Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effect of ethical leadership on management accountants’ performance: the mediating role of psychological well-being

This paper examined the impacts imparted by ethical leadership on both the performance and well-being of management accountants employed in public shareholding companies operating in Jordan. The mediating effect of psychological well-being was also examined. In testing the study hypotheses, analysis was performed on 93 obtained responses. The structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was used. From the outcomes, the ethical leadership level has significant impact on the psychological well-being of management accountants, while ethical leadership indirectly and significantly affects job performance, but only by way of psychological well-being. All these lend support to the mediating role of the psychological well-being of employees in the delineation of the link existing between ethical leadership and employee performance. Limitations and implications of the study are discussed. The directions of forthcoming studies are proposed as well.
Asymptomatic Uropathogenic Bacteriuria Among Pregnant and Non-pregnant Women at St Luke’s Hospital Anua, Offot Ukwa District Uyo: A Reassessment Case-Control Approach

Asymptomatic bacteriuria is the presence of multiplying bacteria in the absence of any symptoms. The relevance of ASB lies in the insight it provides into symptomatic infections. Physiological and anatomical alterations during pregnancy make women more predisposed to urinary tract infection. This study seeks to determine the prevalence, risk factors, and bacteria profile among pregnant and non-pregnant women. A total of 230 pregnant women and 100 age-matched non-pregnant women were recruited. All pregnant women were recruited from individuals attending antenatal clinic and the controls recruited within the same hospital. Clean catch mid-stream urines ample was collected and microbial analysis done immediately. Significant ASB was identified and antibiotic sensitivity determined by conventional protocols. The overall prevalence of ASB in this study was 29.1% and 15% among pregnant and non-pregnant women respectively. The mean age was 25.3±5.2 and 24.2±5.6years for pregnant and non-pregnant women. Based on their parity among pregnant women, 112 (48.7%), 61(26.5%) and 57 (24.8%) were nulliparous, monoparous and multiparous respectively. Also, 37(16.1%), 70(30.4%) and 123(53.5%) of the pregnant women were in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd trimester. Sixty-seven (29.1%), 125 (54.3%) and 37 (16.1%) pregnant subjects were housewives, self-employed and civil servants in their occupation. Trimester was a risk factor for asymptomatic bacteriuria in the 2nd and 3rd trimester. There was association between age, parity, trimester and ASB. The most common isolate in this study was Escherichia coli (28.4%), followed by Klebsiella pneumonia (23.9%). The Escherichia coli and other uropathogens isolates were multiple drug sensitive between 50-100%. Previous bacteriuria treatment seeking pattern among the pregnant women was 138(60%), 42(18.3%), 32(13.9%) and 1(0.4%) for individuals who had sought treatments in hospitals, patent drug dealers (chemists), multi-centres and traditionally respectively. It is recommended that routine urine culture screening be conducted for all pregnant women at least in the second and third trimesters and positive ASB promptly treated.
Guinea fowl (Numida meliagris) value chain: Preferences and constraints of consumers

Despite the increasing production of guinea fowls in most African countries, consumer preference information and constraints remain largely undocumented. A study involving 200 consumers and 50 processors was done in the Tamale metropolis to assess their respective roles in the guinea fowl value chain. Consumers were categorised into households and institutions. Household consumers were further partitioned into lower-, middle- and upper-income classes. Most (99%) of the consumers interviewed ranked guinea fowl meat as their most preferred poultry product, and taste was ranked as the top most reason for their choice. A large proportion of household and institutional consumers ate guinea fowl meat once monthly (42%) or weekly (33.5%). All categories of consumers preferred farmers as the source of birds for consumption. Live birds were the most preferred form of guinea fowl by both consumers and processors. Most (93.7%) consumers indicated that there are seasonal fluctuations in the price of guinea fowl leading to the use of products that are substitutes for guinea fowl. Price instability was ranked as the top constraint to guinea fowl consumption in the metropolis. Beef was the cheapest fresh guaranteed halal meat product on the market, and the prices of beef, mutton and chevon were the most stable, while that of the guinea fowl was the least stable. Institutional consumers used guinea fowls more frequently (p<0.05) as compared to household consumers. Similarly, upper- and middle-income households, as well as male heads of households used guinea fowls more frequently (p<0.05) as compared to low-income and female heads of households. Most (60%) processors processed birds either once weekly or monthly. The level of education of the heads of households had no effect (p>0.05) on the frequency of use of guinea fowl meat. There was also no difference between male and female heads of households in preference for guinea fowl packaging. Similarly, household consumers of all income classes chose all packaging of guinea fowl equally, while households and processors ranked friends as the top source of food safety information and institutional consumers ranked television as the number one source of food safety information. Guinea fowls have huge market potential, but the seasonal price fluctuations still remain a challenge. Additionally, the preference for live birds among institutional and household consumers seem to be related to uncertainty about conforming to halal standards in slaughter of birds by processors and poor meat handling and hygiene standards among processors in the metropolis.
Atomic Oxygen Abundance in Molecular Clouds: Absorption toward Sagittarius B2

We have obtained high-resolution (~35 km s-1) spectra toward the molecular cloud Sgr B2 at 63 μm, the wavelength of the ground-state fine-structure line of atomic oxygen (O I), using the ISO-LWS instrument. Four separate velocity components are seen in the deconvolved spectrum, in absorption against the dust continuum emission of Sgr B2. Three of these components, corresponding to foreground clouds, are used to study the O I content of the cool molecular gas along the line of sight. In principle, the atomic oxygen that produces a particular velocity component could exist in any, or all, of three physically distinct regions: inside a dense molecular cloud, in the UV illuminated surface layer (PDR) of a cloud, and in an atomic (H I) gas. For each of the three foreground clouds, we estimate, and subtract from the observed O I column density, the oxygen content of the H I gas, by scaling from a published high-resolution 21 cm spectrum. We find that the remaining O I column density is correlated with the observed 13CO column density. From the slope of this correlation, an average [O I]/[13CO] ratio of 270 ± 120 (3 σ) is derived, which corresponds to [O I]/[CO] ≈ 9 for a CO to 13CO abundance ratio of 30. Assuming a 13CO abundance of 1 × 10-6 with respect to H nuclei, we derive an atomic oxygen abundance of 2.7 × 10-4 in the dense gas phase, corresponding to a 15% oxygen depletion compared to the diffuse ISM in our Galactic neighborhood. The presence of multiple, spectrally resolved velocity components in the Sgr B2 absorption spectrum allows, for the first time, a direct determination of the PDR contribution to the O I column density. The PDR regions should contain O I but not 13CO, and would thus be expected to produce an offset in the O I-13CO correlation. Our data do not show such an offset, suggesting that within our beam O I is spatially coexistent with the molecular gas, as traced by 13CO. This may be a result of the inhomogeneous nature of the clouds.
Cointroductions of Australian acacias and their rhizobial mutualists in the Southern Hemisphere

Mutualisms are often disrupted for plants introduced to new ranges, yet many of these plants have managed to obtain effective mutualistic associations in their new ranges. There are two potential pathways for non‐native plants to reassemble mutualisms: cointroduction (i.e. familiar associations with cointroduced mutualists) or ecological fitting (i.e. forming or adapting novel associations with resident native mutualists). We assessed the importance of each pathway for mutualist reassembly in four Australian Acacia species (A. baileyana, A. dealbata, A. decurrens and A. melanoxylon) and their associated nitrogen‐fixing rhizobial symbionts in two non‐native locations.
Risk factors associated with preterm birth at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: unmatched case control study

Background Preterm birth, birth of a baby prior to 37 weeks gestation age, is one of the major public health burdens worldwide. It has far reaching consequences to the mother and the newborn with both short-term and long-term effects. It is estimated that more than one in ten babies were born prematurely worldwide in 2010 making approximately 15 million preterm births, of which more than 1 million died due to the complications of preterm birth. Dealing with premature babies has been seen to pose a number of challenges due to inadequate care provided to these babies. In order to combat this burden, reduction of preterm birth should be highly emphasized. This can be done by first identifying the risk factors associated with preterm birth and then come up with appropriate preventive measures. Objective The objective of this study was to determine the risk factors associated with preterm birth at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Methodology Unmatched hospital-based case-control study was conducted between Feb 2015 and April 2016 involving 140 cases who were women who delivered preterm babies between 28 and 36 weeks and 280 controls who were women who delivered term babies at 37 weeks gestation or more at Muhimbili National Hospital. Data collection was through face to face interview using a questionnaire which contained information on socio-demographic characteristics of the women, maternal factors and fetal factors and it was supplemented by maternal data from the case notes and antenatal cards. Data analysis was done using IBM SPSS version 20. Chi square and Odds ratio (OR) with 95% CI were used to assess the relationship between independent variables and dependent variables. T-test was used for continuous variables. Logistic regression was done to find independent risk factors associated with preterm birth. P value < 0.05 was considered significant.
Deliverable D3.4 Report Describing Final Version of Deep Layered Models

This document describes work on three different approaches to overcoming the following problems of conventional HMM based speech synthesis. Firstly, that known linguistic structure (such as syllable structure) is not exploited directly in acoustic modelling. Work on modelling F0 separately from spectrum in a multi-rate model tries to address this issue. Secondly, decision tree clustering is an inefficient way of tying model parameters. Work on supplementing decision tree based models with multiple regression transforms aims to alleviate this problem. Thirdly, the textual/linguistic and acoustic components of TTS systems are conventionally learned independently of one another. Work on using deep neural nets to learn representations of linguistic objects jointly with predictors of speech features is presented which aims to address to this problem. Version 1 (7/11/2013) 2 page 2 of 10 FP7-287678 SIMPLE4ALL deliverable D3.4
MAXIMIZING DEGREES OF FREEDOM IN WIRELESS NETWORKS by Shashibhushan Prataprao Borade

We consider communication from a single source to a single destination in a wireless network with fading. Both source and destination have multiple antennas. The information reaches the destination through a sequence of layers of single-antenna relays. A non-separation-based strategy is proposed and shown to achieve a rate equal to the capacity of a point-to-point multiantenna system in the high SNR regime. This implies that lack of coordination between relay nodes does not reduce the achievable rate at high SNR. We then derive the tradeoffs between network size and rate. We also derive the rate-diversity tradeoff for this network and study how it is affected by the network size. This shows that increasing network size is much more difficult when the codelength does not span a large number of fading realizations. Finally some implications to ad-hoc networks are discussed. Thesis Supervisor: Lizhong Zheng Title: Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Thesis Co-supervisor: Robert Gallager Title: Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Composition and structure of the frugivorous butterfly community (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) at the Serra Azul State Park (PESA), Mato Grosso, Brazil

Due to the important ecological role of Nymphalidae as consumers of fermented fruits, excrement, exudates of decomposed plants and animals, as well as bioindicators of environmental quality that attract the interest of the general public, this study aimed to characterize the fauna of frugivorous butterflies at the Serra Azul State Park – PESA (Mato Grosso, Brazil) with regards to composition, taxonomic richness and spatial distribution. Collections were carried out in 2014 from six 250 m plots in a RAPELD module (5x5 km). We defined five sampling points in each plot and placed a Van Someren-Rydon trap (VSR), with a bait made from banana fermented in cane juice, positioned 1 m above the ground for 24 hours. We collected 204 specimens of Nymphalidae from five subfamilies, 22 genera, and 40 species. Satyrinae was the most abundant and species-rich subfamily. The community structure varied spatially, with the gallery forest presenting the greatest richness, diversity, and equitability, while ‘cerrado ralo’ presented higher abundance and less diversity and equitability. Therefore, according to the pattern of abundance in the PESA, species were best adapted to the log series model. Yphthimoidesrenata (Stoll, 1780) (Satyrinae), Hamadryasferonia (Linnaeus, 1758), and Callicoresorana (Godart, 1824) (Biblidinae) were the most abundant species, 19 species were singletons, and eight were doubletons. Richness estimators showed that 63% of all species were sampled. Our results indicate that the frugivorous butterfly community is structured according to phytophysiognomies, and the dominance of species that are tolerant to disturbances indicates landscape fragmentation within the PESA, which interferes with species substitution pattern and their abundances in different environments of the park.
RESPONSE OF CORIANDER VEGETATIVE GROWTH, YIELD COMPONENTS, PIERCING–SUCKING PESTS INFESTATION AND ASSOCIATED NATURAL ENEMIES TO NITROGEN FERTILIZER RATES AND FOLIAR SPRAY WITH L-TRYPTOPHAN, PHENYLALANINE ACIDS UNDER SANDY SOIL CONDITIONS

The present work was conducted at the Experimental Farm of EL-Quassasin Horticultural Research Station, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt, during the two winter consecutive seasons of 2016/2017 and 2017/2018. The aim was, to investigate the effect of different nitrogen fertilization rates (control, 50, 75 and 100% of recommended N rate), amino acids type (control, L-tryptophan, phenylalanine and L-tryptophan + phenylalanine) as a foliar spray at 150 mg/l for each one and their interactions on growth and production of coriander andpiercing–sucking pests infestation. The obtained results indicated that, nitrogen fertilization rate at 300 kg ammonium sulfate/feddan (recommended rate) significantly increased growth parameters (plant height, number of branches/plant and fresh and dry herb weights/plant), root system (fresh and dry weights of roots/plant and root length), yield components (number of umbels/plant and number of florets/umbel/plant, fruit yield/plant and /feddan), volatile oil productivity (volatile oil percentage, volatile oil yield/plant and /feddan) and chemical constituents (N, P, K and total carbohydrates percentages) compared to control. Moreover, the highest values of the above mentioned characters were registered by foliar spray of L-tryptophan + phenylalanine with significant differences between the other rates under study. Generally, the better growth characters and root system, higher yield components and volatile oil production, chemical constituents of fruits could be obtained by spraying L-tryptophan + phenylalanine at 150 mg/l on fertilized coriander plants with nitrogen at the recommended rate, followed by the combined treatment of nitrogen fertilization as 75% plus L-tryptophan + phenylalanine. In the same trend, highly significant differences (≤ 0.05) between the mean numbers of the piercing–sucking pests; i.e., Hyadaphis coriandri (Das), Bemisia tabaci (Genn.), Thrips tabaci (Lind.), Tetranychus urticea Koch. , and their associated natural enemies i.e., Coccinella spp, Chrisoprella carnea (Steph.), aphids parasitoids and predacious mite which were resulted as the variation in nitrogen fertilization rates, and foliar spray of amino acids types. Also, the simple correlation calculation revealed significant coefficients for the relation between each of the surveyed pests and their associated natural enemies correlated with growth parameters (plant height and number of branches/plant) and seed yield/plant.
Student perceptions of online active learning practices and online learning climate predict online course engagement

ABSTRACT Student engagement in online courses may be more ambiguous, and complex to understand than in face-to-face (FtF) classrooms settings. Without regular FtF interaction, instructors may feel unable to accurately gauge student engagement, and respond accordingly. This research explored student perceptions of online active learning practices (Koohang, Paliszkiewicz, Nord, & Ramim, 2014, Advancing a theoretical model for knowledge construction in e-learning. Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management, 2, 12–25), student uncertainty about social belonging in college (Walton & Cohen, 2011, A brief social-belonging intervention improves academic and health outcomes of minority students. Science, 331, 1447–1451. doi: 10.1126/science.1198364) and a course’s online learning climate (Kaufmann, Sellnow, & Frisby, 2016, The development and validation of the online learning climate scale (OLCS). Communication Education, 65, 307–321. doi: 10.1080/03634523.2015. 1101778), as potential predictors of online student engagement. Results from hierarchical multiple regression models provide evidence of the predictive potential for these elements on online student engagement. Some possible evidence for the predictive potential of student GPA and age is provided as well. Implications of these findings, and future research opportunities are discussed.
Analysis of Factors Correlated to Work Fatigue of Hospital Nurses in Bandar Lampung

AnalysisofFactorsCorrelatedtoWorkFatigue ofHospitalNursesinBandarLampung FSaftarina1,DMayasari2,andAVilia3 1,2University of Lampung, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine Prof. Soemantri Brojonegoro Street No. 1, Gedong Meneng, Bandar Lampung, Lampung 35145, Indonesia 3University of Lampung, Faculty of Medicine, Abdoel Moeloek Hospital Dr. Rivai Street, Penengahan, Bandar Lampung, Lampung 35121, Indonesia Abstract Work fatigue is a symptom correlated to a decrease in work efﬁciency and skills and an increase in boredom and anxiety. If hospital nurses suffer work fatigue, they will be unable to perform at their best to care for patients, and this will reduce their productivity in providing services. This study aimed to identify the factors correlated to the work fatigue of hospital nurses in Bandar Lampung. This study had a crosssectional design. The study population included 247 respondents, and the ﬁnal study sample included 153 respondents. The independent variables in this study were sex, age, marital status, nutritional status, disease history, work period, and shift work. The dependent variable was work fatigue. The study data were analyzed using the Chi-Squaretest, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test(α= 0.05),and logisticregressiontest. The results showed that 75.8% of the respondents suffered from work fatigue. There were signiﬁcant correlations between work fatigue and sex (p = 0.034), shift work (p =0.001),andworkperiod(p=0.041). Thedeterminantfactorofworkfatiguewasthe workshift(OR=3.479;p=0.007;95%CI:1.398–8.659). Therefore,itissuggestedthat hospital management should better regulate work shifts. Keywords:Nurses, sex, shift work, work period, work fatigue
The 2019 Presidential Election in Nigeria: An analysis of the voting pattern, issues and impact

The 2019 Presidential Election is one of the most keenly and closely contested in the history of Nigerian Presidential Elections since the colonial and post-independence period. The election was heralded with tensions, accusations and counter-accusations, intense campaign, trade of blames by the ruling and major opposition parties and other related issues. This study examined the process of the conduct of the 2019 Presidential Election, the outcome and analysis of the voting pattern and its implications. The work adopted both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source is the direct participant observation where the author was part of the process of the election as a collation officer for the Presidential Election in one of the local governments in Nigeria. The research also observed directly on a live broadcast the presentation of the results by the state returning officers where the results were collected and used for analysis. The secondary sources include the use of books, journals and internet sources. The data obtained was presented in a thematic form using tables and statistical interpretations. The research discovered that the outcome of the 2019 General Election continued to reflect the voting pattern in Nigeria where ethno-religious and regional affiliations determine how the electorates choose their President even though, the two major contenders this time emerged from the same region unlike the previous situations. The research recommends that there is a need for massive enlightenment among the electorates towards choice of leaders based on performance and not sentiments.