Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Factors influencing strategy implementation in public universities in Kenya: the case of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology(JKUAT)

Successfully implementation of strategies is vital to any organization whether public or private. However transforming strategies into action is a far more complex and difficult task which has been a daunting task to most management which has led to high rate of failure of up to 90% of new strategy implementation as revealed by various studies around the world. Public Universities in Kenya just like other public organizations have adopted strategic management. In spite of most universities having various strategies on various programmes, they are hardly implemented successfully. The purpose of this study was to establish the factors that influence the strategy implementation in public universities in Kenya: a case study of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture (JKUAT). The specific objectives of the study were to establish the level of strategy implementation, identify the organizational factors that have influenced this level of strategy implementation and to identify the external environmental factors that have influenced strategy implementation at JKUA T. To achieve the objectives, the study used descriptive research design in which 50 management staff from the university were sampled. The study used structure questionnaires to collect data which was self administered. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The study used Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis to test the relationship between the variables. The study established that the institution applied strategic plan in its management. The study further established that strategy implementation in the institution was high. The study results revealed that allocation of adequate funds was a major factor which largely influenced the implementation of strategies in the institution. Also cited as a factor which influenced strategy implementation was top management commitment. The study revealed that the institution was faced with resistance to change by some of its employees which it overcame by training its employees and through workshops and seminars. The university forced changes in its institutional and structure and culture to fit the new strategy. The study recommends that the institution develop strategies that will ensure success of future strategy implementation. The study further recommends that the institution adopt modem methods of change management which will ensure minimal resistance is experienced in strategy implementation. Finally, the study recommends that running of public universities be made autonomous devoid of any political interference.
An Improved Uneven Multilayer Cluster Routing Algorithm for Homogeneous WSNs Based on Cooperative Relaying

Aiming to alleviate the drawbacks of the existing power-aware routing algorithms caused by the hotspot problem and Near-Far problem, this paper propose an improved uneven clustering routing algorithm , named as Multilayer Cluster Routing based on Cooperative Relaying (MCRCR). This new algorithm protocol introduces the super-cluster-head node and the relay node conceptions to avoid the hotspots and balance the node energy consumption. After a series of mathematical calculations, the energy consumption for each type of sensor node is provided. Based on MATLAB simulation results, a conclusion can be shown that the MCRCR algorithm is significantly effective in extending the operation lifetime of homogenous WSNs. In this paper, a new algorithm protocol named Multilayer Cluster Routing based on Cooperative Relaying (MCRCR) is proposed to tackle the hotspot problem and Near-Far problem which existing routing protocols do not consider. MCRCR algorithm protocol combines the benefits of hierarchical routing and cooperative relaying routing to improving the energy efficiency of WSNs. The residual of this paper is organized as follows. In Section Ⅱ, details about the MCRCR algorithm protocol are discussed. Section Ⅲ describes the system model and energy consumption model of the MCRCR, respectively. Section Ⅳ presents the performance comparison of MCRCR with the LEACH via simulations. Finally, Section Ⅴ concludes the paper.
Application of Mycorrhizal Technology for Improving Yield Production of Common Bean Plants

This study aimed to investigate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi with different levels of NPK fertilizers on yield production of common bean plants which common bean plants were subjected to five levels of NPK fertilizers (0, 25, 50, 75, 100 %). Application of AMF significantly increased the growth and yield components of common beans with minimized the levels of NPK comparing to equivalents non-mycorrhizal ones. The results obtained revealed that inoculation with AMF and the concentrations 50% and 75% of NPK with AMF are the greater than other concentrations and non-mycorrhizal plants. Mycorrhizal Common bean plants had significantly higher number of pods, length of one pod, pods weight, 100 seeds weight, weight of seed/plant and intensity of mycorrhizal colonization(M%) . Concentrations of nutrients (N, P, K, Ca and Mg) and total carbohydrates, crude protein and mycorrhizal dependency of some yield parameters were significantly increased in mycorrhizal plants at different NPK levels when comparing to those of non-mycorrhizal plants paticularly at (50% and 75%) concentration of NPK, but lower Na concentration in mycorrhizal common bean seeds than those of non-mycorrhizal. Int J Appl Sci Biotechnol, Vol 4(2): 191-197
Motivational Profiles for Physical Activity: Cluster Analysis and Links with Enjoyment

0 0 1 376 2148 University of Manitoba 17 5 2519 14.0 96 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The primary purpose of this study was to explore self-determination theory-based motivational profiles for physical activity in a sample of Canadian adults. A secondary aim was to investigate the relationship between these motivational profiles and enjoyment of physical activity. One hundred and twenty adults with an average physical activity level falling below recommended guidelines completed the Behavioural Regulations in Exercise Questionnaire-2 in addition to the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale . A cluster analysis confirmed three distinct clusters: self-determined, motivated, and low motivation. The clusters differed significantly from one another with respect to enjoyment, with high enjoyment scores in the self-determined and motivated clusters. The findings are interpreted in light of this investigation’s contribution to the study of adult motivational patterns within the Self-Determination Theory perspective. The value of considering the magnitude of different motivational styles in understanding physical activity enjoyment is also discussed. Cette etude visait, dans un premier temps, a examiner les profils motivationnels bases sur la theorie de l’auto-determination de pratique d’activite physique chez un echantillon de Canadiens adultes et, dans un deuxieme temps, a explorer les liens entre les profils motivationnels et le plaisir derive de cette pratique d’activite physique. Cent-vingt adultes dont le taux moyen d’activite physique etait inferieur au taux recommande par les lignes directrices ont repondu au questionnaire-2 sur les regles comportementales de l’exercice (Behavioural Regulations in Exercise Questionnaire-2) et a l’echelle de plaisir derive de pratique d’activite physique (Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale). Une analyse typologique a confirme l’existence de trois groupes distincts : les personnes autodeterminees, les personnes motivees et les personnes peu motivees. Sur le plan du plaisir, des differences notoires ont ete observees d’un groupe a l’autre. Les personnes autodeterminees et motivees affichaient les niveaux de plaisir les plus eleves. Ces resultats sont interpretes en fonction de l’apport de la presente enquete a l’etude des structures motivationnelles des adultes, qui s’inscrit dans le sillon de la theorie de l’autodetermination. Les auteurs ont egalement souligne l’utilite de tenir compte de l’ampleur de divers styles de motivation pour mieux comprendre le plaisir que les gens peuvent tirer de la pratique d’activite physique.
An Economic Analysis of High-Value Horticulture Crop Productivity: Green Peas (Pisum sativum) in Zimbabwe

In Zimbabwe the potential of the horticulture crops is not being fully realized. In this study we use green peas, an important high-value horticultural vegetable crop to help understand what has been happening to the horticultural sector. We found that although green pea output and area under green pea production are on an upward trend in Zimbabwe, productivity is on a downward trend. As a means of increasing green pea productivity we recommend the following: credit and finance to horticultural farmers should be enhanced; farmers should be encouraged to be efficient in their production and they should be encouraged to target premium markets such as urban centres and the export markets where they would get better prices to enable them to cover productions costs. In that way, the horticultural sector could help address the problems of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition thus contributing to the economic welfare of the nation. Keywords: Economic analysis; Green peas; Horticulture; Market; Productivity
Changing concepts on prostatitis

Comparatively little research has been directed to the pathogenesis and treatment of prostatitis, an infectious, inflammatory disabling condition that can cause considerable pelvic pain, with a range of associated symptoms that can influence 50% of all men at some period in their lives, often in their earlier adult years. This review considers the impact of prostatitis on patients and highlights the clear need for clinical research to enhance our understanding of the underlying biology of this ubiquitous disease. New insights into the molecular events that may be implicated in its pathogenesis, suggest that more rational treatment options could well be developed, but throughout, there is the recognition that prostatitis still remains an enigma.
Morphology of the human hard palate: a study on dry skulls

To determine morphological variations of the hard palate in dry human skulls, 85 skulls of unknown age and sex from nine medical schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan were examined. The transverse diameter, number, shape and position of the greater (GPF) and lesser (LPF) palatine foramina; canine to canine inter-socket distance; distance between greater palatine foramen medial margins; on each side, the distances between greater palatine foramen and base of the pterygoid hamulus, median maxillary suture and posterior border of the hard palate; palatal length, breadth and height; maximum width and height of the incisive foramen; and the angle between the median maxillary suture and a line between the orale and greater palatine foramen were determined. Palatine index and palatal height index were also calculated. An oval greater palatine foramen was present in all skulls, while a mainly oval lesser palatine foramen was present in 95.8% on the right and 97.2% on the left. Single and multiple lesser palatine foramina were observed on the right/left sides: single 44.1%/50.7%; double 41.2%/34.8%; triple 10.2%/11.6%. The greater palatine foramen was located above the third molar in 74.7% (right)/87.8% (left), between the second and third molars in 25.3%/9.5%, and above the second molar in 2.7% (left). A single oval-shaped incisive foramen was observed in 87.1%. The median maxillary suture angle was 13.74±1.58° on the right and 13.14±1.68° on the left. In conclusion, no significant differences were observed in any distances on the right and left side related to greater palatine foramen; however a significant difference (p <0.05) was observed between the right and left sides for median maxillary suture angle.
Cognitive States in Educational Activity of Students: Structural-Functional Aspect

Modern educational systems are aimed at not only knowledge acquisition, but also at intellectual development ofyoung people, including the ability of self-regulation of cognitive activity. That is why the knowledge ofstudents about cognitive states, strengthening the availability of subjective experience, promoting maximumproductiveness of cognitive processes gain great significance. The ability to control these states influencesdirectly on the development of cognitive abilities of students and the success of their study in whole. Thepurpose of this article is to study the structure and functions of typical cognitive states, emerging in the course ofstudents' educational activity. By means of the procedure of factor analysis, there were revealed fourindependent factors, underlying the structure of cognitive states. It was shown that the factor of metacognitiveregulation of cognitive activity acts as a leading one in the structure of states. In comply with the peculiarities ofstructural organization, there were distinguished the regulating, activating and directing functions of cognitivestates.
A global multi-technique approach to study low-resolution solution structures

Finding the conformation of large macromolecular complexes has become an important problem in structural biology, which is not always soluble by high-resolution techniques such as X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. Solution biophysical properties can provide direct or indirect structural information on these large complexes. A general systematic approach to the construction of a structural model of the macromolecule consistent with all the experimental solution properties is currently lacking. In this paper, such an approach is presented, where generalized rigid-body modelling is combined with a Monte Carlo/simulated-annealing optimization method, to search over a large range of possible conformations for the structure that best fits solution experimental properties derived from small-angle scattering, fluorescence resonance energy transfer and analytical ultracentrifugation.
Price of prosperity: economic development and biological conservation in China.

)Summary 1. In the past three decades China has experienced fundamental changes to its economy, which have transformed it from one of the poorest countries in the world to the third largest economic body. This gain in wealth has, however, been achieved at severe cost to the environment. 2. I review the current state of environmental protection and examine the effectiveness of the existing nature reserves for biological conservation in China. 3. Synthesis and applications . Proactive approaches to environmental management ‐ including significant investment in science and technology, science-informed land-use policy making and international collaboration ‐ are necessary for China to significantly slow down or reverse its current environmental problems.
Value Relevance of Discretionary Accruals in France and the UK: The Incidence of IFRS

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of IFRS and the country’s legal regime on the value relevance of discretionary accruals given environmental uncertainty. We show that IFRS improve the value relevance of discretionary accruals to a larger extent in France than in the UK. Under local GAAP, discretionary accruals are more valued in the UK than in France while under IFRS no significant differences are observed. In a situation of high negative sales variability, discretionary accruals are less valued under IFRS than local GAAP, suggesting that opportunistic earnings management is easier to detect under IFRS. In a situation of high positive sales variability, discretionary accruals, which are likely to provide a credible signal about future cash flows, are more value relevant under IFRS than under French GAAP. In that regard, no significant difference is observed between IFRS and UK.
Wealth Contraints and Option Contracts in Models with Sequential Investments

I investigate a model in which two parties A and B invest sequentially in a joint project (an asset). Investments and the asset value are nonverifiable, and A is wealth-constrained so that an initial outlay must be financed by either an agent, B (insider financing), or an external investor, a bank C (outsider financing). I show that an option contract in combination with a loan arrangement facilitates first-best investments and any arbitrary distribution of surplus if renegotiation is infeasible. Moreover, the optimal strike price of the option is shown to differ across financing modes. If renegotiation is admitted, I identify conditions under which the first best can still be attained. Then, either B-financing or C-financing may be strictly preferable, and a combination of insider and outsider financing may be strictly optimal.
A new multi-position calibration method for MEMS inertial navigation systems

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a worldwide navigation system that requires a clear line of sight to the orbiting satellites. For land vehicle navigation, a clear line of sight cannot be maintained all the time as the vehicle can travel through tunnels, under bridges, forest canopies or within urban canyons. In such situations, the augmentation of GPS with other systems is necessary for continuous navigation. Inertial sensors can determine the motion of a body with respect to an inertial frame of reference. Traditionally, inertial systems are bulky, expensive and controlled by government regulations. Micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) inertial sensors are compact, small, inexpensive and most importantly, not controlled by governmental agencies due to their large error characteristics. Consequently, these sensors are the perfect candidate for integrated civilian navigation applications with GPS. However, these sensors need to be calibrated to remove the major part of the deterministic sensor errors before they can be used to accurately and reliably bridge GPS signal gaps. A new multi-position calibration method was designed for MEMS of high to medium quality. The method does not require special aligned mounting and has been adapted to compensate for the primary sensor errors, including the important scale factor and non-orthogonality errors of the gyroscopes. A turntable was used to provide a strong rotation rate signal as reference for the estimation of these errors. Two different quality MEMS IMUs were tested in the study. The calibration results were first compared directly to those from traditional calibration methods, e.g. six-position and rate test. Then the calibrated parameters were applied in three datasets of GPS/INS field tests to evaluate their accuracy indirectly by comparing the position drifts during short-term GPS signal outages.
Bryophyte-dominated biological soil crusts mitigate soil erosion in an early successional Chinese subtropical forest

Abstract. This study investigated the development of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) in an early successional subtropical forest plantation and their impact on soil erosion. Within a biodiversity and ecosystem functioning experiment in southeast China (biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) China), the effect of these biocrusts on sediment delivery and runoff was assessed within micro-scale runoff plots under natural rainfall, and biocrust cover was surveyed over a 5-year period. Results showed that biocrusts occurred widely in the experimental forest ecosystem and developed from initial light cyanobacteria- and algae-dominated crusts to later-stage bryophyte-dominated crusts within only 3 years. Biocrust cover was still increasing after 6 years of tree growth. Within later-stage crusts, 25 bryophyte species were determined. Surrounding vegetation cover and terrain attributes significantly influenced the development of biocrusts. Besides high crown cover and leaf area index, the development of biocrusts was favoured by low slope gradients, slope orientations towards the incident sunlight and the altitude of the research plots. Measurements showed that bryophyte-dominated biocrusts strongly decreased soil erosion, being more effective than abiotic soil surface cover. Hence, their significant role in mitigating sediment delivery and runoff generation in mesic forest environments and their ability to quickly colonise soil surfaces after disturbance are of particular interest for soil erosion control in early-stage forest plantations.
Chapter 58 Evidence of late Neoproterozoic glaciation in the Caledonides of NW Scandinavia

Abstract The northwestern part of the Scandinavian Caledonides, formed by SE- to ESE-directed thrusting through the Neoproterozoic W. Baltica continental shelf, contains numerous small and often isolated outcrops of diamictite and associated strata. No precise biostratigraphic or isotopic data are available to constrain the age of these sediments, but, on the basis of their stratigraphic position, most are correlated with the Mortensnes Formation (Fm.) in E. Finnmark and also presumed to be of glaciogenic origin. The Mortensnes Fm. has been correlated with the 580 Ma Gaskiers glacial event on the basis of δ13C isotope studies. Structurally, the deposits occur in the Autochthon (below the Torneträsk Fm.), within an external imbricate zone (Lower Allochthon), within cover successions lying unconformably on allochthonous basement (Window Allochthon) palaeogeographically derived from below or outboard of the Lower Allochthon and, more rarely, within the Middle Allochthon, derived from outboard of the Window Allochthon. Evidence for a glaciogenic origin is typically poor or lacking. Only in the Komagfjord Antiformal Stack (Window Allochthon), where an up to 40-m-thick succession of three fining upwards cycles has been mapped, are the deposits comparable in thickness and complexity to the Mortensnes Fm. Other sequences are sometimes <1 m thick and unconformably overlain by post-‘glacial’ deposits. The Vakkejokk Breccia, a submarine slump in the Torneträsk area of the Autochthon closely underlies the correlative Precambrian–Cambrian lithostratigraphic boundary in E. Finnmark but overlies the first appearance of the boundary marker fossil Treptichnus pedum. Although sometimes interpreted as periglacial, this seems unlikely in view of the 30–50° palaeolatitude during deposition. Calcite nodules (<1 cm size) in the Vakkejokk Breccia have previously been interpreted as glendonite, but the microstructure and palaeolatitude makes this unlikely; they are likely a replacement of gypsum. Diamictites of uncertain origin have also been found in the Ediacaran Lower Siltstone Member of the Torneträsk Fm. and unconformably under the ? Lower Cambrian Lomvatn Fm. in the Komagfjord Antiformal Stack.