Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Language Learning Beyond the Classroom in an Asian Context: Obstacles Encountered

Framed by the notion of Learning Beyond the Classroom (LBC), the study reported here examines the underexplored area of learners’ perceived obstacles to LBC and their locus of control when autonomously engaging in learning or practicing English beyond the classroom. One hundred and seventy-three EFL students from a mandatory General English programme in a Taiwanese university participated in the study by completing a written reflection on their autonomous-learning experiences which included details about the learning affordances they made use of, their successes and struggles, their attitudes, and their motivation. This paper focuses on the obstacles they encountered. Findings show that there were broadly eight types of obstacles reported by the participants, with language difficulties, affect and motivation most frequently mentioned. Although there is no clear-cut pattern of associations between the obstacles participants reported encountering and the language learning affordances they reported using, it is apparent that certain obstacles were more closely related to particular limited uses of affordances.
Defects Around a Spherical Particle in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

We investigate the defect structures around a spherical colloidal particle in a cholesteric liquid crystal using spectral method, which is specially devised to cope with the inhomogeneity of the cholesteric at infinity. We pay particular attention to the cholesteric counterparts of nematic metastable configurations. When the spherical colloidal particle imposes strong homeotropic anchoring on its surface, besides the well-known twisted Saturn ring, we find another metastable defect configuration, which corresponds to the dipole in a nematic, without outside confinement. This configuration is energetically preferable to the twisted Saturn ring when the particle size is large compared to the nematic coherence length and small compared to the cholesteric pitch. When the colloidal particle imposes strong planar anchoring, we find the cholesteric twist can result in a split of the defect core on the particle surface similar to that found in a nematic liquid crystal by lowering temperature or increasing particle size. AMS subject classifications: 65N35, 76A15
Coulomb Correction in Nuclear beta Decay: Elementary-Particle Treatment

The "elementary-particle" treatment of nuclear β decay is extended to include the effects of final-state Coulomb interactions. The resulting formalism is valid for both allowed and forbidden decays. The Coulomb correction in allowed transitions is considered in detail and compared with the usual impulse-approximation calculation. The spectrum shape factor for the transition B12→C12+e−+ν¯e is evaluated as an example.
Effect of health education on knowledge of iso-immunization among pregnant women in selected government hospitals in Lagos State, Nigeria

Objective: to assess the outcome of health education on the knowledge of iso-immunization among pregnant women in selected government hospitals in Lagos state. Method: This was a quasi-experimental study where a semi-structured questionnaire was used to obtain data from 162 pregnant women who were selected by multi-stage Sampling in 3 selected government hospitals in Lagos state. Data collected were analyzed using SPSS version 24 and results were analyzed using frequency tables. An Independent t-test was used to test the mean difference between the two hypotheses. The level of statistical significance was set at a p-value of <0.05. Results: The findings indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the level of knowledge among pregnant women at pre and post-health education intervention on isoimmunisation (Mean difference = 8.204, t(160) = 33.602, p = . 000). ; and between the level of knowledge of management among pregnant women at pre and post health education intervention on isoimmunisation (Mean difference = 7.191, t(160) = 23.234, p = . 000). Conclusion: health education intervention program improved the knowledge of iso-immunization and its management among pregnant women. It was recommended among others that pregnant women should be given health talks about isoimmunisation, its causes, effects, and how it can be managed to improve their knowledge about isoimmunisation.
BERTwalk for integrating gene networks to predict gene- to pathway-level properties

Abstract Motivation Graph representation learning is a fundamental problem in the field of data science with applications to integrative analysis of biological networks. Previous work in this domain was mostly limited to shallow representation techniques. A recent deep representation technique, BIONIC, has achieved state-of-the-art results in a variety of tasks but used arbitrarily defined components. Results Here, we present BERTwalk, an unsupervised learning scheme that combines the BERT masked language model with a network propagation regularization for graph representation learning. The transformation from networks to texts allows our method to naturally integrate different networks and provide features that inform not only nodes or edges but also pathway-level properties. We show that our BERTwalk model outperforms BIONIC, as well as four other recent methods, on two comprehensive benchmarks in yeast and human. We further show that our model can be utilized to infer functional pathways and their effects. Availability and implementation Code and data are available at https://github.com/raminass/BERTwalk. Contact roded@tauex.tau. ac.il
Sentiment Analysis of Russia-Ukraine Conflict Tweets Using RoBERTa

[Objective] The moment Russia officially invaded Ukraine, the world experienced a period of tension and uncertainty. As a social release valve digital communication, channels increased their number of users and activity, generating a large amount of data. Twitter, in particular, being one of the most popular channels for sharing information and opinions, exploded with activities related to this historical moment. And as with many other social events, such as COVID-19, this social network became one of the main sources of information, opinion, and knowledge. This paper analyzes sentiments in tweets related to the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. [Methodology] The analyzed dataset contains tweets from January 1, 2022, through March 3, 2022, and was collected using event-related hashtags. In total, 603,552 tweets in English and 1,664 in Russian were analyzed. To perform emotion classification, DistilRoBERTa variant and the pre-trained XLM-RoBERTa-Base model were used, respectively. English tweets were classified into seven emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, neutral, sadness, and surprise. Russian tweets were classified into positive negative, and neutral polarities. [Results] The results showed that most English tweets convey fear and anger as predominant feelings, reaching 32.08% and 15.18% of the total tweets analyzed, respectively. Regarding tweets in Russian, the majority presented negative polarity, with 86.83% of the total. Some of the most recurrent phrases in the analysis allude to support for Ukraine and call for a halt to the war. Likewise, phrases of concern for the crisis, weapons, and fatalities are recurrent. [Conclusion] As expected, most people were concerned about the armed conflict and upset and angry about its consequences. Future works could use more tweets to improve the analysis and increase the time range to be studied. The analysis could also be segmented to study the sentiments of tweets according to different groupings and compare them with other societies, for instance, tweets could be segmented by country and analyzed accordingly.
Examining the Learner-Teacher Digital Divide: Implications for Learning in Basic Education Classes - Insights from Teachers in Botswana

The world has witnessed a technological revolution that has impacted almost all spheres of life. Technology is transforming the way people interact and do their everyday activities. This technological revolution has also transformed the teaching and learning space; now, the effectiveness of traditional teaching method is being challenged. However, technological advances are not universally available leading to a phenomenon called digital divided. In the classroom, empirical evidence has revealed a discrepancy between teachers and learners concerning ownership and use of technological devices. In some cases, teachers have more computer skills than learners; in other cases, learners are embracing technology more than their teachers. This disparity may serve to inhibit rather than facilitate learning. The constructivist paradigm was applied to enhance the dependability of the data and the credibility of the inferences drawn from the data. Purposive sampling technique facilitated select of information-rich participants or teachers who were able to give a detailed account of the digital gap phenomenon in schools. Structured interviews and focus group sessions were used to capture the livid experiences and perspectives of the teachers. Diffusion of innovation theory, technological acceptance model and technological pedagogical content knowledge framework were also used to explain the level of technology acceptance in schools. The findings of the study pointed towards the existence of the digital divide with learners embracing technology much faster than the teachers. Younger teachers were reported to be interested in the use of technology more than long-serving teachers. The paper presents solutions aimed at reducing the digital gap.
The ring of Colombeau’s full generalized quaternions

ABSTRACT In this paper, we introduce the ring of Colombeau full generalized quaternion, and we study its algebraic and topological properties. We prove that the ring of Colombeau full generalized quaternion is Gelfand, normal, duo and some related properties. Moreover, we study the essential ideals of this ring.
What Determines the Competitive Success of Young Croatian Wrestlers: Anthropometric Indices, Generic or Specific Fitness Performance?

Identifying factors influencing wrestling performance is important for determining which capacities should be developed the most. This research aimed to investigate whether anthropometric indices, generic fitness, and specific fitness performance determine the competitive success of young wrestlers. This research included 49 Croatian Greco–Roman male wrestlers aged 17.75 ± 1.51 years. Variables included training and competing experience, anthropometric indices, generic fitness (countermovement jump and handgrip strength), and specific wrestling fitness test (SWFT). Wrestlers were separated into medallists and non-medallists (i.e., wrestlers who won a medal at the previous National Championship and wrestlers who did not win a medal, respectively). The t-test for independent samples was used to determine the differences between the two categories in all variables. Moreover, discriminant analysis was performed to identify differences in a multivariate manner. Medallists and non-medallists did not differ in anthropometric indices and wrestling experience. Medallists had better results in the countermovement jump (t = 2.55, p < 0.01), handgrip strength (t = 2.77, p < 0.01), and SWFT performance (t = 2.29, p < 0.05) than non-medallists. The discriminant analysis confirmed that performance categories differed in generic and specific fitness tests (Wilks’ Lambda = 0.73, p < 0.05). It could be suggested that coaches should develop both the generic and specific fitness of their wrestlers to become more successful at competitions.
Tattoos as a Stigmatizing Label Implicated in Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System

ABSTRACT Understanding extralegal factors that may interfere with the criminal justice system operating in a fair and impartial fashion is a key area of research. Much of this research has focused on how demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, and race, may lead to differentially being processed through the criminal justice system. The current study sought to build upon and extend this body of research by examining whether having a permanent tattoo has a biasing influence on being arrested, convicted, and incarcerated. To do so, data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) were analyzed. The results revealed that, for males and females, having a permanent tattoo was associated with an increased risk of being arrested, convicted, and incarcerated even after controlling for the effects of self-reported crime and delinquency, levels of self-control, exposure to delinquent peers, and key demographic factors. Taken together, these results suggest that having a permanent tattoo may have a labeling effect that is used to process persons through the criminal justice system.
Neutrosophic data envelopment analysis based on the possibilistic mean approach

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric approach for the estimation of production frontier that is used to calculate the performance of a group of similar decision-making units (DMUs) which employ comparable inputs to produce related outputs. However, observed values might occasionally be confusing, imprecise, ambiguous, inadequate, and inconsistent in real-world applications. Thus, disregarding these factors may result in incorrect decision-making. Thus neutrosophic sets have been created as an extension of intuitionistic fuzzy sets to represent ambiguous, erroneous, missing, and inaccurate information in real-world applications. In this study, we have proposed a technique for solving the neutrosophic form of the Charnes–Cooper–Rhodes (CCR) model based on single-value trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers (SVTrNNs). The possibilistic mean for SVTrNNs is redefined and applied the Mehar approach to transforming the neutrosophic DEA (Neu-DEA) model into its corresponding crisp DEA model. As a result, the efficiency scores of the DMUs are calculated using different risk parameter values lying in [0, 1]. A numerical example is given to analyze the performance of the all India institutes of medical sciences and compared it with Abdelfattah’s ranking approach.
Heart Rate Variability for Outcome Prediction in Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Systematic Review

This systematic review presents clinical evidence on the association of heart rate variability with outcome prediction in intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhages. The literature search led to the retrieval of 19 significant studies. Outcome prediction included functional outcome, cardiovascular complications, secondary brain injury, and mortality. Various aspects of heart rate recording and analysis, based on linear time and frequency domains and a non-linear entropy approach, are reviewed. Heart rate variability was consistently associated with poor functional outcome and mortality, while controversial results were found regarding the association between heart rate variability and secondary brain injury and cardiovascular complications.
COMBINING ABILITY FOR YIELD AND ITS COMPONENTS IN MUNGBEAN (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek)

Combining ability studies were carried out through a 8 x 8 half diallel set for seed yield and its components. Variance due to general and specific combining ability was significant for all the characters. Additive gene effect was observed for all the characters except seed yield per plant E-65 and TARM-18 for earliness and days to maturity, WGG- 37 for clusters plant.BM-4 for pods in plants and pods in cluster, KDM-1 for 100 seed weight and Kopergaon and JLM-5 for seed yield in plant were found as best combiners. The cross. Kopergaon x E-65 showed highly significant positive SCA effects for plants height.pods in cluster and seed yield per plant.
Antioxidant Activities and Bioactive Compound in The Extract of Lobophytum sp.

This study is a descriptive exploratory research that aims to know the activity of soft coral Lobophytum sp. extract as an antioxidant. Sample extraction was done by maceration using methanol. Viscous extract obtained was then partitioned using n-hexane until gained methanol and n-hexane fraction. The chemical compositions of the methanol extract of Lobophytum sp were investigated using Gas chromatography-Mass spectrometry. The yield result of soft coral Lobophytum sp. extract is 2,59%. The weight of extract partition result were methanol fraction 8,76 g and n-hexane fraction 1,02 g. Antioxidant activity test using the 2,2-Diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay. Ascorbic acid was also used as positive antioxidant control. The percentage of inhibition and IC50 were measured. Antioxidant activity test which gains the best antioxidant activity is methanol fraction then followed by n-hexane fraction, both showed DPPH free radical 50% can be inhibited the activity with IC50 rate in a sequence 16,93 ppm and 30,93 ppm. GC-MS analysis, 50 kinds of chemical composition are identified in the Lobophytum sp. The results showed that the soft coral extracts of Lobophytum sp. has antioxidant activity.Keywords: soft coral (Lobophytum sp), GC-MS, fractions metahol and hexane
Digital Banking and Deposit: Substitution Effect of Mobile Applications on Web Services

Digital banking services are becoming more important components of contemporary financial ecosystems, heralding a revolutionary change in the banking and financial industry ushered in by the rise of digital technology. The "Substitution Effect" of mobile apps on web-based services in digital banking and deposits is investigated. We use a quantitative and qualitative approach to examine the complex dynamics of user preferences, technical progress, and security concerns that influence this replacement occurrence.We found that demographics, technical progress, and security concerns all play a role in influencing customers' digital banking choices. Increases in both the availability and sophistication of mobile technology have contributed to the widespread acceptance of these apps among the young, the well-educated, and the well-off. However, increased security concerns pose a significant obstacle.The banking sector, governments, and consumers may all benefit greatly from these findings. Financial institutions are under pressure to diversify their services to appeal to a wider range of customers, make strategic investments in cutting-edge technologies, and implement rigorous security protocols. To stimulate innovation and safeguard consumers, policymakers should provide flexible regulatory frameworks. An improved user experience, more convenience, and a heightened knowledge of digital banking security are all positive developments for consumers.Our findings are more than just a theoretical delve; they are a practical resource for stakeholders in the evolving digital banking sector. It offers insights that can be put into practice, paving the way for a more secure, innovative, and customer-focused future in digital banking.
Divestment Movements over Environmental Issues: The Brazilian Amazon Case

Devastating forest fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the most important biomes for Earth’s climate balance, have captured the world’s attention in 2019 and 2020. Foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, and institutional investors pressured Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to act and control the situation. Within this context, institutional investors threatened to divest from companies potentially linked to the wildfires and to sell government bonds, creating a divestment movement. Against this background, this article shows that Bolsonaro’s responses varied for each of the groups criticizing the handling of the environmental situation. It is argued that the Brazilian government adopted a more conciliatory tone and took more concrete actions when responding to institutional investors’ demands, compared to the responses for foreign governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Based on fifteen in-depth interviews conducted in 2021 with professionals involved in this divestment case, the paper concludes that institutional investors played a key role in Bolsonaro’s winning coalition and electoral aspirations. Moreover, the shortage of financial capital due to the COVID-19 pandemic created further incentives for Bolsonaro to avoid conflicts with institutional investors. KEYWORDS: Divestment; Amazon Rainforest; Wildfires; Investors; Climate Change; Brazil; Politics
Evaluation of the clinical efficacy of the bilateral pedicle cement anchoring technique in percutaneous vertebroplasty for Kümmell disease

The present study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of the bilateral pedicle cement anchoring technique combined with the postural reduction in percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) for Kümmell disease. For this purpose, a retrospective study was performed on 18 patients with Kümmell disease who between January 2018 and June 2021 underwent bilateral pedicle cement anchoring combined with postural reduction in PVP. Pre- and post-operative bone mineral density, injected cement volume, visual analogue scale (VAS) values, Oswestry disability index (ODI) scores, Cobb angle measurements and anterior vertebral height (AVH) were recorded and assessed. The mean follow-up duration was 8.4±1.2 months. The average VAS score decreased from 8.17±0.71 pre-operatively to 1.56±0.62 post-operatively and remained at 2.00±0.91 at the final follow-up visit (P<0.05). The average ODI improved from 86.44±5.5 pre-operatively to 24.33±7.82 post-operatively. Until the last follow-up, the ODI remained at 27.11±8.76 (P<0.05). Similarly, the changes in the Cobb angle and AVH before and after surgery were also statistically significant in the radiological evaluation (P<0.05). During the follow-up, two patients experienced adjacent vertebral fractures. The loosening of cement was not found. Overall, the present study demonstrated that during the treatment of Kümmell disease with PVP, the bilateral pedicle cement anchoring technique combined with postural reduction can achieve good clinical outcomes.
Dissonant intimacies: Coloniality and the failures of South–South collaboration

North–South research collaborations have come to include both an epistemic and ethical promise – of disrupting hierarchies, inequalities and asymmetries in global knowledge production. In practice, however, these have been ridden with limits, tension and failure. The ‘South–South’ has emerged as a worthy foil: an easy repository of positive affects and of decolonial futurity. This article turns to a feminist collaborative research initiative that seemed primed to fulfil these promises, but in fact, failed to do so. A partnership between African and Indian feminist scholars did not provide meaningful and reciprocal intellectual exchange. On the contrary, it powerfully revealed the coloniality of knowledge and power in higher education and how it manifested, differently, in two distinct locales in the Global South. This partnership constituted less of a shared ground, than one of complex and uneven relationships – a terrain of dissonant intimacies. It is not surprising that these were Southern scholars working in marginalised areas of research, like gender and sexuality. Such a double marginalisation produces specific sets of choices – and ambivalent desires – when it comes to being included in an unequal global epistemic order (and responding to neoliberal demands). This article contributes to larger debates on decolonising higher education, by shifting the scale from the North–South to the complexities of knowledge-making and power within and across the South.