Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE EFFECT OF HUSNUZHAN TRAINING ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG WOMEN WITH HYPERTENSION

Hypertension is one of the leading causes of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and death. The prevalence of hypertension in women is higher than that of in men. Women suffering from hypertension potentially experience various problems that affect the quality of life. Several techniques can be used to improve the quality of life for women with hypertension such a husnuzhan training. Husnuzhan training is a kind of Islamic-Psychoreligious intervention. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Husnuzhan training in improving the quality of life among women with hypertension. Twenty women with hypertension aged between 40-50 years participated in the study which employed a pretest-posttest control group design. WHOQOL-BREF instrument was used to assess the quality of life among participants. Husnuzhan Training was delivered for 4 sessions in two weeks. The data were analysed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and U-Mann Whitney. The result showed a significant improvement in the quality of life’s score in the experimental group when compared to the control group (Z = -3.181 & p = 0.001 (p <0.01). U-Mann Whitney test results also showed no difference in quality of life’s score in both groups at baseline phase (Z = -1.212, p = 0.226 (p> 0,05). Therefore, husnuzhan training effectively improved the quality of life in women with hypertension. Limitations of this study were discussed. Keywords: Hypertension, Quality of Life, Husnuzhan Training
Dynamics at the Onset of Self-Diffusion in Molecular Liquids

The mechanism of molecular self-diffusion was studied by means of quasielastic neutron scattering experiments and complementary molecular dynamics simulations. The latter were carefully validated on the basis of the neutron scattering spectra. The separation of different intra- and intermolecular dynamics of the molecules revealed a detailed picture of the prevailing dynamics taking place at the onset of molecular self-diffusion. Collective, flow-like motions were found to dominate the short time dynamics in molecular liquids.
Informative Biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data on the Default Mode Network

Effective detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complicated procedure, due to the hundreds of parameters suggested to be implicated in its etiology. As such, machine learning methods have been consistently applied to facilitate diagnosis, although the scarcity of potent autism-related biomarkers is a bottleneck. More importantly, the variability of the imported attributes among different sites (e.g., acquisition parameters) and different individuals (e.g., demographics, movement, etc.) pose additional challenges, eluding adequate generalization and universal modeling. The present study focuses on a data-driven approach for the identification of efficacious biomarkers for the classification between typically developed (TD) and ASD individuals utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data on the default mode network (DMN) and non-physiological parameters. From the fMRI data, static and dynamic connectivity were calculated and fed to a feature selection and classification framework along with the demographic, acquisition and motion information to obtain the most prominent features in regard to autism discrimination. The acquired results provided high classification accuracy of 76.63%, while revealing static and dynamic connectivity as the most prominent indicators. Subsequent analysis illustrated the bilateral parahippocampal gyrus, right precuneus, midline frontal, and paracingulate as the most significant brain regions, in addition to an overall connectivity increment.
Conservation of threatened San Joaquin antelope squirrels: distribution surveys, habitat suitability, and conservation recommendations

The San Joaquin antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus nelsoni: SJAS) is listed as Threatened pursuant to the California Endangered Species Act due to profound habitat loss throughout its range in the San Joaquin Desert in California. Habitat loss is still occurring and critical needs for SJAS include identifying occupied sites, quantifying optimal habitat conditions, and conserving habitat. Our objectives were to (1) conduct surveys to identify sites where SJAS were present, (2) assess habitat attributes on all survey sites, (3) generate a GIS-based model of SJAS habitat suitability, (4) use the model to determine the quantity and quality of remaining habitat, and (5) use these results to develop conservation recommendations. SJAS were detected on 160 of the 326 sites we surveyed using automated camera stations. Sites with SJAS typically were in arid upland shrub scrub communities where desert saltbush (Atriplex polycarpa) or jointfir (Ephedra californica) were the dominant shrubs, although shrubs need not be present for SJAS to be present. Sites with SJAS usually had relatively sparse ground cover with >10% bare ground and Arabian grass (Schismus arabicus) was the dominant grass. SJAS were more likely to occur on sites where kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spp.) were present and burrow abundance was greater, but SJAS were less likely to be present on sites with California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi). Based on our habitat suitability model, an estimated 5,931 km2 of high or moderately high quality habitat and 4,753 km2 of lower quality habitat remain. To conserve SJAS, we recommend (1) conducting additional SJAS surveys on sites not surveyed but with suitable habitat, (2) conserving unprotected lands with suitable habitat, (3) managing vegetation on occupied sites if necessary, (4) restoring disturbed lands to increase suitability for SJAS, and (5) conducting translocations of SJAS to unoccupied sites with suitable habitat.
HMGB1-induced NLRP3 Inflammasome Participating in Platelet Activation and Thrombocytopenia in Heatstroke

Background: Previous studies have suggested that NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome plays an important role in heat stroke (HS). As a common complication in HS, thrombocytopenia has been widely considered as a good predictor of HS-related mortality. However, little is known about the relationship between inflammasome and thrombocytopenia as well as platelet activation in HS. Methods: We established a rat HS model to investigate the roles of NLRP3 inflammasome in both platelet activation and thrombocytopenia, platelet activation was reflected with Flow cytometry while thrombocytopenia was measured by platelet count. The colocalization of NLRP3 inflammasome was detected by confocal fluorescence microscopy. Mitochondrial-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS) were detected using the molecular probes. Plasma HMGB1 levels were measured by ELISA.Results: Activation of the inflammasome was detected in platelet of rats in HS. Elevated ROS activated NLRP3 inflammasome in HS group could significantly induce platelet activation and thrombocytopenia. The upregulated P-selectin (CD62P ) and decreased platelet count triggered by NLRP3 inflammasome were attributed to the high mobility group box protein 1 (HMGB1) in plasma. Moreover, inhibition of HMGB1, caspase-1, NLRP3, or ROS in rats with HS suppressed platelet activation and the decline of platelet count. Similar results were obtained when the receptor toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) / advanced glycation end product (RAGE) was blocked. Conclusions: This study indicated that platelets were activated by NLRP3 inflammasome through TLR4/RAGE/HMGB1 signaling pathway. The NLRP3 inflammasome might be the potential target for HS treatment.
Teachers' Self-efficacy for Using Information and Communication Technology: The Interaction Effect of Gender and Age

The purpose of the study is to examine the moderating effect of age on gender differ ences in teachers’ self-efficacy for using information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching as well as possible variables underlying this effect. Following Bandura’s conceptualisa tion of self-efficacy, we defined teachers’ self-efficacy as their confidence in performing specific tasks that require the integration of ICT into the teaching practice. The study was conducted via an online questionnaire on a sample of 6613 elementary and upper secondary school teachers in Croatia. The hierarchical multiple regression analysis was applied. The findings indicate minor gender differences in self-efficacy for using ICT that are more prominent among older teachers and practically non-existent among younger teachers. These effects remain statistically significant after controlling for the type of school where the teacher works, perceived technical and profes sional support for using ICT in school, and frequency of use of computer programmes in teach ing. The interaction effect ceases to be statistically significant after the introduction of length of computer use in teaching and/or attitudes towards computers in the model, indicating that these two variables have a role in low self-efficacy for using ICT among older female teachers. A similar level of self-efficacy for using ICT among young male and female teachers is an encouraging find ing which could hopefully be followed by gender equality in other aspects of ICT use. The find ings suggest that strategies for enhancing ICT self-efficacy should be particularly targeted at older female teachers. This study contributes to a better understanding of the underresearched topic of gender differences in teacher’s ICT self-efficacy.
The role of ROX and mROX indices in predicting intubation in COVID 19 patients treated with high flow nasal oxygen in Intensive Care Unit

Aim: In Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related respiratory failure, high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) therapy may delay invasive ventilation. The respiratory rate oxygenation (ROX) and modified ROX (mROX) indices, which can predict the need for invasive ventilation, can also be used in patients with COVID-19 with respiratory failure. The aim of the study was to verify the effectiveness of ROX and mROX to predict entubation need in HFNO therapy patients in intensive care unit. Material and Methods: This retrospective study included 41 patients in the final evaluation. Results: The overall mortality of patients with similar demographic and laboratory data was 60,97%. Invasive ventilation was required in 27 patients. The cutoff values for prediction of intubation for ROX and mROX at 6 h were determined as 4,95 and 6,01. Conclusion: These indices can predict the need for invasive ventilation during the follow-up of COVID 19 patients who under go HFNO and can help prevent adverse outcomes.
Self-regulated learning sebagai mediator keterlibatan orang tua dan prestasi akademik siswa SMA

Abstract Academic achievement is an important indicator of academic success. This study aims to analyze the effect of self-regulated learning in mediating the effect of parental involvement on academic achievement. Data collection for participants in this study (n = 206) was carried out using the convenience sampling technique. The validity of the items in the instrument was tested with the content validity index (CVI) and the reliability test used an internal consistency approach. The results of testing the validity of the parental involvement scale showed that the V Aiken coefficient ranged from 0.604-0.964 and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.816, while the Motivated Strategy for Learning Questionnaire scale obtained the V Aiken coefficient between 0.821-0.928 with a Cronbach alpha coefficient value of 0.765 which met the validity and reliability requirements. Data analysis was performed using Structure Equation Modeling (SEM). Based on the research results that self-regulated learning mediates the effect of parental involvement on high school student academic achievement. The implication of this research is the importance of parental assistance in developing students' skills in planning and managing learning activities, not only on student achievement in academics.Keywords: academic achievement; high school students; parental involvement; self-regulated learning. Abstrak Prestasi akademik menjadi salah satu indikator penting dalam keberhasilan pendidikan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis peran self-regulated learning dalam memediasi pengaruh keterlibatan orang tua terhadap prestasi akademik siswa. Sebanyak 206 orang siswa SMA berpartisipasi dalam penelitian ini. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan dengan menggunakan teknik convenience sampling. Validitas butir pernyataan dalam instrumen diuji dengan content validity index (CVI) dan uji reliabilitas menggunakan pendekatan konsistensi internal. Hasil pengujian validitas skala keterlibatan orang tua menunjukkan koefisien V Aiken berkisar 0,604-0,964 dan koefisien alfa Cronbach sebesar 0,816, sedangkan skala Motivated Strategy for Learning Questionnaire diperoleh koefisien V Aiken antara 0,821-0,928 dengan nilai koefisien alfa Cronbach sebesar 0,765 yang memenuhi persyaratan validitas dan reliabilitas. Data dianalisis dengan structure equation modelling (SEM). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa self-regulated learning memediasi pengaruh keterlibatan orang tua terhadap prestasi akademik siswa SMA. Implikasi dari penelitian ini adalah pendampingan orang tua pada siswa difokuskan pada upaya mengembangkan keterampilan siswa dalam merencanakan dan mengelola kegiatan belajar, bukan hanya pada capaian akademik siswanya.Kata kunci: keterlibatan orang tua; prestasi akademik; self-regulated learning; siswa SMA
Indian Women at Workplace: Coping with “Role boundedness” through “Hardiness”

Stress has become a matter of concern in the present post-globalization world which has brought in enormous changes in the ways organizations work, the professionals’ work-style and pattern, extended working hours, meeting deadlines, added roles and responsibilities, role overload and ambiguities; and cultural and technological changes. Researchers have demonstrated a gender variation with respect to coping with role stressors or stressful life events. Golpelwar [1] finds that Indian women professionals suffer from a role stress typically termed as “Role boundedness”, a result of wanting “to be everything for everybody”. The present descriptive research work, probably one of the first on the issue, highlights the importance of “hardiness” - a stress resilient personality disposition [2] - in coping with “role boundedness” and shows a relationship between role boundedness and hardiness in women professionals indicative of the protective mechanism of hardiness in coping with role boundedness.
TEACHING ONLINE IN PANDEMIC TIME:THE EXPERIENCE OF INDONESIAN EFL TEACHERS

Myriad studies reported abrupt transition of face-to-face classrooms to online learning due to pandemic and the results were various, contextually-bounded from country to another. Yet, studies exploring the aforementioned issue in Indonesian EFL context are still scarce. This study explores issues and challenges experienced by Indonesian EFL teachers in conducting English online learning during the pandemic within qualitative approach. Twenty-five secondary English teachers from urban, suburban, rural and remote area participated in this study. Subsequently, online questionnaire and semi-structured virtual interviews were employed to collect data. Then, the data were analyzed descriptively and thematically. The results showed that the participants had positive responses to online learning to maintain learning processes in pandemic time. In terms of teaching language skills, the participants argued that speaking is the most challenging to teach online. Moreover, the study identified three types of online learning challenges related to technical aspects, teachers and students. Pedagogically, this study implied that pandemic time has given teachers disguised blessings as they had an opportunity to upgrade their information technology skills and literacies.
Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of the Essential Oils of Five Scrophularia L. Species from Turkey

The essential oils of the five Scrophularia species; Scrophularia chrysantha Jaub. et Spach, Scrophularia kotschyana Benth. , Scrophularia olympica Boiss. , Scrophularia cinerascens Boiss. and Scrophularia zuvandica Grossh. were obtained by hydrodistillation (HD) with a range of 0.10% to 0.16% yield and analazsed by GC-FID/MS. In the meantime, the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of S. chrysantha, S. kotschyana, S. olympica, S. cinerascens and S. zuvandica were also identified with the technique of SPME GCFID/MS and the phytochemical results were evaluated. The experimental results of this study showed that the major compounds of essential oils which were taken by the hydrodistillation were carvacrol (52.4%), 2pentadecanone (26.7%), 2-pentadecanone (12.2%), (Z)-2-nonenal (11.2%) and carvacrol (69.1%) respectively. Isovaleraldehyde (37.1%, 27.9%), eucalyptol (13.8%), 2-ethyl furan (14.8%) and 3(Z)-hexenol (91.3%) were respectively found as the main constituents of the five Scrophularia species with SPME method. Also antimicrobial activities of the essential oils of the five Scrophularia species were screened by using agar well diffusion method. It was identified that S. olympica, S.chrysantha, and S. kotschyana, have anti-tuberculosis activity, whereas, the essential oils gained from S. zuvandica and S. cinerascens have anti-fungal activity.
C3VFC: A Method for Tracing and Quantification of Microglia in 3D Temporal Images

Automatic glia reconstruction is essential for the dynamic analysis of microglia motility and morphology, notably so in research on neurodegenerative diseases. In this paper, we propose an automatic 3D tracing algorithm called C3VFC that uses vector field convolution to find the critical points along the centerline of an object and trace paths that traverse back to the soma of every cell in an image. The solution provides detection and labeling of multiple cells in an image over time, leading to multi-object reconstruction. The reconstruction results can be used to extract bioinformatics from temporal data in different settings. The C3VFC reconstruction results found up to a 53% improvement on the next best performing state-of-the-art tracing method. C3VFC achieved the highest accuracy scores, in relation to the baseline results, in four of the five different measures: Entire structure average, the average bi-directional entire structure average, the different structure average, and the percentage of different structures.
Keynes and Knight on uncertainty: peas in a pod or chalk and cheese?

For many years, the ideas of Knight and Keynes have been widely understood to overlap greatly and they are presumed to have developed notions of uncertainty that deeply intersect, both describing a state where outcomes have non-probabilistic likelihoods. Furthermore, even their political philosophies are historically somewhat homogenised, both considered ‘liberals’. We critically review the historical records and writings of these key scholars with the purpose of dehomogenising their political philosophies, scientific epistemologies and their famous works on uncertainty, published in the same year—1921. We show that neither Keynes nor Knight has been considered fairly by history. Keynes, far from a liberal, was a political socialist who supposed that economic futures could be predicted rationally via deduced probabilities (in an abstract sense) and concluded that expert economists could and should engage in economic planning. Knight, in stark contrast, was something of a radical liberal, holding uncertainty and paradox to be the permeating fact of human existence, which implied, for Knight, significant political and economic complexities far beyond any planner. In short, Knight and Keynes held to radically different philosophic assumptions and, consequently, derived distinctive theories of uncertainty, much further apart than previously supposed. By more fully and accurately placing their ideas within the context of their ideological priors, we gain a stronger sense of how they truly understood the mechanics of economies.
Relationships of Motivational Orientation and Creativity and Their Effects on Writing Performance

Relationships of motivational orientation and creativity and their effects on writing performance. English Teaching , 76 (2), 107-130. Motivational orientation and creativity of students in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing courses have recently garnered increased attention in South Korea and around the world. In an effort to advance research in these areas, this study examined relationships involving motivational orientation (intrinsic goal orientation and self-efficacy), creativity, and writing performance. A group of university EFL students ( n = 41) in South Korea participated in this study. They were asked to complete questionnaires of intrinsic goal orientation and self-efficacy, take the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and complete a series of writing tasks including a persuasive essay as part of their performance assessment of a writing class, which served as the context of this study. Results showed no significant relationship between motivational orientation and creativity. However, an interaction effect between intrinsic goal orientation and self-efficacy on student writing performance was found. Results are discussed and recommendations are made based on pedagogical implications of these findings.
Determinants of Corporate Environmental Accounting Disclosure of Oil and Gas Firms in Nigeria

This study examines the cognitive factors that determine corporate environmental accounting disclosures (CEAD). The population consists of all the fourteen (14) listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria. Panel data were obtained from the annual reports and accounts of the firms for the period of 2010 to 2019. A correlational research design was used and the data were analyzed using the Generalized Least Square regression (random model). The study found that firm size; leverage and multi-national companies have positive significant influence on the CEAD of listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria. Whilst firm growth has a negative significant relationship with the CEAD of listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria. It is concluded that larger firms and multi-national companies in the Nigerian oil and gas sector have high likelihood of disclosing environmental accounting information. Thus, it is recommended that the management of listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria should expand their size by acquiring more assets, maintain a consistent growth by exploring more opportunities while improving their gearing ratio to ensure a stable balance between the proportion of debt and assets. It therefore, highlighted the need for Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to come up with enabling laws geared towards ensuring that listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria embrace CEAD. Furthermore, Global Environmental Disclosure Index (GEI) should be considered as the most acceptable yardstick for measuring environmental accounting by the listed oil and gas firms in Nigeria.