Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
European Journal of Educational Research

: Students are aware of the use of technology in the learning process, and they are generally referred to as digital natives. However, there are challenges associated with the availability of internet access as a learning process to both university students and teachers inside and outside the classroom. One of such challenges is students’ ability to access unrelated activities which is known as cyberslacking. In the education sector, this process refers to the use of technology for unrelated academic activities. Studies associated with this activity are significantly conducted in western countries, but it is still limited to the Indonesia education environment. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the cyberslacking behavior of students in Indonesia and its relationship to their academic performances. It also determines the relationship between media multi-tasking efficacy and self-regulated learning. The results showed that there is a significant influence between media multi-tasking efficacy and self-regulated learning with cyberslacking. Furthermore, there is a negative influence between cyberslacking and the academic performance of students in Indonesia. This research adds references to studies on cyberslacking in the scope of education and provides input for universities to develop the management of information and communication technology used in the learning process.
Does Easy Access to Casinos Influence Addictive Gambling Behavior by College Students ? The Potential Role of Tribal Gaming in America

This study extends prior research examining whether physical proximity to casinos influences gambling behavior of college students, as well as whether this is related to gender and GPA. We collected data from students at a major urban university, where there are twelve casinos within sixty miles of the campus. Moreover, these casinos are tribal gaming casinos, which are increasingly popular in the United States. Our results show a significantly higher incidence of problematic gamblers than in the national average, indicating that the dense proximity of tribal gaming casinos does influence problematic gambling. Furthermore, we found that this effect is stronger for males. Finally, our data indicated that problematic gamblers are likely to engage in alcohol consumption while gambling. We discuss our results in terms of implications for public policy.
DNA Extraction and Quantification of Some Economically Important Fruits in Tamil Nadu

Humans can benefited greatly from functional foods in order to preserve good health. The research began with the extraction of DNA from the white edible section of Cocos nucifera and the flesh of Borassus flabellifer fruits using the simple, Edward, PCI, and CTAB methods. To confirm the existence of DNA, the complete isolated DNA was examined using the DPA and Keller-killani tests. Following the identification test, UV spectroscopy was used to quantify the results by taking the absorbance of the samples at 260nm and 280nm and quantified using absorbance ratio procedure. When compared to other procedures, the CTAB approach produces acceptable results at low temperatures. Both the white edible part of Cocos nucifera and flesh of Borassus flabellifer gave high purity DNA on extraction. Further the concentration of DNA obtained from Cocos nucifera was 4.94, 4.7, 5.25 and 8.25 μg\ml by simple, Edward PCI and CTAB methods respectively and for Borassus flabellifer the concentration DNA isolated was found to be 2.48, 2.14, 4.25, 6.4 μg\ml by simple, Edward PCI and CTAB methods respectively.
The Impact of Compensation, Training, and Development and Organizational Culture on Job Satisfaction and Retention

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of compensation, training and development, and organizational culture on job satisfaction and employee retention. This study uses primary data in the form of questionnaires distributed and filled out by 150 respondents using a purposive sampling technique. As independent variables in this study are compensation, training and development, and organizational culture, while dependent variables are job satisfaction and employee retention. The job satisfaction variables also function as a mediation variable. This study used the SEM analysis to test the hypothesis. The results show that compensation and training & development have a positive effect on job satisfaction, while organizational culture does not have a positive impact on job satisfaction. Compensation has a positive impact on employee retention, but training & development, as well as organizational culture, do not have a positive effect on employee retention. Furthermore, job satisfaction has a positive impact on employee retention, and training and development has a positive impact on retention through job satisfaction.
Requirement of Female Cobb Broilers from 8 to 14 Days of

Protein gain as a percentage of total body weight gain in young chicks is greater than older birds. So, the requirements of all amino acids, especially the amino acids that have stimulating effect on protein gain are interested. Leu as a functional amino acid has major effect on whole body growth. The amino acid stimulates muscle protein synthesis and acts as an inhibitor of protein degradation in skeletal muscle (Tischler et al. 1982; Nakashima et al. 2007). The probable stimulating mechanisms of Leu to promote translation initiation and inhibit autophagy (a key step in lysosomal proteolysis) in liver and muscle, may involve activation of the mammalian target of rapamicine (mTOR) signaling. Deng et al. (2014) found that the expression and phosphorylation of mTOR are more active in initial stage of The objective of this study was to estimate the optimum requirement of the digestible leucine in ratio to lysine in female Cobb 500 broiler chicks from 8-14 days of age. In this study, 540 female broiler chickens (Cobb 500), were allocated to the experimental units in a completely randomized design with 6 treatments of 6 replicate pens of 15 birds in each. A basal diet (2890 kcal apparent metabolizable energy corrected for nitrogen (AMEn)/kg; 19% crude protein) was formulated to provide all of the nutrients with the exception of leucine. Lysine was sub-limiting and provided at 90% of recommended level of digestible lysine. Crystalline L-glutamic acid in basal diet was replaced by crystalline L-leucine to provide experimental diets containing 0.93, 0.98, 1.03, 1.08, 1.13, and 1.18 digestible leucine in ratio to lysine. Performance parameters were evaluated during a 7-day period (d 8-14) of ad libitum feeding. The body weight, weight gain and feed intake were significantly influenced by dietary treatments and showed quadratic effect with increasing digestible leucine in ratio to lysine. The groups fed 1.03 and 1.13 digestible leucine in ratio to lysine diet had statistically (P<0.05) greater feed intake than the group fed 0.93 digestible leucine in ratio to lysine diet. The birds fed 1.13 digestible leucine in ratio to lysine diet had higher body weight and weight gain (P<0.05) than the birds fed 0.93 digestible leucine in ratio to lysine diet. Using the curvilinear-plateau model and the quadratic regression analyses, the requirement of digestible leucine to lysine ratio for maximum feed intake were estimated as 1.05 and 1.04, respectively. The curvilinear-plateau model and the quadratic regression analyses estimated the requirement of digestible leucine to lysine ratio for maximum weight gain to be 1.07 and 1.06, respectively. However, the curvilinear-plateau model estimated the requirement of digestible leucine to lysine ratio for the minimum feed conversion ratio at 1.11. Based on the analysis of obtained data, female Cobb 500 broilers need lower ratio of leucine to optimize feed intake and weight gain than feed conversion ratio. In conclusion, the requirement of Cobb 500 female broilers from 8 to 14 d of age to support performance parameters was 1.08 digestible leucine in ratio to lysine.
Development and validation of the Polish-language version of the Dating Anxiety Scale in a sample of young adults

The development and validation of the Polish-language version of the Dating Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (DAS-A) (Glickman & La Greca, 2004) is described in this article. The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Polish version of the DAS-A in a sample of young adults, and to establish the psychometric properties of this instrument measuring fear of negative evaluation in dating situations, social distress in interactions with real or potential dating partners, and social distress in interactions in groups of mixed-sex individuals. A total of 287 university students completed the Polish version of the DAS-A for adults. Differences in the factor structures between the original and Polish version of the DAS-A were found. The factor structure did not fully replicate for Polish respondents. At the same time, the results indicated that the Polish version of the DAS-A is a reliable and valid measure of dating anxiety among young adults with good levels of internal consistency, homogeneity and construct validity.
Understanding the Mechanistic Roles of Integrin Alpha 6 in Tumor Development Using a Humanized Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Model System

Present day cancer incidence and mortality rates indicate the need for effective cancer diagnostic tools and targeted cancer therapeutic strategies. Recent studies have focused on the biological pathways of cells and tumor microenvironments to identify putative biomarkers and potential drug targets as diagnostic and therapeutic tools. Human integrins, adhesion receptors, have become the focal points in these studies, specifically Integrin Alpha 6 (ITGA6) which has been implicated in major tumor progression roles: metastasis and angiogenesis. These characteristics make ITGA6 an excellent candidate for potential drug or diagnostic target, however, the mechanism by which ITGA6 facilitates tumor progression remains unclear. Cell culture studies have indicated ITGA6 could be cleaved extracellularly to increase metastasis but, zebrafish with organismal structures and vascular network, present a complete in vivo model to track metastasis. Our previous studies indicate that truncated ITGA6 overexpression significantly upregulates tumor metastasis compared to full-length ITGA6 overexpression. Similarly, mutated ITGA6 significantly decreases tumor metastasis. These results suggest that cleaved ITGA6 increases tumor metastasis, potentially aiding in extracellular matrix remodeling. In this study, we aim to identify the cellular role of ITGA6 by transplanting ITGA6 siRNA and DNA transfected PC3 cells into zebrafish tumor xenografts. We anticipate these experiments will help establish the cell and non-cell autonomous roles of ITGA6 during tumor development. Further, we expect to use high-resolution imaging techniques to track the migration of single cancer cells in an in vivo system to understand the dynamics of metastasis.
Introduction: The Person-oriented approach: Roots and roads to the future

This first issue of Journal for Person-Oriented Research is a special issue devoted to the presentation of person-oriented approaches taken by leading researchers in the area. A prototypic person-oriented approach has three characteristics: (1) A pattern focus, (2) A focus on the individual, and (3) A process focus. The approach includes a theoretical framework, based on the holistic-interactionistic research paradigm, and it usually implies using methods for studying individual development, particularly subject-specific methods, and methods for studying patterns of information as undivided “wholes”. Four papers in this special issue are theory-oriented, dealing with historical roots of the approach, implications of a person-oriented theory for the methodology applied in empirical research, and discussing conceptual issues, including definitions of terms and communalities and differences of a person-oriented approach to standard approaches. The next three articles concern the use of various forms of a multi-level approach that points to promising ways for further development of the person-oriented approach. In the penultimate article, a statistical package for person-oriented analysis (ROPstat) is introduced. In the last article, a dynamic systems approach is presented for studying adaptive equilibrium regulation that separates forces working at a short and a long timescale.
Cross-sectional study to assess the prevalence of thinness and associated risk factors among school going adolescents

Aim: The Prevalence of Thinness and Associated Risk Factors among School Going Adolescents. Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in the Department of Home Science, Purnea University, Purnea, Bihar, India, for 1 year. The study was conducted in 3 secondary school in Purnea, Bihar. This study was conducted among adolescents aged between 12 and 18 years attending secondary school in Purnea, Bihar. A simple random sampling technique was used to pick the five schools and a Systematic sampling was used to obtain the number of children from each school. A sampling frame derived from a list of pupils aged between 12-18 years in the randomly selected schools was then used. Results: A total of 100 adolescent girls were included in the study with a response rate of 100%. The mean age of respondents was 16.17 (±2.77 standard deviation) years. Nearly one-quarter (25%) of respondents was found to be in the first quintile range of wealth index. Majority 90(90%) of the respondents were followers of Hindu, followed by Muslims (8%). 65(65%) of the respondents were urban dwellers. Regarding parents of the study participants 30 (30%) of mothers and 36 (36%) of fathers were educated at least at a primary school level. By occupation majority 72(72%) of mothers and 40(40%) of fathers were housewives and farmers, respectively. From the respondents, 55(55%) and 55(55%) were involved in moderate to vigorous work and moderate intensity sport activities for ≥10 min continuously per day, respectively. Regarding to eating habit of the respondents, 22(22%), 20 (20%), and 65 (65%) of them ate fruits, vegetables, and snack, respectively, at least once/day. In general, only 5(5%) of the respondents consumed at least three meals/day. 88 (88%) of the respondents had used adequate diet diversity and the rest had used inadequate diet diversity. Of the respondents, 45(45%) had begun their first menstruation in the age range of 14–16 years of age and 5 (5%) had begun their first menstruation above 16 years of age. Conclusion Thinness was found to be a serious problem in the study area. Strategies are needed to improve the nutritional status of adolescent girls before they reach conception to break the vicious cycle of intergenerational malnutrition.
Insider Trading under Short Selling Pressure: An Incentive Based Story

Insider trading activities based on private information has drawn the attention of a body of studies. However, a less obvious factor in insiders’ loss function, the bonding to the firm, is overlooked. We find that insiders buy and sell their shares more aggressively when short selling pressure is high, implying both informedand incentivizedtrading. Specifically, the top executives and directors, who have the highest level of bonding to the firm, drive the buying activities under short selling pressure. Moreover, the insiders’ sensitivity of buying to shorting pressure is higher for higher E-index firms and for family firms. We extend our study to the informativeness of insider trading, finding that when the shorting pressure is high, insider’s sales predict negative returns in the near future, but insiders’ purchases are more like fake signals followed by hump-shaped return pattern. JEL Classification: G14, G30, G32, G34, D5, D8
Evaluation of Relationship between the Children’s Dental Fear with the Parental State-Trait Anxiety

1. Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Social Determinants of Oral Health Research Center, School of Dentistry, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran 2. Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Researcher of Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran 3. Postgraduate Student, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran 4. Postgraduate Student, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Problem of water scarcity in agriculture – case study of land improvement in Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship

: Today’s agriculture is facing a range of challenges, the most important of which is the adjustment to the changing climate. In this context, water management is particularly vital. Droughts in Poland are becoming more and more frequent. That fact adds to the significance of irrigation and drainage systems. This paper is an attempt at diagnosing the condition of (in 2016) and changes in (over the period of 2006–2016) irrigation and drainage systems in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship (analysed by communes, until 2016 – according to Local Administrative Units – LAU level 2). The multidirectional analysis involves a comprehensive description of ameliorated lands, including the allocation of the EU funds dedicated for the support of flood protection and land improvement ventures. It has been demonstrated that the present condition of land improvement does not reflect the needs of the agriculture in the studied area and that the changes implemented on the ongoing basis fail to make the situation better. In 2016, slightly over 40% of agricultural acreage was ameliorated, while the level at which land improvement needs would be satisfied approximated 70%. In over 1/5 of the ameliorated area, facilities needed reconstruction or modernisation. Drainage systems were in the majority, which indicates that the current needs, i.e. water scarcity, are not addressed.
Young boys’ Gender Identity in China: Exploring Implication on Gender Identity and Literacy in Early Child Education

This article explores the gender identity implication behind the “boy crisis” in China recently. It briefly explains what is gender identity and the factors affecting Chinese boys’ gender identity formation. Also, it critically discusses issues about how early childhood literacy and teaching in China’s develop and shapes boy’s gender identity. Aims to provide the references to early childhood educators and draw societal attention to children’s gender identity, especially boy’s gender identity in literacy practice.
The FDI and Economic Growth in the Western Balkans: The Role of Institutions

This study explores the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and institutional quality on the economic growth of the Western Balkan economies – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. The conventional wisdom says that FDI plays a significant role in economic development and that institutional development may also affect this relationship. Using a panel data analysis for 20 years (2000-2019) and in contrast to this conventional wisdom, the study shows that FDI significantly negatively impacts growth within the sample countries. At the same time, the results indicate that institutional development has a significantly negative or no role on growth directly. The results depend on the proxy used for institutional development. Furthermore, when FDI and institutional development measures interact, both indicators become insignificant, including their interaction terms. This may be because the institutions within the sample countries are at low levels of development to make any significant impact on either growth or FDI-growth relationship.
Modelling Uncertainty in Bayesian Neural Networks with Dropout

While neural networks are quite successful at making predictions, these predictions are usually point estimates lacking any notion of uncertainty. However, when fed data very different from its training data, it is useful for a neural network to realize that its predictions could very well be wrong and encode that information through uncertainty bands around its point estimate prediction. Bayesian Neural Networks trained with Dropout are a natural way of modeling this uncertainty with theoretical foundations relating them to Variational Inference approximating Gaussian Process posteriors. In this paper, we investigate the effects of weight prior selection and network architecture on uncertainty estimates derived from Dropout Bayesian Neural Networks.
Determination of genetic diversity , sinigrin contents and elicitors-induced enhancement of sinigrin in Nasturtium officinale

Department of Biotechnology, COMSATS University Isl amabad, Abbottabad Campus, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Pesha war, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Economics Program, Department of Management Science s, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, P akistan Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Unive rsity Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Students’ Satisfaction and University Reputation through Service Quality in Private Higher Educational Institutions in Bangladesh

Educational institutions play a critical role in national development through the advancement of skilled human resources and intellectual society. The number of higher educational institutions (HEIs) is increasing significantly in Bangladesh. Students have a number of options from which to select their preferred educational institutions. Hence, HEIs should think about the quality of services they provide to students. The objective of this study is to measure students’ satisfaction and university reputation through service quality (SQ) in a private higher educational institution (PriHEI) in Bangladesh. Primary data was collected from 270 students of International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC), Bangladesh, through a simple random sampling technique. In this study, data was analyzed through descriptive statistics, correlation, measurement model using confirmatory factor analyses, and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results showed that transport services have indirect but medical and physical facilities have both direct and indirect significant effects on overall students’ satisfaction. Further, the administrative services and research facilities have significant indirect effects on overall students’ satisfaction. Finally, the results of structural equation modeling (SEM) confirm that the reputation of the university is directly associated with overall students’ satisfaction.