Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Green Transformational Leadership on Adoption of Environmentally Proactive Strategies: The Mediating Role of Green Engagement

To explore key antecedents of environmentally proactive strategies, this work uses upper echelons theory to examine a novel concept-green engagement with its antecedents (green transformational leadership) and consequence (environmentally proactive strategies). This work employed a potential growth curve model with 501 CEOs and top management teams of technology manufacturing businesses in Greater China at three times over eight months to analyze the theoretical model. The results of this work showed that the green transformational leadership of CEOs significantly predicts positive changes of green engagement of top management teams, which consequently predicts environmentally proactive strategies. These findings provide theoretical insights for the field of environmental development that can advance the literature on environmentally proactive strategies.
Perception of Tobacco Counseling and Cessation among Dental Practitioners

Objective To investigate the knowledge and practice of tobacco cessation and counseling (TCC) among dental practitioners and their attitude and perceived barriers. Methods A cross-sectional study targeted licensed dental practitioners in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Participants answered a pretested and validated self-administered questionnaire consisted of demographic data; smoking status; knowledge of tobacco hazards, attitude, and practice; and perceived barriers of tobacco cessation counseling. Result Among the total sample of 529, response rate was 72.2% (mean age (34.20 ± 9.38 years), males (42.4%), and current smokers (23.8%)). Only 13.2% received formal training on TCC. Around (57.1%) reported smoking of dental team as an obstacle for TCC. Half of the participants (49.9%) reported patient's resistance as barrier to TCC. Others (45%–48%) reported insufficient time, knowledge, or training for TCC. Professional responsibility and willingness to provide cessation services constituted the highest median. Conclusion The majority showed willingness to participate in TCC. Lack of training, smoking status of providers, females, inadequate materials, and patients' resistance were the most common barriers. Education and training on TCC are recommended and should be allowed as a routine practice in dentistry.
Synbiotic Fermented Milk with Double Fortification (Fe-Zn) as a Strategy to Address Stunting: A Randomized Controlled Trial among Children under Five in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Stunting is one of the public health problems that has yet to be solved in Indonesia. This study developed synbiotic fermented milk with iron and zinc fortification that was then tested in a clinical setting. The product was made from skimmed milk and fructooligosaccharides (FOS) and fermented with Lactobacillus plantarum. A sample of 94 stunted children under five years old were randomly assigned to intervention or control groups. The intervention group received double-fortified synbiotic milk, while the control group drank non-fortified milk. After three months, the number of normal children in both groups, according to weight- or height-for-age z-score category, was found to be increasing. However, the difference between the two groups was not significant (p > 0.05). The study suggests that fermented milk may have a good effect on child growth. Further research is needed to deepen the potency of synbiotic fermented milk for stunted children.
Evaluation of the behavior, anxiety and stress of university students in the new type of coronavirus pandemic

Objective: Acute respiratory disease called COVID-19 caused by SARS- CoV-2 caused a pandemic affecting the whole world Our aim in this study is to evaluate the cleaning behaviors and social behaviors, anxiety and stress situations of university students caused by COVID-19 pandemic Methods: At the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic;university students were asked questions about their socio- demographic characteristics, their cleaning and social habits, and their level of stress about being infected for themselves and their family members and also a questionnaire was applied which includes a generalized anxiety disorder scale to measure anxiety levels and Impact of Events Scale (IES) to assessing traumatic stress symptoms Results: It was observed that hand washing behavior increased in 62 4% of 463 participants The mean of the students' generalized anxiety score was determined as 3 86 +/- 4 86 and 17 5% (n = 81) of all students had high anxiety The mean scores of the impact of event scale were 14 23 +/- 10 9 and stress points average was found as 5 57 +/- 2 9 Students' stress and anxiety affect their cleaning and social behaviors In addition, when compared between student groups, anxiety, stress, and the IES and subscales were found to be significantly higher in female students and also in students of faculties other than medical students Conclusions: The state of anxiety and stress caused by pandemics affecting the whole world on people affects society and human behavior At the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic, an increase is observed in university students, especially in handwashing In addition, other student groups other than medical students and female students are more affected by anxiety, stress and events
Ambiguity tolerance and confusion avoidance in the intent to purchase farmed fish

ABSTRACT Aquaculture products are presently becoming a crucial part of consumers’ diets. However, asymmetric information regarding farmed fish exposes consumers to ambiguity and often makes them confused. Therefore, this study aims to ascertain the levels of ambiguity tolerance (AT) and confusion avoidance (CA) related to farmed fish and to test if consumers’ AT and CA influence their purchase intent (PI) of such fish. The impact of demographics on consumers’ CA and AT is also explored. The data were obtained through a survey conducted on a randomly selected sample of 1053 households who either purchase and have purchased fish. The collected data were analyzed employing explorative factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and a simple regression model. The study demonstrates that AT had a positive and significant impact on the PI of farmed fish, and also reduced CA. However, the current high level of CA does not influence the PI of farmed fish.
Hemoglobin A1c and Vaginitis: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2004 Experience

Objectives: It is well-documented that diabetes mellitus is associated with increased risk for vulvovaginal candidiasis. We sought to assess whether diabetes (assessed by HbA1c) might be similarly associated with other vaginitis outcomes (bacterial vaginosis (BV) and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV)) infection). We hypothesized that glucose may favor the growth of BV-associated bacteria, and high blood glucose may also affect host immune responses, potentially increasing risk for BV and TV infection. Our secondary data analysis utilized a large population-based study, the 2001-2004 U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Results: Among 2,442 reproductive-age women with available data, 54 (unweighted) had elevated HbA1c (>6.4) indicating diabetes, 112 had borderline HbA1c (5.7–6.4), 791 had BV by Nugent’s Gram stain score (Nugent-BV), and 104 had TV. Borderline HbA1c, but not higher HbA1c, was significantly associated with Nugent-BV (OR=1.58, 95% CI: 1.11-2.25) and TV detection (OR=2.45, 95% CI: 1.10-5.44) in unadjusted logistic regression models. After adjustment for confounders, including race/ethnicity, recent douching, and body mass index, associations between borderline HbA1c and both vaginitis outcomes were null. Sample size was limited by few cases with diabetes, and multivariable modeling may require larger sample size. Future longitudinal studies with more diabetes cases may confirm these findings.
Narrative Expectations in Financial Forecasting

How do people form expectations about the future? We use amateur and expert investors’ expectations about financial asset prices to study this question. Three experiments contrast the rational expectations assumption from neoclassical economics (investors forecast according to neoclassical financial theory) against two psychological theories of expectation-formation—behaviorally-informed expectations (investors understand empirical market anomalies and expect these anomalies to occur) and narrative expectations (investors use narrative thinking to predict future prices). Whereas neoclassical financial theory maintains that past public information cannot be used to predict future prices, participants used company performance information revealed before a base price quotation to project future price trends after that quotation (Experiment 1), contradicting rational expectations. Importantly, these projections were stronger when information concerned predictions about a company’s future performance rather than actual data about its past performance, suggesting that people not only rely on financially irrelevant (but narratively relevant) information for making predictions, but erroneously impose temporal order on that information. These biased predictions had downstream consequences for asset allocation choices (Experiment 2) and these choices were driven in part by affective reactions to the company performance news (Experiment 3). There were some mild effects of expertise, but overall the effects of narrative appear to be consistent across all levels of expertise studied, including professional financial analysts. We conclude by discussing the prospects for a narrative theory of choice that provide new micro-foundational insights about economic behavior.
A multi‐scale approach to laminated microbial deposits in non‐marine carbonate environments through examples of the Cenozoic, north‐east Iberian Peninsula, Spain

This contribution focusses on stromatolites and oncolites as tools to seek diverse environmental and climate information at different temporal scales. The scales are: (a) Low frequency, dealing with macroscopic and megascopic scales, and (b) high frequency, involving calendar and solar frequency bands. Two depositional environments are used for this purpose: (a) Fluvial and fluvial–lacustrine, which can develop under high to moderate gradients, and in low‐gradient conditions, and (b) lacustrine, subject to low‐gradient, hydrologically closed lake conditions. Several current and ancient examples in the Iberian Peninsula allow high‐frequency and low‐frequency analyses. Within the wedge‐shaped depositional units that fill the high‐ to moderate‐gradient, stepped fluvial systems, stromatolites form half domes and lenticular bodies, commonly at the wedge front. Oncolites are uncommon. These stromatolites developed in moderate to fast‐flowing water in stepped cascades and rapids. Their geometry and extent reflect the topography of the bedrock and later ongoing growth. In low‐gradient fluvial and fluvial‐(open) lacustrine systems the depositional units are tabular, low‐angle wedge‐shaped and lenticular and have great spatial facies variability. The dominant oncoid and coated‐stem limestones form gently lenticular stacked bodies, developed in wide, low to high‐sinuosity channels within wide tufaceous palustrine areas and small lakes. In the Ebro Basin saline carbonate lacustrine systems, stromatolites form thin planar to domed and stratiform bodies and are associated with muddy‐grainy laminated carbonates and very rare oncolites, together forming ramp‐shaped units that represent the inner fringes of high lake‐level deposits. This geometry reflects low‐gradient lake surface and shallow water conditions. Textural and structural features allow different ranks of laminae and types of lamination to be distinguished. Texture, together with the δ13C and δ18O values of consecutive laminae, are useful in distinguishing environmental and climate changes operating over different time spans. Periodicity analysis of lamination can help to discern any temporal significance in the lamination.
Genetic Investigation of Four Beluga Sturgeon (Huso huso, L.) Broodstocks for its Reintroduction in the Po River Basin

The reintroduction of the extinct beluga sturgeon (Huso huso L.), an anadromous species with economic and traditional relevance, is a priority in next conservation strategies in Northern Italy. The EU-LIFE NATURA project aims to reintroduce the beluga sturgeon in the Po River basin through a captive breeding program. Critical requirements for the success of the program are river connectivity and knowledge of genetic diversity of the selected broodstocks to ensure self-sustainability of reintroduced populations. Here, the four broodstocks used for the reintroduction of beluga sturgeon have been genetically screened, genotyping 13 loci and sequencing mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b (Cyt b) gene and the entire mitochondrial DNA control region (D-Loop). The four broodstocks showed a medium-high level of nuclear genetic variability and the presence of two sub-populations, evidencing a total level of inbreeding coefficients able to sustain the good potential as future breeders. Mitochondrial analyses showed a genetic variability comparable to wild populations, further strengthening the positive potential of the investigated broodstock. Therefore, this study, showed how the degree of genetic diversity found within the four broodstocks used for H. huso reintroduction in the Po River basin could be suitable to ensure the success of the program, avoiding the inbreeding depression associated with founder effect and captive breeding.
Performing gas-exchange measurements on excised branches - evaluation and recommendations

In forest canopies, it is common to perform leaf-level gas-exchange measurements on recently excised branches, often without testing for excision-related biases. We conducted a formal test of excision effects using gas-exchange measurements from cut and uncut canopy branches of three deciduous hardwoods - sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.), tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera L.), and white oak (Quercus alba L.). Across all species, excision immediately reduced photosynthesis and stomatal conductance by 27-62% relative to pre-excision rates. In white oak, which had particularly long (> 100 cm) vessels, gas exchange was more impaired for shorter (~ 30 cm) as compared to longer (~ 100 cm) branches. Additional hypotheses linking branch height and species water-use strategy to excision bias were tested but not confirmed. A survey of 23 previously published studies confirms that our results are not without precedent. Excision-related biases should be considered when interpreting measurements performed on excised branches.
Good Corporate Governance Affects Company Value with Earnings Management as Intervening Variables in BUMN

Increasing company value is carried out by management (agents) who manage the company so that it triggers a conflict of interest so that Good Corporate Governance (GCG) is needed. One of the conflicts of interest is practicing earnings management. This study aims to analyze the effect of GCG on firm value mediated by earnings management. The sample used is 19 state-owned companies registered on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2017-2019. This study uses SEM-PLS analysis techniques to analyze data. The results showed that GCG had a negative effect on firm value and earnings management. Earnings management does not affect firm value. Earnings management, which is used as an intervening variable, cannot mediate the relationship between GCG and firm value. The limitations in this study are ignoring the variety of industries in BUMN, which may mean that each industry has different policies or practices on GCG and earnings management and different pressures from the market (investors).
Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Common Uropathogens among Adult Inpatients of a Tertiary Teaching Hospital

Introduction: Urinary tract infection is one of the common community and nosocomial problem that we encounter at a daily basis. The mounting problem of emergence of resistant strains of bacteria causing urinary tract infection (UTI) is a great concern. We had tried in this study to outline the local pattern of antibiotic resistance of the commonly found uropathogens. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out in the Ad-din Sakina Women’s Medical College Hospital, Jashore, Bangladesh on patients attending inpatient Department from January to December 2020. Presence of more than or equal to 10 5 colony forming units/ml in urine culture was considered as significant for UTI. Isolated bacteria were tested by disk diffusion method. Results: Out of 1170 urine sample tested, 372 (31.8%) were found to be culture positive cases. A clear female preponderance (77.15%) was noted in positive culture rate. E. coli was the commonest organism found among all isolates (82.25%) followed by enterococci (4.3%), klebsiella (3.76%), pseudomonas (2.95%), proteus (2.68%), enterobacter (2.15%) and Staphylococcus aureus (1.88%). High resistance was noted in E. coli isolates against nalidixic acid (77%), Original Research Article Akhter and Rizwan; JAMMR, 33(4): 59-65, 2021; Article no.JAMMR. 65944 60 Cefuroxime (75%), azithromycine (61%), cefotaxime (58%) and ceftazidime (54%). The antibiotic which showed least resistance overall includes imipenem, meropenem, nitrofurantoin and gentamicin. Conclusions: Antibiotic stewardship in accordance to local resistance and sensitivity pattern of uropathogens is mandatory to prevent the development of multidrug resistant strains.
CARLESON INTERPOLATING SEQUENCES FOR BANACH SPACES OF ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS

Abstract This paper presents an approach, based on interpolation theory of operators, to the study of interpolating sequences for interpolation Banach spaces between Hardy spaces. It is shown that the famous Carleson result for H∞ can be lifted to a large class of abstract Hardy spaces. A description is provided of the range of the Carleson operator defined on interpolation spaces between the classical Hardy spaces in terms of uniformly separated sequences. A key role in this description is played by some general interpolation results proved in the paper. As by-products, novel results are obtained which extend the Shapiro–Shields result on the characterisation of interpolation sequences for the classical Hardy spaces Hp. Applications to Hardy–Lorentz, Hardy–Marcinkiewicz and Hardy–Orlicz spaces are presented.
Performance evaluation of a high concentrator photovoltaic integrating a Fresnel lens in Saudi Arabia: A case study

Saudi Arabia has plentiful freely accessible solar energy with daily total Direct Normal Irradiance on the higher side. Furthermore, because of its extensive desert land with over 2 million km2 expanse and high clearance index, the country could be a successful contender for accommodating the High Concentrator Photovoltaic (HCPV) technology. This technology, which assimilates Fresnel lens, has drawn more attention particularly after presenting III‐V Multi‐Junction solar cells for terrestrial uses since they keep achieving new conversion efficiency accomplishments. This article evaluates the HCPV performance in Saudi Arabia using direct normal irradiance data gathered in recent times. To undertake this assessment, a validated developed optical simulation using a ray‐tracing technique is employed to evaluate the maximum and average power output that may be gathered using a single HCPV unit in the primary regions and cities in the nation. Results indicate that the highest values for average and maximum annual power yield belong to the Western Inland area with one HCPV unit having a Fresnel lens with a 0.25×0.25 m2 aperture area, and those values are over 36 and 59 kWh, respectively. Concerning cities, Tabuk has HCPV unit producing the highest average annual yield greater than 39 kWh while the maximum annual yield crosses 60 kWh. Hence, the yearly electrical energy yield of 194 such units that use an area less than 12.2 m2 corresponds to approximately 33% of the electricity demanded yearly by a typical home in Saudi Arabia, which includes heavy energy‐consuming devices like air conditioners. Additionally, the estimated pollution potentially displaced by these units as per the global warming potential indicator is around eight tons of CO2 annually.
Experimental and Simulation of Diesel Engine Fueled with Biodiesel with Variations in Heat Loss Model

This study presents an experimental investigation and thermodynamic 0D modeling of the combustion of a compression-ignition engine, fueled by an alternative fuel based on neem biodiesel (B100) as well as conventional diesel (D100). The study highlights the effects of the engine load at 50%, 75% and 100% and the influence of the heat loss models proposed by Woschni, Eichelberg and Hohenberg on the variation in the cylinder pressure. The study shows that the heat loss through the cylinder wall is more pronounced during diffusion combustion regardless of the nature of the fuels tested and the load range required. The cylinder pressures when using B100 estimated at 89 bars are relatively higher than when using D100, about 3.3% greater under the same experimental conditions. It is also observed that the problem of the high pressure associated with the use of biodiesels in engines can be solved by optimizing the ignition delay. The net heat release rate remains roughly the same when using D100 and B100 at 100% load. At low loads, the D100 heat release rate is higher than B100. The investigation shows how wall heat losses are more pronounced in the diffusion combustion phase, relative to the premix phase, by presenting variations in the curves.
Students’ perceptions on the use of LMS at a Lesotho university amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT The world was drastically changed by the 2019 outbreak of the novel Coronavirus pandemic. Teaching and learning practices had to be revised and reconceptualised in order to salvage the education process. As many countries, Lesotho included, were forced into lockdown to curb the rampant spread of the virus, educational institutions, most of which originally operated uniquely on face-to-face mode of delivery, were faced with a glaring need to swiftly adopt pure online teaching and learning, including the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS), in order to save the academic year. However, this proved to be a challenging move for all stakeholders involved, hence the purpose of this article is to explore students’ perceptions regarding the use of an LMS at one Lesotho university amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an interpretive case study, ten participants who are at third year of their university studies were conveniently selected from a larger sample of 21 students. Email conducted reflective activities and LMS focus group discussions were used for purposes of data generation. Thematic analysis was used to interpret and analyse data, which was framed by Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) theory. The findings of the study indicated that students’ factual perceptions (content knowledge) and social perceptions (technological knowledge) are influenced by their habitual perceptions (pedagogical knowledge). Students’ unique experiences with the LMS proved to have a bearing on the content acquired and on the efficiency of technological knowledge in the attainment of goals. The study recommends that institutions of higher learning adopt a flexible approach towards online learning by formally integrating students’ preferred informal and personal digital platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook. Students’ lived experiences and personal identities may be taken into consideration in navigating the new ‘norm’ while producing new and relevant knowledge.