Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Photosynthetic Responses of Invasive Acacia mangium and Co-Existing Native Heath Forest Species to Elevated Temperature and CO2 Concentrations

ABSTRACT The impacts of climate change, in particular via elevated temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentrations, cause differential photosynthetic responses between native and invasive alien plants, often resulting in varying magnitudes of plant growth and productivity. This study investigated variations in photosynthetic responses of an invasive alien Acacia species and two successional groups of tropical heath forest species: early secondary (Bucha nania arborescens and Dillenia suffruticosa) and secondary (Calophyllum inophyllum and Ploiarium alternifolium) groups at elevated temperature (25 to 30°C) and CO2 levels (400 to 700 ppm). Invasive A. mangium appears better adapted to higher temperature and CO2. High temperature improved CO2 assimilation of A. mangium compared to heath species, which was attributed to increased transpiration rate and stomatal conductance but decreased water-use efficiency. Photosynthetic responses showed no differences in early secondary species at elevated temperature and CO2 but invasive A. mangium and P. alternifolium were stimulated by elevated CO2. The greater maximum net photosynthesis of A. mangium coincided with lower light compensation point and electron transport rate for RuBP regeneration, to a certain extent. Findings provide insights into possible underlying ecophysiological mechanisms contributing to the invasion success of Acacias in degraded tropical heath forests in response to future climate change.
Short Stature and Motor Development in Children Aged 2-5 Years Old

Background: Short stature is defined as a child’s height below < –2 SD based on age. Epidemiologic data shows a high percentage of Indonesian toddlers with short stature. There is fast motoric development in children above two years old. If there is a disruption in motor development, the impact will have a long-term effect on growth and development. Aim: This research aimed to determine the relationship between short stature and motor development in children aged 2-5 years. Method: This study used an observational analytic method with cross-sectional design and consecutive sampling techniques. There were 236 subjects in this study. Height was measured by stadiometer and short stature assessed by the WHO growth Chart, while the motor development was assessed using KPSP (Kuesioner Pra Skrining Perkembangan). ChiSquare test was used to analyze the data (α= 0.05). Results: Relationship between short stature and motor development variables showed a significant weak correlation (P = 0,000; phi = 0,377) in children aged 2-5 years. Conclusion: Short stature has a weak significant relationship with the motor development in children aged 2-5 years old.
It’s (Not) in The Reading: American Government Textbooks’ Limited Representation of Historically Marginalized Groups

ABSTRACT The Introduction to American Government course, and its textbook, is a nearly universal experience for students in American colleges and universities, but what exactly is being taught in this course? Do the textbooks used in this widely taught course accurately reflect the diversity of populations and experiences in the United States? More specifically, how do textbooks for Introduction to American Government cover historically marginalized groups, if at all? This article builds on previous work by analyzing the representation of individual historically marginalized groups to conduct index search and content analyses on traditionally published and openly licensed (i.e., open educational resources [OER]) textbooks. This study finds that American government textbooks include little coverage of any historically marginalized groups, and that OER textbooks are average in this respect, doing neither better nor worse than their traditionally published counterparts.
Acute Myocardial Infarction and Community-Acquired Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection: an observational cohort study.

BACKGROUND The relationship between acute myocardial infarction and infection was recognised in the early 20th century during influenza epidemics. Most recently, a case control and self-control design study have identified an association between Staphylococcus aureus infection and acute myocardial infarction. We assessed the association of Community acquired Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection (CA-SABSI) with myocardial infarction in the 365 days following blood culture. METHODS This was a cohort study design assessing incidence of myocardial infarction 365 days after blood culture for Staphylococcus aureus. Culture negative patients had blood cultures collected at hospital attendance and were matched to the CA-SABSI by sex, 5 year age strata and year of culture collection. Pathology information was linked to hospital administrative data and index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (ISRAD). RESULTS The study included 5157 CA-SABSI cases matched to 10146 blood culture negative cases. Mortality was significantly higher in the CA-SABSI group at 10.9% (562/5157) compared to culture negative cases, 5·1% (521/10146) at 365 days (p &0·0001). In the seven days following index blood culture, excluding recurrent events, there were 89 (1·7%) and 37 (0·4%) myocardial infarction diagnoses in the CA-SABSI and culture negative cases respectively.Multivariable logistic regression for myocardial infarction demonstrated CA-SABSI remained significantly associated after adjusting for known risk factors (OR 5, 3·3 to 7·5, p &0·0001). Myocardial infarctions occurring in this short term risk period were associated with all-cause mortality in Cox proportional hazard model (OR 1·7, 95% CI 1·2-2·4, p&0<005). CONCLUSIONS CA-SABSI is associated with an increased short term risk of myocardial infarction which is associated with subsequent mortality.
Optimization of a subcellular metal fractionation method for fish liver: Homogenization, subcellular separation, and trial isolation of nuclear materials

The subcellular compartmentalization of metals within aquatic organisms reflects their internal behavior after metal uptake and can provide important information about their potential toxicity. Commonly, the fractionation protocol used to determine subcellular metal partitioning in aquatic organisms consists of mechanically homogenizing the tissue, separating subcellular components into fractions by differential centrifugation and heat‐denaturation steps, and determining the amount of metals associated with each fraction. However, the accurate separation of subcellular cell components is challenging and the nature and purity of the operationally defined subcellular fractions are rarely assessed. In the absence of this type of validation, however, the interpretation of subcellular metal fractionation results could be compromised. The aim of the present study was to adjust a subcellular fractionation protocol for the liver of field‐collected fish and to test the adjusted protocol using fraction‐specific enzyme markers. Overall, our results illustrate the need to optimize fractionation procedures when studying a new species or organ. In the course of this study, the categorization of some fractions was revised in accordance with the enzymatic results obtained, in order to yield a more credible subcellular fraction distribution scheme. In addition, trial assays aimed at isolating nuclear materials from the cellular debris were conducted, using DNA as a marker for nuclear material. Tested protocols failed to isolate the nuclei and results suggested that nuclei were probably trapped by disrupted cellular membranes. Recommendations on how to improve future subcellular fractionation studies on freshwater fish are discussed.
COVID-19 and e-wallet usage intention: A multigroup analysis between Indonesia and Malaysia

Abstract Physical distancing policy that is encouraged by the World Health Organization (WHO) has inspired consumers to do contactless activities, including payment transaction. Government authorities in a growing number of countries are taking actions to encourage contactless payments as the COVID-19 pandemic escalates. People are worried that novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov2) can be transmitted through physical money. It drives them to shift to e-wallet. Due to a lack of study on this topic, the present study contributes to the literature by examining the effect of perceived risk, government support, and perceived usefulness on customers’ intention to use e-wallet during COVID-19 outbreak. To give more fruitful insight, another major contribution of this study is investigating the group difference between Indonesia and Malaysia in the overall model. Questionnaires are distributed to the respondents by using a proportional sampling technique. As a result, 259 total respondents from Indonesia and 207 from Malaysia are collected. Both countries are selected because Indonesia and Malaysia can be considered as the two-worst countries in ASEAN affected by COVID-19. The model is tested using PLS-Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. The results show that the effects of government support on the intention to use e-wallets differ between countries. Besides, perceived usefulness fully mediated government support-intention to use e-wallets relationship, and partially mediated the effect of perceived risk on intention to use e-wallets.
AI-Inspired Non-Terrestrial Networks for IIoT: Review on Enabling Technologies and Applications

During the last few years, various Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications have emerged with numerous network elements interconnected using wired and wireless communication technologies and equipped with strategically placed sensors and actuators. This paper justifies why non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) will bring the IIoT vision closer to reality by providing improved data acquisition and massive connectivity to sensor fields in large and remote areas. NTNs are engineered to utilize satellites, airships, and aircrafts, which can be employed to extend the radio coverage and provide remote monitoring and sensing services. Additionally, this paper describes indicative delay-tolerant massive IIoT and delay-sensitive mission-critical IIoT applications spanning a large number of vertical markets with diverse and stringent requirements. As the heterogeneous nature of NTNs and the complex and dynamic communications scenarios lead to uncertainty and a high degree of variability, conventional wireless communication technologies cannot sufficiently support ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) and offer ubiquitous and uninterrupted interconnectivity. In this regard, this paper sheds light on the potential role of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), in the provision of challenging NTN-based IIoT services and provides a thorough review of the relevant research works. By adding intelligence and facilitating the decision-making and prediction procedures, the NTNs can effectively adapt to their surrounding environment, thus enhancing the performance of various metrics with significantly lower complexity compared to typical optimization methods.
Does Your Patient Understand Their Treatment Plan? Factors Affecting Patient Understanding of Their Medical Care Treatment Plan in the Inpatient Setting

The empathy and quality of communication between the physician and patient is believed to correlate with patient satisfaction and knowledge of the diagnoses and treatment plan. Examining patients’ understanding of their plan can allow providers to better aid patients upon their discharge from the hospital in the hopes of improving home care compliance. We sought to evaluate factors that we hypothesized to have an impact on a patient’s ability to understand their medical management plan in the inpatient setting. Over a 14-month period, patients were given a 10-question survey during their stay on the inpatient medical units at a safety-net tertiary care community hospital. The survey was given to patients to self-complete after our research team introduced it. A total of 366 patients were surveyed. Of the patients surveyed, more than two-thirds of participants had a clear idea of the management plan for their condition (68.5%), while 3.1% had no knowledge of their management plan. Significant associations between knowledge of the management plan and participants knowing their attending physician’s name (P < .0005), participants having a primary care physician (P < .0001), and educational background (P < .0387) were found. These assessed factors can be addressed with quality communication and a strong patient–physician relationship. Accomplishing these 2 objectives with the gained knowledge of patient beliefs and perceptions from our study will likely lead to the patient having a much clearer idea of how their medical condition is being treated by his/her team and have overall positive health implications.
Effects of Compost Tea Application on Soil Properties, Growth and Yield of Amaranthus (Amaranthus caudatus L) in Wukari, Northern Guinea Savanna, Nigeria

A study was conducted to determine the effects of compost tea application on the soil properties, growth and yield of amaranthus (Amaranthus caudatus L) in Wukari, Northern Guinea Savanna, Nigeria. The experimental variables include compost tea of 10 liters water/1 kg compost, compost tea of 20 liters water/1 kg compost, and compost tea of 30 liters waters/1 kg compost, 120 kgN/ha of urea fertilizer and no treatment. The treatment combinations were done in a randomized complete block design (RCBD), replicated trice on a land area of about 150m 2 (0.015 ha) consisting of 15 plots measuring 4 m by 2 m each. The prepared compost tea had the chemical constituent in adequate quantities except for total nitrogen and the micronutrients determined. Compost tea had Original Research Article Gani et al.; ASRJ, 4(1): 34-42, 2020; Article no.ASRJ. 59342 35 significant effect on most of the parameters considered. Application of the extract resulted to increase in total nitrogen, organic carbon, exchangeable magnesium and exchangeable sodium. The growth parameters; plant height and stem girth increased significantly with the application of 2.5 t/ha of compost soaked in 10 liters of waters which gave the highest yield of Amaranthus caudatus when weighed. Although the compost tea extract was effective to some extent, fortification with organic additives that will add the missing micronutrient and inorganic additives is recommended.
WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK ON EFL STUDENTS AT AN ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Teachers provide students with corrective feedback for guiding them in the process of teaching a language. This study aimed to investigate the types of corrective feedback that the teacher used in teaching writing recount text, this also employed to reveal the students' motivation for writing recount texts, and to explore the benefit of teacher corrective feedback to the students' ability in writing recount text at Manbaul Huda Islamic Junior High School Central Java Indonesia. Descriptive qualitative method was employed by interviewing both the teacher and the second-year students. The participants were three teachers and twenty students. There were three guided Interview questions for teachers and two questions for students. The findings of this study turned out that the teacher employed indirect corrective feedback and gave symbols to the student’s error production. Most of the students are highly motivated to be able to write a status on Facebook or other online media by using English. The most important advantage of obtaining corrective feedback for the students is to understand the use of grammar in making a sentence. This study concluded that the motivation of the students to write recount text was to get teacher corrective feedback to be able to write the appropriate sentence and to increase their ability in writing English. This also implied that different types of corrective feedback might impact differently to the students in improving their motivation to learn English more.
Acoustic Energy Release During the Laboratory Seismic Cycle: Insights on Laboratory Earthquake Precursors and Prediction

Machine learning can predict the timing and magnitude of laboratory earthquakes using statistics of acoustic emissions. The evolution of acoustic energy is critical for lab earthquake prediction; however, the connections between acoustic energy and fault zone processes leading to failure are poorly understood. Here, we document in detail the temporal evolution of acoustic energy during the laboratory seismic cycle. We report on friction experiments for a range of shearing velocities, normal stresses, and granular particle sizes. Acoustic emission data are recorded continuously throughout shear using broadband piezo‐ceramic sensors. The coseismic acoustic energy release scales directly with stress drop and is consistent with concepts of frictional contact mechanics and time‐dependent fault healing. Experiments conducted with larger grains (10.5 μm) show that the temporal evolution of acoustic energy scales directly with fault slip rate. In particular, the acoustic energy is low when the fault is locked and increases to a maximum during coseismic failure. Data from traditional slide‐hold‐slide friction tests confirm that acoustic energy release is closely linked to fault slip rate. Furthermore, variations in the true contact area of fault zone particles play a key role in the generation of acoustic energy. Our data show that acoustic radiation is related primarily to breaking/sliding of frictional contact junctions, which suggests that machine learning‐based laboratory earthquake prediction derives from frictional weakening processes that begin very early in the seismic cycle and well before macroscopic failure.
Cross-Cultural Values: A Meta-Analysis of Major Quantitative Studies in the Last Decade (2010–2020)

Since 2010, scholars have made major contributions to cross-cultural research, especially regarding similarities and differences across world regions and countries in people’s values, beliefs, and morality. This paper accumulates and analyzes extant multi-national and quantitative studies of these facets of global culture. The paper begins with a summary of the modern history of cross-cultural research, then systematically reviews major empirical studies published since 2010, and next analyzes extant approaches to interpret how the constructs of belief, morality, and values have been theorized and operationalized. The analysis reveals that the field of cross-cultural studies remains dominated by Western approaches, especially studies developed and deployed from the United States and Western Europe. While numerous surveys have been translated and employed for data collection in countries beyond the U.S. and Western Europe, several countries remain under-studied, and the field lacks approaches that were developed within the countries of interest. The paper concludes by outlining future directions for the study of cross-cultural research. To progress from the colonialist past embedded within cross-cultural research, in which scholars from the U.S. and Western Europe export research tools to other world regions, the field needs to expand to include studies locally developed and deployed within more countries and world regions.
Pangarap ko, pangarap natin: The role of hope as a mediator between social support and school engagement among Filipino public school students

Most students in the Philippines are enrolled in public schools, and yet conditions inside the classroom make it difficult for a student to stay engaged. Although there are many factors that contribute to school engagement, the current study looks at social support – particularly teacher support, parent support and peer help, as predictors of school engagement. The study also looks at hope as a mediating factor between this relationship, given that students are faced with adverse situations both in the school setting and in their communities. The study was conducted among Grade 6 students at a public elementary school in Quezon City. Regression analysis was conducted to look at the mediation between these variables. Based on the results of the study, hope serves as a partial mediator of the relationship between social support and school engagement. Results of the study have implications on factors on school outcomes, as well as school interventions on public schools in the Philippines.
Pulmonary rehabilitation in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: a case report

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a rare lung disease in which surfactant accumulates in the alveoli causing impairment of gas exchange, pulmonary circulation, restrictive lung functions, respiratory and muscular dysfunction. Pulmonary rehabilitation is a core aspect in the management of patients with chronic respiratory diseases. However so far there are no documented studies on the effects of pulmonary rehabilitation in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. Here authors report the case of a 20 year old female diagnosed with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis and having considerable activity limitations. Pulmonary rehabilitation program of 24 weeks was designed for her after a thorough assessment. The 6-minute walk distance (6 MWD), forced vital capacity (FVC), diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO), exercise induced desaturation (SPO2) and QOL were evaluated using the SF-36 questionnaire. All parameters were recorded pre, post and at a follow up at 6 months after pulmonary rehabilitation. The 6MWD, FVC, DLCO, exercise induced desaturation and QOL improved considerably after 24 weeks of PR. At a follow up at 6 months all measures expect the FVC remained maintained. The authors thus conclude that Pulmonary Rehabilitation is effective in improving the exercise capacity, lung functions and quality of life in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.
Parents’ perspectives on home-based character education activities

ABSTRACT This study investigated parents’ perspectives on a taught character education programme implemented with children in their schools and homes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with forty-one parents of secondary school students participating in the Narnian Virtues Character Education English Project. Parents answered questions relating to the curriculum’s home activities which they undertook with their child. A thematic analysis of the data revealed five main themes: mechanics of the project; influence on family life and parenting; influence on children’s character development; self-reflective nature of the project; and parent’s views on character development. The results suggest that the curriculum positively influences students’ character development and is effective for involving parents in their child’s character education. The findings have significance for academics, practitioners, and policymakers looking to engage parents as partners in character education programmes.
Fragmentation and equilibration of jets in a QCD plasma

We investigate the energy loss and equilibration of highly energetic particles/jets inside a QCD medium. Based on an effective kinetic description of QCD, including $2\leftrightarrow 2$ elastic processes, radiative $1\leftrightarrow 2$ processes, as well as the back-reaction of jet constituents onto the thermal medium, we describe the in-medium evolution of jets from the energy scale of the jet $\sim E$ all the way to the medium scale $\sim T $. While elastic processes and back-reaction are important to describe the equilibration of soft fragments of the jet, we find that the energy loss is dominated by an inverse turbulent cascade due to successive radiative branchings, which has interesting implications for the energy spectra and chemistry of jet fragments.
Lucas Numbers Which Are Concatenations of Two Repdigits

In this paper, we find all Lucas numbers written in the form c⋯cd⋯d¯, where c⋯cd⋯d¯ is the concatenation of two repdigits in base 10 with c,d∈{0,1,⋯,9}, c≠d and c>0.