Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Development and Worry in Normal Children 1

The present study examined the connection between cognitive development and childhood worry. A sample of normal children aged 3–14 years (N = 248) were interviewed about the presence and content of a personal worry. Furthermore, a worry elaboration score was obtained by encouraging children to think up potential negative outcomes associated with a series of worry topics. Finally, a number of Piagetian conservation tasks were administered in order to reliably assess the childrens’ level of cognitive maturation. Results showed that there were positive associations among age and cognitive development, worry elaboration, and the presence of a personal worry. Correlational and regression analyses suggested a mediational model in which increased age and, in its wake, cognitive development lead to enhanced worry elaboration which, in turn, increases the possibility of a personal worry to emerge.
Seasonal abundance of sucking pests of ash gourd (Benincasa Hispida) (Thunb.) Cogn.) in Tamil Nadu

Field experiment on seasonal abundance of insect pests of ash gourd was conducted by direct counting in farmer’s holdings in Tamil Nadu during 2015-2016. Result revealed that that the major sucking pests were whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), leaf hopper (Amrasca devastans), aphids (Myzus persicae) and thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis). The peak population of A. devastans, B. tabaci and M. persicae was recorded in second and third week of January (3.30 / three leaves / plant, 0.30 / three leaves / plant and 11.20 / three leaves / plant). Population of S. dorsalis was recorded to be the highest during third week of March (7.50/ three leaves / plant). Correlation analysis between weather parameters and abundance of insect pests of ash gourd revealed that temperature, morning relative humidity and sunshine hours played a major role with significant positive influence on the population build up of sucking pests viz., whiteflies, leafhoppers, aphids and thrips. All the abiotic parameters were significant at 5% and 1% level.
Extensional collapse of the northern Taiwan mountain belt

As an active collision zone between the Luzon arc and the China continental margin, the Taiwan mountain belt, particularly its south-central part, is undergoing crustal shortening and rapid uplift. The northern part of the orogen is, however, subjected to crustal stretching and rifting as a result of flipping of subduction from the northwest-facing Luzon arc system to the south-facing Ryukyu arc system. Taiwan and its neighboring southern Ryukyu used to be part of the rifted China continental margin before the collision started in late Miocene time. Engineered by the northwest movement of the Philippine Sea plate in the past 5 m.y. , the north-south–trending Luzon arc obliquely overrode the northeast-southwest–trending continental margin and tectonized it into a collision orogen that progressively enlarged and migrated from northeast to southwest. Following the southwest-propagating collision, the north-dipping Philippine Sea plate, which was subducting beneath the Ryukyu arc, also extended westward and caused flipping of subduction in the northern part of the collision orogen. In consequence, the orogen lost the compressive support by the colliding plates and became subjected to lithospheric stretching induced by the trench suction. The collision orogen collapsed as a result of crustal thinning, and its central part foundered into a deep submerged basin. A whole spectrum of active tectonic scenarios, ranging from orogenic buildup by collision to orogenic collapse by rifting and subsidence, can be readily observed in the Taiwan-Ryukyu area and provides a vivid example for the process of orogenic collapse.
How does Organizational Justice influence Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment? Explaining with Psychological Capital

‘Looking fair’ is the desired goal of individuals and organizations. Fairness perceptions of organizational actions, by employees, translate into various favourable work outcomes. For instance, perceptions of fairness, defined as organizational justice, significantly influences attitudinal variables as job satisfaction and organizational commitment. However, the existing literature does not offer complete picture of this influence. In other words, the ‘underlying mechanism’ governing the influence of organizational justice on job satisfaction and organizational commitment is not fully understood. On the basis of extant literature review and arguments grounded in the social exchange theory, and ‘broaden and build’ theory of positive emotions, this study identifies psychological capital (PsyCap) as an explanatory mechanism for the influence of organizational justice on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The primary objective of this study was to test a theoretical and structural model that hypothesized mediation of PsyCap in the influence of organizational justice on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. A survey-based methodology, with standardized scales was used. A pilot study was conducted to test the scale properties. A sample of 440 employees from the Indian service sector industry was drawn. A two-step process of analysis, with AMOS 16, was employed to test the structural model. The scales were assessed and found fit for reliability and validity criteria. Besides examining the significance of indirect effects using the bias-corrected confidence intervals with two-thousand bootstrap samples, the study also applied alternative⁄nested structural equation models to test the mediation hypotheses. Results are found to be consistent with the stated hypotheses thus confirming the mediation of PsyCap in the influence of organizational justice on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The findings of this study advance available knowledge on job satisfaction and organizational commitment; and provide impetus to research in this domain by identifying PsyCap as an intervening variable. The study thus extends the application of PsyCap as an organizational variable capable of translating the effect of justice on satisfaction and commitment. It also supports and extends the view of previous researchers that PsyCap is a significant positive organizational behaviour (POB) variable, as it is capable of performance improvement and is open to development. From a managerial perspective, given the ‘open to control’ nature of PsyCap, it renders a significant tool in the hands of managers to control the satisfaction and commitment of their employees. Moreover, controlling PsyCap is much easier as compared to directly controlling justice perceptions.
Effects of quality assessment in Dutch higher education

Quality management [1] has been an issue in Dutch higher education since the 1980s. Quality assessment (QA) of education was introduced on the political agenda as part of the new policy of the government, with the policy paper Higher Education: Autonomy and Quality (1985). In exchange for a larger measure of administrative autonomy, the universities promised to retain and enhance their levels of quality in education. Quality assessment then appeared on a systematic and nationwide scale in 1988, when the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) implemented its new responsibility. The VSNU QA system consists of an external Visiting Committee (VC) for each discipline or cluster of study programmes [2] operating nationwide. To prepare for the VC, those responsible for each study programme are required to write a self-evaluation (we will take 'self-evaluation' and 'self-study' to be synonyms). When the VC has visited all study programmes in its 'area', it writes a report based on the self-evaluations that were its input and on the experience of the visits to the locations. These visits usually last for two intensive days, during which the VC talks to representatives of all actors involved in the study programme (including students) and at the end of which, based on the self-evaluation and the impressions of the visit, a preliminary comment and judgment about the study programme is given by the chair. This text, after being commented on by the study programme, is included in the report of the visiting committee. The comments, recommendations and judgments about the individual study programmes are preceded in the report by a chapter on the general 'state of the art', shared problems and so on in the discipline covered. The self-evaluations and the report by the VC are the key documents in this quality spiral, of which the second cycle is starting in 1994. In 1990 a parallel system of QA was introduced by the VSNU counterpart, the HBO Council, for the non-university sector. The VC's judgments and self-evaluations are intended, in the first place, to enhance the quality of the study programme; accountability to the government and society in general is only the second goal (Vroeijenstijn & Acherman, 1990). This raises the question of to what extent the results of the evaluations are really utilised. Commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science, in parallel with a 'mid-term review' by the Inspectorate of Higher Education (1992), the authors started a research project, the central question of which can be formulated briefly as: What are the effects of the QA system on the quality activities of higher education institutions? This project was not intended as an evaluation of the evaluation system 181
Induction of Dowrfism in Encelia farinosa by Cycocel and Evaluation of Regenerants Using RAPD and ISSR Markers

T he growth retardant cycocel (2-chloroethyl, trimethyl ammonium chloride) was used at concentrations of 0, 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 ppm to induce dwarfism in the ornamental plant Encelia farinosa in two consecutive seasons 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 at the Ornamental Plants Research Gardens, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Alexandria. Regenerated plants were evaluated using morphological and molecular markers of RAPD and ISSR. The retarding effect of cycocel on the plant was significantly higher than that of the control. The maximum effect at the concentration of 4000ppm, showing the highest reduction in plant height, leaf area, shoot fresh and dry weight. On the other hand, the number of branches per plant and leaf chlorophyll content were increased with increasing cycocel concentration, the maximum mean was recorded with the highest cycocel concentration (4000 ppm). The most important variations obtained were plants with upright growth, dwarfed growth or leaf deformaties at the highest concentration of cycocel. A total of six RAPD and thirteen ISSR primers were used to get a total of 132 RAPD and 159 ISSR bands for overall samples. Results revealed that the highest number of specific bands were 7 RAPD and 20 ISSR markers with the control and fourth treatment (E4), respectively, while E4 has no specific bands with the RAPD primers. ISSR analysis provided more accurate results as it revealed higher degree of polymorphism than that revealed by RAPD. On the other hand, the data with ISSR on Encelia plants treated by 4000 ppm cycocel provide evidence that telomerase activity may be altered. The present study recommends that the 4000ppm of cycocel is useful to produce dwarfism in Encelia plants, which is economically important as a pot plant. Also, using ISSR as rapid and accurate method for identification of altered telomeres and breeding program in Encelia plants.
Iron-peak elements Sc, V, Mn, Cu, and Zn in Galactic bulge globular clusters

Aims. Globular clusters are tracers of the history of star formation and chemical enrichment in the early Galaxy. Their abundance pattern can help understanding their chemical enrichment processes. In particular, the iron-peak elements have been relatively little studied so far in the Galactic bulge. Methods. The main aim of this work is to verify the strength of abundances of iron-peak elements for chemical tagging in view of identifying different stellar populations. Besides, the nucleosynthesis processes that build these elements are complex, therefore observational data can help constraining theoretical models, as well as give suggestions as to the kinds of supernovae that enriched the gas before these stars formed. Results. The abundances of iron-peak elements are derived for the sample clusters, and compared with bulge field, and thick disk stars. We derived abundances of the iron-peak elements Sc, V, Mn, Cu, and Zn in individual stars of five bulge globular clusters (NGC 6528, NGC 6553, NGC 6522, NGC 6558, HP 1), and of the reference thick disk/or inner halo cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104). High resolution spectra were obtained with the UVES spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope over the years. Conclusions. The sample globular clusters studied span metallicities in the range –1.2 ≲ [Fe/H] ≲ 0.0. V and Sc appear to vary in lockstep with Fe, indicating that they are produced in the same supernovae as Fe. We find that Mn is deficient in metal-poor stars, confirming that it is underproduced in massive stars; Mn-over-Fe steadily increases at the higher metallicities due to a metallicity-dependent enrichment by supernovae of type Ia. Cu behaves as a secondary element, indicating its production in a weak-s process in massive stars. Zn has an alpha-like behaviour at low metallicities, which can be explained in terms of nucleosynthesis in hypernovae. At the metal-rich end, Zn decreases with increasing metallicity, similarly to the alpha-elements.
Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles Qualifying Exam Proposal

The problem of linking syntactic constituents of a sentence to semantic roles is an essential part of many natural language processing tasks. The research outlined here aims to develop a statistical approach to the problem, extending the methodology that has been very successful in statistical parsing one step closer to language understanding. Both speci c and more abstract semantic roles are considered in an e ort to generalize from semantic frames for which training data is available to general text. Possible applications for a statistical semantic analyzer include spoken language dialog systems, information retrieval, machine translation and the emerging eld of text data mining.
Towards optimal experimental design in hydrogeophysical studies

Hydrogeophysics attempts to combine multiple geophysical data sources to better constrain hydrological models of the subsurface. It is generally recognized that such data fusion attempts will be computationally demanding. Sophisticated (hydrogeophysical) inversion methods are one potential way to reduce the computational burden. Methods to reduce the number of measurements by avoiding redundant information (optimal experimental design) could also contribute to such a reduction. Such an optimisation of the experimental design requires that the quality of all possible designs can be first quantified and then maximized. In this contribution, we first review several methods from inverse problem conditioning to quantify the quality of the design. Then we apply these methods to a simple numerical example where borehole ground penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography are combined to measure soil water content variation with depth. Finally, we will discuss how time constraints (i.e. when monitoring transient processes) and financial constraints can be included in this framework. We hope that this contribution will encourage hydrogeophysicist to think about their own measurement design and how these can be improved for their specific case studies.
Evaluating the difference in attitude between students and illiterates towards disabled people

The purpose of this study was to see if there is any difference between attitude of students and illiterates toward disabled people. It was hypothesized that the attitude of students will be more positive towards disabled people as compared to the attitude of illiterates. A total sample of 400 participants was selected randomly from students studying in different departments at the University of Swat and the general public at streets who were confirmed to be illiterate. Out of the 400 participants, 200 were students and 200 were common illiterate people. The scale Attitude towards Disabled People (ATDP) adapted version was used to measure the attitude of participants. Scores attained on the scale by the participants were calculated and analyzed by applying the independent sample t-test in Statistical Product and Service Solutions version 16.0 (SPSS v16). The test revealed a statistically significant difference (t=6.655, df=58, p<0.001) between the attitude of students and illiterates. Students reported significantly positive nature of attitude towards disabled people (M=20.63, SD=16.023) than did the illiterate participants (M=- 1.30, SD=8.313). This proved the hypothesis that students have a more positive attitude towards disabled people than that of the illiterate people.
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF STARCH COMPOSITE REINFORCED BY PINEAPPLE LEAF FIBER (PLF) FROM JOSAPINE CULTIVAR

Nowadays, there is an increase in research about renewable natural fiber as an alternative solutions in replacing synthetic fibers such as glass fiber as reinforced composites materials that are non – biodegradable and non – ecofriendly to the system. Natural fibers are also known for its low cost production yet have excellent mechanical properties and is environmental friendly. One of the natural fiber resource is pineapple leaf fiber (PLF) which is planted widely in Malaysia. From current research, PLF contains high cellulose and exhibits good mechanical properties especially from Josapine family. In this study, the PLF from Josapine is used as reinforced materials and starch (SH) is used as the binder. Additionally, the effects of PLF loading and PLF fiber length on the mechanical properties of PLF/SH composites is also analyzed. Compositions ratio of PLF/SH composites is fixed at 50/50, 60/40 and 70/30. The lengths of the fiber are fixed to 2 cm, 4 cm and 6 cm. Before the fabrication, PLF has underwent alkaline treatment to increase the strength of fiber. All nine samples has underwent four different tests to determine the mechanical properties which are tensile test, hardness, density and microstructure analysis. PLF loading of 70% with 6 cm in length shows the higher values of tensile stress, density and hardness which are 14.53 MPa, 33.63 and 1.20 g/cm 3 respectively
Hierarchical Analysis Of Spatial Distribution Patterns Of Patellid Limpets In The Canary Islands

We studied the distribution, abundance and size structure of three limpet species (Patella rustica, Patella candei crenata and Patella aspera) throughout the rocky intertidal zone of the Canary Archipelago. We used a stratified and hierarchical sampling strategy that involved the study of three intertidal zones (high, intermediate and low intertidal) across eight islands with three random locations per island and three randomly selected sites within locations. We did not observe any specimens of P. candei candei. For the entire archipelago, the least abundant species was P. candei crenata (0.02 ^ 0.05 individuals/0.25 m 2 , average ^ SD), the species with significantly greatest sizes (26.8 ^ 11.08 mm, average ^ SD) and of highest commercial interest. Patella aspera (0.08 ^ 0.37 individuals/0.25 m 2 ) and P. rustica (0.069 ^ 0.16 individuals/0.25 m 2 ) showed higher abundance, but smaller sizes (21.0 ^ 9.21 and 18.1 ^ 7.94 mm, respectively). The three zones influence how these species are distributed and these distribution patterns are homogenous among islands. Patella rustica was observed to be more abundant in the intermediate zone and P. aspera in the lower zone, while P. candei crenata showed similar abundance in the low and intermediate zones. This vertical variability is masked by a horizontal variability on small and intermediate scales (10 s to 1000 s of meters), but not among islands (10 s to 100 s of km). This fact can be attributed to the low abundance of the limpet species in the locations studied, as a result of overexploitation of this resource in the Canary Islands. Consequently, there is a need for management and control measures.
The Study on the Relationship Among the Temperament Type, Parental Rearing Pattern, and Sense of Loneliness of College Students

The study sets 557 college students in Chongqing Municipality as subjects and adopts the scaling method to study the relationship among temperament type, parental rearing pattern and sense of Loneliness: (a) The difference of examination indicates that: Female college students exhibit more loneliness in kinship and overall than male students, and are more emotionally inclined in aspect of the temperament type; the score reflecting the sociality of college students for those from urban areas is remarkably higher than the score of those from rural areas; and major difference among majors is significantly reflected in respectively students’ sense of loneliness in love and their overall loneliness, that students majoring in science and engineering experience more sense of loneliness, especially that in respect of love. (b) The correlation analysis shows that: Dimensions of the sense of loneliness of college students are significantly correlated with the sociality of their temperament types and large amount of factors within the parental rearing patterns by which they are brought up. (c) The regression analysis further indicates that: maternal emotional warmth has a significant predictive effect on the overall sense of loneliness; maternal emotional warmth, together with severe paternal punishment and maternal interference and protection thereof have a significant predictive effect on factors of the sense of loneliness in kinship; sociality and severe paternal punishment have a significant predictive effect on factors of sense of loneliness in love; and maternal emotional warmth, maternal interference and protection thereto, as well as paternal interference thereto all have a significant predictive effect on factors of sense of social loneliness.
Some Common Fixed Point Theorems in Menger Space

This paper consists four sections. First section is central to the text. In second section, we generalize the results of Kohli and Vashistha [1] for pairs of mappings using weakly compatible maps. Third section deals the results for pair of weakly compatible maps along with property (E.A.) using different types of control functions, which generalize the results of Kohli and Vashistha [1] and Kubiaczyk and Sharma [2]. Fourth section is concerned with results for occasionally weakly compatible maps and generalizes, extends and unifies several well known comparable results in literature.
The liberating role of conflict in group creativity: A study in two countries

Researchers of group creativity have noted problems such as social loafing, production blocking, and especially, evaluation apprehension. Thus, brainstorming techniques have specifically admonished people ‘not to criticize’ their own and others’ ideas, a tenet that has gone unexamined. In contrast, there is research showing that dissent, debate and competing views have positive value, stimulating divergent and creative thought. Perhaps more importantly, we suggest that the permission to criticize and debate may encourage an atmosphere conducive to idea generation. In this experimental study, traditional brainstorming instructions, including the advice of not criticizing, were compared with instructions encouraging people to debate—even criticize. A third condition served as a control. This study was conducted both in the United States and in France. Results show the value of both types of instruction, but, in general, debate instructions were superior to traditional brainstorming instructions. Further, these findings hold across both cultures. Results are discussed in terms of the potential positive value of encouraging debate and controversy for idea generation. Copyright # 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.