Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Application of Role Play Learning Method In Increasing Morality Of Islamic Integrated Primary School Students in the Subject of Islamic Religious Education

Education is one of the gates for shaping the morality of the nation's children, in formal, informal and non-formal education. Elementary school is the initial foundation for the moral development of students. At school, student moral formation is carried out through daily subjects such as Islamic religious education, from the elementary school level to the university level. Through religious education, the government hopes to shape the character of good youth by the principles that depend upon religion. Many factors can influence learning achievement, one of which is the learning method, one of which is the role-playing method. The type of this study was a quasi-type two-group pretest-posttest experiment. The study population was students of the Islamic Integrated Primary School in Jakarta. The analytical method uses a difference t-test, which compares the significance value with table t, with significance requirements (sig.) (P) = <0.05, with an error rate of 5%. Based on the results of processing the t-test, a significance value of (p) = 0.000; ((p) <0.05) was obtained, meaning that there is a difference in the morality level of Jakarta Islamic elementary school students based on giving role-playing learning methods. The magnitude of the mean value possessed by the two groups shows the mean of the experimental group is greater (μ = 11,000) when compared to the mean of the control group (μ = 10,000). This means that the experimental group has a higher level of morality than the control group.
Effects of Brassinosteroid , Naphthalene Acetic Acid and Gibberellic Acid on In vitro Pollen Germination of Bisexual and Functional Male Flowers of Pomegranate Cultivars

The two types of flowers (bisexual and functional male) on a pomegranate tree produce their own pollen. Having these different sources for pollen can enable growers or breeders to have an option for crossing purposes. With this point of view, pollen collected from both type of flowers of three cultivars, ‘Antalya–14’, ‘Aşınar’ and ‘Çekirdeksiz’, were tested for their ability to germinate in vitro on a medium (1% agar and 20% sucrose) containing three different group of hormones, gibberelic acid (GA3), naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) and 24–epibrassinolide (EBR). After 24 hours of incubation, pollens were evaluated and germination ratios were determined. Germination ability of pollen from different flowers greatly differed depending on the cultivars. Bisexual flowers from ‘Antalya–14’ and ‘Çekirdeksiz’ had significantly lower ratio, but not in cv. ‘Aşınar’. Effects of the hormones were mostly dependent on pollen source, type and concentration and also cultivar. GA3 reduced the ratio in bisexual flowers but the effect on functional males was not in the same manner. NAA caused a decrease in all pollen germination. EBR on the other hand, generally increased it while this influence was mainly related with the flower type and cultivar. A deduction can be made as cultivars with high germination ability in their male flowers could ensure adequate pollination and/or can be used as pollinators for other cultivars.
Immigrant Voters and the Size of the Welfare State∗

This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. We exploit as a natural experiment the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany after World War II. These migrants were on average poorer than the West German population, but in contrast to most international migrants, they had full voting rights and were eligible for social welfare. Using panel data for West German cities and applying difference-in-differences and an instrumental variables approach, we show that local governments responded to this migration shock with selective and persistent raises in local taxes and welfare spending and reductions in spending on infrastructure and housing. Data on local elections suggest that immigrants used their voting rights to influence local policy setting. We further document that this episode of mass immigration had lasting effects on people’s preferences for redistribution. More than 50 years later, individual demand for redistributive policies is substantially higher in areas with larger inflows in the 1940s.
Evaluating Strange Forecasts: The Curious Case of Football Match Scorelines

This study analyses point forecasts of exact scoreline outcomes for football matches in the English Premier League. These forecasts were made for distinct competitions and originally judged differently. We compare these with implied probability forecasts using bookmaker odds and a crowd of tipsters, as well as point and probability forecasts generated from a statistical model. From evaluating these sources and types of forecast, using various methods, we argue that regression encompassing is the most appropriate way to compare point and probability forecasts, and find that both these types of forecasts for football match scorelines generally add information to one another.
Manual Therapy, Exercise, and Traction for Patients with Cervical Radiculopathy: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Physiotherapeutischer Hintergrund Bislang fehlen optimale Strategien für das Patientenmanagement bei zervikalen Radikulopathien. Nach heutigem Wissensstand erzielt ein multimodaler Ansatz wie Manuelle Therapie, Haltungsschulung und zervikale Traktionen die positivsten Therapieerfolge [1–10]. Es gibt jedoch Hinweise, dass die Anwendung von mechanischer zervikaler Traktion die Behandlung von Patienten mit zervikalen Radikulopathien unterstützt [7].
Medicinal plants used by the folk medicinal practitioners of Bangladesh: a randomized survey in a village of Narayanganj district.

Folk medicinal practitioners play an important role in the primary health-care system of Bangladesh. They are known as Kavirajes and practice in villages, towns and cities of the country. The mainstay of their formulation is medicinal plants, which is either administered orally or topically in the form of decoctions, pastes, pills, juice or direct administration of whole plant or plant parts. The objective of the present study was to conduct a survey in a randomly chosen village, which lies between the two urban areas of Dhaka and Narayanganj in Narayanganj district of Bangladesh. Kasipur, the village where the survey was carried out had one Kaviraj who administered to the population’s need in various diseases. It was observed that the Kaviraj used 64 medicinal plants in his formulations. The plants were distributed into 41 families. The Asteraceae family contributed to the highest number of plants (6) followed by the Fabaceae family with 5 plants. The Apocynaceae, Lamiaceae, Rutaceae, Solanaceae and Zingiberaceae families contributed 3 plants per family. Leaves constituted the major plant part used, forming 47.1% of total uses. Leaves were followed by roots at 16.3% and fruits at 13.5%. Gastrointestinal disorders and skin diseases were the main ailments treated. Other than diabetes, the Kaviraj did not treat any complicated diseases. This was probably because since the village surveyed was between two urban areas, the village population had quite easy access to allopathic doctors and modern clinics in the urban areas. Despite the easy access to modern doctors, the village people relied on the Kaviraj for treatment of common ailments, suggesting that folk medicinal practitioners can still play a considerable role in the day to day care of health and treatment of common diseases, thus saving a patient from incurring substantial costs related to modern allopathic doctors and clinics.
Stress in health professionals

This book is aimed at occupational, clinical and health psychologists, nurses, doctors, paramedical staff and all who manage people in health settings. The editors have invited an international team of authors to review the literature with a focus on three main questions: how much stress there is, what stressors cause it and what can be done to help individuals and organizations cope with its consequences. The unique stresses arising from caring for the sick and dying are particularly explored. At a time when the health professions are undergoing a period of considerable change, both technical and financial, this book recommends ways in which this can be tackled and used positively for the benefit of both patients and health professionals.
Taking a Closer Statistical Look at the Interplay of Student Demographic and Educational Input Variables on Standardized Achievement : An Exhaustive Statewide Approach

This study seeks to test, by means of measurement modeling and Structural Equation modeling, the relationship between Missouri public schools’ racial and socioeconomic composition, school culture proxies, and standardized student achievement levels. Incorporated in this paper is a population sample that encompasses the state’s education system in its entirety. Obviated, therefore, is any need for guarded claims and empirical qualifiers currently required of similarly targeted research projects. The study’s findings validate both researcher intuition and the decades-long research efforts dedicated to interrogating the relationship between student race, socioeconomic standing, and the culture of the building in which students are educated. In short, variables at the school building level appear to be inextricably linked to standardized test performance levels. Statewide Study of Achievement Collins 3 It is commonly thought that the simultaneous objectives of providing students with adequate and appropriate test preparation, while also teaching students critical thinking and learning skills, cannot both be coherently incorporated into a single curriculum (Weast, 1996). Such perceptions are not groundless, as the NLCB legislation, and the accompanying accountability fervor, has constrained the curricular options of school administrators. While it is the case that pre-packaged curricula that are tightly aligned with accountability standards leave less slack for incorporating new curricular initiatives, teaching students critical thinking skills can compliment test preparation practices. It is important that research on school effectiveness distinguish between controllable variables and those that cannot be easily manipulated, especially in an exhaustive statewide study. Teacher pedagogy that fosters student engagement is one such controllable input, and the nature and quality of such instruction can lead to enhanced educational output. Influential input characteristics in education production functions often include teacher characteristics. Phelps and Addonizio (2006) found, for instance, that teacher salary has unambiguously positive effects on student achievement, whereas teacher age and experience yielded mixed results (Phelps &
Molecular Detection of Group A Rotaviruses from the Bhandara and Chandrapur District of Maharashtra State

The Rotavirus is zoonotic important enteric viral pathogen suspected in wide host range in mammals and birds. It was reported to cross species transmission. The rotavirus led to diarrhea, emaciation and death in infants and calves. Rotavirus infects villous structure of small intestines where it lodges and multiplication occurred. The rotaviruses International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 09 (2019) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Adaptive Inverse Control of a Vibrating Coupled Vessel-Riser System With Input Backlash

This article involves the adaptive inverse control of a coupled vessel-riser system with input backlash and system uncertainties. By introducing an adaptive inverse dynamics of backlash, the backlash control input is divided into a mismatch error and an expected control command, and then a novel adaptive inverse control strategy is established to eliminate vibration, tackle backlash, and compensate for system uncertainties. The bounded stability of the controlled system is analyzed and demonstrated by exploiting the Lyapunov’s criterion. The simulation comparison experiments are finally presented to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the control algorithm.
Growing Season is an Essential Factor in Seed Production and Quality of Melon

Six melon market-types were used in two greenhouse experiments to examine the effects of growing season on seed production and quality. In the first experiment (2005-2006) melon plants were sown on different dates in order to reach fruit and seed development at mid-fall, -winter, -spring and -summer. In the second experiment fruit and seed development occurred either in the spring-summer or in the fall-winter season. The main effect in the summer season under greenhouse conditions was a significant decrease in fruit number per plant. The average fruit number per plant in summer decreased by 47, 45 and 29% as compared to fall, spring and winter seasons, respectively. In the winter season, fruit size and the number of fully-developed seeds per fruit were significantly lower as compared to the other seasons. The average fruit weight in winter was 42, 51 and 48%, and the number of fully-developed seeds was 10, 12 and 11% in comparison to relevant values in fall, spring and summer seasons, respectively. Mean seed yields per plant were 16.9, 3.2, 14.1 and 8.9 g in fall, winter, spring and summer in the first experiment, and 5.4 and 17.0 g in fall-winter and spring-summer in the second one. Wintergrown seeds had lower quality than seeds which developed in the other seasons as expressed by germination percentages and germination rate. In most cultivars, melon seeds showed at least some degree of partial and conditional dormancy, expressed by germinability improvement after some time of storage. Melon seed storage at high temperature (40°C) for up to 18 months had no deleterious effect on germinability, but storage at freezing temperature (-18°C) of seeds developed in the spring-summer season caused a significant delay in germination of some cultivars. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Switching Volatility in a Nonlinear Open Economy

Uncertainty about an economy’s regime can change drastically around a crisis. An imported crisis such as the global financial crisis in the euro area highlights the effect of foreign shocks. Estimating an open-economy nonlinear dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for the euro area and the United States including Markov-switching volatility shocks, we show that these shocks were significant during the global financial crisis compared with periods of calm. We describe how U.S. shocks from both the real economy and financial markets affected the euro area economy and how bond reallocation occurred between short- and long-term maturities during the global financial crisis. Importantly, the estimated nonlinearities when domestic and foreign financial markets influence the economy should not be neglected. The nonlinear behavior of market-related variables highlights the importance of higher-order estimation for providing additional interpretations to policymakers.
Status of Waste Management in the East African Cities: Understanding the Drivers of Waste Generation, Collection and Disposal and Their Impacts on Kampala City’s Sustainability

The factors that influence waste generation and management vary with country but there is a gap in the availability of waste data in Africa limiting the assessment of these factors for sustainability. Hence, this study was aimed at evaluating the drivers of waste generation, collection and disposal, and their impact on sustainability of Kampala as compared to the East African Community (EAC). Waste generation in Kampala was calculated using recorded waste collection efficiencies while data for Nairobi and Dar es Salaam was obtained from existing literature. Waste quantities for disposal were recorded daily at Kiteezi landfill from 2011 to 2017. Results showed that the major drivers of waste generation, collection and disposal in the EAC are population growth, vehicle capacity and the need for disposal respectively. Waste generation rate in Kampala increased from 0.26 to 0.47 kg/capita/day and the annual waste quantity increased significantly (p < 0.5) by 48% from 227,916 to 481,081 tons corresponding to a 54% population increase. Waste collection efficiency increased from 30% to 64% and hence waste for disposal increased significantly (p < 0.5), with a mean of 15,823 tons/month; but varied significantly (p < 0.5) with the city division. The most (5120 tons) and least (3472 tons) waste per month was collected from the Central and Nakawa divisions respectively. Additionally, Kampala Capital City Authority collected significantly more waste than private collectors for all study years. Waste is disposed of at the Kiteezi landfill despite exhausted capacity. Future projections showed that by 2030, annual waste would increase by approximately 60% for Kampala and Nairobi and by 74% for Dar es Salaam. Dar es Salaam generated the highest amount of waste, five times more than Kampala. More investment needs to be made towards the reduction of waste disposal and strategies developed for the reuse and recycling of waste.
The Role of Mediating the Publication on the Influence of Corporate Governance on Performance

The aim of the study was to analyze the mediating role of the financial report published on the effect of corporate governance on the performance of Indonesian public companies. The corporate governance proxy consists of ownership, independence of directors and commissioners, meetings of directors and audit committees, as well as the number of commissioners and audit committees. The research samples of 775 annual reports 2013-2014 were chosen proportionally strata, from nine industry groups. The results of multiple regression analysis found that directors and independent commissioners, as well as the frequency of audit committee meetings, had a significant effect on performance. Whereas ownership, meetings of directors and audit committees, and the number of commissioners and audit committees have a significant effect on publications. Publication of financial statements significantly as a mediation of the effect of corporate governance on performance.
Energy Dissipation with Plug-and-Play Priors

Neural networks have reached outstanding performance for solving various illposed inverse problems in imaging. However, drawbacks of end-to-end learning approaches in comparison to classical variational methods are the requirement of expensive retraining for even slightly different problem statements and the lack of provable error bounds during inference. Recent works tackled the first problem by using networks trained for Gaussian image denoising as generic plug-and-play regularizers in energy minimization algorithms. Even though this obtains stateof-the-art results on many tasks, heavy restrictions on the network architecture have to be made if provable convergence of the underlying fixed point iteration is a requirement. More recent work has proposed to train networks to output descent directions with respect to a given energy function with a provable guarantee of convergence to a minimizer of that energy. However, each problem and energy requires the training of a separate network. In this paper we consider the combination of both approaches by projecting the outputs of a plug-and-play denoising network onto the cone of descent directions to a given energy. This way, a single pre-trained network can be used for a wide variety of reconstruction tasks. Our results show improvements compared to classical energy minimization methods while still having provable convergence guarantees.
An Evaluation of Three Fish Surveys in the San Francisco Estuary, California, 1995–2015

Resource managers rely on long-term monitoring surveys conducted in the San Francisco Estuary to evaluate the status and trends of resident fish populations in this important region. These surveys are potentially confounded because of the incomplete detection of individuals and species, the magnitude of which is often related to the same factors that affect fish populations. We used multistate occupancy estimators to evaluate the distribution, abundance, and detection probability of four fish species collected during 1995–2015 with three long-term surveys. Detection probabilities varied positively with fish abundance and negatively with Secchi depth. Detection varied among species and was greatest for the 20-mm Survey and least for the midwater trawl used for the midwater trawl used in the San Francisco Bay Study. Incomplete detection resulted in underestimates of occupancy and abundance across species and surveys and were greatest for the Bay Study. However, trends in occupancy and abundance of the study period appeared to be unbiased. Fish occupancy and abundance were generally related to salinity or specific conductance, day-of-the year, and water temperature, but the nature of the relations varied among surveys and species. There also was strong spatial and temporal dependence in species-specific occupancy and abundance that changed through time and were unrelated to the covariates considered. Our results suggest that managers consider incorporating methods for estimating detection and adjusting data to ensure data quality. Additionally, the strong spatio-temporal patterns in the monitoring data suggest that existing protocols may need to be modified to ensure that data and inferences reflect system-wide changes rather than changes at a specific set of non-randomly selected locations.
Factors influencing the use of alternative land cultivation technologies in Swaziland: Implications for smallholder farming on customary Swazi Nation Land

Poor land preparation and late planting are among the factors responsible for the decline in food production on customary Swazi Nation Land (SNL). While efforts are being made to develop an improved national land cultivation programme, this process can be helped by identifying factors that influence farmers to use alternative technologies for land cultivation. Using cross-section data collected in 2009 from a random sample of 210 farmers in Komati, three land cultivation technologies were identified; (i) use of tractors; (ii) use of draught animals; and (iii) use of hand hoes. For a country like Swaziland where human health problems, particularly HIV/AIDS, make manual labour a scarce resource, the use of tractors is regarded as a modern technology that can achieve time and labour savings. The empirical evidence from this study indicates that the use of tractors is significantly influenced by household wealth and size of arable land used by households. However, given that land holdings on customary land are generally small, sparsely distributed and often fragmented, tractor hire service providers face relatively high overhead and transaction costs. Furthermore, investment in mechanised farming by individual SNL households is constrained by the lack of secure tenure. Given these challenges, this study makes recommendations for creating an enabling environment that could promote the adoption of improved land cultivation methods by smallholders on customary SNL. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Use of electroconvulsive therapy in children and adolescents – review of current literature and description of effects of electrotherapy in 5 adolescents with diagnosed treatment resistant schizophrenia

PSYCHIATR. PSYCHOL. KLIN. 2006, 6 (4), p. 174-183 Zastosowanie terapii elektrycznej u dzieci i m3odzie¿y. Przegl1d piœmiennictwa i opis efektów elektroterapii u 5 m3odocianych z rozpoznaniem schizofrenii opornej na leki przeciwpsychotyczne Use of electroconvulsive therapy in children and adolescents – review of current literature and description of effects of electrotherapy in 5 adolescents with diagnosed treatment resistant schizophrenia