Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Factors Responsible for Husband Battering as Expressed by Married Adults in Lagos State, Nigeria

Several factors have emerged as a major concern on the factors responsible for husband battering as expressed by married adults in Lagos State. The study examined factors responsible for husband battering as expressed by married adults in Lagos State. The study also examined the influence of moderating variables of gender, employment status, age in marriage and educational qualification. Descriptive survey designed was adopted. The population consists of married adults in Lagos State. The sample consists of two hundred married adults in Lagos State and was selected using a proportional and simple random sampling techniques. One research question was raised and four null hypotheses were also postulated respectively. Data were collected using a researcher-designed questionnaire tagged “Factors Responsible for Husband Battering Questionnaire (FRHBQ)”. Data analysis was done using t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 level of significance. Finding revealed that poor communication between couples is the most causality of husband battering among married adults in Lagos State. The findings of the study also revealed that there was a significant difference in the perception of respondents on factors responsible for husband battering on the basis of employment status and no significant difference in respondents’ perception on the basis of gender, age in marriage and educational qualification. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that couple should jealous moderately and avoids envying their partner on irrelevant issues so that husband battering could be prevented in the home.
The impact of risk disclosure on the corporate social responsibility of banks

This paper’s objective is to examine how Jordanian banks exposing risks affects their corporate social responsibility (CSR) (Pham & Tran, 2020; Abu Qa’dan & Suwaidan, 2019). The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate how risk disclosure and CSR are related in Jordan’s banking industry. For this investigation, information was gathered from 23 Jordanian banks that are listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) throughout a ten-year period, from 2010 to 2019. CSR was utilized as the dependent variable in a regression model that included four independent variables to represent the risk disclosure. The investigation included measures to guarantee that the outcomes were unaffected by the age of each bank, its size, leverage, and return on equity (ROE). The study’s results indicate that there was a positive correlation between the independent variables and CSR. This implies that risk disclosure is a useful strategy for enhancing CSR in the banking sector. The results of this study have significant applications for policymakers, future scholars, and bank managers. In order to comprehend the connection between risk disclosure and CSR in different nations and within various industries, the study further emphasizes the significance of further research in this area.
Thrombomodulin Serum Levels—A Predictable Biomarker for the Acute Onset of Ischemic Stroke

The early diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) can be challenging in cases presenting with a scarcity of clinical signs, normal cerebral imaging in early stages and a lack of specific serum markers. Thrombomodulin has been shown to be associated with cerebrovascular ischemic events and can be considered an important biomarker for the acute onset of ischemic stroke. In our study, we compared the serum levels of thrombomodulin (sTM) between a relevant patient group of 70 AIS patients and a control group of patients without AIS admitted into the neurology department between June 2022 and May 2023. sTM levels were measured at 24 h and 48 h after patients’ admissions into the hospital. There was a significant difference between the two groups (AIS: 23.2 ± 9.17 ng/mL vs. controls: 3.64 ± 1.72 ng/mL; p-value < 0.001). sTM values were correlated with the score of neurological deficits, with gender and dyslipidemia. The association of sTM values with the acute onset of AIS as an end point was significant, which allows rapid therapeutic interventions, even in the absence of a well-defined clinical syndrome (AUC = 0.99). Reanalysis of the patients after propensity score matching increased the power of sTM as a biomarker (AUC = 1). sTM represents a potentially useful biomarker to diagnose the onset of an AIS, even in scarce clinical presentations, which makes thrombomodulin a valuable indicator for early treatment initiation.
Effect of climate change on main crop water requirements in Henan province during 1971—2010

To gain insight into climate change effects on main crop( wheat,corn,cotton,and peanut) water re- quirement of Henan province,crop water requirement were calculated according to the FAO Penman-Monteith equa- tion. The climatic data of 12 meteorological stations from 1971 to 2010 were used to analyze the relationship between climate change and crop water requirement. The results showed that the crop water requirement was highest in June, and lowest in November or December. As for water requirement difference between the 4 crops,cotton demanded more water than wheat,which is followed by peanut,and the corn demanded least water in the 4 main crops. Crop water requirement had a tendency of decreasing from 1971 to 2001. The mean wind speed had a significantly posi- tive influence on crop water requirement. The mean wind speed significantly decreased in the past 40 years,and re- sulted in the reduction of the water requirement of main crops.
On the Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Child Heritage Spanish: Bilingual Education, Exposure, and Age Effects (In Memory of Phoebe Search)

Studies on school-aged children have been infrequent in research on Spanish as a heritage language. The present study explored how dual-language immersion education, patterns of heritage language use, proficiency, and age shape child Spanish heritage speakers’ production and selection of differential object marking (DOM). A total of 57 English–Spanish bilingual children and 18 Spanish-dominant adults completed sentence completion and morphology selection tasks. Results revealed that the group of heritage speaker children that produced and selected the differential object marker most frequently was the seventh and eighth grade children (ages 12–14, the oldest in the study) who had completed a dual-language immersion program. Different factors accounted for variability in each task: bilingual education and proficiency affected the production of DOM, while age affected selection. Heritage speakers selected DOM more frequently than they produced this structure. These findings have implications for theories of heritage language acquisition that emphasizes that language experience and exposure account for differences between heritage speakers and argue for the dissociation of production from underlying syntactic knowledge. The data also argue that heritage speakers may possess a bilingual alignment for DOM, whereby underlying receptive knowledge is modulated by cumulative exposure, while production depends more on bilingual education and proficiency in Spanish.
High Ferritin and Low Total Iron-Binding Capacity in Plasma Predict All-Cause Mortality During the First 3 Years of Hemodialysis in Patients with End-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease

Aim To determine all-cause mortality rate and the predictive value of plasma ferritin and total iron-binding capacity (TIBC) concentrations for mortality during the first 3 years of hemodialysis in patients with end-stage chronic renal disease (ESRD). Methods We conducted a study on 174 ESRD patients (estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate < 15 mL/min/1.73m2). The plasma TIBC level was quantified by the ELISA method in all patients at the time before hemodialysis. Based on TIBC concentration, patients were divided equally into 2 groups. Each group had 87 patients. Patients were initiated on hemodialysis, and patients who died from any cause during the first 3 years of hemodialysis were recorded. Results The all-cause mortality rate of ESRD patients in the first 3 years of maintenance hemodialysis was 22.9%. Plasma high hs-CRP, high ferritin, and low TIBC concentrations were independent factors associated with all-cause mortality in the patients. Plasma ferritin (cut-off value = 454.2 ng/L) and TIBC (cut-off value = 39.84 µmol/L) were predictors of all-cause mortality, AUC is: 0.772; 0.723, p < 0.001. Conclusion Plasma ferritin and TIBC were good predictors of all-cause mortality in ESRD patients during the first 3 years of hemodialysis.
LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb age and geochemistry of the Early Permian Halinudeng granite in northern Alxa area,western Inner Mongolia

The Halinudeng pluton is located in the northern margin of Alxa area.LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of zircons from the pluton yields an age of 284.0±1.8 Ma,indicating that the formation of this pluton is Permian instead of Silurian as previous considered.The main rock types of the pluton include biotite-plagioclase granites and biotite monzogranites,with high SiO2(67%-72%),CaO(2.2%-4.4%) and Al2O3(14.5%-17.2%). Geochemical characteristics indicate that they are metaluminous-weakly peraluminous(A/CNK=0.90-1.07) and calc-alkaline to high-K calc-alkaline rocks(Na2O=3.7%-4.3%,K2O=2.1%-2.9%),assuming characteristics of I-type granite.The rocks have lower REE contents(35.2×10-6-130.6×10-6) with relative enrichment of LREE and positive Eu anomaly(δEu=1.04-1.90). The primitive mantle normalized trace element patterns are characterized by the enrichment of the LILE(K,Rb,Ba,Sr) and depletion of the HFSE(Ta,Nb,P,Yb,Y),showing the features of arc granites.It is considered that the northern margin of Alxa might still have had some arc-related magmatic activities during the Early Permian period.
Comparative Evaluation of the Antibacterial Efficacy of Aloe Vera, 3% Nano Silver Solution, and 2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate on Enterococcus faecalis: An In Vitro Study

Objectives: The present study aims to evaluate and compare the antimicrobial efficacy of irrigant solutions with different natures against E. faecalis . Subjects and methods : A total of 48 contaminated roots were randomly divided into four groups (n = 12) according to the irrigation regimen used as follow: Group I: A 80% Aloe Vera extract irrigant solution. Group II: A 3% Nanosilver irrigant solution. Group III: A 2% Chlorhexidine irrigant solution. Group IV: A 1 % Sodium hypochlorite irrigant solution. The microbial counts were assessed by CFU/ml. Results: a significant reduction in the CFU count results of E. faecalis after irrigation in all studied groups. NaOCl had the highest antimicrobial effectiveness against E. faecalis and showed significant differences compared with CHX, Aloe Vera , and AgNPs solutions. Conclusion : NaOCl had the strongest and most significant effects of the studied irrigants against E faecalis, followed by CHX, AgNPs, and Aloe Vera.
Safety and Suitability of Infant Formula Manufactured from Extensively Hydrolyzed Whey Protein Compared to Intact Protein: A Combined Analysis of Two Randomized Controlled Studies

Our aim was to assess the nutritional safety and suitability of an infant formula manufactured from extensively hydrolyzed protein in comparison to infant formula manufactured from intact protein (both with low and standard protein content). We performed a combined analysis of raw data from two randomized infant feeding studies. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) model was used to determine the non-inferiority of daily weight gain (primary outcome; margin −3 g/day), with the intervention group as a fixed factor and geographic region, sex, and baseline weight as covariates (main model). The data of 346 infants exposed to the formula were included in the analysis. The sample size of the per-protocol analysis with 184 infants was too small to achieve sufficient statistical power. The lower limit of the 97.5% confidence interval (−0.807) of the mean group difference in daily weight gain (i.e., 2.22 g/day) was above the −3 g/day margin (full analysis set). Further anthropometric parameters did not differ between the infant formula groups throughout the study. Growth was comparable to breastfed infants. We conclude that the infant formula manufactured from extensively hydrolyzed protein meets infant requirements for adequate growth and does not raise any safety concerns.
Effective tax rate, board diversity, and firm performance: Evidence from the electric and electronic industry

This study examines the effect of effective tax rate (ETR) and board diversity on the performance of Malaysian public-listed companies (PLCs) in the electric and electronic (E&E) industry. The sample of this study comprised 51 E&E public companies listed in the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia during the financial periods 2018 and 2022. This study documents a significant positive relationship between firm performance and ETR, consistent with the political cost theory, suggesting that high-performing industries such as E&E are more at risk of political scrutiny and, hence, tend to pay higher amounts of tax despite the tax incentives provided by the government. Interestingly, foreign directors are negatively related to a firm’s performance. The possible explanation for this is that the E&E industry is highly regulated by the Malaysian government; hence, foreign directors’ contribution and authority to make independent strategic changes to drive the firm’s performance are limited. Finally, the effect of female directors on firm performance is found to be insignificant, possibly because, on average, only 10% of women are represented on the board of the E&E PLCs. The study findings are of significant interest and beneficial to policymakers, the government, and tax authorities in trying to understand the implications, assess the effectiveness, and tightly monitor the tax incentives and board diversity policy of the E&E companies.
Human resource implications of expanding latent tuberculosis patient care activities

Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) declared increasing services for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) a priority to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2035. Yet, there is little information about thehuman resource needs required to implement LTBI treatment scale-up. Our study aimed to estimate the change in healthcare workers (HCW) time spent on different patient care activities, following an intervention to strengthen LTBI services. Methods We conducted a time and motion (TAM) study, observing HCW throughout a typical workday before and after the intervention (Evaluation and Strengthening phases, respectively) at 24 health facilities in five countries. The precise time spent on pre-specified categories of work activities was recorded. Time spent on direct patient care was subcategorized as relating to one of three conditions: LTBI, active or suspected TB, and non-TB (i.e., patients with any other medical condition). A linear mixed model (LMM) was fit to estimate the change in HCW time following the intervention. Results A total of 140 and 143 HCW participated in the TAMs during the Evaluation and Strengthening phases, respectively. Results from intervention facilities showed an increase of 9% (95% CI: 3%, 15%) in the proportion of HCW time spent on LTBI-related services, but with a corresponding change of -11% (95% CI: -21%, -1%) on active TB services. There was no change in the proportion of time spent on LTBI care in control facilities; this remained low in both phases of the study. Discussion Our findings suggest that additional HCW personnel will be required for expansion of LTBI services to ensure that this expansion does not reduce the time available for care of active TB patients.
Clinical Significance of NPM1 A and Non A Mutations and Its Relation to The ARF/P53 Pathway in Egyptian Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients

Background: Nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1) gene is known for its regulatory role of the ARF-p53-tumor suppressor pathway. Its mutations are known to be the most common gene mutations in AML. Aim: To detect the type of NPM1 gene mutation (NPM-A mut and non-A mut) in AML patients and correlating it with changes in molecular gene expression level of p53 and ARF genes also to study their relation to clinical, laboratory data and response to treatment. Methods: Absolute quantification of the NPM1 mutation type and the expression level of p53 and ARF genes were assessed using quantitative reverse-transcription PCR (RT-qPCR). Results: We studied 41 newly diagnosed AML patients, all of them had NPM1 gene mutation, out of them 25/41 had non-A mutation (61%) and 16/41 (39%) had mutation A. A statistically significant difference between AML patients with NPM1 mutation-A and non-A mutation was found in bone marrow blasts count (p-value=0.032). A trend statistical significance was observed in patients with NPM1 mutation-A and P53 gene overexpression than in patients with non-A mutation as well as ARF gene expression for patients with NPM1 mutation-A is higher than patients with non-A mutation (p-value=0.063). Median follow up of patients’ cohort was 1.81 (0.03-47.1) months. Median survival duration for patients carrying NPM1 mutation-A compared to those with other NPM1 mutations was 1.09 months versus 1.05 months, and this variation lacked statistical significance (p-value of 0.634). Conclusion: We can conclude that there is a trend statistically association between p53 and ARF genes high expression level and NPM1 mut-A type. It is important to detect the type of NPM1 mutation with examination of P53 and ARF genes expression to help in therapeutic strategies.
Effect of irrigation intervals and row distances on yield and its attributes of flax, Linum usitatissimum L. under conditioners and sandy soil

The present investigation was conducted at Ismailia Agric. Res. Station Farm, Ismailia Governorate Egypt, during : 2004 / 05 and 2005 / 06 seasons, to study the influence of sprinkler irrigation intervals (1, 2, 3 days), row distances (15 and 20 cm) and Agar Agar as soil conditioner on the yield and yield components as well as their interaction on yield of new flax variety Giza 10 and its attributes. A split split plot design with three replication was used. The results could be summarized as follows: 1Irrigation intervals (I) had significant effect on plant height cm, technical stem length, straw yield / plant, number of capsules / plant, seed yield /plant, seed yield fad, fiber yield / plant, fiber yield / fad, and straw yield fad ton in both seasons whereas technical stem length did not reach the level of significance in the first season. The highest values of this characters were obtained by three days as sprinkler irrigation intervals. 2 – Row distances (D) 20 cm. produced the highest values of straw yield / plant, number of capsules / plant and seed yield / plant, while the highest plant height, technical stem length, seed yield / fad. , fiber yield / plant and per faddan and straw yield / fad were produced by row spacing 15 cm. in both seasons. 3 – Agar Agar as soil conditioner (C) significantly affected all characters under study in both seasons compared with control. 4 – All interaction between the studied factors were not significant except IxC for plant height, technical stem length, number of capsules / plant, seed yield / plant, seed yield / fad, fiber yield / plant and fiber yield / fad. as well as DxC for plant height, fiber yield / fad and straw yield / fad Also IxD for number of capsules / plant, seed yield/plant, seed yield /fad and fiber yield /plant finally IxDxC for number of capsules /plant, fiber yield/ plant and per faddan. It can be concluded that under sandy soil condition its recommended to cultivate flax crop and irrigated every three days for two hour time instead two and one days with 15 cm as row spacing under soil conditioner (Agar Agar) to availability water and increased nutrient in root zoon to obtained highest yield of straw and seed and its attributes
Reducing job hopping intentions through personal psychological aspects

This study aims to investigate the impact of personal psychological factors, such as work-life balance and job satisfaction, on the job-hopping intentions of millennials. The research employs a quantitative approach, and the study population consists of millennial employees working in Purwakarta Regency. The data was collected using non-probability and accidental sampling techniques, with a total sample size of 100 employees. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to analyze the data, with the help of the IBM SPSS Statistics 26 application. The findings of this research can help companies understand the reasons behind employee turnover, including voluntary turnover, such as job-hopping. By understanding the psychological aspects of their employees, companies can reduce job-hopping and other forms of turnover. The study provides evidence that taking a personal psychological approach to millennial employees can help reduce job-hopping intentions, which is crucial for companies to minimize losses due to turnover.
Do extreme temperatures affect cognition? A short review of the impact of acute heat stress on cognitive performance of firefighters

Research shows that exposure to high environmental temperatures can affect task performance. Theoretical explanations outline that heat is a source of stress that competes for limited-capacity resources, therefore if a task is resource-intensive, and/or if heat stress is extreme, performance will suffer. One occupation in which individuals complete demanding tasks and make difficult decisions, often in temperatures exceeding 200°C, is firefighting. Yet very little is currently known about the impact of heat stress on the cognitive functioning of firefighters. This short review summarizes the limited research in this area, focusing on studies that measured cognition of firefighters following a realistic training exercise. The findings are mixed with evidence that heat stress improves, impairs, and has no impact on cognitive functioning. While there are differences in the firefighting activities utilized, and the temperatures that participants were exposed to, it is argued that the varied findings can be attributed to the tasks used to assess cognitive processing, and the cognitive functions being measured. In accordance with the wider field of research, it is concluded that complex functioning, such as sustained attention, vigilance, and working memory is negatively impacted by acute exposure to extreme heat. Greater understanding of factors affecting cognition would inform safety practices and more research is needed to understand how and when heat stress may influence cognition in firefighting scenarios.
Interlaboratory comparison of two homemade pencil type ionization chambers

Computed tomography (CT) is a diagnostic exam responsible for the highest dose values received by the patients during the procedure. Over the years, this kind of equipment has been improved to ensure that the patients do not receive unnecessary doses. For this reason it is important to keep a quality control program for the CT equipment. To perform the dosimetry in CT beams, the instrument used is usually a pencil type ionization chamber with a sensitive volume length of 10 cm. However, this kind of detector is available with different sensitive volume lengths. The aim of this study was to compare the response of two homemade pencil type ionization chambers with sensitive volume lengths of 10 cm and 30 cm in the laboratories of Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN, Brazil) and National Physical Laboratory (NPL, UK). The characterization tests were performed, and the results obtained are within the international recommended limits. The only difference observed in the response of the two chambers in both laboratories is the fact that the ionization current obtained in all the tests at the IPEN is higher than at the NPL, because of the beam characteristics.