Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Early childhood educator’s intention to provide support in the context of parental violence: the contribution of the theory of planned behavior

ABSTRACT Because of their frequent and regular contact with families, early childhood educators (ECEs) have the opportunity to get to know parents and forge bonds with them. They may also witness parental violence and be asked to provide support as parent ask for advice. In the context of parental violence, ECEs support can be directed toward the parents (e.g., reporting them to the child protective services) or in collaboration with the parents (e.g., referring them to a community resource). Consistent with the theory of planned behavior, this study aims to examine determinants associated with parental support intentions in parental violence situations and to examine background factors associated with those determinants. This study uses data from an online survey conducted with 213 ECEs. The results show that ECEs’ intention of support in parental violence situations is predicted by three domains of determinants: attitudes, subjectives norms and perceived behavior control. This study is the first to explore ECEs’ intentions to provide both parent-directed and collaborative support intentions in parental violence situations. Results outline the important role played by ECEs in the prevention of child abuse and highlight the necessity of training and supporting them in their relations with families.
HOW WE HAVE USED ITEM RESPONSE THEORY AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TO IMPROVE STUDENT SUCCESS RATES IN LARGE GENERAL CHEMISTRY CLASSES

Since 2012 we have tracked general chemistry student success rates at the University of Utah. In efforts to improve those rates we have implemented math prerequisites, changed our discussion session format, installed some metacognitive exercises aimed at the lowest quartile of students and instituted a flipped classroom model. Furthermore, using Item Response Theory we have identified what topics each individual student struggles with on practice tests. These steps have increased our success rates to ~76%. As well, student performance on nationally normed American Chemical Society final exams has improved to a median of 86 percentile. Our lowest quartile of students in spring 2016 scored at the 51 percentile, above the national median.
Fiscal Policy and Inflation Expectations

Theory suggests that inflation expectations play an important role in transmitting fiscal considerations into inflation. We contribute new empirical evidence of a positive relationship between the budget deficit to GDP and inflation expectations of firms. This suggests interdependence between fiscal and monetary policies, which may imply that monetary policy faces more challenges to maintain inflation expectation anchored when the fiscal outcomes worsen. The result is robust to considering other fiscal variables and to controlling for macroeconomic covariates.
Fair near neighbor search via sampling

Similarity search is a fundamental algorithmic primitive, widely used in many computer science disciplines. Given a set of points S and a radius parameter r > 0, the rnear neighbor (r-NN) problem asks for a data structure that, given any query point q, returns a point p within distance at most r from q. In this paper, we study the r-NN problem in the light of individual fairness and providing equal opportunities: all points that are within distance r from the query should have the same probability to be returned. In the low-dimensional case, this problem was first studied by Hu, Qiao, and Tao (PODS 2014). Locality sensitive hashing (LSH), the theoretically strongest approach to similarity search in high dimensions, does not provide such a fairness guarantee.
Título artículo / Títol article: The antecedent role of personal environmental values in the relationships among trust in companies, information processing and risk perception Autores / Autors

Trust and risk perception are important issues for industries such as petrochemical companies, typically considered “less trustworthy” because of the hazards associated with their activities. In this context, individual’s trust in companies may have influence on information processing mode individual adopts to reach a judgement such as risk perception associated with industrial hazards. We take the heuristicsystematic theory (HSM) as the model for processing information about industrial risk, with trust in companies as its antecedent and risk perception as its consequence. However, this process may be influenced by factors such as personal specific values. This paper analyses, to our knowledge for the first time, the antecedent role of personal values towards environmental issues in the HSM of information processing. The model was tested using data from interviews with 992 residents in an area of the province of Castelló (Spain) close to a petrochemical complex. Structured equation models (SEM) were used to analyse the data. The results demonstrate the proposed relationships. The main contribution of this paper is the corroboration of the direct and indirect effects of personal environmental values on the variables that make up the trust in companies-HSM of information processing-risk perception sequence. Finally, we recommend that the companies of the petrochemical complex consider the frank, open and bidirectional communication with the residents as the key element to break the association among proenvironmental values, distrust in the companies and perception of the risk.
The Correlation between the Levels of Family?s Knowledge about Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Efforts in Prevention of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infection

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is an infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This study aimed to analyze the correlation between family knowledge about pulmonary TB and efforts to prevent the spread of pulmonary TB infection in health centers. This study was a correlational study with a cross-sectional approach. The population in this study were families with pulmonary TB in Primary Healthcare. The sampling method used purposive sampling and obtained 25 samples. The independent variable in this study was family knowledge about pulmonary TB. The dependent variable was the family's effort to prevent the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis infection. Data were taken using a questionnaire and analyzed by the Spearman rho test with I± â‰¤ 0.05. This study showed that there was a correlation between family knowledge about pulmonary TB and efforts to prevent the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis infection (p = 0,000, r = 0.695). Higher knowledge can increase family efforts to prevent the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis infections. The results of this study were expected to increase the motivation of nurses to provide health education and counselling to people who still do not understand how to prevent the transmission of pulmonary TB infection.
Effect of spacing on growth and flowering of annual chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum coronarium L.)

The Present investigation to study effect of spacing on growth and flowering of Annual Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum coronarium) was carried out in form of a field trial at the Agricultural Research Station, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar during 2019-20.Result of the study revealed that among four different spacings viz., 30 cmX30 cm(S1),40 cmX30 cm (S2), 60 cm X40 cm (S3) and 60 cm X60 cm (S4) tried, plants with maximum spread (EastWest), number of leaves, number of flowers per plant(215.02), and flower diameter were recorded under te widest spacing of 60 cm x60 cm (S4). However, maximum delay in appearance of first flower bud was noticed under this spacing treatment which took 26.44 days for the same. On the other hand lowest number (5,160.53 nos) of flowers per plot as well as per hectare(5,972839.51nos )were recorded under this widest spacing(S4). Plants grown under the closest spacing 30cm X30 cm (S1) recorded the minimum values with respect to plant spread, number of leaves, number of flowers per plant(200.36) and flower diameter. However, appearance of first flower bud in the plant was the earliest (24.84 days) under the closest spacing. Besides, flower yield in terms of number per plot (19,234.13 nos) and per hectare (22,261728.40 nos) was the highest under the closest spacing of 30 cm x30 cm(S1). Parameter like plant height was not significantly influenced by various spacing treatments although it was the highest and lowest under the closest(S1) and widest(S4) spacings respectively. Hence, it was concluded that adoption of closest spacing of 30cm x 30cm was most suitable practice for maximizing flower yield in annual chrysanthemum cv. Local which may be recommended to the flower growers for its commercial cultivation.
EFFECT OF ADDING A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF CRUSHED THYMUS VULGARIS LEAVES AND NEOMYCIN ON SOME PRODUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHUKAR PARTRIDGE

The study aimed to evaluate the influence of adding antibiotics (NEOMYCIN) and different levels of crushed (Thymus vulgaris) leaves on the growth performance of Partridge bird. The study was conducted from 8/11/2018 to 7/2/2019 in the college of Agriculture/ University of Kirkuk, The 100 Birds of partridge were allocated randomly from 28 days old to five treatment groups with four replicates per group, according to these treatments:T1: Basal diet (control group without any additives), T2: Basal diet+(NEOMYCIN) antibiotic at 0.05g/ Kg diet, T3: Basal diet+thyme powder at 1g/Kg diet, T4: Basal diet+thyme powder 3g/Kg diet. , T5: Basal diet+thyme powder 5g/Kg diet. The study showed a significant increase in weekly body weight and body weight gain significant decrease in feed intake when compared with the control group, and a significant difference was noted in feed conversion ratio between.
Comment on: The F, Cl, Br and I Contents of Reference Glasses BHVO‐2G, BIR‐1G, BCR‐2G, GSD‐1G, GSE‐1G, NIST SRM 610 and NIST SRM 612 by Marks et al. This Issue

I would like to take this opportunity to comment upon the paper by Marks et al. published online in 2016 and which appears in this issue of Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. The article takes on the admirable task of characterising a suite of reference glasses for their contents of the halogen elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine. I wish to warmly applaud the authors for this initiative: it is the lack of established calibrants that makes these important elements an especially difficult challenge for geoanalysis. Until such time that high-quality reference materials become widely available, it will remain difficult to impossible for many techniques to quantify the mass fraction amounts of these key volatile species in a metrologically rigorous way. This is especially true for secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), a field in which I have been active for some three decades.
Efficacy of insecticides and some bio-rationals against thrips and mites on chilli, (Capsicum annuum L)

Study was conducted to determine the bio-efficacy of insecticides and some selected biorationals against chilli thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood) and chilli mites (Polyphagotarsonemus latus Banks) during summer and Rabi, 2018. Among different insecticides spirotetramat + imidacloprid 240 SC was the effective insecticide against thrips with 90.73% reduction in population followed by fipronil 5 SC (86.22%) and ethion 50 EC (81.60%). Whereas, mites were effectively controlled by spirotetramat + imidacloprid 240 SC (86.80%) followed by spiromesifen 22.9 SC (82.89%) which it was on par. Among biorationals nimbecidine was proved more effective by recording the highest reduction in thrips and mites which was followed by silicon 1000 ppm. The highest incremental cost benefit ratio (1:4.66) was registered in spirotetramat + imidacloprid 240 SC followed by fipronil 5 SC (1:3.30).
Synthesis, characterization and analytical study of tellurated Schiff base of bis[2-(3-nitrobenzylideneamino)-5-nitrophenyl]telluride and its complexation reactions with Mn(II), Co(II) and Ni(II) ions

Reaction of 2-amino-5-nitrophenylmercuric chloride with 3-nitro benzaldehyde gave 2-(3-nitrobenzylideneamino)-5-nitrophenylmercuric chloride (1). Reaction of the mercurated Schiff bases 1 with tellurium tetrabromide in 2:1 mole ratio gave the tellurated Schiff bases, bis [2-(3-nitrobenzylidineamino)-5-nitrophenyl] tellurium dibromide (2). Reduction of compound 2 by hydrazine hydrate gave the corresponding telluride, bis [2-(3-nitro benzylideneamino)-5-nitrophenyl]telluride (3). Complexation reactions of equilibrium mole ratios compound 3 with MnCl 2 . 4H 2 O, CoCl 2 . 6H 2 O and NiCl 2 . 6H 2 O gave the corresponding complexes, i.e compounds 4-6, respectively. All the prepared compounds were characterized by elemental analysis, conductivity measurements and 1 H and 13 C NMR, FT-IR and UV-visible spectroscopic data. These data suggested that the compound 3 coordinate with metal ions as tridentate ligand. The molar conductivity study indicated compounds 1-3 are neutral and behave as non-electrolytes in DMSO solvent at room temperature while compounds 4-6 behave as 1:1 electrolytes in the same conditions. The molar ratio method was used to determine metal-ligand ratio, which was found as 1:1, metal: ligand. The thermal analysis of compounds 2 and 3 were also investigated and discussed.
Infl uence of bleaching gels containing calcium on dental enamel in early erosion stage

Objective: to evaluate, in vitro, the effect of calcium-supplemented bleaching gels on enamel at initial stage of erosion regarding the bleaching efficacy and surface microhardness. Materials and Methods: Bovine specimens (4x4mm) were randomized into 5 groups (n=12): G1 without bleaching (control group), G2 35% hydrogen peroxide (HP) without calcium, G3 35% HP with calcium, G4 7.5% HP without calcium and G5 7.5% HP with calcium. The specimens were stained with black tea solution for 6 days and eroded in 0.01M HCl solution, pH 2.3 under continuous shaking (50 rpm) for 30 seconds. Bleaching of groups G2 and G3 was performed in two sessions with 7 days of time interval. Groups G4 and G5 were daily bleached during 14 days for 1 hour. Color analyses (ΔL, Δb and ΔE*ab) and surface microhardness (KHN) were performed in the initial and final times. Data were submitted to ANOVA and Tukey’s test (α=0.05). Results: For ΔL, Δb and ΔE*ab no statistical differences were found between the bleaching agents. The 7.5% HP with calcium showed less microhardness after bleaching and differed statistically between the initial and final times. The 35% HP with calcium showed higher microhardness among the bleaching gels. Conclusions: Calcium supplementation of bleaching gel did not interfere with the bleaching efficacy. The 35% HP bleaching gel with calcium resulted in less change of surface microhardness of enamel at initial stage of erosion.
Automated patch backporting in Linux (experience paper)

Whenever a bug or vulnerability is detected in the Linux kernel, the kernel developers will endeavour to fix it by introducing a patch into the mainline version of the Linux kernel source tree. However, many users run older “stable” versions of Linux, meaning that the patch should also be “backported” to one or more of these older kernel versions. This process is error-prone and there is usually along delay in publishing the backported patch. Based on an empirical study, we show that around 8% of all commits submitted to Linux mainline are backported to older versions,but often more than one month elapses before the backport is available. Hence, we propose a patch backporting technique that can automatically transfer patches from the mainline version of Linux into older stable versions. Our approach first synthesizes a partial transformation rule based on a Linux mainline patch. This rule can then be generalized by analysing the alignment between the mainline and target versions. The generalized rule is then applied to the target version to produce a backported patch. We have implemented our transformation technique in a tool called FixMorph and evaluated it on 350 Linux mainline patches. FixMorph correctly backports 75.1% of them. Compared to existing techniques, FixMorph improves both the precision and recall in backporting patches. Apart from automation of software maintenance tasks, patch backporting helps in reducing the exposure to known security vulnerabilities in stable versions of the Linux kernel.
Seroepidemiological study of gonorrhoea in Ethiopian women. 1. Prevalence and clinical significance.

OBJECTIVE--To measure the prevalence of gonorrhoea in Ethiopian women attending gynaecologic, obstetric and family planning clinics: to determine the reliability of patient self history of sexually transmitted disease (STD); to correlate the serological diagnosis of gonorrhoea with clinical evidence of pelvic infection in order to define a reliable clinical diagnosis of gonorrhoea in a country where pelvic inflammatory disease is very common but where routine laboratory culture and serological tests for gonorrhoea are unavailable. SUBJECTS--1851 Ethiopian women: 50% symptomatic, 50% asymptomatic. SETTING--Gynaecological outpatient department, antenatal, postnatal and family planning clinics (Ethiopian Family Guidance Association (EFGA)), in two teaching hospitals and a mother and child health centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. METHODS--The indirect haemagglutination test with gonococcal pilus antigen as an epidemiological tool was used in a cross-section study to screen 1851 sera for evidence of past or current gonococcal infection. The gonococcal antibody test (GAT) seropositivity was correlated with patient's history of STD, age, clinic attended and the clinical evidence of infection in "gonococcal target organs" urethra, salpinges or Bartholin glands. RESULTS--Fifty nine per cent of the study group were seropositive for the gonococcal antibody test, 22% with titres greater than or equal to 1/320, indicative of current, recent or recurrent infection. Seropositivity indicating past or present gonococcal infection was highest in those who gave a history of having had treated syphilis (85%), in women aged 40-49 (72%), and family planning attenders (EFGA) (66%) of whom 31% had titres greater than or equal to 1/320. Fifty per cent had clinical evidence of past or present infection in the urethra, salpinges or Bartholin glands. Gonococcal antibodies were present in 54% of women with no evidence of clinical infection, compared with 91% of those with pyosalpinx and 86% of those with triple infection of urethra, salpinges and Bartholin glands. CONCLUSION--The high prevalence of gonococcal antibodies in Ethiopian women, especially in asymptomatic clinic attenders must be of concern for all health workers especially those in gynaecology and obstetrics and the related disciplines of family planning and neonatal paediatrics. While seropositivity was highest in those giving a past history of syphilis, the patient's history of STD was unreliable, as of those who denied having any history of STD, fifty per cent were GAT seropositive. Despite a high correlation between GAT seropositivity with pyosalpinx and clinical evidence of infection in urethra, salpinges and bartholin glands, gonococcal antibodies were present in 54% of women with no clinical evidence of infection. Thus we were unable to define a diagnostic clinical picture of gonorrhoea in Ethiopian women.
The Relationship between Psychosocial Stress and Coping Strategies for Breast Cancer Patients

Breast cancer becomes a traumatic event for a woman’s life due to various influencing factors such as physical condition, self-image, sexuality, and social condition. One of the efforts that can be conducted to overcome these problems is by the coping strategies. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between psychosocial stress and the coping strategies for breast cancer patients. The design of this study was cross-sectional research. The population in this study was 158 people, and the number of samples was 121 respondents selected using the consecutive sampling technique. The independent variable was psychosocial stress, while the dependent variable was the coping strategy. The instruments in this study were The Psychosocial Distress Questionnaire-Breast Cancer (PDQ-BC), and the Cancer Coping Questionnaire. Furthermore, data were analyzed using Spearman’s rho. Psychosocial stress experienced by most of the breast cancer patients was categorized as moderate stress, namely 75 (60.3%). The coping strategy applied mostly by breast cancer patients, was the maladaptive coping strategy, namely 71 (58.7%). There was a relationship between psychosocial stress and coping strategies for breast cancer patients (p = 0,000, r = -582). There is a moderate relationship between psychosocial stress and the maladaptive coping strategy. Therefore, nurses can convey to patients’ family members to continue and keep motivating the patients, and to help reduce anxiety, depression, physical condition, social condition, and sexual problems of the breast cancer patients.
PURIFICATION, MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF HEMAGGLUTINATING LECTIN WITH ANTICANCER ACTIVITIES FROM PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS

Three Pleurotus species were screened for their ability to synthesize mycelial, culture filtrate and fruiting bodies lectins. All tested Pleurotus species were able to synthesize mycelial and fruiting bodies lectins but with different degree of activity, while no extracellular lectin was detected. P. ostreatus Lectin (POL) from its fruiting bodies recorded the highest activity, so it was selected for further studies. Partial sequencing of lectin gene and partial amino acid sequencing were performed, resulting in 267 amino acids. POL purification involved a combination of (NH4)2SO4 precipitation along with two anion-chromatographic steps using Q-Sepharose column and Mono Q column. POL appeared as a single band with a molecular mass of 29 kDa on SDS-PAGE. Biochemical and biological activities of pure POL were compared with crude extract from the same organism. POL activity was inhibited by xylose with a MIC of 0.1 M. It was active up to 70oC and pH 11 then its activity completely disappeared. POL activity was inhibited by different concentrations of Hg, Zn, Cu, Mn, Ca, Na and K ions. POL manifested antibacterial activity, but showed no antifungal activity. It exhibited anticancer activity toward human hepatocellular and colorectal carcinoma with IC50 of 424 and 270 μg/ml, respectively.
) K and Thermodynamic Modeling of the H 3 BO 3 + SrCl 2 + H 2 O System

Boron abundantly exists in salt lake brine system as various boron-containing aqueous species or minerals. The phase behavior of boron and other substances (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Mg, Ca, Sr, Cl, S etc.) in the complicated salt brine system during the solar pool process needs to be simulated and predicted by models. Basic experimental data (e.g. solubility, etc.) of simple binary and ternary system are necessary for the model parameterizations. At present, the unavailability of solubility data in the H3BO3 + SrCl2 + H2O ternary system makes the model parameterization difficult. In this paper, we determined the solubility isotherms in the H3BO3 + SrCl2 + H2O ternary system at 273.15 K, 298.15 K, 323.15 K, 348.15 K and 363.15 K. The result show that the isotherms all consisted of the solubility branches H3BO3(cr) and SrCl2⋅nH2O(cr) (n = 6 and 2), and no new phase has been found. Then, a Pitzer–Simonson–Clegg (PSC) model in the ISLEC software package was used to simulate the thermodynamic properties of the H3BO3 + H2O, SrCl2 + H2O, and H3BO3 + SrCl2 + H2O systems, including solubility, water activity, activity coefficients, heat capacity and enthalpy of dilution. With the obtained model parameters, a complete polythermal phase diagram of the H3BO3 + SrCl2 + H2O system was predicted at temperatures from 255 to 373 K. The present work lays the foundation for the future simulations of complicated salt lake brine systems containing H3BO3 and SrCl2.