Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance of different potato genotypes under aeroponics system

Potato yields in developing countries are below potential yield because potato production is mainly constrained by lack of quality seed. Lack of potato seed systems to provide farmers with quality clean and certifi ed potato seed has led majority of farmers save their own seed. Such potato seed is characterized by systemic viral and bacterial diseases that are transmitted from generation to generation and this leads to low crop yields. The study was aimed at exploring the use of tissue culture and aeroponics techniques in the production of quality potato seed. Potato plantlets were produced in the tissue culture laboratory at Bvumbwe Research Station, 15° 41’ 0” South, 35° 8’ 0” East in Thyolo district of Malawi and then transferred to an aeroponics facility at Njuli Estate, 15° 41’ 0” South, 35° 8’ 0” East in Chiradzulu district of Malawi. The four potato genotypes did not differ on plant growth performance, but responded differently to aeroponics system in terms of mini tuber yield and stolon numbers. Genotypes CIP381381.20 and CIP381381.13 showed superiority among the other tested genotypes in terms of tuber number per plant. Genotype CIP381381.20 produced signifi cantly higher number of stolons than the rest. In this study, on an average 30 tubers were produced per plant under aeroponics system which is six times more than the conventional (use of soil-based substrate) seed potato production system under screen house conditions (5 tubers per plant) under Malawian conditions.
The Nurses' Experience in Providing Health Care for Criminals in General Hospital

Providing health care for criminals is very complex, stressful, and challenging for the general hospital nurses who are usually not habituated to treat them. The nurses are required to keep their caring and professional work. Providing health care for criminals puts the nurses into a risky working environment. They are susceptible to physical and psychological aggressions that can influence their practices and their applied nursing care quality. The objective of this research is to explore the general hospital nurses' experience in providing health care for the criminals. This is qualitative method research with a phenomenological approach. The data collection was done by a deep interview for 10 nurses. The applied data analysis is the Interpretative Analysis Phenomenology (IPA). The six themes found in the research are: 1) feeling discomfort in working, 2) experiencing emotional conflict, 3) working in an unsafe environment, 4) having difficulties in creating a therapeutic relationship, 5) unnatural caring emergence, and 6) not wanting the police officers to get involved in treating the patients. The security and emotional feeling factors of the nurses become the greatest challenges. They make the nurses difficult to create a therapeutic relationship and lead to unnatural caring committed by the nurses. Therefore, it is important for the nurses to internalize and reflect sincere caring as the essential principles in the nursing profession. Thus, it can reach the objectives of nursing, service equality, and patient recovery.
Intellectual Profile of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Objectives This study aimed to explore the intelligence quotient (IQ) profile among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and identify the most important subscales that predict the IQ. The analysis of an intellectual profile with age and gender differentials and the identification of a battery of subscales of intelligence are important for clinical management of ASD among children and for facilitating placement for remedial and educational services. Methods Data were collected through an exploratory study of 100 children aged between three and 13 years, who were referred to the department of child health and development in Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, a tertiary hospital, in Oman between June 2016 and June 2019. Results Among the 100 participants of this study, 79% were male, resulting in a male–female ratio of 4:1. The mean of full-scale IQ was found to be 68.6 ± 18.1. Furthermore, the mean of nonverbal IQ (73.5 ± 17.5) was significantly higher than that of verbal IQ (65.5 ± 17.6). Finally, more than half (61%) of the children were observed to have had mild to moderate impairment in their IQ levels. Conclusions Age and gender showed no significant association with IQ level. The regression analysis identified nonverbal fluid reasoning, nonverbal visual-spatial processing, nonverbal working memory and verbal knowledge as the significant predictors of total IQ. The crucial dimensions of verbal and nonverbal IQ identified in this study can be used to evaluate complicated cases.
Using PCR for detection of Borrelia sp. in Ticks and Ruminants in Egyptian Desert

Objective: To investigate the prevalence ofBorrelia burgdorferi infection in ticks and ruminant hosts. Design: Cross sectional study. Animals: 739 Ixodes ticks, 110 camels, 120 sheep and 40 cattle. Procedures: All collected samples were tested by using nested PCR technique (nPCR) using OspA and flaB gene as the targets. Results: Out of 739 adult Ixodes ticks, 111 (15%) were infected, the highest rate was in A. variegatum (43.24%) followed by A. lepidum (30.63%) and B. annulatus (26.13%). Shalatten was the most infected locality (18.52%) followed by Dakhla Oasis and Bir El-Abid in ratio 18.52% and 16.05%, respectively. Camel was the most infected animal (40.74%), then sheep (37.04%) and cattle (22.22%). Conclusion and Clinical relevance: Medical and veterinary professionals in Egypt should consider B. burgdorferi as an emerging pathogen in the country. Future studies are needed to monitoring vertorial capacity of ticks in transmission B. burgdorferi to animals in parallel with discovering other reservoir host animals and the vector competence of tick species for B. burgdorferi and its public health and economic significance in Egypt.
Simple Prognostic Markers to Predict Mortality in Intensive Care Unit: Red Cell Distribution Width

Background: We tried to examine association between the prognostic intensive care unit (ICU) scores and red cell distribution width (RDW) for prediction of mortality in a cohort of ICU patients at a single centre in Turkey. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study conducted in a 9-bed mixed ICU of a tertiary hospital from January to December 2013. One hundred and nine ICU patients requiring intensive care following an elective or emergent surgical procedure, trauma or medical severe disease were enrolled in the study. Demographic data, admission clinical parameters and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II scores were collected. The primary outcome was ICU mortality which is defined as death before hospital discharge for any reason. Receivers operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to examine the performance of variables in predicting ICU mortality. Results: There were significant positive correlations between RDW and APACHE II, SOFA and SAPS II scores. RDW levels were significantly higher in non-survivors (16.94±3.05 versus 15.62±2.82, p<0.001). The optimal cutoff value of RDW for prediction of mortality according to ROC analyses was 14.5. ICU mortality rate was 18.9% if RDW level was less than 14.5%; and 81.1 % if RDW level was greater than14.5%. Conclusions: We found that ICU mortality was higher RDW was greater than 14.5%. We also found positive correlation between RDW and ICU mortality scores.
Mineral dust cycle in the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (MONARCH) Version 2.0

Abstract. We present the dust module in the Multiscale Online Non-hydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (MONARCH) Version 2.0, a chemical weather prediction system that can be used for regional and global modeling at a range of resolutions. The representations of dust processes in MONARCH were upgraded with a focus on dust emission (emission parameterizations, entrainment thresholds, considerations of soil moisture and surface cover), lower boundary conditions (roughness, potential dust sources), and dust--radiation interactions. MONARCH now allows modeling of global and regional mineral dust cycles using fundamentally different paradigms, ranging from strongly simplified to physics-based parameterizations. We present a detailed description of these updates along with four global benchmark simulations, which use conceptually different dust emission parameterizations, and we evaluate the simulations against observations of dust optical depth. We determine key dust parameters, such as global annual emission/deposition flux, dust loading, dust optical depth, mass-extinction efficiency, single-scattering albedo, direct radiative effects. The total annual dust emission and deposition fluxes obtained with our four experiments, range between about 3,500 and 6,000 Tg, which largely depend upon differences in the emitted size distribution. Considering ellipsoidal particle shapes and dust refractive indices that account for size-resolved mineralogy, we estimate the global total (longwave and shortwave) dust direct radiative effect (DRE) at the surface to range between about −0.90 and −0.63 W m−2 and at the top of the atmosphere between −0.20 and −0.28 W m−2. Our evaluation demonstrates that MONARCH is able to reproduce key features of the spatio-temporal variability of the global dust cycle with important and insightful differences between the different configurations.
ANTI-CORRUPTION DISCLOSURE AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE INDONESIAN CAPITAL MARKET

This study aims to examine the relationship between anti-corruption disclosure and earnings management. Data were obtained from the OSIRIS database and hand collected from annual and financial reports of 207 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2016 to 2018 observation year. The results showed that there is a significant negative relationship between anti-corruption disclosure and earnings management, which is more pronounced when the company is small in size with positive profitability. Furthermore, the high level of anti-corruption disclosure reported by the company has the ability to reduce earnings management actions and show awareness, ability, skill, the actualization of attitude and behavior with integrity in creating a highly competitive business climate.
PROACTIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL STRATEGIES AND ROAD SAFETY IN URBAN KISUMU, NYANZA REGION IN KENYA

Road safety in urban areas of Kisumu County was an illusion despite the existence of Kenya’s potentially enabling road safety policy, which offers due guidance for proactive road traffic controls. Such road safety concerns in that part of Kisumu led to a lingering question because of scanty explanations of the dilemma in previous road safety research and policy reports. In light of this knowledge lacuna, this study sought to investigate the effectiveness of proactive traffic strategies on road safety in urban Kisumu that forms the most complex road transport system in the Nyanza region of south western Kenya. The strategies specifically assessed include designation of road use sideways, enforcement of automobile safety requirements and use of vehicle speed control gadgets. The study adopted descriptive correlational research design based on the quantitative and qualitative approach. The field survey involved a sample of 365 respondents selected from the accessible population 1919 persons using purposive and stratified random sampling strategies. The study found out that the level of road safety was relatively high in urban Kisumu. In particular, road fatality was only relatively reduced on urban roads in Kisumu County. The study findings show that the level of road safety was correspondingly attributed to discrepancies in designating road use sideways, enforcing automobile safety requirements and in the use of vehicle speed control gadgets. Specifically, road side ways were only fairly designated. Automobile safety requirements were only relatively enforced and vehicle speed control gadgets were less used in the urban territories Kisumu. Particularly, designation of road side ways predicted 42.4%, enforcement of automobile basic safety requirements predicted 36.2% and the adoption of safe driving regulator mechanisms predicted 33.4% of road safety in such areas. It was concluded that road safety in urban Kisumu had a very significant bearing on the three proactive traffic control strategies. Urban Kisumu, with moderate performance of these strategies, registered relative road safety. Nonetheless, urban Kisumu areas had lot more to do with such traffic control activities to boost road safety that was just average. It was therefore recommended that Kenya’s State Departments for Transport and Infrastructure, Kisumu County Government, the private sector and all other road users in the urban Kisumu should collectively help bolster proactive traffic control as required by Kenya’s road safety policy. All stakeholders can do that by going about their road use responsibilities in a fashion that ensures best practice regarding proactive of traffic control.
Comparison of access window created by cervical ventral slot and modified slanted ventral slot in canine cadaver

Ten cadavers were studied to compare the accessibility of cervical vertebral canal with conventional standard ventral slot and modified slanted ventral slot. One group performed standard ventral slot procedures at the C3-4, C5-6. The other group performed modified slanted ventral slot with inverted cone technique procedures at the C3-4, C5-6 computed tomography was performed before and after surgery. The accessibility of cervical vertebral canal with conventional standard ventral slot and modified slanted ventral slot using computed tomography in C3-4 and C5-6 intervertebral space was compared. Although smaller ostectomy was performed in the modified slanted ventral slot, some lesions were more accessible but limitations were obvious in C3-4 and C5-6 intervertebral disk space. After the disc material has been identified through accurate preoperative diagnostic imaging, less morbidity and complications can be expected if the appropriate surgical method is selected based on the lesion of compression.
NUTRIENT UPTAKE AND USE EFFICIENCY OF MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.) AS INFLUENCED BY MICROBIAL SEED INOCULATION, NPK FERTILIZATION AND PANCHAGAVYA FOLIAR APPLICATION

The nutrient use efficiency of maize (Zea mays L.) due to NPK fertilization alone is low, while, an integrated use of nutrients enhances the uptake and efficiencies of applied nutrients. A field study was carried out to test the effect of fertilizer NPK, microbial seed treatment and panchagavya on grain yield, nutrient uptake and use efficiencies of relay cropped maize during the summer season of 2018 in Annamalai University Experimental Farm, Annamalainagar, Tamil Nadu. Thirteen treatments comprised of 100, 75 and 50% of RDF in combination with and without seed treatment of microbial consortia and 3% panchagavya foliar spray at knee high and pre-tasseling stages. The maximum grain yield, NPK uptake, physiological efficiency, internal efficiency and unit area efficiency were registered with integrated application of 100% RDF (250:75:75 kg N, P2O5 and K2O/ha) along with seed treatment with microbial consortium and foliar application of panchagavya at knee high and pre-tasseling stages. However, grain yield and NPK uptake were statistically on par with integrated application of 75% RDF (188: 56: 56 N, P2O5 and K2O kg/ha), seed treatment with microbial consortium (20 ml/kg) and 3% panchagavya foliar application at knee high and pre-tasseling stages. The agronomic efficiency, apparent nutrient recovery, value cost ratio was high in integrated application of 75% RDF, seed treatment with microbial consortium and 3% panchagavya foliar application at knee high and pre-tasseling stages and was considered as an effective agro-technology.
Professional and Organisational Commitment in the Hospitality Sector

The purpose of the study is to examine whether two different work commitment profiles influence service quality in the hospitality sector in Slovenia and Serbia and how the implications of the differences can be used in the tourism and hospitality industry. Combining a qualitative and quantitative approach, two new instruments were developed for this study. The first instrument was created on the basis of short, structured interviews with employees. Two factors explaining the two different commitment profiles were determined with statistical analysis and with the method of clustering, four dimensions of commitment profiles forming were extracted. The second instrument was developed on the basis of existing evaluation forms for employees in the tourism industry and interviews with leading and middle managers of hotels. The findings of the study show that there is a small proportion of professionallyoriented employees in the tourism sector, and the difference among employees is evident in the ranking of working values. These results could be useful for managers in planning and organising their human resources and also in planning further development of their companies’ human resource policies. The original contribution of the article is the ranking of working values and the perception of quality work by employees in the hospitality sector. The study also reveals new evidence on different types of commitment profiles. Keywords: tourism, hospitality, organisational commitment, professional commitment, human resources management
Hydrologic and Hydraulic Factors Affecting the Long-term Treatment Performance of an Urban Stormwater Tree Box Filter

Tree box filters, an example of bioretention systems, were compacted and versatile urban stormwater low impact development technique which allowed volume and water quality treatment performance to be adjusted based on the hydrologic, runoff quality and catchment characteristics. In this study, the overall performance of a 6 year-old tree box filter receiving parking lot stormwater runoff was evaluated. Hydrologic and hydraulic factors affecting the treatment performance of the tree box filter were also identified and investigated. Based on the results, the increase in rainfall depth caused a decrease in hydrologic and hydraulic performance of the tree box filter including volume, average flow, and peak flow reduction (r = -0.53 to -0.59; p <0.01). TSS, organics, nutrients, and total and soluble heavy metals constituents were significantly reduced by the system through media filtration, adsorption, infiltration, and evapotranspiration mechanisms employed in the tree box filter (p <0.001). This significant pollutant reduction by the tree box filter was also found to have been caused by hydrologic and hydraulic factors including volume, average flow, peak flow, hydraulic retention time (HRT) and runoff duration. These findings were especially useful in applying similarly designed tree box filter by considering tree box filter surface area to catchment area of less than 1 %.
On selecting the right agent

Each period, a principal must assign one of two agents to a new task. Each agent privately learns whether he is qualified for the task. An agent wishes to be chosen independently of qualification and chooses whether to apply for the task. The principal wishes to appoint the most qualified agent and chooses which agent to assign as a function of the public history of profits. We fully characterize when the principal’s first-best payoff is attainable in equilibrium and identify a simple strategy profile achieving this first-best whenever feasible. Additionally, we provide a partial characterization of the case with many agents and discuss how our analysis extends to other variations of the game.
The Influence of Emotional Labor on Job Involvement in Taiwan’s Convenience Store: Compare the Effects of Moderating Role Among PJ Fit, PO Fit, PS Fit, and PG Fit

Research on emotional labor focus on related employees’ work outcomes, well-beings, and dissonances that could be ignored some moderation effects especially between emotional labor and job involvement. This study focused on difference types of PE fit that individual fit takes a moderation role between emotional labor and job involvement. Data from 230 convenience store full time (71.7%) and part time (28.3%) working employees were collected. Results indicate that difference types of PE fit predicated moderating effects influenced the relationship between predictor (emotional labor) and criterion variables (job involvement). In sum, in describing PE fit mediating the relationships between emotional labor and job involvement, Further, we have made the points that (a) emotional labor can indirectly influence job involvement by the mediating processes of perceived person-environment, (b) person-environment fit revealed partially mediating effects on the relationship between emotional labor and job involvement, (c) among emotional labor, PE fit, and job involvement regarding significance positive effects.
Simultaneous effect of one-month crataegus supplementation and rehabilitation program on cardiac contractile strength, blood pressure, heart rate and functional capacity of patients with heart failure

Background and Objective: Heart failure (HF) is one of the most prevalent and debilitating diseases of the current era, which is the leading cause of high mortality rates in human. This study aims to investigate the simultaneous effect of crataegus supplementation and a 4-week cardiac rehabilitation program on ejection fraction (EF), blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), and functional capacity in patients with heart failure. Materials and Methods: 30 patients with heart failure (EF between 10 to 30%) with an average age of 50 to 75 voluntarily participated in the present study and randomly divided into three equal groups (n = 10), crataegus+exercise (cr+e), crataegus (cr), and control (c) groups. The cr+e and cr groups received the crataegus extract for one month. cr+e group did rehabilitation exercises for one month. The c group had their usual lifestyle and treatment without any regular exercise or supplement. Before and after the project, all subjects were tested for vital signs, (electrocardiogram) ECG, echocardiography, and a 6-minute walking test (6MWT). Results: The findings showed a significant increase in EF in the cr+e group after 4 weeks (p <0.00). Results of 6MWT increased after 4 weeks in cr+e and cr groups (p <0.05) and BP and HR was improved in both groups. Conclusion: Results indicate that 4 weeks of exercise program along with crataegus supplement will lead to the reduction of heart risk factors in patients with heart failure by increasing the contractile strength of the heart, lowering blood pressure and improving functional capacity.
Standard electrode potentials involving radicals in aqueous solution: inorganic radicals (IUPAC Technical Report)

Abstract Recommendations are made for standard potentials involving select inorganic radicals in aqueous solution at 25 °C. These recommendations are based on a critical and thorough literature review and also by performing derivations from various literature reports. The recommended data are summarized in tables of standard potentials, Gibbs energies of formation, radical pKa’s, and hemicolligation equilibrium constants. In all cases, current best estimates of the uncertainties are provided. An extensive set of Data Sheets is appended that provide original literature references, summarize the experimental results, and describe the decisions and procedures leading to each of the recommendations.