Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Relationship between Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and Her Host Communities in the Promotion of Community Development in Rivers State, Nigeria

﻿This study investigates the relationship between Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria and her host Communities in the promotion of community development in Rivers State, Nigeria. Three research questions guide the study. The population of the study was 67,518 residents of the selected host communities in Rivers State while the sample size was 3,376, drawn through purposive and random sampling. The instrument used to collect data was questionnaire titled “Relationship between SPDC and Host Communities for the Promotion of Community Development” (RSPDCHCPCD). The instrument recorded a reliability index of 0.83. Mean analysis was used to answer the research questions. The findings revealed that; SPDC’s exploration/exploitation activities have negative effects on host communities. The study also revealed that community development efforts of SPDC include; offer of scholarship, building/maintenance of health centres, renovation of schools, construction of link roads, building of markets, provision of portable water and electricity etc. Despite these efforts, the relationship between SPDC and her host communities has not been so cordial. It is therefore recommended that the federal government and SPDC should promote capacity building, ensure full participation of the host communities in need identification and evolve strategies that would enthrone peace and harmony in the communities where SPDC operates.
Exploring the relationship among etiological factors related to eating disorders

Diane L. Cassidy EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP OF ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS RELATED TO EATING DISORDERS 2002/2003 Dr. James A. Haugh Master of Arts in Applied Psychology and Mental Health Counseling The purpose of the current study was to explore the cross-sectional relationship between personality, interpersonal problems, coping, and eating disorder symptomology. Participants were undergraduate students at a public university. Results indicated that personality was the strongest predictor of risk factors associated with eating disorders. Neuroticism was the strongest predictor, followed by conscientiousness, extroversion, and agreeableness. Interpersonal and coping factors significantly predicted only four risk factors associated with eating disorders. Specifically, interpersonal problems related to being cold/distant, socially inhibited, and self-sacrificing, and the coping factors of emotional social support, acceptance, denial, and instrumental social support were all significant predictors. Implications for future research exploring the etiology, prevention, and treatment of eating disorders are discussed. Acknowledgements The author thanks Dr. James A. Haugh for serving as advisor and editor for this research project, as well as to Dr. Mary Louise Kerwin for serving as secondary reader and for providing some valuable suggestions along the way. Also, thanks to Dr. Jay Kuder for the program development funding for the purchase of a psychological test that was administered in this study. Finally, the author thanks all those who participated in the study.
Law, Institutions and Finance: Time Series Evidence from India

This paper revisits the financial development - economic growth puzzle from the perspective of the determinants of financial sector growth such as legal and institutional developments and financial regulation. We quantify the impact of these factors on financial sector and economic growth with the help of innovative time series indices that measure legal and institutional developments and financial regulation in India. Within a multivariate VAR framework, Granger Causality (GC) test and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) are employed to investigate the long run causal relationships between the determinants and the financial sector. Our results show that legal and institutional developments and financial regulation cause financial sector growth with a considerable feedback and further financial sector weakly causes economic growth. Thus this paper completes the causal chain of links where legal and institutional development and regulatory measures cause economic growth by enhancing the financial sector.
The Socio-Cultural Significance of the Kakube Festival of the Dagara of Nandom Traditional Area in Ghana

The advent of western civilization has had a downturn on many important cultural practices of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa. Understandably so, a form of reawakening in recent times has led to people going back to their roots to rediscover what their forebears ‘executed’ with passion. This paper generally explores the importance of local events such as the festivals which bring people together to celebrate a common heritage. It finally narrowed in on the people of Nandom who trace their roots to a common ancestor and as such make feverish attempts aimed at ensuring that an annual affair (Kakube) comes into fruition. Data was sourced from key personalities in the community making use of both simple random and purposive sampling techniques and further employing data collection methods such as administration of questionnaire, in-depth interviews (IDI) including personal observation and participation. In all, 250 people responded to the questionnaire. The analysis revealed that the people of the area benefited socially, culturally, economically, politically, religiously and developmentally hence their adherence to this heritage. The paper recommends that the Nandom Traditional Council,the Lawra District Assembly, the local business community, the Ghana Tourism Authority and civil society organisations should help in its promotion both nationally and internationally. KEYWORDS : Kakube festival, tourism, cultural heritage, tradition, dimension,
Management of R

Because of the high degree of technological complexity and the increasing convergence of new technologies, it is becoming more and more difficult to develop advanced products for those companies who solely rely on their own in-house 'core competencies'. One possible response made to these rising requirements is the consideration of cooperation with other companies. Since prior research on cooperation is extensive in its theoretical scope and diverse in its disciplinary bases, it seems appropriate to give a short overview on the literature. In this article, we pursue two purposes: Firstly, we provide a brief and comprehensive picture of theoretical findings on technology-related cooperation pertinent to practitioners by using a process-oriented framework which helps us to integrate the existing literature from different academic disciplines. Secondly, while management scholars have primarily tended to focus on certain research streams, we draw attention to some issues not sufficiently covered by the literature today. We highlight the importance of the technological content (incremental vs. breakthrough and product vs. process innovations) as well as the orientation of the cooperation (horizontal vs. lateral) which should be considered in more detail in future research.
Effect of Virgin Coconut Meal (VCM) on the Textural, Thermal and Physico Chemical Properties of Biscuits

Biscuits were prepared by incorporating virgin coconut meal (VCM) into refined wheat flour (maida) at 5-25% level and evaluated for physical, chemical, nutritional, textural and sensory attributes. All the prepared biscuits had high protein and fiber contents as compared to control (100% refined wheat flour based product). With the incorporation of VCM, hardness and toughness of dough increased while there was a decrease in stickiness and adhesiveness values. Incorporation of VCM had a significant effect on color values of biscuits as the concentration of VCM was increased. The values of L* decreased while those for a* and b* increased. Sensory analysis revealed that 15% VCM biscuits were the most acceptable. The Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis revealed that the onset (To) decreased while end set (Tc) and enthalpy of gelatinization (ΔH) increased with the increase level of VCM.
Factores psicoeducativos que determinan la propensión al accidente deportivo en escolares: Diseño y validación de un cuestionario de evaluación

Title: Psychoeducational factors that determine the propensity to school sports accidents: Design and validation of an assessment questionnaire Abstract: The purpose of this study has been the design and validation of a propensity scale of sports injuries in schools. The sample for the study has been formed of 254 children (M = 14.20, DT = 1.3). Psychometric properties of the scale were obtained through a process of content validity and a factorial analysis of main components. As a result, we obtained a questionnaire of 27 items consisting of 5 factors and adjusted to validity topics and scientific reliability. Significant differences were found in all fac- tors of the scale in relation to sex, whilst significant differences were only observed in relation to the sensation seeking factor when considering the age of the subjects. This scale is an essential tool for preventing accidents and injuries in school sport by allowing the identification of sports acci- dent-prone students.
Tipping the Scales: How Defendant Body Type May Result in Eyewitness Biases

Body type is often overlooked as a basis for discrimination and has rarely been examined in legal contexts. The present research examined the role of body type on eyewitness line-up misidentification. Participants watched a video of a violent crime or theft and were asked to select the defendant out of a suspect-absent line-up. The lineup included digitally altered photos displaying muscular, normal weight, and overweight defendants. Muscular defendants were most likely to be mistakenly selected out of the simultaneous line-up, and overweight defendants were least likely to be selected. These results indicate that body type may be a biasing factor in comparative eyewitness evaluations.
The effects of binge drinking upon young adults’ prospective memory and related executive function

Binge drinking is highly prevalent among young adults. A wide field of research has shown that the prefrontal cortex of the brain is vulnerable to the neurotoxic effects of alcohol, causing deficits prospective memory and executive functions. No previous research has explored the adverse effects of binge drinking on prospective memory related executive functioning. The first aim of the current study was to examine whether binge drinking in young adults has adverse effects on prospective memory. The second was to determine whether a binge drinker who suffers from an impaired prospective memory has associated deficits in their executive functioning. 44 participants were assessed using an objective measure of prospective memory (Virtual Reality Prospective Memory task) and an objective measure of executive function (Reverse Digit Span task). A between groups design was used; consisting of ‘binge drinkers’ and ‘non-binge drinkers’. Two predictions were made, the first was that binge drinkers would remember significantly fewer prospective memory items on the VRPM task, the second prediction was that binge drinkers who had an impaired prospective memory would recall significantly fewer digits on the RDS task. After controlling for age, years spent drinking, last alcohol use, mood and recreational drug use. Binge drinkers remembered significantly fewer prospective memory items on the VRPM task and recalled significantly fewer items on the RDS task than non-binge drinkers. Further analysis indicated that executive functioning underpins PM. The results of the study suggest that binge drinking in young adults causes impairments in prospective memory and related executive functions.
Monetary Policy in the Grip of a Pincer Movement

Monetary policy has been in the grip of a pincer movement, caught between growing financial cycles, on the one hand, and an inflation process that has become quite insensitive to domestic slack, on the other. This two-pronged attack has laid bare some of the limitations of prevailing monetary policy frameworks, particularly in the analytical notions that have guided much of its practice. We argue that the natural rate of interest as a guidepost for monetary policy has a couple of limitations: the concept, as traditionally conceived, neglects the state of the financial cycle in the definition of equilibrium; in addition, it underestimates the role that monetary policy regimes may play in persistent real interest rate movements. These limitations may expose monetary policy to blindsiding by the collateral damage that comes from an unhinged financial cycle. We propose a more balanced approach that recognises the difficulties monetary policy has in fine-tuning inflation and responds more systematically to the financial cycle.
High-k Gate Stacks Influence on Characteristics of Nano-scale MOSFET Structures

The models of electro-physical effects built-into Sentaurus TCAD have been tested. The models providing an adequate modeling of deep submicron high-k MOSFETs have been selected. The gate and drain leakage currents for 45 nm MOSFET with PolySi gate and SiO2, SiO2/HfO2 and HfO2 gate dielectrics have been calculated using TCAD. It has been shown that the replacement of traditional SiO2 by an equivalent HfO2 dielectric considerably reduces the gate leakage current by several orders due to elimination of the tunneling effect influence. Besides, the threshold voltage, saturation drain current, mobility, transconductance, etc. degrade within 10-20% range. Keywords-component: MOSFET; high-k materials; TCAD; physical models.
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids

Abstract In April and May of 2016, Norway confirmed two cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild reindeer and a wild moose, respectively. In the light of this emerging issue, the European Commission requested EFSA to recommend surveillance activities and, if necessary, additional animal health risk‐based measures to prevent the introduction of the disease and the spread into/within the EU, specifically Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden, and considering seven wild, semidomesticated and farmed cervid species (Eurasian tundra reindeer, Finnish (Eurasian) forest reindeer, moose, roe deer, white‐tailed deer, red deer and fallow deer). It was also asked to assess any new evidence on possible public health risks related to CWD. A 3‐year surveillance system is proposed, differing for farmed and wild or semidomesticated cervids, with a two‐stage sampling programme at the farm/geographically based population unit level (random sampling) and individual level (convenience sampling targeting high‐risk animals). The current derogations of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1918 present a risk of introduction of CWD into the EU. Measures to prevent the spread of CWD within the EU are dependent upon the assumption that the disease is already present; this is currently unknown. The measures listed are intended to contain (limit the geographic extent of a focus) and/or to control (actively stabilise/reduce infection rates in an affected herd or population) the disease where it occurs. With regard to the zoonotic potential, the human species barrier for CWD prions does not appear to be absolute. These prions are present in the skeletal muscle and other edible tissues, so humans may consume infected material in enzootic areas. Epidemiological investigations carried out to date make no association between the occurrence of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans and exposure to CWD prions.
Extraction and physicochemical analysis of some selected seed oils

Oil was extracted from the seeds of groundnut, melon and Moringa oleifera. The physicochemical properties of groundnut oil, melon oil and moringa oil were determined. The acid value obtained was 9.76 mgKOH/g, 7.85 mgKOH/g and 1.91 mgKOH/g for moringa, melon and groundnut oil respectively. The Iodine value was found to be 35.85 mg/g, 83.75 mg/g and 59.64 mg/g for moringa, melon and groundnut oil respectively. The Peroxide values were moringa oil - 13.80 meq/kg, melon oil - 5.60 meq/kg and groundnut oil - 10.80 meq/kg. Unsaponifiable matter values were moringa oil - 8.59 g/kg, melon oil - 2.18 g/kg, groundnut oil - 5.77 g/kg while the saponification values were moringa oil - 155.68 mgKOH/g, melon oil - 180.92 mgKOH/g and groundnut oil - 168.30 mgKOH/g. The volatile matter in the oils was found to be 0.06. 0.07 And 0.04 in groundnut, melon and moringa oil respectively. All the oils were pale yellow in colour and liquids at room temperature. The results obtained from the physicochemical characterization of the oils shows that moringa oleifera seed oil compares favourably with the other oils and has high potentials for use both as domestic oil and as industrial oil. Keywords : Groundnut, Melon, Moringa Oleifera, Oil, Physicochemical.
Impact of Micro Credit on the Livelihood ofBorrowers: Evidence from Mekelle City, Ethiopia

Micro credit has been found to be a critical instrument in order to improve the livelihood of poor people. It is prominently used to improve the livelihood of urban household borrowers where it is believed to be under exploited in research hence is indispensible to examine its real effectiveness. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the impact of Dedebit Credit and Saving Institution’s (DECSI) micro credit service on the livelihood of household borrowers residing in Mekelle city. For the purpose of assessing the impact of DECSI microcredit on the livelihood of borrower households, a sample of 287 respondents (that is, 118 clients who have at least 3 years of attachment to the organization and 169 eligible non participants representing the characteristics of existing sample borrowers had they not been participating. Data were collected through semi-structured questionnaires that were prepared and distributed for both clients and eligible non clients and interview was conducted while the questionnaires were filled out by the respondents. The result of the study displayed that microcredit participation has a positive significant average effect on households’ average monthly income, consumption expenditure, savings and housing improvements. However, the number of employment generated to and out of household members showed no difference. Whereas, the average effect on children education and medical care expenditure are positively changed in the study area and sample. Thus, government authorities, NGOs, aid agencies and other stakeholders who are concerned with microfinance as a means to poverty reduction should take in to consideration the results of these indicator variables for better promotion of microfinance in general and microcredit in particular
Clinical and epidemiological profile of patients from the home care program of Federal District Brazil

The hegemonic presence of chronic conditions in the world in recent decades has pushed health systems to reorganization, aimed at viability and economic sustainability with ‘user-centered’ and integrated actions, and also using the logic model of health care networks. One of the alternatives to meet this need relates to home care, which intends to assist bedridden chronic patients at home as a substitute and/or complementary to hospital care. This study aim to describe the socio-demographic and clinical profile of the population assisted by the home care program of Federal District, bearing in mind how recent is the model of home care in Brazil, and the fact that studies in this area are scarce. The study is a cross-sectional descriptive study, based on data collection from medical records of all the 857 patients enrolled in the home care program of Federal District between January, 2012 and August, 2013. The study variables were the socio-demographic characteristics (place of residence, age and gender) and clinical-epidemiological characteristics (primary diagnosis, care modality, length of stay and clinical evolution). The general profile of patients assisted in the service was characterized by the predominance of older people - over 60 years (62.66%), females (55.78%), with cardiovascular diseases (26.37%), in low-complexity care (61.49%), remaining in the program between 1 and 2 years (46.09%) and remaining active in the service registration (21.82%). The analysis of this profile identified that the home care program (Programa de Internacao Domiciliar, PID) of Federal District has assisted patients with predominant low complexity profile, which is the responsibility of the Primary Health Care, thus distorting its potential for dehospitalization of medium-complexity chronic patients, which is its public target. Key words: Home care services, epidemiologic study characteristics as topic, delivery of health care, homebound persons, home care services, hospital-based.
SOME ADDITIONS TO THE MEXICAN FAUNA: THE FAMILY PARAMESOCHRIDAE (COPEPODA: HARPACTICOIDA)

Abstract Sediment samples were taken during a short-term study of the distribution of meiofauna from a coastal lagoon in Sinaloa (northwestern Mexico). Several species of harpacticoids (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) were observed among the taxa recovered. Some of these species are new to science, whereas some others are new records for Mexican brackish systems. Three species of Apodopsyllus (Harpacticoida: Paramesochridae) are described herein. One of them, A. alejandrovillalobosi sp. nov. proved to be closely related to its northern congener A. vermiculiformis known from California and British Columbia. Apodopsyllus samuelgomezi sp. nov. and A. pseudocubensis sp. nov. constitute new records of the neotropical arcuatus-chilensis-cubensis lineage. Apodopsyllus samuelgomezi sp. nov. is unique within this clade in the male P6 with two long inner setae. Apodopsyllus pseudocubensis sp. nov. was found to be allied to its Cuban relative A. cubensis. These two species share the general shape of female P5 and male P6.
Performance of SO Bioline FK80 Test Kit in Diagnosis of Malaria at Adama Malaria Center, Southeast Oromia, Ethiopia

Background: The use of RDT (Rapid diagnostic tests) for malaria offers the potential to extend accurate malaria diagnosis to areas where microscopy services are not available. Objective: To evaluate the performance of SD FK80 test kit for the diagnosis of malaria and assess the trend of malaria transmission in Adama Malaria Center, southeast Ethiopia. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted to evaluate the performance of SD FK80 kit for malaria (P.falciparum/P.vavix) diagnosis November to December 2012 at Adama Malaria Center, Southeastern Oromia. Three hundred eighty four blood samples were collected from febrile patients attending the outpatient department of Adama Malaria Center during the study period. The blood samples were analyzed with microscopy and RDT (SD Bioline P.falciparum /P.vivax) for the detection and identification of Plasmodium parasites. The data was entered into Microsoft® Excel and was transported to SPSS version 17.0 for statistical analysis. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of the tests was calculated using microscopy as the reference standard. Result: Among the examined individuals, 107(27.9%) were found to be positive for plasmodium infection of which 23.7% were infected with P.vavix, and 3.9% were infected with P.falciparum while 0.3% were mixed infections The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive values of the SD Bioline were 90.7%, 96%, 89.8%, and 96.4%, respectively taking blood film as a gold standard. SD Bioline FK80 P.falciparum/P.vivax was performed satisfactorily for the diagnosis of P.falciparum and P.vivax infections. Conclusion: Based on our finding, Rapid test kit is satisfactory for diagnosis of P.falciparum and P.vivax infections. It is a useful adjunct to microscopy especially in our country where there is limited man power and resource.