Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
AMELIORATING CALCAREOUS SOIL PROPERTIES AND AGRICULTURE METHODS FOR ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ASPECT

The main objective of this investigation was to ameliorate calcareous soil properties, i.e., some hydrophysical and chemical properties of the sandy loam soil by using organic manure, i.e., composted rice straw at rate of 7.87 Mg f -1 +50%NPK and chicken manure at rate of 4.08 Mg f -1 +50%NPK as well as applying some agriculture methods, i.e., lines and prose for achieving the sustainable agriculture aspect. The field experiments were conducted in private farm of El Nubaria area, El-Behera Governorate, Egypt. Yield of wheat crop as well as the concentrations of micronutrient in straw and grains was determined. Application of either composted rice straw or chicken manure significantly improved the hydrophysical properties of the tested soil, i.e., bulk density, total porosity, pore size distribution, soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity. Composted rice straw has a preference to improve the hydrophysical properties compared to chicken manure. In addition, methods of agriculture treatments had no significant effect on soil hydrophysical properties. Concerning the effect of organic fertilizers application along with applying lines agriculture on pH, ECe, OM and CaCO3 content and chemically available Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu in the cultivated soil, chicken manure was better than composted rice straw. Grain and straw yields of wheat plants as well as concentrations of Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu in straw or in grains of wheat were significantly increased due to organic fertilizers application and use of lines agriculture methods. Lines agricultural method gave 5.70 % greater grain yield and 3.54 % straw yield over the prose agricultural method. Lines methods emphasized the role of applied organic manure on improving soil properties and consequently, increasing the availability of Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu in the calcareous soil. Where, lines agriculture method was the best treatments compared to prose method, which reduces the growth of roots and plant. In general, the study recommends using the chicken manure (4.08 Mg f -1 +50% NPK "recommended rate") or composted rice straw (7.87 Mg f -1 + 50% NPK "recommended rate") with lines agriculture methods, which will give better results in increasing the productivity of calcareous soils. Thus, these treatments can replace entirely or partially N, P and K mineral fertilizers, which reduce production costs and conserve the environment from chemical pollution hazards on human and animal health.
IS VIEWING A PAINTING REALLY LIKE READING? AN INVESTIGATION OF TRANS-SYMBOLIC COMPREHENSION PROCESSES

IS VIEWING A PAINTING REALLY LIKE READING? AN INVESTIGATION OF TRANS-SYMBOLIC COMPREHENSION PROCESSES Christian C. Steciuch, M.A. Department of Psychology Northern Illinois University, 2018 Keith K. Millis, Director Humans form mental models of the world around them. A large body of research has outlined these mental processes for comprehending texts, yet less work has been conducted in the world of comprehending artworks. The recent trans-symbolic comprehension (TSC) framework has posited that there are shared comprehension processes between the domains of text and artwork. The current study tested this claim by having individuals think aloud while viewing paintings and reading texts. The think-aloud protocols were then parsed and coded for six distinct mental processes that the TSC framework claims are required for comprehension across symbol systems. It was hypothesized that individuals would have profiles of TSC processes across both symbol systems. Coherence-building TSCs were also hypothesized to be related of one’s aesthetic experience. No profiles of comprehension emerged as significant in the analyses, suggesting that participants do not use similar frequencies of TSC processes for paintings and texts. The coherence-building hypothesis was supported. However, bridging and elaborative inferences predicted the three aesthetic responses differently. Overall, the results provide some support for the TSC framework. Limitations and future avenues of research are also discussed.
The cognitive basis of trust

Previous research has established convincingly that there is a strong positive relation between educational attainment and trust. There is less agreement however, about the precise determinants of this relation. In this article, we assess how education is related to generalized and political trust, controlling for cognitive ability and occupational prestige, based on the results of the representative NELLS population survey in the Netherlands (n=1,931). The analysis confirms that education is strongly related to trust, but most of this association can be explained by the intermediary mechanisms of cognitive ability and the occupational prestige associated with the level of educational attainment. We close with some observations on how the remaining direct relation between education and trust could be explained.
The effect of parental residential school attendance and parental involvement on Indigenous youth’s participation in sport and physical activity during school

Introduction: The objective of this study was to assess the effect of parental residential school attendance on youth's participation in sport and physical activity (S/PA) at school and to explore the potential role that parental education and parental involvement in school activities may play in mediating this relationship. Methods: This cross-sectional study used the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey and included youth ages 12-17 (N=4,840). Structural equation modeling techniques were used for models with observed and latent variables. Sampling weights and bootstrap weights were used for all analyses. Results: The results indicate 62.87% of youth participated in S/PA; 27.54% at school; 31.52% outside of school, and 40.94% in school and outside school. Mothers who attended residential schools had lower levels of educational attainment. Maternal education had a positive effect on parental involvement in school activities in dual parent households and parental involvement had a positive effect on S/PA. The indirect effects of residential school attendance on parental involvement and participation in S/PA were significant only for youth living with both parents and only for the effect of maternal residential school attendance. Maternal residential school attendance had a negative effect on parental involvement and on participation in S/PA. Discussion: The findings from this study indicate that interpersonal factors and historical contexts shape Indigenous youth's participation in S/PA.
Breast feeding and the nutritional status of Chilean infants

The purpose of this work was to describe the diet of children under 18 months of age and its relationship to nutritional status. For this purpose in 1993 a prevalence study was carried out on children who received care from the National Health Services System of Chile. The Chilean public health system provides care to 75% of children under 6 years of age and especially to children of families in the lower strata of income distribution in the country. Participants in the study were 9330 children under 18 months old who were randomly selected from 102 of the 320 urban clinics throughout the country. The type of food these infants had received the day prior to the interview (breast milk exclusively; breast milk plus solid food formula exclusively; formula plus solid food) and their nutritional status relative to the standards of the National Center for Health Statistics (US) and of WHO were determined. Children with z values for weight-for-age between -1.0 and -2.0 standard deviations were considered at risk for malnutrition and those with z values under 2 standard deviations were classified as malnourished. The prevalences of exclusive breast feeding at the 1st 3rd and 6th month of life were 86.5% 66.7% and 25.3% respectively. Some 12.1% of the participants showed low weight for age; 30.7% low height for age; and 35.7% overweight. The magnitude of weight-for-age deficiency was 1.2-5 times greater among children who were fed milk substitutes than among those who received breast milk. Breast feeding also had a positive effect on height. These results confirm the benefits of exclusive breast feeding until 6 months of age the need to supplement the childs diet with solid food after that age and the breast feedings protective effect on the nutritional status of children of all the ages studied. (authors) (summaries in ENG SPA)
Learning Compositional Rules via Neural Program Synthesis

Many aspects of human reasoning, including language, require learning rules from very little data. Humans can do this, often learning systematic rules from very few examples, and combining these rules to form compositional rule-based systems. Current neural architectures, on the other hand, often fail to generalize in a compositional manner, especially when evaluated in ways that vary systematically from training. In this work, we present a neuro-symbolic model which learns entire rule systems from a small set of examples. Instead of directly predicting outputs from inputs, we train our model to induce the explicit system of rules governing a set of previously seen examples, drawing upon techniques from the neural program synthesis literature. Our rule-synthesis approach outperforms neural meta-learning techniques in three domains: an artificial instruction-learning domain used to evaluate human learning, the SCAN challenge datasets, and learning rule-based translations of number words into integers for a wide range of human languages.
TWENTY-SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITE MATERIALS (ICCM22) EFFECT OF FLAME RETARDANT FILTRATION ON THE FIRE PERFORMANCE OF CARBON FIBRE REINFORCED EPOXY COMPOSITES MADE BY RESIN TRANSFER MOULDING

The effect of flame retardant filtration on the fire performance was investigated in case of carbon fibre reinforced low-viscosity epoxy (a trifunctional glycerol based (GER) and a tetrafunctional pentaerythritol-based (PER)) composites made by liquid composite moulding techniques, such as resin transfer moulding (RTM). During preliminary tests, two phosphorus (P) containing flame retardants were used: resorcinol bis(diphenyl phosphate) (RDP), acting predominantly in the gas phase, ammonium polyphosphate (APP), acting in the solid phase, and their combination. First, thermal analysis (DSC, TGA), rheological investigations (parallel plate rheometry), flammability (LOI, UL94) and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) were carried out. According to these results, PER epoxy resin with 3%P APP was chosen for further investigation of particle filtration. We examined the particle filtration phenomenon and particle distribution of solid flame retardant (APP) in the crosssection of the composites by scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectrometry (SEM-EDS), while fire performance was evaluated by mass loss calorimetry (MLC) measurements. Flame retarded (FR) samples made by hand lamination followed by hot pressing, and by RTM were compared to each other, while a composite sheet containing different amount of P (1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%) in each subsequent matrix layer was prepared to model the particle filtration.
PREDICTION OF WORK STRESS, LEADERSHIP QUALITY, MOTIVATION OF WORK AND ORGANIZATION CULTURE TO WORK SATISFACTION AND IMPACT ON TURNOVER INTENTION EMPLOYEES

This research aimed to analyze and predict how work stress factors, quality of leadership, work motivation, organizational culture, and job satisfaction affect the turnover intention. Observations on this research were conducted on 150 employees in national companies engaged in satellite-based telecommunications. Data were collected by using questionnaire. The analysis method used Structural Equation Model (SEM) with Partial Least Square(PLS) as an analysis tool. The research results showed that work stress and job satisfaction influence on turnover intention while the quality of leadership, work motivation, and organizational culture have no effect on turnover intention. Suggestions for future research and the company are outlined in the closing section.
Board Diversity and Firm Performance in the Construction, Manufacturing, and Trading/Services Industries

This research investigates the effect of board diversity on Malaysia’s firm performance from an industry specificities angle. The study focuses on three major industries i.e. construction, manufacturing, and trading/services (CMTS) from the year 2012 to 2016. Board personalities measure gender and ethnicity while board characteristics indicate managerial ownership, board size, board independence, and CEO duality. The results obtained proposed that board independence, CEO duality, gender diversity, and managerial ownership are significant factors affecting firm performance. Meanwhile, board size and ethnic diversity are not significant. The results are different due to the differences in industry specialisations. In sum, the mixed evidence implies that Malaysian industries' sectors are not homogenous and unique by nature.
Frequência e características maternas e do recém nascido associadas à internação de neonatos em UTI no município de Joinville, Santa Catarina - 2012

Objectives: to determine the frequency of and factors associated with the admission of newborns to neonatal ICU in the municipality of Joinville, Santa Catarina. Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted based on the records of live births (DNV) and admissions to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in 2012. To evaluate associations between the explanatory variables and the outcome, the crude and adjusted odds ratios (OR) were calculated with respective confidence intervals of 95% using the logistic regression technique. Results: the frequency of admission to NICU was 11.7% (9.69-13.7). Low birth weight (ORadj = 8.1 [6.3 – 10.3]), congenital deformity (ORadj = 6.0 [3.2 – 11.2]), a 5th minute Apgar score < 7 (ORadj = 5.7 [2.6 – 12.3]), prematurity (ORadj = 3.4 [(2.7 – 4.1]), male sex (ORaj = 1.5 [1.2 – 1.8]), public hospital (ORadj = 2.0 [1;6 – 2.4]), single mother (ORadj = 1.4 [1.2 – 1.7]), low level of education of mother (ORadj = 1.4 [1.2 – 1.7]) and < 7 prenatal consults (ORadj = 1.3[1.1 – 1.6]) were found to be risk factors for admission. Conclusions: the biological characteristics of the newborns associated with admission to neonatal intensive care units are susceptible to prevention, thereby demonstrating the importance of improving care for pregnant women and newborns.
Approaches to Hungarian 15 : Papers from the Leiden Conference ( Amsterdam :

This volume, edited by Harry van der Hulst and Anikó Lipták, contains a selection of papers from the 12 International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH12) held at Leiden University on 22–23 May, 2015. The 9 papers in this volume have been selected out of 15 papers presented at the conference. Both the conference abstracts and then the manuscripts submitted to this volume underwent a rigorous anonymous review process: this is reflected in the general high quality of the papers published. As has been the tradition of ICSH since its inception, the conference was open to submissions from all fields of linguistics as long as the linguistic data under discussion concerns (at least in part) Hungarian. Accordingly, this volume contains papers related various topics of syntax, semantic and phonology. Nevertheless, there are some recurring themes: there are two papers on vowel harmony, two papers on scope ambiguities (in the nominal domain and in the higher functional periphery of the clausal domain, respectively), and two papers related to the semantics of classifiers in Hungarian. Although the starting point and main empirical focus of the papers is invariably some phenomenon prominently observable in Hungarian, the discussion and analysis in all papers is informed by the current cross-linguistic debate on the theoretical issues at hand. Indeed, in addition to shedding new light on problems in the grammar of Hungarian, most papers in the volume make significant contributions to general debates, such as the structural position of object DPs, the split-DP hypothesis, nominal case assignment or the typology of mass/count vs. classifier languages. In what follows, I will provide a short review and assessment of each paper, in the same order as they appear in the volume. In their paper titled Internal-scope taking arguments in the information structure of deverbal nominals in Hungarian, Gábor Alberti, Judit Farkas and Veronika Szabó bring forward a set of interesting new observations to argue for a split-DP cartographic approach to the Hungarian DP. Their main observation is that certain deverbal nominal constructions have two readings: in addition to the trivial external scope reading (1ii), they also have what the authors dub the internal scope reading (1i):
The Efficacy of Ultrasonography in Prediction of the Degree of Placental Accretion among Cases of Placenta Previa

Background: Placenta previa and previous cesarean section are the two most important known risk factors for abnormally invasive placenta (AIP). AIP can be predicted as early as in the first trimester, and almost always confirmed in the second and third trimesters via Grayscale ultrasonography, with or without color Doppler has been used widely for antenatal screening and diagnosis of AIP. Objectives: To evaluate the accuracy of ultrasound in the diagnosis of placenta accreta and its variants, and to assess the impact of prenatal diagnosis in our population. Patients and Methods: A total of 60 women with placenta previa were enrolled prospectively. All those patients presented during the period of December 2017 till December 2018 to Ghamra Military and Sayed Galal Obstetrics outpatient clinic during their follow up visits in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters and underwent ultrasound examinations. Results: A number of ultrasound criteria can be used for in diagnosis of placenta accreta, as this study showing their high accuracy, they include loss of retroplacental clear zone, presence of abnormal placental lacunae, myometrial thinning, bladder wall interruption and uterovesical hypervascularity. On the other hand, both loss of retroplacental clear zone and abnormal placental lacunae could predict which patient will mostly have CS hysterectomy. Conclusion: It could be concluded that gray scale and color Doppler ultrasound have good performance in the diagnosis of AIP and that prenatal diagnosis improves maternal outcome.
The Role of Procalcitonin As an Early Biomarker in Diagnosis of Sepsis

Backgound: Sepsis is the systemic response to infection by microbial organisms. A differential diagnosis of infection caused by either bacteria or other microbial organisms is essential for effective treatment and prognostic assessment. Procalcitonin (PCT) is an accurate biomarker that is effective in identifying patients with sepsis and can be used in the diagnosis of bacterial infections. Objictive: The aim of the current study is to explore the utility of PCT in early diagnosis of sepsis and determine its prognostic role in assessment of treatment response. Patients and Methods: This study included patient group (40 patients with diagnosis of sepsis; 20 males and 20 females with ages ranged from 5-98 years) and 40 control group who matched well with patients as regard age and sex. Study groups was subjected to complete history taking, clinical examination for signs of sepsis, laboratory investigations as Complete Blood Count, C reactive protein, Blood culture, serum Procalcitonin level. Results: The PCT is significantly higher in patients more than the control group. When the CRP values are compared with those of PCT in patients, they both show similar effects in diagnosis of sepsis. PCT indicates an early response for patients to treatment (values were less than 105, reaching the normal level in serum) while CRP values were not indicating any treatment response. Conclusion: Procalcitonin is an important biomarker in the diagnosis of sepsis and it is a useful indicator for the effectiveness of treatment.
Comparative Analysis of Biologically Active Substances in Trifolium Pratense and Trifolium Repens Depending on the Growing Conditions

In our studies, we studied the content of pharmaceutically promising biologically active substances, namely phenolic compounds, flavonoids, ascorbic acid, provitamin A (b-carotene) in plants of meadow clover and creeping clover (Trrifolium repens). The effect of the plant growth site on the content of the studied compounds was also studied. The obtained data showed that the content of biologically active compounds in white clover (Trifolium repens L.) is similar to those of red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) and white clover is a source of a whole set of pharmacologically active compounds, as well as red clover. The influence of the place of plant growth on the content of the studied compounds was revealed, which may be important for solving production problems. For example, in clover plants of both species studied, the flavonoid content collected in meadow steppes is higher than in other places. Regarding vitamin C, a significant content is shown for plants from floodplain meadows, also for both species. The content of provitamin A and phenolic compounds, according to our data, depended more on the type of clover. So the content of provitamin A was found to be higher in white clover, and phenolic compounds in red clover.
Distribution-free three- sample test for detecting trend in the pure location model

Abstract A three-sample distribution-free test for detecting non-decreasing ordered alternatives is proposed to alleviate some of the problems in the existing tests, including the risk of frequent detection of a trend when it is not actually present. The test is based on the natural U-statistic estimation of the parameter where are three independent continuous random variables. Actual levels of the test and power values in the case of equal variances for a variety of sample sizes and over a wide class of distributions under the null hypothesis and the alternative are obtained via simulation. The results indicate that the proposed test compares favorably with existing tests. In all simulations the nonparametric test provided relatively good power, accurate control over the size of the test, and better protection against false detection of a non-existing trend.