Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, Dec-2020 ISSN (2226-8235) Vol-9, Issue 12

This present study's consisted of Ghanaian junior high school adolescents, precisely JHS1 and JHS 2. The study duration spanned from January 2019 to October 2020. During the study period, two assessments were done. In the first assessment, primary six students consisting of 425 adolescents, were assessed from 35 schools. During the year 2019, students in primary six who partook in the first assessment were engaged when they had been promoted to Junior high school. They included students who had become part of the classroom experiment. Eventually, this approach resulted in a sample size of 632 students for both JHS 1 and JHS 2. The data collection used structured questionnaires, and the snowballing approach was used for sampling and sample recruitment. The analytical method used for data analysis is structural equation modeling (SEM). This method is reliable for understanding the unique relationship between the dependent and independent variables to reveal their direct and indirect effects. This present study found that a growth mindset and grit are proportionally related to students' academic achievement. However, grit should be measured by the perseverance of effort, not consistency of interest and conscientiousness, to positively affect academic achievement. Both goal commitment and growth mindset are related to understanding how grit contributes positively to academic success. In essence, the findings imply that students need to have the perseverance to trigger their growth mindset and goal commitment to affect their academic pursuits positively.
International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, Feb-2018 ISSN (2226-8235) Vol-7, Issue 2

the study investigated the determinants of saving behavior of financial intermediaries in the Ho Municipality. The population consisted of individuals who constitute the employees and management, customers and market men and women of some selected financial intermediaries in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region of Ghana. A sample size of 152 was drawn from the population using the probability and non-probability sampling techniques. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data collected. The findings showed that in general, the majority of the individuals save with the financial institution in the Ho municipality. It also showed that many individuals’ choice of the financial institutions was encouraged by interest rates. It was also realized that a majority of the individuals within the Ho municipality have fewer dependents that triggered saving behavior in the Ho municipality. Also, the findings showed that a majority of individuals use the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) to either withdraw or deposit and this encourages other individuals to save the financial institutions. However, the study concluded that the determinants of saving behavior vary from person to person as they have diversified purposes of saving and consuming money. Finally, it was recommended that financial institutions in the Ho municipality should publicize their services to create awareness in the public domain and train them on how to use the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). Also, the study recommended that individuals must plan their expenditure against their income and join fewer social groups to have enough income to save
International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, Feb-2020 ISSN (2226-8235) Vol-9, Issue 2

The study aimed to assess the impact of the government’s expenditure on health on the wellbeing of the citizens in Ghana. However, the study adopted the human development index as the dependent variable to measure the wellbeing of the citizens. The independent variable used in the study is the government’s domestic expenditure on health. The study used secondary data available at World Development Indicators and the United Nations Human Development Index from 2000 to 2018. In order to achieve the study’s objective, some regression analytical methods were used for the analysis; they are ordinary least square (OLS), fully modified least square (FMOLS) and generalized linear model (GLM) as a robust check method. In conclusion, the study found a positive and statistically significant relationship between the government’s expenditure on health and human development; thus, the wellbeing of Ghanaians. In addition, the birth rate of Ghana has a positive relationship with human development, as was revealed in the study. The study recommends that the government should prioritize the health of the citizens in order to ensure healthy populace and workforce to be able to contribute to the economic activities of the country
International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, Aug-2023 ISSN (2226-8235) Vol-12, Issue 8

This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility in the Capital market and the firm performance of quoted companies in Nigeria with Seplat Energy Plc as a case study. The study made use of an ex-post facto research design. This research adopted the annual reports of Seplat Energy Plc covering the period of 2014-2020. CSR was measured using the donations made by the company, while financial performance was measured using net profit margin, return on equity, and return on assets. Data were analysed using simple linear regression analysis with the aid of SPSS version 25. It was discovered that CSR has a negative and insignificant effect on NPM, positive but insignificant effect on ROE, positive but insignificant effect on ROA, positive but insignificant effect on SP. It was recommended that Nigerian corporate organisations establish a social responsibility unit to ensure that organisation responsive to social responsibility aligns with international best practice. Also, the government must establish an agency to monitor corporate organisations' social responsibility to oversee CSR policy compliance and prosecute socially irresponsible organisations.
International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, Jan-2023 ISSN (2226-8235) Vol-12, Issue 1

This study aimed to determine the effect of User Interface Design and User Experience Design on Perceived Ease of Use and Consumers' Purchase Intentions on the Shopee application, which is currently the first rank in e-commerce with the most monthly active users in Indonesia. As there are many users of the Shopee application, it is necessary to determine whether the design and ease of use affect consumers' purchase intentions. This research provided a novelty to the user interface design and user experience design constructs that used perceived ease of use as a mediating variable. The data collection method used a questionnaire with a total of 215 respondents through a purposive sampling technique. Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with AMOS 26 tool, the results of this study indicated that User Interface Design and User Experience Design had a positive and significant effect on Perceived Ease of Use and Purchase Intention.
On tidal triggering of earthquakes at Campi Flegrei, Italy

SUMMARY The caldera at Campi Flegrei underwent an inflationary episode during 1982–84 that produced a maximum uplift of 1.6 m at Pozzuoli, Italy. The seismicity at Pozzuoli increased enormously during the time of the uplift, but was delayed by several months. Ground deformation during inflation has been previously well modelled with a finite element model of a pressurized magma chamber in an elastic medium that takes into account the effects of increasing pressure and temperature with depth on elasticity. We used the output from this model to estimate the temporal change in the stress field that presumably controls the seismicity during inflation. The result is that the solid-earth tidal stress should modulate heavily the seismogenic inflationary stress, which in turn should result in some tidally triggered earthquakes. This expectation is based on the assumptions that: (a) the inflationary model is valid; (b) tidal and inflationary stresses can be superimposed; (c) the inflation is smooth on the time-scale of periodic tidal stress variations; and, most importantly (d) earthquakes occur when a critical level of stress has been reached. We checked the Pozzuoli catalogue for evidence of tidal triggering with the Schuster test and found none. The Schuster test is sensitive enough to easily detect a diurnal variation of reported seismicity caused by day-to-night changes in noise levels. The lack of tidal triggering suggests that one (or more) of the above assumptions is wrong. After evaluating each assumption, we conclude that the most likely explanation is that the failure threshold for seismicity is time dependent at Pozzuoli. In other words, earthquakes do not necessarily occur when the stress exceeds the yield strength of a fault for a short time only.
FROM WORLD MARKET BACK TO INTERNAL MARKETS: DYNAMICS OF AGRICULTURE IN THE HINTERLAND OF GOMBE AND RURAL AREAS IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA

The hinterland of Gombe ‐ since 1900 a colonization area of Fulani and Kanuri ‐ was an important export producing area of cotton and groundnuts for the world market. Since 1970, after the civil war and with the growing importance of the mineral-oil industry which introduced the process of separation from the world market for agricultural products, small scale farmers in the north were gradually forced to seek for new income sources similar to their neighbours in the south. Results of investigations, carried out from 1996 to 1998, are showing that the hinterland of Gombe is a food surplus area at present, producing basic foodstuffs like beans, maize, millet and g/corn. The marketing of these products is dominated by Hausa traders. They are selling their goods not only to the nearby booming markets of Gombe Town but also through marketing channels hundreds of kilometers far to markets in Kano State in the north and Delta and Abia State in the south of Nigeria. The dynamics of agriculture in the hinterland of Gombe are remarkable in particular to the background of the doubling of its population since 1952. Similar changes concerning the marketing orientation were also observed in the palmoil producing hinterland of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, in SE-Nigeria (studied since 1988), and, at the beginning of such a process, in the cacao farming areas around Akure, Ondo State, in SW-Nigeria (studied since 1999). Investigations and research may lead to a hypothesis of the enormous ability of nigerian farmers to adapt to changing demands of the markets, but the paper will also show the different strategies of small scale farmers to generate income and to survive in rural regions with different geographical structures concerning climate, soil, population density, carrying capacity (not only in an agricultural sense) and others.
New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences

This study employed a webfolio assessment system to investigate how the use of blogs within a portfolio framework in Iranian EFL reading classes which implemented Strategy-Based Instruction affects reading comprehension. For the purpose of this study, 45 advance male learners were divided into three groups. Two IELTS general reading tasks adopted from Cambridge IELTS 10 were administered as pre-test and post-test phases of the study to the experimental groups in order to find the difference in the reading comprehension of the learners prior to the treatment and then at the outset of the study. The preand post-tests were administered along with a Skill-Based Strategy Inventory adopted from Oxford (2001) to find the differences in using strategies before and after the treatment. Analysing the performance of three groups showed that utilising the webfolio assessment system (M = 24.30) had a significant effect on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners in comparison with the paper-based portfolio assessing system (M = 21.96).
Extracellular matrix metalloproteinases inducer gene polymorphism and reduced serum matrix metalloprotease-2 activity in preeclampsia patients

Preeclampsia increases the risk of pregnancy-related complications, nevertheless a successful spiral vessel remodeling, and trophoblast invasion reduces disorders of pregnancy. Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) clears the path for trophoblast invasion, and activation of MMP-2 largely depends on extracellular matrix metalloproteinases inducer (EMMPRIN) protein. This study aimed to investigate EMMPRIN gene polymorphism and MMP-2 activity in preeclampsia patients. Archival whole blood and serum samples of 74 preeclampsia and 66 normotensive pregnant women age-matched were used in this case–control study. Genomic DNA was extracted from the whole blood samples and EMMPRIN gene amplified with specific primers following fragments sequence mutation analysis. Serum MMP-2 activity was determined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and socio-demographic data of participants retrieved from the database. Age of preeclampsia patients (32.78 ± 6.39) years and body mass index (BMI) (33.09 ± 7.27) kg/m2 compared with the normotensive counterparts (32.33 ± 5.56) years and (32.33 ± 5.56) kg/m2,respectively, were not statistically significant (P > 0.05). Serum matrix metalloprotease-2 (MMP-2) activity was significantly reduced in preeclampsia group (16.34 ± 7.07) compared with the normotensives (25.63 ± 4.56) (P < 0.001), and rs424243T/G variant (55.6%) was overrepresented among the cases compared with the normotensives (16.7%). The single-nucleotide polymorphism T/G was found to be associated with preeclampsia (odds ratio [OR] = 7.63; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.95–14.75; P < 0.0001). Decreased activity of MMP-2 and rs424243T/G SNP of EMMPRIN gene was reported in preeclampsia. These preliminary data warrant a further investigation into the relationship between EMMPRIN gene polymorphism and MMP-2 activity in preeclampsia.
Timing and nature of postcollisional volcanism in western Anatolia and geodynamic implications

Western Anatolia (Turkey) has experienced discrete pulses of widespread volcanism since the collision of the Sakarya and Tauride continental blocks in the early Eocene. Underplating of the leading edge of the Tauride platform at a north-dipping subduction zone beneath the Sakarya continent resulted in crustal thickening and detachment of the Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere from continental lithosphere, causing slab break-off and the development of an asthenospheric window. Thermal perturbation caused by this asthenospheric upwelling led to melting of the metasomatized overriding mantle lithosphere that produced volcanism and granitic plutonism across the suture zone and the Sakarya continent. The products of this first episode of postcollisional volcanism in western Anatolia were subalkaline in character, with rocks ranging in composition from basalt, basaltic andesite, and andesite to dacite; they show enrichment in large-ion lithophile elements (LILE) and light rare earth elements (LREE) relative to the high field strength elements and display the highest 87 Sr/ 86 Sr (i) (0.7087 to 0.7071) and the lowest eNd (i) (‐6.5 to ‐3.5) values in comparison to the rocks of the following volcanic episodes. Geochemical features and compositional variations of this subalkaline volcanic group indicate increasing amounts of crustal contamination and a decreasing subduction signature during their evolution from the Eocene through the Oligo-Miocene. Following the initial phases of orogenic collapse, collision-induced compression in western Anatolia was replaced by north-south extension in the early to middle Miocene that produced metamorphic core complexes and NNE-trending horst-graben structures in the region. The second major volcanic episode from 16 to 14 Ma produced mildly alkaline rocks ranging in composition from basalt, trachy-basalt, and trachyandesite to trachyte, showing enrichment in LILE and LREE (although less pronounced in comparison to the subalkaline lavas), with 87 Sr/ 86 Sr (i) (0.7075 to 0.7062) and eNd (i) (‐3.6 to ‐1.6) values that are transitional between the earlier subalkaline and the later alkaline group lavas. Melting of a subduction-modified lithospheric mantle and asthenospheric melts appear to have contributed to the magma budget of the mildly alkaline group, which shows the effects of less crustal contamination or assimilation as a result of advanced crustal thinning associated with tectonic extension
Urolithiasis: Presentation and Surgical Outcome at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Ethiopia

Background: The prevalence of urolithiasis is on a rising trend in tropical and sub-Saharan African countries. The treatment options and data on the surgical outcome are limited in our country. This study was designed to assess the clinical presentation, surgical management and outcome of patients operated on for urolithiasis. Patients and Materials: A retrospective study of all patients admitted and operated for urolithiasis at St. Paul’s hospital millennium medical college (SPHMMC) from July, 2016 to December, 2017 was conducted. Factors associated with surgical outcome were identified with binary logistic regression. Results: Urolithiasis constituted 247 (30.0%) of 824 urologic admissions. Of these, 202 (Male:Female = 2:1) patients were investigated. The mean age was 37.1 ± 14.4 years (range, 10–85 years). The mean duration of illness was 16.7 ± 18.7 months and the commonest presenting symptom was isolated flank pain (97, 48.0%). A majority of the patients (186, 92.1%) had upper tract stones of which 96 (51.6%) were renal stones. More than two-third s (164, 81.2%) of the patients had complications at presentation, and hydronephrosis (148, 73.3%) was the major one. Half of the patients (104, 51.5%) were treated with endoscopic procedures, 88 (43.6%) with open stone surgery and in 10 (4.9%) patients both were performed. Nephrectomy was done to 15 (7.4%) patients. Intraoperative and postoperative complications were noted in 16 (7.9%) and 26 (12.9%) patients, respectively. These complications were higher in patients with comorbid illness (AOR = 2.44; 95% CI 1.12–5.31; p = 0.024). Complete stone clearance was achieved in more than half of the clients (114, 61.0%). Multiple stones (AOR = 8.33; 95% CI 2.53–27.43; p < 0.0001) and endoscopic procedures (AOR = 4.17; 95% CI 1.57–10.71; p = 0.003) had significant association with incomplete stone clearance. Conclusion: Patients’ presentation in this review was not different from studies elsewhere. Endoscopic procedures are emerging in our set up; however, it was significantly associated with incomplete stone clearance. Strategies to improve outcome (stone clearance) need to be implemented accordingly.
Geochemical evidence for the origins of igneous and sedimentary rocks of the Highland Border, Scotland

ABSTRACT Narrow, intermittent, fault-bounded outcrops forming the largely Ordovician Highland Border Complex comprise terrigenous-derived turbidities, a dismembered ophiolite, and ophiolite-derived sediments. New major- and trace-element analyses of the mafic igneous rocks confirm that two main groups exist. One, represented in outcrops the length of the Highland Boundary fault-zone, has a mostly MORB-like chemistry with some trace-element compositions conventionally pointing to genesis above a subduction zone. The other group, found more locally, has an alkalic ‘within-plate’ character. Amphibolites interpreted as ophiolitic ‘sole’ rocks are chemically similar to the MORB-type mafic extrusive rocks. X-ray diffraction of the sedimentary rocks reveals kaolinite to be widespread and this is attributed to tropical weathering of the Highland Border Complex beneath a (? mid-Devonian) unconformity surface. New major- and trace-element analyses show that the turbidities of the Highland Border Complex were derived from a terrigenous terrane similar to that which supplied the Dalradian Supergroup. Inter-lava sediments reflect varied terrigenous (distal turbidites), hydrothermal (iron oxide sediments), mafic extrusive (volcaniclastic silt) and biogenic (jaspers) provenances. The ophiolite-derived Highland Border Complex sediments also have a terrigenous component. Unlike, for example, the early Ordovician rocks of the South Mayo trough (Ireland), coeval differentiated volcanic material is not a significant component of the Complex. No one existing model adequately explains all the available data. We favour an origin of the Complex in the Ordovician as a small Gulf of California-type marginal basin which was later tectonically emplaced in stages involving a long history of alternating extension, strike-slip and compression.
Hydrological and erosional responses in woody plant encroachment areas of semi-arid south-eastern Australia.

Resource retention is an important component of landscape function in semi-arid environments, with patches in the landscape serving as sink zones that capture runoff, sediments and nutrients sourced from inter-patch areas. The purpose of this rainfall simulation study was to compare hydrological and erosional responses in patches and inter-patches in woody encroachment areas (trees and shrubs >700 stems ha –1 ) in semi-arid south-eastern Australia. Ground cover, hydrological and erosional responses differed consistently between patches and inter-patches. Inter-patches had low ground cover and produced more runoff and sediment than patches with medium to high ground cover. Patches displayed delayed initiation of runoff and a deeper soil wetting front. Litter, cryptogam cover and surface sand content were the main variables controlling average runoff rate, sediment concentration and total sediment production. The results indicated that patches and inter-patches are different functional units from an eco-hydrological perspective and influence the hydrologic and erosional characteristics of woody encroached areas.
The usual suspects: How psychological motives and thinking styles predict the endorsement of well-known and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs

Research on belief in conspiracy theories identified many predictors but often failed to investigate them together. In the present study, we tested how the most important predictors of beliefs in conspiracy theories explain endorsing COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 conspiracy theories and conspiracy mentality. Apart from these three measures of conspiratorial thinking, participants ( N = 354) completed several measures of epistemic, existential, and social psychological motives, as well as cognitive processing variables. While many predictors had significant correlations, only three consistently explained conspiratorial beliefs when included in one model: higher spirituality (specifically eco-awareness factor), higher narcissism, and lower analytical thinking. Compared to the other two conspiratorial measures, predictors less explained belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, but this depended on items' content. We conclude that the same predictors apply to belief in both COVID and non-COVID conspiracies and identify New Age spirituality as an important contributor to such beliefs.