Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN KANGETA DIVISION , MERU COUNTY , KENYA INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN KANGETA

Parents of preschool children are often faced with unique challenges that hinder them from meeting the learners’ needs. These include; insufficient time, job type, home rules, level of education, order of priority, set home environment, opinion to voluntary work at school, time taken to respond to school activities, buying instructional materials, attending parents meetings, conferences, sports ,academic clinic day, and discussing the academic progress of the child. If the above needs are not attended to, the child may not perform well because of inadequate parental support. The purpose of the study was to establish the influence of parental involvement on academic performance of preschool children in Kangeta division, Meru County, Kenya. The research study addressed the following specific objectives: To find out whether home environment has an influence on academic performance of preschool learners, establish whether the parent-school communication has an influence on academic performance of preschool learners, investigate whether parents’ participation in educational activities at home have an influence on academic performance of preschool learners and find out whether parents’ participation in educational activities at school have an influence on academic performance of preschool learners. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The following research instruments were used; interview schedules, questionnaires and documentary analysis. The sample size was 166 which comprised of parents, teachers and children. The data was analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 16.0. Descriptive statistics was used for analysis since the study was descriptive in nature. Presentation of data involved frequency, mean scores, data tables and bar graphs. The study established various forms of parents’ participation in educational activities at school; education activities at home, parent-school [1] Share: Facebook [2] Twitter [3] Google Plus [4] Yahoo [5] LinkedIn [6] Digg [7] Delicious [8] Author: VERONICAH MUTHONI MWIRICHIA Unit: COMMTECH
Effect of Cosmos caudatus extract on antibacterial activity and lethality activity of brine shrimp

Exact level of herb extracts to be applied as feeding additives or therapeutics are necessary to investigate. Therefore a preliminary in-vivo test and bioassay were performed to determine the inclusion level of Cosmos caudatus extract in animal feed. The inhibition of gram negative bacteria, Aeromonas hydrophila were tested with the methanolic extract of C. caudatus at concentrations of 25, 50, 100, 200, 400 and 800 μg mL. The same concentrations of herb extract were applied for bioassay of brine shrimp nauplii. The results showed that all the tested concentrations inhibited the bacterial growth. Moderate activity of inhibition was observed at concentration lower than 200 μg mL, while higher activity of inhibition was recorded at 400 and 800 μg mL. Meanwhile for bioassay, 100% mortality of brine shrimp nauplii was observed at the higher concentrations (400 and 800 μg mL) and LC50 was observed at concentrations between 100 to 200 μg mL. Therefore, it is concluded that the effective and safe level of C. caudatus extract is lower than 100 μg mL.
ETV2/ER71 Transcription Factor as a Therapeutic Vehicle for Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular diseases have long been the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the United States as well as worldwide. Despite numerous efforts over the past few decades, the number of the patients with cardiovascular disease still remains high, thereby necessitating the development of novel therapeutic strategies equipped with a better understanding of the biology of the cardiovascular system. Recently, the ETS transcription factor, ETV2 (also known as ER71), has been recognized as a master regulator of the development of the cardiovascular system and plays an important role in pathophysiological angiogenesis and the endothelial cell reprogramming. Here, we discuss the detailed mechanisms underlying ETV2/ER71-regulated cardiovascular lineage development. In addition, recent reports on the novel functions of ETV2/ER71 in neovascularization and direct cell reprogramming are discussed with a focus on its therapeutic potential for cardiovascular diseases.
Effect of physiological parameters on the growth of fusarium sp

An in vitro experiment was conducted in UAS, GKVK Bengaluru to study the effect of various physiological parameters on the growth and development of fusarium isolate F-2 which is causing stalk rot of maize crop, especially in the southern state of karnataka. The results indicated that definite impact of physiological parameters like media, temperature and ph on the growth and development of Fusarium sp.
Evolutionary Approach of Ligand Design for Protein-Ligand Docking Problem Using Artificial Bee Colony Optimization

The paper addresses an interesting approach to proteinligand docking problem using Artificial Bee Colony optimization algorithm. In this work, proteinligand docking is formulated as an optimization problem. The docking energy is used as a scoring function for the solutions. Results are demonstrated for six different target proteins both numerically and pictorially. Experimental results reveal that the proposed method outperforms Variable string-length Genetic Algorithm based ligand design method considering the intraand inter-molecular energies of the evolved molecules. Keywordsligand; artificial bee colony optimization algorithm; fragment based approach; CHARMM energy; active site .
Mortality and Movements of Paddlefish Released as Bycatch in a Commercial Fishery in Kentucky Lake , Tennessee

—We present information on delayed mortality of commercially exploited paddlefish Polyodon spathula released as bycatch in Kentucky Lake, Tennessee–Kentucky, an impoundment on the lower Tennessee River. Minimum size limits enacted in 2002 (864 mm eye-to-fork length [EFL]) and 2005 (914 mm EFL) sought to protect paddlefish from overfishing. In 2005, bycatch of sublegal paddlefish represented 75% of the total catch, and releasing undersized fish will not reduce fishing mortality unless those fish survive. Paddlefish caught and released by commercial fishers in 2005 and 2006 were externally tagged with radio transmitters and tracked a minimum of 2 weeks to estimate delayed mortality. Four of the 104 tagged paddlefish died following release, 94 survived, and 6 were censored because their fate could not be determined. Paddlefish that survived moved rapidly from release locations. Net movements of the 94 fish that survived averaged 12.0 km (SE = 5.3) upriver and ranged from 91.5 km downriver to 390.0 km upriver. Fish that died could not be distinguished from fish that lived on the basis of mean water temperature, fish length, net-soak time, or handling time. Given the low delayed mortality of discarded paddlefish, imposing minimum size limits is a reasonable approach to reduce fishing mortality of juveniles and reduce the likelihood of overfishing. Efforts to reduce fishing mortality should focus on avoiding fishing gear and seasons (e.g., early fall and late spring) that cause high initial bycatch mortality. * Corresponding author: janice.kerns@myfwc.com 1 The unit is jointly sponsored by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Tennessee Technological University, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Parent-Infant Bed-Sharing Behavior Effects of Feeding Type and Presence of Father

An evolutionarily informed perspective on parent-infant sleep contact challenges recommendations regarding appropriate parent-infant sleep practices based on large epidemiological studies. In this study regularly bed-sharing parents and infants participated in an in-home video study of bed-sharing behavior. Ten formula-feeding and ten breast-feeding families were filmed for 3 nights (adjustment, dyadic, and triadic nights) for 8 hours per night. For breast-fed infants, mother-infant orientation, sleep position, frequency of feeding, arousal, and synchronous arousal were all consistent with previous sleep-lab studies of mother-infant bed-sharing behavior, but significant differences were found between formula and breast-fed infants. While breast-feeding mothers shared a bed with their infants in a characteristic manner that provided several safety benefits, formula-feeding mothers shared a bed in a more variable manner with consequences for infant safety. Paternal bed-sharing behavior introduced further variability. Epidemiological case-control studies examining bed-sharing risks and benefits do not normally control for behavioral variables that an evolutionary viewpoint would deem crucial. This study demonstrates how parental behavior affects the bed-sharing experience and indicates that cases and controls in epidemiological studies should be matched for behavioral, as well as sociodemographic, variables.
The response of remittances inflows to asymmetric oil price shocks in Egypt

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse the dynamic relationship between remittances inflows of Egyptians working abroad and asymmetric oil price shocks. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a vector autoregressive (VAR) model to explain the impulse response functions (IRFs) and the forecast error variance decomposition (FEVD). The rationale behind using these tools is its ability to examine the dynamic effects of our variables of interest. Findings The impulse response functions confirmed that remittance inflows have various responses to asymmetric oil price shocks. For instance, inflowing remittances increase in response to positive oil price shocks, while it decreases in response to negative oil price shocks. Also, the results indicate that the responses are significant in the short and medium-run and insignificant in the long run. The magnitude of these responses reaches its peak or trough in the third year. Further, the variance decomposition reveals that oil price decreases are more influential than oil price increases. Originality/value This means that remittances inflows in Egypt are pro-cyclical with oil price shocks. That explained by the fact that more than one-half of those remittances sent from GCC countries where real economic growth is very pro-cyclical with the oil prices. This empirical assessment will help policymakers to determine the behaviour of remittances and highlights the impact of different kinds of oil prices shocks on remittances. Unlike the little existing literature, this study is the first study applied the VAR model using a novel dataset spanning 1960-2016.
Stock Prices , Foreign Exchange Reserves , and Interest Rates in Emerging and Developing Economies in Asia

This paper examines the relationship between a) stock prices and b) foreign reserves, exchange rates, and interest rates in emerging and developing economies in Asia. Empirical results show that there is no co integration relationship among these four variables. Instead, foreign reserves have significant positive effects on stock prices; however, the opposite is not true. Moreover, exchange rates and interest rates have not influenced stock prices. Accumulation of foreign reserves is important in these countries, as it engenders financial stability and economic growth.
ISSN 1692-3804 FIELD STUDIES OF FAUNA AND FLORA

A seed shadow can be defined as the spatial distribution of seeds in the environment, and it is the starting point in a chain of interactions that ultimately determine the distribution of adult plants. The purpose of this study was to describe the seed shadows generated by woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagothricha) and to explore some of the factors that produce them. We carried out observations on focal woolly monkeys during sixty hours per month for two years at a tropical rain forest in Tinigua National Park (Colombia). We tried to collect all fecal samples from the focal animals, dispersed seeds were identified, and the location of droppings and feeding trees was recorded in maps. In general, woolly monkeys disperse seeds over the entire home range. The dispersion patterns of the trees upon which they feed is more clumped than the distribution of dispersed seeds for the great majority of species analyzed. However, they have some potential to generate aggregated regeneration patterns, given that the distribution of droppings is usually clumped. This conclusion varies according to the spatial scale used in the analyses and depends also on sampling size.
A self-regulatory framework and treatment implications

Although neglected in diagnostic criteria lists, theoretical models, and treatment approaches, attenuated positive emotions and cognitions distinguish social anxiety and social anxiety disorder from other anxiety conditions (and cannot be accounted for by comorbidity with depression). We present a self-control resource depletion model to explain how the intense self-regulatory efforts of high socially anxious individuals dampen positive experiences and events. We review existing research on individuals with social anxiety difficulties, focusing on impoverished positive experiences and quality of life, atypical reactions to overtly positive social outcomes, the absence of a normative bias toward the positive in social situations, and a meaningful subset of individuals who show signs of impulsive, short-lived positive events. We also discuss findings from the social psychology literature for how to enhance positive experiences, positive events, and selfregulatory capacity in individuals with social anxiety difficulties. The aim of the review is to broaden theory, research, and treatment efforts to the positive spectrum of human functioning.
Number 4 , December 2015 CLUB CONVERGENCE ACROSS INDIAN STATES : AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

This study evaluates the Pair-wise approach (Pesaran, 2007) and Spatial Interaction Models to examine the income convergence across 22 Indian States from 1981-82 to 2010-11. Our findings identify a small number of pairs that support income convergence; however, overall there is no evidence of club convergence in Indian states. While considering these pairs as a measure of neighborliness in spatial models, there are evidences of convergence with significant spatial interaction that provides two inferences. First, a transitional behavior of Indian states towards higher steady state is evident and second, using only geographic boundary as a measure of neighborliness can underestimate the spatial interaction in a highly technologically connected world.
Taekwondo Participation as Serious Leisure for Life Satisfaction and Health

This study investigated how different levels of serious leisure qualities are associated with life satisfaction and perceived health. Cluster analysis was used to identify patterns of serious leisure qualities (e.g., perseverance, significant effort, career development, identification, and unique ethos) in a sample of Taekwondo participants (N = 168). The Serious Sages expressed many serious leisure qualities and reported having higher levels of life satisfaction and perceived health when compared to the Novices and Journeymen. The study identified that individuals pursing Taekwondo as a serious recreation activity demonstrated high life satisfaction and perceived health. This study suggests that serious leisure offers rich opportunities for developing personal satisfaction and promoting health. Therefore, serious leisure involvement is related to life satisfaction and health.
2 The need for a systematic methodology

It has been suggested that the enterprise of developing mechanistic theories of the human cognitive architecture is flawed because the theories produced are not directly falsifiable. Newell attempted to sidestep this criticism by arguing for a Lakatosian model of scientific progress in which cognitive architectures should be understood as theories that develop over time. However, Newell’s own candidate cognitive architecture adhered only loosely to Lakatosian principles. This paper reconsiders the role of falsification and the potential utility of Lakatosian principles in the development of cognitive architectures. It is argued that a lack of direct falsifiability need not undermine the scientific development of a cognitive architecture if broadly Lakatosian principles are adopted. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the Lakatosian concepts of positive and negative heuristics for theory development and of general heuristic power offer methods for guiding the development of an architecture and for evaluating the contribution and potential of an architecture’s research program.
On component groups of Jacobians of Drinfeld modular curves

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Management : The European Evidence ☆

We examine the impact of the 2008–2009 financial crisis on the earnings management behavior of European-listed firms. We find that earnings management has significantly decreased in the crisis years. This trend is confirmed in most of the 16 countries under review.We also report a link between the level of earnings management and the economic growth rate and provide evidence suggesting that national characteristics and market forces affect the propensity of income smoothing but not accruals quality. © 2014 University of Illinois. All rights reserved. JEL Classification: G01 Financial Crises; M41 Accounting
Number 4 , December 2018 DEREGULATION , ECONOMIC GROWTH AND GROWTH ACCELERATION

The paper analyzes the influence of credit-, labor-, and product market deregulation policies on economic growth in more than 70 economies over a period of 40 years. By combining a difference-in-difference strategy with an IV approach to the endogeneity of the reform timing, this work finds that deregulation contributed to the per capita GDP levels of the early and consistent reformers relatively more than to the ones of the late reformers. The paper also finds a significant growth acceleration effect from market-oriented reforms over shorter periods of time. However, the growth acceleration effects dissipate over longer periods. A number of robustness checks support these conclusions.
Attribution of atmospheric CO 2 and temperature increases to regions : importance of preindustrial land use change

The historical contribution of each country to today’s observed atmospheric CO2 excess and higher temperatures has become a basis for discussions around burden-sharing of greenhouse gas reduction commitments in political negotiations. However, the accounting methods have considered greenhouse gas emissions only during the industrial era, neglecting the fact that land use changes (LUC) have caused emissions long before the Industrial Revolution. Here, we hypothesize that considering preindustrial LUC affects the attribution because the geographic pattern of preindustrial LUC emissions differs significantly from that of industrial-era emissions and because preindustrial emissions have legacy effects on today’s atmospheric CO2 concentrations and temperatures. We test this hypothesis by estimating CO2 and temperature increases based on carbon cycle simulations of the last millennium. We find that accounting for preindustrial LUC emissions results in a shift of attribution of global temperature increase from the industrialized countries to less industrialized countries, in particular South Asia and China, by up to 2–3%, a level that may be relevant for political discussions. While further studies are needed to span the range of plausible quantifications, our study demonstrates the importance of including preindustrial emissions for the most scientifically defensible attribution.
An investigation into the antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviors in Islamic Banking context

The purpose of this research was to test and empirically analyze the effect of commitment, culture, and organizational support on Organizational Citizenship Behavior. The mediating role of job satisfaction. The design of this research using survey method with the collection of data in cross-section through the questionnaire. Simple random sampling is used on 200 employees, hypothesis testing using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). This study provides evidence that commitment, culture and organizational support is a positive and significant effect on the job satisfaction. The other causality shows that organizational commitment and organizational support is a positive and significant effect on the Organizational Citizenship Behavior. The organizational culture and job satisfaction is positive but not significant effect on Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Job satisfaction is not a mediating role in explaining the effect of commitment, culture and organizational support on Organizational Citizenship Behavior. The practical implications of this research provide increased knowledge and understanding of the employees and the management to make changes in Organizational Citizenship Behavior of the Islamic banking employees to the good direction through organizational commitment and organizational support. The limitations of this study on the sample size using only permanent employees and the Islamic Banks just so limit the ability to generalize the results of the research findings. Originality of research provides basic configuration modeling development towards using SEM and conceptual models that proved the effect of commitment, culture and organizational support to increased Organizational Citizenship Behavior to employees-good direction by entering the job satisfaction
Instability in Third-Harmonic Generation

Large optical nonlinearities are critical to photonic technologies, and generation of harmonics is a convenient way of producing new wavelengths of light. In particular, third-harmonic generation from infrared sources is often used as a source of ultraviolet light. In this paper, we study the stability of the dynamics of the process of intracavity generation of third harmonic. We show that owing to a rather general phenomenon analogous to Anderson transition, a stability-instability transition due to the combined action of driving field and nonlinearity coupling is seen. It is shown that the dynamics of the system strongly depends on the external electric field of the fundamental mode and on the coupling coefficient of the interacting modes.