Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
J/ ψ production as a function of charged-particle pseudorapidity density in p–Pb collisions at

We report measurements of the inclusive J/ ψ yield and average transverse momentum as a function of charged-particle pseudorapidity density d N ch / d η in p–Pb collisions at √ s NN = 5 . 02 TeV with ALICE at the LHC. The observables are normalised to their corresponding averages in non-single diffractive events. An increase of the normalised J/ ψ yield with normalised d N ch / d η , measured at mid-rapidity, is observed at mid-rapidity and backward rapidity. At forward rapidity, a saturation of the relative yield is observed for high charged-particle multiplicities. The normalised average transverse momentum at forward and backward rapidities increases with multiplicity at low multiplicities and saturates beyond moderate multiplicities. In addition, the forward-to-backward nuclear modiﬁcation factor ratio is also reported, showing an increasing suppression of J/ ψ production at forward rapidity with respect to backward rapidity for increasing charged-particle multiplicity.
Regional Economic Growth in Mexico: Recent Evolution and the Role of Governance

There has been substantial research in recent years examining the regional evolution of economic growth across states in Mexico -- with a particular focus on the post North American Free Trade Agreement period. There is also a vast literature using cross-country regressions to examine institutional determinants of economic growth, including government transparency, or"corruption,"as a key institutional variable. This paper uses more recently available data for Mexican states to both update the general state convergence/divergence literature, and incorporate into the analysis more recently developed state level indicators of institutional factors related to government transparency. The authors do not find a systematic relationship between measures of government transparency and gross domestic product per capita growth in Mexico during 2001-2005; however, they do find that corruption is negatively associated with the level of state gross domestic product per capita. The contrasting results may imply that more years of data are necessary to be able to establish statistically significant relationships between state growth rates and measures of corruption.
Responses of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Sultanina to Level of Soil Water Depletion Under Semi-Arid Conditions

Sultanina grapevines were irrigated at 90%, 60% and 30% plant-available water (PAW) depletion during the growing season in a field trial on a fine sandy soil in the Lower Orange River region of South Africa. Grapevines of all treatments were irrigated at 60% PAW depletion during winter. Measurement of diurnal leaf water potential (tJ'1) cycles at different stages during the season showed that plant water status was not only a function of soil water availability, but also of meteorological conditions. Increasing vapour pressure deficit (VPD) decreased pre-dawn leaf water potential, suggesting nocturnal water loss via transpiration. On the other hand, tpl measured at 14h00 increased with an increase in VPD, indicating partial stomatal closure during the warmest part of the day. Vegetative growth, berry mass and production increased with increased plant water status as imposed by the different PAW depletion levels. PAW depletion level had almost no effect on sugar accumulation or acid breakdown. Soil water depletion level had no effect on the quality of dipped raisins. Hence, the ideal balance between vegetative growth, yield and water use efficiency for the production of dipped Sultanina raisins was obtained with irrigation at 60% PAW depletion. Since quality of sun-dried raisins was considerably reduced by irrigation at 60% as well as 90% PAW depletion, relative to 30% depletion, the latter seems to be the optimum depletion level for sun-dried raisin production. This optimum depletion level might not be applicable for irrigation of Sultanina on heavier, more fertile alluvial soils.
An Investigation of University Students' Classroom Seating Choices

The classroom is crucial for students, and seating position within the classroom can affect students’ performance. This study conducted a survey to investigate the relationship between seating zones and academic performance among 174 university students in Beijing. The results revealed differences in student performance in terms of seating position in small- and medium-sized traditional classrooms. However, the results did not indicate a similar hierarchy of student performance in terms of seating zones in larger traditional classrooms, horseshoe classrooms, collaboration classrooms, and computer classrooms. Additionally, the results revealed that most students considered the layout of a classroom to affect their performance.
Effective Classroom Management.

This paper attempts to explore and identify the characteristics of an effective teacher who teaches English as a second language to 10 year old students from different ethnics, various social economic background and multi-level language ability, at a private primary school in Malaysia. The study focused on classroom management using a case study methodology where data was collected using both interviews and classroom observations. The findings concur with previous literature reviews on effective teacher models whilst providing in-depth details on what transpires during classroom activities, thus clarifying further the meaning of effective classroom management. The implications of this study suggest the need to include six new classroom management behaviours of an effective teacher. Further research is warranted to help policy makers and school administrators in identifying the significance of these behaviours for the selection and training of future teachers.
A study on waiting time and out-patient satisfaction at Gujarat medical education research society hospital, Valsad, Gujarat, India

Background: Gujarat Medical Education Research society started GMERS medical college and tertiary care Hospital in Valsad since last 4 years. As civil Hospital is converted in to tertiary care hospital and many of the departments running in different buildings so, searching the concern OPDs is difficult for patients, waiting time and patients satisfaction is important to avail the services. Patient satisfaction is one of the important goals of any health system, but it is difficult to measure the satisfaction. Aims & objectives were (1) to study the waiting time at various Out Patient Department (OPDs). and various investigation; (2) To study the accessibility of various department of hospital; (3) To study the patient satisfaction on hospital process, behavior of hospital staff and treatment cost. Methods: This was a cross sectional observational study conducted in G.M. E.R. S. Hospital-Valsad for the period of 2 months and total 135 patients were interviewed availing the OPD Services. Results: The mean age of patient attending the OPD was 30.31±15.65 years and majority of them are female patient (54.07%). Hospital staff (48.89%) was main source of guidance for searching the OPDs for consulting the doctor. 54.07% patient registered 20 min after standing in queue. The mean waiting time was 12.16±2.35 min. 94.07% and 98.52% patients were satisfied with treatment cost and behavior of staff respectively. Conclusions: Many patients face the difficulties in finding the various departments. On an average 12 minutes of waiting time outside the various O.P.Ds. They were also satisfied with the treatment cost and behaviour of hospital staff.
Nutrient Composition and Microbiological Quality of Three Unifloral Honeys with Emphasis on Processing of Honey Probiotic Youghurt

2 Abstract: Physicochemical and microbiological quality of 25 citrus, clover and cotton unifloral honeys along with identification of the predominant bacterial flora were assayed. Results of phyisicochemical parameters such as water content (w), total sugar (Ts), Total nitrogen (TN), acidity as citric acid and pH values were determined for all examined honeys. Color was determined and the average of values for L*, a* and b* were 10.42, 0.77 and 9.90 for clover honey 8.57, 1.72 and 6.78 for cotton seed honey and 11.54, 3.11 and 11.09 for citrus honey, respectively. Citrus honey had a low microbial load compared to clover and cotton honeys. No coliforms were detected in all the three types of honey examined. While all tested samples of cotton floral honey were contaminated with yeast and moulds. The honey bacterial flora includes strains of Bacillus butyricum, B. subtilis, Enterococcus faecium, lactobacillus acidophilus, L. casei, L. plantarum, Lactococcus lacits, Lact, cremoris and Micrococcus luteus.Honey yoghurt stored at 10°C for 5 days contained ~10 cfu/ml from the 8 probiotic bacteria used regardless the percentage of honey added.
Real‐time monitoring of the freshwater discharge at the head of the St. Lawrence Estuary

Abstract The freshwater discharge at the head of the St. Lawrence Estuary near Quebec city in eastern Canada, was monitored at monthly timescales from 1955 to 1988 by the Quebec Department of Environment and Fauna (DEF). Since 1988, these estimates have been discontinued. Using the 1962–1988 data, two models are developed to estimate the freshwater discharge at the head of the Estuary. The first is a regression model which estimates the discharge at monthly timescales using sea level data available at Neuville near Quebec city. A second order polynomial fits the data with a correlation coefficient of R = 0.93. The second model is a one‐dimensional numerical model which estimates the hourly discharge using hourly sea level data available at Neuville and at Lauzon as upstream and downstream boundary conditions respectively. The numerical model is calibrated with current measurements for the tidal variability, and with the DEF's estimates for monthly means. The linear least‐squares fits between the monthly‐a.
An Innovative Tool for Effectively Applying Highly Parallelized Hardware To Problems of Elasticity

En la actualidad los metodos de descomposicion de dominio (DDM, por sus siglas en ingles) mas eficientes como instrumento de paralelizacion son los metodos sin traslape (non-overlapping). Su alta eficiencia es debida a la independencia muy significativa que logran los problemas locales planteados en subdominios que no se traslapan. Sin embargo, los metodos de discretizacion estandar que habian usado hasta ahora los DDM, aun los sin traslape, utilizan sistemas de nodos en que algunos de ellos son compartidos por varios subdominios de la descomposicion. Esta es una caracteristica limitativa del estado del arte actual de este tipo de procedimientos y, muy probablemente, mayores niveles de independencia de los problemas locales podrian lograrse si se le eliminara. I. Herrera y sus colaboradores han atacado este problema, para lo cual han introducido una nueva manera de formular los DDM que no tiene esta limitacion: el metodo DVS. Un rasgo conspicuo de esta forma de abordar la descomposicion de dominio es que se utiliza un metodo nuevo de discretizacion de las EDPs, tambien introducido en la linea de investigacion a la que pertenece este articulo, conocido con el nombre de 'discretizacion sin traslape' (non-overlapping discretization), en el cual cada nodo de la discretizacion pertenece a uno y solo uno de los subdominios de la descomposicion del dominio. Aunque los metodos DVS ya se han desarrollado considerablemente, para que rindan frutos plenamente es indispensable contar con codigos que permitan su implementacion eficiente. A eso precisamente esta dedicado este articulo: presentar y poner a prueba software de tales caracteristicas. El software aqui reportado muestra que los algoritmos DVS son los mas adecuados para desarrollar software que permita la aplicacion efectiva de equipo de computo avanzado, altamente en paralelo, a la solucion de las ecuaciones
Serum Uric Acid Levels in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Study of 100 Patients

Background: It is unclear whether Serum Uric Acid (SUA) promotes or protects against the cerebrovascular disease. Present study was done to estimate uric acid levels in patients of acute ischemic stroke. Methods: 100 cases of acute ischemic stroke were studied along with 100 controls. Risk factors for stroke were noted such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, smoking, and obesity. Serum uric acid levels were measured in cases and controls. Modified National Institute of Health (NIH) stroke scale score was calculated at admission and before discharge. Statistical analysis was performed with of SPSS 13.0 software. Results: Out of 100 patients, 63 were males and 37 were females. Mean SUA level in cases was 6.48 ± 1.92 mg / dl whereas it was 5.09 ± 1.07 mg / dl for controls. SUA values were higher among males than females, but this difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.085). The mean SUA in hypertensive subjects (6.42 ± 1.85 mg / dl) was higher than that in normotensive subjects (5.49 ± 1.55 mg / dl). There was a statistically significant difference between SUA levels in diabetic (6.85 ± 1.86 mg / dl, Range 3.1 - 12 mg / dl) and non-diabetic patients (5.56 ± 1.58 mg / dl, Range 2.1 - 11 mg / dl)) (P = 0.00). Mean SUA in overweight patients was 6.48 ± 1.65 mg / dl (Range 2.1 - 9.9 mg / dl) whereas it was 5.55 ± 1.65 (Range 2.1 - 12 mg / dl) in patients who had a normal weight. The mean SUA in patients with metabolic syndrome was 6.82 ± 1.62 mg / dl (Range 2.1 - 10 mg / dl) and 5.45 ± 1.59 mg / dl (Range 2.1 - 12 mg / dl) for the subjects without metabolic syndrome. SUA levels were significantly higher among smokers compared to non smokers (6.36 ± 1.78 vs. 5.69 ± 1.67, P = 0.05). There was a significant positive correlation between SUA and NIH stroke scale score (P less than 0.05). SUA levels were significantly higher in the patients who succumbed as compared to those who were discharged from the hospital (P = 0.00). Conclusions: SUA can be used as a marker for increased risk of stroke. Furthermore, SUA can also be used for risk stratification after stroke. doi:10.4021/jnr71w
A preliminary assessment of glacier melt-model parameter sensitivity and transferability in a dry subarctic environment

Abstract. Efforts to project the long-term melt of mountain glaciers and ice-caps require that melt models developed and calibrated for well studied locations be transferable over large regions. Here we assess the sensitivity and transferability of parameters within several commonly used melt models for two proximal sites in a dry subarctic environment of northwestern Canada. The models range in complexity from a classical degree-day model to a simplified energy-balance model. Parameter sensitivity is first evaluated by tuning the melt models to the output of an energy balance model forced with idealized inputs. This exercise allows us to explore parameter sensitivity both to glacier geometric attributes and surface characteristics, as well as to meteorological conditions. We then investigate the effect of model tuning with different statistics, including a weighted coefficient of determination (wR2), the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency criterion (E), mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean squared error (RMSE). Finally we examine model parameter transferability between two neighbouring glaciers over two melt seasons using mass balance data collected in the St. Elias Mountains of the southwest Yukon. The temperature-index model parameters appear generally sensitive to glacier aspect, mean surface elevation, albedo, wind speed, mean annual temperature and temperature lapse rate. The simplified energy balance model parameters are sensitive primarily to snow albedo. Model tuning with E, MAE and RMSE produces similar, or in some cases identical, parameter values. In twelve tests of spatial and/or temporal parameter transferability, the results with the lowest RMSE values with respect to ablation stake measurements were achieved twice with a classical temperature-index (degree-day) model, three times with a temperature-index model in which the melt parameter is a function of potential radiation, and seven times with a simplified energy-balance model. A full energy-balance model produced better results than the other models in nine of twelve cases, though the tuning of this model differs from that of the others.
A Heuristic Inquiry Into the Subjective Lived Experience and Expression of Authenticity as a Developing Dance/Movement Therapist

i Acknowledgements.ii Chapter 1: Introduction.1 Chapter 2: Literature Review.10 Chapter 3: Methods.29 Chapter 4: Results.43 Chapter 5: Discussion.55 References.75 Appendix A: Definition of Terms.80 Appendix B: Research Consultant Agreement.85 Appendix C: Interconnectedness Between Similes and Visual Art.88 Appendix D: Open Letter to the Authentic Me.89
Examining the Influence of Multiple Factors on Acquisition Order in a South Korean EFL Context: A Pilot Study.

Educators continue to have difficulty reforming English curricula in ways that better serve the needs of second language learners. This difficulty is perpetuated, in part, by the inability to predict how such changes will affect morphosyntactic development. To date, ESL research has failed to effectively ascertain how multiple causes influence the acquisition process. Because frequency of grammatical features within EFL input varies considerably from that found in ESL environments, study within this context may allow researchers to develop a more holistic understanding of cause and effect relationships, thereby allowing educators to design more effective curricula. Within the current study, five causal variables (frequency, semantic complexity, morphosyntactic complexity, morphosyntactic variability, and phonological salience) were converted to empirical values for each grammatical feature. These values were, subsequently, statistically compared to grammar acquisition rates obtained from the speech of South Korean EFL learners. Results revealed a strong correlation between EFL input frequency and acquisition, while correlations to other variables were weak and insignificant. This suggests that frequency is a substantial factor affecting the acquisition process. Based upon the results, reforms for the EFL public school curriculum are suggested.
Social support and maternal stress during pregnancy: a PATH model

Background: Lack of appropriate social support and resultant increased maternal stress during pregnancy contributes to negative pregnancy outcomes for both mothers and the future offspring. Objective: The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social support and maternal stress during pregnancy. Methods: This descriptive-correlative study was conducted on 210 pregnant women who met inclusion criteria and attended Shahryar Social Security Hospital from August to December 2012. Participants were recruited through a purposive convenient sampling. Questionnaires about socio-economic status, the Vaux Social Support Record and pregnancy-specific stress were completed by participants. SPSS-19 and Lisrel 8.8 were used for data and path analysis. Results: There was a significant relationship between perceived social support and maternal stress ( p < .05); however, support from family members and partners had the most affect. An emergent path model fitted (CF1 = 1, RMSEA = 0.00) and, accordingly, direct social support ( t -value = 7.3) influenced maternal stress during pregnancy. But socio-economic status did not show significant impact. Conclusions: Since social support is a measurable and multi-dimensional factor, health managers and policy makers ought to assess, recognize and apply specific support resources for pregnant women. Our data also support the idea that empowering family members and partners to support pregnant women by involving them in prenatal care programs is important to reduce maternal stress rate.
Numerical simulations of materials with micro-structure : limit analysis and homogenization techniques

Continuum-based numerical methods have played a leading role in the numerical solution of problems in soil and rock mechanics. However, for stratified soils and fractured rocks, a continuum assumption often leads to difficult parameters to define and over-simplified geometry to be realistic. In such cases, approaches that consider the micro-structure of the material can be adopted. In this paper, two of such approaches are detailed, namely limit analysis incorporating fractures and individual blocks, and elastoplastic homogenization of layered soils.
Educational innovations and pedagogical beliefs: The case of a professional development program for Indonesian teachers

This study aimed to explore the impact of a professional development program on the teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and practices. More specifically, the program endeavoured to design a prototype for teacher professional development in Indonesia that was sustainable and scalable. This one-year program built upon the participating teachers’ existing practices, reinforced with the concept of reflection as a tool for ongoing inquiry of their own practices. The three major components of this program were: action research, peercoaching and leadership support. By using a mixed method of quantitative and qualitative data collection, this study examined the changes in the participating teachers’ beliefs and practices, and how these changes may be related to the professional development program. The key findings in this paper have highlighted the importance of (1) the clarity of both the content and the outline of the program, (2) applicable and suitable professional learning methods, (3) modelling, and (4) collaboration among teachers. The findings have also identified teachers’ (limited) resources, such as time and access to facilities, to be taken into account when planning for professional development programs. The discussion focuses on the challenge to design professional development programs based on a belief-action relationship.
Structural Factors Influencing Private Companies Financing Behaviour

This article is on the structural factors surrounding private firms and their effect on financing behaviour and financing amount approved by banks. Capital is known for its significant in the well being of any business organisations, and maintaining a good structure of capital is vital to ensure that business firms can survive and prosper. Therefore this study is an attempt to understand which factors influencing the most in Malaysia environment. Utilising mixed methods approach, secondary data has been collected and analysed, hypotheses were tested for relationship and interview were also done to confirm the findings. Results indicate that while type of financing, age of business, number of directors and type of shareholdings have strong influenced on the financing amount, location of business and type of industry or business line do not. Key word: structural factors, private firms, financing behavior, business structure