Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Morphometric characterization of Santa Inês sheep raised in the regions of Teresina and Campo Maior , Piauí

This study aimed to carry out the phenotypic characterization of males and females of Santa Inês hair sheep through body weight measurements and morphmetric and conformation evaluations at different ages. Data consisted of body weights and measurements from 1,113 animals raised in Teresina and Campo Maior regions of Piauí State under pasture regime and 824 animals that participated in Agricultural Fairs in Teresina. Adjusted means for body weight, withers and croup height, corporal and croup length, thoracic perimeter and two indexes of body capacity of the animal were compared by the Student-Newman-Keuls test. The management effect was an important source of variation for the evaluated traits and the sexual dimorphism was more accentuated in the oldest animals. The effects included in the model influenced more the body weights than the morph metric measurements. The index of body capacity (weight and length) indicated a trend for more accumulation of fat in oldest males than in females. The body weight and the morphmetric measurements were positively correlated indicating the possibility of correlated response in breeding programs for the Santa Inês breed.
Transforming Vulnerable Interactions to Effective Communication: An Application of Evidence for the Tele-Intensive Care Unit Nurse

Transforming Vulnerable Interactions to Effective Communication: An Application of Evidence for the Tele-Intensive Care Unit Nurse by Bethann P. Mendez MS, Liberty University, 2011 BS, University of Delaware, 1995 Proposal Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Nursing Practice
PERFORMANCE OF PRECAST CONCRETE FLOOR SYSTEMS DURING THE 2010 / 2011 CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKES

The 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes caused significant damage to both traditional and modern reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. There has previously been a significant amount of research into the seismic behaviour of precast concrete floor systems, and the observed damage caused to precast floor systems should be compared against the expected levels of performance. Preliminary results of an investigation into the performance of precast concrete floor systems during the Canterbury earthquakes are presented. In general, only minor damage was observed in precast floor units and the severe damage in several buildings was attributed to displacement incompatibilities in the structure and the lack of robustness of the entire floor diaphragm. Additionally, it is expected that if current bestpractice recommendations were followed, the resulting damage to precast floors would have been significantly less than was observed following the earthquakes.
Lead , Cadmium and Nickel Contamination of Roadside Soils and Plant Leaves in Baghdad City Hind

Concentrations of lead, cadmium and nickel in soils and leaves of Eucalyptus camaldulensis in different areas (ALZáfaraniya, AL-Jadryia and Jisr Diyala) at Baghdad were investigated. Soil and plant samples were collected from roadsides at distances of 0, 10 and 50 meter. Analysis was accomplished by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) after total digestion. The results revealed a significant difference in the concentrations between soil and plant leaves. Heavy metal contents in the soil and plant leaves were found in the following order: lead > nickel > cadmium. The soil from Al-Záfaranya had the higher concentration of lead and cadmium reached 170.42 and 12.16 ppm, respectively. While, Jisr Diyala soil sample was higher in nickel as 37.54 ppm. According to Eu Standards, concentration of Pb and Cd were found above the acceptable limits in the soil sample at the three areas. While the concentration of Ni was within the recommended limit. The effect of traffic emissions appeared through decreased the concentrations of heavy metals in soil and plant leaves as the distance from the road increase. These findings suggest that a special attention should be paid to this traffic related environmental issue and a serious effort is required to reduce these highest levels by soil remediation.
Testing an Adapted Model of Social Cognitive Career Theory: Findings and Implications for a Self-Selected, Diverse Middle-School Sample

We tested an adapted version of social-cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent et al., 1994, 2000) with a self-selected, diverse sample of middle-school students attending a Saturday STEM Academy asking, “Is SCCT valid for examining career choice goal-intentions among a sample of students already expressing interest in math and science-related subjects and careers? ” According to SCCT, choosing a STEM-related career involves the complex interplay of personal and contextual factors, many of which become increasingly salient during the middle-school years. There is reason to believe that SCCT may function differently for students who are self-selected, such as those found in the present sample. Main findings in the full regression model showed that math/science motivation (T1), family support for engineering (T1), outcome expectancies (T2), and interest (T2) were significant predictors of (T2) goal intentions; whereas self-efficacy was non-significant as has been shown in much previous research. Relatedly, we found several measurement issues with the SCCT variables among this sample, thus partially answering the larger research question. Implications of the present findings and suggestions for future research are discussed in the context of the career-choice literature, theoretical and practical implications of SCCT, and relatedly, possible measurement issues arising from using SCCT with self-selected, middle-school samples.
1 X-ray Observations of the Fermi Bubbles and 2 NPS / Loop I Structures 3

The Fermi bubbles were possibly created by large injections of energy into the Galactic 12 Center (GC), either by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) or by nuclear starburst more than ~10 Myr 13 ago. However, the origin of the diffuse gamma-ray emission associated with Loop I, a radio 14 continuum loop spanning across 100° on the sky, is still being debated. The northern-most part of 15 Loop I, known as the North Polar Spur (NPS), is the brightest arm and is even clearly visible in the 16 ROSAT X-ray sky map. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review on the X-ray observations 17 of the Fermi bubbles and their possible association with the NPS and Loop I structures. Using 18 uniform analysis of archival Suzaku and Swift data, we show that X-ray plasma with kT ~ 0.3 keV 19 and low metal abundance (Z ~ 0.2 Z◉) is ubiquitous in both the bubbles and Loop I and is naturally 20 interpreted as weakly shock-heated Galactic halo gas. However, the observed asymmetry of the X21 ray-emitting gas above and below the GC has still not been resolved; it cannot be fully explained by 22 the inclination of the axis of the Fermi bubbles to the Galactic disk normal. We argue that the NPS 23 and Loop I may be asymmetric remnants of a large explosion that occurred before the event that 24 created the Fermi bubbles, and that the soft gamma-ray emission from Loop I may be due to either 25 0 decay of accelerated protons or electron bremsstrahlung. 26
Central Corneal Thickness In Individuals With And Without Pseudo Exfoliation Syndrome – A Prospective Study

Aim: To compare the central corneal thickness inindividuals with and without pseudo exfoliation syndrome. Methods: This was a hospital based cross sectional, comparative study. 50 individuals with unilateral or bilateral pseudo exfoliation syndrome (study group) and individuals without pseudo exfoliation syndrome (control group), both without any corneal pathology and glaucoma were included in the study. The CCT was measured by an ultrasonic pachymeter. The IOP was measured by Goldmannapplanation tonometer and was adjusted for the CCT values.Results: There was no significant correlation between CCT and age. The mean CCT was 0.515± 0.07 mm in the control group and 0.501 mm + 0.07 mm in study group (P value=0.001). The mean IOP was almost similar in both groups. However, the IOP after CCT adjustment was significantly higher in the study group than the control group. Conclusion: The mean CCT was significantly lower in the individuals with pseudoexfoliation than in individuals without pseudo exfoliation. There was no significant difference in the CCT between the eye with PEXF and its fellow eye in unilateral pseudo exfoliation syndrome.
Improvement in Efficiency Under DEA-based Incentive Regulation of Electric Utilities in Brazil

This paper evaluates whether incentive regulation with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) benchmarking improves the operational efficiency of electric utilities. Using publicly available data on a panel of electricity distribution firms in Brazil from 2003 to 2012, we find that electricity distribution firms in Brazil have, on average, experienced significant efficiency improvement after the implementation of DEA-based incentive regulation in 2011, even though the DEA benchmarking model used by the Brazilian regulator has several basic deficiencies. The efficiency improvement is pronounced in private sector utilities, but not significant in state-owned utilities. These findings suggest that DEA benchmarking needs to be coupled with the incentives of a privatized industry to promote efficiency improvement.
1 TESTS OF THE ARBITRAGE PRICING THEORY USING MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES IN THE NIGERIAN STOCK MARKET

The paper examines Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT), using four macroeconomic variables; namely, exchange rate, an index of industrial production, nominal money supply and price of oil within the context of the Nigerian stock market. Two methods were used in the analysis along with descriptive statistics. First, factor analysis was used to identify underlying factors that contribute to stock pricing, secondly, the VECM technique was used to estimate the causal relationships between stock returns and the macroeconomic factors in Nigeria in line with the APT. Quarterly data covering the period 1985 to 2009 was employed in the empirical analysis, providing enough degrees of freedom for the estimation. The short run dynamic model revealed that money supply and oil prices are important factors in stimulating stock returns and that rising stock returns, on the other hand, tends to improve industrial production. The long run results show that sustained increases in both oil price and industrial production could cause stock returns to rise over time. However, money supply has a perverse negative effect on stock returns in the short run while exchange rate fails the significance test both in the short run and long run.
PREZI, CLOUD-BASED PRESENTATION, FOR TEACHING: HOW IS IT INTERESTING?

This study aims at analyzing reflection of the use of prezi as instructional media for teaching English in Indonesian context. Prezi is presentation software which is not commonly used in Indonesia producing a cloud-based presentation and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas. This study is conducted based on the previous survey study done by Fox et.al (2016) finding that all of the students in their study preferred prezi rather than power point as a presentation tool in the areas of ease of use, fun to use, text, graphics, and usage in future presentations. However, this study has a purpose to reflect the student-teacher’s experience when using prezi in teaching English. To obtain the data, journal writing and self-observation by using video recording are used. It deeply investigates: 1) how he creates prezi for teaching English and 2) challenges and benefits of using it for teaching. The finding revealed that prezi is a powerful tool attracting the students’ attention which creates better classroom atmosphere and meaningful learning experience. On the other hand, it encourages the teacher to have high access of internet and be creative on making prezi presentation.
Exploring contextual information in neural machine translation

This works explores means of utilizing extra-sentential context in neural machine translation (NMT). Traditionally, NMT systems translate one source sentence to one target sentence without any notion of surrounding text. This is clearly insufficient and different from how humans translate text. For many high resource language pairs, NMT systems output is nowadays indistinguishable from human translations under certain (strict) conditions. One of the conditions is that evaluators see the sentences separately. When evaluating whole documents, even the best NMT systems still fall short of human translations. This motivates the research of employing document level context in NMT, since there might not be much more space left to improve translations on sentence level, at least for high resource languages and domains. This work summarizes recent state-of-the art approaches, implements them, evaluates them both in terms of general translation quality and on specific context related phenomena and analyzes their shortcomings. Additionally, context phenomena test set for English to Czech translation was created to enable further comparison and analysis.
Arasındaki İlişki The Relationship Between Mathematical Reasoning and Spatial Ability of Eighth Grade Students

It is possible to see reasoning, association, estimation, intuition, shapes in space, formula and symbols in math building. Short thinking can be insufficient in understanding mathematics that is complex, abstract, and multidimensional because mathematics requires reasoning ability which is an high-level thinking act. Polya (1981) report that reasoning is considerably important in understanding and associating mathematics topics. Spatial ability can be shortly described as a multidimensional thinking activity, especially in geometry. It enables to comprehend and make concrete spaces by animating, motioning them in mind, and see and draw the all parts of a geometric model. Not only spatial components are integral parts of the structure of mathematics, but spatial representations are being increasingly included in the mathematics. Most concrete and pictorial representations of arithmetical, geometrical and algebraic ideas appear to be heavily reliant on spatial attributes (Fennema, 1974).
FOR SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION IN NON-UNIFORM FLOWS

The theoretical prediction of the morphological evolution of river and tidal systems dominated by suspended load is often based on approximate two-dimensional models, where the vertical profiles of velocity and concentration are usually taken to coincide with equilibrium profiles valid for uniform flows. In this paper we try to determine to what extent typical variations of the basic flow, for instance those occurring in tidal channels, are likely to be adequately reproduced through the above assumption. Using a two-dimensional x-z numerical model, we determine the deviation of vertical concentration profiles from the equilibrium profiles in stationary non-uniform flows. We then compare the results of numerical simulations with those obtained through the analytical perturbation model recently proposed by Bolla Pittaluga and Seminara (2003a).
Dose-Dense Chemotherapy in Advanced Ovarian Cancer : Old Idea , New Perspectives

It is well known that ovarian cancer is the most lethal disease in the gynecological malignancies group (1). At this moment there is no efficient screening method for ovarian cancer and most of the patients with epithelial ovarian cancer are diagnosed in advanced stages. The current standard of care in advanced ovarian cancer consists of maximum cytoreductive surgical effort followed by chemotherapy. Standard chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer consists of 6 cycles of Paclitaxel 175mg/m2 (iv, 3 hours) plus carboplatin AUC 5-7 every 21 days (2). gEnEral articlE
9-28-2018 Anomaly Discovery and Arbitrage Trading

Our model of anomaly discovery has implications for both asset prices and arbitrageurs’ trading. Consistent with existing evidence, the discovery of an anomaly reduces its magnitude. Our evidence based on 99 anomalies is consistent with new predictions that the discovery of an anomaly reduces the correlation between the returns its deciles 1 and 10, leading to diversification benefits for passive investors. These effects become linked to the aggregate trading of hedge funds only after discovery. Hedge funds increase (reverse) their positions in exploiting anomalies when their aggregate wealth increases (decreases), further suggesting that these discovery effects operate through arbitrage trading.
Globalization, Innovation and Productivity in Chinese Firms: a Micro Study of Four Manufacturing Sectors

This paper investigates relationships between innovation input, innovation output and labor productivity in China for four major manufacturing sectors; textiles, wearing apparel, transport equipment and electronic equipment. The data from 2005 to 2006 is estimated, and results of all the sectors show positive effects from innovation input to output, and then to firm performance. Globalization has various impacts on innovation, through exports. It has a positive effect on both the decision to carry out R&D, and intensity of R&D input in sectors with competitive advantage, such as textiles and transport equipment, but not in sectors with high levels of overseas capital control, such as electronic equipment and wearing apparel. Ownership reveals the same story in different sectors, namely that foreign firms tend to do less in innovation input and output, but they do have higher level of productivity.
CHAPTER 1 The Assessment Process

Assessment psychology is the field of behavioral science concerned with methods of identifying similarities and differences among people in their psychological characteristics and capacities. As such, psychological assessment comprises a variety of procedures that are employed in diverse ways to achieve numerous purposes. Assessment has sometimes been equated with testing, but there is more to the assessment process than giving tests. Psychological assessment involves integrating information gleaned not only from test protocols but also from interviews, behavioral observations, collateral reports, and historical documents. In this regard, the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (American Educational Research Association [AERA], American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education, 1999) specify that
Input 2 Encoder Feature Extractor Decoder Output 2 Latent Space Feature Extractor Input 1 Input N Feature Extractor Decoder Output M Decoder Output 1

In unsupervised image-to-image translation, the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image using a set of unpaired training images. In this paper, we propose an extension of the unsupervised image-to-image translation problem to multiple input setting. Given a set of paired images from multiple modalities, a transformation is learned to translate the input into a specified domain. For this purpose, we introduce a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based framework along with a multi-modal generator structure and a new loss term, latent consistency loss. Through various experiments we show that leveraging multiple inputs generally improves the visual quality of the translated images. Moreover, we show that the proposed method outperforms current stateof-the-art unsupervised image-to-image translation methods.
The Causal Effects of Pharmaceutical Payments on Physician Prescriptions JOB MARKET PAPER

I provide estimates of the causal effects of payments from pharmaceutical companies on the prescribing habits of Medicare Part D physicians. Identifying the causal effects of payments associated with pharmaceutical “detailing” (marketing to physicians) is confounded by dynamic selection in and out of payment assignment by the drug producer. I employ a novel identification strategy which uses exogenous variation in brand-related payments due to pharmaceutical producers undergoing acquisitions by other firms. The analysis focuses primarily on aminosalicylates, the drug class used to treat inflammatory bowel disease, and finds that stopping payments to a physician reduces the probability that she will prescribe any drug from the aminosalicylates class by around 5 percentage points. Decomposing payment effects to persistent and temporary components, I find that at most 50 percent of brand-specific effects and 80 percent of class-specific effects are persistent. Payment effects in other drug classes seem to exhibit similar patterns. ∗Department of Economics, University of Rochester. Email: alonbergman@gmail.com. I am indebted to my advisors Ronni Pavan and Gregorio Caetano for their guidance and support, and to Carolina Caetano and Nese Yildiz for their generous help and advice. Additional thanks to participants in seminars at the University of Rochester. All errors are my own.
Different methods for deriving dietary patterns and their relation with risk of developing incident coronary heart disease: the ARIC study (MS1117)

4. Rationale: Most studies about diet and disease have explored the relation of a single nutrient or single food with morbidity or mortality. Because individuals consume combinations of foods, defined as an eating or diet pattern, the diet pattern may be a better predictor of good health or risk factor for disease than the single nutrient or food. Several approaches have been used to derive diet patterns for evaluating the effects of dietary intake on
The Influence of Lactation Education toward Growth of Infants 0-6 Months in

Growth is the basis for assessing nutritional adequacy of baby. Appropriate intake of nutrition give an impact on the optimal growth. Growth of infants 0-6 months is a critical period in the first 1000 days of life and appropriate intake is exclusive breastfeeding. Breastfeeding lowers the risk of morbidity and mortality infants. This study aims to determine the effect of lactation education toward the growth of infants 0-6 months. This study design was Quasy Experiment, ie. pre-test and post-test with control group design. Samples were 28-30 weeks pregnant women, divided into three groups: 1) those who received education lactation and a modification module (n = 21), 2) a group that only received a modification module (n = 21) and 3) groups only get the MCH book (n = 20). Growth indicators were body weight and body length that measured at birth, months 1, 3 and 6. Statistical analysis using chi square, Wilcoxon test and Kruskal Wallis test. The results showed lactation education affected the baby's growth at 1, 3 and 6 months. Group 1 has an increase in length and weight of body higher than group 2 and 3. So it is very important to pregnant women and maternity lactation routinely receiveing education to improve breastfeeding practice for optimilizing infant growth.
Effectiveness of histological techniques for early identification of scion rootstock incompatibility

Traditionally almond was cultivated in Tunisia extensively under rainfed conditions with local almond seedlings as rootstock. The new tendency for modernization of almond orchards has implemented the use of some non native cultivars that are compatible with the existing rootstocks. In order to evaluate the behaviour of some local cultivars for high density orchard some trials were established using the cultivars ‘Achaak’ and ‘Porto’ with ‘GF-677’ and ‘Garnem’ as rootstocks. Early observations revealed a plausible incompatibility of the cultivar ‘Achaak’ with ‘Garnem’. In order to contribute to the understanding of this phenomenon and to detect other cases of scion-rootstocks incompatibility histological techniques were used as an early detection practice. Preliminary results for the combination ‘Achaak’/’Garnem’ showed some discontinuity of cells in the intermediate zone between scion and rootstocks in addition to an accumulation of black points of starch. Moreover, observations in field showed low circumferences values and weak growth of both parts. Our work reveals for the first time this scion-rootstock incompatibility and underlines the necessity of biochemical tools for a better understanding of this phenomenon.