Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Increasing green gram production through cluster frontline demonstrations in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh, India

Front line demonstration is an appropriate means for demonstration of improved technology and innovations in agriculture for large scale popularization among the farming community. National Food Security Mission, a centrally sponsored scheme on Pulses, enabled KVK Govindnagar, Hoshangabad to conduct Cluster Front line demonstration on greengram during summer 2017-18 to 2019-20 in 175 demonstration plots in 70 ha, at farmer's fields in villages i.e., Malhanwada, Anhai, Paliya Pipariya, Kharsali, Pachua, Sohjani of Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh. The present study was conducted to demonstrate production potential and economic benefit of improved technologies comprising improved varieties, sowing method, nutrient management and integrated pest management and adoption of whole package of practices. The findings of the study revealed that the demonstrated technology resulted in a mean yield of 11.63 q/ha as compared to farmers practices 7.66 q/ha. The average yield increased 51.75 per cent over farmer’s practices during the three years. The result indicated that the front line demonstration has given a good impact over the farming community of the district about 11.80 q/ha. Mean net income of Rs. 53828.83/ha with a benefit:cost ratio of 3.42 was obtained with improved technologies in comparison to farmers practices (29275.90). The frontline demonstrations conducted on greengram crop at farmer’s field revealed that the adoption of improved technologies significantly increased the yield as well as yield attributing traits of crop and also the net returns higher than the farmer’s practices. So, there is a need to disseminate the improved technologies among the farmers with effective extension methods like training and demonstrations. The farmers should be encouraged to adopt the recommended package of practices realizing for higher returns.
Scotland's Rural College Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Genomic Selection to Ruminants Owned by Smallholder Farmers Burrow,

Genomic selection has transformed animal and plant breeding in advanced economies globally, resulting in economic, social and environmental benefits worth billions of dollars annually. Although genomic selection offers great potential in lowto middle-income countries because detailed pedigrees are not required to estimate breeding values with useful accuracy, the difficulty of effective phenotype recording, complex funding arrangements for a limited number of essential reference populations in only a handful of countries, questions around the sustainability of those livestock-resource populations, lack of on-farm, laboratory and computing infrastructure and lack of human capacity remain barriers to implementation. This paper examines those challenges and explores opportunities to mitigate or reduce the problems, with the aim of enabling smallholder livestock-keepers and their associated value chains in lowto middle-income countries to also benefit directly from genomic selection.
The Prevalence of Smartphone Addiction and Its Association with Parenting Styles among Secondary School Students in Kota Bharu, Kelantan

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of smartphone addiction and its association with parenting styles among secondary school students in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Design: cross-sectoral study involving 538 secondary school students in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Materials and Methods: The socio-demographic characteristics examined include age, gender, family income per month, parent level of education, and duration of smartphone use. The assessment of smartphone addiction is based on the Malay version of the smartphone addiction scale (SAS-M). A total possible SAS-M score ranges from 33 to 198 and a total score of more than and equal to 98 is considered to be smartphone addiction. The parenting style is evaluated using the Malay version Parental Bonding Instrument. Results: 249 male and 289 female students participated in the study. Almost all of the participants were Malays. The average duration of smartphone use (hour/day) was 6.16 hours (SD 3.47). A total of 74% of the participants were addicted to the smartphone. Multiple linear regression has shown that caring parenting style and giving autonomy to their children has been positively associated with smartphone addiction among participants. Conclusion: The prevalence of smartphone addiction among adolescents in Kota Bharu is high compared to previous adolescent and adult studies. The findings suggest that students who perceived their parents' practice of either caring or giving autonomy are vulnerable to smartphone addiction. The prevention and intervention programs therefore need the involvement of both students and parents.
Comparing NMT and PBSMT for post-editing in-domain formal texts: A case study

This paper details a comparative analysis between phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) and neural machine translation (NMT) for English-Spanish in-domain medical documents using human rankings, fluency and adequacy, and post-editing (technical and temporal) effort, performed by professional translators. When MT output is ranked against translations performed by professional trans-lators, results show a clear preference for human translations, with NMT in the second position. Regarding MT outputs, NMT is perceived as more fluent and conveying better the meaning of the source sentence. Despite this preference, post-editing temporal effort does not improve significantly in NMT compared to PBSMT, although technical effort is reduced.
FORAGE YIELD AND QUALITY OF QUINOA (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) GENOTYPES HARVESTED AT DIFFERENT CUTTING STAGES UNDER MEDITERRANEAN CONDITIONS

Genotype choosing and cutting stage are very significant to obtained better forage yield and quality. However, researches about forage production from quinoa plant genotypes harvested at different cutting stages are not enough in Mediterranean conditions. This study was conducted to determine the forage yield and quality of five different quinoa genotypes (Red head, Cherry vanilla, French vanilla, Mint vanilla and Titicaca) at three different cutting stages (flowering, milky and dough). The experiment was laid out in split plot of randomized complete blocks with three replications in 2019 and 2020 years. To evaluate the forage yield and quality of different quinoa genotypes harvested at different cutting stages, plant height, stem diameter, dry forage yield, dry matter content, water soluble carbohydrate, neutral detergent fiber, acid detergent fiber, acid detergent lignin, condensed tannins, ether extract, crude protein, crude ash, organic matter, non-fiber carbohydrate and relative feed value properties were investigated. As a result of the research, it was determined that it is appropriate to harvest quinoa as a roughage source at the dough stage, and that Mint vanilla genotype is the most productive genotype.
GENETIC ARCHITECTURE IN COWPEA [Vigna unguiculata (L.) WALP.]

The investigation on genetic architecture in cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ] was undertaken to examine the manifestation of heterosis. Eight diverse lines were crossed in a half diallel fashion and 28 F1 hybrids were obtained. All the crosses and their parents were sown in randomized block design with three replications at Pulses Research Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari during kharif 2012. A marked degree of heterobeltiosis varied from cross to cross. Nine hybrids expressed significant positive heterosis over better parent. The heterobeltiosis was laid to the range between -40.82 per cent (GC-5 x Pusa Komal) to 70.54 per cent (Subhra x GC-4). The top three heterobeltiotic cross combinations for seed yield per plant were Subhra x GC-4 (70.54 %), GC-3 x Anand Cowpea-1 (62.19%) and GC-502-2 x GC-4 (55.34%). Heterotic response for seed yield per plant was mainly due to high heterotic response observed for number of branches per plant, number of clusters per plant, pod length and number of seeds per pod. From the perusal of data indicated that seven hybrids expressed significant positive heterosis over better parent for seed yield per plant (g). The highest significant positive standard heterosis was recorded by Subhra x GC-4 (70.03%) followed by GC-502-2 x GC-4 (54.88%).
On the relationship between safety climate and occupational burnout in healthcare organizations Reference:

The important concepts of safety climate and occupational burnout and have been widely addressed by healthcare professionals. However, few researchers conducted a comprehensive and more detailed study to investigate independently relationship between safety climate and burnout and their effects on each especially in healthcare organizations yet. The purpose of the study is therefore to investigate and establish a relationship between safety climate and occupational burnout. In addition, the relationship between job and socio-demographic characteristics (JSDC) with both safety climate and burnout is examined. In the present study a cross-sectional design was conducted using questionnaires to measure safety climate, occupational burnout and JSDC of nurses while descriptive, inferential statistics, path analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) were applied to test the relationships between the three parameters. The findings show a significant relationship between safety climate and unit type, job satisfaction, job interest, and stress. Likewise, there is a strong relationship between the lack of personal accomplishment and job satisfaction, job interest and stress. Also, safety climate has a strong correlation with both the frequency and the severity of occupational burnout dimensions. The results of the SEM also support a negative correlation between occupational burnout and safety climate, where a decrease in the latter is associated with an increase in the former.
Borrower Expectations and Mortgage Performance: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

We assess issues related to borrower beliefs and mortgage performance using new individual panel data that simultaneously cover borrower expectations, forbearance status during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a wide array of demographic characteristics. First, we establish the determinants of borrower expectations, with local experiences and those of social networks playing important roles. We then show that households who, at origination, were optimistic about future house price appreciation or pessimistic about the possibility of future unemployment were more likely to enter forbearance in 2020. However, by early 2021, appreciation-optimistic borrowers who were in forbearance were likely to have cured or prepaid their loan, while those who expected unemployment were likely to still be in forbearance. We offer three channels by which expectations affect forbearance behavior: choices of initial loan terms, associations with actual future events, and factors related to belief formation that are also plausibly associated with forbearance. Our findings highlight the crucial role borrower expectations play in both leverage choices and mortgage performance.
NOVEL NAMES AND VISUAL SAMPLING IN PRESCHOOLERS 1 Novel names extend for how long preschool children sample visual information Word

Known words can guide visual attention, affecting how information is sampled. How do novel words, those that do not provide any top-down information, affect preschoolers’ visual sampling in a conceptual task? We propose that novel names can also change visual sampling by influencing for how long children look. We investigate this possibility by analyzing how children sample visual information when they hear a sentence with a novel name versus without a novel name. Children completed a match-to-sample task while their moment-to-moment eye movements were recorded using eye tracking technology. Our analyses were designed to provide specific information on the properties of visual sampling that novel names may change. Overall, we found that novel words prolonged the duration of each sampling event but did not affect sampling allocation (which objects children looked at) or sampling organization (how children transitioned from one object to the next). These results demonstrate that novel words change one important dynamic property of gaze: Novel words can entrain the cognitive system toward longer periods of sustained attention early in development.
Childhood, disability and the social responsibility of storytelling: Reading Lal Medawattegedara’s Playing Pillow Politics at MGK

Contemporary theorists in the field of childhood studies have highlighted the functions of children and childhood in cultural productions, emphasising how, rather than being an essentialist idea with an underlying ‘reality,’ childhood is differently constructed within various cultures, historical periods, and political ideologies. Analysing how concepts of childhood operate within literary and cultural productions is significant to an understanding of the specific investments made in children within that particular sociohistorical context. Examples can be drawn from the field of postcolonial writing where the child is often seen functioning as a national allegory or a trope for the postcolonial condition. From a disability studies perspective, the focus on the function of the ‘disabled child’ within literature is even more recent. Recent interdisciplinary research drawing on disability studies and postcolonial literary studies establishes that the nexus between disability and childhood in literary productions can produce a powerful aesthetic impact. Within the above theoretical framework, this paper seeks to examine the textual investment in the role of the disabled child in Lal Medawattegedara’s novel Playing Pillow Politics at MGK (2013). The narrative is unravelled by Deshan, the child narrator who is marked by his disability even before birth, as a “defect embryo. ” Despite his inability to “utter meaningful words,” the child narrator is textually framed as a ‘gifted child’/storyteller who has the uncanny ability to read the minds of the people around him and recount the stories of the community inhabiting ‘Maha Geeni Kanda. ’ This paper examines the representation of the social responsibility of the artist through the lens of disability and childhood and argues that Medawattegedara’s novel draws on the notion of the “exceptional child” in mapping out the social responsibility of the storyteller within a contemporary Sri Lankan setting.
A First Principle Calculation of Electronic Structure of B and N Co-Doped Graphene:BNC2 Hetero-Structure

Pure graphene is a zero gap 2D semi-metal with sp2 structure and a Dirac point at the Fermi level at symmetry point K. On doping graphene with electrons or holes a band gap opens, but it is associated with a shift of Dirac point, above the Fermi level for hole-doping and below the Fermi level for electron-doping. The co-doping of graphene with electrons and holes may therefore lead to a material for which the band gap may be obtained at the Fermi level. The new material may behave as a 2D semiconductor, suitable for device fabrication.In this paper the results of ab-initio calculation of electronic structure of graphene co-doped with 25 atomic % of B and an equal atomic % of N (i.e., BNC2 hetero-structure) are presented. The gap opening in the new material is of the order of 1.0 eV, which is of the same order as that of Si. P-type character of this material is also revealed by the position of Fermi level, which is found to be slightly below the center of the gap and can be controlled by relative doping of B and N atoms in graphene.
Thermal conductivity of mine backfill

Energy conservation is a national strategy for every country. To avoid shortage of energy and high prices, the green sustainable energy resources have become the center of attention. Mining as a prominent industry in Canada consumes a huge amount of energy, so any reduction in energy consumption would result in higher production and profit. In 2005, Hassani of McGill University proposed the use of mine stopes as the heat exchange area for the production of low temperature geothermal energy, since the extraction of ore/ rocks and the backfilling is a part of normal mining operation, then the very low cost associated with the implementation of such system, will make it very viable for mining industry. This work is in collaboration with energy research team of professor Hassani of McGill University (EMERG). This is a part of an overall research program on low temperature geothermal energy from mines. The research was focused primarily on investigating and obtaining a range values for thermal conductivity of different mine backfills, as well as the effect of some of the associated physical parameters. More than 800 samples and 2000 measurements were done on different backfills with different physical properties. This preliminary investigation indicates that pulp density, binder consumption, curing time, and sodium silicate content have negligible to slight influence on the thermal conductivity of backfill. However parameters such as saturation, and to a lesser extent porosity and the thermal conductivity of the inert material, have more significant influence.
International Journal of Instruction

Language has always been considered the most effective medium of communication among humans to express their thoughts, opinions, and emotions. As a consequence of globalization, a lot of people end up living, studying, working, and travelling in countries where both their first and the second languages may not be used. This situation creates a need for learning a third language (L3) considering proficiency in first (native) and second (presumably English) languages. Numerous studies have been conducted on L2 and a lot in the field of L3. However, this study found a scope to research specifically on the language (L3) learning intention in terms of its usefulness for international students who are in a country where their native language and the L2 are not in use. More than 161 international students studying under the Chinese Language Learning program as well as students studying in graduate and undergraduate levels at public universities in Yunnan, Beijing, Jiangsu, and Hunan in China participated in this study. By extending the theory of planned behavior with the Self Determination Theory (SDT), along with the influence of the L2, a survey questionnaire was prepared and data was collected from these participants. Later, the data was analyzed by common method variance and path model estimation of Partial Least Square (PLS) algorithm to generate and evaluate predictions for intentions of learning Chinese as the L3 considering the perceived usefulness of the language which eventually validates the mentioned theories.
Application of ANN for Reservoir Inflow Prediction and Operation

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are new computing architectures in the area of artificial intelligence. The present study aims at the application of ANNs for reservoir inflow prediction and operation. The Upper Indravati multipurpose project, in the state of Orissa, India, has been selected as the focus area. The project has primarily two objectives: To provide irrigation to 128,000,000 ha of agricultural land and to generate 600 MW of electric power. An autoregressive integrated moving average time-series model and an ANN-based model were fitted to the monthly inflow data series and their performances were compared. The ANN was found to model the high flows better, whereas low flows were better predicted through the autoregressive integrated moving average model. Reservoir operation policies were formulated through dynamic programming. The optimal release was related with storage, inflow, and demand through linear and nonlinear regression and the ANN. The results of intercomparison indicate that the AN.
Contribution to the definition of a partial overlapping plastic strain rates domain for moderate loadings – application to tensile testing on metallic materials

Generally, tensile testing on Hopkinson bars requires some particular considerations. Most of the specific devices, designed to hold tensile sheet specimens on the bars, involve the degradation of the pulses in particular case of no-direct tensile loadings. A tensile testing configuration for sheet specimens is proposed on the basis of classical split Hopkinson pressure bars (SHPB). Specimens holding is obtained with an epoxy adhesive and provides good measurements on sheet specimens. A comparison is made for the same two metallic materials results extracted from literature and dynamic tensile tests performed with a high speed hydraulic machine and another split Hopkinson bars (SHPB) facility using hat-specimens. A partial overlapping domain in terms of plastic strain is shown at moderate strain rates from 200 to 400 s −1
ASSESSMENT OF ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TOWARDS THE LEARNING OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a vital toolfor teaching and learning. ICT is changing the learning situation of the teaching and learning process of the teacher and the learner from teacher-centered to an inciting and interactive learner-centered approach. ICT has become the most desirable tool in any field of human endeavour. The success of ICT in any learning institution depends on the attitudes of thestudents, teachers
Auditor Competition and Cost of Bank Loans

This paper examines the effect of auditor competition on the cost of bank loans of client firms. Exploiting the demise of Arthur Andersen that differently reduces the local audit market competition of metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), we find a decrease in clients’ cost of bank loans in areas with a larger decrease in competition. The competition effect on cost of bank loans is more pronounced when external monitoring is lower and when auditors compete more fiercely with price. Our finding is explained by a model in which clients shop for audit opinions and a more competitive audit market forces auditors to compromise audit quality to maintain client relationship and market share.
Influence of ageing on temperature susceptibility of asphalt concrete

Asphalt cement is supplied by multiple different refineries in Iraq. The wide variation in environmental condition all over the country had led the flexible pavement to practice a considerable variation in surface temperature, ranging from 15°C to more than 65°C. Ageing potential of the asphalt binder is variable. An attempt has been made in the present investigation to assess the influence of short and long term ageing on temperature susceptibility of asphalt concrete prepared by using dense graded aggregate and three types of asphalt binder obtained from Daura, Erbil, and Nasiriyah refineries located at middle, north and south regions of the country. Asphalt cement samples were subjected to the classical physical properties’ determination, stiffness modulus, penetration index, and creep stiffness. Asphalt concrete specimens of 102 mm in diameter and 63.5 mm in height were prepared using the prementioned binders and subjected to temperature susceptibility determination. It was concluded that implementation of asphalt binder of the same penetration grade but from varied asphalt sources from (Erbil, Doura, and Nasiriya) have produced different behavior under ageing. Erbil binder exhibit the lowest temperature susceptibility of 50 kPa/°C after long term ageing and highest creep stiffness of 270 MPa after practicing 7 hours ageing among Daura and Nasiriya binders regardless of ageing periods. However, Erbil binder exhibit the lowest stiffness modulus of 140 kN/ m and penetration index of (-0.64) before ageing as compared to other refineries’ binder regardless of ageing period. It is recommended that the selection of a proper asphalt cement for paving must be based on evaluation of rheological properties such as temperature susceptibility and environmental conditions rather than the present practice of considering the physical properties only.