Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
102-110 Tanveer M K.pmd

The prevalence of gastrointestinal nematodes was studied in 143 (80 male and 63 female) domestic pigeons. Faecal samples were collected to determine the gastrointestinal nematodes of domestic pigeons through qualitative and quantitative faecal examinations. A total of 48 (male 33 and 25 female) naturally infected domestic pigeons were divided into G1 (albendzdole) and G2 (fenbendazole) treatment-groups along with one control group (C). The overall prevalence of gastrointestinal nematodes was 40.5% (58/143) in domestic pigeons. Likewise, the prevalence of gastrointestinal nematodes in males and females was found 41.3% (33/58) and 39.7% (25/58) respectively. The overall prevalence of Capillaria obsignata and Ascaridia columbae was found to be 67.2% and 32.8%, respectively. The prevalence of C. obsignata and A. columbae in males was 72.7% (24/33) and 27.8% (9/33) and in females was 60% (15/25) and 40% (10/25), respectively. There was no significant sex related difference seen in the prevalence of C. obsignata (p>0.56) and A. columbae (p>0.40) in domestic pigeons, respectively. The overall efficacy of albendazole and fenbendazole was calculated to be 66% and 71%. A remarkable significant difference (p<0.05) was observed in eggs per gram before and after treatment in both G1 and G2 treated-groups. The efficacy of fenbendazole was found to be more significant (p<0.02) than albendazole.
Forecasting the Yield Curve for Brazil

In this paper, the recent Functional Signal Plus Noise Equilibrium Correction Model (FSN-ECM) developed in Bowsher and Meeks (2008) and the model developed by Diebold and Li (2006) (DL) are applied to forecasting 12-dimensional yields for Brazil at the one, three, six, and twelve months ahead horizons. Empirical results suggest that the FSN-ECM produces very good forecasts at the short-term (one month) outperforming both the DL and random walk benchmarks. However, the DL model produces better forecasts at the long-term (six and twelve months). These results suggest that different models may be used to forecast the yield curve, depending on the forecasting horizon.
Mathematical Modelling and Simulation of the Mass and Heat Transfer of Batch Convective Air Drying of Tropical Fruits

In the present study, a mathematical model capable of predicting the instantaneous moisture and temperature distribution inside fruit and vegetable material undergoing shrinkage during drying process has been developed. The model takes into account moisture content and shrinkage of material as well as shrinkage dependent effective diffusivity. The mass transfer and heat equations were solved using a numerical technique. For evaluation and validation purposes, the model was applied to drying data obtained from the drying tests carried out on banana slices. An oven dryer was used to conduct the test. Banana slices of approximately 5 mm thickness and 30 mm diameter were dried over a temperature range of 50 o C and 70 o C for 6 hours. The predicted results compared favourably with the experimental results. Thus, the experimental results validated the model developed. In addition, empirical drying rate equations are developed. The model is therefore capable of predicting dynamic behaviour of drying of fruits undergoing shrinkage and, as such, it can be used as a design tool. Keywords: Drying; Mathematical modelling; Shrinkage; Simulation; Moisture diffusivity
Nonsmooth bifurcations in a piecewise linear model of the Colpitts Oscillator

This paper deals with the implications of considering a first-order approximation of the circuit nonlinearities in circuit simulation and design. The Colpitts oscillator is taken as a case study and the occurrence of discontinuous bifurcations, namely, border-collision bifurcations, in a piecewise-linear model of the oscillator is discussed. In particular, we explain the mechanism responsible for the dramatic changes of dynamical behavior exhibited by this model when one or more of the circuit parameters are varied. Moreover, it is shown how an approximate one-dimensional (1-D) map for the Colpitts oscillator can be exploited for predicting border-collision bifurcations. It turns out that at a border collision bifurcation, a 1-D return map of the Colpitts oscillator exhibits a square-root-like singularity. Finally, through the 1-D map, a two-parameter bifurcation analysis is carried out and the relationships are pointed out between border-collision bifurcations and the conventional bifurcations occurring in smooth systems.
THE MINNESOTA MODEL TREATMENT FOR SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE: PROGRAM EVALUATION IN A SWEDISH SETTING

The Minnesota model treatment for substance dependence is a group-based psychosocial intervention program that rests on the principles and twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The model was introduced to Sweden in 1983-84, and is currently used as the main treatment method in twenty-five percent of the addiction treatment units in the country. This thesis describes the results of a program evaluation in one private Minnesota model setting, with the general aims of studying post-treatment substance use and functioning in important life domains, and factors enhancing respectively hampering favorable substance use outcomes. Two-hundred and forty-four individuals were interviewed during one of their first days of stay in treatment, and 188 (77.0%) respectively 148 (61%) were re-interviewed after 1 and 2 years. Results from Paper I indicated that participant’s baseline alcohol dependence severity and treatment goals, and the degree of AA affiliation, satisfaction with treatment, and completion of aftercare, differentiated between those who turned out as abstainers, non-problem drinkers and problem drinkers during the first year after treatment. Paper II showed that participant’s 1 year drinking outcomes, and also the degree of AA affiliation and satisfaction with treatment during the first year, predicted drinking outcomes during the subsequent second year. In Paper III, significant improvements were observed in family, psychiatric and legal life domains between the baseline assessment and 1-year followup, while no change was found in the employment and medical areas. Those who experienced problem drinking reported significantly more employment, family and psychiatric problems than non-problem drinkers and abstainers; no differences were found between the two favorable outcome groups. Finally, Paper IV indicated that women were more likely to engage in AA after treatment than men, as were those with pre-treatment AA experience, and abstinence as their treatment goal. The 1-year abstinence rates of the study sample resembled those obtained in previous larger single group evaluations of Minnesota model treatment in the U.S. Findings are discussed with reference to methodological concerns and previous research on the prediction of treatment outcomes.
The Effect of Summarizing and Presentation Strategies on Reading Comprehension of Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners

The present study aimed to find out the effect of summarizing and presentation strategies on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ reading comprehension. 61 students were selected and divided into two experimental and control groups. The homogeneity of their proficiency level was established using a TOEFL proficiency test. The experimental group used the two strategies three sessions each week for twenty weeks, while the control group was not trained on the strategies. After every two-week instruction, an immediate posttest was administered. At the end of the study, a posttest was administered to both groups. Paired-sample t-test and Independent sample t-test were used for analysis. The results of the study revealed that summarizing and presentation strategies had significant effect on promoting reading comprehension of intermediate EFL learners. It also indicated that the presentation strategy was significantly more effective on students’ reading comprehension.
Exit gevangenis? De werking van de strafuitvoeringsrechtbanken en de wet op de externe rechtspositie van veroordeelden tot een vrijheidsstraf

Sinds de zaak-Dutroux in 1996 is de vervroegde invrijheidstelling van gedetineerden regelmatig voorwerp van emotionele discussies in de media, waarbij de belangen van slachtoffers en gedetineerden vaak tegen elkaar worden uitgespeeld. De zaak-Dutroux heeft de hervorming van het invrijheidstellingstraject van gedetineerden echter in een stroomversnelling gebracht. Het resultaat is een compleet vernieuwde regelgeving, beslissingsprocedure en -praktijk, met als kers op de taart de oprichting van multidisciplinaire strafuitvoeringsrechtbanken. In dit boek blikken criminologen en juristen terug op dit belangrijke hervormingsproces, dat wordt gesitueerd in zijn historische, maatschappelijke, juridische en beleidsmatige context. Het boek presenteert verder resultaten van de belangrijkste empirische onderzoeken over de toepassing van de nieuwe regelgeving en de aanpassing hieraan door het werkveld. Er wordt afgesloten met een kritische beschouwing van de recente ontwikkelingen, tegen het licht van de oorspronkelijke hervormingsvoorstellen van de zogenaamde commissie Holsters.
The Institutional Challenges of Full-time Faculty Retirement: Has The Expedition Accomplished All That it Promised and That it Should Accomplish?

The retirement of full-time faculty is an issue that is currently and likely to continue to challenge manyhigher education institutions. It is an issue that has implications that are long-term and both positive andnegative. On the positive side for institutions, faculty retirements present potential opportunities torenew the core staffing of the institution. Faculty retirements may allow institutions to add new energyand innovation through the hiring of new faculty. Not that new ideas or innovations are the exclusiverealm of new or young, but fresh ideas and approaches in higher education are more typicallyassociated with new faculty coming to an institution for the first time rather than with senior faculty nearthe end of their careers. To be sure there are clearly exceptions to this phenomenon and perhapsperception and in the sphere of research that may particularly be the case as senior faculty areproportionately more productive researchers. Retirements are also opportunities to reallocate scarcefaculty salary resources to areas where student demand is particularly acute.
Trust 2 : Developing Trust in Peer-to-Peer Environments

In peer-to-peer (P2P) environments, a peer needs to interact with unknown peers for the services provided. This requires the trust evaluation prior to and posterior to interactions. This paper presents Trust: a novel and dynamic peer trust evaluation model, which aims to measure the credibility of peers’ recommendations, and thus to filter noise in responses and obtain more accurate and objective trust values. In our model, prior to any interaction, the trust value results from the evaluations given by other peers. Posterior to interactions, the trust values results from both other peers’ evaluations and the requesting peer’s experience. In the aggregation of trust evaluations, the weight to the requesting peer becomes higher and higher. Meanwhile, during this process, the credibility of each responding peer’s recommendation can be measured round by round. This leads to the filtering of low credibility peers and the improvement of trust evaluations.
INVESTIGATION OF LOWER LIMB FATIGUE ON TWO STANDING POSTURE

The purpose of this study was to investigate the different effect from the two standing posture on lower limb fatigue and discomfort. Sixteen subjects (eight females and eight males), aged between 23-29 years, participated in the experiment. They performed a sorting task in front of a grading table by picking and placing objects for 90 minutes in two posture (1) standing and (2) standing using a footrest. Muscle activity was recorded with surface EMG through disposable electrodes. The result shows that standing for ninety minutes developed fatigue in lower limb muscles and back muscles that lead to low back pain. Standing using a footrest result proper posture for prolonged standing period and reduce force at the back. It also results less fatigue and reduce the %MVC of EMG. So, it is recommended to attach a footrest in standing workstation to reduce the fatigue and discomfort. Keywords :fatigue, posture, standing,lower limb, EMG
Corporate Dividend Policy and Behaviour: The Malaysian Experience

This study examines corporate dividend policy and behaviour of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) companies. Our results confirm the influence of industry on payout ratios. We also find that payout ratios in a given industrial sector vary significantly across time. The results of multinomial logit analysis reveal that the KLSE companies’ dividend actions are sensitive to the changes in earnings. Probabilities of dividend increases, decreases and omissions are high, respectively, with earnings increases, decreases and losses. This causes volatility in dividend payments. The KLSE firms appear reluctant to omit dividend except when they suffer losses. Further, using Lintner’s framework and panel regression methodology, we find evidence in favour of regular, but less stable, dividend policies being pursued by the KLSE companies. This is contrary to the experiences of companies in the developed capital markets. The results of the two-way fixed firm and time effects model reveal that there are significant differences in dividend policies across individual firms and time.
Retrieval of implicit inhibitory processes: The impact of visual field, object-identity, and memory dynamics

After exogenously cueing attention to a peripheral location, the return of attention and response to the location can be inhibited. We demonstrate that these inhibitory mechanisms of attention can be associated with objects and can be automatically and implicitly retrieved over relatively long periods. Furthermore, we also show that when face stimuli are associated with inhibition, the effect is more robust for faces presented in the left visual field. This effect can be even more spatially specific, where most robust inhibition is obtained for faces presented in the upper as compared to the lower visual field. Finally, it is revealed that the inhibition is associated with an object's identity, as inhibition moves with an object to a new location; and that the retrieved inhibition is only transiently present after retrieval.
Watching soap opera in the diaspora: cultural proximity or critical proximity?

Abstract This paper focused on an area of transnational Arabic television, which has attracted little scholarly attention: soap operas and their consumption among women in the Arab diaspora. Focus groups with Arab audiences in London revealed the significant role that soap operas play in sustaining a gendered critical and reflexive proximity to the Arab world. The paper shows that soap opera viewing provides female audiences in the diaspora with opportunities to reflect on their own gender identities as distant from hegemonic discourses of gender in their region of origin but as proximate to a moral set of values they associate with this same region. This was especially, but not exclusively, the case with young women born in the diaspora.
Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in BRICS

The monetary policy is one of the most important issues in the world. After financial problems in capitalism system in the world the former communist countries had opportunities to accuse capitalism and introduce the new monetary system and monetary transmission. Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are the first with new banking system and monetary transmission. These new national fast growing economies formed on of the biggest transnational Balance Sheet Channel so called BRICS. These countries have the biggest share in the world but their influence in the world economic is less than their share. So, the new banking and monetary system changed the former World Bank system which was always criticized by the former communist countries and BRICS countries. The World Bank policies always has supported the capitalism system and capitalism countries. The former policies does not address the current and future economic developments of BRICS countries, However amount of their internationally economic involvements increased even more than 45%. The balance sheet in different countries is different base of the financial position of business and size of the market that different amount of funds gather from there and it make various funding channel among different countries. Therefore, different impacts on the countries will form the new type and size of firm in each country that are so different from each other. In fact this is mechanism of securing the investment in these countries by the description of the real economy through the clear decision making system in monetary policy transmission system. This study aims to show the effectiveness of new monetary policy in the last decades and review how credit channel transmission mechanism of monetary policies have conducted in these countries. The BRICS countries are the prime examples to show how such mechanism can be workable in these countries. Keywords: Monetary policy, monetary transmission, balance sheet channel, BRICS
A Principal's Guide for Mentoring and Supervision

The challenges in meeting the demand for highly qualified teachers are great. This is evident both at the individual school level and in national retention and turnover statistics. The need for individually targeted teacher induction activities based on teacher preparation routes -traditional and alternative certification are needed to help ameliorate the early career teacher turnover and retention statistics. This study reinterprets data from a previous study of teacher confidence and self-efficacy in terms of mentoring and supervision needs (induction activities). The results suggest that mentoring and supervision activities at the school level can be implemented to improve retention in perception of key competency areas. As frontline supervisors, principals are in a unique position to meet the differential needs of early career teachers.
Investigation of Time Domain Modulation and Switching-Mode Power Amplifiers Suitable for Digitally-Assisted Transmitters

Innovation in wireless communication has resulted in accelerating demand for smartphones using multiple communications protocols such as WiFi, Bluetooth and the many cellular standards deployed around the world. The variety of frequency, bandwidth and power requirements associated with each standard typically calls for the implementation of separate radio frequency (RF) front end hardware for each standard. This is a less-than-ideal solution in terms of cost and device area. Software-defined radio (SDR) promises to solve this problem by allowing the RF hardware to be digitally reconfigurable to adapt to any wireless standard. The application of machine learning and cognition algorithms to SDR will enable cognitive radios and cognitive wireless networks, which will be able to intelligently adapt to user needs and surrounding radio spectrum conditions. The challenge of fully reconfigurable transceivers is in implementing digitally-controlled RF circuits which have comparable performance to their fixed-frequency counterparts. Switchingmode power amplifiers (SMPA) are likely to be an important part of fully reconfigurable transmitters since their switching operation provides inherent compatibility with digital circuits, with the added benefit of very high efficiency. As a step to understanding the RF requirements of high efficiency and switching PAs, an inverse class F PA in push-pull configuration is implemented. This configuration is chosen for its similarity to the current mode class D (CMCD) topology. The fabricated PA achieves a peak drain efficiency of over 75% with 42.7 dBm (18.6 W) output power at 2.46 GHz. Since SMPAs cannot directly provide the linearity required by current and future wireless communications standards, amplitude information must be encoded into the RF signal in a different way. Given the superior time resolution of digital integrated circuit (IC) technology, a logical solution is to encode this information into the timing of the signal. The two most common techniques for doing so are pulse width modulation and delta-sigma (∆Σ) modulation. However, the design of ∆Σ modulators requires simulation as part of the design process due to the lack of closed-form relationships between modulator parameters (such as resolution and oversampling) and performance figures (such as coding efficiency and signal quality). In particular, the coding efficiency is often ignored although it is an important part of ensuring transmitter efficiency with respect to the desired signal. A study of these relationships is carried out to observe the tradeoffs between them. It is found that increasing the speed or complexity of a ∆Σ modulated system does not necessarily translate to performance benefits as one might expect. These observations can have a strong impact on design choices at the system level.
Industries’ Requirements and Expectations of Graduates: A Revisit

Graduate employability has become more rigid nowadays whereby industries demand not only for graduates’ academic qualifications but also their ability to communicate in English. However, there is hardly any exit test instrument available in higher learning institutions that could gauge the graduates’ communicative competence before graduation. Thus, to address this matter, the Test of English for Communication Skills (UTM-TECS) was developed aims to provide potential employers with a more accurate measure of graduates’ readiness to function in the workplace. Given that the demand of English in the workplace is continuously changing through time, it is therefore important to ensure the assessment scale used to assess graduates’ oral competency takes into account the latest and up-dated requirements and expectations sought by industries. Hence, this study was conducted to investigate the current criteria that the industries adopt in recruiting new graduates. Besides that, the study also aims to compare the industries’ assessment criteria with the criteria used in the UTM-TECS scale. This study utilized interviews as the data collection method and eight Human Resource personnel from different firms in Johor Bahru and Kuala Lumpur were involved. The study reveals that academic degree is needed for screening purposes; i.e. to shortlist the potential employees. In addition to that, soft skills which comprise of communication skill especially the English language speaking skill, team work, attitude, professional image and critical thinking ability are amongst the criteria used to select graduates for employment. It was discovered that the criteria listed by the respondents were almost similar to the criteria found in the scale except for one criterion; attitude which is not present in the UTM-TECS assessment scale. The respondents also viewed professional image as the highest of importance as compared to the UTM-TECS assessment weightage. The findings from the study could be useful in re-validating the UTM-TECS oral interaction scale so as to ensure its quality and to improve it tobecome a better yardstick for graduates’ employability and marketability.