Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
WET SCRUBBER PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION APPLICATION ASSISTED WITH ELECTROCHEMICAL-BASED AMMONIA SENSORS

Crumb rubber is one of Indonesia’s agroindustry export commodities. This industry faces environmental problems due to their wastes, both liquid and air. The source of air pollution is commonly from drying process that emitted odor from its evaporation and heating phenomena. Industry uses wet scrubber technology as air pollution control from emitted odor from drying process. Preliminary identification in noncontrolled wet scrubber shown that wet scrubber efficiency around 47%. Low efficiency wet scrubbing process causes rain drop of water vapor around drying process . This research used electrochemical based sensor MICS 5524 as ammonia monitoring instrument, assisted with arduino as microcontroller to regulate water discharge through valve controlling scrubbing process. This electrochemical based sensor reads ammonia based on voltage reads by Arduino microcontroller. Ammonia reading then control scrubbing process by a djusting v a lve opening for spray water distribution. W et scrubber efficiency increases to 66,96% due to water scrubbing control, also can save water utilization as high as 61,90%, followed by absence of rain drop contains ammonia around drying process area.
Healthcare Interpreting from a New Zealand Sign Language Interpreters' Perspective

This research examines healthcare interpreting from the perspective of New Zealand Sign Language interpreters. Healthcare interpreting is a growing topic of research globally. However, little focus has been given to the perspective of the interpreters working in healthcare settings. The challenges encountered by interpreters providing communication access to healthcare professionals and deaf clients ranged from interpersonal demands between the interpreter and the other participants to linguistic demands dealing with unfamiliar terminology. To the best of my knowledge, this research is the first of its kind in New Zealand. The aim of this study was to identify challenges encountered by New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) interpreters working in healthcare settings and examine what coping strategies they employ to deal with challenges. The research was carried out using a mixed-method approach with a quantitative online survey and qualitative interviews. A total of 28 NZSL interpreters responded to the survey and 8 NZSL interpreters volunteered to be interviewed. The results indicated that the main challenges encountered in healthcare settings included a lack of understanding of the interpreter’s role by healthcare professionals, difficulty in dealing with unfamiliar healthcare terminology and in some cases interpreters’ belief that the deaf clients did not receive adequate access to full healthcare information. The participants shared the coping strategies they use to deal with the unfamiliar terminology and these strategies were discussed from a perspective of where the onus of decoding the message was placed. The study suggests that NZSL interpreters working in healthcare situations should be more assertive in terms of their professional relationship building, give thought to moving the onus of providing clear information back to the healthcare professional and ensure that all participants are aware of the role of the interpreter. If consumers of healthcare interpreter services are educated on how to work effectively with interpreters, communication will be more effective and the risk to deaf clients will be reduced.
CEO Gender-Based Termination Concerns: Evidence From Initial Severance Agreements

We theorize that female candidates considering CEO roles will perceive greater termination vulnerability in such roles than their male counterparts. We further theorize that indicators of recent organizational distress will exacerbate female CEO candidates’ perceptions of termination vulnerability, while the presence of female leaders will mitigate these concerns. To test our arguments, we examine the initial values of newly appointed female and male CEOs’ severance agreements from 2007 to 2014. Results support our arguments and begin to shed light on the factors that influence female executives’ concerns about CEO roles and ultimately firms’ ability to appoint female CEOs.
Not all fuel‐reduction treatments degrade biocrusts: Herbicides cause mostly neutral to positive effects on cover of biocrusts

In response to increasing fire, fuel‐reduction treatments are being used to minimize large fire risk. Although biocrusts are associated with reduced cover of fire‐promoting, invasive grasses, the impact of fuel‐reduction treatments on biocrusts is poorly understood. We use data from a long‐term experiment, the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project, testing the following fuel‐reduction treatments: mowing, prescribed fire, and the use of two herbicides: one commonly used to reduce shrub cover, tebuthiuron, and one commonly used to combat cheatgrass, imazapic. Looking at sites with high cover of biocrusts prior to treatments, we demonstrate positive effects of the herbicide, tebuthiuron on lichens with an increase in cover of 10% and trending towards slightly negative effects on moss cover. Across plots, imazapic trended towards a decrease in lichen and moss cover without being statistically significant. Mowing and prescribed fire reduced cover of mosses, with the latter leading to greater declines across sites (declines of 18% vs. 32%). Reductions in moss cover mirrored gains in cover of bare soil, which is associated with increased risk of invasion by grasses responsible for increasing fire risk. We demonstrate that the use of herbicides simultaneously reduces fuels and maintains greater cover of lichens and mosses compared with other fuel‐reduction treatments, possibly reducing risk of invasion by annual grasses that are responsible for increasing fire risk.
New psychoactive substances: problem and response.

The last decade of the 20th century saw a decrease in the prevalence of illicit substance use. The results of the IPiN study (ESPAD) and the CBOS Foundation (Youth) revealed lower drug use prevalence rates in 2003-2007 and 2008. A substantial improvement in the epidemiological area as well as health and security of both problem and occasional drug users was recorded in the Polish drug policy. However, these positive trends have been challenged in recent years by new developments, of which the most visible one has become the trade in new psychoactive substances (NPS), commonly known in Poland as â? ~dopalaczeâ? T (literally translated as afterburners) and â? ~legal highsâ? T or â? ~designer drugsâ? T in Western European literature, though these are not scientific terms. They started to be used colloquially and across the media to denote a whole range of substances or products with alleged or real psychoactive effects. These drugs might be of natural or synthetic origin and their distingushing feature is the fact that they are not listed as controlled substances according to either international or national laws.
Socio-Demographic and Anthropometric Profile of Diabetic Patients Attending Diabetes Clinic in Tertiary Care Hospital of Central Gujarat -

"Background: With a rise in non communicable diseases in India, diabetes has been a modern epidemic showing a rising trend in Gujarat also. A large number of diabetes patients come to the diabetes clinic of our tertiary care hospital in Central Gujarat. The large proportion of patients presenting with this condition prompted us to look at the profile of such patients. Methods: This was a descriptive hospital-record based cross sectional study involving a total of 167 diabetic patients enrolled in the diabetes clinic from November 2014 to December 2014. The data was entered and then analyzed in Microsoft excel sheet. Results: Among the 167 study participants, we found that 85 were males and 82 were females. It was more common among those above age of 60 years followed by 51-60 years. Almost 60% had uncontrolled diabetes. Nearly 60% of the diabetic patients were hypertensive. Almost 3/4th of the patients had high waist hip ratio and 21% patients were obese. Conclusion: The diabetic patients presenting to this tertiary care hospital belong to both genders and are from lower socioeconomic strata and having limited education in their geriatric age group. There is high proportion of obesity and hypertension among them. "
CSR: a roadmap towards customer loyalty

The customer related corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature is enriched with studies confirming its influence on customer loyalty. Nevertheless, there are sparse studies confirming the mechanism through which CSR beliefs may influence customer loyalty towards retail banking services within the context of emerging markets like Nigeria where concerns about trust and bank reputation remain persistent. Accordingly, we proposed a research model by employing attribution theory and therefore collected data from 435 retail bank customers in the country to test the proposed model that CSR beliefs have an indirect influence on bank loyalty via brand trust and reputation. Evidence emerging from our statistical analysis validates the research model in addition our supplementary analysis provides evidence on the sequential mediation of reputation and trust with regard to the relationship between CSR beliefs and customer loyalty towards the bank. Overall, this study facilitates a deeper discussion of the relationship between perceived CSR and customer loyalty by identifying brand trust and bank reputation as meaningful mediators. Implications of the study are found in the discussion and concluding sections of the article.
How Do International M&As Affect Rival Firm’s Sustainable Performance? —Empirical Evidence from an Emerging Market

International mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been increasingly used by emerging market enterprises (EMEs) as a springboard for strategic assets to overcome latecomer disadvantages and build sustainable competitive advantages. While current literature only focuses on the M&As’ impacts on acquirers, little is known about the impacts of EMEs’ international M&As on their external stakeholders, such as rival firms. Based on the longitudinal data covering 325 large international M&As completed by Chinese public manufacturing firms during 2009–2015, empirical results show that international M&As at the industry level have significant negative influence on the sustainable performance of acquirers’ rivals, and these negative relationship will be accentuated when the international M&As are horizontal M&As, when rivals are carrying out cost leadership strategy, and when those M&As are completed in the high-tech industry. This study enriches the literature of international M&As and the economic pillar of sustainability by pushing current research toward rival’s perspective and denotes that firms need to consider the potential negative impact on the sustainability of their outside stakeholders (e.g., other firms and whole industry). It also generates practical implications for firms to actively deal with potential negative effects of competitors’ international M&As on their sustainable performance, especially those players in the high-tech industry.
Sedimentary characteristics, dispersal patterns, and pathway formation in Liaoxi Sag, Liaodong Bay Depression, North China: Evolution of source‐to‐sink systems in strike‐slip tectonics belt

Liaodong Bay Depression is a strike‐slip basin with complex tectonic movement that lead the source‐to‐sink (S2S) systems evolution vary greatly in temporal and spatial characteristics. This study explored the sedimentary characteristics, dispersal patterns, and pathway formation in Liaodong Bay Depression, as well as their controlling factors. We selected more than 10 pathways with north‐west and north‐east directions in Liaoxi Sag in the western part of Liaodong Bay Depression, a typical strike‐slip bet controlled graben, to investigate their S2S system distribution. By combining seismic data, we divided the strike‐slip fault bends into three stress setting parts, namely, a central restraining bend, which is the fault translation part, and two releasing bends in the southern and northern of fault terminals. As the heavy mineral assemblage and clay content in the west side of Liaoxi Sag differs from that in the east side, we put forward an S2S index to show the sediment transport distance according to the data we have obtained. Using this index, we recovered the dispersal pattern and pathway development and speculated on the sedimentary provenance. In the restraining bend, we recognized that the pathways mainly show a symmetrical “V” or “W” shape with unclear erosion boundaries and were dominated by filling processes. Considering the heavy mineral assemblage data, we also found that the sediment provenance area decreased and the sediment provided direction transferred from the two‐side provenance to one. Combining the fast sedimentary rate calculated with clay content data, the S2S systems in this area were steep–wide–deep systems and a wide and shallow system. In the releasing bend, the pathways show an asymmetrical “V” or “W” shape and a clear erosional boundary. As shown by the heavy mineral assemblage data, the sediments from these areas mainly have a west side provenance and were deposited in the proximal area. Thus, the S2S system in this area is a kind of steep–deep system. Then, the investigation by integrated of tectonic movement and S2S geomorphic statistical parameters revealed that the elevation height of the S2S is a key factor in control pattern development. The various evolution patterns within the two different stress settings provide insights into the formation process of the S2S developed in a strike‐slip tectonic belt.
UNDERSTANDING ATTITUDE TOWARDS CHANGE

Business dynamics aimed to urge the organization to adapt in order to parlay their competitive advantage. By this, change attempts often inevitable as an effort to keep functioning on the dynamic condition. However, change in an organization is not easy, mainly when it deals with a human within the structure. This research aims to untangle the individual factor, which forms their attitude toward change. By this, the study determines two-variable such self-efficacy and employee’s trust in a leader as a predictor of the employee attitudes toward change. Through the sample of 50 employees from a company which facing a change in business process, it was found that employees’ self-efficacy and trust in leader positively related with the positive attitude toward change. Otherwise, the self-efficacy and trust in leader negatively influence the negative attitude toward change. Through the result, managers might gain insight that gaining trust in the executives and gaining employees’ trust within their ability is imperative to acquire a positive attitude towards change. Keywords—Attitude towards Change, Change, Self-Efficacy, Trust Abstrak Dinamika bisnis akan terus mendorong organisasi untuk melakukan perubahan demi mencapai keunggulan daya saing yang mumpuni. Namun, perubahan bukanlah hal yang mudah diterima oleh anggota organisasi, terutama saat hal tersebut berimplikasi langsung terhadap mereka sebagai individu. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memahami bagaimana pengaruh antara keyakinan diri atau self-efficacy dan rasa percaya terhadap pemimpin atau trust in leader terhadap respon akan perubahan yang terjadi. Dengan menggunakan sampel sebanyak 50 karyawan dari satu organisasi yang sedang melakukan restrukturisasi ditemjkan bahwa baik rasa keyakinan akan kemampuan diri serta rasa percaya terhadap pemimpin dapat mempengaruhi respon karyawan terhadap perubahan yang ada. Kata kunci—Attitude towards Change, Change, Self-Efficacy, Trust
Image analysis reveals environmental influences on the seagrass-epiphyte dynamic relationship for Thalassia testudinum in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Spatiotemporal patterns in seagrass-epiphyte dynamics for Thalassia testudinum in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico were evaluated through biomass measurements and scanned-image based metrics to investigate the potentially harmful impact of excessive epiphyte accumulations on seagrass condition. Image analysis with Spectral Angle Mapper algorithms distinguished epiphyte and uncovered seagrass leaf pixels to generate a normalized metric of leaf area coverage (epiphyte pixels/total leaf pixels). Imaging metrics were compared to biomass-based metrics seasonally, among three locations with different environmental conditions (depth, salinity, temperature and nutrient levels inferred from sediment porewater measurements) near Redfish Bay, Texas, USA. Image analysis, in conjunction with biomass measures, provides enhanced insight into the seagrass-epiphyte dynamic relationship and how it varies with environmental conditions. Compared with the biomass and morphological measures, image analysis may be more informative as an indicator of environmental changes. Variation in linear regressions of epiphyte biomass vs. epiphyte area (pixels) suggested changes in the thickness and/or density of accumulated epiphytes across environmental contexts and seasons. Two different epiphyte colonization patterns were presented based on the correlation between the normalized metrics of epiphyte load and epiphyte leaf coverage. The epiphyte load was highest at low temperatures and locations with elevated DIN:P ratio in sediment porewater. Conversely, the mean leaf coverage by epiphytes stayed relatively constant (± 10%) across seasons but differed by location (25% ~55% in this case), suggesting that leaf growth in this study is regulated to maintain the proportion of uncolonized leaf surface and that epiphyte coverage plays a role in its regulation.
Development and Initial Validation of the Perceived Classism Experiences Scale

This article describes the development and initial validation of the Perceived Classism Experiences Scale (PCES), a scale created to measure experiences of classism based on the Social Class Worldview Model. In Study 1, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis on a sample of 309 participants, revealing three distinct factors: Downward Classism, Upward Classism, and Lateral Classism. In Study 2, a confirmatory factor analysis with data from a distinct sample of 341 participants provided further support for the bifactor structure of the PCES. Significant correlations with subjective social status, self-rated health, stress, state and trait anxiety, life satisfaction, and well-being further supported criterion validity of the PCES. The PCES advances on previous scales of classism, as it is theory-driven and it is not restricted to academic environments. We discuss research and practical implications of the PCES.
A SURVEY ON KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION OF PHARMACY STUDENTS TOWARDS ADVERSE DRUG REACTION (ADR) REPORTING.

Aim: To assess the knowledge and perception of Bachelor’s of pharmacy students towards adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting. Method: 180 pharmacy students were selected randomly from 6 different colleges and a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data from these students. Result: Only 44.11% students correctly answered the definition of ADR and 90% were not aware about the regulating body of ADR in India. Few students were having knowledge about pharmacovigilance. 34.8% respondents strongly agreed that Pharmacovigilance should be included as a core topic in pharmacy education and 52.96% Stronly disagreed that the topic of pharmacovigilance is well covered in the pharmacy college. Conclusion: Imparting knowledge and creating awareness of ADR reporting among pharmacists can not only increase the number of ADR reports but can decrease the incidences of ADR also.
A Case Report of Endobronchial Ultrasound Needle Fracture

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has many potential complications though most occur infrequently. We encountered a case in which the EBUS needle broke during TBNA. The patient was a 65 year old man who underwent EBUS-TBNA for right paratracheal lymphadenopathy. During the procedure, the TBNA needle was found to be broken. We were able to completely recover it without any complications to the patient or to the EBUS scope.
A Safe and Convenient Method of Inserting and Controlling Donor Tissue During Endothelial Keratoplasty

Beginning in 2005, selective endothelial replacement gained momentum as the treatment of choice for endothelial pathologies. While a successful surgery, penetrating keratoplasty for primarily endothelial failure removes a significant amount of otherwise normal corneal tissue. Risk factors, including challenging intraoperative events, can complicate penetrating keratoplasties and unpredictable post-operative astigmatism may compromise outcomes and patient satisfaction. Finally, allogenic graft rejection is more common in penetrating than endothelial keratoplasties.
Comparative analysis of legal framework for interim financial reporting in Southeast Europe

Interim financial reporting is the process of preparation, compilation and disclosure of financial statements for periods shorter than one year. The most commonly discussed are semi-annual and quarterly reporting. In many countries, interim financial reporting is compulsory for companies whose securities are traded on a regulated market and is regulated by both national capital market legislation and international regulations - this refers primarily to IAS 34 and the EU Transparency Directive. This paper analyzes the legal framework for interim financial reporting in ten Southeast European countries. Despite the ongoing process of harmonizing accounting regulations and the fact that all observed countries have adopted IAS/IFRS, the analysis has shown that differences in interim reporting persist and are significant. They are particularly prominent in non-EU countries and in segments where international regulation has left flexibility to national regulations. The results of this research may be of value to investors, regulators and future researchers looking at the quality of interim financial reporting.
Study of knowledge and practices of hand washing among mothers having children under 5 years of age in urban field practicing area of Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal, Telangana, India

Background: Hand washing is viewed as most cost effective intervention for reducing global infections like diarrhoea, acute respiratory tract infections. According to WHO estimates, 3.8 million children aged less than five die each year from diarrhoea and ARI. WHO defines hand washing as washing hands with soap and water (HWWS) thoroughly following the five critical moments i.e. after defecation, after cleaning child’s bottom who had defecated, before cooking, eating and feeding child. Objectives of the study was to study the socio demographic profile of mothers, to study the hand washing practices among mothers having children under 5 years of age and factors influencing them and to impart knowledge about the importance of hand washing Methods: A community based descriptive cross sectional study was undertaken on mothers randomly selected in rangampet, urban field practising area of KMC, Warangal. A total of 150 mothers were interviewed using a pre-designed semi-structured questionnaire. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 22.00. Results: Mothers who washed their hands with soap and water after defecation (79.3%) and after cleaning child’s bottom (82.7%) before cooking (44.7%), before eating (44.7%) and before feeding the child (41.3%). The women who didn’t wash their hands properly (used only water) after defecation (20.7%) and after cleaning a child who has just defecated (17.3%) cited the absence of soap or water at the designated site of hand washing as the reason for not doing so. 78.7% have told that hand washing is important in prevention of diseases. 16.7% have given the response that they don’t know the importance of hand washing. Conclusions: The study shows hand washing after critical moments is critically low. It can be suggested that interventions by educating target an increase in hand washing practices. Innovative social marketing approaches may help in adoption of proper hand washing behaviour.