Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Utilización de diferentes niveles de maíz de desecho con tusa molida más melaza en la alimentación de cuyes Use of different levels of corn waste with grinded husk more molasses in guinea pigs feeding

In Penipe canton in the province of Chimborazo, the productive performance of the guinea pigs with different levels of waste with ground corn cobs (7, 14, 21%) more molasses evaluated. He worked with a completely randomized design, and separation of the treatment means by Tukey test. 48 guinea pigs from 15 days of age with an average weight of 0.375 kg was used. At the end of the investigation, it determined that levels 7% and 14% recorded the most efficient feed conversions with 5.44 and 5.64, respectively. The 21% level provided the best answers in final weight and performance to the channel, but with higher consumption of food. According to the sex factor, male guinea pigs had the best answers regarding females. His greatest economic benefit achieved with 14% level with a benefit and cost ratio of 1.24. Therefore, the use of waste with ground corn husk does not affect the biological behavior of this livestock. As such it is recommended that levels of 14% corncob waste with husk more molasses to feed guinea pigs during the growth stage and fattening.
How CEOs’ inclusive leadership fuels employees’ well-being: a three-level model

Abstract Drawing on social learning theory and social information processing theory, we propose that department managers’ inclusive leadership, and department-level inclusive climate serially mediate the effect of CEOs’ inclusive leadership on employees’ well-being. We also posit that organizational structure not only moderates the relationship between CEOs’ inclusive leadership and department managers’ inclusive leadership, but also plays a role in the relationship between department managers’ inclusive leadership and department-level inclusive climate. By analyzing paired data of 106 CEOs, 204 department managers, and 975 employees, we found that department managers’ inclusive leadership mediated the relationship between CEOs’ inclusive leadership and employees’ well-being, but the serial mediation role of department managers’ inclusive leadership and department-level inclusive climate in the effect of CEOs’ inclusive leadership on employees’ well-being was not supported. Organizational structure moderated the relationship between CEOs’ inclusive leadership and department managers’ inclusive leadership. Specifically, when organizations have organic structures rather than mechanistic structures, the relationship between CEOs’ inclusive leadership and department managers’ inclusive leadership is stronger. However, the moderating role of organizational structure in the relationship between department managers’ inclusive leadership and inclusive department climate was not supported.
Contribution of Shadow Education to the Performance of Students in Public Schools: The Case of Sri Lanka

This study individually estimates and analyzes the contribution of public schools and fee-paid private tutoring classes to academic performance of students in Sri Lanka. Econometric models and measures of descriptive statistics were estimated and instructional time was graphically compared to test whether the private tutoring classes significantly contribute to students’ academic performance. Econometric results with descriptive statistics strongly confirm the contribution of private tutoring education in the academic performance of the students in public schools. The study concludes that in Sri Lanka, private tuition classes have a significant positive contribution to the academic performance of students in public schools.
Association of single nucleotide variants rs34532313 of the MTNR1A gene and rs10830963 of the MTNR1B gene with suicidal risk in alcohol dependence syndrome and insomnia

Background: Suicidal behaviour is the leading cause of mortality from external causes at all ages worldwide. More than a million people commit completed suicide each year. According to the World Health Organisation, 25-50% of suicide victims suffered from alcohol and other substance use disorders, 22% of all suicide deaths were attributable to alcohol use (WHO, 2014). Several papers have suggested potential associations of insomnia and increased suicide risk in patients with alcoholism. We hypothesise that mutations in melatonin receptor genes may be associated with suicide risk in patients with alcoholism.Methods. The Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) was used as a tool to assess the presence and severity of insomnia. The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) was used as a method to examine suicidal behavior. Genotyping of MTNR1A (rs34532313), MTNR1B (rs10830963) genes was performed using real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). A comparative genetic study of two groups of patients was carried out: the first group, patients with alcohol dependence syndrome (F10.2); the second group, patients with alcohol dependence syndrome (F10.2) and insomnia, which persisted 7-14 days after starting alcohol withdrawal therapy.Results. Suicidal thoughts and a history of auto-aggressive behaviour were more common in subjects with insomnia in the post-withdrawal period. Carriers of the TT genotype of the MTNR1A gene (rs34532313) were more likely to have suicidal thoughts and a history of suicide attempts in a genetic study of patients with insomnia.Conclusions. Our study found that the TT genotype of the MTNR1A gene (rs34532313) is a genetic marker of suicidal behaviour risk in patients with insomnia in the post-withdrawal period. However, the same pattern was not observed in patients without insomnia.
Evaluations of a ballast water treatment to stop invasive species and tank corrosion. Discussion

Invasive species are one of the most destructive environmental problems facing the world today. They can alter habitats, cause local extinction of native species, and have enormous economic impacts. Because ballast water is the primary source of aquatic invasions, the International Maritime Organization has recently passed regulations that will require ocean-going vessels to treat water prior to discharge. It has proven challenging, however, to find an environmentally friendly treatment that is effective at reducing the potential for invasions and yet also acceptable to the shipping industry in terms of safety, time and cost. Our work has focused on evaluations of deoxygenation in general, and Venturi Oxygen Stripping in particular, because of its ability to kill ballast water organisms and to reduce ballast tank corrosion. Results to date suggest that this approach has the potential to be an effective ballast water treatment option.
Perception of the strength of prosodic breaks in three conditions: Explicit pause, implicit pause, and no pause

In this study we examine the perceptual strength of prosodic boundaries in Hebrew speech. The stimuli consisted of 28 sequences of two inter-pausal units (IPUs) taken from the Map Task recordings in Hebrew. Listeners were exposed only to the silent pause following the first IPU (hence, Explicit pauses) while the second pause was omitted (hence, Implicit pauses) thus creating a stimulus model of IPU-pause-IPU. Ten female listeners labeled the strength of each break between adjacent words on a scale from 1 (no break) to 5 (strong break). Higher average scores were assigned to the implicit pauses as compared to the explicit ones, however scores for explicit pauses received higher agreement between raters. Moreover, we found only borderline significant influence of the explicit pause duration on the raters' scores. Looking at gender differences, the results suggest that raters' scores were higher when the speakers were females. Further, an interaction was found between the gender of the speaker and the gender of the recipient (i.e., the interlocutor). In particular, female speakers received a higher score overall, and for male speakers the rating was higher when they spoke to males than to females.
Bringing Youth Towards Entrepreneurship: A Field Experiment in Pakistan

This study examines the causal effect of a one-day intervention based on motivation, information, knowledge and role modelling on entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial implementation intentions in a field experiment. A pre-test post-test design was used (N = 34) with 17 potential entrepreneurs in each group (control and experiment). The pre-test and post-test scores of experiment group allowed the construction of latent change model which was tested by using multivariate linear regressions in partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The results demonstrated a significant and positive effect of intervention on entrepreneurial attitude, which in turn increased entrepreneurial implementation intentions through entrepreneurial intention. To the best of researchers’ knowledge, the study is the first to simultaneously examine the causal effect of intervention on entrepreneurial attitude and the effect of resultant change in entrepreneurial attitude on entrepreneurial implementation intentions through entrepreneurial intention. This is first attempt to study the effect of intervention beyond entrepreneurial intention and to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial implementation intentions. Theoretical implication of the study is that entrepreneurial intention mediates the effect of entrepreneurial attitude on entrepreneurial implementation intentions. Whereas the practical implication of the study is that youth graduating from universities and colleges can be made prefer entrepreneurship over wage employment through short interventions. Limitations have been discussed and future recommendations have been proposed.
Improving the performance of warehouse loading and unloading system using simulation

In a warehouse, all the processes in the loading and unloading systems are run simultaneously. Due to the voluminous transportation of cargoes in different industries, simulation of a warehouse of an automotive company in Tehran, Iran is performed in this paper. The main purpose of this study is to define strategies in order to decline the average waiting time of the personnel. First, conceptual model is provided. Then, model is simulated in ARENA 13.5 simulation software and results are analyzed. Simulation results demonstrate bottlenecks in miscellaneous parts of the warehouse which lead to long waiting time for personnel. Finally, some strategies are introduced to reduce the average waiting time and ameliorate the performance of warehouse loading and unloading system.
The effect of predictability on German stop voicing is phonologically selective

Cross-linguistic evidence suggests that syllables in predictable contexts have shorter duration than in unpredictable contexts. However, it is not clear if predictability uniformly affects phonetic cues of a phonological feature in a segment. The current study explored the effect of syllable-based predictability on the durational correlates of the phonological stop voicing contrast in German, viz. voice onset time (VOT) and closure duration (CD), using data in Ibrahim et al. [1]. The target stop consonants /b, p, d, k/ occurred in stressed CV syllables in polysyllabic words embedded in a sentence, with either voiced or voiceless preceding contexts. The syllable occurred in either a low or a high predictable condition, which was based on a syllable-level trigram language model. We measured VOT and CD of the target consonants (voiced vs. voiceless). Our results showed an interaction effect of predictability and the voicing status of the target consonants on VOT, but a uniform effect on closure duration. This interaction effect on a primary cue like VOT indicates a selective effect of predictability on VOT, but not on CD. This suggests that the effect of predictability is sensitive to the phonological relevance of a language-speciﬁc phonetic cue.
Inequality and Inclusive Development: Evidence from Selected Indian States

The rise of protectionism, expansionary fiscal policies and antiglobalisation leading to Brexit and the strengthening of these sentiments due to COVID-19 is the expression of dissatisfaction towards existing growth strategies being adopted across different countries. The questions are being raised as to how the growth strategies have impacted poverty and inequalities—the two banes of the economies—and have put a spanner in the objective of inclusive growth. The voices of discontentment have become stronger in recent years when the growth has been ‘jobless’ growth. In view of the importance of the issues of poverty and inequality, and the increasing discontentment against the rising poverty and inequality and demand for a more inclusive growth, this article digs deeper into the available evidence on poverty and inequality in the selected Indian states to understand the status of inclusive growth. It shows a large divergence among the states on the inclusiveness score and rank. Further, the share of people living below poverty line has reduced in all the states corresponding to the high growth rates after the economic reforms. However, a large number of people still suffer from absolute and multidimensional poverty, while inequalities have also increased.
Facet-level changes in mothers’ neuroticism and extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum

Becoming a parent could be expected to affect personality development, but the existing results on parenthood-personality change connection are mixed. The present study investigated 2445 primi- and multiparous mothers’ facet- and domain-level changes in Neuroticism and Extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum, using latent difference score models. The results showed that Excitability and the affective facets of Neuroticism decreased, and the Neuroticism facets Impulsivity and Self-Consciousness increased during the follow-up. Furthermore, mother-perceived child difficult temperament attenuated desirable personality change and amplified the increases in Impulsivity. The results suggested that considering facet-level changes in personality development across significant life events is informative, and that mother-perceived child temperament may represent an important moderator of short-term personality change across the transition to parenthood.
Lymph Node Metastases Identified at the Post-Ablation 131I SPECT/CT Scan Is a Prognostic Factor of Intermediate-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer

The intermediate-risk category of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) comprises heterogeneous patients within a wide range of stages and varied care management. Understanding the risk features of recurrence observed after the initial therapy should be emphasized. We aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of radioactive iodine-avid lymph nodes observed during the initial treatment of patients with PTC that were considered to be at intermediate risk. Data on patients with intermediate-risk PTC treated from 2012 to 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. Post-therapeutic SPECT/CT (Rx SPECT/CT) was evaluated in the enrolled patients. The clinical, pathologic, and incidence of radioiodine-avid (RAI-avid) lymph node metastasis (mLN) on Rx SPECT/CT were reviewed, and risk factors related to recurrent disease were analyzed. After a median follow-up of 37.26 (30.90, 46.33) months, structural persistent/recurrent disease was detected in 9.81% (36/367) of patients with intermediate-risk tumors. The incidence of recurrence was higher in patients who demonstrated RAI-avid mLN after the initial therapy than in those who did not (p < 0.001). In a multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression analysis, RAI-avid mLN appeared to be a robust risk factor for recurrent disease after the initial therapy (HR: 8.967, 95% CI: 3.433–23.421, p = 0.000). RAI-avid mLN is a significant risk factor for recurrent intermediate-risk PTC after the initial treatment.
Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Achievement Motivation and Entrepreneurial Intention: A Conditional Process Model of Entrepreneurship and Gender

This study focused on the roles of entrepreneurship and gender in the relationship between achievement motivation and entrepreneurial intention. Specifically, we tested a moderating role of gender and examined the moderated mediating role of entrepreneurship by gender in the relationship between achievement motivation and entrepreneurial intention. Based on the secondary data from the 2017 Korea Entrepreneurship Survey on 10,000 people, a conditional process model 15 (Hayes’ PROCESS macro) analysis was used to test the direct and indirect paths with respect to gender differences. The results indicate that the conditional direct effect of achievement motivation on entrepreneurial intention was not significant for women, but it was significant for men. Results also confirmed that the indirect effect of achievement motivation on entrepreneurial intention via entrepreneurship was stronger for women than for men. Therefore, the moderation hypothesis and the moderated mediation hypothesis were supported. The study contributes to the explanation of the black box between achievement motivation and entrepreneurial intention by emphasizing the role of gender as a moderator and entrepreneurship as a mediator of this relationship. This study focused on and confirmed the role of gender previously neglected in the relationship between achievement motivation and entrepreneurial intention and the role of entrepreneurship as a mediator to promote entrepreneurial activity among women. Therefore, this study extends existing research results by elaborating the relationship between achievement motivation and entrepreneurial intention.
RETURN TO SPORT OUTCOMES AT 2 TO 7 YEARS FOLLOWING ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY

Most people have not returned to their pre-injury level of sports participation 12 months following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. Twelve months may be too early to assess return to sport outcomes accurately. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the mid-term return to sport outcomes following ACL reconstruction surgery. A self-report questionnaire was used to collect data from people at 2 to 7 years following ACL reconstruction surgery regarding pre-injury sports participation, post-operative sports participation and subjective knee function. The main inclusion criteria were participation in regular sports activity prior to surgery and the attendance of routine surgical follow up appointments. A total of 314 people were included at a mean 39.6 ± 13.8 months following ACL reconstruction surgery. At follow up, 45% of people were playing sport at their pre-injury level and 29% were playing competitive sport. Of those playing competitive sport prior to injury, 46% were playing competitive sport at follow up. Ninety three percent of people had attempted sport at some time following their ACL reconstruction surgery. People who had not attempted their pre-injury level of sport by 12 months following surgery were just as likely to have returned to pre-injury level by 39 months after surgery as those who had played sport by 12 months (risk ratio, 95% CI = 1.1, 0.76–1.6). Less than 50% of people had returned to either their pre-injury level of sport or competitive sport when surveyed at 2 to 7 years following ACL reconstruction surgery. Sporting activity at 12 months was not predictive of participation at 2 to 7 years, suggesting that people who return to sport within 12 months may not maintain their sports participation.
Efficacy of unloader knee orthosis and lateral wedge insole on static balance in medial knee osteoarthritis

Background Medial knee osteoarthritis can contribute to pain and stiffness, interfere with balance and limit functional activities of daily living. Unloader knee orthosis or lateral wedged insoles are current conservative approaches used to treat these conditions. The aim of this study was to identify and compare the effects of them on the balance parameters. Methods 66 subjects with mild to moderate medial knee osteoarthritis were randomly assigned to wear unloader knee brace or full-length 6° lateral wedge insole. Primary outcome balance parameters were stability %, path length and average velocity of center of pressure and mobility score which were investigated by HUMAC® Balance and Tilt system. Secondary outcome measures were knee function score using Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score scale. Assessment was performed at baseline and six months post orthotic intervention period. Findings Both orthoses improved all parameters compared to the baseline condition (p < 0.05). Unloader knee orthosis showed a significant improvement in all balance parameters compared to lateral wedged insoles (p < 0.001) except mobility scores (p = 0.527). Except activities of daily living (p = 0.752) and sports and recreational activities (p = 0.437), unloader knee orthosis had a greater effect on the pain (p = 0.002) and symptoms (p < 0.001) sub scales than lateral wedged insoles. However, quality of life sub-scale scores for insoles were more effective than the knee orthosis. Interpretation Unloader knee orthosis improved balance and knee function scores more than lateral wedged insole, though both orthoses produced significantly improved results compared to baseline assessment.
Driver Drowsiness Prediction Based on Multiple Aspects Using Image Processing Techniques

The majority of the accidents were happening perpetually due to driver drowsiness over the decades. Automation has been playing key role in many fields to provide conformity and improve the quality of life of the users. Though various drowsiness detection systems have been developed during last decade based on many factors, still the systems were demanding an improvement in terms of efficiency, accuracy, cost, speed, and availability, etc. In this paper, proposed an integrated approach depends on the Eye and mouth closure status (PERCLOS) along with the calculation of the new proposed vector FAR (Facial Aspect Ratio) similarly to EAR and MAR. This helps to find the status of the closed eyes or opened mouth like yawning, and any frame finds that has hand gestures like nodding or covering opened mouth with hand as innate nature of humans when trying to control the sleepiness. The system also integrated the methods and textural-based gradient patterns to find the driver’s face in various directions identify the sunglasses on the driver’s face and the scenarios like hands-on eyes or mouth while nodding or yawning were also recognized and addressed. The proposed work tested on datasets such as NTHU-DDD, YawDD, and a proposed dataset EMOCDS (Eye and Mouth Open Close Data Set) and proved better in terms of accuracy and provides results in general by considering various circumstances.
China’s news media as public diplomacy in Africa: an assessment of CCTV/CGTN among Kenyan audience

ABSTRACT This study aims to explore Kenyan audience reception and expectations of CCTV/CGTN Africa. Based on a mixed methods approach (a cross-sectional survey [N = 210] and interview schedule [N = 13]) which were concurrently conducted among the study population in Nairobi, this study revealed that the audience consumption of CCTV/CGTN is limited; with news stories, music and sports being the most commonly expected media products from the Chinese media outlet. The findings further suggest a raft of strategies, ranging from the provision of more contents about Africa, reporting in local perspectives to in-depth and critical reporting among others, as means of gratifying audience expectations of the Chinese news media in the continent. This study recommends that there is need for the state and non-state actors directly or indirectly involved in China's public diplomacy initiatives to review their strategies and devise better mechanisms of attaining favourable outcomes among the African audience.