Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Determining bioenergy field of autistic and normal healthy children: an electrophotonic imaging study

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a set of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including restricted, repetitive behavioral, communication and social impairments. During past decades, the epidemiological studies showed an increase in the prevalence of autism worldwide. An autism survey in India estimated about 1 in 100 children under age 10 years have autism. Research studies reported that children with ASD have unclear pathophysiology and may be associated with several risk factors including alterations of gut microbiota, genetic, environmental toxicants and nutritional factor. Further, few other associated risk factors are age, gender, parental education and behavior. Apart from core symptoms of ASD, such as socialization, communication and repetitive behavior, the clinical symptoms are usually present by the age of 3 years. The symptoms may worsen in delayed diagnosis and initiation of ASD-specific intervention. However, the timing and developmental course of ASD symptoms vary across children. ABSTRACT
An Investigation of Spiral Gravity Waves Radiating from Tropical Cyclones Using a Linear, Nonhydrostatic Model

A recent study showed observational and numerical evidence for small-scale gravity waves that radiate outward from tropical cyclones. These waves are wrapped into tight spirals by the radial and vertical shears of the tangential wind field. Reexamination of the previously studied tropical cyclone simulations suggests that the dominant source for these waves are convective asymmetries rotating along the eyewall, modulated in intensity by the preferred convection region on the left side of the environmental wind shear vector. A linearized, nonhydrostatic model for perturbations to a balanced vortex is used to study the waves. Forcing the linear model with rotating and pulsing asymmetric heat sources generates radiating gravity waves with multiple vertical and horizontal structures. The pulsation of the rotating heat source generates two types of waves: fast, deep waves with larger radial wavelengths, and slower, secondary waves with shorter radial and vertical wavelengths. The deeper waves produce surface pressure oscillations that have time scales consistent with surface observations, whereas the shorter waves have little surface indication but produce oscillations in vertical velocity with shorter radial wavelengths that are consistent with aircraft observations. Convective forcing that is either not pulsing or not rotating produces gravity waves but they are not as similar to the observed or simulated waves. The effects of varying the intensity of the cyclone, the asymmetry of the forcing, and the static stability of the surrounding atmosphere are explored.
Learning Styles of Indonesian EFL Students: Culture and Learning

Learners’ success in language learning is affected by many factors, including age, aptitude, and intelligence, cognitive style, attitudes, motivation, and personality. Besides, learning strategies and learning styles also help to succeed in language learning. This paper discusses the learning style preferences of the first-year students at English Department Universitas Brawijaya Malang, Indonesia. There were two problems that attempted to be answered; first, what are the learning styles used by the students, and second, how influential is culture to the students’ learning. Barsch Learning Styles Inventory (BLSI) was employed as an instrument for 73 respondents. The results showed that more than 50% of respondents prefer visual mode, and the remaining were auditory learners, kinesthetic, and bimodal learners who combine visual and auditory modes in learning English. This might be affected by the culture of Indonesian learners that, in general, are accustomed to listening and reading instead of giving spaces to practice knowledge. Understanding the styles of learning can be very useful for the students to learn in the way they learn best through the activities. It will enable them to understand the course contents more comfortably so it can improve their motivation and language abilities, enjoy the learning process, decrease stress, and eventually get better achievement.
QUALITY OF WORK LIFE, ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND TURNOVER INTENTION IN ACCOUNT OFFICER OF MICRO FINANCE COMPANY

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of quality of work life (QWL) on turnover intention through organizational commitment of account officers in micro-finance company. This research was conducted using the survey method. Data were collected using questionnaires from 115 account officers at a micro-finance company in West Java. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and SEM-PLS. The results of this study indicate that QWL has a significant and positive effect on organizational commitment and organizational commitment has a significant and negative effect on turnover intention. It can be concluded that by increasing the implementation of QWL will increase the organizational commitment of employees to remain in the company so that it decreases the intention of employees to move or leave the company.
Digital Stories with Children : Examining Digital Storytelling as a Pedagogical Process in ECEC

: Modern digital technologies have become common in educational settings of all levels. This has made the use of digital storytelling (DST) more applicable in early childhood education and care (ECEC). This paper examines the implementation of DST, aiming to answer the following questions: 1) How to support children’s active participation throughout the DST process in ECEC, and 2) how do 21 st century skills manifest in the DST process? The study was conducted between 2017 and 2018, when two cycles of DST projects were implemented in four Finnish ECEC centres as part of a European project. The data consist of interviews with educators (N=15) and children (N=51), as well as documentation of the DST activities (project sheets, N=37, and yearly summary documents, N=18) produced by the educators. The data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Firstly, our results highlight aspects that are important for supporting children’s active participation in DST, divided into the following categories: premises on starting DST with children, interpersonal processes during DST activity, affordances of digital tools and the meaning of DST activity and products. Secondly, we present how the 21 st century skills such as digital skills, collaboration and problem-solving manifested in the DST process.
Evaluating the quality experience of ecotourist in Taman Negara Pahang

Tourists that travel to a destination will gain different kinds of experiences due to several conditions of a destination. To identify what are the Quality Experience that a tourist gained, certain characteristics of experiences will be determined by using Memorable Tourism Experience (MTE). Taman Negara Pahang a National Park in Malaysia which rich in the natural habitat which is considered as an ecotourism destination. Thus, the purpose of this study is to understand the Quality Experience of eco-tourist in Taman Negara Pahang by using the Memorable Tourism Experience (MTE). This study will be focusing on the main objective which is to determine the most influential Quality Experience of eco-tourists in Taman Negara Pahang. This study is a quantitative study and an online survey was used as the data collection instrument for the 130 respondents. This study shows that the preferred Quality Experience of eco-tourist is Hedonism while the least preferred Quality Experience is Local Culture. This study contributes to identify the Quality Experience of eco-tourist gained after they have visited an ecotourism destination. Therefore, the results of this study can offer a quality contribution towards any responsible parties to manage Taman Negara Pahang in terms of services, and management.
Net Balance Analysis Relationship of Learning Interests and Student Learning Outcomes of Teacher Explanation Skills in Medan City

This study aims to analyze the relationship of learning interest and student learning outcomes with the teacher's explaining skills using Chi-Square analysis and to determine the level of student optimism towards the teacher's explaining skills using the net balance method. Based on the trial instrument the results obtained; (1) The teacher's explaining skills there were 24 valid statements, (2) The Learning Interest variable there were 23 valid statements, (3) The Learning Outcomes variable with 31 valid questions. The results obtained are that there is a relationship between the skills of explaining teachers with student interest in learning with the acquisition of Chi-Squarecount 51.332 > ChiSquaretable 37.65. In contrast, there was no relationship between the teacher's explaining skills and the learning outcomes obtained with the Chi-Squarecount calculated 18.710 < ChiSquare table 37.65. The net balance results contained 6 statements of students' pessimistic perceptions of the teacher's explaining skills.
Pharmacogenomics of drugs used to treat brain disorders

ABSTRACT Introduction Neuropsychiatric disorders (NPDs) (neurodevelopmental, mental, neurodegenerative, neurotoxic, complex disorders) are the third major problem of health in developed countries. About 10-20% of direct costs are attributed to pharmacological treatment; however, drug effectiveness is lower than 30% in most NPDs. Pharmacogenomics accounts for 60-90% variability in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Areas covered Main areas covered include (i) organization of the pharmacogenetic machinery (pathogenic, mechanistic, metabolic, transporter, pleiotropic genes); (ii) pharmacogenomics of antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, antiepileptics, anti-Alzheimer, anti-Parkinson, and anti-stroke drugs; and (iii) adverse drug reactions and pharmaco-resistance. Expert commentary The pharmacogenomics of NPDs is still primitive, but sufficient to help physicians to optimize pharmacological treatment by reducing ADRs (extrapyramidal symptoms, tardive dyskinesia, neurotoxicity, cerebrovascular damage) and unnecessary costs. Over 50% of psychotropic drugs are incorrectly prescribed. CYP enzymes participate in the metabolism of over 90% of drugs for the treatment of NPDs. Only 20% of the population is potentially extensive metabolizer for 80% of current psychotropic agents. Consequently, the introduction of pharmacogenomic procedures in the clinical setting is an urgent need for improving drug efficacy and safety.
A Numerical Study of Roughness Scale Effects on Ocean Radar Scattering Using the Second-Order SSA and the Moment Method

The roughness scale effects on ocean radar scattering are studied using the second-order small slope approximation (SSA-II) and the method of moments (MoM). The KHCC03 spectrum is employed to represent 2-D and 1-D sea surfaces in the above two scattering methods, respectively. Criteria of full spectrum truncation are proposed for the numerical simulations of ocean scattering. Numerical results are illustrated in fully bistatic configuration at L- and C-bands. It is found that scattering at higher frequency is relatively more sensitive to the small-scale roughness but less sensitive to the large-scale roughness. At L- and C-bands, short waves with wavenumber larger than 316 rad/m have little effect on ocean scattering. The large-scale waves put more impacts on scattering in the forward directions, especially for large incidence angles. Other than the specular direction, the effects of large-scale roughness on ocean scattering are in general smaller at VV-pol than HH-pol. The bistatic scattering at cross polarizations is less sensitive to the roughness scale as compared to the copolarizations. For numerical simulations of ocean scattering with incidence angle less than 60°, using small surface profiles with size about 1/6 of those accounting for full spectrum yields results with errors less than 2 dB. Results also indicate that the incoherent parts dominate the scattered power from ocean surfaces with large-scale roughness.
Aggressive Predation Drives Assembly of Adriatic Fish Communities

We performed over 19,000 lure-assisted, underwater visual fish census transects at over 140 shallow coastal sampling locations in the mid- eastern Adriatic sea of the Croatian mainland and islands, recording all fish taxa observed, their predatory behavior in response to the lure, and the cover of benthic habitats with which they were associated. We hypothesized that prey habitat preference was a learned or selected response to aggressive behavior by piscivorous mesopredators, and predicted that mobile prey would be spatially segregated from aggressive predators into different benthic habitats within local sampling sites. We found that aggressive piscivores were primarily wait-chase or cruise-chase mesopredators that preferentially foraged along heterogeneous habitat edges within juxtapositions of rock, unconsolidated sediment, macroalgae (Cystoseira spp.) and seagrass (usually Posidonia oceanica). Prey species and less aggressive piscivores avoided these heterogeneous habitats and preferred more homogeneous habitats that the aggressive predators in turn avoided. We found strong and consistent spatial segregation between aggressive predators on the one hand, and less aggressive predators and prey on the other hand. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that aggressive behavior by piscivorous species is the primary organizing force shaping assembly of fish communities at our study sites, driving preference and occupancy of heterogeneous and homogeneous benthic habitats. Management of shallow benthic resources should recognize the value of complementarity in habitats allowing coexistence of predators and prey through contrasting habitat preferences.
Pear Flower Cluster Quantification Using RGB Drone Imagery

High quality fruit production requires the regulation of the crop load on fruit trees by reducing the number of flowers and fruitlets early in the growing season, if the bearing is too high. Several automated flower cluster quantification methods based on proximal and remote imagery methods have been proposed to estimate flower cluster numbers, but their overall performance is still far from satisfactory. For other methods, the performance of the method to estimate flower clusters within a tree is unknown since they were only tested on images from one perspective. One of the main reported bottlenecks is the presence of occluded flowers due to limitations of the top-view perspective of the platform-sensor combinations. In order to tackle this problem, the multi-view perspective from the Red–Green–Blue (RGB) colored dense point clouds retrieved from drone imagery are compared and evaluated against the field-based flower cluster number per tree. Experimental results obtained on a dataset of two pear tree orchards (N = 144) demonstrate that our 3D object-based method, a combination of pixel-based classification with the stochastic gradient boosting algorithm and density-based clustering (DBSCAN), significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art in flower cluster estimations from the 2D top-view (R2 = 0.53), with R2 > 0.7 and RRMSE < 15%.
Effect of rice residue management and crop diversification on growth and yield of rice

RWCS is the most dominant and extensive cropping system across South Asian Indo-Gangetic Plains. It has the deleterious effects on the soil physical properties and leads to ample amount of residue generation. Residue managements is the biggest question that arises thereby to overcome these problems and to maintain the sustainability an experiments was held during the Kharif season of 2017 at N. E. Borlaug Crop Research Centre of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, US Nagar, Uttarakhand situated at 29◦N, 79◦29E and at an altitude of 243.86 above mean sea level, to evaluate the effect of crop diversification and residue management techniques through organics on rice growth and productivity. It has been observed that diversification of RWCS as rice-yellow sarson-groundnut and rice-vegetable pea-maize along with 30% residue management through organics viz., vermicompost @ 2 t ha-1, FYM @ 5 t ha-1 and biogas slurry @ 2 t ha-1 can be advocated for enhancing the growth and productivity of rice and the 30% residue management through organics viz., vermicompost @ 2 t ha-1 and rice-yellow sarson-groundnut perform best among them with the grain yield of 7.12 t ha-1 and 6.44 t ha-1, respectively.
An Analytic Framework for Interpreting Investment Regressions in the Presence of Financial Constraints

A financial constraint that prevents access to external funds induces non-classical measurement error in average q as a proxy for unobservable marginal q. Unlike classical measurement error, this measurement error biases upward the coefficient on average q in a univariate regression of investment on average q. In a multiple regression of investment on average q and cash flow, the coefficient on cash flow is positive. The positive cash-flow coefficient indicates the presence of a financial constraint, but it does not indicate a shortage of liquidity to fund current investment. In addition, the coefficient on average q is biased downward.
A General Overview of the Risk-Reduction Strategies for Floods and Droughts

Water is a limited resource but essential to sustaining life and supporting economic development. Only 2.5% of all the water on Earth is freshwater and can be used to meet basic human needs such as a clean supply of water for drinking, cooking, and bathing. Water scarcity is the result of an imbalance between supply and demand. Efficient water resource management is definitely of interest to research and is a practical topic. At the same time, water-related disasters such as floods and droughts cause the loss of life and property. Disasters increase the difficulty of effective water resource management. An increase in climate extremes can also increase the risk of floods and droughts. This overview covers 150 peer-reviewed journal publications from the last twenty years focusing on risk-reduction strategies for floods and droughts. First, a definition and classification of flood and drought was introduced. Second, studies and techniques associated with risk reduction were grouped into three themes and discussed: prediction and warning; monitoring; and impact assessment, response, and management. As a result, many studies were solely focused on, and achieve excellence in, their own themes. Special attention was needed to find in these studies what can convert the adverse impacts such as flood water to positive outcomes such as drought relief. Multidisciplinary cooperation is necessary to achieve sustainability and to adapt to climate change. Finally, advanced techniques such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) were foreseen to have a tremendous impact on future disaster risk reduction.
Functional cookies with the addition of brewer's barley malt and reduced sucrose addition

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of replacing part of wheat flour (20, 40 and 60 %) with special brewer’s malted barley flour (Amber) and effect of reduced sucrose (66.6%, 33.3% and 0%) on cookies quality. Dimensional and textural properties, colour and sensory properties of cookies were evaluated. Analyses of total polyphenol content and antioxidant activity were also conducted. Based on the results of the research carried out it can be concluded that width and spread factor of cookies significantly decreased and thickness increased proportionally to the reduction of added sucrose. These changes were less pronounced in the samples with the addition of malted flour. Sucrose reduction significantly decreased snapping force and that decrease was even more evident for barley malt cookie samples. Brightness decreased proportionally with the addition of malted flour. Malt addition significantly increased total polyphenol content and antioxidant activity of cookies. According to sensory analyses, cookies with the addition of malted flour have a pleasant sweet and full flavour. It can be concluded that special brewer’s malted barley flour can be successfully used in the production of functional cookies with simultaneous reduction of sucrose addition.
The Mediation Effects of Organizational Engagement between HRM Practices and Employee Job Satisfaction in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Thailand

Employers should practice the human resources management practices such as procedural justice, distributive justice, and career management program that employees engage at work with greater satisfaction. In the context of Thailand, limited study has focused on exploring career engagement, organizational justice as human resource practices. This study aims to explore the connection between HRM Practices (organizational justice, career management) with organizational engagement, and job satisfaction. A total of 400 participants were told that their answers would remain unidentified and confidential, and the participation was voluntary. Out of 400, a total of 386 participants give back their envelopes after filling up the questionnaires. After the screening of questionnaires, 377 data proceeded for further analysis. This study found organizational engagement is an important mediator who could be valuable to the organization to look for employee satisfaction. Further, distributive justice found has no significant influence on both organizational engagement and employee job satisfaction.
Impact of Dietary L-Carnitine as a Feed Additive on Performance, Carcass Characteristics and Blood Biochemical Measurements of Broiler

The present paper pointed to investigate the effects of L-carnitine on broiler performance, carcass traits and some blood biochemical measurements. A total of 120 Ross chicks provided from hatchery, distributed randomly into four groups (30 chicks each) 3 replicates / each (10 chicks each). The 1 was control group and received basal diet, 2, 3 and 4 groups fed basal diet containing 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75 g of L-carnitine per kg diet. Results showed that body weight (BW) at 42 days old and daily body weight gain (DBWG) through 21-42 and 1-42 days old showed promoting impact of checks received 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75 g L-carnitine /Kg diet than control group. Feed intake (FI) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) reducing significantly (P<0.05) compared with control group during stage 21-42 days of age. Comparative weights of carcass, dressing, giblets and liver were increased (P<0.05 and 0.01) by adding L-carnitine levels into broiler chicks diet compared with the control. The highest values of most mentioned relative weight were recorded with chicks group fed on diet containing 0.75 g L-carnitine /Kg diet confront with the control. Blood plasma Total protein enhanced (P<0.05) by L-carnitine addition, total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein (LDL) and glucose values decreased significantly (P<0.01 or 0.05) in groups fed diet plus various levels of L-carnitine than control group . From the above results, can be concluded that L-carnitine had low role of promoting broiler performance, while it improved carcass characteristics and blood biochemical estimations specially lipid profile.
New data on the family Himantariidae Bollman, 1893 (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) from Kazakhstan

Polyporogaster porosa (Sseliwanoff, 1881) is new to the fauna of Kazakhstan; Bothriogaster signata (Kessler, 1874) is new to the fauna of the South Kazakhstan Region, while Stigmatogaster sp. is new to the East Kazakhstan Region. The distribution-map of all members of the family Himantariidae occurring in Kazakhstan and an identification key are provided.