Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
English Language Teachers’ Maxims in Evaluating Materials: A Case Study from Iran

While research on second language teacher cognition (SLTC) has significantly developed over the past three decades, this line of inquiry has not paid adequate attention to material development/evaluation as compared to the key role that materials play in teachers’ daily practice. In response to this gap, in this study we adopted the theoretical stance of teacher maxims as part of SLTC, and explored eight Iranian English language teachers’ maxims in relation to material evaluation. Data were collected from a researcher-adapted questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, and analyzed based on content analysis. Data analyses revealed that the teachers evaluated their implemented material in light of both positive and negative aspects, with the positive sides being more pedagogical and the negative dimensions being more institutional and sociocultural. Additionally, the teachers’ maxims indicated that materials should not only serve pedagogical issues, but they should also embrace emotions and sociocultural particularities so that educational stakeholders, especially students, develop socio-educational capitals. Based on the findings, we provide implications for teacher educators to run professional development courses that embrace personal, interpersonal, and sociocultural particularities in the courses to enhance teachers’ awareness of the role materials play in their SLTC growth
Career and Family Plans of Higher Education Students as Risk Factors for their future employers’ HR Management

This paper deals with higher education students’ career and family plans based on a quantitative pilot research conducted among students studying social sciences at a research university in Eastern Hungary. According to one type of career models, namely the self-directed, protean career concept, organisations should adapt to employees’ own career interpretation, values, and attitudes, furthermore, according to the Kaleidoscope Career Model, individuals nowadays adapt their careers to their life stages. Due to this, this paper deals with students’ family plans besides their career plans. The novelty of the research is that it examines the plans of Hungarian students studying in a specific field (social sciences) and analyzes their career and family plans in parallel. The research inestigates what family and career mean to students, what influences these, whether family or career is more important to students, how students time these, and to what extent they consider these to be compatible. Research methods include descriptive statistics, bivariate analysis, and exploratory factor analysis. The results show that career goals often preceded family goals and, in accordance with traditional gender roles, career was slightly more important for male students than for female students. According to the factor analysis, students found it the most important to meet their own expectations. Furthermore, many students, especially females, interpreted career as a form of self-fulfilment. These results are in line with modern career models (the self-directed, protean career concept and the Kaleidoscope Career Model). An important implication of the research for prospective employers is the need to adapt their HR strategies to young people’s family and career plans. The research also highlights that students’ career goals are already emphasised during the studies, so employers should strengthen cooperation with universities to support students in acquiring professional experience during their studies to help them achieve their career goals.
NEA Seabed Working Group status on site qualification for nuclear waste disposal within deep-sea sediment

The NEA Seabed Working Group is evaluating the feasibility of disposing of high-level radioactive wastes beneath the seafloor. An integral part of this evaluation includes a detailed investigation of the geological, geochemical, and geophysical characteristics of the seafloor sediments that comprise the primary containment barrier to the possible release of radionuclides. This document presents the status of these investigations in locations being considered by the Seabed Working Group's Site Selection Task Group in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Ocean Basins as of calendar year 1982.
Características y significado del volcanismo ordovícico-silúrico de la serie autóctona envolvente del Macizo de Cabo Ortegal (Galicia, NW España)

La serie autoctona ordovicica-silurica envolvente del Complejo aloctono de Cabo Ortegal contiene abunadantes niveles metavolcancios de composicion acida e intermedia. En general se trata de metavolcanitas blastoporfidicas, con fenocristales de tamano medio a grueso, que aparecen entre metasedimentos epizonales, en niveles concordantes o subconcordantes de hasta 150 metros de potencia. Composicionalmente se trata de rocas calcoalcalinas potasicas y shoshoniticas, dominando los terminos metadaciticos y metarioliticos de ambas series. Localmente contienen autolitos de tonalitas biotiticas y de microsientas biotiticas. Esta ultima litologia llega a aparecer individualizada en un cuerpo estratoide de unos 30 metros de espesor, relacionado con el nivel metavolcanico de mayor potencia. Texturalmente pueden distinguirse tipos efusivos (los mas corrientes) y facies de domo, de mayor tamano de grano y, en genral, intrusivas sobre las primeras. Las caracteristicas del volcanismo son compatibles con manifestaciones subaereas, producidas durante un proceso de rifting continental que afecto al NW de la Peninsula Iberica durante parte del Ordovicico y Silurico.
Project-Based Learning Via Traditional Game in Physics Learning: Its Impact on Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, and Collaborative Skills

This study aims to investigate how PjBL via traditional games impact students’ critical thinking, creative thinking, and collaborative skills. The research sample is a local school in Semarang. The research design was a quantitative study using the pre-experimental design type one group pretest-posttest method. There is only one predetermined group in this design. The theme of the game that the project will create was revealed following the pre-test. The research results show students’ creative thinking skills in applying the PjBL model via game techniques are 61.53% in high criteria and 38.46% in medium criteria. The study results also show a fair increase in the N-Gain value for the four indicators of creative thinking skills: improvisation, elaboration, creativity, vision, effectiveness, and efficiency. The results show it is effective for six students (25%), fairly effective for 13 students (54.16%), and less effective for five students (20.83%). The study’s results also show that the Mann-Whitney U statistical test is 69. It means that the PjBL model impacts students’ collaborative skills. This research has a big impact on increasing students’ creative thinking skills and collaboration.
Rhodium‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Heterocyclic Diaryl Ketones: Facile Access to Key Intermediate of Baloxavir

Transition metal‐catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation has been proved to be a powerful approach for the synthesis of chiral alcohols. Herein, A highly efficient and enantioselective transfer hydrogenation of dibenzoheptaheterocyclic ketones catalyzed by an arene‐tethered TsDPEN‐based Rh(III) catalyst has been successfully developed, and a variety of dibenzoheptaheterocyclic ketones were reduced by a 1/1 mixture of formic acid and DBU (1,8‐diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec‐7‐ene) with high yields and enantioselectivities. With this method, the asymmetric reduction of 7,8‐difluorodibenzo[b,e]thiepin‐11(6H)‐one has been realized, providing the key intermediate of baloxavir marboxil with >99% yield and >99% ee at a substrate/catalyst molar ratio of 1000.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
BOARD ATTRIBUTES AND TAX PLANNING OF LISTED NON-FINANCIAL COMPANIES IN NIGERIA

This study examined the effects of board attributes on tax planning of listed non-financial companies in Nigeria. It aims at finding out using quantitative research method, board attributes that increase tax planning, thus, reducing tax liability of listed non-financial firms in Nigeria. Data for the study were collected from the annual reports and accounts of the sampled companies for a period of ten years (2008 to 2017). The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics to provide summary statistics for the variables, and correlation analysis was carried out using Pearson product-moment correlation to determine the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. Regression analysis was also conducted. The study revealed that board independence has a significant negative effect on tax planning; foreign directorship has a non-significant negative effect, while gender diversity, board size, and board meetings have non-significant positive effect on tax planning in listed non-financial companies in Nigeria. In addition, profitability has a significant positive effect on tax planning as leverage depicts significant negative effect on tax planning. The study is limited to non-financial companies in Nigeria; hence, the findings are useful to the stakeholders of those companies. In addition, the findings can be generalized to emerging economies that have similar economy, politics, and code of corporate governance with Nigeria. The findings imply that having independent and foreign directors on the board of directors increase tax planning, thereby reducing tax liabilities. Therefore, independent and foreign directors have similar ideas towards tax planning. Also, board size, gender diversity, and board meetings do not contribute towards tax reduction via tax planning activities. Findings from this study contribute to the literature on corporate governance and tax planning in Nigeria by encouraging management of listed firms to be more proactive in tax planning. Theoretically, the study is significant for its contribution to agency and stakeholder theories as they explain relationship between board attributes and tax planning.
AVANTGARDE IN PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

Background Bruxism is a repetitive masticatory muscles activity whose definition is being thoroughly reviewed in recent years. As in adults, two different forms of bruxism exist in children, namely awake and sleep bruxism. Scarcity of data, however,still persists about paediatric bruxism and no clear consensus has been developed. Therefore, the current review overviews the literature on bruxism in children tries to outline the state of art about this condition. Main body: Bruxism affects from 5% to 50% of the worldwide paediatric population. Sleep disturbances, parafunctional habits and psycho-social factors emerged to be the most likely associated factors with paediatric bruxism. Bruxism is characterised by several signs and symptoms variously combined, such as tooth wear and fractures, teeth impressions on soft tissues, temporomandibular disorders, headaches, behavioural and sleep disorders. About diagnosis, the most reliable tool in children remains the report of teeth grinding by parents or caregivers which must be accompanied by oral interview and accurate clinical examination. Electromyography and sleep polysomnography, albeit suitable in the diagnostic process, are not easy-to-use in children and are not strongly recommended. Currently, no evidence exists to support any kind of therapeutic options for bruxism in children. Management should be based on the identification of the underlying condition and conservative approaches are recommendable. Conclusions: Notwithstanding the high prevalence, several aspects need to be further assessed in paediatric bruxism. Parental reports are still the most suitable diagnostic tool and conservative approaches are recommended in the management. Bruxism should be considered through a biopsychosocial model, and sleep, personality traits, stress and headaches are the factors towards whom research questions must be addressed to improve diagnosis and management. M. STORARI1* M. SERRI2 M. APRILE3 G. DENOTTI4 D. VISCUSO5
Seasonal Adjustment of Daily Time Series

Abstract Currently, the methods used by producers of official statistics do not facilitate the seasonal and calendar adjustment of daily time series, even though an increasing number of series with daily observations are available. The aim of this paper is the development of a procedure to estimate and adjust for periodically recurring systematic effects and the influence of moving holidays in time series with daily observations. To STL based seasonal adjustment routine is combined with a RegARIMA model for the estimation of calendar and outlier effects. The procedure is illustrated and validated using a set of daily time series with different seasonal characteristics as well as simulated data. The developed procedure closes a gap by facilitating the seasonal and calendar adjustment of daily time series.
Epidemiology of Traumatic Brain Injury in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of leading cause of death and disability in Iran that has serious consequences on people’s health. Understanding of epidemiology of TBI can be helpful for policy making in health care management. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the epidemiology of TBI in Iran. Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Google scholar, and internal databases including, SID, Magiran, and IranMedex were searched to identify the relevant published studies up to Feb 2022. Moreover, the references list of key studies was scanned to find more records. The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) tool was used to assess the quality of included studies. The Excel and Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software were to analyze the data. Results: Overall, 23,446 patients from 15 studies were included in the study. The overall mean age of the patients was 31.36 ± 0.13 yr (95%CI: 31.10 to 31.61). The majority of the patients were male (74.37%), with a male to female ratio of 3:1. The incidence rate of TBI was 15.3 to 144 per 100,000 population. The mortality rate of TBI was estimated to be 10.4% (95%CI: 5% to 19%). The most common causes of injury were road traffic accidents (RTAs) (60%; 95%CI: 49% to 70%), and falling (20%; 95%CI: 16% to 26%), respectively. The most frequent type of head injury was subdural hematoma. Conclusion: Our findings highlight that appropriate control and prevention strategies should be focused on male, road traffic accidents, and the group under 40 yr.
Space-based vegetation health for wheat yield modeling and prediction in Australia

Abstract. An early warning of crop losses in response to weather fluctuations helps farmers, governments, traders, and policy makers better monitor global food supply and demand and identifies nations in need of aid. This paper discusses the utility of vegetation health (VH) indices, derived from the advance very high-resolution radiometer (AVHRR) and visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS), as a proxy for modeling Australian wheat from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operational afternoon polar-orbiting satellites. These models are used to assess wheat production and to provide an early warning of drought-related losses. The NOAA AVHRR- and VIIRS-based VH indices were used to model wheat yield in Australia. A strong correlation (≥0.7) between wheat yield and VH indices was found during the critical reproductive stage of development (enhanced crops sensitivity to weather), which starts 2 to 3 weeks before and ends 2 to 3 weeks after wheat heading. The results of modeling and independent testing proved that the VH indices (especially those estimating thermal and health conditions) are a good proxy providing 1 to 2 months before harvest yield prediction (with 3% to 6% error). With the new generation of NOAA-20 operational polar-orbiting satellites, launched in November 2017, the VH method will be improved considerably both in an advanced crop/pasture prediction, spatial resolution, and accuracy.
Driving performance in exporter-importer exchange relationships: The efficacy of interorganizational trust as a response to exchange risks

Abstract Drawing on the transaction cost analysis perspective, this study examines how three types of exchange risks influence performance in exporter-importer exchange relationships. These risks include cultural distance, which gives rise to behavioral uncertainty and its associated measurement problem; market turbulence, a dimension of environmental uncertainty that gives rise to an adaptation problem; and transaction-specific assets, representing a safeguarding problem. The conceptual model assesses how an informal governance mechanism, inter-organizational trust, responds to these three exchange risks and, in doing so, fosters relational and export performance. Based on a structural equation model conducted in PLS, our findings indicate that cultural distance relates positively to inter-organizational trust, and market turbulence positively relates to exporter-specific assets. Exporter-specific assets and inter-organizational trust were found to have a reciprocal relationship. This research also confirms the mediating role of relational performance concerning the effects of exporter-specific assets and inter-organizational trust on financial export performance.
ON THE INTEGRABILITY AND POLYNOMIAL INTEGRABILITY OF THE EULER EQUATIONS

In this paper we show that the Euler equations in the Man-akov or product cases are completely integrable. But our main results prove that the Euler equations either satisﬁes the Manakov condition, or have at most four functionally independent polynomial ﬁrst integrals. Also we provide necessary conditions in order that the Euler equations can have a fourth functionally independent polynomial ﬁrst integral.
Factors affecting the infection by Fusarium oxysporum and F. proliferatum and the progress of garlic clove rot disease during storage

This study investigated factors affecting the infection by Fusarium oxysporum and F. proliferatum causing cloves rot (CR) of garlic and developing CR disease during storage. Results showed that the Balady cultivar was the most susceptible to CR disease caused by F. oxysporum and F. proliferatum , which exhibited the lowest cloves germination and disease severity index (DSI) after 21 of planting, followed by Chinese cv . In contrast, Seds 40 cv . was the least susceptible to the CR disease, followed by American cv . During storage of garlic bulbs under room conditions, Balady cv . has exhibited the highest disease progress of CR caused by F. oxysporum and F. proliferatum after 30, 60, and 90 days, followed by Chinese cv . On the other hand, Seds 40 cv . has exhibited the lowest disease progress of CR, followed by American cv. Also, 30 °C was the most affecting the CR disease progress of garlic caused by both fungi and gradually increased the DSI of CR of stored bulbs after 90 of storage, followed by 25 °C. In contrast, 20 °C was the least affecting the progress of CR disease during storage.
Algebraic properties of if-then-else and commutative three-valued tests

This paper establishes a finite axiomatization of possibly non-halting computer programs and tests, with the if-then-else operation. The model is a two-sorted algebra, with one sort being the programs and the other being the tests. The main operation on programs is composition, and 1 and 0 represent the programs skip and loop (i.e. never halts) respectively. Programs are modeled as partial functions on some state space [Formula: see text], with tests modeled as partial predicates on [Formula: see text]. The operations on the tests are the usual logical connectives ∧, ∨, [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. In addition, there is the hybrid operation of if-then-else, and the test-valued operation [Formula: see text] on programs which is true when a program halts, and undefined otherwise. The halting operation [Formula: see text] implies that operations of domain [Formula: see text] and domain join ∨ may also be expressed. When tests are assumed to be possibly non-halting, the evaluation strategy of the logical connectives affects the result. Here we model parallel evaluation, as opposed to the common sequential (or short-circuit) evaluation strategy. For example, we view [Formula: see text] as false if either [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] is false, even if the other does not halt.
Food vessel pottery from Early Bronze Age funerary contexts in Northern England : a typological and contextual study

This thesis demonstrates the significance of Food Vessel pottery and burial in Northern England during the Early Bronze Age (c.2200 to 1800 cal BC). It represents the first original and sustained study of this burial tradition for several decades. It is argued that the interwoven relationships between Food Vessels, other ceramic types, and trade and exchange networks are both a reason why the tradition has posed interpretative problems for prehistorians, and a central component of its significance during the Early Bronze Age. The chronological relationships between British Food Vessels and other ceramic and funerary traditions are reviewed using the first comprehensive and critically assessed dataset of radiocarbon determinations. Previous approaches to Food Vessel typology are critically reviewed and a new approach based on the ‘potter’s perspective’ and contextual studies is proposed. A contextual approach is applied to Food Vessels from three regions of Northern England: the Northern Counties; North-East Yorkshire, the central lowlands and North-West England; and South-East Yorkshire. Each study reveals significant inter- and intra-regional similarities and differences in how Food Vessels were used and understood. The significance of Food Vessel pottery and burial is then discussed at a national scale.
Neonicotinoid resistance in populations of the cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Cotton Plantation Areas of Turkey

: The cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is a polyphagous pest that could cause economic crop losses in various crops. Cotton production areas are under insecticide application pressure, and the possibility of insecticide resistance development is higher than in other crops. Chemical insecticides, especially neonicotinoids, are the most common instruments of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies against A. gossypii . In this study, the resistance status of A. gossypii populations from the largest cotton plantation areas of Türkiye was analyzed. Nine field-collected aphid populations and a susceptible strain were examined in leaf-dip bioassays with three neonicotinoid insecticides. The resistance ratios of bioassays ranged from 22.6 to 82.6 for acetamiprid, 23.5 to 67.3 for imidacloprid, and 1.1 to 20.8 for thiamethoxam. Comparative sequence analysis between susceptible and resistant strains was analyzed to identify known mutations to confer resistance to neonicotinoids. The mean enzyme activity in some populations was significantly higher than in the susceptible strain. The enzyme activity ratios ranged from 1.9 to 3.9 for CarE and 1.5 to 3.1 for GST . The bioassay data revealed moderate to high resistance levels in acetamiprid and imidacloprid and low to medium levels in thiamethoxam. A partial sequence of the β 1 subunit of the nAChR in specimens of the populations examined did not reveal any of the V62I , L80S, and R81T and point mutations. The lack of any correlation between the carboxylesterase or glutathione-S-transferase activity and the LC 50 values of three insecticides suggested that these two detoxification enzymes were not involved in the resistance levels observed. However, the resistance levels observed in the present study could be attributed to metabolic resistance mechanisms. Another important point is the cross-resistance observed between the neonicotinoids in the present study. Their extensive use, especially in cotton, might select aphid genotypes resistant to more than one neonicotinoid.