students' mathematics achievement. Self-regulation affected mathematics achievement only indirectly via students' personal best goals.
Individual Satisfaction and Tax Morale: The Perspective of Different Profession in Indonesia

The purpose of this research is to test the dominant factors that affect satisfaction and tax morale from the perspective of tax consultants and contractors in Indonesia. The factors are the religious commitment, trust to the government agency, the democratic system, perception of other taxpayers. The sample of respondents is 60 tax consultants and 78 contractors in Surabaya-Indonesia. Structural Equation Modelling used in this research with Wrap Partial Least Square as a statistical tool. Our result for tax consultants shows satisfaction and democratic system are the dominant factors that affect tax morale. The results from contractors found religious commitment and the democratic system was proven to be the dominant factors that affect tax morale. This study also found that trust in the government agency has not proved to have an impact on tax morale, for both groups. Factor perception of others taxpayers was proven impact on tax morale, but the effect is small, for both groups respondents. Religious commitment also proved as the dominant factor that affects satisfaction of tax consultants.
The Boulder Patch (North Alaska, Beaufort Sea) and its Benthic Algal Flora

We describe the benthic algal flora within the Boulder Patch, a unique and relatively isolated assemblage of cobbles and boulders in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea, on the basis of a compilation of opportunistic in situ collections made from 1977 to 2006. The Boulder Patch is a shallow (4 - 7 m) High Arctic kelp community containing 78 benthic algal species, all of which represent approximately one-half of the pan-Arctic benthic flora (140 species) including one recognized cyanophyte (Calothrix scopulorum), one dinophyte (Rufusiella foslieana), 26 green algae, 25 brown algae, and 25 red algal species. Two brown algae are Arctic endemics, and 41 of the 78 Boulder Patch species also occur in the North Pacific Ocean and southeast Alaska. Both endemic species occur widely in the Arctic Ocean and extend into the northern North Atlantic Ocean. All 78 Boulder Patch species occur widely in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. No recognizable endemic species from the boreal/ subarctic Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are present in the Boulder Patch. Only four species, two of which are closely related and host-specific, show a poleward shift from the boreal to the High Arctic environment. The algal composition of the Boulder Patch and characterization of these algal communities represent an invaluable baseline in which to assess future change in an Arctic system that is undergoing rapid warming. Our baseline analysis of the benthic flora of the Boulder Patch reveals a habitat characterized by an unexpected high diversity and unique phytogeography for a relatively isolated benthic algal assemblage of the north polar ocean.
Asset Liability Management of Conventional and Islamic Banks in Malaysia

The objective of the paper is to investigate the effect of asset liability management on the financial performance of 6 conventional and 6 Islamic banks in Malaysia during the period of 2010 to 2013. The variables used in the study are capital adequacy, asset quality, management efficiency, earnings quality, liquidity, size of bank and degree of risk aversion in relation to asset liability management to examine the return on equity (ROE), which is the measure of profitability of the banks. The quantitative analysis using correlation and regression analysis concluded that there is a positive relationship between asset liability management and the financial performance of the banks. DOI: 10.15408/aiq.v9i1. 3334
The Aquarius comoving group is not a disrupted classical globular cluster

We present a detailed analysis of high-resolution, high S/N spectra for 5 Aquarius stream stars observed with the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan Clay telescope. Our sample represents one third of the 15 known members in the stream. We find the stream is not mono-metallic: the metallicity ranges from [Fe/H] = -0.63 to -1.58. No anti-correlation in Na-O abundances is present, and we find a strong positive Mg-Al relationship, similar to that observed in the thick disk. We find no evidence that the stream is a result of a disrupted classical globular cluster, contrary to a previously published claim. High [(Na, Ni, alpha)/Fe] and low [Ba/Y] abundance ratios in the stream suggests it is not a tidal tail from a disrupted dwarf galaxy, either. The stream is chemically indistinguishable from Milky Way field stars with the exception of one candidate, C222531-145437. From its position, velocity, and detailed chemical abundances, C222531-145437 is likely a star that was tidally disrupted from omega-Centauri. We propose the Aquarius stream is Galactic in origin, and could be the result from a disk-satellite perturbation in the Milky Way thick disk on the order of a few Gyr ago: derived orbits, UVW velocities, and angular momenta of the Aquarius members offer qualitative support for our hypothesis. Assuming C222531-145437 is a tidally disrupted member of omega-Centauri, this system is the most likely disk perturber. In the absence of compelling chemical and/or dynamical evidence that the Aquarius stream is the tidal tail of a disrupted satellite, we advocate the "Aquarius group" as a more appropriate description. Like the Canis Major over-density, as well as the Hercules and Monoceros groups, the Aquarius group joins the list of kinematically-identified substructures that are not actually accreted material: they are simply part of the rich complexity of the Milky Way structure.
The Impact of White-Tailed Deer on Agricultural Landscapes in 3 National Historical Parks in Maryland

Abstract The legislative authorization of some United States national historical parks (NHP) includes maintaining an agricultural landscape as a management objective. This management objective can prove difficult to accomplish in some NHP given increasing white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) densities. Our goal was to quantify the impact of white-tailed deer foraging on agricultural landscapes in forested NHPs in Maryland, USA. We monitored 12 and 13 corn (Zea mays) fields at 3 NHP during the 2003 and 2004, respectively. Each field had 3 5 × 5-m fenced and unfenced plots along the edge and a similar set within the interior of the field. Within each plot we examined the number of stalks with corn, corn ear quality, and field weight prior to harvest. Fenced plots had higher weights of corn, more stalks with corn ears, and higher quality corn than unfenced plots. Estimates of silage yield based on crop weights indicate deer reduced silage yield in individual fields by 5–43% during the study period. Crop loss differed between years and fields, with plots in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal NHP sustaining the highest crop weight loss (28%). Eventual crop loss was correlated with proportion of corn plants browsed within 2 weeks of emergence. Some variability in loss between fields was due to landscape metrics, as fields surrounded by more forest experienced the highest loss. Our results indicate the NHP agriculture fields we studied receive significant deer damage to corn crops and may not be able to maintain mandated management without regulating deer numbers.
A STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SAIGA ANTELOPE

A stochastic dynamic programming model for the optimal management of the saiga antelope is presented. The optimal hunting mortality rate and proportion of adult males in the harvest are found as functions of the size and structure of the saiga population before hunting. The effects of stochastic climatic variation on the population are taken into account in this model. It is shown that key assumptions must be made about the effects of the breeding sex ratio on female fecundity, and about whether poaching is occurring. If incorrect assumptions are made about either of these factors, the calculated optimal strategy can become severely suboptimal. A simple suboptimal decision rule that takes the population size and structure into account is shown to be more able to buffer against these factors than the optimal strategy, which has proved too complicated for analytical solution. The model predictions are robust to parameter changes.
Raster was Yesterday: Using Vector Engines to Process Geophysical Data

Tools for the processing of raster data are well developed, but noisy data still pose considerable challenges. If anomalies are broken up into isolated individual readings, for example due to high noise levels, it may still be possible for a human interpreter to recognize the isolated readings as being part of a single anomaly. However, such a concept of neighbourhood is difficult to implement with raster tools and an alternative, vector‐based approach is presented here. By converting the measured raster data into polygons, it is possible to undertake shape and neighbourhood analysis to process the data. This allows discriminating, reshaping and merging of the anomalies based on their spatial location relative to each other (neighbourhood) and with respect to the size of each anomaly. The added advantage of this approach is the possibility to use the processed vector data as a basis for interpretation and visualization diagrams in two‐ and three dimensions. This method is applied to the GPR survey of a necropolis at Pessinus, showing several types of grave monuments. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Spatial distribution of neutral and ionic constituents in comet P/Halley

Multislit spectra of comet P/Halley were ob- tained on April 10, 1986, using a focal reducer with a eld of 0:5 angular diameter. The number and ar- rangement of the slits allowed a reconstruction of the spa- tial distribution of principal neutral and ionic coma con- stituents within a frame of about 4 10 5 41 0 5 km 2 at the comet. Radial proles and two-dimensional maps for the dust continuum, CN, C3 ,C H, CO + , and especially CO + , are presented in absolute intensity and column den- sity units, respectively. Scale lengths and production rates for the radicals were determined within the Haser model. The molecular ions are not only restricted to the plasma tail but are also present in the sunward coma. Instead of forming a peak at the nucleus like the neutral radicals the ion column densities decrease rapidly in the solar direc- tion and form a plateau extending from the nucleus into the antisolar direction. The distribution of CO + shows a stronger decrease in the tailward direction than that of CO + .
Top-predator effects of jellyfish Odessia maeotica in Mediterranean salt marshes

Jellyfish can act as planktonic top predators, and their effects may cause drastic changes in the plankton structure of marine and freshwater systems. However, the top predator effects may not necessarily be the same in species-poor habitats as they are in species-rich habitats. The present study analyses the effects of the small lacunae jellyfish Odessia maeotica in a species- poor habitat, Mediterranean salt marshes in the wetlands of Emporda (NE Iberian Peninsula). A field experiment was carried out in March 2008 to assess the direct and indirect effects of O. maeo- tica on plankton composition. Our results show that the presence of O. maeotica changed the plank- ton composition through top-down effects. Changes were strong in zooplankton, because O. maeot- ica can suppress almost the entire trophic level of large zooplankton (> 50 µm). Weak indirect effects on phytoplankton composition were observed as well. When O. maeotica was present, changes in the relative abundance of the phytoplankton species were found, but there was no net increase in phytoplankton biomass. Our results suggest that these weak indirect effects may be the result of trophic cascade effects coupled with the oligotrophic conditions of these salt marshes. Thus, trophic cascade effects lead to an increase in ciliate biomass, and these ciliates would feed on small algae (jellyfish-copepods-ciliates-small algae), while oligotrophic conditions would prevent increases in algal biomass.
Capital Structures in Developing Countries

This study uses a new data set to assess whether capital structure theory is portable across countries with different institutional structures. We analyze capital structure choices of firms in 10 developing countries, and provide evidence that these decisions are affected by the same variables as in developed countries. However, there are persistent differences across countries, indicating that specific country factors are at work. Our findings suggest that although some of the insights from modern finance theory are portable across countries, much remains to be done to understand the impact of different institutional features on capital structure choices.
Barriers to Optimal Utilization of Health Information Resources by Doctors in Nigeria

This paper aims to report on research investigating the difficulties doctors encounter in accessing health information and strategies for countering the problems for optimal utilization of information resources. Data were gathered using structured questionnaire administered to all the 1,995 Doctors in the six teaching hospitals in South East Nigeria. The findings indicate that high cost of acquiring materials and non-conducive library environment are considered the biggest problems. Earlier studies did not investigate doctors in this zone, nor did they cover all ranks of Doctors in teaching hospital setting. This paper can be a platform for informed intervention for better healthcare delivery in the zone. It is an original research paper Keywords : health information, information utilization, health information resources, information, medical doctors
Inhibition of carbon disulfide on bio-desulfurization in the process of gases purification

Biological desulfurization is a novel technology for the removal of hydrogen sulfide from some biogas or sour gas, in which there are always a certain amounts of carbon disulfide together with much hydrogen sulfide. Nowadays, carbon disulfide is found to have negative effect on the biological desulfurization, but seldom research is afforded to investigate how carbon disulfide inhibits the process of biological desulfurization. In this paper, we investigated the effect of carbon disulfide both on the growth of Thiobacillus thioparus and the resting cells under various concentrations, including 0.01, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15 and 0.20%. In this process, the rate of the cell growth was characterized by the rate of nitrogen consumption in order to solve the problem that the adsorption of cells to sulfur granules have on the accuracy of biomass test. Under the cell density of 23.92 mg N/L, which is lower than the maximum of cell density 36.13 mg N/L, the average rate of thiosulfate oxidation reached the maximum (26.50 S 2 O 3 2- mg/L-h). Carbon disulfide at titers of 0.01% significantly inhibited the growth of cells, but hardly affected the biological desulfurization of resting cells. Although carbon disulfide at titers of 0.05% had negative effect on the biological desulfurization of resting cells, the effect of inhibition could be relieved by the increased density of resting cells. For the resting cells, the parameters of Michaelis-Menten equation were calculated by the method of Lineweaver-Burk. The V max of biological desulfurization was decreased from 27.93 to 14.0 S 2 O 3 2- mg/L-h, and the K m was increased from 0.264 to 0.884 mM, with the concentration of carbon disulfide rising up from 0.0 to 0.1%. These results show that the growth of cells was sensitive to carbon disulfide, and the resting cells had resistance to the low level of carbon disulfide (0.05%). Thus, the inhibition of carbon disulfide to biological desulfurization should be attributed to T. thioparus growth suppression function. Keywords: Carbon disulfide, bio-desulfurization, inhibition, Thiobacillus thioparus , resting cell, gases purification African Journal of Biotechnology , Vol 13(16), 1739-1744