Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The alignment of productive competence on machinery between vocational education institutions and industry

The aim of this study was to analyse the alignment performance of vocational education and industry and its impact on productive competence in machinery. This study employed concurrent triangulation and the subjects of the study were vocational education institutions, the Education Department, partners in the industrial field and the professional association. The data used in this study were validated using triangulation. The results showed that the alignment performance of productive competence in machinery between industry and vocational education did not result in the expected outcome. Academically, the overall productive competence in machinery has not been implemented in the industry and the results of alignment evaluation were still low. Institutionally, the role of the industrial sector in the implementation of competence alignment was still low, and the rate of employment of vocational school graduates in the industry showed a decreasing trend. The collaboration between industry and vocational school stakeholders has not been maximised.
Evaluation of Patients ’ Satisfaction Levels From Nursing Care : A University Hospital Example

Objective: The research was carried out as descriptive cross s ectional in order to determine the nursing care satisfaction level of the patients having an inpati ent treatment at Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Me dical Faculty and Education Research Hospital. Materials and Method: The research was conducted at ESOGU Medical Facult y Education Research Hospital between September-December 2016. The universe of th e research was established by patients having an inpatient treatment at the hospital between the abo ve stated dates. 656 inpatient were included in the sample. The data were collected using the Individual Charac teristics form and the Newcastle Nursing Care Satis faction Scale (NNCSS). Results: 291 (45.0%) of the patients were female and 355 ( 55.0%) were male, mean age was 46.53 ± 17.59 years. The scores that the research group got from Newcastle Satisfaction Scale ranged from 21 to 95, with an average of 62.87 ± 15.54 points. Conclusion: According to our research’s findings, the nursing c are satisfaction level of the patients was determined above the medium-level.
Leadership Adaptability and Learning Styles of the Hashemite University Students in Jordan

The purpose of this investigation was to describe the learning styles, leadership styles and adaptability, and selected demographics of students in the Hashemite University in Jordan, and to assess the relationship between learning style and leadership adaptability. A sample of (470) students (342 females and 128 males) was chosen. The results of the study indicated that 40.6% of males were Convergers, whereas 50.9% of females were Assimilators. Male respondents were distributed between low 44.5% (n=57), moderate 53.1% (n = 68) and high 2.3% (n = 3) adaptability scores. Whereas 41.5% (n=142) of the females possessed low adaptability scores, an additional, 54.7% (n=187) of the female respondents possessed moderate adaptability scores, and 3.8% (n=13) scored high on adaptability. A negligible positive correlation was found (r=. 028) between learning style and leadership style adaptability. Received on 19/12/2005 Accepted on 3/6/2006
THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL INCOME AND POVERY REDUCTION IN BANGLADESH DURING THE 1990 S Azizur

This paper surveys the changes in the composition and distribution of personal income and their consequence for poverty reduction in Bangladesh during the 1990s by analyzing the data from the Household Expenditure Surveys of 1991/92 and 1995/96 and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey of 2000. During the decade under review, rural personal income increased at a slow rate but there was a radical structural change in its composition, characterized by a rapid decline in the contribution of agriculture and a rise in the importance of non-farm activities, among other changes. In comparison, urban personal income increased at a much faster rate although it did not reveal a dramatic change in structure. Income distribution became steadily more unequal in both rural and urban areas. This was largely due to a change in composition of income in favor of disequalizing sources of income and an increase in the extent of the disequalizing contribution that income from a number of sources made to overall inequality. For Bangladesh as a whole, rising disparity between urban and rural incomes has been a further source of increased inequality in the overall income distribution. Increased inequality in the distribution of income has offset more than three-quarters of the potential poverty reduction that would have been realized from the actual growth in personal income in the absence of an increase in inequality. The paper discusses the priorities for and the limitations on a future strategy of containing the rise in inequality of income distribution.
Optimisation of Combined Acid and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cocoyam Starch to Produce Fermentable Hydrolysate

Dilute acid hydrolysis and enzymatic hydrolysis were sequentially combined for the purpose of producing fermentable hydrolysate from cocoyam starch. A three variable Box Behnken design was used to study the effect of temperature, time and acid concentration for the acid hydrolysis step while for the enzymatic hydrolysis step, the variables optimised were temperature, time and pH. A total of 17 individual experiments were generated for each step of the hydrolysis and were used to develop regression models for each step. The regression models developed to represent the acid and enzymatic hydrolysis steps were statistically significant (p<0.05) and did not show lack of fit (R2>0.9). For the acid hydrolysis step, the regression model predicted the maximum sugar concentration to be 79.81 g/L at optimum temperature 100°C, time 11.66 min and acid concentration 1.5% w/w. For the enzymatic hydrolysis step, the regression model predicted the maximum sugar concentration to be 93.44 g/L at optimum temperature 58oC, time 55 min and pH of 5.5.
Genotypic and environmental effects on guayule ( Parthenium argentatum ) latex and growth

Guayule ( Parthenium argentatumGray) is the best potential source of hypoallergenic latex to replace latex products from the Hevea ( Hevea brasiliensis ) plant that cause Type I allergies. However, information is not available on environmental effects on latex content and growth of newly released germplasm lines. This knowledge is needed to enhance guayule breeding efforts. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the genotype, environment, and genotype × environment effects on latex content and plant growth of guayule. Four lines were planted in the field at Maricopa, Arizona, USA on 6 April 1995 and 6 March 1996 and at Marana, Arizona, USA on 11 April 1995 and 12 June 1996. Plant height and width measurements were made in the spring of 1997 and latex content and biomass determined in the spring of 1997 and 1998. The main factors that included location, line, over 50% s impact s whether for this ould have ironmental
PLA / PGA and its coPolymers in Alveolar Bone Regeneration

The aim of this research was to perform a systematic review to identify the most frequent uses of PLA/ PGA in alveolar bone regeneration and their results. A study was designed to answer the question: What are the most frequent uses of PLA/PLGA and their copolymers in alveolar bone regeneration? A systematic search was done on MEDLINE, EMBASE and LILACS from April 1993 to December 2017. The search string used on MEDLINE was: (((polylactic acid) OR PLA) OR PLA-based copolymers) OR PLA blends) OR PLA scaffolds)) AND ((("Bone Regeneration"[Mesh]) OR bone regeneration) OR guided bone regeneration). The search was complemented by a manual review of the references from the articles included. Most of the studies selected were weak and, regarding the most frequent uses of PLA/PGA, 13 studies used it as a resorbable membrane, two as an absorbable mesh, one as an absorbable screw and three as filling material. Based on our results, the authors consider that PLA/PGA requires a delicate relation between the mechanical resistance and the degradation process. PLA/PGA does not interrupt bone regeneration; however, the influence in cellular events related to bone regeneration and later osseointegration have not been identified.
Clinical Study Role of Multiparameter Analysis of AgNORs in FNA Smears of Thyroid Swellings in Differentiating Benign and Malignant Lesions

Background. The aim of this study is to assess the role of multiparameter analysis of silver (Ag)-stained nucleolar organizer regions (AgNORs) technique on aspiration smears of thyroid swellings to distinguish between benign and malignant lesions. Materials and Methods. Aspiration smears from 166 cases of thyroid swellings were examined. Diagnosis was confirmed by histology in 61 cases. AgNOR staining was done on FNA smears according to silver-staining protocol proposed by the International Committee for AgNOR quantification. Multiparameter analysis of AgNORs such as mAgNOR, pAgNOR, and AgNOR size grade was done on 50–100 cells under oil immersion lens. Results. AgNOR parameter of benign and malignant thyroid lesions was compared and was found to be statistically significant. Out of 157 satisfactory AgNOR stained cases, 148 (94.3%) were benign lesions and 9 (5.7%) cases were malignant lesions. In AgNOR analysis, sensitivity was found to be 83.33%, specificity 100%, PPV 100%, NPV 98.21%, and accuracy was 98.36%. Conclusions. AgNOR analysis in the FNA smears is a simple, sensitive, and cost-effective method for differentiating benign from malignant thyroid swellings.
Effect of Mao ( Antidesma thwaitesianum Muell . Arg . ) seed supplementation on in vitro rumen protozoal population and digestibility using gas production technique

This experiment was to investigate the effect of mao seed (MS) levels on digestibility and rumen gas production by using in vitro gas production techniques. The experimental design was a completely randomized design (CRD) and the dietary treatments were MS supplementation at 0, 4, 8, 12, 16 and 20 mg with 0.5 g of roughage and concentrate ratio at 60:40. The results revealed that the intercept value (a), gas production from the insoluble fraction (b), gas production rate (c), potential extent of gas production (a+b) and cumulative gas production (72 h of incubation) were not significantly different among treatments (P>0.05). Supplementing with MS had not affected on in vitro dry matter degradability (IVDMD), true digestibility and NH3-N concentrations (P>0.05). Moreover, supplementing MS linearly decreased in in vitro organic matter degradability (IVOMD). Populations of protozoa tended to decrease when increasing level of MS (P=0.06). Based on this study, it could be concluded that supplementation of MS at 8 mg could be efficiently utilized in rumen in term of reduced protozoal population and maintaining the digestibility and in vitro gas production.
Quantum microwaves / Micro-ondes quantiques Towards a spin-ensemble quantum memory for superconducting qubits Vers une mémoire quantique à ensemble de spins pour qubits supraconducteurs

a Quantronics Group, SPEC, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France b Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA c Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan d Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark e Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan f Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8550, Japan g Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., Itami 664-001, Japan h Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki 370-1292, Japan i Energy System Research Institute, Fundamental Technology Department, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan j Institut Néel, CNRS, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, France k Laboratoire Aimé-Cotton, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud and ENS Cachan, 91405 Orsay, France l Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Université de Montpellier and CNRS, 34095 Montpellier, France
First report of citrus bacterial canker disease in lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) in Gadaref State-Eastern Sudan

Field surveys were conducted during the rainy season in commercial citrus orchards, nurseries, and home backyard citrus trees in three localities (Gadaref, Mafaza, and Fashaga) in Gadaref State to investigate the possible occurrence of citrus bacterial canker disease (CBCD). Typical symptoms of CBCD were produced naturally on lime trees only consisting of erumpent corky lesions surrounded by water-soaked tissues and a yellow halo on leaves, fruits and branches. In severe infections, fruit lesions with crater-like centres, frequent fruit drop, extensive defoliation and dieback of twigs and branches were commonly evident. Gadaref and Mafaza localities recorded a disease incidence of 88.7% and 9.7%, respectively, while no CBCD was recorded in Fashaga locality during these surveys. Home backyard trees recorded the highest incidence (50%) followed by commercial orchards (32.8%), whereas nurseries exhibited the least disease incidence (12.8%). Citrus canker bacterial isolates originally recovered from naturally infected lime leaves reproduced typical citrus bacterial canker (CBC) lesions when inoculated with a high inoculum concentration (108 CFUml-1) on both detached and attached leaves of selected citrus varieties. Similar lesions with varying pathogenicity scores developed on lime, grapefruit and mandarin test leaves but not on orange and other citrus varieties. Bacteria was isolated from various infected citrus plant parts, and phenotypically characterized. The survey results in addition to the pathogenicity, morphological, biochemical, and growth characteristics-tests indicate the occurrence of CBC in eastern Sudan. This represents the first report of CBCD in Sudan.
Neural stochastic dynamics of perceptual decision making

Recent studies have identified some brain regions involved in the decision process for simple perceptual tasks, and have provided insight into how sensory information is evaluated before the commitment to a motor response. To understand the dynamical principles of the decision process, and how they emerge from the interaction of interconnected neurons, computational models have been proposed based on large-scale, neurobiologically inspired networks. In these models the decision is regarded as a transition between attractors, or stable states of the network. This transition is triggered by external inputs, which change the attractor configuration and drive the system from an initial resting state to one of the other stable states, associated with the categorical choices. We show that this transition can occur by two distinct mechanisms depending on the overall external input. The decision mechanism arising at low inputs, entirely driven by noise, leads to exponentially distributed decision times, with a mean that depends exponentially on the inverse of the amplitude of the noise present in the system. Moreover, both decision times and performances are monotonically decreasing functions of the overall external stimulation, thereby providing a plausible neurobiological basis of the speed-accuracy tradeoff observed in behavioral experiments. In a second project we propose a method to simplify the description of multistable neural systems under the influence of noise. The method allows us to transform the set of stochastic differential equations describing the activities of the neural units into a set of ordinary differential equations involving the first central moments of the distributions. In a third project, we show that the dynamics of models of perceptual detection based on bistable stochastic units, in which the percept arises as noise-induced activation triggered by stimulation, can be properly captured by a one-dimensional normal-form Langevin equation for inputs near the detection threshold.
RESIDUAL EFFECT OF COCOA POD ASH , POULTRY MANURE AND NPK 20 : 10 : 10 FERTILIZER

J.Soil. Nature. 3 (2):04-09 (July 2009) RESIDUAL EFFECT OF COCOA POD ASH, POULTRY MANURE AND NPK 20:10:10 FERTILIZER ON SOIL NUTRIENTS, NUTRIENT UPTAKE AND YIELD OF MAIZE (Zea mays) AYENI L.S. , 2 ADELEYE E.O. , and OSO O.P. 1 Department of Crop, Soil and Pest Management, Federal University of Technology, PMB 704, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria, 2 Department of Agricultural Science, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria, Demonstration School, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Ondo state, Nigeria.
PREGLEDNI ČLANAK SEPSIS AND CARDIORENAL SYNDROME : ETIOPATHOGENESIS , DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Introduction: Sepsis is the most common cause of acute renal failure in intensive care units. Aim: Th is study aimed to analyse the etiopathogenesis of sepsis and the clinical signifi cance of early detection and timely treatment of sepsis in intensive care units. Method: We analysed literature and clinical studies addressing the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of sepsis
Dynamic changes of activator protein 1 and collagen I expression in the sclera of myopia guinea pigs.

AIM To investigate the dynamic changes of activator protein 1 (AP1) and collagen I expression in the sclera of form-deprivation myopic model in guinea pigs. METHODS A form-deprivation myopic model in guinea pigs were established with the left eye covered for 2 to 6wk (FDM group). Normal control group (n=25) were untreated. Changes in refractive power and axial length (AL) were measured and recorded at different time points. Expressions of AP1 and collagen 1 of the sclera were measured with Western blotting and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The relationship between AP1 and collagen I levels was analyzed. RESULTS After 0, 2, 4, 6wk, and 4/-1wk of form-deprivation, the diopter in the FDM group was gradually changed (2.08±0.31, -1.23±0.68, -4.17±0.58, -7.07±0.55, and -2.67±0.59 D, respectively, P<0.05), and the AL was gradually increased (5.90±0.38, 6.62±0.37, 7.30±0.35, 7.99±0.31, and 6.97±0.32 mm, respectively, P<0.05). With the prolongation of covered time, the protein expressions of AP1 and collagen I in the FDM group were gradually down-regulated (all P<0.05); the mRNA expressions of them were also gradually down-regulated (all P<0.05); and there was positive correlation between them. The control group had no obvious change in each index (all P>0.05). CONCLUSION AP1 may be an important transcription factor involved in the regulation of collagen I synthesis and degradation during myopic scleral remodeling.
Using field crop by-products for feeding rabbits

This work was carried out to study the impact of replacing 50% of Berseem hay (BH) content in basal ration of rabbits that incorporation at portion of 23% of rabbit ration formulation by alternative sources of field crop residues such as Mung bean husks (MBH), soybean vein hay (SBVH) or peanut vein hay (PVH). Feeding trial lasted 70 days, thirty six growing New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits (583.5±25 g) divided into four groups, 9 rabbits. Control (R1) contained 23% BH and the three experimental rations replaced 50% of BH by MBH, SBVH or PVH for (R2, R3 and R4), respectively. Results showed that both PVH and SBVH recorded the high content of crude protein (15.56 and 15.12%, respectively) that nearly from BH (16.86% CP). Meanwhile, MBH contained 9.94% CP. Soybean vein hay showed the highest content of crude fiber (CF), 51.67%, followed by PVH contained 39.71% CF and MBH contained 32.31%. Peanut vein hay contains the highest values of neutral detergent fiber (47.30%), acid detergent fiber (32.50%), hemicellulose (14.80%) and cellulose (26.73) in comparison with the other tested sources of roughage. Different experimental rations was almost iso-caloric and iso-nitrogenous. Inclusion alternative sources of roughage insignificantly (P>0.05) improved daily gain feed intake and feed conversion. Dressing percentages that expressed as carcass weight/ slaughter weight or carcass weight/ empty body weight was insignificantly (P>0.05) improved. Costing of one kg decreased by 1.00%, 2.67% and 2.67%, net revenue improved by 214%, 194% and 179%, relative economic efficiency were improved by 221.1%, 207.2% and 188% more than the control that assuming that equal 100%. The present results mentioned that, under conditions similar to those available in this work, it can be replaced 50% of Berseem hay used in rabbit ration with alternative sources of roughage (Mung bean husks, soybean vein hay or peanut vein hay) without any adverse effect on their health and gain with improvement in relative economic efficiency; feed cost per kg live body weight and depressing price of ration formulation costing.
2 N ov 2 01 7 Achievable Information Rates for Coded Modulation with Hard Decision Decoding for Coherent Fiber-Optic Systems

We analyze the achievable information rates (AIRs) for coded modulation schemes with QAM constellations with both bit-wise and symbol-wise decoders, corresponding to the case where a binary code is used in combination with a higherorder modulation using the bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) paradigm and to the case where a nonbinary code over a field matched to the constellation size is used, respectively. In particular, we consider hard decision decoding, which is the preferable option for fiber-optic communication systems where decoding complexity is a concern. Recently, Liga et al. analyzed the AIRs for bit-wise and symbol-wise decoders considering what the authors called hard decision decoder which, however, exploits soft information of the transition probabilities of discrete-input discrete-output channel resulting from the hard detection. As such, the complexity of the decoder is essentially the same as the complexity of a soft decision decoder. In this paper, we analyze instead the AIRs for the standard hard decision decoder, commonly used in practice, where the decoding is based on the Hamming distance metric. We show that if standard hard decision decoding is used, bit-wise decoders yield significantly higher AIRs than symbol-wise decoders. As a result, contrary to the conclusion by Liga et al., binary decoders together with the BICM paradigm are preferable for spectrally-efficient fiberoptic systems. We also design binary and nonbinary staircase codes and show that, in agreement with the AIRs, binary codes yield better performance.
Best of the Corporate Bunch

The elasticity of corporate taxable income is a key policy parameter with limited evidence due to a lack of comprehensive data and viable variation. We provide crisp new evidence using the universe of c-corporations in the US and newly developed methods that exploit different types of variation. We find the elasticity of corporate taxable income is 0.64, substantially larger than previous estimates. In addition, we show that using newly developed methods are important in practice, because in their absence we would have underestimated the elasticity by 25%. JEL: