Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparison of Nutritional Intake and Dietary Behaviors in Overweight/Obese and Nonobese University Students: A School-Based Study

Objective: This study was conducted to determine of nutritional intake and dietary behaviors in overweight/obese and non-obese university students. Methods: The sample of this descriptive comparative study consisted of 220 students randomly selected among the university students who were divided into two groups as overweight / obese and non-obese. Data were collected using a daily nutrition log, anthropometric measurements and questionnaire. Results: Of the 220 students admitted to our study, 110 were overweight/obese and 110 were non-obese. Obesity was correlated with the reason for skipping meals, smoking, amount of physical activity (p<0.05). Overweight/obese students have a high scores of Perceived Health Status scale and a low Self-Efficacy to Regulate Eating Habits scale (p=0.00). The scores of the Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile Nutrition scale and the Perceived Health Status scale of the non-smoking students were significantly high (p<0.05). The Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile Exercise scale was significantly higher in the students with high frequency of physical activity (p=0.00). Overweight/obese students had high daily energy, fat, cholesterol, and sodium intake, while all students consumed insufficient amounts of key nutrients like fiber, folate, and calcium (p=0.00). Conclusions: These results emphasize the need to provide students health promotion programs should be implemented at universities to and raise young people’s awareness about making healthy choices that will affect their future.
More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from U.S. States

This paper analyzes the conditions under which more detailed legislation contributes to economic growth. In the context of U.S. states, we apply natural language processing tools to measure legislative flows for the years 1965-2012. We implement a novel shift-share design for text data, where the instrument for legislation is leave-one-out legal-topic flows interacted with pre-treatment legaltopic shares. We find that at the margin, higher legislative detail causes more economic growth. Motivated by an incomplete-contracts model of legislative detail, we test and find that the effect is driven by contingent clauses, that the effect is concave in the pre-existing level of detail, and that the effect size is increasing with economic policy uncertainty. ∗Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich, ashe@ethz.ch; Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University and CEPR, massimo.morelli@unibocconi.it; Matia Vannoni, King’s College London, matia.vannoni@kcl.ac. uk. We acknowledge financial support from the European Research Council Advanced Grant 694583. We thank Massimo Anelli, Pierpaolo Battigalli, Kirill Borusyak, Quentin Gallea, Livio di Lonardo, Xavier Jaravel, Giovanni Maggi, and Piero Stanig for helpful comments. We also wish to thank seminar participants at the Fifth Columbia Political Economy Conference, ETH Political Economy Workshop, QPE Brown Bag Seminar at King’s College London, and Stockholm School of Economics Seminar for helpful comments. We thank David Cai, Claudia Marangon, and Emiliano Rinaldi for helpful research assistance.
Stability of total phenolic and antioxidant capacity in ready-to-drink black and green tea formulations

Teas are rich in antioxidant compounds and many ready-to-drink teas are being developed with great acceptance in the market. However, the bioactive potential for these products should be preserved during the storage. The aim of this work was to evaluate changes in total phenolic content (TPC) and antioxidant capacity (AC) from six formulations of green and black ready-to-drink teas, stored in the dark or exposed to light during eight weeks at room temperature. The stability was evaluated every two weeks by measuring TPC by Folin-Ciocalteu and AC by ABTS and FRAP assays. In the absence of light TPC of green tea remained stable throughout the storage, but it dropped after two weeks when exposed to light. TPC for black tea decreased after four and two weeks, in the absence and presence of light, respectively. The AC for green tea decreased after two weeks, in the presence of light, however the decay was greater for the FRAP assay. In the absence of light, changes in AC for black tea were observed only for samples assayed by FRAP after two weeks. A reduction in the AC (FRAP and ABTS) occurred after four weeks for both samples exposed to light. The results show that to retain the majority of their TPC and AC these tea drinks should be commercialized in opaque packages and stored for up to eight weeks.
Standardization of organic sources in pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L) Mill sp.) cultivation in scarcity condition

A field experiment on the Standardization of Organic Sources in Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L) Mill sp. ) cultivation in scarcity condition was conducted during kharif season of 2017. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) consisting of Eight treatments T1: FYM 5 ton ha-1, T2: Vermicompost 3 ton ha-1, T3: FYM 2.5 + Vermicompost 1.5 t ha-1, T4: 100 % N through FYM, T5: 100 % N through Vermicompost, T6: 50 % N through FYM + 50 % N through Vermicompost, T7: RD of Fertilizers and T8: Control with three replications. Findings of present study showed significant differences among the performance of different organic sources. the different growth attributes of pigeon pea like plant height (210.63 cm), number of primary branches plant-1 (7.89), number of secondary branches plant-1 (18.21), dry matter plant-1 (221.47g) and yield attributing characters like number of pods plant-1 (174.49), number of seeds pod-1 (3.91), and higher seed yield (16.05 qt.ha-1), stover yield (41.62 qt.ha-1) recorded significantly maximum due to the application of 100 % N through Vermi compost (T5) treatment which was at par with Vermi compost 3 ton ha-1 (T2), and FYM 2.5 + vermi compost 1.5 ton ha-1 (T3) treatment, 100 % N through FYM (T4) than the control treatment (T8). The]’ like nitrogen, phosphorus in the soil after harvest of pigeon pea due to various organic sources treatments were observed to be significantly higher in 100 % N through vermin compost treatment which was at par with all other treatments except control. The Microbial population of bacteria (38.11 CFU × 10-6 g-1 soil), fungi (36.45 CFU × 10-4 g-1 soil) and actinomycetes (48.06 CFU × 10-4 g-1 soil) in the soil were also recorded significantly higher in the treatment 100 % N through vermicompost and all other treatment except control. Similarly, gross monetary returns ( 91635 ha-1) was recorded maximum due to the application of 100 % N through vermicompost than the all other treatment, but Net returns( 34454 ha-1) was recorded maximum in Recommended Dose of fertilizers (T7) treatment. Benefit cost ratio (1.77) was recorded maximum in the treatment application of 100 % N through FYM (T4). Hence the application of 100 % N through vermi compost, or FYM 5 ton ha-1, or 100 percentage N through FYM, was more beneficial for pigeon pea variety BSMR-736 under scarcity conditions of Dhule.
Effect of Addition Vitamin C and Zinc Chloride in Vitrification Medium on Viability, in vitro Maturation and Ultrastructure Changes of Vitrified Immature Bovine Oocytes

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of adding vitamin C and zinc chloride to vitrification medium on viability in vitro maturation and ultrastructure changes of vitrified immature Baladi cow oocytes. Compact cumulus oocytes (COCs) (n=1370) were obtained from slaughtered bovine ovaries. Then the morphology of oocytes was examined using a stereomicroscope. Staining with trypan, the in vitro maturation and ultrastructural changes were studied. The results revealed significant (P<0.05) increase of total and normal survival rate of bovine oocytes vitrified with zinc chloride (90.28 and 81.11%) than in vitamin C media (82.5 and 65.65%) or control medium (74.44 and 54.72%). Recovery rate of abnormal bovine oocytes showed significantly an opposite trend (9.17 vs. 16.94 and 19.72%). Proportion of oocytes with viable cytoplasm and viable cumulus (VOVC) was increased significantly (93.75%, P<0.05) in fresh (control) than in medium supplemented with vitamin C and untreated medium (74.55 and 68.63%), respectively. There were non-significant differences among zinc chloride, control and vitamin C media in oocytes with vaible cytoplasm and unvaiable cumulus (VOUC). Supplementation of the vitrification medium with zinc chloride and vitamin C significantly (P<0.05) improved maturation rates (MII) of recovered cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs) than medium without supplementation. The percentage of ultrastructural alterations in most organelles bovine oocytes significantly (P<0.05) increased in oocytes vitrified without supplementation followed by vitamin C, then zinc chloride medium. Conclusion, supplementation of vitamin C or zinc chloride to the vitrification medium improved survival rate, morphologically and ultrastructural, as well as maturation rate of bovine oocytes
The Effect of Financial Ratios in Detecting Fraudulent Company Listed on The Indonesia Stock Exchange

Financial statements are means used by entities to communicate financially related circumstances to interested parties both related to the entity's internal and external entities. There are various types of fraud occur in the companies. Types of fraud cases that often occur are asset misappropriation and fraudulent financial statements. Asset Misappropriation is the kind of act of fraud committed by using or taking company property for personal gain. Fraudulent financial statements are defined as fraudulent actions committed by the manager of the company which in the form of material misstatement in the financial report for the purpose to attract the investor. The fraud can be financial or non-financial. This study is meant to examine the effect of financial ratios in detecting fraudulent financial statements. The independent variable used in this study consisted of 5 variables: leverage, profitability, asset composition, liquidity and capital turn over. This study used the financial statements listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) as samples. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling. The period range of the financial statements used in this study is 2014-2018 or the range of 5 years. Collected data are then tested via SPSS software.
Is Wall Street Turning Blue?

We demonstrate that since the early 1990’s, it is becoming increasingly common for firms to be run by CEOs who are aligned with the Democratic Party, which we refer to as the blue trend. We find evidence that at least one factor driving this trend appears to be the rise of the role of women, who tend to have values that align with the Democratic Party. Further, we find that the blue trend is stronger in industries that are more considerable to women as a source of employees or customers (e.g., hospitality, computers, etc.). Nevertheless, the trend appears to be quite pervasive, as nearly 75% of industries turned bluer. The blue trend also has several implications on corporate governing and on the overall stock market performance and volatility, as the presence of more CEOs who are aligned with the Democratic Party is associated with the lower overall stock market returns. Collectively, our evidence suggests that there is a change in the leadership on Wall Street and that has implications for corporate culture, and the stock market landscape.
NAO-Read: Empowering the Humanoid Robot NAO to Recognize Texts in Objects in Natural Scenes

Robotics is a field of research that has undergone several changes in recent years. Currently, robot applications are commonly used for many applications, such as pump deactivation, mobile robotic manipulation, etc. However, most robots today are programmed to follow a predefined path. This is sufficient when the robot is working in a settled environment. Nonetheless, for many tasks, autonomous robots are needed. In this way, NAO humanoid robots constitute the new active research platform within the robotics community. In this article, we present a vision system that connects to the NAO robot, allowing robots to detect and recognize the visible text present in objects in images of natural scenes and use that knowledge to interpret the content of a given scene. The proposed vision system is based on deep learning methods and was designed to be used by NAO robots and consists of five stages: 1) capturing the image; 2) after capturing the image, the YOLOv3 algorithm is used for object detection and classification; 3) selection of the objects of interest; 4) text detection and recognition stage, based on the OctShuffleMLT approach; and 5) synthesis of the text. The choice of these models was due to the better results obtained in the COCO databases, in the list of objects, and in the ICDAR 2015, in the text list, these bases are very similar to those found with the NAO robot. Experimental results show that the rate of detecting and recognizing text from the images obtained through the NAO robot camera in the wild are similar to those presented in models pre-trained with natural scenes databases.
The Effects of Materials Management Practices on Firm Performance in Ghana: Evidence from A Listed Company.

Background: Materials management practices has gained extensive prominence over the last few decades and continue to play a significant role in production and operations management.Objectives: The objective of this scientific inquiry is to empirically examine the effect of materials management practices on firm performance by exploring employee views within the Ghanaian context, focusing on Fan Milk Limited, a consumer good listed manufacturing firm in Ghana.Methods: A cross-sectional approach [research design] was espoused for the study, exploring quantitative research techniques for its analysis. The study was based on self-answering structured questionnaires completed by 240 respondents selected via stratified sampling. SPSS version 25.0 was utilised for data analysis. Statistical analyses include descriptive statistics, principal component analyses, exploratory factor analyses with varimax rotation, reliability and validity analyses, and multivariate regression analyses.Results: The study found significant positive relationships between all eight materials management practices constructs and firm performance. Findings revealed further that Economic Order Quantity construct (β=0.901, p=0.000) contributed most to firm performance whilst Ergonomics (β=0.105, p=0.002) contributed least to firm performance.Conclusion: Managerial recommendations via research findings established, should be taken critical for management of manufacturing firms when dealing with decisions influencing materials management and performance assessment by examining the possible feasibility of the eight materials management techniques exploited in this study as a relevant tool for initiating continuous performance improvement in Fan Milk Limited in particular and Ghana’s manufacturing industry in general.
Effect of cutting management and fertility levels on growth and seed yields of multicut forage sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] var. CoFS-29

A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2015-16 to 2017-18 to study the effect of cutting management and fertility levels on growth and seed yields of multicut forage sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] var. CoFS-29 at Main Forage Research Station, Anand Agricultural University, Anand The soil of experimental site was loamy sand in texture (locally called as “Goradu” soil) having good drainage and moisture retention capacity. The experimental site was low in Organic Carbon and available N, medium in available P and K. Twelve treatment combinations comprising of three cutting management practices (C1: No cutting, C2: One cut at 50 DAS for green fodder then seed production, C3: Two cuts for green fodder (at 50 days interval) and then seed production), two nitrogen levels (120 and 160 kg N/ha), two phosphorus levels (40 and 60 kg P/ha) were tested in randomised block design (Factorial) with four replications. The results revealed that, among the different cutting management treatment, One cut at 50 DAS for green fodder then seed production (C2) recorded significantly the seed yield (925 kg /ha ) and test weight (5.97 g). Two cuts for green fodder at 50 days interval and then seed production (C3) recorded significantly the higher number of tillers per metre row length at harvest (153.27) and green fodder yield of 680 q/ha. Application of nitrogen at 160 kg/ ha given significantly higher growth and yields attributes as well as yields while phosphorus application had no significant impact on growth, yield attributes and yields of multicut forage sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] var. CoFS-29.
PEMAHAMAN MASYARAKAT TERHADAP KEBIJAKAN PUBLIK DI DESA PH KECAMATAN BBL, BEKASI, JAWA BARAT

Village communities have socio-cultural values and close kinship relationships maintains the values. In the national development, village communities also demand public policies that stand on the people's side for prosperity achievement. However, the village community does not fully understand various public service programs of welfare improvement in their village. In this matter, all public policies coming from the regional and central government regarding public welfare must be known in all levels of society. It does not only relate to community groups that are geographically close to the government center. The research purpose is to obtain the holistic picture of the understanding of rural communities towards public policies with the villagers' welfare orientation. This research used a qualitative method with the deliberate decision of the informants to obtain the required data and information. The research results show that the people of PH Village definitely does not know and understand various public policies for welfare improvement. Another research results indicate that the socialization of the public policies faces obstacles for internal factors in the government work units and otherwise, the public do not care about the welfare improvement programs. Masyarakat desa memiliki nilai – nilai sosial budaya yang dipertahankan dalam hubungan kekerabatan yang erat. Sejalan dengan perkembangan pembangunan, masyarakat desa juga menuntut kebijakan publik yang berpihak kepada rakyat demi tercapainya kesejahteraan. Kendati demikian masyarakat desa ternyata tidak sepenuhnya mengetahui berbagai program pelayanan public untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan untuk masyarakat. Padahal semua kebijakan publik yang berasal dari pemerintah daerah maupun pemerintah pusat menyangkut kesejahteraan harus diketahui oleh seluruh lapisan masyarakat. Bukan hanya kelompok masyarakat yang secara geografis dekat dengan pusat pemeritahan saja. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk memperoleh gambaran holistik terhadap pemahaman masyarakat desa terhadap kebijakan publik yang berorientasi untuk kesejahteraan warga desa. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan penetapan informan secara sengaja untuk memperoleh data dan informasi yang diperlukan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan, bahwa masyarakat Desa PH belum mengetahui dan memahami berbagai kebijakan publik yang memberikan pelayanan publik untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan. Temuan lain adalah sosialisasi kebijakan publik mengalami hambatan karena faktor internal di unit – unit kerja pemerintahan dan masyarakat yang kurang peduli terhadap program peningkatan kesejahteraan.
Calcareous plankton biostratigraphy of the Santonian-Campanian boundary interval in the Bottaccione section (Umbria-Marche Basin, central Italy)

The Bottaccione section (Umbria-Marche Basin, central italy) was analyzed for calcareous nannofossil and planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy across the Santonian-Campanian boundary interval to achieve a high-resolution and updated zonation directly calibrated with magnetostratigraphy. Several calcareous plankton events were detected, including zonal markers and additional potential biohorizons. The base of magnetochron C33r, proposed for placement of the base of the Campanian, lies between the first occurrence of Aspidolithus parcus parcus and the last occurrence of Dicarinella asymetrica in the Bottaccione section. The literature survey indicates that these events were found in the Santonian-Campanian boundary interval at supraregional scale and, may be used to confidently approximate the base of the Campanian. Received: March 4, 2020; accepted: September 25, 2020
Influence of National Government Constituency Development Fund on Management of Secondary Schools in Suna West Constituency, Migori County, Kenya

The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of National Government Constituency Development Funds (NG-CDF) on management of secondary schools in Suna west constituency, Migori County, Kenya. The objective of the study was to: Determine the influence of infrastructure development through CDF on management of secondary schools in Suna West Constituency, Migori County, Kenya. The information provided by this research will benefit policymakers, community members and academicians. It adopted a descriptive survey research design, with a target population of 132 persons comprising of 88 BOM class representatives, 22 PTA chairmen, and 22 principals in all the 22 public secondary schools in Suna west constituency. T he sample size of 26 BOM class representatives which was 30%, 22 PTA chairmen, and 22 principals in all the 22 public secondary schools in Suna west constituency was determined using purposive sampling for they were few. The researcher collected data using questionnaires. The instruments were validated by the supervisors from the school of education in Mt. Kenya University. Reliability of the instruments was determined through a pilot study where Cronbach alpha coeffi cients of 0.729, 0.738 and 0.716 were obtained for the instruments on infrastructure development, Social wel fare and Teaching/Learning material, respectively. This indicated that the instruments were reliable. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, and presented in graph and tables. The study established that 14(64%) of the principals, 18 (69%) of BOM representatives and 13 (59%) PTA chairmen agreed with the statement that increased number of cl assrooms constructed through NG-CDF positively influenced effective management of secondary schools in Suna west constituency, Migori County, Kenya. It was therefore recommended that to enhance effective management of secondary schools, infrastructure development, Social welfare and Teaching/Learning material through NG-CDF should be considered. Besides, the study was limited to three variables, infrastructure development, social welfare and provision of teaching / learning materials, thus, a further study should also be carried out to assess the influence of other NG-CDF on management of secondary schools. The researcher paid keen attention to research ethical issues and got the informed consent of the respondents and guarded against plagiarism and ensured confidentiality.