Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Scale for Measuring Sustainable Manufacturing Practices and Sustainability Performance: Validity and Reliability

Purpose: In quantitative studies, providing a valid and reliable instrument is necessary to ensure accurate results when measuring sustainable manufacturing practices (SMPs) and sustainability performance (SP). Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the validity and reliability of the measurements of SMPs and SP. Methodology/Approach: The population of this study is top managers who have experience in the oil and gas industry (O&GI) in Iraq. Two tests were carried out in the present study: the pre-test and the pilot test. Findings: In the pre-test, the comments made by six academician experts and three practitioners were used to rephrase the measurements items and modify them according to the requirements of the O&GI by the Iraqi context. Moreover, in the pilot test was all the items were reliable and were sufficiently correlated with their constructs. Research Limitation/implication: There are some limitations to the current study. First, due to the small size of the study population, the pilot test sample in the current study was only 12 respondents. Future researchers can increase the sample size for the pilot test when they have a large population. Second, the validity and reliability of the measurements were tested in the current study in the oil and gas industry only. Future studies can test these measurements in other industries or small and Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Originality/Value of paper: Theoretically, there are four contributions to the body of knowledge: first, introduce measures for SMPs according to the product life cycle view, it is limited in the literature. Second, these measures can be used by researchers to study the extent of SMPs and the SP of companies using descriptive statistics. Third, these measures can be used to investigate the impact of SMPs on SP by regression testing or structural equation modelling. Fourth, measures can be modified into open-ended questions for use in qualitative or mixed studies. Practically, there are two practical implications which explain in the conclusion.
Redox Flow Batteries: A Literature Review Oriented to Automatic Control

This paper presents a literature review about the concept of redox flow batteries and its automation and monitoring. Specifically, it is focused on the presentation of all-vanadium redox flow batteries which have several benefits, compared with other existing technologies and methods for energy stored purposes. The main aspects that are reviewed in this work correspond to the characterization, modeling, supervision and control of the vanadium redox flow batteries. A research is presented where redox flow batteries are contextualized in the current energy situation, compared with other types of energy storage systems. Furthermore, a presentation about the current challenges on research, and the main existing installations is view. A discussion about the main dynamic models that have been proposed during last years, as well as the different control strategies and observers, is presented.
Choice feeding in fattening pigs: Effect of diets differing in nutrient density on feeding behaviour and fattening performance

The aim of this study was to determine the proportion of feed consumed by pigs when they had the choice to meet their nutrient requirements offering a low (LND) or a high (HND) nutrient dense diet on animal performance and feeding behaviour. In total 120 barrows and gilts were allotted to three dietary treatments (LND, HND and a feed choice group, FC). Diets were calculated to keep a constant ratio of megajoule net energy (MJ NE) to nutrient standardised ileal digestible (SID) lysine, SID methionine and cysteine, SID threonine, SID tryptophan, Ca, available P and Na. Pigs of the feed choice treatment that could choose between LND and HND chose an energy content between 13.3 and 13.6 MJ ME or rather 10.1 and 10.4 MJ NE. The ratio between LND and HND changed during the growing period to a higher percentage of HND (26.2% : 73.8% in the starter, 22.0% : 78.0% in the grower and 20.0% : 80.0% in the finisher phase). No differences between barrows and gilts were detected regarding the selected diet. As a result, similar zootechnical performance data were observed for HND and FC, whereas LND led to a declined (P < 0.05) performance. Regarding the feeding behaviour no differences in the parameters meal size and daily feeder visits between LND and HND (P > 0.1) were observed. However, within the FC treatment more and greater meals were consumed (P < 0.05) at the HND feeder compared to the LND feeder. Pigs of modern genetics still have the ability to cover their nutrient requirements choosing between diets differing in nutrient density without impairing performance. Furthermore, the results give no indication for the necessity of different energy levels in diets for sexed pigs.
RESPONSE OF SELECTED SOUTH AFRICAN COASTAL SUGARCANE VARIETIES TO CHEMICAL RIPENERS: ACTIVE INGREDIENT EFFECTIVENESS AND ASSOCIATED IMPACTS ON GROWER AND MILLER SUSTAINABILITY

Chemical ripening is an established strategy to increase cane quality (Donaldson, 2001; van Heerden and Hoffman, 2017). The magnitude of response to ripeners depends on the chemical used and prevailing environmental conditions (van Heerden et al., 2014). Under rainfed conditions intermittent episodes of drought stress typically induces natural ripening, which can significantly reduce chemical efficacy (Clowes, 1980; Rostron, 1985).
ANDROLOGY Effectiveness of Sexual Skills Training Program on Promoting Sexual Intimacy and Satisfaction in Women in Tehran (Iran): A randomized Clinical Trial

Materials and Methods: This is a randomized clinical trial study with parallel design. 70 participants (n=35 each) were divided into 2 groups as control and intervention groups. Women were selected in multiple steps. Some requirements for inclusion criteria were: obtaining a standard score of marital satisfaction, women with a record of 6-24 months of marital life, not having a record of abortion, stillborn birth and not being in pregnancy period, not having a child, not suffering from an acute or chronic and serious disease, not having a surgery on pelvic organs, minimum elementary education of the couples and being Iranian. Exclusion criteria were: women’s absence in more than 2 training classes, pregnancy during the study. Data collection was conducted through four questionnaires: demographic characteristics, marital satisfaction, sexual satisfaction and sexual intimacy. Validity and reliability of the questionnaires were measured through content validity and Chronbach Alpha, respectively. The data extracted from the questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS software, version 18.0. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, independent t-test, paired t-test, or non-parametric tests were applied. Significance level of the test was considered p < 0.05.
The Effects of Participant Motivational Behavioural Intention: The MARBLE Case

This study investigates the motivational factors underlying participation in trade fairs, and their effects on participant satisfaction and behavioural intentions. Data were collected through a questionnaire to 608 participants, selected by convenience sampling, at the International Natural Stone and Technologies Fair (MARBLE), held on 22-25 March 2017 in ? zmir, Turkey. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to verify the convergent and discriminant validity of the scales while multiple regression analyses were used to test the research hypotheses. The results indicate that the trade fair participants were motivated by commercial attractiveness, financial attractiveness, information search, and city attractiveness. Participant satisfaction was significantly influenced by commercial attractiveness, financial attractiveness, and information search while behavioural intentions were determined by city attractiveness and information search.
The semiclassical–Sobolev orthogonal polynomials: a general approach

We say that the polynomial sequence (Q (λ) n ) is a semiclassical Sobolev polynomial sequence when it is orthogonal with respect to the inner product 〈p, r〉S = 〈u, p r〉+ λ 〈u,DpDr〉 , where u is a semiclassical linear functional, D is the differential, the difference or the q–difference operator, and λ is a positive constant. In this paper we get algebraic and differential/difference properties for such polynomials as well as algebraic relations between them and the polynomial sequence orthogonal with respect to the semiclassical functional u. The main goal of this article is to give a general approach to the study of the polynomials orthogonal with respect to the above nonstandard inner product regardless of the type of operator D considered. Finally, we illustrate our results by applying them to some known families of Sobolev orthogonal polynomials as well as to some new ones introduced in this paper for the first time.
Workplace ergonomics training intervention and its effect on quality of nursing work life among nurse interns

Objective: The current study aim is to evaluate impact of workplace ergonomics training intervention on the Intern nurses’ work life quality. Methods: The study accompanied through a quasi-experimental design with all nurse interns who registered in internship year, in operating rooms and critical care units at El Demerdash Hospital which are allied to Ain Shams University Hospitals. A triple-section questionnaire was used for data collection: First, part I - nurse interns’ socio demographic profile. Part II - self-administered knowledge questionnaire. Second, nurse interns’ performance observational checklist. Third, Brooks’ Quality of Nursing Work Life survey. Results: The study reported that nurse intern’ knowledge and practice related to workplace ergonomics were improved in the post intervention and follow up phases. Also, interns’ total quality of nursing work life was highly statistically significant different during post intervention and follow up phases when compared with pre intervention phase. Conclusions: The findings of this study concluded that ergonomics training intervention had positive impact on nurse interns’ work life quality in post and after three months from the intervention of training intervention compared to the pre intervention phase. The study recommends that nurse interns should adhere to safety guidelines in all their practices and provides nurse interns with safe patient handling and mobility training programs.
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Competition between cyanobacteria and green algae at low versus elevated CO 2 : who will win , and why ?

Traditionally, it has often been hypothesized that cyanobacteria are superior competitors at low CO2 and high pH in comparison with eukaryotic algae, owing to their effective CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM). However, recent work indicates that green algae can also have a sophisticated CCM tuned to low CO2 levels. Conversely, cyanobacteria with the high-flux bicarbonate uptake system BicA appear well adapted to high inorganic carbon concentrations. To investigate these ideas we studied competition between three species of green algae and a bicA strain of the harmful cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa at low (100 ppm) and high (2000 ppm) CO2. Two of the green algae were competitively superior to the cyanobacterium at low CO2, whereas the cyanobacterium increased its competitive ability with respect to the green algae at high CO2. The experiments were supported by a resource competition model linking the population dynamics of the phytoplankton species with dynamic changes in carbon speciation, pH and light. Our results show (i) that competition between phytoplankton species at different CO2 levels can be predicted from species traits in monoculture, (ii) that green algae can be strong competitors under CO2-depleted conditions, and (iii) that bloom-forming cyanobacteria with high-flux bicarbonate uptake systems will benefit from elevated CO2 concentrations.
Medication Error Incidence (Parenteral Therapy) at Government Hospital in Magelang

Patient safety is the key to maintain the quality of health services. One of the most important things to achieve patient safety is to identify medication errors and its causes. Most cases of medication errors are reported by nurses, because nurses are the therapeutic team. The purpose of this study is to determine factors affecting medication error by nurse in giving parenteral therapy at Government Hospital in Magelang. A cross-sectional analytic study was carried out on 67 nurses working in hospital wards. The data were collected using a questionnaire filled by respondents to see medication errors within 3 months. The final number of medication errors were 91 incidents in 3 months. The most frequent errors were wrong time (51.7%), wrong dose (14.2%), wrong document and wrong drug (9.9%), wrong route (8.8%), and the least was wrong patient (5%). Although the medication error incidences were not sentinel events and didn’t affect to SNARs criteria, but it still affecting on the quality of health services in the hospital. The significant independent determinant of medication errors is working experience at Government Hospital in Magelang (p 0,001), while the other determinants are not. Conclusion in this study was significant correlation between work experience in hospital and medication error, where respondents with work experience at Government Hospital in Magelangless than 5 years tend to be at higher risk doing medication errors than those who having worked more or equivalent to 5 years.
Multimodal Deception Detection Using Automatically Extracted Acoustic, Visual, and Lexical Features

Deception detection in conversational dialogue has attracted much attention in recent years. Yet existing methods for this rely heavily on human-labeled annotations that are costly and potentially inaccurate. In this work, we present an automated system that utilizes multimodal features for conversational de-ception detection, without the use of human annotations. We study the predictive power of different modalities and combine them for better performance. We use openSMILE to extract acoustic features after applying noise reduction techniques to the original audio. Facial landmark features are extracted from the visual modality. We experiment with training facial expression detectors and applying Fisher Vectors to encode sequences of facial landmarks with varying length. Linguistic features are extracted from automatic transcriptions of the data. We examine the performance of these methods on the Box of Lies dataset of deception game videos, achieving 73% accuracy using features from all modalities. This result is signiﬁcantly better than previous results on this corpus which relied on manual annotations, and also better than human performance.
Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Fecal Escherichia coli Isolated from Non- Diarrhoeic Pet Dogs at Chittagong Metropolitan Area

DOI: 10.21276/sjavs.2018. 5.6. 3 Abstract: The study was designed with the aim of isolation and identification of Escherichia coli and estimation of its antimicrobial resistance to ascertain the prevalence in pet dogs. A total of 36 Escherichia coli isolates recovered from 82 rectal swab samples of non diarrhoeic pet dogs at Chittagong Metropolitan area. Antimicrobial resistance was determined with 9 antimicrobial agents by means of disc diffusion assay. 100% resistance was observed in Ampicillin which was followed by Amoxicillin (95.83%), Colistin Sulfate (79.16%), Oxytetracycline (75%), Cotrimoxazole (75%), Ciprofloxacin (70.83%) and Ceftriaxone (62.5%). Conversely, 58.33% sensitivity was shown by Gentamicin and 91.66% intermediately sensitive as Doxycyclin. All Escherichia coli isolates were reported as resistant to more than five antibiotics (multidrug-resistant). Therefore, more attention should be paid to the indiscriminate use of antimicrobials in companion animals (dogs) and they should be treated with sensitized drugs on the basis of result of the sensitivity study in the specific areas.
Housing Resources in Poland – an Assessment Made in Terms of the Quality of Life

Having a home has been cited as a principal good, both in economic and social terms. It plays a key role in human life. Having a home often determines other decisions, such as getting married, starting a family, and changing jobs. Research papers dealing with the question of home ownership or tenancy, as well as various publications issued by the government and non-government organisations, emphasise the problem of a housing deficit. However, the question of the quality of housing resources is raised less often. Living conditions are one of the research areas investigated in studies concerning the quality of life. The purpose of this article is to assess the quality of Poland’s housing resources at the regional level, using data from 2003 and 2016 and aided by Perkal’s synthetic indicator. According to this indicator, the Mazowieckie Voivodeship had the highest value (0.849), and the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship the lowest one (-0.722).
Species abundance: from neutral to niche-stabilized communities

We study a stochastic community model able to interpolate from a neutral regime to a niche partitioned regime upon varying a single parameter, tuning the relative strength of intraspecific and interspecific competition. By means of a self-consistent approach, we obtain an analytical expression for the species abundance distribution, in excellent agreement with stochastic simulations of the model. In the neutral limit, such calculation recovers the Fisher log-series. In the niche-dominated regime, the species abundance distribution develops a maximum at a finite population size, corresponding to the emergence of a carrying capacity. We also investigate numerically species extinction-time distribution and compare it with the neutral case. We find that enhanced competition increases the species lifetimes on average while suppressing their fluctuations. The results are discussed in view of the niche-neutral debate and of their potential relevance to field data.
University of Groningen Processing of Continuously Provided Punishment and Reward in Children with ADHD and the Modulating Effects of Stimulant Medication Groen,

Objectives: Current models of ADHD suggest abnormal reward and punishment sensitivity, but the exact mechanisms are unclear. This study aims to investigate effects of continuous reward and punishment on the processing of performance feedback in children with ADHD and the modulating effects of stimulant medication. Methods: 15 Methylphenidate (Mph)-treated and 15 Mph-free children of the ADHD-combined type and 17 control children performed a selective attention task with three feedback conditions: no-feedback, gain and loss. Event Related Potentials (ERPs) time-locked to feedback and errors were computed. Results: All groups performed more accurately with gain and loss than without feedback. Feedback-related ERPs demonstrated no group differences in the feedback P2, but an enhanced late positive potential (LPP) to feedback stimuli (both gains and losses) for Mph-free children with ADHD compared to controls. Feedback-related ERPs in Mph-treated children with ADHD were similar to controls. Correlational analyses in the ADHD groups revealed that the severity of inattention problems correlated negatively with the feedback P2 amplitude and positively with the LPP to losses and omitted gains. Conclusions: The early selective attention for rewarding and punishing feedback was relatively intact in children with ADHD, but the late feedback processing was deviant (increased feedback LPP). This may explain the often observed positive effects of continuous reinforcement on performance and behaviour in children with ADHD. However, these group findings cannot be generalised to all individuals with the ADHD, because the feedback-related ERPs were associated with the severity of the inattention problems. Children with ADHD-combined type with more inattention problems showed both deviant early attentional selection of feedback stimuli, and deviant late processing of non-reward and punishment. Citation: Groen Y, Tucha O, Wijers AA, Althaus M (2013) Processing of Continuously Provided Punishment and Reward in Children with ADHD and the Modulating Effects of Stimulant Medication: An ERP Study. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59240. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0059240 Editor: Michel Botbol, University of Western Brittany, France Received August 30, 2012; Accepted February 13, 2013; Published March 21, 2013 Copyright: 2013 Groen et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This work was supported by a gift from the Protestants Christelijke Kinderuitzending (PCK). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. * E-mail: y.groen@rug.nl
The Effect of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health and Parental Health Involvement within the United States

Maternity leave is the most basic and ubiquitous form of parental leave used in government policies and has been associated with a range of positive maternal and child health outcomes. However, the United States is the only country in the developed world that has not done implemented a government-funded parental leave policy. The purpose of this study was to examine if a paid maternity leave policy directly impacts maternal health and parents’ abilities to engage in health maintenance for their infants, by comparing policies and health outcomes across the United States. Using binary logistic regression, this study tests the following research questions: “Does access to a paid maternity leave policy impact the emotional and physical wellbeing of mothers? ” and “Does access to a paid maternity leave policy allow mothers to meet a higher number of infant ‘well’ visits, thus impacting their infants’ health? ” INDEX WORDS: Paid maternity leave, Maternal health, Infant health THE EFFECT OF PAID MATERNITY LEAVE ON MATERNAL HEALTH AND PARENTAL HEALTH INVOLVEMENT WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
Morphogenesis and biomass production of 'BRS Tamani' guinea grass under increasing nitrogen doses

The objective of this work was to evaluate the morphogenic and structural characteristics of Megathyrsus maximus 'BRS Tamani', subjected to increasing nitrogen doses, as well as the components of its biomass. The experiment was carried out in a randomized complete block design with four treatments (0, 300, 600, and 1,200 kg ha-1 N per year) and three replicates, in 12 experimental units of 12.5 m2 each. The evaluations were performed in the rest period of the pasture, after defoliation to a residual leaf area index of 1.0, until the pasture reached the number 3.0 of new leaves produced per tiller. Leaf and stem elongation rates increased with the increment in N doses up to 1,200 kg ha-1 N per year. There was a decreasing linear response for phyllochron and leaf life span. Increases of 704% were observed for the harvestable green leaf biomass, at the dose equivalent to 1,200 kg ha-1 N per year. The biomasses of dead forage and harvestable stem were not affected by the N doses. Nitrogen fertilization shows a positive effect on the morphogenic, structural, and productive characteristics of 'BRS Tamani' guinea grass up to the dose equivalent to 1,200 kg ha-1 N per year.