Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance of Productive Economic Business – Joint Business Group in Bukittinggi City, West Sumatera Province, Indonesia

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises make contributions a very massive to the Indonesian economy, both in terms of the number of business units, employment, and contribution to Gross Domestic Product, one of which is the Productive Economic Business Joint Business Group. The purpose of this study is to analyze and understand the effect of Entrepreneurial Marketing (Entrepreneurship Orientation, Market Orientation, and Innovation) on performance, especially in the Customer Perspective. Entrepreneurship Orientation consists of the ability to innovate, proactive, the ability to take risks, while the market orientation consists of customer orientation, competitors, and coordination between functions. The research sample was 110 respondents of Productive Economy Business Actors Joint Business Group in Bukittinggi City, West Sumatra Province. The sampling method is non-probability sampling, which is based on the researchers' judgment of the population that was deliberately chosen. The analysis conducted in this study uses descriptive and verification analysis using S.E. M. (Structural Equation Model) data analysis techniques. The results showed that the Entrepreneurship, Market, and Innovation Orientation significantly affected the performance, especially in the Customer Perspective of Productive Economic Business Joint Business Groups (P.E.B.–J.B.G.). The Effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Productive Economic Business Joint Business Groups (PEB-JBG), especially in the Customer Perspective, is positive, this condition shows that the better Entrepreneurial Orientation carried out by Productive Economic Business Joint Business Groups (P.E.B. J.B.G.), the better its performance. The Effect of Innovation on Productive Economic Business Joint Business Groups (PEB-JBG), especially in the Customer Perspective, is positive. This condition shows that the better the product innovations carried out by the Productive Economic Business Joint Business Groups (PEB-JBG), the better their performance. As for Market Orientation, the effect is negative, and these conditions can explain that the stronger the drive to penetrate the Market Orientation (focusing on competitors and customers, but not good at coordination between functions), the effect is less good (negative) on performance. In this study, the performance of the Productive Economic Business Joint Business Group (P.E.B. – J.B.G.) is only limited in the customer's Perspective, so for other perspectives as a balanced scorecard (finance, internal processes, growth and learning), it has not been studied partially or simultaneously.
Relation Among Hearing Loss, Age, Gender, and Quality of Life in Elderly People

Adriane Ribeiro Teixeira*, Cintia de La Rocha Freitas**, Luzia Fernandes Millão***, Andréa Kruger Gonçalves****, Benno Becker Junior*****, Aline Ferreira Vieira******, Eduardo Machado Farias*******, Cristiane Rodrigues Martins********, Ana Maria Pujol Vieira dos Santos********, Paulo Tadeu Campos Lopes*********, Isabel Amaral Martins**********, Doralice Orrigo da Cunha Pol***********, Clézio José dos Santos Gonçalves************.
Critical Factors for Implementing Open Source Hardware in a Crisis: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has created an urgent demand for critical items including clinical care equipment and protective personal equipment. The failure of traditional industry to meet this demand has led to a huge response from the maker community, who are rapidly mobilising to produce Open Source Hardware (OSH) solutions. Community-driven, distributed manufacturing is enabling production on a global scale never seen before. In this paper, we focus on sensemaking as a process by which meaning is given to collective experiences. We identify six case studies of OSH projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and report on their activities between March-June 2020. In doing so, we uncover several novel collaborations that are emerging between the informal maker community and other formal institutions, including research institutions, non-government organisations and incumbent manufacturers. By observing and reflecting upon these experiences, we identify potential critical factors for implementing OSH in a crisis. We highlight the importance of establishing legitimacy and community management, as well as the enabling conditions in the ecosystem that make OSH more favourable. These findings have implications for various actors beyond the Maker community. In conclusion, we suggest several promising areas for further research. In particular, we believe that this initial study of OSH during the COVID-19 provides a foundation for further longitudinal studies of OSH in a crisis.
UNITY IN THE WORKPLACE: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEAMWORK TRAINING

One way to increase group cohesiveness is to provide teamwork training. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of teamwork training in improving the cohesiveness of working groups. This study used quasi-experimental with one group of pre-test-post-test design. Group cohesiveness was measured by the Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) questionnaire. Teamwork training was followed by 12 employees who were less able to work in groups. Research data were processed by using a paired sample t-test. The result of this study indicates that teamwork training can improve the working group cohesiveness (T = -4.114, p <0.05). Teamwork training can improve team cohesiveness.
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING ON POLITICAL CONSIOUSNESS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN LOWER NORTHEASTERN REGION, THAILAND

This research aims to investigate the behavior of social networking in receiving political information and involving in politics of the university students in lower northeastern region and to examine the relationship of the reflection after receiving information through the social networking and the democratic and power-oriented consciousness of the respondents. The effect of the political consciousness on political involvement and monitoring of politician’s work through the social networking are also the focus of the study. The research used a mixedmethod of quantitative and qualitative approaches. A focus group was employed in the qualitative data collection from which 21 samples including chairman of the student were selected. The qualitative collected data were analyzed in order to that the results could be used to base the survey questionnaire. The questionnaire was then utilized to collect the quantitative data from 427 sampled students in eight universities. The statistics including frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation, and multiple regressions analysis were employed in data analysis. Receiving political information three to four times a week is found in mean frequency of the respondents. The behavior of the information recipients found not to voice their opinions and not to pass on the received information to other people on Facebook or other social networking is very close in proportion to those sharing their views and passing on the information to friends on the social networking. Only getting interested but not wanting to get involved in politics is the main reason of the samples. The reflection after receiving information results in most respondents saying they are able to understand, analyze, and identify facts of the received messages. And the ability in identifying of facts is related to the respondent’s democratic consciousness while the inability in identifying of facts is relevant to the power-orientation. Hypothesis test indicates the democratic consciousness having relationship with the positive effect of political involvement and monitoring of politician’s work whereas the power-oriented consciousness is found to be opposite in thatthe more the consciousness found to be power-oriented the less tendency to get involved in politics and monitoring of politician’s work of the respondents exists.
Running head: OVERVIEW OF SEXUAL PROBLEMS 1 An Overview of the Causes of Sexual Problems through the Lens of Ego Defense Mechanisms and Attachment Theory

Nearly half of the people in committed relationships who are surveyed report dissatisfaction in the areas of sexual intimacy, and this impacts how couples feel about their relationship. These findings indicate that this is an overlooked area in marital relations. This paper starts with a consideration of five different sexual dysfunctions as described in the DSM-V. A brief overview of hypoactive sexual desire disorder is presented, followed by an alternative interpretation based on Asian energetic views. Next, using ego defense theory and attachment theory as explanatory “lenses”, the paper reviews empirical research linking these theories to sexual dysfunction in couples. It posits that commonly reported sexual problems are often more than physical, that they have a potent psychological component, and that ego defense theory and adult attachment theory offer valuable insights into both their causes and possible solutions. OVERVIEW OF SEXUAL PROBLEMS 3
Socio-demographic Factors, Food Security and Mental Health Status among Mothers in Mentakab, Pahang, Malaysia

Introduction: Women are vulnerable to food insecurity. This study aimed to determine the demographic factors, food security and mental health status among mothers in Mentakab, Pahang. Methods: This cross-sectional study was participated by 129 mothers aged 20 years to 59 years old. Mothers were interviewed to obtain information on demographic factors, food security status (Radimer/Cornell Hunger Scale) and mental health status (DASS-21). Chi-square and binary logistic regression were used to determine an association between factors and food security status. General linear model (GLM) was used to determine the difference in mental health score according to food security status group after controlling for covariates. Significance level was set at 0.05. Results: The mother’s mean age was 38.30 ± 9.70 years. Prevalence of food insecurity was 55.8%. About 39.5% of mothers were depressed, 24.0% were experienced anxiety and 16.3% of mothers were stressed. The mean depression and anxiety score were 4.11 ± 3.54 and 2.96 ± 3.19 respectively. The mean stress score was 3.91 ± 3.44. Low household income (p<0.01) was increased the risk of food insecurity by nine fold. After controlling the covariates, there was significant difference in mean of depression score (p<0.01), anxiety score (p<0.01) and stress score (p<0.01) based on the food security status. Conclusion: More than half of the households were food insecure. Low household income was a main contributor towards food insecurity. Poor mental health status was associated with food insecurity. Lifestyle management and skills equipment need to arrange for mothers to improve their mental health status and socio-economic status.
Associations of blood essential and toxic metal(loid)s with both disease severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19: a retrospective study

Background The variations and dynamics of blood essential and toxic metal(loid)s in patients with COVID-19 still remains unclear.Methods A retrospective study was performed in a cohort of confirmed COVID-19 patients for their whole blood levels of essential and/or toxic metal(loid)s including magnesium, calcium, chromium, manganese, iron, copper, zinc, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, thallium and lead according to the disease severity and outcome.Results Compared to the non-severe COVID-19 patients, Whole blood calcium, chromium and copper were higher in the severe patients, while magnesium, manganese, iron, zinc, arsenic, thallium and lead were lower. These differences were further found to be consistently existed across the clinical course since the disease onset by longitudinal analysis. Moreover, among the severe patients, chromium and cadmium were higher in the deceased group compared to the recovered group, while arsenic were found to be lower. Whole blood iron, arsenic, and age and sex were determined to be independently factors associated with the disease severity, while chromium, cadmium and the co-morbidity of cardiovascular disease were determined to be independently factors associated with the mortality.Conclusions These results suggest variations of whole blood metal(loid)s as associated factors correlated with the disease severity and mortality for COVID-19.
Simultaneous determination of paracetamol and neurotransmitters in biological fluids using a carbon paste sensor modified with gold nanoparticles

A promising electrochemical sensor was developed by electrodeposition of gold nanoparticles on a carbon paste (CP) electrode. This sensor electrode (CPE–Aunano) was used to determine paracetamol (ACOP) and some neurotransmitters, such as dopamine (DA), epinephrine (EP), norepinephrine (NP), levodopa (L-DOPA) and serotonin (5-HT). Cyclic and differential pulse voltammetry studies indicated that the oxidation of paracetamol at the electrode surface proceeded through a two electron reversible step and was fundamentally controlled by adsorption. Further modification of the sensor by mixing the CPE–Aunano with Nafion® showed good sensitivity and effectively resolved the overlapping anodic peaks of these neurotransmitters (NTs) with ACOP. Also, the interfering effect of physiologically common interferences, namely ascorbic acid (AA) and uric acid (UA), on the current response of paracetamol has been studied. Nafion® proved to increase the sensitivity of the current signal of the sensor for the oxidation of the compounds studied. Paracetamol gave a well defined oxidation peak at 430 mV in pH 7.4, which was used to quantitate the drug in the two ranges of 50 nM–50 μM and 90–270 μM with a detection limit of 7.7 nM and 28 nM, respectively. The procedure was successfully validated for the assay of paracetamol in pharmaceutical formulations. The applicability of the developed method to determine the drug in human urine samples is also illustrated.
EFFECT OF ARSENIC ON THE GROWTH AND PHYSIOLOGY OF TRITICUM AESTIVUM L. SEEDLINGS

Effect of Arsenic on the Growth and Physiology of Triticum aestivum L. seedlings. The effects of Arsenic (As) were investigated on four varieties of T. aestivum viz. PBW 343, PBW 550, PBW 621 and HD 2967 to elucidate the toxicity of As on morphological, physiological, biochemical and antioxidant processes of plant in early stage. The results showed that seed germination, root length, shoot length and biomass decreased gradually with increase in concentrations of As (125750μM) and this decrease was biologically significant. The photosynthetic and respiratory activity of the test plants was also investigated. The decrease in chlorophyll and carotenoids content with increase in As content indicates negative effect of As on the photosynthetic pigments. However, the total cellular respiration increased with increase in As concentration and this probably may be due to the enhancement in respiratory enzymes which leads to high production of energy by the respective cells. The contents of water soluble carbohydrates and proteins increased with increasing As concentrations while their hydrolyzing enzymes i.e. α amylase and protease were decreasing with increase in As concentration. The activity of antioxidant enzymes, superoxide dismutase and peroxidase followed the increasing trend indicating the induction of oxidative stress under high concentration of As. Further, among the various varieties HD 2967 was the most tolerant variety and PBW 550 was most affected variety. Name of student : Shilpa Nag Registration Number : CUP/MPhil-Ph.D/SEES/EVS/2010-11/07 Degree for which submitted : Master of Philosophy Name of supervisor : Dr. Sunil Mittal Centre : Environmental Science and Technology School of Studies : Environment and Earth Sciences
Association between maternal and fetal outcomes in high BMI diabetic and non-diabetic groups

Background: BMI has increased among the women of reproductive age worldwide. Insulin resistance associated with obesity and diabetes are mostly responsible for the adverse outcomes like macrosomia, maternal morbidity, increased operative interference and NICU admission. Objectives of the study was to assess maternal high BMI and its association with maternal and neonatal outcomes in diabetic and non-diabetic groups.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in the BIRDEM General Hospital Dhaka on 200 pregnant women with high BMI at 3rd trimester. Patients were allocated in two equal groups- Group I Diabetic and group II Non-diabetic.Results: Age range was 18 to 35 years with mean age of 26.9±8.3 years among diabetic and 25.7±7.8 years among non-diabetic women. BMI was comparatively higher in diabetic group. Overall frequency of C/S was higher (89.5%) and on comparison between the groups, frequency was significantly higher in diabetic group (94% vs 85% in group I and group II respectively). The postpartum complications were also significantly higher in diabetic group (22% vs 7% in Group I and Group II respectively). About 23 (11.5%) of the babies had birth weight more than 3.5 kg (maximum among diabetic mothers 15% vs 8% in group I and II). The mean birth weight was higher in diabetic group 3.7 ± 0.4 kg vs 2.6±0.5 kg in non-diabetic group respectively. On the neonatal outcomes, significant number of macrosomia were found in the diabetic group, and NICU admissions were also higher in the diabetic group.Conclusions: High BMI diabetic mothers have significantly higher maternal and neonatal complications.
Land Inheritance and Migration: The Strategic Bequest Motive Put To Test

This paper aims at directly testing the strategic bequest theory on the basis of data collected in a region of the Peruvian Highlands characterized by high land pressure and substantial migration flows. Toward this purpose, an inheritance function is estimated that allows for the role of caring behaviour vis-à-vis parents as well as personal and family characteristics susceptible of influencing the inheritance pattern. We find that the strategic bequest motive is indeed present in our study area, yet it provides only a partial explanation of differential treatment meted out to potential heirs. Moreover, in general (migrant) children rather than parents appear to be responsible for the allocation of comparatively low shares of family land.
Suspended Solids Removal in Detention Basins

Detention basins are being used to improve the quality of stormwater discharges from urban areas. While the design of detention facilities for quantity control is fairly well understood, the same cannot be said for the design of basins to improve water quality. It appears that no theoretical arguments can be made for using design storms and steady-state assumptions to predict the suspended solids removal capability of stormwater detention basins. A more logical course would be to investigate long-term performance. This paper demonstrates an approach for estimating the long-term performance of detention basins with respect to suspended solids removal. The approach involves the simulation of detention basin behavior, and it is described and demonstrated with a hypothetical case study in which the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) was used to produce performance information over large ranges of storage capacity and discharge capacity. The comprehensive information that can be generated by such a simulation gives an engineer significant guidance for the planning and design of a detention basin.
The effect of knowledge management on competitive advantage and business performance: A study of silver craft SMEs

Objective: The objective of this article is to analyse the effect of knowledge management on the performance of silver craft SMEs through competitive advantage as a mediator. This study also explores the dimensions and indicators of each latent variable: knowledge management, competitive advantage, and business performance. Research Design & Methods: This research uses quantitative methods with SEM-PLS analysis techniques. The population in this study is silver craft SMEs in Indonesia, with 146 silver craft SMEs as a sample. Data was collected by questionnaires and FGD. Findings: This study found that knowledge management has no direct significant effect on business performance but – through competitive advantage – the effect of knowledge management on business performance of silver craft SMEs is positive and significant. Implications & Recommendations: The outcomes show that knowledge management ought to be connected to form items with competitive points of interest so that it can help to execute silver craft SMEs trade. The expected knowledge management is to incorporate knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing, and knowledge application. Contribution & Value Added: This research surveys commerce execution not from a budgetary perspective but from a non-financial perspective. Research on knowledge management within the SMEs division is still uncommon. Article type: research article
Statistical Machine Translation of Myanmar Dialects

— The goal of this work is to contribute the first evaluation of the quality of machine translation between Standard Myanmar and Other Myanmar Dialectal Languages. Myanmar Dialects present many challenges for machine translation, which is the lack of data resources. To fulfill this requirement, we also developed three Myanmar Dialect corpora based on the Myanmar language of ASEAN MT corpus. They are Myanmar-Rakhine (18K), Myanmar-Myeik (10K) and Myanmar-Dawei (9K) parallel corpora. The 10 folds cross-validation experiments were carried out using three different statistical machine translation approaches: phrase-based, hierarchical phrase-based, and the operation sequence model. In addition, two types of segmentation; word and syllable units were studied. The results show that all three statistical machine translation approaches give higher and comparable BLEU and RIBES scores between Myanmar and three dialects (Rakhine, Dawei and Myeik) in both directions. The OSM approach achieved the highest BLEU and RIBES scores among three approaches for both word and syllable segmentations. Moreover, we found that syllable segmentation is appropriate for translation quality comparing with word level segmentation results.
Diagnostic of pathology on the vertebral column machine learning - Cluster K-nearest Neighbor (CKNN) part (I)

In this investigation, we have developed a graphical user interface application to perform the diagnostic of pathology on the column vertebral based on the Cluster K-Nearest Neighbor (CKNN) classifier. The system is implemented and simulated in Anaconda, and its performance is tested on real dataset that contains 6 features and two (02) classes. Each class, abnormal and normal class consists of 210 instances, and 100 instances, respectively. A comparison of the performance of the test measurement under various test sizes (10%~50%) is carried out to predict the class label when the nearest neighbor k changes from 1 to 19. The results show that the accuracy depends on both independent parameters, the test size and k-neighbors, which gives better training accuracy than the test accuracy, in the range of [82.5% ~ 100%] and [70%~84%], respectively. When k varies from 1 to 4, a higher training accuracy, larger than 90% is observed. While the test set shows a low accuracy in the range of [74% ~ 82.5%]. Increasing the test size or/and k, does not affect significantly the accuracy. When k is larger 1, the training accuracy is approximately equal to 0.925±0.05, the test accuracy (except for k=6 and 17) is about 0.79±0.05. The prediction of the class status maybe optimized by combining the dataset set size with the k-neighbors parameters. The GUI can be useful to help the medical doctors to diagnostic the patient effectively to take a rapid decision and predict results in a reduced time lapse.