Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of different sporting heights on ballet pirouette performance

Having a focus of attention (FOA) in executing complex motor tasks can facilitate task execution. This behaviour influences subsequent movements. We studied the effect of different fixation points on the posture of ten experienced female dancers during the performance of a pirouette. Specifically, the shifting of forces between supporting and gesture legs during the preparation phase and the times of execution of the pirouette were studied. The preparation phase showed a closer placement of the feet than found in previous studies (28% vs 40% of the leg length) and preferred spotting height of 55% of the body height. Pirouettes with a lowspotting height showed a longer start and times to peak force of the supporting leg. No statistical differences were found for bending time on the pirouettes with different spotting heights. The hell landing forces for the gesture leg were different (p<0.01) between trials for the four different spotting heights. Finally, small adjustments in external FOA (<30 cm at 3.5 m of distance) did not influence the performance of the pirouettes significantly but greater gaps did.
Hierarchically Porous ZSM-5 Synthesized by Nonionic- and Cationic-Templating Routes and Their Catalytic Activity in Liquid-Phase Esterification

Hierarchically porous MFI zeolites (ZSM-5) have been synthesized by hydrothermal treatment in the presence of trialkoxysilylated-derivatives of nonionic poly(oxyethylene) alkyl ether or alkyl quaternary ammonium cation as mesopore-generating agent, along with tetrapropylammonium cation as zeolite structure-directing agent. Powder X-ray diffraction revealed that zeolites have been crystallized, and scanning electron microscopy showed rugged surface morphology that was quite different from conventional ZSM-5. The mesoporosity was confirmed by nitrogen adsorption-desorption measurement showing type IV isotherms with narrow distribution of mesopore diameters. The catalytic activity of these mesoporous ZSM-5 was tested in liquid-phase esterification of benzyl alcohol with hexanoic acid. The conversion of benzyl alcohol on mesoporous ZSM-5 prepared via cationic-templating route was almost 100%, being much higher than on mesoporous ZSM-5 prepared with silylated nonionic surfactant as well as on conventional ZSM-5 with no mesopores. The presence of Bronsted acid sites, together with the mesopores, was responsible for this catalytic conversion, as confirmed by pyridine adsorption monitored by in situ infrared and 27 Al magic angle spinning nuclear
Measuring the Well-Being of Aboriginal People: An Application of the United Nations' Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1981-2001

In 1990, the United Nations introduced its Human Development Report, which included a new definition and measure of development, the Human Development Index (HDI). Since then, Canada has scored at or near the top of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) rankings of countries by their HDI scores. Kendall (2001) has made the point that despite Canada’s high ranking on the HDI it is clear that not all Canadians share these high average levels of well-being, and that Aboriginal Canadians in particular have long been identified as generally having poorer health outcomes, lower educational attainment, and lower average incomes than other Canadians. In spite of the attention of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the efforts of Aboriginal organizations to bring public attention to the social conditions faced by First Nations, Inuit, and Metis people in Canada, public opinion has not reflected an awareness of these inequalities. Ponting (2000) has found a general decline in awareness of Aboriginal affairs by Canadians between 1976 and 1998. A 1996 public opinion poll found that nearly half of Canadians believed that the standard of living on reserves was as good or better than the Canadian average. In the same poll, eighty-three percent of Canadians interviewed believed conditions for Aboriginal people were either improving or staying the same (Insight Canada 1996).
Redundant modifications of Lichtenstein technique in hernia repair – a descriptive study of practising surgeons in Poland

Introduction: The Lichtenstein tension-free repair has become the standard method for repairing inguinal hernia in many surgical units. Numerous modifications are applied to the original technique. However, some of these alterations draw the method away from the principles of the procedure. Aim: To estimate the current state of practice of surgeons in Poland regarding various methods of mesh fixation in Lichtenstein hernia repair. Material and methods: An analysis was performed on the internet questionnaire’s replies of a randomly selected group of 242 Polish surgeons. The survey included 28 questions. One hundred sixteen surgeons responded (response rate 48%). A total of 111 replies were found to be suitable for analysis. Results: Only 3% of respondents use only precut prostheses. Among the remaining group, surgeons reported discrepancies regarding shape of the medial corners of the mesh, size of the tails and the presence of the opening for the spermatic cord. The respondents were divided about the materials used for mesh fixation, suturing mode (continuous or interrupted) and number of passes of the suture. The surgeons indicated various techniques of mesh positioning concerning relation to the pubic bone, fixing the tails and the amount of mesh laxity. Conclusions: The results demonstrate frequent appliance of various modifications. The use of some of these alterations is unreasonable and should be abandoned. Therefore, following the key guidelines of the Lichtenstein tension-free hernioplasty assures achieving the best results.
Modelling radiative transfer through ponded first-year Arctic sea ice with a plane-parallel model

Abstract. Under-ice irradiance measurements were done on ponded first-year pack ice along three transects during the ICE12 expedition north of Svalbard. Bulk transmittances (400–900 nm) were found to be on average 0.15–0.20 under bare ice, and 0.39–0.46 under ponded ice. Radiative transfer modelling was done with a plane-parallel model. While simulated transmittances deviate significantly from measured transmittances close to the edge of ponds, spatially averaged bulk transmittances agree well. That is, transect-average bulk transmittances, calculated using typical simulated transmittances for ponded and bare ice weighted by the fractional coverage of the two surface types, are in good agreement with the measured values. Radiative heating rates calculated from model output indicates that about 20 % of the incident solar energy is absorbed in bare ice, and 50 % in ponded ice (35 % in pond itself, 15 % in the underlying ice). This large difference is due to the highly scattering surface scattering layer (SSL) increasing the albedo of the bare ice.
The role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on brain cognitive function - review of studies on laboratory animals

Fatty acids are essential components of the diet and sources of food energy. A study carried out by Burr and Burr, (1929) first acknowledged that specific components of fatty acids may be necessary for the proper growth and development of animals and humans. They proposed that clinical signs of essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency was correlated with cardiovascular disease and compromised immune system. In mammals, the fatty acids have been recognized as important nutrition factors for brain cognitive performance. Nutrient supplementation such as omega-3 (ω3) fatty acids are widely accepted to improve diets, and contribute to the maintenance of good health, especially on the cardiovascular system and other aspects of health, such as cognition throughout life. Fish oil from tuna and salmon are the richest source of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) that affects the cognitive function of the brain. This could indicate why fish has been called "brain food" and why DHA deficiencies can have a life-long impact on intelligence. Thus, knowledge of health benefits fatty acid as a dietary trend to increase good health status. In fact, world health organizations such as the UK Food Standards Agency and the Japan Society for Lipid Nutrition, advise that more people should aim to increase their intake of ω-3 fatty acid supplementation. As these fatty acids have an essential role during brain development, the first section of this review examines the importance of ω-3 fatty acid in relation to the metabolism. This will be followed by a review of the role of fatty acids on spatial recognition memory such as neural membrane function, cholinergic neurotransmitter and animal behavior studies. Experimental works in mice and rats have shown that ω-3 fatty acid supplementation can increase levels of synaptic vesicles, neuron dendrites and cholinergic neurotransmitters. The mechanism physiological of brain gene expression and cognitive function by ω-3 fatty acid also will be examines in this section. Thus, this review is focused on dietary ω-3 fatty acid supplementation on brain cognitive function and the mechanism interaction between ω-3 fatty acid and genetic functions on laboratory animals.
Emotional Intelligence of store managers, store cohesiveness, and store performance within a large retail firm: verbetering en aanvulling van een wetenschappelijk artikel

This bachelorthesis has been written as follows: Prof. Mevr. Wilderom has worked on a scientific article that has been send to the Journal of Organizational Behavior (impactfactor of 3.854 in 2011). The dataset of the article was excellent, because of the use of different sources, a split-sample technique and lots of data. Still, the reviewers of the scientific journal said that the article needed improvements, in structure and in content. This is why the article was send back with some comments which had to be changed in order to get the article approved. After these changes, the article still wasn’t good enough in the eyes of the reviewers and was send back again. The reviewers saw the excellent data-set of the article but the article needed major changes to strengthen the paper. Because the head author of the article couldn’t fix these comments, Prof. Mrs. Wilderom came to me to assess these comments in a way that would satisfy the reviewers. I started with the easy comments to adapt on the standard which scientists of topjournals have. After each of the four rounds of improvements I made, Mrs. Wilderom made some track changes to give me information about the quality of changes that I made. In Appendix C the response to reviewers is attached, because all the comments of the reviewers need an explanation with what I did to fix the comments. The processing of the comments is not the only thing I did. The article was send to the journal in 2011. Because of this I had to search for new literature that was made in 2011 and 2012 and process these papers in the article. At last I made another analysis on the variable ‘cohesion’ because there is a lot of confusion about this variable in the scientific literature nowadays. I discussed this literature to make this a full bachelorthesis.
Mitigating risk: an examination of the antecedents to partner satisfaction in contractual agreements

How can organizations in contractual engagements mitigate their risk and increase partner satisfaction when the engagement may not last long enough to forge ‘traditional’ bonds of trust? We investigate perceptions of contract specificity, organizational similarity, contract monitoring costs, operational flexibility and fair treatment as antecedents to partner satisfaction. We empirically test our hypotheses using data collected on 72 contractual engagements from Canadian consulting engineering firms. Our results indicate that firms are likely to be more satisfied when they partner with organizations with which they have had a previous satisfying experience. Furthermore, written contracts with overly excessive specifications can have a negative effect on satisfaction.
Recent Recovery of the Siberian High Intensity

This study highlights the fast recovery of the wintertime Siberian High intensity (SHI) over the last two decades. The SHI showed a marked weakening trend from the 1970s to 1980s, leading to unprecedented low SHI in the early 1990s according to most observational data sets. This salient declining SHI trend, however, was sharply replaced by a fast recovery over the last two decades. Since the declining SHI trend has been considered as one of the plausible consequences of climate warming, the recent SHI recovery seemingly contradicts the continuous progression of climate warming in the Northern Hemisphere. We suggest that alleviated surface warming and decreased atmospheric stability in the central Siberia region, associated with an increase in Eurasian snow cover, in the recent two decades contributed to this rather unexpected SHI recovery. The prominent SHI change, however, is not reproduced by general circulation model (GCM) simulations used in the IPCC AR4. The GCMs indicate the steady weakening of the SHI for the entire 21st century, which is found to be associated with a decreasing Eurasian snow cover in the simulations. An improvement in predicting the future climate change in regional scale is desirable.
Oligocene-Miocene middle crustal flow in southern Tibet: geochronology of Mabja Dome

Abstract New U-Pb zircon, monazite, 40Ar/39Ar, and apatite fission track ages provide constraints on the timing of formation and exhumation of the Mabja Dome, southern Tibet, shed light on how this gneiss dome formed, and provide important clues on the tectonic evolution of middle crustal rocks in southern Tibet. Zircons from a deformed leucocratic dyke swarm yield a U-Pb age of 23.1 ± 0.8 Ma, providing the first age constraint on the timing of middle crustal ductile horizontal extension in the North Himalayan gneiss domes. Zircons and monazite from a post-tectonic two-mica granite yield ages of 14.2 ± 0.2 Ma and 14.5 ± 0.1, respectively, indicating that vertical thinning and subhorizontal stretching had ceased by the middle Miocene. Mica 40Ar/39Ar ages from schists and orthogneisses increase structurally down-section from 12.85 ± 0.13 Ma to 17.0 ± 0.19 Ma and then decrease at the deepest structural levels to 13.29 ± 0.09 Ma. Micas from the leucocratic dyke swarm and post-tectonic two-mica granites yield similar 40Ar/39Ar cooling ages of 13.48 ± 0.13 to 12.84 ± 0.08 Ma. The low-temperature steps of potassium feldspar 40Ar/39Ar spectra yield ages of c. 11.0–12.5 Ma and apatite fission track analyses indicate the dome uniformly cooled below c. 115°C at 9.5 ± 0.6 Ma. Based on these data, calculated average cooling rates across the dome range from c. 40–60°C/million years in schist and orthogneiss and following emplacement of the leucocratic dyke swarm, to c. 350°C/million years following emplacement of the two-mica granites. The mylonitic foliation, peak metamorphic isograds, and mica 40Ar/39Ar chrontours are domed, whereas the low-temperature step potassium feldspar 40Ar/39Ar and apatite fission track chrontours are not, suggesting that doming occurred between 13.0 and 12.5 Ma and at temperatures between 370 and 200°C. Our new ages, along with field, structural and metamorphic data, indicate that the domal geometry observed at Mabja developed by middle-Miocene southward-directed thrust faulting upward and southward along a north-dipping ramp above cold Tethyan sediments. The structural, metamorphic and geochronologic histories documented at Mabja Dome are similar to those of Kangmar Dome, suggesting a common mode of occurrence of these events throughout southern Tibet. Vertical thinning and horizontal stretching, metamorphism, generation of migmatites, and emplacement of leucogranites in the domes of southern Tibet are synchronous with similar events in the Greater Himalayan Sequence that underlie the high Himalaya. These relations are consistent with previously proposed models for a ductile middle-crustal channel bounded above by the South Tibetan detachment system and below by the Main Central thrust in the High Himalaya that extended northward beneath southern Tibet.
An Empirical Study of Face-to-Face and Distance Learning Sections of a Core Telecommunication course

We present an empirical study that compared the student learning outcomes of face-to-face and distance learning sections of a Telecommunications course. Student performance was assessed based on the course grade, which included the final exam, quizzes, assignments, and midterm exam scores. Both classes were taught by the same instructor, and had similar content and assessment measures. The study factored in the students’ demographics such as gender, work and residency status to assess their impact on student learning. In addition, data stored in the learning management system (LMS), BlackBoard TM, were collected and used to understand student activities within the system, and determine their relation with student performance. The number of times the material was accessed and the time duration spent on assessments are some of the examples of the data that were included in the study. The results show that there is a correlation between students’ use of Blackboard and student performance. We found a significant statistical difference between course grades of the face-to-face and distance learning sections. We did not find any evidence for significant difference across a range of demographic factors.
Global Stock Markets Development and Integration: with Special Reference to BRIC Countries

In a country like India where the stock market is undergoing significant transformation with liberalization measures, and the analysis of the nature of integration with other developed and emerging markets would not only give an idea of the possible gains to be reaped out of portfolio diversification from Indian market, but may also provide some indication of the vulnerability of the country’s stock market in case of a regional financial crisis and consequent reversal of capital flows from the region. In the context the study examined the integration of the stock market among the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies in general and their integration with the developed countries stock markets such as US, UK and Japan, which can be analyzed by using the Granger causality, Johansen co integration and Error correction Mechanism methodology, based on daily data for the period January1998- Aug 2009. The results of co integration shows co integration relationship found between BRIC countries and Developed countries namely USA, UK and Japan. The results of Error correction model reveal that Sensex, Nikki225, moscowtimes, FTSE 100, and Bovespa are significant. It implies that these markets share the forces of short run adjustment to long run equilibrium.
Cloacal feacal carriage and occurrence of antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli in chicken grown with and without antibiotic supplemented feed

Drug resistant Escherichia coli persist in the intestinal flora of poultry birds, and these serve as route via which they can be transmitted directly to humans, thus contributing to the already growing crisis of antibiotic resistance. The purpose of this study was to determine the cloacal feacal carriage and occurrence of antibiotic resistant E. coli isolates from chicken fed with and without antibiotic supplemented feeds. Cloacal feacal swabs (n = 200) were aseptically obtained from two poultry farms in Abakaliki metropolis, Ebonyi state of Nigeria, and these were inoculated on MacConkey and cystine-lactose-electrolyte-deficient (CLED) media and incubated at 37°C for 18 to 24 h. Suspected colonies of E. coli growing on the agar media were subcultured, purified and further characterized using standard microbiology techniques. Antibiogram was investigated using the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method as per the clinical laboratory standards institute (CLSI) criteria. A total of 45 E. coli was isolated from the 200 cloacal feacal swab samples used for this study. Overall, 28% of E. coli were isolated from chicken fed with feed supplemented with antibiotics while only 17% of E. coli was isolated from chicken that received feed without antibiotics supplements. All the E. coli isolates showed varying rates of resistance and susceptibility to the tested antibiotics. Our results strongly reveal the occurrence of antibiotic resistant E. coli from chicken fed with and without antibiotic supplemented feeds. It is very critical that the continuous use of antibiotics in poultry production be strictly monitored, controlled and discouraged in order to contain the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria through poultry production. Key words: Resistance, Escherichia coli, poultry, veterinary, Nigeria.
Resisting Translation: The Control Policy on Translation in the Arab World with Reference to Jordan

This paper investigates the influence of the control policy on translation in the Arab World and in Jordan particularly. It sheds light on the issues of the control policy, the raison d'etre behind applying it in the Arab world, the translators’ role as decision makers (superiority or inferiority towards the language), its forms, and who controls what. Furthermore, this paper is an attempt to reach a better understanding of the circumstances of the influence of covert forms that led to resisting translating. Keywords: control policy, norms, translation, colonialism, conspiracy theory, the Other
Halal Food Logistics: The Challenges among Food & Beverages Small and Medium Sizes Manufacturers

This paper presents a part of a larger study in the perspective of halal food logistics (HFL) towards halal food & beverages (FB logistics service providers (LSPs) that offering HFL services and the halal product's manufacturers, mainly from small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Some of the challenges were identified such as the complex management of warehousing and terminals, the lack of trust and knowledge, perceived risk, and others that related to the halal matters.
Influence of late Pleistocene glaciations on the hydrogeology of the continental shelf offshore Massachusetts, USA

Multiple late Pleistocene glaciations that extended onto the continental shelf offshore Massachusetts, USA, may have emplaced as much as 100 km3 of freshwater (salinity <5 ppt) in continental shelf sediments. To estimate the volume and extent of offshore freshwater, we developed a three‐dimensional, variable‐density model that couples fluid flow and heat and solute transport for the continental shelf offshore Massachusetts. The stratigraphy for our model is based on high‐resolution, multichannel seismic data. The model incorporates the last 3 Ma of climate history by prescribing boundary conditions of sea level change and ice sheet extent and thickness. We incorporate new estimates of the maximum extent of a late Pleistocene ice sheet to near the shelf‐slope break. Model results indicate that this late Pleistocene ice sheet was responsible for much of the emplaced freshwater. We predict that the current freshwater distribution may reach depths up to 500 meters below sea level and up to 30 km beyond Martha's Vineyard. The freshwater distribution is strongly dependent on the three‐dimensional stratigraphy and ice sheet history. Our predictions improve our understanding of the distribution of offshore freshwater, a potential nonrenewable resource for coastal communities along recently glaciated margins.
The Effect of Cognitive- Behavior Social Skills Training on Response Inhibition and Behavioral- Emotional Problems in Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Author Address 1. M.A of Psychology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran; 2. Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran; 3. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran; 4. Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran; 5. M.A. Student of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children , University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran. *Corresponding Author Address: Guilan, Rasht, University of Guilan. *E-mail: Fatemeh.Rahbar. Karbasdehi@gmail.com