Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effect of L-Arginine supplementation on Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) after eccentric heavy exercise

Introduction: L-Arginine supplementation improves antioxidant defenses through L-Arginine/nitric oxide pathways. This investigation assesses the influences of acuteL-Arginine supplementation on selected markers of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) after one by one heavy eccentric exercise in healthy young females. Methods: Twelve healthy young females students of the University of Mohaghegh-Ardabili voluntarily participated in a double-blind randomized-controlled crossover trial to estimate the effects of 3g L-Arginine oral supplementation versus placebo (3g glucose) following an unaccustomed heavy eccentric exercise. L-Arginine (ARG) or placebo (PLC) was taken immediately after squat exercise, separated by 10day washout. Measurements were conducted at baseline, 24, and 48h after exercise comprising: (a) TAC (b) CK (c) LDH (d) Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) (e) Range of Motion (ROM) of both knees (f) Edema of both thighs. For data analysis software SPSS version 20 was used. To analysis the data, analysis of variance with repeated measure was used. Results: TAC significantly increased 48h after exercise compared with the pre-exercise just in ARG group (P 0.05). Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that acute supplementation of ARG after heavy eccentric exercise may alleviate muscle damage through promoting the antioxidant capacity, protein synthesis, or decrease of lactate accumulation.
The frailty syndrome in institutionalized elderly persons

1 Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Curso de Graduação Bacharelado em Enfermagem. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil. 2 Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Programa de Pós-graduação em Enfermagem Fundamental. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil. 3 Instituição Sociedade Espirita Cinco de Setembro, Setor de Enfermagem. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil. 4 Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
Effect of Management of Performance Reward Systems on Subordinates’ Satisfaction with Job in Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department

This research was to measure the correlation between management of performance reward systems on subordinates’ satisfaction towards the job. A survey method was utilized to collect data from subordinates who worked at the headquarters of fire and rescue departments in Malaysia. The outcomes of SmartPLS path model analysis display two important findings. First, the implementation of information delivery and performance assessment in handling performance reward systems have enhanced subordinates’ intrinsic job satisfaction, but the implementation of involvement hypothesized performance reward systems has not enhanced subordinates’ intrinsic job satisfaction. Second, implementation of information delivery, involvement and performance assessment in handling performance reward systems have also enhanced subordinates’ extrinsic job satisfaction.
Investigating of Moral Distress and Attitude to Euthanasia in the Intensive Care Unit Nurses

Background: Considering the religious and legal structures in Iran, the occurrence of euthanasia seems to be impossible; however, the attitude of nurses towards euthanasia and its related factors may also affect creating moral distress conditions for nurses. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate of the moral distress and attitude of Adult and Neonatal Intensive Care Units (AICU/ NICU) nurses toward euthanasia. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, all the nurses working in intensive care units of Educational Hospitals affiliated with Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (Ahvaz city, Iran) were selected by census. Data were collected using Corley's Moral Distress Scale and Hollowayâ��s Euthanasia Attitude Scale. Single-variable and multivariate linear regression tests were used to analyze the data and to determine the relationships between independent and dependent variables. Analyses were done using SPSS software (version 22). Results: The attitude of all nurses towards euthanasia was negative (min score=20, max score=73, mean score= 43.78Â±7.99). The mean Moral distress frequency and Moral distress intensify were 47. 01Â±12.90 and 48. 42Â±11.62, respectively (indicates moderate ethical distress). In AICU nurses, there was a significant relationship between the frequency of moral distress and the nursesâ�� attitudes. However, there was no significant relationship between the intensity of moral distress and the nursesâ�� attitudes. In NICU nurses, there was no significant relationship between the frequency of moral distress and intensity of moral distress with nursesâ�� attitude toward euthanasia. Conclusion: The religious and cultural conditions of the country have caused all nurses did not consider euthanasia to be acceptable under any circumstances. Further studies are needed to better understand the attitude of nurses towards euthanasia, especially with regard to the culture of Iranian society.
The impact of the presidential cassava initiative on cassava productivity in Nigeria: Implication for sustainable food supply and food security

Abstract Agricultural programmes are implemented in sub-Saharan African countries to stimulate rural economic development. One such programme is the Presidential Cassava Initiative (PCI) in Nigeria aimed at reducing poverty and food insecurity, but there is a limited study on contribution of the programme to cassava output and food security. This study estimated the effects of the PCI on cassava output and food security in Nigeria. A three-stage multivariate linear regression model was applied in the empirical analysis. The results showed that the PCI has increased cassava output; promoted food supply; and enhanced national food security. The study concludes that agricultural development interventions are required to achieve a sustainable food supply and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. It is recommended that exit strategy should be incorporated in designing agricultural interventions to enable beneficiaries to enjoy sustainable effects.
Women Parliamentarians and Deforestation Around The World

Deforestation has now taken the center stage in the climate change debate which has become a heavily politicized process. We argue that involvement of women in that process can be instrumental in reducing deforestation. We find significant and robust evidence for this hypothesis in a cross-section of 163 countries covering 1990–2010. Our results have important policy implications and call for wider involvement of women in the climate change debates and policy making.
Flight path reconstruction and parameter estimation using output-error method

This work describes the application of the output-error method using the Levenberg-Marquardt optimization algorithm to the Flight Path Reconstruction (FPR) problem, which constitutes an important preliminary step towards the aircraft parameter identification. This method is also applied to obtain the aerodynamic and control derivatives of a regional jet aircraft from flight test data with measurement noise and bias. Experimental results are reported, employing a real jet aircraft, with flight test data acquired by smart probes, inertial sensors (gyrometers and accelerometers) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) receivers.
Constraint Formulations for Optimisation of Dual Mixed Refrigerant LNG Processes

Optimisation of a dual mixed refrigerant LNG process is challenging due to its rather complex structure. Therefore, appropriate constraint formulations are essential to solve the optimisation problem. In this paper, the AP-DMR process was optimised to minimize the power consumption with different constraints in order to find proper constraint formulations. The case studies indicate that refrigerant superheating does not always increase the power consumption. Instead, the best-known solutions required specific values of refrigerant superheating. Moreover, maximum heat exchanger area constraints for cryogenic heat exchangers delivered higher energy efficiency, compared to the constraints of minimum temperature difference, which is common practice for LNG processes.
Perceived Corruption and Quality of Health Services in Mbeya Urban District, Mbeya Region Tanzania

This paper examines the effect of corruption on quality of public health services. Corruption, in Tanzania, is a national concern that upsets public health services. There is a public outcry that corruption is increasing in the public health sector while the government’s effort to combat the phenomenon is unimpressive. This poses worries on the quality of public health services. The current study adopted cross-sectional research design, and a total of 180 respondents were involved in the survey. The Mann Whitney U Test was used to compare differences between perceived quality of health services and respondents’ characteristics. Overall, 87.2% of the respondents perceived low quality of health services, and corruption affected quality of health services to a greater extent. Based on age, employment and wealth status, there was significant difference on reporting perceived quality of health services at 5% and 1% level of significance. In addition, respondents’ sex and employment status showed significant difference in reporting the extent to which corruption affected quality of health services at 5% level of significance. The paper draws out two conclusions: first, the quality of health services was low. Second, corruption exacerbated poor quality of health services. To that effect, interventions to combat corruption in the public health sector are needed so as to improve quality of health services.
Distanced Data: Transcribing Other People's Research Tapes.

In this article, we report on our qualitative study involving eight individuals hired to transcribe research tapes in university contexts. We consider issues of data analysis and data trustworthiness and the implications for both when transcription is assigned to someone other than the researcher. We explore the challenges transcribers faced completing their work, transcription decisions they made in situ, and the effects of the transcribers’ degree of investment in the research on the transcripts produced. We highlight the need for researchers to acknowledge transcription as an important aspect of the research process and take seriously the decision of who transcribes. Keywords: transcription, qualitative methodology, data trustworthiness, interviewing, research assistants Cet article offre un compte-rendu d’une etude qualitative concernant huit individus embauches pour transcrire des cassettes de recherche dans un contexte universitaire. Nous etudions la problematique de l’analyse des donnees, de la fiabilite des donnees et du role qu’elles jouent dans la transcription accomplie par quelqu’un d’autre que le chercheur. Nous explorons les defis auxquels les preposes a la machine a transcrire font face dans la realisation de leur travail, dans leurs decisions in situ et les effets sur la transcription finale de leur niveau d’investissement dans la recherche . Nous soulignons le besoin que les chercheurs reconnaissent la transcription comme un aspect important du processus de recherche et de prendre au serieux le choix de ceux qui font la transcription. Mots-cles: transcription, methodologie qualitative, fiabilite des donnees, entrevues, assistants de recherche
THE IMPACT OF NEW SPINNING TECHNOLOGIES ON THE EGYPTIAN COTTONS

Abstract The yarns spun on the compact spinning system are characterized by higher tenacity, higher elongation at break, smaller mass irregularity measured at short segments, and significantly lower hairiness in comparison with yarns spun on the conventional ring spinning frame. For the Long Staple Egyptian cotton varieties, the breaking force or single yarn strength of the compact yarn (with a nominal linear density of 15tex spun from Long-Staple cottons) was 17.63% higher than the conventional ring spun yarn, while for the Extra-fine carded yarns spun from Extra-Long Staple varieties (it was around 7.0%). This means that, the compact spinning system is more useful for Long Staple cottons and coarse and medium counts than for the Extra Long Staple cottons and finer counts.
Nutritional status and associated factors among school adolescent in Chiro Town, West Hararge, Ethiopia -

Adolescence is the period of intense physical, psychosocial and cognitive development and the second to infancy at which highest rate of physical growth occur. So Adolescent need to have good quantity and quality nutrient to cope with this rapid growth and other health risk which increase nutritional demand. The aim of this study was to assess nutritional status and associated factors among school adolescents in chiro town.Cross-sectional study was employed from November 04- 13, 2013. Trained nurses took anthropometric measurement weight and height. Data was entered to Epi data and was analyzed using SPSS. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify predicators of nutritional status of adolescents by controlling the effect of possible confounders. Of 319 selected samples, 291(91.2%) were participated in the study. Socio-demographic factors like being early adolescents (10-14 years) [AOR=2.06, CI= 1.02, 4.16], male [AOR= 3.91 CI=1.7, 8.98], chewingkhat [AOR=2.45 CI=1.07, 5.64], having fathers with no formal education [AOR=8.52 CI=2.055, 35.36] were assocaited with being underweight. While sometimes hand washing after toilet [AOR= 3.24 CI= 1.01, 10.37] was found to be predictor of stunting. Prevalence of underweight was high among adolescents but the prevalence of stunting was low. Nutrition education, adolescents’ body change awareness, education and risk of khat chewing and further research on stunting of adolescents should be done to improve adolescents’ nutrition.
Spiritual Intelligence and Organisational Effectiveness Ecosystem

There are a number of factors which affect the performance of employees in an organization. Most of these factors pay little attention to the emotional and spiritual aspects of individuals. This paper attempts to establish the Spiritual Intelligence (SI) and Organisational Effectiveness (OE) ecosystem to show the relationship between an individual's SI and his/her workplace performance, which catalyzes the formation of overall Organisational Effectiveness. This ecosystem promises the creation of Organisational Effectiveness. In this paper, the authors have proposed five dimensions of SI and have also advocated that these dimensions form the basis of the development of OE environment.
Molecular characterization of Pythium spp. isolated from tomato seedlings in the Syrian coast

Tomato seedlings damping-off is a limiting factor in commercial greenhouse production. To determine the causal agents of disease, sampling and fungal isolation were performed during 2012. Samples were collected from infected seedlings growing in greenhouses in the Syrian coastal region. Isolation of fungi was done in the laboratories of the Agronomical Reaserch Center, in Lattakia and the molecular analyses were done in the Biotechnology Center at Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria, during the years 2012, 2013. Eight isolates of Pythium sp. obtained were purified using hyphal tip method (named P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7 and P8). Isolates were morphologically identified by optical microscope, then molecularly Characterized using genus specific ITS primers. The results of morphological characterization of pathogenic species suggested the detection of Pythium aphanidermatum, P. ultimum. The analysis of DNAs from the different isolates with ITS primers, recognizing the inter transcript spacer of nuclear ribosomal DNA proved that the eight, isolates were belonging to the species P. ultimum. The complete sequences of ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacers regions of selected isolates were determined and submitted to GenBank. The GenBank-BLAST homology search revealed P. ultimum as the most similar sequence (> 96% identity) with GenBank entry AB355596.
Droplets Transport in a Microfluidic Chip for In Vitro Compartmentalisation

In vitro compartmentalisation is an emerging technology for protein evolution and selection. In this presentation, we will report the development of a microdrop-based microfluidic platform for in vitro enzyme evolution and selection applications. A microfluidic chip has been developed and fabricated using the standard photolithography method in conjunction with electroplating and hot embossing techniques. A cross channel geometry was used to focus liquid flows for droplet generation. To realize on-chip compartmentalised bio-reactions, two droplet generators were fabricated on the same chip. Experiments have been carried out to measure droplet size, generation rate and speed using a photographic technique. Droplet size was found to be decreasing with increasing focusing oil flow rate for a given aqueous phase flow rate. When two droplet generators are used in the same chip, the droplets may be generated asynchronously due to different flow conditions. If the droplets were significantly smaller than channel size, the faster moving droplets could pass the slower moving droplets with little coalescence. If the droplets were of the channel size, the faster moving droplets would break or fuse with the slow droplets. To achieve high rate of droplet fusion, active control should be in place for synchronous generation and fusion.
Tuning the Mechanical Properties of Tapioca Starch by Plasticizers, Inorganic Fillers and Agrowaste-Based Fillers

Mechanical properties of tapioca starch-based films were tuned by different additives and additive combinations. The additives included plasticizers (glycerol, sorbitol, and citric acid), inorganic fillers (halloysite and kaolin), and agrowaste-based fillers (milled wood flour and rice bran). In addition, new biobased additives were prepared from wood flour and rice bran through liquefaction reaction. Through different additive combinations, starch-based materials with significant differences in tensile properties were designed. Addition of halloysite nanoclay resulted in materials with improved tensile strength at break and rather low strain at break. The effect of kaolin on tensile strength was highly dependent on the used plasticizer. However, in most combinations the addition of kaolin resulted in materials with intermediate tensile strength and strain at break values. The addition of milled wood flour and rice bran improved the tensile strength, while the addition of liquefied fillers especially liquefied rice bran increased the strain at break indicating that liquefied rice bran could have potential as a plasticizer for starch blends.
Larval ascaridoid nematodes (Anisakidae) in fish from the South Shetland Islands (Southern Ocean)

The aim of this study was to assess the anisakid nematode distribution pattern in the fish collected from the South Shetland Islands. A total of 32 fish species were examined for the presence of nematodes in 1978, 1979, 1981 and 2007/2008. The fish were caught off the South Shetland Islands (Elephant Island, Shishkov Island and in Admiralty Bay - King George Island). Three genera of L3 larval nematodes were identified: Anisakis sp. , Contra− caecum spp. and Pseudoterranova decipiens. The infection level was higher on the shelf around the islands than in Admiralty Bay. This is explained by a higher abundance of the fi− nal hosts in the region. A comparison of the infection data from 1978/79 and 2007/2008 with data from 1994/96 (Palm et al. 1998, 2007) was done. The parameters of infection of Notothenia coriiceps and Lepidonotothen nudifrons by Pseudoterranova decipiens were decreasing within the 30 years period.
La influencia del compromiso organizacional y orientación al aprendizaje sobre la innovación en las PYMES

Innovation is a strategic capacity for organizations as they face new and greater challenges, such as processing a vast amount of information and knowledge, as well as responding quickly to increasingly uncertain changing environments. The objective of this is to evaluate, in an empirical way, a model that presents three causal relationships between theoretical constructs in a group of 250 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the state of Aguascalientes. The first one refers to whether organizational commitment has a positive and significant influence on the levels of learning orientation; the second is verifying if the organizational commitment has a positive and significant influence on the levels of inno­vation; and finally, inquiring if the learning orientation has a positive and significant impact on the level of innovation. The proposed model—which presents good adjustments—is validated through structural analysis using the confirmatory modeling strategy. Results are presented and they indicate that organi­zational commitment does have a positive and significant impact on the levels of learning orientation in the organization. Furthermore, learning orientation influences in a positive and significant way SMEs’ innovation in Aguascalientes. However, organizational commitment fails to show a significant positive influence on the innovation of SMEs in Aguascalientes.
Thermal behavior of calcite as an expansive agent

In this paper, thermal behavior of calcite as raw material of CaO-based expansive agent was investigated. The products were characterized by using differential thermal analysis (DTA), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). DTA curves show that calcite has endothermic peak and impurity affects the onset of reactions. The more the impurity increases, the more energy changes increase. At 800-900°C, calcite was decomposed into solid calcium oxide (CaO) and gaseous CO2. Lime (CaO) used as the base of expandable material is the ultimate product of heated calcite. The calcium oxide phase, in reaction to water forms portlandite, at an onset temperature of about 900°C was also characterized by the appearance of the FT-IR mode at 867,3424 and 3644 cm-1. XRD results show that quartz impurity in calcite samples at 900°C forms larnite phase (Ca2SiO4). The expansions are mainly generated from the hydrations of CaO in the CaO-type expansive agent.
Hard and soft multilayered SiCN nanocoatings with high hardness and toughness

Alternate hard and soft layers increase deformation accommodation as thin hard layers slide relative to each other due to shear deformation of low modulus layers. However, the processing of suchmultilayers is challenging. In the present paper the alternating soft and hard multilayered SiCN coating deposited by magnetron sputtering has been studied and presented. A hardness and modulus of 37GPa and 317GPa with elastic recovery of 62% are achieved by alternate hard and soft layer of Si-C-N by magnetron sputtering. The trilayer films sustained even 2000 gf under indentation without failure though substrate plastically deformed. The fracture toughness value KIC was measured to be 9.5-10MPa m1/2, significantly higher than many reported hard coatings.