Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Socio-Economic and Demographic Factors against Social Capital, Farming Performance and Farmers Welfare in Sumbawa, Indonesia

Paddy Farmers are major economic characteristics of the agriculture village in Sumbawa. Wetland agriculture is the most sector of people life. Rice farmers is the dominant segment in rural areas in Sumbawa, they earn income from farming and also the main of food source. Rice farmers is a dominant as a largest producers of agricultural output require to be basis of national food producers. Productivity of rice farmers the one measurement instrument successful of rural economic development. The purpose of this study was to analyze influence of social economic, social demographic, social capital and farming performance to the farmers welfare, which one the social capital and farming performance to be a mediator. This research was conducted in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Data were collected through questionnaires and then analyzed by SEM-PLS. The results of the research are positive and significant influence between the variables. So it is evident that social capital and farming performance to mediate influence of social economic factors and social demographics to welfare of the paddy farmer in Sumbawa village.
Challenges of School Re-Entry among Learner-Mothers and Mitigation Strategies Instituted by Stakeholders in Schools in Masaiti District

The Ministry of Education in Zambia introduced the school re-entry policy in 1997 which allowed school girls who fell pregnant to return to school after giving birth (Obonyo and Thinguri, 2015; MoE, et al., 2004). Studies have been conducted on the school re-entry and despite the presence of the policy teen mothers who re-enter school have continued to face many challenges in various communities and secondary schools (Ntambo & Kabubi, 2017; Mweemba, 2014; Mwale, 2014; Mwansa, 2011; Sitali, 2009). These challenges have led to truancy and high school drop-outs among learner-mothers. The studies that have been conducted seem to have focused much on the fact that the pregnant girls go back to school after giving birth but not so much on whether the conditions are favourable for them to re-enter school and concentrate on their studies.
Phytochemical Composition of Aqueous Crude Extracts of Selected Pesticidal Plants used against Brassica Vegetable Pests

Agriculture has from time immemorial been faced with the destructive activities of numerous pests like insects, fungi and weeds leading to a radical decrease in yields. Owing to this, control measures to minimize their effects on crops are vital. For many years, chemical pesticides have proved to be effective in controlling pests and hence boosting crop production so much that many farmers have abandoned cultural pest control methods and turned all their attention to chemical pesticides(Baidoo and Mochiah, 2016). However, these pesticides have been criticized for the negative impacts associated International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 1 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
CAFE: Fact Checking in Knowledge Graphs using Neighborhood-Aware Features

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) currently contain a vast amount of structured information in the form of entities and relations. Because KGs are often constructed automatically by means of information extraction processes, they may miss information that was either not present in the original source or not successfully extracted. As a result, KGs might potentially lack useful and valuable information. Current approaches that aim to complete missing information in KGs either have a dependence on embedded representations, which hinders their scalability and applicability to different KGs; or are based on long random paths that may not cover relevant information by mere chance, since exhaustively analyzing all possible paths of a large length between entities is very time-consuming. In this paper, we present an approach to completing KGs based on evaluating candidate triples using a novel set of features, which exploits the highly relational nature of KGs by analyzing the entities and relations surrounding any given pair of entities. Our results show that our proposal is able to identify correct triples with a higher effectiveness than other state-of-the-art approaches (up to 60% higher precision or 20% higher recall in some datasets).
Molecular and histopathological identification of ovine neosporosis (Neospora caninum) in aborted ewes in Iraq

Aim: The objective of the present study was to detect Neospora caninum DNA in the placenta of sheep and evaluate the association of risk factors to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive and histopathological analysis of the placenta and fetal tissue samples of aborted fetuses. Materials and Methods: Fresh placenta from 51 aborted ewes was collected for PCR assay. Placental and fetal tissues of aborted fetuses, including brain, heart, liver, lung, and thymus, were collected for histopathological analysis, besides the risk factor data were obtained during the time of sampling. Results: From 51 placentas examined by PCR, 13.73% appeared positive to N. caninum DNA. The relationship between PCR positive and the risk factors revealed a significant difference (p<0.05) in age of the dam, fetal age, feed source, water source, and the presence of other animals at farm, whereas the type of birth, stillbirth, and size of flock showed insignificant difference (p>0.05). Histopathological investigation of placental and fetal tissues of positive samples showed tissue cyst-like structure, necrotic foci, and infiltration of mononuclear cells. Other lesions were thickening in chorionic plate in placenta, severe vacuolization and death of neurons, microgliosis, demyelination, edema, and proliferation of astrocytes in brain. In addition, fibrous and fat deposition with stenosis in the heart, parenchymal necrosis, severe atrophy, vacuolization and hyalinization of hepatocytes, megakaryocyte, portal fibrosis in the liver, and interlobular septal thickening in lung without obvious lesions is seen in the thymus tissue samples. Conclusion: This is a unique study that confirmed N. caninum DNA in the placenta of aborted ewes in Iraq using PCR assay. Histopathological analysis of some aborted fetuses organs could provide a more confirmatory and reliable data for a significant role of neosporosis in increasing the rate of abortion in sheep, while the clinical data of risk factors could be used to control the transmission of N. caninum infection.
Distributed Corrosion Detection using Dedicated Optical Fiber Sensor (OFS)-based Steel Rebar within Reinforced Concrete Structures by Optical Frequency-Domain Reflectometry (OFDR)

Corrosion is a major pathology for Civil Engineering structures, affecting long-term reliability. Huge direct costs (maintenance, rehabilitation) and indirect costs (lost productivity, litigation, outages, delays, downtimes) justify strategies to minimize the impact of corrosion. Regarding civil engineering (CE) infrastructures constructed of reinforced concrete, steel reinforcing bars (rebars) are naturally corrosion-protected when embedded into concrete (pH ~ 13). Concrete carbonation (“generalized” corrosion) and chloride ion penetration (“pitting” corrosion) both accelerate their corrosion rate. Corrosion products grow in volume and the increase in pressure at the steel-concrete interface leads to cracks of the concrete layer and acceleration of degradation. They may escape as well through cracks, thus leading to a reduction in rebar diameter and global structure weakening. Until now, inspections are carried out periodically and involve indirect measurement techniques (e.g. chemical-, impedance-, potential-based) that are time-consuming, costly and probabilistic in nature. Imaging techniques (e.g. ultrasonics) provide information about internal damage or voids within concrete but are of limited range of investigation (limited to accessible surfaces). Since it is impossible to predict where corrosion would start in large infrastructures, distributed monitoring techniques are desirable in order to early detect its onset, particularly in hidden or inaccessible areas. We investigated the OFDR technique in the perspective of a Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM), identified as a future challenge in order to provide safe operating conditions and cost savings. The use of telecom-grade fibers as sensors is motivated by their cost-effectiveness, electrochemical passivity, electromagnetic immunity and networking/multiplexing capability. We report on an original fiber-based corrosion sensor design employing usual steel rebars in order to avoid galvanic corrosion to occur. Since the sensor is a rebar, it also behaves as an extensometer and a dedicated design is proposed to discriminate between global thermomechanical loadings and local corrosion mechanical effects. Changes in OFDR signals with respect to reference signals provide localization, identification and direct measurement of corrosion. The sensing device was successfully tested under accelerated pitting corrosion as a proof-of-concept.
Set-point optimization in wind farms to mitigate effects of flow blockage induced by gravity waves

Abstract. Recently, it has been shown that flow blockage in large wind farms may lift up the top of the boundary layer, thereby triggering atmospheric gravity waves in the inversion layer and in the free atmosphere. These waves impose significant pressure gradients in the boundary layer causing detrimental consequences in terms of farm's efficiency. In the current study, we investigate the idea of controlling the wind farm in order to mitigate the efficiency drop due to wind-farm induced gravity waves and blockage. The analysis is performed using a fast boundary layer model which divides the vertical structure of the atmosphere into three layers. The wind-farm drag force is applied over the whole wind-farm area in the lowest layer and is directly proportional to the wind-farm thrust set-point distribution. We implement an optimization model in order to derive the thrust-coefficient distribution which maximizes the wind-farm energy extraction. We use a continuous adjoint method to efficiently compute gradients for the optimization algorithm, which is based on a quasi-Newton method. Energy gains are evaluated with respect to a reference thrust-coefficient distribution based on the Betz–Joukowsky set point. We consider thrust coefficients that can change in space, as well as in time, i.e. considering time-periodic signals. However, in all our optimization results, we find that optimal thrust-coefficient distributions are steady; any time-periodic distribution is less optimal. The (steady) optimal thrust-coefficient distribution is inversely related to the vertical displacement of the boundary layer. Hence, it assumes a sinusoidal behaviour in the streamwise direction in subcritical flow conditions, whereas it becomes a U-shaped curve when the flow is supercritical. The sensitivity of the energy gain to the atmospheric state is studied using the developed optimization tool for almost two thousand different atmospheric states. Energy gains of up to 14 % are found for weakly stratified atmospheres in critical flow regimes.
Capital and Labor Income Taxation in Small and Developing Countries

This paper argues that smaller and poorer countries have lower optimal tax rates on capital and labor income than their larger and richer counterparts. Such differences in tax rates are also observed empirically and the paper provides an alternative explanation for this observation. The model focuses on a closed economy, but is extended by introducing mobile capital. The difference in tax rates here is efficient and not due to tax competition. For the result, less than perfect competition is necessary. The intuition is that monopolistic markups distort markets in a similar way as taxes. Hence, optimal tax rates are inversely related to markups. I show theoretically that smaller and poorer countries have larger markups. Therefore, these countries have lower optimal tax rates. These optimal rates increase in response to a market expansion that lowers markups. Empirical analysis of the banking industry also supports the finding that smaller and poorer countries have larger markups.
Planting Method and Nutrient Management in Teff (Eragrostis tef)-A Review

Teff (Eragrostis teff (Z.) Trotter) is a cereal crop (nutri-millet) belonging to Poaceae family, extensively cultivated in Ethiopia, where the crop is known to have originated (21). In Ethiopia, it is grown on 2.8 million hectares (24% of the total cultivated land) annually and contributes 17.57% of the gross grain production of all grain crops, with a national productivity of 15.75 q ha -1 . Over 6.5 million farmers grow teff, which is a major staple food of Ethiopians (greater than 50 million)and contributes to the national food International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 1 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Self-Care Activities Performed By Pregnant Women and Developing a Nursing Fact Sheet as an Educational Message for Vulnerable Women

Background: Self-care activities include all health decisions and actions people make for themselves and families to stay healthy. It is any activity of an individual or family with the intention of improving or restoring health, treating and preventing disease. Aim of the study: was to identify self-care activities utilized by pregnant women, and to develop a nursing fact sheet as an educational message for vulnerable women. Research design: an exploratory descriptive design was utilized. Setting: the study was conducted at antenatal clinics and health centers at Mansoura city. Subjects: 600 pregnant women were recruited for this study. Tool of data collection: a structured interview questionnaire. Results: indicate that about half of the studied sample (50.2%) was between 20 and less than 25 years, only 18.2% had a university education. More than three fourths (78.8%) of women were primigravida, and 67.7% had more than 4 antenatal visits. Only 17.3% of women reported that they visited the dentist during pregnancy, 53.0% of women were showering three or more times per week and almost two thirds (69.8%) received vaccination. Most of them were exposed to heart burn, constipation, vaginal discharge, varicose veins and edema (74.5%, 56.0%, 73.3% and 51.7% respectively). More than one third of women always accept their mood changes and body changes and report danger signals (36.2%, 37.8% & 32.5% respectively). 50.7% always eats what is good for their babies, 40.3% sometimes spent time in seeking information about child care, 58.3% of studied women follow baby’s movement and 47.1% was usually eager to breast feed her baby. A nursing fact sheet was developed based on the current finding as educational message to be disseminated to vulnerable women. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the majority of the studied women had deficient self-care practices related to the second and third trimester of pregnancy. Meanwhile, they suffered from minor discomfort of pregnancy but the majority used harmful practices to cope with these problems. Recommendations: Maternity nurses should arrange training sessions and provide pertinent information for pregnant women related to self-practices during pregnancy and the way of coping with minor discomfort. A fact sheet should be disseminated to vulnerable women.
Design of an Architectural Traceability as an Observatory for Decision Making in Undergraduate Curriculums

Curriculums play an important role in academic production, in managing investigative dynamics between various departments and in creating synergy within different areas of study. They are also an important factor in asserting competence and enforcing challenges that derive in both national and international standards, which in turn guarantee high standards in the classroom. In this context, being able to trace curriculums becomes fundamental in identifying information in aspects such as: content tracking, written academic production, syllabus evaluations, managing networks of knowledge, and tracing the future impacts that predominant content will have on a national level as a result of the student body and their prospective. Through this investigation we will present the construction of a model that tracks curriculums through technological systems, taking into account process variables like resources, materials and both cultural and social influences in order to facilitate the study program’s visualization, tracing and control mechanism. The investigation looks to construct traceability indicators that are easy to use in order to observe and monitor the content’s impact; as well as decision making regarding ​technological surveillance, the creation of future outlines and lateral ways of thinking. All of this based on a specific case of study.
Thyroid dysfunction in relation to treatment modality in type II diabetes mellitus patients

Hypothyroidism and diabetes share clinical sign and symptoms, such as fatigue, lethargy and weight gain. Thyroid hormones and insulin exert their metabolic effects which are similar in some respects but antagonistic in others, Insulin inhibits glycogenolysis, glycolysis as well as glucogenesis. Whereas thyroid hormones has a stimulating effects on this action. Aims and Objectives: To study the effect of oral hypoglycaemic agents (OHA) and Insulin on thyroid profile of type II diabetes mellitus patients. Methods: It was a cross sectional study done on type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. 100 cases and 50 controls were included in the study. Diabetic patients on medication that alter thyroid functioning, patients with previously known thyroid dysfunction & pregnant women were excluded from the study. Detailed history was taken; physical examination and required investigations were conducted on patients who satisfied inclusion & exclusion criteria. Investigations done were fasting Plasma glucose, TSH, FT3 and FT4. Differences between various parameters were considered statistically significant when the p value was <0.05. Results: Prevalence of abnormal thyroid function test results was higher in the insulin-treated patients than in those receiving only oral hypoglycaemic agents (OHA) (30.64% vs. 21.05%). Conclusions: the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction was found to be more in the patients who were on both oral hypoglycaemic agents and insulin than the patients who were only on oral hypoglycaemic agents The present study shows that the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction is high in type 2 DM patients on treatment with insulin, hence regular monitoring of TSH levels in such patients should be suggested. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 20-07-2018 Date of acceptance: 04-08-2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What can we learn from novel compounds?

This chapter focuses on the question of how novel compounds are processed. To address this question, morphologically unambiguous compounds such as shotden are contrasted with morphologically ambiguous compounds such as clampeel (which can have the constituent structure clam-peel or clamp-eel). I discuss how these strings can be seen as lexical superstates and present a proposal for how they are parsed. An experiment using progressive demasking and typing is reported. Typing results show evidence of activation of both versions of ambiguous compounds, supporting the view that all lexical substrings in a multiword expression that can be activated, will be activated. I claim that this type of activation is fundamental to the understanding of morphological effects in both the visual recognition and production of English words. Specifically, it enables the creation of morphological superstates, the flexible morphological structures that Libben (2017) claims characterize cognitive processing in lexical comprehension and production.
Foreign Aid, Foreign Investment, Remittances and Ec onomic Growth: a Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis for Su b- aharan Countries

This paper investigates the potential Gra nger causality among the economic growth, remittances, foreign direct investment and official development aid in Sub-Saharan countries during the period 1990-2012. We adapt, to our probl ematic, the bootstrap panel Granger causality approach developed by Kònya (2006), which is based on SUR system and Wald test with country specific bootstrap critical values. Ou r results show a robust Granger causality between economic growth and foreign investment in s even of the fourteen countries of our survey. Granger causality is also significant betwe n conomic growth and remittances but only for four countries whereas there is no Granger causality between economic growth and foreign aid, except for Mali. We also bring signifi cant evidences from the interactions between remittances, foreign investment and foreign a d.
Phytochemical Screening,HPTLC,Antimicrobial Activity In Extracts Of Psidium Guajava And Piper Betle Leaves Combination(PGPB)

The present work was carried out to assess the leaves of Psidium guajava and Piper betle in combination (PGPB) for their antimicrobial activity against human bacterial pathogens. The extracts were prepared using methanol, aqueous and ethyl acetate using cold extraction methods. Flavanoids, tannins, phenols, terpenoids, carbohydrates, saponins, alkaloids, cardiac glycosides, proteins, sterols, tri terpenoids were present in methanol and ethyl acetate extract except aqueous extract. Fixed oils are absent in all extract. The activity of plant extract was tested against Micrococcus sp. , Streptococcus sp, Neisseria sp. , Vibrio sp. , Shigella sp. , Pseudomonas sp. , E.coli, Bacillus subtilis through agar well diffusion method. Methanol and aqueous extract has more significant antimicrobial activity against selected pathogens than ethyl l acetate extract. Methanol extract showed extremely significant activity against Shigella sp. compared to standard antibiotic ampicillin. High performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) is a planar chromatography where separation of sample components is achieved on high performance layers with detection and data acquisition. The phyto constituents (flavanoids, steroids, triterpens) present in the methanol and aqueous extract was further confirmed by HPTLC. In methanol extract has more bands (many constituents) than aqueous extract. The antimicrobial activity of leaves of PGPB shows the presence of broad spectrum of antimicrobial compounds which act against gram positive and gram negative bacteria especially in methanol, aqueous and ethyl acetate. Further, isolation, purification of bioconstituents from the methanol extracts leads to the development of new antimicrobial drug and also promotes the development of anti rheumatic drug.
EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION AS AN ABSORBER OF EXTERNAL SHOCKS

This paper investigates the role of export diversification as a shock absorber. In particular, we study whether diversification increases or decreases the economy's exposure to external shocks, measured by output volatility. Throughout the analysis we pay special attention to determine whether diversification affects developed and developing economies in different ways. We also distinguish between product and geographic diversification. We find that for lower income countries product differentiation plays an important role in lowering income volatility. The richer countries get the less important the role of product diversification and the more important the role of geographical diversification.