Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The rehabilitation of stroke patients at community health centres in the Western Cape

The structure and process of rehabilitation of stroke patientsaffects the outcomes of the patients. The aim of this study was to determine thestructure and process of rehabilitation of stroke patients at Community HealthCentres (CHCs) in the Western Cape, South A frica. A quantitative descriptive study was conducted. Questionnaires and archived records were used to collect the data. The study sample used to collect information related to the structure consisted of therapists (16) employed at the centres; while the study sample used to collect information related to the process consisted of 100 first time stroke patients. Descriptive statistics were conducted using Excel and SPSS. The results of the study revealed that there is a lack of occupational and speech therapy services at the centres forming partof the study sample. At centres where these services are provided the frequency and intensity with which the services are received by the patients is extremely low. Further research is needed to determine if the decreased intensity is onlyas a result of decreased availability of services or if inability of stroke clients to access the services also plays a role.
Learning and Foreign Technology Spillover in Thailand: Empirical Evidence on Productivity Dynamics

Thailand has experienced annual average growth of GDP of remarkable 6.6% during the period 1950 – 2000. We analyze total factor productivity (TFP) growth in a modified Nelson-Phelps framework where foreign trade and foreign direct investment influence the adoption of technology. The econometric analysis separating between sources of productivity for agriculture and industry covers the period 1975 – 96. International spillovers are significant and important, and both sectors have been able to take benefit of openness. The analysis addresses the endogeneity issues involved in the estimation of TFP sources and investigates the dynamics of productivity. The effects during the period studied must be interpreted as transition growth, and endogenous growth effects are rejected.
Automatic Detection of Clear-sky Periods Using Ground and Satellite Based Solar Resource Data

Solar resource availability and variability are important aspects of monitoring performance of photovoltaic installations. For example, recent degradation studies have highlighted the importance of considering cloud cover when calculation degradation rates. With this in mind, we present a method for optimizing clear sky detection algorithms given only modeled clear sky irradiance and ground-measured irradiance values. This method is tested on global horizontal irradiance (GHI) data from ground collectors at six sites across the US and was trained against clear sky classifications determined from satellite data. Thirty models were optimized on each individual site at GHI data frequencies of 1, 5, 10, 15, and 30 minutes. The models had an average F0.5 score of 0.945 ±. 021 on a holdout test set. In comparison, the un-optimized clear sky detection algorithm produced F0.5 score that averaged to 0.707 ± 0.187.
Air Quality in the Vicinity of a Landfill Site in Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

The study investigated the air quality status in the vicinity of Rumuolumeni landfill with a view to determining the possible influence of weather parameters on the concentration of air pollutants from the landfill. Air quality parameters determined include nitrogen oxide (NO 2 ), sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), volatile organic compounds (VOC), ammonia (NH 3 ), and hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S). Weather parameters examined include temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction. These data were collected with respect to distance from the center of the dumpsite into the residential area at 200m intervals for seven days using composite sampling technique. Pearson Correlation Statistics was used to test significant influence of distance from the dumpsite on the concentrations of pollutants. Results indicate that, pollutants considered except NO 2 were higher at the dumpsite than the residential area. The mean value of SO 2 , CH 4 , VOC, NH 3 and H 2 S at the dumpsite was 0.67 mg/m 3 , 0.06 mg/m 3 , 2.28 mg/m 3 , 0.12 mg/m 3 , and 0.19 mg/m 3 respectively. Distance from the center of the dumpsite accounted for 41% (r 2 of 0.4096; r of 0.64) and 29% (r 2 of 0.2916; r -0.54) variation in the concentrations of NO 2 and NH 3 respectively at p=0.05. Results indicate that NO 2 , NH 3 and H 2 S had significant correlations with temperature at 5% significant level with correlation coefficients (r) of 0.740, -0.766, and -0.699 respectively. In addition, NO 2 , NH 3 and H 2 S were significantly correlated with relative humidity at 5% significant level with correlation coefficient (r) of -0.653, 0.727 and 0.646 respectively while SO 2 and VOC were significantly correlated with wind speed at 5% significant level with correlation coefficient (r) of 0.591 and 0.739 respectively. The study recommends that measures to capture landfill gases and prevent their migration to the community are necessary. Keyword : air quality, landfill, meteorological parameter, atmospheric pollutants, Port Harcourt .
Copper influence on polyphosphate metabolism of Cunninghamella elegans

The aim of this work was to evaluate the physiological aspects of polyphosphate metabolism of Cunninghamella elegans grown in presence of copper. The growth profile was obtained by means of biomass yields, orthophosphate consumption, polyphosphate accumulation and phosphatases activities. The results revealed the influence of copper on the growth, observed by biomass yields. Orthophosphate consumption was faster in cells grown in the presence of copper. The presence of copper in the culture medium induced polyphosphate accumulation. The polyphosphate level was almost constant in the beginning of control culture growth, and could be related to the exponential growth phase. On the other hand, the copper treated cultures exhibited a significant reduction in the polyphosphate levels, indicating an active metabolization of the polymer. Acid phosphatase activity was not detected in the conditions studied, but alkaline phosphatase activity was significantly lower in the treated cultures. The results suggest the potential use of Cunninghamella elegans isolate in bioremediation and biosorption applied to environments polluted by copper.
Para-quantitative Methodology: Reclaiming experimentalism in educational research

Abstract This article focuses on the criticisms of current approaches in educational research methodology. It summarizes rationales for mixed methods and argues that the mixing quantitative paradigm and qualitative paradigm is problematic due to practical and philosophical arguments. It is also indicated that the current rise of mixed methods work has increased problems with quantitative and qualitative methods. In this article we offer a different symbolic system, with different logical form for describing educational phenomena based on the philosophical assumptions and new mathematical reasoning: para-quantitativism. Para-quantitative theory is an approach which has been developed in respect to close relationship between paradigm and method, using a postpositivist transcendental realism as a philosophical beginning of the research methodology, taking Operational Logic System or Fuzzy Logic System (OLS/FLS) as logic of scientific research in education.
The Role of Increased Sea Surface Temperature on Eelgrass Leaf Dynamics: Onset of El Niño as a Proxy for Global Climate Change in San Quintín Bay, Baja California

Abstract We present a quantitative study of the effects of sea surface temperatures on eelgrass productivity variables. We compared standing stock variables for Zostera marina for the strong El Niño event of 1986–1987, previously published by other workers for San Quintín Bay, Baja California, to our previously unpublished data for the “normal year” of 1992–1993. We found significant differences for most of the variables measured, which included Leaf Area Index, leaf length, width, dry weight and area, biomass, shoot density, and number of leaves per shoot. Inspection of the multivariate ENSO index (MEI) and sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies for each of these years showed that the differences could be explained by the warm SSTs associated with the ENSO event. We were able to explain the observed differences from a dynamic perspective by using a leaf-growth model forced by SSTs. We conclude that sea surface temperature summarizes the fundamental environmental influences on eelgrass leaf dynamics observed in our study site. That is, higher SSTs explain the reduction in mean leaf lengths and the corresponding diminution in related productivity variables. This study also strengthens the view that the onset of an El Niño event provides anticipatory evidence for the effects that a rise in global temperature is expected to elicit in eelgrass beds.
Incunabula and perizonium of Neidium (Bacillariophyta).

The incunabula and perizonium of a paedogamous Neidium deme (in the N. ampliatum species complex) are described in detail using light and scanning electron microscopy. The incunabula contain two types of element, both heavily silicified. At each pole of the ellipsoidal zygote there is a large cap, which almost abuts its twin on either side of the zygote, beneath the gametangial valves. The caps are deeply and widely notched on their 'girdle' sides (i.e. on the sides of the zygote that underlie the gametangial girdle) and the space created by the notches is filled by large, almost triangular incunabular plates. Thus, on each side of the equator of the zygote there is one cap element and two plate elements. The caps overlap the plates and must precede them ontogenetically, creating a polarity opposite to that of the transverse perizonium. Both elements are sparsely and irregularly porous and have fimbriate margins. During auxospore expansion, the two sets of incunabular elements separate at the equator of the cell and the transverse perizonium is formed beneath, the incunabula continuing to form a tight seal around the perizonium and apparently constraining development to form a linear tube. All transverse perizonial bands possess delicate fimbriae and are open, even the primary band, which is slightly wider than the bands on either side and bears a median ridge. The open ends of the secondary bands sweep strongly towards the centre of the auxospore, producing a very obvious and wide suture. In expanded auxospores, a robust longitudinal band is found beneath the suture, which has coarser fimbriae than the transverse bands. Possible interpretations of the incunabular elements are discussed: no structures similar to the incunabular plates have been described in other diatoms, but it is known that related genera (Biremis, Muelleria) also have large cap-like elements in their incunabula. The open nature of the primary transverse perizonial band is unusual in raphid diatoms, but auxospore coverings have been investigated ultrastructurally in too few diatoms to permit detection of evolutionary trends.
Medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of female reproductive health dysfunction in Tana River County, Kenya

Reproductive dysfunction is a major health concern amongst the inhabitants of Tana River County. An ethno botanical study was conducted in Garsen, Itsowe and Ngao sub divisions of Tana River County to document the utilization of medicinal plants for the management of female reproductive ailments. The target population was practicing herbalists from Pokomo, Ormo and Giryama communities in the study area. Structured questionnaires and focussed group discussions were used to collect data. Forty eight plant species distributed in 40 genera and 29 families were documented as being important for the management of pregnancy related complications, menstrual disorders, infertility, fibroids and as contraceptives. The species most frequently cited by the herbalists were fourteen. Fifty two percent of the plant species were probably being mentioned for the first time as being useful in reproductive health management. In conclusion, Tana River has a pool of TMPs with a wealth of indigenous knowledge that needs to be exploited. The plants used to treat dysmenorrhea for example may be important analgesic agents that need further investigation while those with anti-fertility properties may contain steroidal phyto chemical compounds. Such species therefore need further investigation to establish their efficacy and mechanism of action.
Interpretation of admittance signatures in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells

In this work we use numerical simulations to investigate the origin of the capacitance step commonly observed in thermal admittance spectra of CIGS solar cells. We analyze what are the effects on the frequency- and temperaturedependent capacitance curves of: (a) the conduction band offset at the CdS/CIGS interface; (b) an interfacial defect distribution between CIGS and CdS; (c) a Schottky barrier at the rear contact; (d) a grain-boundary (GB). We extract the depletion region width from the simulated capacitance step height and compare it with experimental data.
Drivers' Information Requirements when Navigating in an Urban Environment

Navigating in unfamiliar road environments is a common and demanding cognitive activity. If this cannot be accomplished successfully, there are implications for increased driver workload, delays due to navigation errors, potentially unsafe road behaviour such as late lane changes, and inappropriate traffic management. To enable successful navigation through such environments, it is necessary to understand what the navigation task entails, and what a driver's corresponding information requirements are. This paper reports the results of a study that sought to identify what information is used by drivers when navigating within a range of urban driving environments, how this information is used, and what the implications are for the design of navigation aids.
Power Generation Enhancement by Utilizing Plant Photosynthate in Microbial Fuel Cell Coupled Constructed Wetland System

In the present study, a new technology that coupled constructed wetland (CW) with microbial fuel cell (MFC) (CW-MFC) was developed to convert solar energy into electricity on the principles of photosynthetic MFC by utilizing root exudates of Ipomoea aquatica as part of fuel. The maximum power density of 12.42 mW m −2 produced from the CW-MFC planted with Ipomoea aquatica was 142% higher than that of 5.13 mW m −2 obtained from the unplanted CW-MFC. The maximum power output for the planted CW-MFC could be divided into two parts: the maximum power yield from <path id="x43" d="M614 175l29 -10q-33 -109 -57 -154q-121 -26 -184 -26q-90 0 -160.5 29t-112.5 77t-63.5 105.5t-21.5 119.5q0 157 108 253t277 96q36 0 71.5 -5t69 -13.5t36. 5 -8.5q15 -102 20 -150l-29 -8q-20 79 -66.5 114t-128.5 35q-119 0 -187.5 -86t-68.5 -207 q0 -140 73.5 -227.5t188. 5 -87.5q73 0 119.5 37.5t86. 5 116.5z" /> <path id="x44" d="M43 650h280q194 0 282 -85q85 -82 85 -215q0 -173 -123 -267q-107 -83 -297 -83h-236v27q65 5 79.5 19.5t14. 5 77.5v402q0 45 -6 62.5t-21.5 24t-57.5 9.5v28zM213 547v-416q0 -55 24.5 -75t81.5 -20q133 0 203 86t70 214q0 80 -30 143t-88 97q-66 41 -170 41 q-62 0 -78 -13q-13 -9 -13 -57z" /> <path id="x1D445" d="M627 18l-10 -26q-79 6 -116 27t-69 76q-41 71 -71 138q-13 29 -27.5 39t-42.5 10h-46l-27 -145q-13 -74 -2.5 -88.5t78. 5 -20.5l-6 -28h-271l5 28q66 6 82.5 21.5t30. 5 87.5l71 387q12 66 2 78.5t-77 19.5l8 28h233q102 0 147 -29q65 -43 65 -129q0 -69 -45.5 -117 t-115.5 -72q40 -86 66 -133q39 -68 65 -101q28 -37 73 -51zM491 483q0 67 -33.5 101t-91.5 34q-35 0 -51 -10q-13 -8 -20 -48l-45 -245h49q71 0 113 28q79 52 79 140z" /> in the water body was 66.05 KJ Kg −1 , and the maximum power transformation from plant photosynthesis was 2.31 GJ ha −1 year −1. The average COD removal efficiencies were 92.1% and 94.8% in the unplanted CW-MFC and planted CW-MFC, respectively; the average TN removal efficiencies amounted to 54.4% and 90.8% in the unplanted CW-MFC and planted CW-MFC. This research demonstrates that planting Ipomoea aquatica in the CW-MFC achieved a higher power density and nutrient removal of nitrogen simultaneously.
Lightcone mock catalogues from semi-analytic models of galaxy formation – I. Construction and application to the BzK colour selection

We introduce a method for constructing end-to-end mock galaxy catalogues using a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, applied to the halo merger trees extracted from a cosmological N-body simulation. The mocks that we construct are lightcone catalogues, in which a galaxy is placed according to the epoch at which it first enters the past lightcone of the observer, and incorporate the evolution of galaxy properties with cosmic time. We determine the position between the snapshot outputs at which a galaxy enters the observer's lightcone by interpolation. As an application, we consider the effectiveness of the BzK colour selection technique, which was designed to isolate galaxies in the redshift interval 1.4 < z < 2.5. The mock catalogue is in reasonable agreement with the observed number counts of all BzK galaxies, as well as with the observed counts of the subsample of BzKs that are star-forming galaxies. We predict that over 75 per cent of the model galaxies with KAB ≤ 23, and 1.4 < z < 2.5, are selected by the BzK technique. Interloper galaxies, outside the intended redshift range, are predicted to dominate bright samples of BzK galaxies (i.e. with KAB ≤ 21). Fainter K-band cuts are necessary to reduce the predicted interloper fraction. We also show that shallow B-band photometry can lead to confusion in classifying BzK galaxies as being star forming or passively evolving. Overall, we conclude that the BzK colour selection technique is capable of providing a sample of galaxies that is representative of the 1.4 < z < 2.5 galaxy population.
Globalization, Inflation and Monetary Policy

Following up on Glatzer, Gnan and Valderrama (2006), we investigate two further channels through which globalization may have dampened inflation in the euro area: first, changed incentives for policymakers; second, global demand and supply conditions. Our empirical evidence shows that the domestic output gap seems to have lost its influence on inflation in the euro area; however, we cannot confirm that euro area inflation is instead significantly influenced by the global output gap. Therefore and because of daunting measurement problems, we caution against attaching undue weight to global output gap developments in central banks’ reaction functions. The flattening of the euro area Phillips curve – together with weakened monetary policy control over inflation due to increasing global long-term interest links and heightened uncertainty for policymakers due to globalization – calls for the stabilization of inflation expectations as a primary goal for monetary policy. Central banks should not rely on the inflation-dampening effects of globalization to last indefinitely: Supply bottlenecks in energy and raw materials, a shift in emerging economies’ savings-investment balance, as well as protectionist pressure may put an end to these effects.
Uncertainty analysis for seismic hazard in Northern and Central Italy

In this study we examine uncertainty and parametric sensitivity of Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) and 1-Hz Spectral Acceleration (1-Hz SA) in probabilistic seismic hazard maps (10% probability of exceedance in 50 years) of Northern and Central Italy. The uncertainty in hazard is estimated using a Monte Carlo approach to randomly sample a logic tree that has three input-variables branch points representing alternative values for bvalue, maximum magnitude (Mmax) and attenuation relationships. Uncertainty is expressed in terms of 95% confidence band and Coefficient Of Variation (COV). The overall variability of ground motions and their sensitivity to each parameter of the logic tree are investigated. The largest values of the overall 95% confidence band are around 0.15 g for PGA in the Friuli and Northern Apennines regions and around 0.35 g for 1-Hz SA in the Central Apennines. The sensitivity analysis shows that the largest contributor to seismic hazard variability is uncertainty in the choice of ground-motion attenuation relationships, especially in the Friuli Region (? 0.10 g) for PGA and in the Friuli and Central Apennines regions (? 0.15 g) for 1-Hz SA. This is followed by the variability of the b-value: its main contribution is evident in the Friuli and Central Apennines regions for both 1-Hz SA (? 0.15 g) and PGA (? 0.10 g). We observe that the contribution of Mmax to seismic hazard variability is negligible, at least for 10% exceedance in 50-years hazard. The overall COV map for PGA shows that the uncertainty in the hazard is larger in the Friuli and Northern Apennine regions, around 20-30%, than the Central Apennines and Northwestern Italy, around 10-20%. The overall uncertainty is larger for the 1-Hz SA map and reaches 50- 60% in the Central Apennines and Western Alps.
OH/IR stars in the inner bulge detected by ISOGAL ?;??

We present a study of known OH/IR stars in the inner bulge, observed by the ISOGAL survey at =6 :8 ma nd =1 4:9 m. Bolometric corrections and luminosities are computed, based on near and mid-infrared data. The vast majority of the sources exhibit mass-loss rates in the range: 3 10 7 up to a few times 10 5 M/year. The bolometric magnitude distribution peaks at Mbol = 5:0. There is no clear evidence that the luminosity is related to the expansion velocity of the envelope for the sample in the bulge observed by ISOGAL. We nd that the bulge OH/IR stars do not follow a period-luminosity (PL) law and that they are systematically less luminous than the OH/IR extension of the PL relationship for Miras.
Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship

An ideal of universal citizenship has driven the emancipatory momentum of modern political life. Ever since the bourgeoisie challenged aristocratic privileges by claiming equal political rights for citizens as such, women, workers, Jews, blacks, and others have pressed for inclusion in that citizenship status. Modern political theory asserted the equal moral worth of all persons, and social movements of the oppressed took this seriously as implying the inclusion of all persons in full citizenship status under the equal protection of the law. Citizenship for everyone, and everyone the same qua citizen. Modern political thought generally assumed that the universality of citizenship in the sense of citizenship for all implies a universality of citizenship in the sense that citizenship status transcends particularity and difference. Whatever the social or group differences among citizens, whatever their inequalities of wealth, status, and power in the everyday activities of civil society, citizenship gives everyone the same status as peers in the political public. With equality conceived as sameness, the ideal of universal citizenship carries at least two meanings in addition to the extension of citizenship to everyone: (a) universality defined as general in opposition to particular; what citizens have in common as opposed to how they differ, and (b) universality in the sense of laws and rules that say the same for all and apply to all in the same way; laws and rules that are blind to individual and group differences. During this angry, sometimes bloody, political struggle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many among the excluded and disadvantaged thought that winning full citizenship status, that is, equal political and civil rights, would lead to their freedom and equality. Now in the late twentieth century, however, when citizenship rights have been formally extended to all groups in liberal capitalist societies, some groups still find themselves treated as second-class citizens. Social movements of oppressed and excluded groups have recently asked why extension of equal citizenship rights has not led to social justice and equality. Part of the answer is