Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CATHETER CARE USING SOAP AND 10% POVIDON-IODIN

Background: The incidence of bacteriuria due to urethral catheterization is 60%. The occurrence of bacteriuria is caused by some factors, such as the technique and the length of urethral catheterization, disease, age, sex, drainage, and catheter care. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate catheters treatment using soap and povidon iodin 10%. Method: This research was a quantitative research with quasi experimental design and pretest-posttest control design. The study was conducted in a private hospital in Yogyakarta. The samples were 60 patients with 30 patients in the control group and 30 patients in the intervention group. The analyses employed the statistical test. Results: show that the significance value is 0.317 (p>0.05). There is no significant difference in the incidence of bacteriuria in the soap group and povidone-iodine 10% group with p=0.648. Conclusion: there was no significant difference of catheters treated with using soap and povidone iodine 10%.
EXAMINING AFFECTIVE VALENCE IN JAPANESE AND BRAZILIAN CULTURAL PRODUCTS: AN ANALYSIS ON EMOTIONAL WORDS IN SONG LYRICS AND NEWS ARTICLES

Across cultures, emotions are valued differently. In East Asia, individuals avoid extremely positive or negative emotions, while in Latin America, individuals value positive emotions and dampen negative emotions. This paper investigates how these tendencies are present in cultural products across Japan and Brazil. We analyzed the valence of the emotion in song lyrics (Study 1) and news articles (Study 2). The analysis was based on a database of 1034 words that were previously validated in terms of valence (negative, neutral or positive). Results from both studies suggest that positive words are more frequently used in Brazil than in Japan, and neutral words are more frequently used in Japan than in Brazil. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that Brazilian culture is more likely to value positive emotions than Japanese culture.
Different characteristics of the aggregate of accounting earnings between developed and developing countries: Evidence for predicting future GDP

This study investigates the relationship between the aggregate of accounting earnings and the future Gross Domestic Product (GDP) differentiating between developed and developing countries. This study employs data on Asian, African, and Pacific countries along with their capital market in the period of 1989-2015. More specifically, it investigates the informativeness of aggregate accounting earnings as a predictor of macroeconomic growth. It finds evidence that the aggregate of accounting earnings is a predictor of future GDP growth. It also shows that the informativeness of accounting earnings aggregate is not only for the capital market’s level but also the macroeconomic level. This study argues that the informativeness of accounting earnings can be used to predict the macroeconomy, but only for those developed countries whose earnings growth is positive. On the contrary, this study suggests that the aggregate of accounting earnings in Asian and African developing countries cannot be used to predict future GDP growth. In other words, the aggregate of accounting earnings from developing countries does not contain similar properties for predicting future GDP growth as compared to those in developed countries.
What Determines Village Autonomy in Indonesia? A Case of Villages in Sleman Regency

This study aims to examine the influence of community participation and the competence of village apparatus on village fund management and village autonomy. The role of the village fund management as an intervening variable was also tested. This study was conducted in the regional government in the Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta Special Province, Indonesia. The samples were selected based on the cluster random sampling technique i.e. 30 villages in Sleman Regency. The survey was undertaken from September 2018 to January 2019. The respondents consisted of village heads, village secretaries, and village treasurers. To test the hypothesis, a multiple linear regression approach was applied. The results demonstrate that the community participation directly affects the village fund management and it has an indirect influence on the village autonomy through the village fund management as the intervening variable. Meanwhile, the competence of village government officials only directly affects the management of village funds.
On the seismic risk in the Hindukush- Pamir-Himalaya and their vicinity

Seismic risk for the three seismic zones of Hindukush-Pamir-Himalaya and their vicinity has been estimated using both Gumbel's extreme value theory and the theory given by Knopoff and Kagan. Although there are minor deviations in the results of the estimated return periods of the different magnitudes using different methods, the analysis indicates that the most probable largest annual earthquakes are close to 6.0, 4.9 and 5.0 for the three different zones. The most probable earthquakes that may occur in an interval of 50 years are also estimated and reported. The present study offers a comprehensive assessment of earthquake risk, which includes a brief physical explanation of the method employed. The comparative study suggests the biasing nature of Gumbel's estimate towards higher magnitude.
Organizational capability for change and performance in artisanal businesses in Mexico

Businesses in Mexico, particularly small and mid-sized companies, are faced with numerous challenges: a lack of competition, difficulty in positioning and maintaining oneself in the market, irrational use of natural resources, and poverty in the environment in which they develop. In spite of these problems, many are able to succeed; however, there is limited knowledge about how these businesses could implement organizational changes that would positively impact their results. ,Using dynamic capabilities theory and survey data obtained from pottery businesses in several artisan communities in Mexico through the application of face-to-face interviews, this paper analyzes the relationship between organizational capability for change (OCC) and economic and environmental performance. ,This research proves that OCC positively and significantly impacts economic and environmental performance. Results contribute to the existing literature on OCC in the context of poverty. ,This study offers empirical research that illustrates the relationship between OCC and the environmental and economic performance of pottery businesses. Additionally it contributes to a field of knowledge in progress; that is, OCC in contexts of subsistence where poverty is a constant issue. Artisans living in this context can also develop business capabilities that contribute to the permanence of their business in the market.
Subcellular modification and nutrient remobilization during Brassica napus leaf senescence : effects of abiotic stresses

Brassica napus is one of the major oil crops of the world. Due to its low NUE (Nitrogen Use Efficiency) compared to other species, Nitrogen management presents a major economic and environmental goal for improvement of that crop production. As a component of NUE, nutrient remobilization from source to sink tissues takes place mainly during the leaf senescence and is associated to metabolic recycling processes and modification of the cellular organization and structure. The aim of this work was therefore to understand and estimate the amplitude of these structural modifications with the objective to appreciate through these processes remobilization performance according to oilseed rape genotypes and nutritional status in terms of nitrogen and water supply. The leaf structure was investigated through NMR relaxometry, providing access to cellular water status and distribution. The present work demonstrated that the transverse relaxation time (T2) distribution depends on both leaf tissue structure and cellular compartmentalization. The study revealed a process of cell enlargement and hydration during leaf senescence, specifically in the palisade parenchyma and showed that the T2 relaxation time was able to discriminate parenchyma tissues at an early phase of senescence induction. Moreover, the NMR relaxometry signal was shown to reflect specific chronological loss of sub-cellular structuring all along the senescence process progression and was demonstrated to be an accurate non-invasive monitoring method of leaf development. Finally, plant nutrition status experienced through nitrogen and water availability limitation has been demonstrated to strongly affect regular sequential leaf senescence. Consequences on remobilization efficiency by stress conditions have been also assessed through the NMR signal. This work has improved the understanding of leaf structure and functioning at the cell and tissue levels after the onset and during the progression of senescence. Moreover, it was demonstrated that NMR relaxometry provides access to leaf structural information that are not accessible with currently used techniques for plant structural investigations. One of the main applications would be for plant phenotyping, especially for selecting genotypes with higher nutrient remobilization efficiency especially under environmental stresses like nitrogen and water limitations for sustainable oil and protein production.
Mapping Mediterranean Forest Plant Associations and Habitats with Functional Principal Component Analysis Using Landsat 8 NDVI Time Series

The classification of plant associations and their mapping play a key role in defining habitat biodiversity management, monitoring, and conservation strategies. In this work we present a methodological framework to map Mediterranean forest plant associations and habitats that relies on the application of the Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) to the remotely sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series. FPCA, considering the chronological order of the data, reduced the NDVI time series data complexity and provided (as FPCA scores) the main seasonal NDVI phenological variations of the forests. We performed a supervised classification of the FPCA scores combined with topographic and lithological features of the study area to map the forest plant associations. The supervised mapping achieved an overall accuracy of 87.5%. The FPCA scores contributed to the global accuracy of the map much more than the topographic and lithological features. The results showed that (i) the main seasonal phenological variations (FPCA scores) are effective spatial predictors to obtain accurate plant associations and habitat maps; (ii) the FPCA is a suitable solution to simultaneously express the relationships between remotely sensed and ecological field data, since it allows us to integrate these two different perspectives about plant associations in a single graph. The proposed approach based on the FPCA is useful for forest habitat monitoring, as it can contribute to produce periodically detailed vegetation-based habitat maps that reflect the “current” status of vegetation and habitats, also supporting the study of plant associations.
Collinear Mecanum Drive: Modeling, Analysis, Partial Feedback Linearization, and Nonlinear Control

The collinear Mecanum drive (CMD) is a novel robot locomotion system, capable of generating omnidirectional motion while simultaneously dynamically balancing, achieved using a collinear arrangement of three or more Mecanum wheels. The CMD has a significantly thinner ground footprint than existing omnidirectional locomotion methods, which does not need to be enlarged with increasing robot height as to avoid toppling during acceleration or external disturbance. This combination of omnidirectional manoeuvrability and a thin ground footprint allows for the creation of tall robots that are able to navigate through much narrower gaps between obstacles than existing omnidirectional locomotion methods. This allows for greater manoeuvrability in confined and cluttered environments, such as that encountered in the personal service and automated warehousing robotics sectors. This article derives the kinematics and dynamics models of the CMD, analyzes controllability and accessibility, and determines the degree to which a CMD can be linearized by feedback. A partial feedback linearization is then performed, and three practically useful nonlinear controllers are derived using a backstepping design approach, all with convergence and stability guarantees for the fully coupled nonlinear model. These are demonstrated both in simulation and on a real-world CMD experimental prototype.
Forecasting the Performance of a Photovoltaic Solar System Installed in other Locations using Artificial Neural Networks

Abstract Photovoltaic solar energy has been spread all over the world, and in Brazil this energy source has been getting considerable space in the last years, being driven mainly by the energy crises. However, when installed in regions with low incidence of solar irradiation, this technology presents a loss of efficiency in the generation of energy. As an alternative to this consideration, a power prediction study could be conducted prior to its installation, based on local climate information that directly influences power generation, verifying the feasibility of system implementation and avoiding unrewarded investment. Therefore, the objective of this work is to predict the viability of the installation of a photovoltaic system of 3kWp in different places, with the assist of an Artificial Neural Network. Thus, the feedforward network was used for the training, being trained and validated with the support of Matlab®, and inserting samples of temperature and solar irradiation as input variables. Through the performance methods, the results are favorable for this application, presenting validations with RMSE% in the range of 13-20% and R of not less than 0.93. The predictions presented RMSE% around 19-25% and average powers close to the real values generated by the PV system.
Simple Method of Purification of Humic Acid isolated from Press mud

The processes involved in isolation of Humic Acid (HA) from press mud were extraction, fractionation and purification. Each of these processes is laborious and time consuming. The usually time required for HA extraction is 24 hours. It takes between 1-7 days to purify HA; fractionation time usually ranges between 12 and 24 hours. Recently, Susilawati et al., managed to reduce fractionation time to two hours in case of HA International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 1 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Sampling Properties of the Bayesian Posterior Mean With an Application to WALS Estimation

Abstract Many statistical and econometric learning methods rely on Bayesian ideas. When applied in a frequentist setting, their precision is often assessed using the posterior variance. This is permissible asymptotically, but not necessarily in finite samples. We explore this issue focusing on weighted-average least squares (WALS), a Bayesian-frequentist ‘fusion’. Exploiting the sampling properties of the posterior mean in the normal location model, we derive estimators of the finite-sample bias and variance of WALS. We study the performance of the proposed estimators in an empirical application and a closely related Monte Carlo experiment which analyze the impact of legalized abortion on crime.
Evolving Multiple Resistance to EPSPS, GS, ALS, PSI, PPO, and Synthetic Auxin Herbicides in Dominican Republic Parthenium hysterophorus Populations. A Physiological and Biochemical Study

Two Parthenium hysterophorus populations resistant (R) and susceptible (S) harvested in banana crop from the Dominican Republic were studied. All S plants died when the herbicides were applied at field dose, except with paraquat. For the R population, the order of plant survival was as follows: glyphosate and paraquat > flazasulfuron > glufosinate > fomesafen > 2,4-D. The resistance factors obtained in the dose–response assays showed a high resistance to glyphosate, flazasulfuron, and fomesafen, medium resistance to glufosinate and 2,4-D, and a natural tolerance to paraquat (resistance factor (RF) = 1.0). The I50 values obtained in the 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS), acetolactate synthase (ALS), and glutamine synthetase (GS) activity studies with glyphosate, flazasulfuron, and glufosinate, respectively, were greater in R than in S. The effect of fomesafen was measured by the Proto IX levels, obtaining five times more Proto IX in the S than in the R population. The resistance to 2,4-D in the R was determined by the lower accumulation of ethylene compared to the S population. The studies with 14C-paraquat conclude that the lower absorption and translocation in both the R and S populations would explain the natural tolerance of P. hysterophorus. This is the first case of multiple resistance to herbicides with different mechanisms of action confirmed in P. hysterophorus.
The global pricing of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria

ABSTRACT We develop an expanded asset evaluation model dubbed the environmental, social and governance (ESG) model, which includes a sustainability factor that accounts for the value of ecological and natural capital. We incorporate a sustainability factor into the Fama-French [2015. “A Five-Factor Asset Pricing Model. ” Journal of Financial Economics 116 (1): 1–22] five-factor model plus the momentum factor. Further, we expand previous models by basing ours on microeconomic principles of value maximization and the macroeconomic principles of ecological economics. We estimate the sustainability factor premium and its factor loadings and find that following sustainable strategic management practices reduced the cost of equity by 1.6% to 2.9% per year worldwide. This implies that in 2018, sustainable strategic management practices increased world GDP by $1.3 to $2.3 trillion. Our results support previous research that there is a negative relationship between sustainability performance and the cost of capital.
The Role of Cultural Capital in Beer Consumption in Italy: An Exploratory Study

Abstract The beer industry has experienced progressive growth in recent years and, in the case of Italy, both production and consumption have reached unprecedented market figures in 2017. In fact, beer has increasingly become part of the consumption habits of Italians and is an integral part of the Mediterranean diet thanks to more evolved, responsible, informed, and quality-oriented consumption patterns. In this paper we empirically analyze the determinants of beer consumption in Italy, within an original conceptual framework in which, besides the traditional socio-economic antecedents, the possible role of individuals’ participation in cultural activities of various relational impact is taken into consideration. The results obtained through a probit model provide evidence that all the types of cultural consumption show a positive association with the probability for individuals to consume beer, but the magnitude of such a relationship is highest for the more socially oriented cultural activities (attending theaters, cinemas, music concerts, exhibitions, and archeological sites), followed by individual (newspapers and books reading) and highbrow (attendance of the opera and classical music concerts) ones.
The Political Viability of Carbon Pricing: Policy Design and Framing in British Columbia and California

The adoption of climate policies with visible, substantial costs for households is uncommon because of expected political backlash, but British Columbia's carbon tax and California's cap‐and‐trade program imposed such costs and still survived vigorous opposition. To explain these outcomes, this article tests hypotheses concerning policy design, framing, energy prices, and elections. It conducts universalizing and variation‐finding comparisons across three subcases in the two jurisdictions and uses primary sources to carry out process tracing involving mechanisms of public opinion and elite position‐taking. The article finds strong support for the timing of independent energy price changes, exogenous causes of election results, reducing the visibility of carbon pricing, and using public‐benefit justifications, as well as some support for making concessions to voters. By contrast, the effects of the use of revenue, industry exemptions/compensations, and making polluters pay are not uniform, because the effects of revenue use depend on how it is embedded in coalition building efforts and a middle path between exempting or compensating industry and burdening it appears to be more effective than pursuing just one or the other approach. 鉴于可预期的政治反对，采用给家庭带来显著成本的气候政策并不常见，然而，不列颠哥伦比亚省实行的碳政策与加利福尼亚州的碳排放总量管制与交易计划却强制施加了这类成本并仍然挺过了强烈反对。 为解释这些结果，本文检验了有关政策设计、政策制定、能源价格和选举的假设。 本文对这两个管辖区中的三个子案例进行了一般化比较和差异识别比较，并使用原始数据执行一项追踪过程，后者涉及与舆论和精英政治立场相关的机制。 本文发现，独立的能源价格变化，选举结果的外部起因，碳定价可见性的减少，使用有益于公众的正当理由等方面存在强烈支持，对选民做出让步也存在部分支持。 相反的是，税收使用、产业豁免/补偿机制、以及让污染者买单所产生的效果并不统一，因为前者取决于其如何被置于联盟建构工作，而在豁免或补偿产业及烧碳之间选择一条中间路径似乎比仅追求其中一种方法更为有效。 La adopcion de politicas climaticas con costos visibles y sustanciales para los hogares es poco comun debido a la reaccion politica esperada, pero el impuesto al carbono de la Columbia Britanica y el programa de tope y comercio de California impusieron tales costos y aun sobrevivieron a la oposicion vigorosa. Para explicar estos resultados, este documento prueba hipotesis sobre el diseno de politicas, la elaboracion, los precios de la energia y las elecciones. Realiza comparaciones de universalizacion y busqueda de variaciones en tres subcajas en las dos jurisdicciones y utiliza fuentes primarias para llevar a cabo el rastreo de procesos que involucran mecanismos de opinion publica y toma de posicion de elite. El documento encuentra un fuerte apoyo para el momento de los cambios independientes en los precios de la energia, causas exogenas de los resultados electorales, la reduccion de la visibilidad de los precios del carbono y el uso de justificaciones de beneficio publico, asi como cierto apoyo para hacer concesiones a los votantes. Por el contrario, los efectos del uso de los ingresos, las exenciones / compensaciones de la industria y hacer que los contaminadores paguen no son uniformes, porque el primero depende de como se integra en los esfuerzos de construccion de coaliciones y parece un camino intermedio entre eximir o compensar a la industria y cargarla. para ser mas efectivo que seguir solo uno u otro enfoque.
Extending a focused attention paradigm to critically test for unconscious congruency effects

ABSTRACT In a novel integration of research designs, we tested for unconscious perception effects at an unattended stimulus location using a focused attention paradigm (Lachter, J., Forster, K. I., & Ruthruff, E. 2004. Forty-five years after Broadbent (1958): Still no identification without attention. Psychological Review, 111(4), 880–913. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.111. 4.880). Target-masked word or nonword prime stimuli were briefly displayed for 14, 28, or 56 ms at an experimentally-defined attended or unattended location, followed by a lexical decision task. At the briefest prime durations (14 and 28 ms), we failed to find any evidence for unattended priming effects, consistent with Lachter et al., but there were some small priming (i.e., congruency) effects at the attended location. The 14 ms primes could not be discriminated above chance, but could be detected. Our results support the claim that perceptual processing is strongest with focal attention. For the 14 ms primes at the attended location, results could support an unconscious perception claim, but the effect was weak and awareness of the primes was unlikely to have been completely eliminated.