Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Antecedents of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour

The prime objective of this study was to predict changes in organizational citizenship behaviour by personality and organizational climate with samples drawn from a public sector organization. This study adopted survey design and the data was collected from 215 executives. Self-report instruments were used to collect the data. Results indicate that the organizational citizenship behaviour of the public sector employees was influenced by their gender, age, marital status, personality factors and organizational climate. Personality and climate factors both had greater strength in predicting citizenship behaviour. Hence, this study concludes that organizations might promote citizenship behaviour by building systems to capture these and raise them.
The Efficiency of Using Saline and Fresh Water Irrigation as Alternating Methods of Irrigation on the Productivity of Foeniculum vulgare Mill Subsp. Vulgare Var. Vulgare under North Sinai Conditions

Irrigation of fennel plant with saline water (3355 ppm) under north Sinai conditions resulted in significant reduction in vegetative and flowering characters, consequently fruit yield/plant. The reduction of fruit yield/plant reached 71.5: 76 %. The reduction of oil yield/plant 54.2: 58.9%. The reduction of anethole content in oil reached 23.2%. On the contrary the alternate irrigation with fresh (400 ppm) and saline water 1: 1 showed less reduction in fruit yield/plant as 19.0: 25.3 % and in oil yield/plant 14.2: 21.3%. The same rate of alternate irrigation 1: 1 fresh: saline did not largely affect oil constituents as anethole, fenchone, limonene and ñ-cymene comparing to all irrigation with saline water at 3355 ppm. Total nitrogen, total carbohydrates and leaf pigments were reduced significantly as all irrigation was done with saline water comparing to alternate irrigation with 1: 1 fresh: saline water.
Quark and Antiquark Con nement and White Black Hole Duality: Part 1: Gauge Symmetry Breaking in Fractional Quantum Hall Super uidic Space-Time

In this rst paper of the series, we demonstrate that quarks and antiquarks are con ned to baryons (White Holes) and antibaryons (Black Holes), respectively; we prove color-anticolor con nement for a baryon-antibaryon pair in an upgraded Gribov vacuum. For this, we identify the topologies, White Black Hole Duality, fractional statistics, quantum number order parameters, baryonantibaryon wavefunction antisymmetries, and gauge symmetry breaking in a 4D fractional quantum Hall super uidic space-time scenario, where space and time are dual and conjugate. Quarks and antiquarks are con ned to the Time Zone of two counter-propagating edge channels with Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the Fermi scale: a Riemannian holographic ring unit circle, Fermi surface, and Mott insulator that is isometrically embedded on a 1D Riemann surface (2D information structure), that is generalized to e ective 3D Schwarzschild space. We demonstrate that red, green, and blue visibly-colored quarks are non-Abelian color-electric-magnetic monopoles which compose baryons and are con ned to a White Hole Bag; at rest, the massless quarks are left-handed and circulate counter-clockwise at the speed-of-light to generate e ective mass. Similarly, we show that antired, antigreen, and antiblue anticolored antiquarks are anticolor-electric-magnetic antimonopoles which compose antibaryons and are con ned to a Black Hole Bag; at rest, the antimassless antiquarks are right-handed and circulate clockwise to generate e ective antimass. The bags are dual, opposite, inverse, and reverse, and are thereby combined to form a White Black Hole bag. The three distinct quark-antiquark pairs for a baryon-antibaryon pair are arranged along the six-coloring kagome lattice manifold of antiferromagnetic ordering in the Time Zone as three thin color-electric ux tubes; an SU(2) gauged Bose-Einstein condensate for 1D, 2D, and 3D skyrmions with massive Higgslike scalar amplitude-excitations and massless Nambu-Goldstone pseudo-scalar phase-excitations , that serves as a common 2D surface boundary between two distinct superconductive, super uidic 3-branes (the Non-Relativistic Space Zone and Relativistic Space Zone distance scales) and imposes double con nement and double stereographic superlensing on two dynamical scales; the Time Zone is dual to both Space Zones. For this, we prove that White Black Hole Con nement and White Black Hole Duality are the mechanisms for the stereographic superlensing of baryons and antibaryons.
Gender-Based Discrimination in Business Loan Markets

Bu makalenin amaci, EBRD ulkelerinden toplanan firma duzeyinde verilere dayanarak, tek bir kadin girisimciye ait firmalarin kredi piyasasinda ayrimciliga ugrayip ugramadigini arastirmaktir. Kredi piyasasinda kadin girisimcilerin maruz kaldigi ayrimciligi bir firmanin kredi alma olasiligi ile olcuyoruz. Ayrimciligi olcmek icin bagimli degisken olarak ayrica firmanin kredi basvurusuna cesaret edememesi incelenmistir. Calismanin temel bagimsiz degiskeni olarak sadece kadin girisimcileri ifade eden kukla degisken degil, kadin ust yoneticiye sahip firmalar da dikkate alinmistir. Yapilan analizler sonucunda kadin firma sahiplerine ait kredi basvurularinin geri cevrilme oranlari daha yuksek oldugu gozlemlenirken, bu fark istatistiksel olarak cok da anlamli olmadigi ortaya cikmistir. Cok degiskenli regresyonlar sayesinde firma ve ulke duzeyinde farkliliklari kontrol ettigimizde, kadin girisimcilere karsi finansal ayrimciligin cogunlukla ortadan kalktigi gozukmektedir. Bununla beraber tam zamanli calisan sayisinin fazla, yenilikci ve odenmemis borclarin az oldugu firmalarin finansal kurumlardan borc alma olasiliklari daha yuksektir. Ayrica kisi basina dusen gayri safi yurt ici hasilanin yuksek oldugu ulkelerde firmalarin kredi basvurularinin daha dusuk olasiliklarla reddedildigi gozlemlenmektedir.
Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel) Effects on Puberty Timing, Reproductive Function and Behaviour in Adult Female Mice Following Neonatal Exposure

Results: The age at vaginal opening (VO) was significantly earlier in EB and 200 FAE. Body weight at VO was lower than control only in EB. A disrupted estrus cycle decreased number of cycles and increased index diestrus were observed in EB and 200 FAE treated mice. Ovary weight in the EB-, 100and 200 FAE-treated groups were lower. The number of Graafian follicles in the EB-, 100and 200 FAE and number of corpus luteum in the EB and 200 FAE groups were lower than that of control females. Estradiol concentration increased in the EB and 200 FAE and LH concentration decreased in the EB-, 100and 200 FAE groups. The lordosis quotient (LQ) was significantly low in the EBand 200 FAE-treated groups, vis-à-vis the control group.
Improving accuracy of wind resource assessment through feedback loops of operational performance data : A case study in South Africa

This study addresses two key objectives using operational performance data from most of the Round 1 wind farms connected to the grid in South Africa: benchmarking of wind farm performance and validation of the pre-construction energy yield assessments. These wind farms were found to perform in line with internationally reported levels of wind farm availability, with a mean energy-based availability of 97.8% during the first two years of operation. The pre-construction yield assessments used for financing in 2012 were found to over-predict project yield (P50) by 4.9%. This was consistent with other validation studies for Europe and North America. It was also noted that all projects exceed the pre-construction P90 estimate. The reasons for this discrepancy were identified, with the largest cause of error being wind flow and wake-modelling errors. Following a reassessment using up to date methodologies from 2018, the mean bias in pre-construction predictions was 1.4%.
Biomedical Question Answering with SDNet

Motivation: Question answering (QA) systems usually rely on complex natural language processing approaches to understand the questions and find answers precisely. Advances in neural network models promise better performance in open-domains where large datasets are available, such as SQuAD 2.0, QuAC, and CoQA. However, these systems need to be exploited further in more restricted domains where construction of the training sets is costly. With the progress in natural language processing, extracting valuable information from biomedical literature has become a less daunting task. Recent developments in training a domain specific language representation models have paved the way for mining a large number of unannotated biomedical texts. Aims: We leverage BioBERT to effectively transfer the information from large-scale biomedical corpora and adapt the recently published SDNet neural architecture to tackle the BioASQ QA challenge [1, 2]. The original SDNet model was developed for general conversational QA tasks. We incorporate biomedical domain knowledge through BioBERT and domain-specific word2vec embeddings into the system by adapting on the proposed SDNet. Our approach requires some adaptation to the structure, but we are able to leverage the various attention mechanisms at its core. Ultimately, we work to develop a novel, contextual QA system specifically for biomedical-related text mining. Results: We have implemented a combined BioBERT-SDNet model to achieve competitive, though not state-of-the-art, results on biomedical question answering tasks. We expect that with some further work, this model could be a powerful tool for biomedical question answering in practice. To our knowledge, ours is the first usage of SDNet for non-conversational QA and the first integration of BioBERT with SDNet.
Effects of audiovisual expression of emotion on age perception

We examined the effects of emotional expression (neutral emotion, happiness, and sadness) on a speaker’s age perception in visual and audiovisual condition. Although many researchers have explored the effect of aging on cognitive mechanisms, the effects have not been explored in the view of modalities. In auditory perception on age, Shigeno (1) revealed that a happy (cheerful) voice makes a speaker sound younger. On the other hand, in visual perception of age, the results are not consistent; a smiling face photo makes a speaker look younger (2) or look older (3). The discrepant findings among researchers might be because facial expression photographs capture just the moment of emotional climax of a face. The present study used emotional videos instead of photographs. Participants were asked to identify the ages of twenty-four Japanese native speakers, whose ages were 24–75 years. We compared the identification results between two conditions (visual-only and audiovisual) to examine whether audiovisual happy expressions give younger impression to perceivers than neutral emotion or sadness. The results showed that facial expression does not increase or degrade the effect of vocal emotion. We discussed the integration process of vocal and facial emotion in age perception.
Decomposition of wheat straw influences organic carbon contents of the aerobically cultivated soils

Carbon sequestration mechanism and potential in different pedogenetical types of paddy soils are not well understood. We incubated the three representative paddy soils and a marsh soil with maize straw for six-months at (24°C) and investigated the changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) and different fractions of soil organic matter (SOM). It was found that total soil organic carbon, Ca-bound soil organic carbon (Ca-SOC), Feand Al-bound soil organic carbon (Fe (Al)-SOC) and insoluble residual soil organic carbon (IR-SOC) increased after adding 8% wheat straw into the soils. The increased carbon existed as Fe (Al)-SOC during the first phase (30 days), followed by decreased in the bulk SOC, Ca-SOC and Fe (Al)-SOC while IR-SOC increased with the time. Thus, the Ca-SOC and Fe (Al)SOC were gradually transformed into IR-SOC with time. Finally, the increased carbon was sequestrated as Fe (Al)-SOC and IR-SOC in these four soils. There was positive correlation between increased total SOC and increased Fe (Al)-SOC during the first phase (30 days). We also observed positive correlation between increased Fe (Al)-SOC and total SOC without corn straw (CK treatment) at the end of incubation Shoukat Ibrahim Abro, Ali Murad Raho, Inayat Rajpar, Aamir Ali, Farman AliDecomposition of wheat straw influences organic carbon contents of the aerobically cultivated soils EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH Vol. III, Issue 4 / July 2015 4733 (120 days), but there was negative correlation between increased CaSOC and total SOC under CK treatment after 120 days of incubation. The increased contents of bulk SOC and fractions of SOM were significantly higher in HP than in other three soils. The results of covariance analysis showed that there was significant difference between increased SOC and soil types and the original SOC did not make any effect on it. As compared to other paddy soils, HP showed more potential for carbon sequestration. Our findings suggest that association of SOC with ferric oxyhydrates plays an important role in SOC sequestration in China’s paddy soils and the potential of carbon sequestration in paddy soils is related to their different soil types.
New bioactive PMMA-Hydroxyapatite based bone cement reinforced with graphene oxide

Gil Gonçalves , Sandra M.A. Cruz, José Grácio, Paula A.A. P Marques, Cecilia Ramírez-Santillán, María Vallet-Regí, María-Teresa Portolés Nanotechnology Research Division, Center for Mechanical Technology & Automation, University of Aveiro, 3810193 Aveiro, Portugal. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Faculty of Chemistry, Universidad Complutense, 28040Madrid, Spain Department of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad Complutense, 28040Madrid, Spain Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, Madrid, Spain
The Influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation to Firm Performance

The purpose of this study was to test and analyze the influence of entrepreneurial orientation to firm performance. The method that used in this research is explanatory research method, using a questionnaire as a data collection tool that is distributed to 163 SME in West Java, Indonesia. Analysis of data in this research used descriptive analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. The results showed that entrepreneurial orientation has significant influence to firm performance in West Java. Key-Words: entrepreneurial orientation, firm performance, Structural Equation Modeling
Power , Performance , and Energy Management of Heterogeneous Architectures by Chetan

Many core modern multiprocessor systems-on-chip offers tremendous power and performance optimization opportunities by tuning thousands of potential voltage, frequency and core configurations. Applications running on these architectures are becoming increasingly complex. As the basic building blocks, which make up the application, change during runtime, different configurations may become optimal with respect to power, performance or other metrics. Identifying the optimal configuration at runtime is a daunting task due to a large number of workloads and configurations. Therefore, there is a strong need to evaluate the metrics of interest as a function of the supported configurations. This thesis focuses on two different types of modern multiprocessor systems-on-chip (SoC): Mobile heterogeneous systems and tile based Intel Xeon Phi architecture. For mobile heterogeneous systems, this thesis presents a novel methodology that can accurately instrument different types of applications with specific performance monitoring calls. These calls provide a rich set of performance statistics at a basic block level while the application runs on the target platform. The target architecture used for this work (Odroid XU3) is capable of running at 4940 different frequency and core combinations. With the help of instrumented application vast amount of characterization data is collected that provides details about performance, power and CPU state at every instrumented basic block across 19 different types of applications. The vast amount of data collected has enabled two runtime schemes. The first work provides a methodology to find optimal configurations in heterogeneous architecture using classifiers and demonstrates an average increase of 93%, 81% and 6% in performance per watt compared to the interactive, ondemand and powersave governors, respectively. The second work using same data shows a novel imitation learning framework for dynamically controlling the type, number, and the frequencies of active cores to achieve an average of 109% PPW improvement compared to the default governors.
Hearing-impaired sound perception : what can we learn from a biophysical model of the human auditory periphery?

Auditory modelling provides a powerful quantitative framework to study performance in psychoacoustic listening tasks such as signal or modulation detection, and speech perception. Biophysically-inspired auditory models provide the straightforward possibility to account for different aspects of sensorineural hearing loss (e.g., hair cell loss or synaptopathy) and are well suited to study the origin of individual performance differences on behavioural tasks. Here, we simulated how detection thresholds to low- and high-frequency supra-threshold stimuli changed for various profiles of sensorineural hearing loss: (1) normal or high-frequency sloping audio- grams (>1 kHz, 30 dB HL at 8 kHz), and (2) normal or gradual loss of auditory-nerve synapses. The tasks included the detection of amplitude-modulated tones at carrier frequencies of 500 Hz (fmod=5 Hz) and 4 kHz (fmod=100 Hz) presented with or without background noise. The simulations were compared with experimental data collected from listeners with normal or high-frequency sloping audiograms. The simulations accounted for up to 8.6 dB of the experimental variability, where the simulated variability was derived from the maximum shift between simulated thresholds in each condition.
Genetic Improvement in Resistance to Striga
 in Tropical Maize Hybrids

Striga hermonthica (Del.) Benth parasitizes maize (Zea mays L.) in sub-Saharan Africa, causing yield losses of up to 100% under severe infestation. Hybrid maize breeding for polygenic resistance to Striga has been undertaken at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) since the 1980s. This study was conducted to estimate genetic gain in grain yield and associated traits in a set of 32 maize hybrids developed over three breeding periods under artificial Striga-infested and noninfested conditions for 4 yr. The results of regression analyses showed a linear annual yield gain of 3.2% with a mean increase of 93.7 kg ha−1 yr−1 under Striga infestation, much of which was primarily associated with significant reductions of 2.6% yr−1 in Striga damage symptoms and 5.5% yr−1 in the number of emerged parasites at 10 wk after planting. Other traits associated with grain yield including plant height and number of ears per plant increased, whereas silking days, ear aspect, and anthesis–silking interval decreased over time. On average, hybrids developed after the 1990s yielded 64% more and displayed 61% less parasite emergence and 30% less parasite damage at 10 wk after planting compared with hybrids developed before the 1990s. These improvements were achieved with increases in grain yield, early silking, reduced anthesis–silking interval, and resistance to ear rot under noninfested conditions. The trends in breeding progress achieved during this time period appear to be in the right direction, highlighting the potential that exists to further reduce yield losses to S. hermonthica in hybrids. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, PMB 5320, Oyo Road, 20001, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Received 13 Dec. 2018. Accepted 10 July 2019. *Corresponding author (A.Menkir@cgiar.org). A. Menkir ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5907-9177. Assigned to Associate Editor Timothy Beissinger. Abbreviations: BLUE, best linear unbiased estimate; IITA, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; PC, principal component; RI, Striga resistance index; WAP, weeks after planting. Published in Crop Sci. 59:2484–2497 (2019). doi: 10.2135/cropsci2018.12. 0749 © 2019 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Published October 3, 2019
Use of waste and marginal materials for silent roads

Inhabitants of the urban environment are exposed to high levels of traffic noise and increase in amounts of waste. One way to mitigate their exposure to noise is to take advantage of the existing public spaces between buildings and transform the available surfaces of pavements into elements that foster comfort and health for urban residents. This work aims to develop low noise pavements by using certain waste materials. Semi-dense asphalt (SDA) mixtures (Air Voids = 12-16%) is used in this study due to their acoustic properties. Part of the aggregate matrix incorporates crumb rubber (CR). The various mixtures produced are compacted into 100mm dimeter specimens and subjected to texture measurements by 3D laser profilometry, porosity measurements and sound absorption measurements by the impedance tube method (EN 10534-2). The SDA mixtures showed a higher surface macrotexture amplitude, MPD. They also showed a more negative surface profile Rsk, indicating better noise properties based on the shape. This study gives us an understanding on how waste materials impact the texture and acoustic properties of roads and ultimately, to what degree they can be incorporated in low-noise asphalt mixtures.
Multivariate analysis as a tool in the assessment of thinning of Segae date palm cultivar (Phoenix dactylifera L.).

Different hand thinning treatments were conducted on Segae date palm cultivar to study their effect on bunch yield and fruit quality. Five thinning treatments; control (no thinning (A)), removing 10 cm of strands length per bunch (B), removing 20 cm of strands length per bunch (C), removing the middle of the bunch (D), removing the middle of the bunch and removing 10 cm of strands length per bunch (E) were investigated at Deirab, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fruit thinning substantially decreased bunch yield and increased fruit weight, flesh weight, flesh weight, fruit size, fruit dimensions in both seasons as compared with the control (no thinning) treatment. Fruit thinning had significant effect on the fruit acidity, total soluble solids and total sugars in both seasons. Thinning treatments had no effect on seed weight, reducing sugars, nonreducing sugars and moisture content in two seasons. It could be recommended that removing the middle of the bunch and removing 10 cm of strands length per bunch (treatment E) is the most appropriate practice for thinning as it gave the highest bunch yield with best fruit quality as compared with other applied treatments. Principle component analysis determined into three components which explained 82.92% and 82.11% of the total variance in the first and second seasons, respectively. First component (50.98% and 43.20%) strongly influenced by fruit length, fruit diameter, fruit weight, fruit volume, seed weight and flesh weight at first and second seasons, respectively. second component (19.69% and 24.95) was affected strongly by total sugars, non-reducing sugars & bunch weight and total sugars, non-reducing sugars at first and second seasons, respectively. Third component (12.24% and 13.97) was affected strongly by total soluble solids and moisture content at first and second seasons, respectively. This information can be used for future studies and can be used in identifying the best method to hand thinning in Segae date palm cultivar, which can be applied to get the higher the productivity with the high quality of the physical and chemical characteristics of the fruits.