Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Unraveling the potential of phenomic selection within and among diverse breeding material of maize (Zea mays L.)

Abstract Genomic selection is a well-investigated approach that facilitates and supports selection decisions for complex traits and has meanwhile become a standard tool in modern plant breeding. Phenomic selection has only recently been suggested and uses the same statistical procedures to predict the targeted traits but replaces marker data with near-infrared spectroscopy data. It may represent an attractive low-cost, high-throughput alternative but has not been sufficiently studied until now. Here, we used 400 genotypes of maize (Zea mays L.) comprising elite lines of the Flint and Dent heterotic pools as well as 6 Flint landraces, which were phenotyped in multienvironment trials for anthesis-silking-interval, early vigor, final plant height, grain dry matter content, grain yield, and phosphorus concentration in the maize kernels, to compare the predictive abilities of genomic as well as phenomic prediction under different scenarios. We found that both approaches generally achieved comparable predictive abilities within material groups. However, phenomic prediction was less affected by population structure and performed better than its genomic counterpart for predictions among diverse groups of breeding material. We therefore conclude that phenomic prediction is a promising tool for practical breeding, for instance when working with unknown and rather diverse germplasm. Moreover, it may make the highly monopolized sector of plant breeding more accessible also for low-tech institutions by combining well established, widely available, and cost-efficient spectral phenotyping with the statistical procedures elaborated for genomic prediction - while achieving similar or even better results than with marker data.
Bond Graph Multi-time Scale Analysis of a Railway Traction System

The unified formalism of bond graphs is applicable to designing, modeling and analyzing complex and heterogeneous physical systems. Moreover, various order-reduction methods can be applied directly on bond graph models in order to simplify them. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the characteristics and the advantages of the bond graph formalism, considering as an example, model simplification methods of a railway traction system. Several simulations are carried out in order to validate the simplified models. The analysis of couplings on these models highlights the elements that cause perturbations, such as mechanical resonance.
Return to Sports After High Tibial Osteotomy With Concomitant Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation

Background: Young patients with symptomatic chondral defects in the medial compartment with varus malalignment may undergo opening wedge high tibial osteotomy (HTO) with concomitant osteochondral allograft transplantation (OCA). Although patients have demonstrated favorable outcomes after HTO þ OCA, there is limited information is available regarding return to sporting activities after combined HTO and OCA.
FORMAL EDUCATION, WORK EXPERIENCE AND EMPOWERMENT OF THE FISHING COMMUNITY IN TERENGGANU, MALAYSIA

Background and Purpose: Efforts in bringing about changes to fishers' lives are often met with obstacles due to their lack of participation in empowerment programmes as well as their excessive reliance on external assistance. However, such situations are said to be the results of their level of education and work experience. This paper also examines the relationship between work experience with empowerment and formal education as a control variable to the relationship. Therefore, this paper aims to observe the reality of empowerment among fishing communities from the lens of participation and self-reliance among fishers in Terengganu, Malaysia. Concurrently, this study also reviews the theme mentioned above from the lens of formal education and work experience and their impacts on the fishing community empowerment. Methodology: This study used a survey design and involved 220 coastal fishers, who were identified through multi-stage sampling. Data were gathered using a questionnaire, and data analysis was done through descriptive statistics and the Analysis of Variance Test (ANCOVA). Findings: The empowerment of the fishing community in this study is not influenced by the number of years they have spent as fishers. On the other hand, their level of education plays a pertinent influence on their empowerment. Such a finding clearly shows that experience is not only a major factor in increasing the empowerment of the fishing community. Journal of Nusantara Studies 2022, Vol 7(1) 366-389 ISSN 0127-9386 (Online) http://dx.doi. org/10.24200/jonus.vol7iss1pp366-389 367 Contributions: This study contributes to our understanding that it is undeniably true that formal and informal education play an integral role in empowering the fishing community, where through education, fishers are more participative in their community and exhibit autonomy towards their work.
Ensembling With a Fixed Parameter Budget: When Does It Help and Why?

Given a ﬁxed parameter budget, one can build a single large neural network or create a memory-split ensemble: a pool of several smaller networks with the same total parameter count as the single network. A memory-split ensemble can outperform its single model counterpart (Lobacheva et al., 2020): a phenomenon known as the memory-split advantage (MSA). The reasons for MSA are still not yet fully understood. In particular, it is difﬁcult in practice to predict when it will exist. This paper sheds light on the reasons underlying MSA using random feature theory. We study the dependence of the MSA on several factors: the parameter budget, the training set size, the L2 regularization and the Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) hyper-parameters. Using the bias-variance decomposition, we show that MSA exists when the reduction in variance due to the ensemble ( i.e ., ensemble gain ) exceeds the increase in squared bias due to the smaller size of the individual networks ( i.e ., shrinkage cost ). Taken together, our theoretical analysis demonstrates that the MSA mainly exists for the small parameter budgets relative to the training set size, and that memory-splitting can be understood as a type of regularization. Adding other forms of regularization, e.g . L2 regularization, reduces the MSA. Thus, the potential beneﬁt of memory-splitting lies primarily in the possibility of speed-up via parallel computation. Our empirical experiments with deep neural networks and large image datasets show that MSA is not a general phenomenon, but mainly exists when the number of training iterations is small.
Isolation and characterization of soil actinobacteria as cellulolytic enzyme producer from Aceh Besar, Indonesia

Fitri L, Bessania MA, Septi N, Suhartono S. 2021. Isolation and characterization of soil actinobacteria as cellulolytic enzyme producer from Aceh Besar, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 5169-5180. Cellulolytic actinobacteria are cellulase-producing bacteria capable of degrading cellulose. This study aimed to isolate, characterize, evaluate the cellulolytic ability, and to determine physiological characterization of soil cellulolytic actinobacteria isolated from the Ujung Pancu area, Aceh Besar. Isolation of actinobacteria from soil samples was performed using serial dilution method on Yeast Malt Agar (YMA) medium. Morphological characterization was carried out by growing isolates on YMA, Oatmeal Agar (OA), and Yeast Starch Agar (YSA) media. Cellulolytic ability was determined by calculating the cellulolytic index (IS) on 1% carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) medium after adding 0.1% congo red solution. Physiological characterization of cellulolytic actinobacteria tested in this study was salinity, pH, and carbon source in liquid Yeast Malt (liquid YM), and the growth was measured at a wavelength of 581nm. The results showed that a total of nine isolates of actinobacteria were isolated, which belonged to the genus Streptomyces. Cellulolytic test results showed that eight isolates had the ability to degrade cellulose. Isolates AUP-04, AUP-03, and AUP-01 had the highest cellulolytic index value. Physiological characterization results revealed that three isolates had different tolerances for salinity levels, pH, and types of carbon sources. AUP-03 isolate grew well at 10% salinity with an OD value of 0.88, isolate AUP-01 grew at 5% salinity with an OD value of 0.49, whereas isolate AUP-04 grew well on media that did not contain salinity. All three isolates grew well at pH 6 with OD values of 0.93, 1.12, and 1.27. AUP-03 and AUP-01 isolates grew well on media containing dextrose as carbon source with OD values of 0.154 and 0.17, respectively, while isolate AUP-04 grew well on glucose-containing media with an OD value of 0.22.
The potential of Nephrolepis biserrata fern as ground cover vegetation in oil palm plantation

Satriawan H, Fuady Z, Ernawita. 2021. The potential of Nephrolepis biserrata fern as ground cover vegetation in oil palm plantation. Biodiversitas 22: 4808-4817. Nuisance plants or weeds are commonly found in agricultural landscapes including in oil palm plantations. Despite being considered as weeds, several of them have the potential to be used as ground cover vegetation including Nephrolepis biserrata (Sw). Schott. This fern species exhibits beneficial characteristics as a ground cover plant, especially in terms of the contribution of organic matter and soil moisture through the prevention of evapotranspiration. The objective of this research is to explore the potential of N.biserrata as ground cover vegetation in oil palm plantations based on the assessment of its ecological characteristics regarding the growth and decomposition rate, tolerance to shade, organic contents and carbon accumulation. The splitplot experimental design was used with the age of oil palm plants was used as the main plot while in the sub-plots, the spacing of N. biserrata was used at three varying distances 10x10cm, 20x20 cm, and 30x30 cm, each treatment had three replicates. Nine parameters observed were the percentage of growth, the percentage of ground cover, plant height, fronds number per plant, leaves number per plant, Leaf Area Index, dry weight (g), nutrient content in plant tissue, and potential carbon stock. Results showed that N. biserrata showed rapid growth in covering the ground surface (8-12 weeks after planting), had rapid decomposition rate (30-60 days), tolerant to shading which was characterized by the highest percentage of growth up to 81.16% and covering the area up to 95.9%, accumulated organic contents of N (1.23-1.53%), P (0.18-0.22%), and K (1.4-1.67%), respectively. In addition, total dry weight biomass obtained was 27.1 ton/ha, accumulated carbon in a plant of 0.9 tons C/ha/year, and amount of soil carbon stock 76.4-97.4 tonnes/ha/year. The results of this study suggest that Nephrolepis biserrata is a potential plant to be utilized as a ground cover plant in oil palm plantations.
Tau physics results and prospects at Belle II

The Belle II experiment operates at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric e+e−-collider. Belle II is a substantial upgrade of the Belle detector and has a broad τ physics program, in particular in searches for lepton flavor and lepton number violations (LFV and LNV). We expect that after 5 years of data taking, Belle II will be able to improve the sensitivity on LFV and LNV τ decays by an order of magnitude. In this talk we review the τ physics program of Belle II.
Using Explicit Instruction of the International Phonetic Alphabet System in English as a Foreign Language Adult Classes

The effects of international phonetic alphabet (IPA) instruction on English as a foreign language (EFL) adult learners’ pronunciation have been well-recognized. However, not many studies on the topic were conducted in the Vietnamese context. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate (1) the impact of IPA learning on Vietnamese EFL adult learners’ pronunciation and (2) adult learners’ perceptions of the effects of learning the IPA system on their pronunciation. The study was designed as an experimental study, following a mixed-methods approach, using the pre-and-post-tests, questionnaires, and interviews to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Thirty-eight adult learners took part in this investigation; they were divided into two groups, nineteen in the control and nineteen in the experimental group. The experimental study lasted ten weeks before the questionnaires and interviews were administered with the participants in the experimental group. The results demonstrated a significant improvement in adult learners’ pronunciation in the experimental group. The participants in the experimental group also highly perceived the positive effects of learning the IPA system on their pronunciation. Pedagogical implications and suggestions were presented at the end of the paper.
Quality of life assessment in patients with a stoma due to rectal cancer in Morocco

Colorectal cancer is a major public health problem in Morocco, according to the Moroccan. Cancer Registry; it represents the first gastro-intestinal cancer and the third most common cancer in Morocco. The aim of this paper is to compare the quality of life of rectal cancer patients with and without permanent colostomy in the course of rectal cancer treatment. Methods: Patients were recruited from the National Institute of Oncology in Rabat – Morocco, during the February 2016 - June 2018 period. The version of the third QLQ-C30 and C29 questionnaire of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) was translated for the first time in Moroccan Arabic and used to obtained relevant data. Psychometric properties were measured on patients with colorectal cancer recruited from different regions of the country. Statistical analysis included Cronbach’s alpha, correlation, multi-trait scaling and known groups comparisons. p value ≤ 0.05 was considered significant. Results: In total, 102 patients with rectal cancer were included in the study and 45 (44 %) patients with stoma. The mean age at diagnosis time was 51 years (+/- 11.4). Stoma patients did not show significant impairment of functioning, which did not negatively influence their quality of life. Patients with stoma had higher symptom scores related to diarrhea and experienced more financial difficulty as measured by EORTC C-30, in clinically distinct group comparison. With EORTC C-29, this group showed lower Functional scales scores for body image, sexual dysfunction for female patients and higher symptom scores related to urinary frequency, troubles with taste, hair loss, sore skin, psychosocial disturbance in the form of embarrassment due to the frequent need to change the stoma bag compared to patients without a stoma. Conclusions: The experience of stoma has a not large negative impact on Moroccan patients’ quality of life. Influence of stoma is most pronounced in the area of symptom and financial difficulty. Financial difficulties are, by far, more present. Keywords: quality of life; intestinal stoma; colo-rectal cancer.
THE MANDARIN ORAL MASTERY PROGRAMME AS PERCEIVED BY NON- NATIVE LEARNERS

Background and Purpose: Pinyin is required in learning Mandarin. The challenge of Romanised Pinyin is that learners must decipher the meaning of words based on the change of tone. Communication research is often conducted without accounting for the effects of the change of tone in learning a language. With the aim of avoiding miscommunication while strengthening awareness, Campus Buddies Programme was employed to provide tone practice for learners and consequently explores the effectiveness of the intervention. Methodology: This quantitative classroom-based research gathered information through the administration of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to 32 Mandarin Level 1 learners identified through purposive sampling. The students studied five topics from the syllabus. A total of 10 native speakers who scored A in Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) mentored the learners during the programme. The participants were instructed to answer both preand post-tests. Part A consists of demographic details, whereas Part B focuses on the effectiveness of questions and Part C consists of 30 questions of content learned by the respondents. The data were then analysed using SPSS 26 software. Journal of Nusantara Studies 2022, Vol 7(1) 1-23 ISSN 0127-9386 (Online) http://dx.doi. org/10.24200/jonus.vol7iss2pp1-23 2 Findings: The respondents demonstrated a positive response towards the programme and suggested further improvement ideas such as prolonging the training session and adding more topics and oral activities. The results implicated the programme as a motivator for oral fluency. Many non-native speakers can benefit from conversation with Mandarin native speakers because it is a strong indicator and sound oral mastery strategy. Contributions: This research provides insights into the effectiveness of the current programme in motivating students’ oral learning. The outcome is essential in determining the Mandarin conversation strategy. More studies adopting different variables are proposed to explore correlations from different perspectives in order to improve students’ oral learning.
Strengthening Students’ Motivation in Statistics Online Learning Through Interactive Animation Media on Android Smartphone

Students' motivation plays an important role in increasing students' ability and learning outcomes, especially in online learning. Strengthening students' motivation can be conducted by using proper and creative learning media. With an interesting media will make students enthusiastic in taking lessons. The learning process will also be effective, interesting, and easier for educators in delivering messages by using interesting learning media. To transform a learning media, technology can be a powerful tool to be used. The purpose of this study is to improve the students' motivation in Statistics Online Learning by implementing an interactive animation learning media that can be accessed by Android smartphones. The type of this research was design experiment research which applies a treatment into an experiment class then compares it to the control class. The data of students' motivation in an experiment class (52 students) and control class (52 students) were taken using a questionnaire consisting of ten indicators of motivation. Students’ motivation data were classified as high or low motivation. The data were analyzed using Chi-Square analysis. Results showed that there is a significant difference in motivation in experiment class and control class. The odd ratio between the experiment and control class was 5.41. It can be concluded that the Interactive Animation Media on Android smartphones can increase the potential of students' motivation by 5.41.
The Eye in Extended Reality: A Survey on Gaze Interaction and Eye Tracking in Head-worn Extended Reality

With innovations in the field of gaze and eye tracking, a new concentration of research in the area of gaze-tracked systems and user interfaces has formed in the field of Extended Reality (XR). Eye trackers are being used to explore novel forms of spatial human–computer interaction, to understand human attention and behavior, and to test expectations and human responses. In this article, we review gaze interaction and eye tracking research related to XR that has been published since 1985, which includes a total of 215 publications. We outline efforts to apply eye gaze for direct interaction with virtual content and design of attentive interfaces that adapt the presented content based on eye gaze behavior and discuss how eye gaze has been utilized to improve collaboration in XR. We outline trends and novel directions and discuss representative high-impact papers in detail.
The Effect of Leverage, Managerial Ownership, And Dividend Policy On Hedging Decisions In Manufacturing Companies

Companies that have risks due to exchange rate fluctuations need to manage these risks, one of which uses hedging with derivative instruments. The use of hedging with derivative instruments can reduce exposure to the exchange rate so that it does not interfere with the value of the company's assets and liabilities. This study aims to determine the effect of leverage, managerial ownership, and dividend policy on hedging decisions with derivative instruments. This research was conducted at manufacturing companies on the Stock Exchange in the 2016-2018 period with 133 companies as sample. Logistic Regression Analysis was used. Leverage and managerial ownership have negative but not significant effect on hedging decisions with derivative instruments, while dividend policy has a significant positive effect on hedging decisions with derivative instruments. Companies with high dividend payout ratios can hedge if the company has exposure to changes in exchange rates.
Cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP) successfully treated with dilatation and curettage after failed local methotrexate treatment: A case report and updated Mini-Review

Background: Caesarean Scar Pregnancy (CSP) is a very rare form of an abnormal pregnancy that implants in a Cesarean section scar. The incidence is mainly increasing due to increasing number of Cesarean sections. This condition is associated with substantial morbidity and even mortality. Case presentation: Because of its rarity, currently, there is no consensus on the preferred mode of treatment or follow up of CSP. Herein we report our experience with a case of first trimester CSP which was successfully managed with dilatation, evacuation and curettage (D&C), under ultrasound guidance, after failed local Methotrexate (MTX) treatment. Mini review: We included an updated mini review of literature targeted for such lines of treatment (local MTX and D&C). The first authoritative recommendations on the CSP, by the Society for MaternalFetal Medicine, are summarized. Conclusion: Operative intervention as D&C to treat CSP after failed local MTX treatment is a viable option characterized by technical simplicity efficacy and avoidable or controllable intra-operative complications. This is particularly justifiable if other advanced therapeutic techniques are not available.
Examination of Professional Self-Concept in Nurses in Terms of Certain Variables

Background: The professional self is the set of beliefs and va lues that guide the nurse's interactions with the patient and their way of thinking and actions. Aim: This study was conducted to examine the level of p r essional self-concept and the affecting factors in nurses. Method: The sample of the present descriptive study consis ted of 256 nurses. The data were obtained via Personal Information Form (PIF) and Professional Se lf Concept Inventory for Nurses (PSCIN). Mann-Whitn ey U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were used for data a n lysis. Results: Overall PSCIN mean total score was determined to be 103.42 ± 11.94. There was a statistically significant difference between gender, age, clinica l st tus, working style, work position held, willin g ess in choosing the profession, finding the profession sui table for self and satisfaction with work life and the mean PSCI scores (p < 0.05). It was determined that the characteristics of nurses such as education, marita l status and having a child do not affect the concept of profess ional self (p > 0.05). Conclusion: The findings of the research indicated that the le vel of professional self-concept of nurses was average. Managing nurses may organize professional self development training programs for newly gradua ted, young, and insufficiently educated and nurse clinic ians working in shifts.