Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Intervention in relative clauses: Effects of relativized minimality on L2 representation and processing

This article reports on an experiment investigating the effects of featural Relativized Minimality (Friedmann et al., 2009) on the representation and processing of relative clauses in the second language (L2) English of Mandarin speakers. Object relatives (ORCs) are known to cause greater problems in first language (L1) acquisition and in adult processing than subject relatives (SRCs). Featural Relativized Minimality explains this in terms of intervention effects, caused by a DP (the subject of the ORC) located between the relative head and its source. Intervention effects are claimed to be reduced if the relative head and the intervenor differ in features, such as number (e.g. I know the king who the boys pushed). We hypothesize that L2 learners will show intervention effects when processing ORCs and that such effects will be reduced if the intervenor differs in number from the relative head. There were two tasks: picture identification and self-paced reading. Both manipulated relative clause type (SRC/ORC) and intervenor type (±plural). Accuracy was high in interpreting relative clauses, suggesting no representational problem. Regarding reading times, ORCs were processed slower than SRCs, supporting an intervention effect. However, faster reading times were found in ORCs when intervenor and head noun matched in number, contrary to hypothesis. We suggest that our more stringent stimuli may have resulted in the lack of an effect for mismatched ORCs, in contrast to some earlier findings for L1 acquirers.
Indigenous chicken production in Punjab: a detailed survey through participatory rural appraisals.

The present study was designed to understand role of indigenous chicken in livelihood of rural masses, traits for which it is preferred and documentation of production constraints at two experimental sites in Punjab (Pakistan) through participatory rural appraisals. Gender sensitivity was accounted for conducting these appraisals. Main purpose of chicken keeping was home consumption and income obtained from extra sale of chicken and eggs was mostly kept by women and household heads which they spent on family needs and investing back on livestock/poultry. Differences among men and women’s perceptions in keeping particular chicken breed and traits were not the same. Fayoumi and Rhode Island Red breeds were preferred for egg production, Desi and Naked Neck for broodiness and disease resistance while Aseel breed was highly ranked for its aggressiveness and economic value. The major constraints at Bahawalpur site were absence of veterinary services and shortage of canal water. Less availability of space and risk of predators were obvious at Faisalabad site. Prevalence of diseases and lack of financial aid was noted at both sites. It was suggested that provision of necessary health coverage and trainings could lead to better chicken production and an income generating activity for landless poors and deprived women of the area.
Trait Emotional Intelligence, Self-Reported Affect, and Salivary Alpha-Amylase on Working Days and a Non-Working Day1 Emotional intelligence, affect, and alpha-amylase

This study examined the relationship between trait emotional intelligence (EI) and variation in psychological (positive affect [PA] and negative affect [NA]) and psychophysiological (salivary alpha-amylase [sAA]) indicators among Japanese employees over 3 consecutive days (working day 1, non-working day, working day 2). The analyses revealed that higher trait EI was associated across the days with higher PA, but not with NA. Moreover, diurnal sAA levels were lower in the high trait EI group than in the low trait EI group on the intervening non-working day, and this difference between the EI groups continued to show a tendency to significance on working day 2. The results indicate that higher EI may be related to the preservation of higher levels of PA and lower levels of sympathetic activity in recovery in the naturalistic condition.
Parallel Channels’ Fracturing Mechanism during Ice

4 1 Introduction . 5 2 Background . 6 3 Test Description . 8 3.1 Channel Spacing and Ship Data . 8 3.2 On-board Camera . 9 3.3 Helicopter Camera Images . 10 3.4 Parallel Channel Tests . 11 4 Methods . 14 4.1 Image Analysis . 14 4.1. 1 Helicopter images from Test #1 . 14 4.1. 2 On-board camera images from Test #2 . 17 4.2 Ice Force Estimation based on measurements . 19 4.2. 1 From ice force ice R to its ice fracturing component f R . 20 4.2. 2 Relationship between X F and Y F . 22 5 Results . 23 5.1 Floe Size Distributions in Test #1 . 23 5.2 Long Crack Formation Events in Test #2 . 27 5.3 Long Crack Propagation versus Channel Spacing in Test #2. 28 6 Discussion . 30 6.1 Managed Ice Floe Size i L and MCD L . 30 6.2 Managed Ice Floe Size Distribution . 31 6.3 Long Crack Propagation . 33 Post-print version of the paper by Lu et al. in Int J Cold Region of Science and Technology, 156 (2018) 102-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions. 2018.07. 011 6.4 Parallel Channels’ Fracture Mechanisms . 34 7 Conclusions . 34 Acknowledgement . 36 References . 37 Post-print version of the paper by Lu et al. in Int J Cold Region of Science and Technology, 156 (2018) 102-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions. 2018.07. 011
Authors’ responses to all reviewers

In this paper we describe the PALM model system 6.0. PALM is a Fortran based code and has been applied for studying a variety of atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers for about 20 years. The model is optimized for use on massively parallel computer architectures. This is a follow-up paper to the PALM 4.0 model description in Maronga et al. (2015). During
The Effects of Unstable Macroeconomic Indicators on Stock Price Behavior of Banking Sector in the Nigerian Stock Market

The research aimed to investigate the stock price behavior of banking sector in response to unstable macroeconomic variables in the Nigerian stock market. The research employed ex-post facto research design, and the data were subjected to Autoregressive Distributed Lag method of analysis to examine both the short and long run of the studied variables between 2009 and 2018. The findings reveal significant negative effects of interest rate and foreign reserves on the stock price behavior of the banking sector in the long run. Meanwhile, the inflation rate has a significant positive influence on stock price behavior. Then, the exchange rate is not statistically significant in influencing stock price behavior in the Nigerian stock market. It can be concluded that the stock price behavior of banking sector is influenced by foreign external reserve, interest rate, and inflation rate. It is recommended that the monetary policy rate should be reduced to decrease the cost of borrowing and enhance liquidity level in the stock market.
Intellectual Capital and Financial Performance of English Football Club

This study test the components of IC effect and IC itself as a whole towards Return on Assets as a measure of performance of football clubs in the UK. The samples of this study are 42 football clubs and generated as many as 126 data. Hypothesis testing results showed that intellectual capital components (human capital, structural capital, and capital employed) simultaneously affects financial performance. While, human capital has a positive effect on ROA, structural capital has a negative effect on ROA, and capital employed has no effect on ROA. The results of this study implies that football firms must maximize their IC resources to the fullest, especially in terms of human resources.
A Review: Methodologies Review of Magnetic Water Treatment As Green Approach of Water Pipeline System

This review is aimed to present an in-depth review of several methodologies on magnetic water treatment (MWT) that are employed as scale treatment in water pipeline and to critically discuss each method in order to determine the best outcome of MWT. The magnetically assisted water in pipeline in various applications are presented, argued and best variables are listed according to the performance of each MWT. The advantages and limitations of MWT are discussed and the main outcome from the review summarize the best method in MWT, especially in effectiveness of treating scale in terms of sustained environment benefits. Magnetic field application in water treatment has the potential to improve the water pipeline performance and lifetime. The application is also significant in controlling the growth of scale in upcoming system. Both of these benefits lead to healthier water treatment, increasing and maintaining the lifetime and performance of water system.
Prevalence of Pressure Ulcer and Associated Factors Among Hospitalized Adult Patients in Public Hospitals Sidama Zone, South Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Regional State, Ethiopia, 2017.

Background: On average, 60,000 people die each year worldwide due to pressure ulcer related causes. Even though, few studies reported the prevalence of pressure ulcer in some part of Ethiopia, there is paucity of information on the other side. Objectives: To Assess prevalence of Pressure Ulcer and Associated Factors Among Hospitalized Adult Patients in Public Hospitals in Sidama Zone; South Nations Nationalities, and Peoples? Regional State, Ethiopia, 2017. Methods: Institution based cross sectional study design was employed to assess pressure ulcer prevalence and associated factors in Sidama Zone from March13-April 12, 2017, On 356 subjects. Multistage sampling technique was employed to reach individual study subjects. Data was entered into EPI- data version 3.1 and was analyzed by using SPSS version 20 statistical software. Descriptive statistics, Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were computed to assess statistical association using Odds Ratio. Significant of statistical association was assured or tested using 95% confidence interval and p value (<0.05). Results: A total of 56 Patients were Develop pressure ulcer from 356 admitted in Public Hospitals, with the prevalence rate of 15.7 %; from which 6 (1.7%), 34 (9.6%), and 16 (4.5%) were Medical Device Related Pressure Ulcers and Routine Pressure Ulcers . Patient who had No Position change by nurse were 4.53 times (95% CI: AOR, 4.346 (1.646 ? 11.473; P= 0.003) more likely to develop Pressure ulcer than Participants who had position change. Patients who had Body mass index Less than 18.5 kg/m2 were 6.9 times (95% CI: AOR, 6.91 (1.307,36.554) more likely to develop pressure ulcers than Patients who had BMI in between 25-29.99kg/m2. Conclusion and Recommendation: The Overall prevalence of pressure ulcer on this study is high. Position change, Activity, mobility, moisture, Antimicrobial, and ant diabetic were significantly associated with the development of pressure ulcer; Sidama Hospitals should Perform Risk and comprehensive assessment for all patients as soon as possible after admission, Provision of training for Nurses on Manual handling techniques when positioning and transferring patients, and if ,health condition patients permit nurses should reposition patient every two hours. Abstract
Emotional intelligence of Spanish dancers and its relationship with personality traits

Emotional intelligence and personality traits are aspects that have been studied in the field of Sports. Some research studies establish a relationship between psychological characteristics and sport performance. Certain psychological aspects have also been studied in the field of Dance, in which some dancing styles identify with the culture of a country. This is the case of the different styles of dance that exist in Spain. However, studies that focus on the psychological aspects of these specific styles are scarce. The aim of this study is to assess Spanish and flamenco dancers’ emotional intelligence, particularly with regard to the age at which they began dance training and whether or not they belong to the Spanish National Ballet of Spanish Dance. The second aim is to analyse the connection between emotional intelligence and personality traits. The research follows a descriptive quantitative methodology with the use of a survey. The total number of participants was 143 dancers: 96 women (67.1%) and 47 men (32.9%) between the ages of 18 and 51 (30.52±7.86). The most important results show statistically significant differences between emotional self-regulation and the age when they began dance F (4) = 2.940, p = . 02; and between emotional utilisation and whether or not the dancers belonged to the National Ballet, t (28.818) = 2.067, p = . 04. Furthermore, the results show that emotional intelligence is related to the personality traits developed by dancers, highlighting the characteristics of responsibility and agreeableness. The results of this study can have a practical aspect, since they provide more and better information to directors/choreographers about the psychological profile of Spanish and flamenco dancers.
Autonomous Vehicle End-to-End Reinforcement Learning Model and the Effects of Image Segmentation on Model Quality By Grant

Autonomous driving has the potential not only to transform people’s lives, but also save them. Fully understanding state of the art autonomous driving architectures, however, requires a wide breadth of knowledge on available sensors, perception, image segmentation, localization, path planning, neural networks, convolution, and more. This thesis proposes a simple end-to-end architecture that has promising behavioral results. Two novel techniques are also introduced: a new exploration algorithm that seeks to produce more robust training behaviors over simple linear decay models, and a new data splitting technique that splits a layer into multiple semantically meaningful layers in an attempt to improve feature recognition by a convolutional neural network. A series of end-to-end models are trained with access to either a ground truth semantic segmentation perceptor or an image camera perceptor with a semantic segmentation predictor model. Models are evaluated and results are compared to see which approach is superior. The perceptor configuration on the trained models is switched and evaluation is run again to see how the it reacts to a change in perceptor quality. This thesis hypothesizes that models should be trained on ground truth semantic segmentation data, even if the trained model will ultimately be evaluated with a semantic segmenter model, as the model quality should prove superior and training time can be reduced substantially.
Determination of the physical and mechanical properties of wood-cement boards produced with Pinus spp and pozzolans waste

The objective of this research was to evaluate the physical-mechanical properties of wood-cement boards produced with waste particles of Pinus spp. and sufficient levels of pozzolans to assimilate all Ca(OH)2 pro-duced during the hydration reactions of Portland cement. The pozzolans used were: silica fume, metakaolin, rice husk ash, and calcined ceramic waste. The values of the pozzolans were determined based on the theo-retical determination of the Ca(OH)2 content produced by the hydration reactions of Portland cement. The pozzolanic activity index was determined by the modified Chapelle test. The boards were produced through cold compression, and the test specimens were produced and tested for physical and mechanical properties at 28/91 days of curing. The minimum values employed in the Bison® commercial process were used as a reference for the physical-mechanical characterization. The boards produced presented good physical-me-chanical properties even with high levels of replacement of cement by pozzolans. These properties were sim-ilar to the ones presented by the reference boards, despite the significant reduction in the specific mass of the prototype boards, which demonstrates the technological possibility of the use of these materials in the produc-tion of wood-cement boards
Use of a cytokinin conjugate for efficient shoot regeneration from leaf sections of highbush blueberry

Conditions for improving the efficiency of shoot regenration from leaf sections of highbush bluebeery (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) were investigated. Effectiveness of tissue culture medium supplemented with the cytokinin conjugate zeatin riboside or the cytokinin zeatin at 10, 20, or 30 μM was compared with medium supplemented with the optimum 2iP concentratioin of 15 μM. Use of 20 μM zeatin riboside resulted in the most shoots per leaf section, ≃6-fold higher than the number of shoots produced on 2iP medium. The number of shoots produced on medium supplemented with zeatin was not significantly higher than the number of shoots produced on 2iP medium []
Influence of Electronic Information Resources on Publication Output of Librarians in Niger Delta and Delta State University, Nigeria

The publication output of librarians in the past years has been observed to be very poor as most of the librarians complain of the difficulty in writing journal articles to publish in reputable journals. This brought about the investigation of the influence of electronic information resources on publication output of librarians in Niger Delta University Bayelsa and Delta State University, Abraka in Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was used in the study. Questionnaire was the instrument used in collecting data. The population for the study was made up of 30 librarians in Niger Delta University Bayelsa and Delta State University, Abraka. The entire population was used as sample because of its small size. Data were analyzed using simple percentage, descriptive statistics. The study found that the publication output level of the respondents in the universities sampled is low; the most used electronic resource are EBSCOHOST, HINARI, Open Access Journal, Open Access Books, AJOL, AGORA and Science Direct. The study also shows that there was no significant relationship between electronic information resources and publication output of librarians though electronic Information had a negative influence on the publication output of librarians. The study therefore recommends that librarians should make good use of electronic information resources which will positively influence publication output. Keywords : Electronic, Information Resources, Publication Output, Librarians DOI: 10.7176/IKM/10-4-05 Publication date: June 30 th 2020
KITCHEN WASTE AND COW DUNG

ABSTRACT 5 6 Daily, large amounts of kitchen waste are disposed of in homes and institutions posing environmental pollution. The waste can be utilized for biogas production. Biogas production requires anaerobic digestion of organic matter. In this study biomass Kitchen waste was collected, as feedstock for a homemade laboratory-scale anaerobic digester (10L capacity) to produce biogas in the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) Physics laboratory for 27 days. The study investigated the energy and quality of biogas produced from co-digesting a mixture of kitchen waste and cow dung. This was done at a temperature range of 25°C 35°C and in an alkaline environment maintained by adding a medium of sodium hydroxide. The biogas produced was analyzed for its power potential. The power potential of biogas produced from this study was found to be 22,461.77W/m 3 . Comparing this with the Literature value of 37,258.9W/m 3 for pure methane, 60.29%. of the biogas sample tested was methane. Gas chromatogram on five gas samples collected from individual kitchen waste substrates showed slightly higher percentage of methane content in the biogas collected from starch and pure cow dung in relation to other tested samples. Biogas production significantly increased when we allowed for co-digestion of kitchen waste mixed with cow dung. Maintaining each substrate within a slight alkaline environment led to a high production of biogas. It is envisaged that the gas generated and the process’ friendly cost, will be a perfect alternative source of cleaner, safer and cheaper energy source as compared to the expensive and environmentally unfriendly traditional sources such as firewood, charcoal and petroleum products. This study forms a basis upon which large scale biogas production from kitchen waste can be done for domestic and commercial use.
Recurrent Miscarriage and Implantation Failure of Unknown Cause Studied by a Panel of Thrombophilia Conditions: Increased Frequency of FXIII Val34Leu Polymorphism

Background: The role of acquired thrombophilia has been accepted as an etiology of recurrent miscarriage (RM); however, the contribution of specific inherited thrombophilic genes to this disorder has remained controversial. An increased incidence of RM has been suggested in women with inherited thrombophilia. Methods: In this prospective study, assisted women with RM or repeated implant failure (RIF) were subjected to Thromboincode analysis, in order to identify 12 genetic variants for Factor V Leiden, Factor V Hong Kong, Factor V Cambridge, FII, FXIII, FXII, and A1 carriers. Patients included in this study were separated in RM cases (n=43), RIF cases (n=36) and RIF+RM (n=76). As a control group, patients undergoing IVF treatment (n=34) were used and a previously described 249 cases population as a representative sample of Spanish population were selected. Level of statistical significance was p<0.05 and groups were compared by Fisher test, except for age that was compared by t-test. Results: Regarding FXIII, higher values were observed in RM (69.76%), RIF (70%) and in RM+RIF (68.42%) group when compared with our control group (52.94%) and general Spanish population (56.5%), but these differences were statistically significant only in RIF group (p=0.043, p=0.01). Conclusion: Concerning our findings, both RM and RIF patients had a very similar panel of thrombophilia polymorphisms, suggesting that, in both, thrombophilia might have an important contribution. High frequency of Val34Leu polymorphism in RM/ RIF presumably speaks in favor of a multifactorial RM genesis, wherean altered thrombophilia status plays a role.
Does socio-economic inequality explain ethnic differences in nicotine dependence? Evidence from a New Zealand birth cohort Dannette Marie, Teaching Fellow

Objective. The present study examined the role of socio-economic status and cultural identity in the association between ethnicity and nicotine dependence, in a birth cohort of over 1000 young people studied to age 30. Methods. Data were gathered on ethnicity, cultural identification, nicotine dependence, and socioeconomic factors, as part of a longitudinal study of a New Zealand birth cohort (the Christchurch Health and Development Study). Results. Those reporting Māori identity had rates of nicotine dependence that were significantly (p < .05) higher than rates for non-Māori. Control for socio-economic factors reduced the associations between ethnic identity and nicotine dependence to statistical non-significance. In addition, there was no evidence of a statistically significant association between Māori cultural identity and nicotine dependence; nor was there evidence of gender differences in the association between ethnic identity and nicotine dependence, net of socio-economic factors. Conclusions. The higher rates of nicotine dependence observed amongst Māori appear to be attributable to differences in socio-economic status. Efforts to improve the socio-economic standing of Māori should therefore help to reduce rates of nicotine dependence in this population.