Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Experiences of Family Caregivers of Individuals with ID and Dementia

Introduction: Dementia poses a number of impairments in cognitive functioning impacting everyday operational tasks and functions. Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) may experience dementia earlier and at a greater rate than the general population. Dementia can pose complex challenges for individuals with ID and their caregivers. Aim: A qualitative phenomenological study was used to examine the lived experiences of caregivers of individuals diagnosed with both ID and dementia. Method: Individual interviews were conducted among six participants, who were all family caregivers of individuals diagnosed with both ID and dementia. Results: Based on the results from the content analysis of interview responses, four themes emerged: (a) difficulty getting a dementia diagnosis, (b) barriers to obtaining services, (c) caregiving realities and challenges, and (d) rewards of caregiving. Implications for Practice: To support caregivers, practitioners should be adequately trained on this dual diagnosis to assess the support needs in helping caregivers obtain adequate services. Conclusion: As individuals with ID continue to live longer and age, many will experience dementia. Caregivers of individuals with ID and dementia are often an overlooked, vulnerable population. Practitioners should be aware of their needs in order to provide adequate support to this caregiving population and individuals with ID and dementia.
Anatomical assessment of the fibers in the trunk of Alstonia boonei for some derived indexes

Derived anatomical indexes, such as Runkel’s ratio, Flexibility coefficient, and Felting power / Slenderness ratio of the fibers in the trunk of Alstonia boonei were assessed using standard procedures and formulae. Significant differences (P≤ 0.05) existed in the Runkel’s ratio and Flexibility coefficient of the fibers along the axial position of the trunk, whereas along the radial position, the differences were not significant (P≤0.05). Conversely, the Felting power/ Slenderness ratio of the fibers, along the axial and radial positions of the trunk were not significantly different (P≤0.05) from one another. Totals of 0.65 ± 1.33, 68.32 ± 15.39, and 39.89 ± 15.41 were the Runkel’s ratios, Flexibility coefficient, and Felting power/Slenderness ratio of the fibers. In view of the results obtained in the present assessment, assertions confirming the suitability of the trunk of Alstonia boonei as alternative sources of raw material for pulp and paper production were made.
Analysis of the VSWR Withstand Capability of a Balanced Amplifier

An analytic calculation is made of the VSWR withstand capability of a balanced amplifier and the results are verified by computer simulation. It is shown that in the presence of a mismatch at the output that one transistor in the balanced amplifier sees an improved VSWR whereas the other sees a larger mismatch and a very simple equation is derived that enables the VSWR that the transistors see to be calculated The paper highlights deficiencies in previous works addressing this topic.
The de novo production of halogenated hydroquinone metabolites by the Andean-Patagonian white-rot fungus Phylloporia boldo

The production of halogenated hydroquinone metabolites such as drosophilin A, drosophilin A methyl ether and chloroneb was investigated in the Andean-Patagonian fungus Phylloporia boldo. These chlorinated compounds were detected in both fruiting bodies and living cultures. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) quantification of these molecules was performed in liquid media giving similar values in comparison to previous reports. We observed the concentration of drosophilin A, drosophilin A methyl ether and chloroneb increased in liquid culture supplemented with KCl. Furthermore, chlorinated hydroquinone compounds were not detected using liquid media supplemented with KBr. Instead, brominated aromatic molecules were observed and quantified by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. We consider these results are relevant for the use of these halogenating microorganisms in biotransformation processes.
Impact of Arab Islamic Culture on Employees’ Effectiveness from the Employees’ Perspective in Commercial Banks Case of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

This paper presents part of theoretical and practical analysis of the influence of Arab Islamic culture on employees’ effectiveness in Jordanian commercial banks. It considers two of the Islamic values: Intention (Neyyah) and Justice Trust (Amana) from the employees’ perspective. The influence of religion on both: practices of management and its role in human behaviour within work organizations has been ignored (Ababneh & Avramenko, 2016). This paper tries to fill part of this gap by considering its influence on organizational performance in general and employee’s effectiveness in particular. In a country such as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, religion plays an important role in everyday life, being supported by Government. Interest is in the prevalent behaviour at work and beyond. The question is ‘what’ is the degree of influence of commitment to religious practices? This paper explores the relationship between the dominant religion and management practices in paying particular attention to Arab Islamic culture and employees’ effectiveness. This is an important sector to study, as it plays a key role in supporting societies and is arguably the most important service sector affecting the Jordanian economy. Data was analysed from managers, assistant managers, divisional heads, branch heads and other employees from five commercial banks in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with a sample size of 174. Therefore, descriptive statistics, multiple regression analysis and other statistical tests were utilised to test research hypotheses. The empirical results of the research show there is no statistically significant effect to Intention (Neyyah) and Justice Trust (Amana) on HR performance in the commercial banks in Jordan.
Between Economic Necessity and Partisanship: IMF Programs Before and During the Global Financial Crisis

This paper analyzes the role of government partisanship in IMF program initiation in Latin America and Eastern Europe during the 1981-2012 period. Particularly in Eastern Europe, the statistical tests reveal a significant increase in the magnitude and resilience of partisan differences in the recent round of IMF programs compared to the pre-crisis years. Based on comparisons to earlier crises, this recent revival of partisan differentiation seems to be primarily due to the external roots and the large magnitude of the current crisis, which mirrors the dynamics of the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s. By comparison, regional partisan trends, such as the rise of the Latin American Left in the last decade, played a secondary role.
A journey of identity: A rangatahi treatment programme for Māori adolescents who engage in sexually harmful behaviour

This process evaluation focused on a community treatment programme designed for Māori adolescents (rangatahi) who had committed sexual offences against adults or children. We used qualitative and kaupapa Māori approaches to interview 23 participants (rangatahi aged 15 to 17, family members, staff and stakeholders) and observe group therapy and outdoor wilderness therapy excursions over 10 months. Participants found the Māori beliefs and processes, woven into westernised therapeutic theories and techniques, enhanced treatment by emphasising values essential to positive adolescent growth, including whānau support, the maintenance of relationships (including effective group work), and the importance of a secure identity (including finding positive Māori identities and role models). The personal qualities of the kaimahi (Māori staff) and their responsiveness to the issues facing Māori youth and whānau of mixed ethnicity contributed to the programme’s success. Participants called for more support for cultural initiatives with sexually abusive youth to reduce community risk.
Role of Entrepreneurship Training in Growth of Micro and Small Enterprises in Kiambu County

Survival and growth of business ventures is a key concern which is determined by varied factors. Entrepreneurship training has been identified as one factor that can play varied roles towards growth of micro and small enterprises across the world. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of four components of entrepreneurship training on business growth among micro and small enterprises in Kiambu County. The four components of entrepreneurship training to be studied are objectives, content, trainers’ competence/ attitudes and training delivery methods/presentation styles. The study was grounded in Blooms taxonomy and theory of planned behaviour. The study adopted mixed methods (both quantitative and qualitative) research design and applied a descriptive study design. The population for the study was 6,420 licensed MSEs operating in Ruiru Sub County. The study utilized stratified random sampling to select 382 respondents in main trading centres in each of the four administrative wards based on the nature of business they are involved. The study relied on primary data collected using questionnaires from owners and key employees of the selected micro and small enterprises. The data gathered were analysed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. The study found that entrepreneurship training components contributed to a certain extent towards business growth among the micro and small enterprises. The study thus recommends customization of entrepreneurship training programs and taking into consideration of the input of the owners and employees to improve its impact on the survival and growth of the business enterprises.
Somatic embryogenesis and micropropagation in teasle gourd.

10 Abstract. -In vitro somatic embryogenesis and subsequent plant regeneration was achieved in callus cultures derived from internode, node, shoot tip, petiole and leaf explant of teasle gourd plant on semi-solid Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal salts and growth regulators supplemented with 1.0mgl BAP, 0.1mgl NAA and 30 g l (w/v) sucrose. Somatic embryos proliferated rapidly by somatic embryogenesis after 4 weeks. The embyogenic callus germinated on MS salts and growth regulators supplemented with 1.0mgl BAP and 0.1mgl NAA. The embryo-derived plantlets were transfered on half MS media with 0.3 mgl IBA and sufficient rooting was achieved. Plantlets were acclimatized in the controlled environment.
Decision to Choose Schools: Quality Analysis Services & Prices in SMK Health City

The development of today's world very rapidly. This can be seen from the number of vocational schools are opened, competition in attracting highly a variety of students, both with the quality of service, price all on offer to attract students. This study aimed to test the quality of service and price to desperation choose a school in SMK Health Husada Primary town of attack, this data is taken from the year 2013 to 2017 has decreased students each year, this study is descriptive meant to know the characteristics of respondents and respondents with using a sample of 181 respondents.
“PATTERNS OF ENTRY AND SURVIVAL OF WORKER COOPERATIVES”

In this study, we examine the effect of market environment, agglomeration economies and firm resources/strategy on market entry and business survival. More specifically, a comparative analysis is conducted to identify the determinants of entry and performance of three associative legal forms at firm start-up: worker cooperatives, public -owned and limited-liability companies. On the one hand, our results suggest that market entry of cooperatives is sensitive to market structure. On the other hand, the survival rate of cooperatives is explained by internal factors of the organisation such as initial firm size. Furthermore, our study confirms that a strong cooperative culture in a local economy not only contributes to the formation and development of cooperative firms, but also has a positive influence on the entry of other legal forms of organisation (i.e. public owned companies), adding greater corporate diversity and enhancing the economic development of the local region.
On Breaking Deep Generative Model-based Defenses and Beyond

Deep neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to the so-called adversarial attacks. Recently there have been efforts to defend such attacks with deep generative models. These defense often predict by inverting the deep generative models rather than simple feedforward propagation. Such defenses are difﬁcult to attack due to obfuscated gradient. In this work, we develop a new gradient approximation attack to break these defenses. The idea is to view the inversion phase as a dynamical system, through which we extract the gradient w.r. t the input by tracing its recent trajectory. An amortized strategy is further developed to accelerate the attack. Experiments show that our attack breaks state-of-the-art defenses (e.g DefenseGAN, ABS) much more effectively than other attacks. Additionally, our empirical re-sults provide insights for understanding the weaknesses of deep generative model-based defenses.
Neural Dynamic Policies for End-to-End Sensorimotor Learning

The current dominant paradigm in sensorimotor control, whether imitation or reinforcement learning, is to train policies directly in raw action spaces such as torque, joint angle, or end-effector position. This forces the agent to make decisions individually at each timestep in training, and hence, limits the scalability to continuous, high-dimensional, and long-horizon tasks. In contrast, research in classical robotics has, for a long time, exploited dynamical systems as a policy representation to learn robot behaviors via demonstrations. These techniques, however, lack the flexibility and generalizability provided by deep learning or reinforcement learning and have remained under-explored in such settings. In this work, we begin to close this gap and embed the structure of a dynamical system into deep neural network-based policies by reparameterizing action spaces via second-order differential equations. We propose Neural Dynamic Policies (NDPs) that make predictions in trajectory distribution space as opposed to prior policy learning methods where actions represent the raw control space. The embedded structure allows end-to-end policy learning for both reinforcement and imitation learning setups. We show that NDPs outperform the prior state-of-the-art in terms of either efficiency or performance across several robotic control tasks for both imitation and reinforcement learning setups. Project video and code are available at this https URL
Assessing Creativity in Composing Music: Product-Process-Person-Environment Approaches

How do teachers and researchers assess creativity in composing music? Four approaches can be used: assessing 1) Product, 2) Process, 3) Person, and 4) Environment. The purpose of the study was: 1) to give an overview of research studies in each of the four approaches, and 2) to suggest a Productoriented method for assessing creativity in composing music and story-telling by children, which was successfully used with high interjudge reliabilties in Auh & Johnston (2000). The overview should give a clear picture of assessment methods for creativity in composing music. The overview shows that: 1) Product A most commonly used method for assessing music compositions is expert judges' evaluations using criteria. Computerized content analysis has been used for Western classical masterpieces. 2) Process Compositional strategies used by Expert vs. novice can be described as Gestaltistic vs. Atomistic. 3) Person Visual imagery stimulated by use of graphic notations in composing music made a significant difference in musical creativity, producing more creative compositions. 4) Environment Creativity in the East versus the West can be described as intuition vs. logic. Cross-cultural studies of musical creativity show that musicians of nonwestern countries emphasize aural skills, improvisation, and opportunity to exercise creative potentials.
Dynamic Q-Theory with Agency Investment Frictions and Cross-sectional Stock Returns

We investigate the impact of managerial investment diversion on a firm’s investment paths and the investment-return relation in a dynamic q-theory model. When efficiency of investment is not observed by shareholders, the manager may divert investment for private benefits. An agency investment friction emerges from the cost associated with high-powered managerial compensations to prevent the investment diversion. The state-dependency of agency investment frictions predicts cross-sectional variations in the relation between investment and subsequent stock returns. Our empirical results are consistent with the model predictions and suggest that managerial agency costs influence investment levels and stock returns across U.S. firms. JEL Classification: G12; G14; G34; D82
KARYOTYPE ANALYSIS OF TWELVE SPECIES BELONGING TO GENUS VIGNA

Cowpea, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. , is an important crop for many developing countries. Its potential cannot be fully achieved due to scarse resistance to pathogens. Source of resistance are present in wild gene pool, therefore, the introduction of genes for valuable traits from wild species to Vigna unguiculata faced an obstacle due to crossability barriers between species. The study of the chromosomal morphology could be useful in a modern plant breeding approach of cowpea.Recently the use of image analysis system to the karyotyping of plant species with few chromosomes has allowed the production of detailed karyotypes employed for interspecific comparisons. Twelve species belonging to four different subgenera and to six sections according to Marechal et al. (1978) were analysed by image analysis system. The karyomorphological parameters were utilised for computing karyosimmetry according to Stebbins (1971).
RESPONSE OF RICE TO FOLIAR APPLICATION OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF RICE

Field experiments were conducted at Experimental Farm, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu, India during Navarai (January – May, 2018) and Kuruvai (JuneOctober, 2018) to study the performance of rice to the foliar application of plant growth regulators on growth and yield of rice. The treatments comprised of, T1 – Sodium Para-Nitrophenolate 0.3 % SL @ 5 ml/L, T2 Sodium Para-Nitrophenolate 0.3 % SL @ 10 ml/L, T3 – Sodium Para-Nitrophenolate 0.3 % SL @ 20 ml/L, T4 – Triacontanol 0.1 % EW @ 0.5 ml/L, T5 – Gibberellic acid 0.001 % L @ 0.36 ml/L, T6 – Control. The experiments were laid out in randomized block design with four replications. The result revealed that, foliar application of Sodium Para-Nitrophenolate 0.3 % SL @ 5 ml/L (T1) at 20-25, 45-50, and 65-70 days after transplanting recorded the highest growth attributes (plant height, number of tillers plant-1, leaf area index and dry matter production), and yield attributes (number of panicles m-2, number of grains panicle-1 and test weight) and yield (grain and straw) of rice during Navarai and Kuruvai seasons.
Birds and Habitat: Relationships in Changing Landscapes

At the start of his second chapter, Rob Fuller says, "It is unwise to be dogmatic about the habitat associations of any bird species. Even the classification of species as habitat generalists or specialists requires careful consideration. "Fortunately for us, despite his own pessimism, Rob persists in his hunt for the secret of avian habitat relationships with a glittering array of invited contributors that make this book much more than just a valiant effort at unlocking the secrets. It is inevitable that we, as mere humans, cannot see features of the environment that affect theway thatbirds select their habitats.Birds havemore immediateneeds that relate directly to food abundance and availability, energy, water and temperature balance, social contact, familiarity, predator detection, shelter and refuge frompredation than the often complex aggregations of featureswe perceive on their behalf as ’their habitat’. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that it is urgent for us to understand the requirements of bird species from their surroundings as human development pressures, habitat loss and climate change conspire to accelerate our need to make best use of those habitats we can manage for the remaining populations that persist. This is what makes this book such a vital contribution to our knowledge. Any review work must be worth more than the sum of the parts, and this is certainly the case with the vast majority of the chapters of this mighty review. Rob Fuller has structured a lively and well-organised content, starting with an exploration of the complexities of the pattern and process involved in examining habitat selection amongst birds in the first seven sections, which sets the scene for the rest of the book. This includes a particularly good review of how heterogeneity in European agricultural landscapes affects birds at multiple spatial scales, from sward types and nest sites, through field-level and farm scale pattern, to the effects of agri-environment schemes at the landscape and region scale. Also greatly entertaining is the chapter on spatial variation and temporal shifts in habitat use across Europe, by Tomasz Weslowski and Rob, which turn many British preconceived ideas about habitat selection on their heads with reference to those occupied by the same species elsewhere. Amagnificent set of case studies follow, written by a glitterati of experts in their field, including British moorlands (Murray Grant & James Pearce-Higgins), EuropeanArctic-Alpine (DesThompson et al.), reedbeds and fens (GillianGilbert &Ken Smith), wet grasslandwaders (MalcolmAusden&MarkBolton), estuaries (Jenny Gill), non-estuarine coast (Niall Burton) and a hugely enjoyable review of woodlands (where Rob is on home territory and in superb form, along with his