Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
UPAYA MENINGKATKAN PARTISIPASI POLITIK PEREMPUAN DALAM PEMILIHAN UMUM DI INDONESIA

Partisipasi perempuan di dalam politik adalah kegiatan sukarela kaum perempuan yang tergabung pada komunitas kaukus perempuan politik. Posisi perempuan sangatlah penting dalam dunia politik, keterwakilan perempuan dalam parlemen tentu melibatkan perempuan dalam kedudukan yang strategis dalam pengambilan keputusan yang berpihak kepada kaum perempuan. Metode penelitian dalam penelitian ini adalah yuridis nomatif. Hingga saat ini partispasi perempuan di indonesia dalam parlemen masih belum mencapai target nasional yaitu Persen keterwakilan dari laki-laki, untuk itu perlu adanya upaya dalam meningkatkan partispasi perempuan dalam pemilihan umum, mendorong kaum perempuan harus berani tampil dan memiliki kepekaaan untuk berpartisipasi dalam dunia politik sehingga hak-hak perempuan bisa diperjuangkan jika ia menduduki jabatan publik dari hasil pemilihan umum perlu dilakukan berbagai upaya dalam meningkatkan partispasi perempuan dalam dunia politik.Kata Kunci: Upaya; Partisipasi; Perempuan; Pemilu.
Title of Paper: ENGLISH AS A MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION: CHALLENGES TO NIGERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS

This study explores the challenges of using English as a medium of instruction in both public and private primary schools in Gusau local government area of Zamfara state, Nigeria. Nigeria is a multi-lingual nation with over 400 local or indigenous languages, and English has been adopted as the second language as well as the language of instruction in the country’s education system. This study was carried out in order to ascertain the pattern of using English as medium of instruction, and the challenges as well as the effects of using it as medium of instruction. Three research questions guided the study. The methodology involved descriptive survey design. The area of the study consists of 206 primary schools, 152 public (government owned) and 54 private. Purposive and proportionate stratified random sampling was used to select 220 teachers from 13 public and 8 private primary schools that were sampled for the study. Results indicate non-effective implementation of English as medium of instruction in the primary schools which is contrary to the provision in the National Education Policy of Nigerian Federal Government. The teachers and pupils also have various challenges associated with using English as medium of instruction, especially due to local languages or mother tongue influences. However, some of these challenges can be overcome by implementing the recommendations that arise from the findings of this study.
Investigating the variables influencing the application of nonchemical pest control methods in cucumber greenhouses (case study: Pishva County)

Scientific investigations indicate that the technology expansions and the increases in the uses of additives, pesticides, antibiotics and hormones in the production of foodstuff in the developing countries have been accompanied by adverse and undeniable effects on the humans’ health during the recent decades. The present study aims at investigating the variables influencing the application of nonchemical pest control methods in cucumber greenhouses in a case study of the conservatories in Pishva County. The study population included all the Pishva County greenhouse owners who had been solely raising cucumber in 2016 reaching in number to 87 greenhouse owners. According to the limited number of the study population, they were all selected as the study sample volume based on a census sampling method; out of the study population, 83 individuals were at hand. The study instrument was a questionnaire the validity of which was confirmed through inquiring ideas from the university professors and its reliability was also verified based on Cronbach’s alpha coefficient within a 79% to 86% range. The results obtained for the collective effectiveness of the independent variables on the dependent variable through taking advantage of multiple regression tests signify that such variables as economic, informational and cognitive and promotional barriers have contributed to greenhouse owners’ lack of interest in making use of nonchemical pest control and plant disease management strategies.
Evaluation of factors influencing transmissivity in fractured hard-rock aquifers of the Limpopo Province

Geologically-complex fractured aquifers underlie large parts of the semi-arid Limpopo Province where some of the greatest groundwater needs in South Africa occur. It is important to identify potentially high-yielding zones that can be targeted for water supply. The study covered 7 distinct groundwater regions within Limpopo Province, together covering about 63 500 km2. Results from over 4 000 pumping-test analyses indicated that geological setting (e.g. aureole of granitoids), proximity and orientation of dykes and lineaments and proximity of surface-water drainages may exert an influence on borehole productivity. Although dykes are poor groundwater targets, drilling dykes composed of dolerite may prove to be more successful. Lineaments striking perpendicular to the current maximum horizontal stress seem to be more favourable targets, which is inconsistent with the predicted regime. Due to the complex geological history, it is difficult to link open discontinuities to a distinct recent or past tectonic event. Regional stress-field data, as in this case, may not account for local, possibly highly significant, stress-field variations. The hydrogeological importance of several factors related to groundwater occurrence, can be used as a working reference for future groundwater-development programmes.
VARIABILITY IN THE BLUBBER FATTY ACID COMPOSITION OF RINGED SEALS (PHOCA HISPIDA) ACROSS THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

We determined the blubber fatty acid (FA) composition of 281 ringed seals (Phoca hispida) across the Canadian Arctic to make inferences about spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns of foraging. Seals were sampled in nine locations between 1992 and 2004. Regional differences in FA signatures were related to the distance between groups, with the greatest similarity occurring among seals sampled in three locations within the Beaufort Sea-Amundsen Gulf. Seals in the western and southeastern portions of Hudson Bay also had similar FA signatures. Discriminant analysis on seventeen FAs classified ringed seals to their correct geographic region with 95% accuracy. Although location accounted for most of the variability in FA signatures, adult and juvenile ringed seals in Frobisher Bay-Labrador Sea and Jones Sound showed significant FA differences, as did male and female ringed seals in Jones Sound and Qaanaaq. Demographic differences were not detected among ringed seals in the Beaufort Sea-Amundsen Gulf or in western Hudson Bay. Seals off the coast of Labrador showed significant seasonal variability in FA signatures. Overall, seasonal, regional, and demographic patterns in FA signatures were consistent with differences in ringed seal diets, as inferred from stomach content and stable isotope analyses.
OUT-OF-PLANE IN SITU CYCLIC TESTING OF UNREINFORCED STONE MASONRY WALLS WITH DISTRIBUTED LOADS

The present paper reports an in situ experimental test campaign carried out on existing buildings, in order to investigate the seismic behaviour of traditional masonry walls subject to out-of-plane loads. For the testing proposes, an experimental test setup based on a selfequilibrated scheme was developed and optimized to be applied in situ in two specimens on original and strengthened conditions. The obtained results are presented and carefully discussed namely from the reinforcement solutions’ efficiency point-of-view, as well as compared to previous experimental data obtained for the same type of masonry walls. Additionally, a simplified linearized displacement-based procedure was adapted in order to characterize the nonlinear force-displacement relationship for unreinforced traditional masonry walls and to analytically predict the experimental test results. The confrontation between the experimental and the analytical results are presented and discussed.
Evaluating italian attitude and behaviour toward Fair Trade products

In the context of food consumption, several issues have been widely discussed in reference to a large array of attributes and product types used as evidence of growing consumer feeling toward ethical issues linked to moral and social consciousness. Animal welfare, fair prices for farmers, social aspects of production, and preservation of cultural features, are some of the product attributes for which consumer behaviour has been analyzed in the context of ethical consumerism. This paper aims at providing insights into consumer motivational systems and their relations with fair trade product purchasing behaviour. In order to pursue this goal, the effectiveness of two alternative approaches, proposed in the literature and tested in Belgium and Germany, were formally assessed in Italy. The two sets of scales were tested for predicting purchasing behaviour by using a sample of Italian consumers.
The termination region of high-mass microquasar jets

Context. The environment of high-mass X-ray binaries can be characterized either by the supernova remnant that forms these systems or by the wind from the companion massive star. These regions should be tenuous but very hot and surrounded by a dense and cold shocked ISM shell. The interaction between the jet and such a complex medium, also affected by the system proper motion, can lead to very different jet termination structures. Aims. The evolution of the jet termination regions during the life of a high-mass microquasar is simulated to improve our present understanding of these structures. Also, the evolving emission characteristics are modeled to inform potential observational campaigns of this class of object. Methods. We performed 2D numerical simulations of jets propagating in different scenarios, corresponding to different epochs after the formation of the high-mass X-ray binary, using the code Ratpenat. We also made simple estimates of the nonthermal emission that could be produced in the jet termination regions. Results. We find that, in the way through the hot and tenuous medium of the shocked wind/supernova ejecta, the jet suffers recollimation shocks in which it loses part of its thrust and ends in a strong shock inflating a hot cocoon. The jet head propagates with a speed that is similar to the medium sound speed, until it eventually reaches the denser and colder shocked ISM and the unperturbed ISM later on. In these last stages of evolution, the jet is significantly slowed down and can be disrupted. For relatively old sources, the microquasar peculiar velocity becomes important, leading to complete jet destruction. Extended nonthermal radiation can be generated in the jet termination regions, and hard X-rays and TeV photons are the wavelengths best suited for observing these structures.
The relationship between real life breast screening and an annual self assessment scheme

Incidence of cancer in the UK NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) is relatively low (approximately 7% per 1,000 cases screened). As such, feedback from cancers missed or interval cancers can be a relatively lengthy process (whereby a woman will not present for corroborating imaging for a further three years). Therefore in order to monitor their radiological skill, all breast screening radiologists and technologists read a self-assessed, standard set of challenging mammographic images bi-yearly. This scheme, 'PERFORMS' (Personal Performance in Mammographic Screening) has been running since near the inception of the NHSBSP in 1991. Although PERFORMS has functioned as an educational tool for film-readers on the UKBSP for decades, its relation to real life screening in past years has proven to be somewhat equivocal (Cowley & Gale, 1999). The present study investigated the relationship between performance measures in real life and their equivalent on the PERFORMS self assessment scheme namely: Miss Rate (FN), Cases Arbitrated and Returned to Routine screening and Incorrect recall (FP), Specificity (TN) and Cancer Detection (TP). Over 40 individuals from one NHS region in the UK submitted their real life data for comparison with PERFORMS results from the same time frame. Data from this initial study were taken from the year 2005-2006 and compared with the relevant PERFORMS set of cases. Results indicated a significant positive correlation between PERFORMS performance measures and performance measures for real life. These results are discussed in the light of the legitimacy of self-assessment comparative to film-reading skill (during real life clinical practice).
Dentoskeletal Changes in Class II Subjects following Treatment with Twin Block and Herbst Appliance

Objective: To compare the mean changes in dentoskeletal parameters in Class II patients treated by Twin Block versus Herbst appliance.Materials & Method: The study was conducted at the Orthodontic Department of Children’s Hospital and Institute of Child Health and de’Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore. The study involved 50 patients those were randomized in equal numbers according to lottery method to either Group-1 (Twin block) or Group-2 (Herbst). Mean changes in SNA, SNB and IMPA at the end of treatment was calculated by subtracting Pretreatment measurements (T1) from post treatment measurements (T2). Student t–test was used to compare the mean changes in dentoskeletal parameters in both groups.Result: The comparison showed that the mean difference recorded in SNA values was -1.06±0.62 in Group-1 and -1.28±0.61 in Group-2 (p-Value 0.07), SNB was 2.14±0.70 in Group-1 and 1.22±0.55 in Group-2, (p-Value 0.001) while IMPA was 1.58±0.64 in Group-1 and 4.8±1.31 in Group-2 (p-Value 0.001). Conclusion: There was a significant difference between mean changes in dentoskeletal parameters in Class II patients treated by twin block when compared to Herbst appliance.
Measuring Education Inequalities: Concentration and Dispersion-Based Approach-Lessons from Kuznets Curve in MENA Region-

Although the quantity of education is widely used to measure the economical and social performances of educative systems, only a few works have addressed the issue of equity in education. In this work, we have calculated two measures of inequality in education based on Barro and Lee’s (2010) data: the Gini index of education and the standard deviation of schooling. The sample comprises 15 countries from the MENA region over the period 1950-2010. We used hierarchical clustering to control for the heterogeneity of the sample and identify the existence of cluster of similar value. We applied the Kuznets curve of education over the countries of the region. The findings show a decline in the Gini index within all the participating countries, for men and women and also for all age groups. The results also indicate that the education distribution was more unequal in the middle-income countries than in the higher-income countries in 2010, although they had almost the same level in 1970. The results suggested that the shape of the Kuznets curve depends basically on the measure used to approximate the inequality. Indeed, the Kuznets hypothesis is emphasized once we use the standard deviation of schooling. The Gini index, for its part, has maintained a significant negative relationship within the average number of years of the study.
Regional variation in Queensland's unemployment rate

This paper provides an analysis of the variation in Queensland regional unemployment rates. This is done using data from the 1996 Census of Population and Housing. A preliminary analysis suggests that the spatial variation in the unemployment rate has exhibited a high degree of stability and that this variation is not randomly allocated over geographic space. The econometric investigation seeks to explain the underlying variables responsible for this variation. This analysis employs spatial econometric techniques in an attempt to determine the significance of various economic and demographic factors in determining differences in regional unemployment rates. It is suggested that these techniques are more appropriate in cases where there is a possibility that variables may be related through geographic proximity, as is generally the case with studies based on regional data.
Effect of Ecofriendly Microencapsulated Textile Products In Joint Pain and Aesthematic Respondents

The study was conducted to develop aromtheraputic textile products for joint pains/ asthma. Fabric treated with eco-friendly microcapsules of eucalyptus, jasmine, lemon and pine oil respectively were used for the treatment of respondents. Knee caps, gloves, Pillow covers and handkerchieves were made joint & ashtetic respectively for the respondents out of cotton fabric. Respondents suffering were undergone for the wear trail of two months. To get the results through interview schedule data collected. The results showed that the developed products had a positive effect on the emotional state of the respondents (87%), improved in quality of night sleep (95%), out door activities (67%) and reduced medicine in take (50%). The results also showed soothing effect on the skin of the respondents after using these aromatherapic textiles. Therefore, it was recommended that the aromatherapic textile products made with eco- friendly chemicals like betacyclodextrine as binder and chitosin as sheath along with different essential oils in core can be used for developing products. These products retain their fragrance for at least 20 washings ifwashed under controlled conditions.
A NEW HUMMINGBIRD SUBSPECIES FROM SOUTHERN BOLÍVAR, VENEZUELA, WITH NOTES ON BIOGEOGRAPHY AND TAXONOMY OF THE SAUCEROTTIA VIRIDIGASTER- CUPREICAUDA SPECIES GROUP

This study reviews the distribution and geographical variation of the Green-bellied Humming- bird, Amazilia viridigaster, recently renamed as Saucerottia viridigaster. Based on coloration patterns, there is evidence for the existence of two subspecifically distinct Andean populations of S. viridigaster. The evalua- tion of morphology and biogeography suggests the separation of S. viridigaster and S. cupreicauda as allospe- cies. Moreover, a new race of the latter, Saucerottia cupreicauda pacaraimae, from Sierra de Pacaraima, southern Bolivar, Venezuela, is described. Accepted 6 September 1999. Resumen. Este estudio analiza la distribucion y la variacion geografica del colibri Amazilia Colimorada, Amazilia viridigaster, denominado ahora Saucerottia viridigaster. Basado en los patrones de coloracion, hay evi- dencias de la existencia de dos poblaciones andinas de S. viridigaster, distintas a nivel subespecifico. La revi- sion de la morfologia y la biogeografia indican la separacion de S. viridigaster y S. cupreicauda como haloespecies. Ademas se describe una nueva raza de esta ultima, Saucerottia cupreicauda pacaraimae, de la Sie- rra de Pacaraima, al sur del estado Bolivar, Venezuela.
Active principle from Moringa oleifera Lam leaves effective against two leukemias and a hepatocarcinoma

Medicinal plants are important elements of indigenous medical system that have persisted in developing countries. Many of the pharmacological principles currently used as anticancer agents were first isolated from plants. However, some important anticancer agents are still extracted from plants because they cannot be synthesized chemically on a commercial scale due to their complex structures that often contain several chiral centers. The aim of this study was to test different extracts from the leaves of Moringa or drumstick tree ( Moringa oleifera ) for activity against leukemia and hepatocarcinoma cells in vitro . The extracts could kill majority (70 - 86%) of the abnormal cells among primary cells harvested from 10 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 15 with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) as well as a culture of hepatocarcinoma cells (75% death), but most significantly by the hot water and ethanol extracts. In conclusion, M. oleifera may have potential for use as source of natural treatment for diseases such as cancer.
Asset Allocation for Retirement: Simple Heuristics and Target Date Funds

We examine common asset allocation strategies for retirement investing, considering both static and dynamic approaches, as well as those allocation policies used by leading target date fund providers. We find that, over time, certain static approaches are essentially equivalent to dynamic strategies that reduce equity exposure through time. Further, we find that most target date fund providers appear to target a dynamic 120-age equity allocation. We suggest that financial planners consider a 100 percent equity allocation for their clients until approximately ten years prior to a client’s retirement, at which point a more conservative allocation should be employed.
Evaluation of agricultural wastes and food supplements usage on growth characteristics of Pleurotus ostreatus

As agricultural wastes are easily accessible and quite free sources, re-use of them could be considered as a break through in production management, especially if it sustains the production efficiency as standard materials do. In this study, we evaluated combination usage of substrates including wood chips, boll, Sugar Beet Pellet Pulp (SBPP) and palm fiber along with wheat bran, rice bran, soya cake powder, Soya Cake Powder + Rice Bran (SCPRB) and carrot pulp as supplements. Substrates with no supplement were regarded as control groups. Results revealed that boll, SBPP and palm fiber, which could be abundantly in Iran, had better growth period, fruiting body weight, yield and biological efficiency than wood chips. Moreover, SCRBP had the highest yield, biological efficiency and fruiting body weight among all substrates. We also assessed combination effects of substrates and complements. The least growth period (30.3 d) belonged to sugar beet pulp enriched with soya cake powder. The lowest fruiting body weight (12.4 g) was produced in boll substrate with no supplement, though maximum fruiting body number (34.3) belonged to this group. The highest fruiting body weight (41.5 g) was achieved when the enriched palm fiber by rice bran supplement was used. In addition, the highest yield and biological efficiency was found on boll substrate enriched with a mixture of soya cake powder and rice bran supplements (794.3 and 158.9 g, respectively). Key words:
Meaning Coconstruction in Group Counseling: The Development of Innovative Moments

This study discusses a model of group counseling, the narrative mediation path (NMP), which is a unique narrative, multimodal approach that combines four narrative modes (metaphoric, iconographic, writing, and bodily) and the narrative group. The purpose of the NMP is to foster reflexive processes with underachieving university students and to improve their academic performance. The study analyzes a single case of group counseling for seven underachieving economics students at an Italian university and the process of meaning construction among NMP narrative modes and the follow-up session. It applies the innovative moments coding system, a reliable method for studying change by tracking narrative innovations in sessions. More specifically, we focus on how innovative moments (IMs: action, reflection, protest, and reconceptualization) evolve during the four different narrative modes and the follow-up session. The findings suggest that the NMP fosters narrative innovations, mainly of a reflexive nature (reflection and reconceptualization). Moreover, during counseling and the follow-up session, the pattern of change is primarily characterized by reconceptualization IMs, the most complex form of narrative innovation.