Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of COVID-19 on Financial Performance and Profitability of Banking Sector in Special Reference to Private Commercial Banks: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh

The current crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global economy hard, causing significant damage to every aspect of the global banking system, and Bangladesh is no exception. For that reason, its performance and profitability have been affected. In this study, we investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the financial performance and profitability of the listed private commercial banks in Bangladesh. We initially compute each bank’s financial performance index (FPI) to determine the position according to their financial performance individually before and the current period of COVID-19 by the standardized CAMELS rating system. After assessing the position, the fixed-effect regression model is used to explore the impact of the bank’s specific variables and macroeconomic variables along with the banks’ variables on the banks’ profitability. The banks that performed better during the pre-pandemic period of COVID-19 also performed better during the pandemic period of COVID-19. The performance of AIBL, EBL, and BBL was almost autonomously higher during both periods. In the case of bank profitability, our paper discovered that during the pandemic period of COVID-19, high non-performing loan rates, holding more liquid assets, a high amount of hedging capital, and inappropriate bank size lessened the banks’ profitability. In contrast, a low leverage position and inflation rate enhanced the bank’s profitability during this period. The outcome of this study will help bank authorities detect the loopholes and take preventive measures that can improve their profitability during a crisis period like COVID-19. The investors and depositors who invest money in banks can precisely decide their portfolios.
Psychosocial Factors of Post-operative Pain Intensity in Women Undergoing Cesarean Section

Background: Little evidence has noted that psychological factors are risk factors of post-operative pain intensity in women undergoing cesarean section. Objectives: The aim of study was to determine predictive psychosocial factors for post-cesarean pain intensity using assessment of depression, anxiety, self-efficacy, and quality of relationship. Methods: This prospective descriptive-analytic study was carried out on 150 healthy women scheduled for cesarean section under spinal anesthesia. The day before the surgery, the patients completed three questionnaires including Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and General Self-efficacy. Also, 24 hours after the surgery, the intensity of pain in the patients was assessed with filling McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ). Linear regression was used to predict the factors of pain intensity. Results: The anxiety was a positive predictor of pain intensity of women after C-section (β = 0. 0.22, P = 0.014). However, depression score, and self-efficacy were not predicting factors of pain intensity of women after C-section. Conclusions: Preoperative anxiety increases post-operative pain intensity in women undergoing cesarean section.
Application of sexual dimorphism-derived variation in morphometrics and intraspecific interaction likelihood in Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) to increase species encounter rates

Abstract. Novriyanti N, Takandjandji M. 2022. Application of sexual dimorphism-derived variation in morphometrics and intraspecific interaction likelihood in Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) to increase species encounter rates. Biodiversitas 23: 2753-2759. Effectively encounters opportunities of Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) in natural habitats is still necessary to have more research. A diversity of pangolins' physical and biological characteristics has been disclosed to facilitate the identification process in natural habitats. However, pangolins are animals that tend to be solitary; they have fast movement, so the area coverage is extensive; this condition complicates the data collection process. It is unknown yet, whether pangolins of different sexes usually exist in the same space and time, either in terms of foraging or other interactions, known as intra-specific interactions. Thus, this study aimed to predict intraspecific interactions of M. javanica to increase the encountering of pangolins chance in natural habitats. As many as 29 individual pangolins (14 males and 15 females) be measured its morphometric data. To convincingly justify that morphometric variation can be used as encounter rate opportunities in natural habitats, a series of analyses, i.e., univariate test, correlation analysis, and multiple regression, were applied to this research. Other estimations from feeding activity data were also carried out to detect pangolins' niche width and its overlap according to sexual dimorphism. Univariate analysis shows that overall, the total body length (head to tail) of both males and females does not differ significantly. But, the correlation coefficient indicates the physical character of female and male body length is related to each other (value 0.769**). The resulting regression model indicates that the presence of pangolins in their sex similarity in a particular place tends to be avoided, while there is a 1:1 probability of sexual dimorphism. This also means that males and females can be used as the same individual in ecological observations.
Primary Care Physicians’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Palliative Care. Is it time for integration?

: Purpose: Despite the unquestionable role of the primary care physicians in carrying the majority of high-quality care for patients under palliative care is well-known especially with the senior population, it is still not clear what their existing level of knowledge and attitude to palliative care is. Unfortunately, there is limited research. So, we aimed at detecting the knowledge and attitude of the primary care physicians toward palliative care in Kuwait. Patients and Methods: A survey using the Palliative Care Attitude and Knowledge questionnaire (PCAK) applied to twenty-five primary care clinics in Kuwait were selected by stratified random sampling method and 284 physicians were included. Results: The response rate was 79.2%(n=225). The uncertain attitude towards palliative care was reported in 53.3% (n=120) of primary care physicians while only 15(6.7%) had good knowledge. Only 31.2% reported excellent or very good experience in the management of pain and other symptoms respectively. Moreover, unfamiliarity with palliative care services in their community or length and types of coverage under palliative care benefits was reported in 141(62.7%) and 119 (52.9%). Regarding opioid initiation, types, toxicity and its role in refractory dyspnea, and the proper management of catastrophic bleeding, less than 50% responded appropriately. A higher knowledge score was a positive prognosticator for more optimistic attitude scores (OR: 1.088, 95% CI: 1.012-1.170, P-value: 0.023) Conclusion: The uncertain attitude and poor knowledge were reported in the majority of primary care physicians towards palliative care. Integrating palliative care into primary health care systems has to be initiated as possible to lessen the suffering of those patients and to meet the challenges of the ageing society.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Reduces Gut Permeability and Metabolic Endotoxemia in Diabetic Patients

Background: Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) improves post-prandial glycemia, but the underlying mechanism has not been fully elucidated. We tested the hypothesis that EVOO improves post-prandial glycemia by reducing gut permeability-derived low-grade endotoxemia. Methods: Serum levels of lipopolysaccharides (LPS), zonulin, a marker of gut permeability, glucose, insulin and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1) were measured in 20 patients with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and 20 healthy subjects (HS) matched for sex and age. The same variables were measured in IFG patients (n = 20) and HS (n = 20) before and after a Mediterranean diet with 10 g EVOO added or not (n = 20) or in IFG patients (n = 20) before and after intake of 40 g chocolate with EVOO added or not. Results: Compared to HS, IFG had higher levels of LPS and zonulin. In HS, meal intake was associated with a significant increase of blood glucose, insulin, and GLP1 with no changes of blood LPS and zonulin. Two hours after a meal intake containing EVOO, IFG patients showed a less significant increase of blood glucose, a more marked increase of blood insulin and GLP1 and a significant reduction of LPS and zonulin compared to IFG patients not given EVOO. Correlation analysis showed that LPS directly correlated with blood glucose and zonulin and inversely with blood insulin. Similar findings were detected in IFG patients given a chocolate added or without EVOO. Conclusion: Addition of EVOO to a Mediterranean diet or chocolate improves gut permeability and low-grade endotoxemia.
Validation of the Dynamic Wake Meander model with focus on tower loads

This paper presents a comparison between measured and simulated tower loads for the Danish offshore wind farm Nysted 2. Previously, only limited full scale experimental data containing tower load measurements have been published, and in many cases the measurements include only a limited range of wind speeds. In general, tower loads in wake conditions are very challenging to predict correctly in simulations. The Nysted project offers an improved insight to this field as six wind turbines located in the Nysted II wind farm have been instrumented to measure tower top and tower bottom moments. All recorded structural data have been organized in a database, which in addition contains relevant wind turbine SCADA data as well as relevant meteorological data – e.g. wind speed and wind direction – from an offshore mast located in the immediate vicinity of the wind farm. The database contains data from a period extending over a time span of more than 3 years. Based on the recorded data basic mechanisms driving the increased loading experienced by wind turbines operating in offshore wind farm conditions have been identified, characterized and modeled. The modeling is based on the Dynamic Wake Meandering (DWM) approach in combination with the state-of-the-art aeroelastic model HAWC2, and has previously as well as in this study shown good agreement with the measurements. The conclusions from the study have several parts. In general the tower bending and yaw loads show a good agreement between measurements and simulations. However, there are situations that are still difficult to match. One is tower loads of single-wake operation near rated ambient wind speed for single wake situations for spacing’s around 7-8D. A specific target of the study was to investigate whether the largest tower fatigue loads are associated with a certain downstream distance. This has been identified in both simulations and measurements, though a rather flat optimum is seen in the measurements.
Loss Prediction Model for Building Construction Projects Using Insurance Claim Payout

The amount of risk and the occurrence of damage in construction projects have increased as construction projects are becoming larger and more complex, increasing the demands for an effective risk assessment model. Therefore, quantitative risk analysis is needed to develop a financial risk assessment model using the risk indicators for construction projects. To address this need, authors analyzed the damage records of actual construction sites in South Korea, in order to identify the critical risk factors of damage and investigate the relationships among the risk indicators to develop a loss prediction model. Authors used claim payout records from an insurance company to reflect real financial loss as the dependent variable. As independent variables, authors adopted four risk categories based on our literature review and data analysis: natural hazards, geographic information, construction method and ability, and construction information. Our loss prediction model for construction projects, along with our findings, offers fundamental guidelines for construction companies, construction project owners, and insurance companies hoping to model and predict financial loss for building construction projects.
Econometric Study of the Price Differences Impact between Domestic and Imported Cattle Meat on Egyptian Consumer Surplus

In addition to livestock sector challenges in Egypt, beef and veal market suffers from decreasing self-sufficiency rate from 75% to 56%, and increasing prices of domestic and import beef during (2002-2020). The problems of this study are: (1) the variation of price increase between domestic and imported beef may declines consumer welfare, (2) imported beef is very discriminated by origin of country (Brazil, India, and rest of world) and product type (boneless and in-bone), and so the total aggregation may causes considerable bias in demand model. According to mentioned problems, the paper aims at: (1) Econometric estimation of the demand system to derive elasticity parameters and check the model inconsistency or aggregation bias. (2) Calculation consumer surplus due to price increase of domestic and imported beef. Rotterdam demand system in the framework of aggregation bias approach is applied to get consistent parameters. Results verify the existence of aggregation problem according to Wald test in the restricted Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation (SURE) model. Additionally, for domestic beef, expenditure elasticity is lower than one, and more than one for foreign beef. On the other hand, price elasticity of domestic beef is inelastic and weakly substitute for the foreign beef, while the contrary is not true for foreign beef. Consumers should be compensated by about 21.5% and 10.5 % respectively as domestic and foreign beef prices increase over the average prices. Future research should consider the aggregation bias in estimating elasticities and consumer welfare in demand systems under various income categories and sectors.
ADDITION OF COMMERCIAL PROBIOTIC (LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUEKII AND L. FERMENTUM) IN RED TILAPIA BROODSTOCK DIET IN DIFFERENT REARING SYSTEMS. I- EFFECTS ON REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE AND LARVAL QUALITY

SUMMARY his experiment was carried-out to evaluate the combined effects of dietary commercial probiotic Lactéol Fort ® supplementation and different rearing systems on reproductive performance of red tilapia broodstock. In completely randomized, 2X2 factorial design, 2 different tank systems, clear water (CW) and biofloc combined with two different levels (0 and 1 g kg -1 ) of dietary probiotic Lactéol Fort ® attaining 4 experimental treatments; T1: CW without probiotic), T2: CW + probiotic, T3: biofloc without probiotic) and T4: biofloc + probiotic with three replicates for each treatment compromising twelve tanks (each 2 m 3 ). Red tilapia broodstock reproductive performance was compared during the reproductive period. The probiotic Lactéol Fort ® containing Lactobacillus delbruekii (10 13 CFU: colony forming unit) g -1 and L. fermentum (10 13 CFU) g -1 was administered as a feed additive to broodstock diet. For the reproductive performance assay, 216 females and 72 males of red tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus × O. niloticus at density of 24 (18 females: 6 males) tank -1 equivalent to stocking density of 9: females: 3 males m -3 with a sex ratio of 3 females to 1 male. Average body weight of female and male tilapia broodstock were 127.5 and 148 g, respectively). Reproductive variables (spawned female %, absolute and relative fecundity) were estimated in four subsequent seed clutches. No mortalities were found in male and female tilapia broodstock as affected by biofloc and probiotic levels. The results revealed that broodstock fed the commercial probiotic in biofloc tanks (T4: biofloc + probiotic), had the highest values for reproductive performance followed by T3 (biofloc without probiotic addition), T2 (CW + probiotic), and finally T1 (CW without probiotic). The results recommend continuous intake of probiotic (Lactéol Fort ® containing Lactobacillus delbruekii (10 13 ) CFU g -1 and L. fermentum , 10 13 CFU (colony forming unit) g -1 at a dose of 1 g kg -1 of broodstock feed in biofloc tanks during the spawning season of red tilapia, due to the higher reproductive performance and fry survival .
An Agile Ba: a Case Study of the Business Analyst in Agile

Companies adopting Agile software development methodologies are becoming a growing trend. The roles responsible for managing and participating in these types of projects must make a significant shift in focus when moving from the waterfall development process to a more adaptive way of working. Even with the growing adoption and increasing amount of study around Agile, the literature and texts prescribing the various Agile methodologies do not address the specific role of the Business Analayst. In this paper, the role of the Business Analyst in Agile is explored through a qualitative study within a large software development organization utilizing Agile development. Through the course of directly participating and observing Agile project work, five distinct themes of the BA role were identified: Communication, Agile Process, Analysis, Prioritization, and Dependency Management. The study concludes with a discussion of the limitations of this inquiry and approach as well as suggestions for further research.
Ketamine Boluses Are Associated with a Reduction in Intracranial Pressure and an Increase in Cerebral Perfusion Pressure: A Retrospective Observational Study of Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Background Increased intracranial pressure (ICP) and hypotension have long been shown to lead to worse outcomes in the severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) population. Adequate sedation is a fundamental principle in TBI care, and ketamine is an attractive option for sedation since it does not commonly cause systemic hypotension, whereas most other sedative medications do. We evaluated the effects of ketamine boluses on both ICP and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) in patients with severe TBI and refractory ICP. Methods We conducted a retrospective review of all patients admitted to the neurointensive care unit at a single tertiary referral center who had a severe traumatic brain injury with indwelling intracranial pressure monitors. We identified those patients with refractory intracranial pressure who received boluses of ketamine. We defined refractory as any sustained ICP greater than 20 mmHg after the patient was adequately sedated, serum Na was at goal, and CO2 was maintained between 35 and 40 mmHg. The primary outcome was a reduction in ICP with a subsequent increase in CPP. Results The patient cohort consisted of 44 patients with a median age of 30 years and a median presenting Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of 5. The median reduction in ICP after administration of a ketamine bolus was −3.5 mmHg (IQR −9 to +1), and the postketamine ICP was significantly different from baseline (p < 0.001). Ketamine boluses led to an increase in CPP by 2 mmHg (IQR −5 to +12), which was also significantly different from baseline (p < 0.001). Conclusion In this single-institution study of patients with severe traumatic brain injury, ketamine boluses were associated with a reduction in ICP and an increase in CPP. This was a retrospective review of 43 patients and is therefore limited in nature, but further randomized controlled trials should be performed to confirm the findings.
Investigating Early Adolescent Sex Differences in Hippocampal and Amygdala Volumes, Sleep Quality and Psychological Distress

Adolescence is a period of significant brain development and decreased sleep quality, making it an ideal period to investigate early indicators of anxiety disorders such as psychological distress. The amygdala and hippocampus have been implicated in the neurobiology of anxiety symptoms. Sex-based differences in anxiety symptoms and sleep quality suggest sex-specific indicators may be preferable to a “one size fits all” approach. N = 70 early adolescents (12 years) completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Kessler psychological distress scale (K10) and MRI scanning. Female participants were found to be poorer sleepers and to have higher psychological distress levels. Females also had larger right amygdala and hippocampal volumes than males controlling for total brain volume. Findings of sex-based differences in amygdala and hippocampal volumes as well as sleep and psychological distress at age 12 may represent an important step in elucidating sex specific early indicators of future mental health disorders.
Knowledge, Self-Reported Practices, and Believes of Rural Women about Household Solid Waste Management at El Gharbia Governorate

Background: Household solid wastes disposal and management represents a major public health and environmental issue. Improper waste management harms not only human, but also the environment, plants and animals. Women play an important role in the process of household solid waste management. The aim of the study was: to assess knowledge, self-reported practices, and believes of rural women about household solid waste management at El Gharbia governorate Subjects and Method: Study design: A descriptive analytic cross-sectional study design was used in this study. Study settings: This study was conducted at four rural villages in El Gharbia Governorate. Study subjects: A convenience number of 1000 rural women were included in the study through home to home visit Tools of data collection : A structured interview schedule was developed by the researchers. It consisted of four parts: Part 1: Socioeconomic status of rural women. Part (II): knowledge of rural women about household solid waste disposal. Part (III): reported practices of rural women about household solid waste disposal and management. Part (IV): Beliefs of rural women about solid waste disposal and management. Results : the results of the present study revealed that, 62% of the studied women had fair and poor knowledge about solid waste management, and only 38% of them had good knowledge. About two-thirds (63%) of them reported un-satisfactory practice, and 82% of them had positive believes about solid wastes management. There were significant positive correlation between women's Knowledge, reported practice, and socio- demographic characteristics. Conclusion and recommendations: Although the majority of the studied rural women had positive believes about solid wastes management, about two thirds of them had fair and poor knowledge and unsatisfactory practice. Therefore, rural women need more attention from local and higher authorities to enhance their knowledge about solid wastes and in turn improve their practices toward household waste management.
IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF SOME INSECTICIDES CONTROLLING Aphis Craccivora Koch. FOR INFESTING BROAD BEAN PLANTS

: The present study was conducted at Alzanqalon province, Sharkia governorate. Egypt during season 2016/2017 to throw light on the improving the effects of malathion, diazinon, acetamiprid and biovar with addition of sylgard 309 (silicone surfactant) and Npk to the spray solution of controlling Aphid ( Aphid craccivora ) insects. Data revealed that malathion was the superior compound rearded general mean of reduction in infestation of 90.76% followed desendingly by acetamiprid (74.70%), diazinon (66.27%), biovar (53.07%), sylgard 309 (52.32%) and Npk (12.14%). The efficacy of malathion was increased by 1% with sylgard 309 of decreased with Npk by 1% sylgard 309 as well as Npk improved the effects of diazinon by 17% and 10% respectively. Efficacy of acetampred was decresed by 9% with sylgard 309 and 5% with Npk. While the effects of biovar was increased with sylgard 309 by 8% and decreased by 32% with Npk.