Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
(Dis)Joining Fitness Gyms Membership: Sustained Participation and Deterred Mindset amongst Female Teachers in Singapore

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the key decision making elements of why female teachers join and disjoin a fitness gym membership. METHODS The participants of the study comprised of ten healthy female teachers, aging from 34 to 45. Out of the ten participants, five of them were members of fitness gyms while five of them were non-members of fitness gyms. A semi-structured interview was conducted with each participant. Each interview was audiorecorded, before being transcribed verbatim. A thematic analysis approach was used for data analysis and higher-order themes were identified for each group of participants. RESULTS The key elements to sign up for a gym membership included keeping body and mental health, group synergy and peer influence, instructors’ guidance and convenience of gym facilities. The key elements for deterrence included the high cost of membership, lack of time, dislike for long term commitment and inconvenience of schedule. CONCLUSIONS The study discusses the controllable and uncontrollable factors associated with signing up for a gym membership including, the cost of membership and the occupations of teachers such as working hours and teachers’ circumstances. The results of this study enable gym operators to better understand how to cater and engage a specific target audience.
Cell Size Control Computational Analysis of Mammalian Cell Division Gated by a Circadian Clock : Quantized Cell Cycles

Cell cycle and circadian rhythms are conserved from cyanobacteria to humans with robust cyclic features. Recently, molecular links between these two cyclic processes have been discovered. Core clock transcription factors, Bmal1 and Clock (Clk), directly regulate Wee1 kinase, which inhibits entry into the mitosis. We investigate the effect of this connection on the timing of mammalian cell cycle processes with computational modeling tools. We connect a minimal model of circadian rhythms, which consists of transcription–translation feedback loops, with a modified mammalian cell cycle model from Novak and Tyson (2004). As we vary the mass doubling time (MDT) of the cell cycle, stochastic simulations reveal quantized cell cycles when the activity of Wee1 is influenced by clock components. The quantized cell cycles disappear in the absence of coupling or when the strength of this link is reduced. More intriguingly, our simulations indicate that the circadian clock triggers critical size control in the mammalian cell cycle. A periodic brake on the cell cycle progress via Wee1 enforces size control when the MDT is quite different from the circadian period. No size control is observed in the absence of coupling. The issue of size control in the mammalian system is debatable, whereas it is well established in yeast. It is possible that the size control is more readily observed in cell lines that contain circadian rhythms, since not all cell types have a circadian clock. This would be analogous to an ultradian clock intertwined with quantized cell cycles (and possibly cell size control) in yeast. We present the first coupled model between the mammalian cell cycle and circadian rhythms that reveals quantized cell cycles and cell size control influenced by the clock.
Effects of Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion on formation and evolution of first cores, protostars, and circumstellar discs

We investigate the formation and evolution of a first core, protostar, and circumstellar disc with a three-dimensional non-ideal (including both Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion) radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulation. We found that the magnetic flux is largely removed by magnetic diffusion in the first core phase and that the plasma $\beta$ of the centre of the first core becomes large, $\beta>10^4$. Thus, proper treatment of first core phase is crucial in investigating the formation of protostar and disc. On the other hand, in an ideal simulation, $\beta\sim 10$ at the centre of the first core. The simulations with magnetic diffusion show that the circumstellar disc forms at almost the same time of protostar formation even with a relatively strong initial magnetic field (the value for the initial mass-to-flux ratio of the cloud core relative to the critical value is $\mu=4$). The disc has a radius of $r \sim 1$ AU at the protostar formation epoch. We confirm that the disc is rotationally supported. We also show that the disc is massive ($Q\sim 1$) and that gravitational instability may play an important role in the subsequent disc evolution.
Readiness for banking technologies in developing countries

6Banks in developing countries are increasingly relying on innovative technologies such as cellphone banking, landline telephone banking, internet banking and automated teller machine (ATM) banking to penetrate existing markets and to create new markets. The banking industry in South Africa, as a developing economy, is regarded as sophisticated, but providing banking facilities to the ‘unbanked’ in South Africa remains a challenge. Consumers are not equally ready to adopt technology-based products, with technology readiness defi ned as “people’s propensity to embrace and use new technologies for accomplishing goals in home life and at work”. In the developing economy examined, a Technology Readiness Index (TRI) score of 2.53 for urban consumers was calculated. Such a TRI score is well below that of a developed economy such as the USA, whose score is 2.88. This could imply that consumers are not as ready to adopt technology, which needs to be taken into account by banks when doing product development and investing resources to increase customer satisfaction
RELATEDNESS , AND INVENTION OUTCOMES IN HIGH TECHNOLOGY MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Prior research on M&As and invention outcomes has not systematically examined the influence of two types of knowledge differences. Knowledge relatedness has typically been equated with knowledge similarity and the separate influence of knowledge complementarity has been overlooked. Similarly, studies examining innovation outcomes of M&As have typically focused on the role of technological knowledge and overlooked the influence of scientific knowledge. We develop a model of relatedness and invention performance of high-technology M&As that considers science and technology similarity and complementarity as important drivers of invention. We test the model using a sample of M&As from the drug, chemical, and electronics industries and a fine-grained measure of knowledge relatedness that distinguishes between science and technology relatedness. We find that complementary scientific knowledge and complementary technological knowledge both contribute to post-merger invention performance by stimulating higher quality and more novel inventions. This suggests that high-technology firms seeking acquisitions should search for, identify, and acquire businesses that have scientific and technological knowledge that is complementary to their own. Our results also suggest that similarities in knowledge facilitate incremental renewal, while complementarities would make discontinuous strategic transformations more likely, and that absorptive capacity research should be expanded to consider complementarities as well as similarities. Copyright  2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy.

""The Truly Disadvantaged" should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they--as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races--would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson's incisive analysis. "--Robert Greenstein, "New York Times Book Review" "'Must reading' for civil-rights leaders, leaders of advocacy organizations for the poor, and for elected officials in our major urban centers. "--Bernard C. Watson, "Journal of Negro Education" "Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass. "--David J. Garrow, "Washington Post Book World" Selected by the editors of the "New York Times Book Review" as one of the sixteen best books of 1987. Winner of the 1988 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Substorm dependence of plasmaspheric hiss

[1] We analyze wave and particle data from the CRRES satellite to determine the variability of plasmaspheric hiss (0.1 500 nT), with an average amplitude of 40 ± 1 pT observed in the region 2 15°) hiss is strongest during active conditions with an average amplitude of 47 ± 2 pT in the region 2 < L < 4 from 0800 to 1800 MLT but extending out beyond L = 6 from 1200 to 1500 MLT. Equatorial hiss at 600 Hz has minimum cyclotron resonant energies ranging from ∼20 keV at L = 6 to ∼1 MeV at L = 2, whereas midlatitude hiss at 600 Hz has minimum resonant energies ranging from ∼50 keV at L = 6 to ∼2 MeV at L = 2. The enhanced equatorial and midlatitude hiss emissions are associated with electron flux enhancements in the energy range of tens to hundreds of keV, suggesting that these electrons are the most likely source of plasmaspheric hiss. The enhanced levels of plasmaspheric hiss during substorm activity will lead to increased pitch-angle scattering of energetic electrons and may play an important role in relativistic electron dynamics during storms.
Value chain analysis of honey bee (Apis mellifera) products in Chitwan, Nepal

A survey was conducted to carry out an in-depth value chain analysis of honey bee subsector in the Chitwan from January 2019 to May 2019. Seventy-two respondents, including 60 beekeepers, 2 intermediaries, 2 cooperatives, 2 wholesalers cum processor, 3 retailers and 3 consumers were selected for interview using simple random sampling technique. Each beekeeper with more than 20 beehives was taken as respondents. The average number of beehives per farm was 56.80, and the average honey production per annum was 24.064 kg Hive -1 . The gross return per hive and benefit-cost ratio in the study area was found to be NRs. 9247.69 and 1.56, respectively. The price spread was calculated as NRs. 151.3 per kg and producers share was 69.6% on an average. The marketing efficiency was found highest when sold directly to the retailers (2.57) followed by the involvement of wholesalers cum processors (1.75) and found lowest when various intermediaries were involved (0.48). Furthermore, the low availability of foraging areas and high competition with foreign honey was identified as the major production and marketing problem, respectively. This research explored the existing scenario of the value chain in honey bee products and its major constraints in the study area.
Title The ISD process as a ' live routine '

The objective of this exploratory study is to view an ISD process as an organisational routine in an effort to identify the inefficiencies in the process. To meet this objective we present the findings from a sixteen month case study of an ISD organisation, examining the ISD process the starting point of which is the requirements elicitation (RE) phase. A variety of data gathering techniques are used across two phases of data collection. The case data is organised as a narrative network (NN) of the organisational routine (ISD process) allowing us to understand the ISD process as a collection of functional events/narrative fragments, generated by the enactment of the organisational routine. The NN is showing itself to be a very powerful device to appreciate the knock-on impacts of vague and incomplete requirements (poor requirements elicitation) on downstream ISD process ’patterns of action’. In the findings of this research we generate an ‘ostensive’ rule that defines a valid sequence of action in the ISD process. As a case study, the methods and results provide a means of comparison to additional cases of ISD organisations.
Interaction of nitrogen doses and establishment methods in lowland rice at Parwanipur, Bara, Nepal

The experiment was laid out in split plot design: three establishment methods were designed (Puddled transplanted rice, Non- puddled transplanted rice, Conventional dry tillage +DSR) as a main plot and four levels of nitrogen rate (0, 60, 120, 180) as sub plot and replicated three times during summer season of 2015 and 2016 at RARS, Parwanipur. Grain yield and other yield attributes like plant height, penicle length and number of tiller per m2 of rice was observed significantly differed (p<0.05) between different establishment methods and nitrogen levels. In 2015 there was not significant effect of establishment practices on grain yield but significantly highest grain yield (4603 kg/ha) was obtained from application of nitrogen@120 kg/ha and grain yield decreased with increased of nitrogen application @ 180 kg/ha (4365 kg/ha). Results reveled that significantly higher grain yield was obtained under non puddled transplanted rice (3314 kg/ha) than puddle transplanted rice (3280 kg/ha) which were at par with conventional tillage plus DSR (2123 kg/ha) and significantly highest grain yield (3424 kg/ha) was obtained from application of nitrogen@180 kg/ha during 2016. In both years the highest grain yield was obtained from puddled transplanted rice with the nitrogen application @ 120 kg/ha. Based on two years results, it can be concluded that N is limiting factor for the productivity of rice in Parwanipur. Therefore 120 kg/ha nitrogen could be optimum dose for puddled transplanting and direct seeded rice at Parwanipur condition.
The annual glaciohydrology cycle in the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet: Part 2. Observed and modeled ice flow

Abstract Ice velocities observed in 2005/06 at three GPS stations along the Sermeq Avannarleq flowline, West Greenland, are used to characterize an observed annual velocity cycle. We attempt to reproduce this annual ice velocity cycle using a 1-D ice-flow model with longitudinal stresses coupled to a 1-D hydrology model that governs an empirical basal sliding rule. Seasonal basal sliding velocity is parameterized as a perturbation of prescribed winter sliding velocity that is proportional to the rate of change of glacier water storage. The coupled model reproduces the broad features of the annual basal sliding cycle observed along this flowline, namely a summer speed-up event followed by a fall slowdown event. We also evaluate the hypothesis that the observed annual velocity cycle is due to the annual calving cycle at the terminus. We demonstrate that the ice acceleration due to a catastrophic calving event takes an order of magnitude longer to reach CU/ETH (‘Swiss’) Camp (46 km upstream of the terminus) than is observed. The seasonal acceleration observed at Swiss Camp is therefore unlikely to be the result of velocity perturbations propagated upstream via longitudinal coupling. Instead we interpret this velocity cycle to reflect the local history of glacier water balance.
Effects of Multimedia on Knowledge, Understanding, Skills, Practice and Confidence in Environmental Sustainability: A Non-Equivalent Pre-Test-Post-Test, Quasi Experimental Design.

The study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of the local community members, secondary school students, and the university students participated in the multimedia programme with reference to knowledge, understanding, skills, practice, and confidence in environmental sustainability. About two hundred students participated in this multimedia programme. The present study was a Non-equivalent Pretest-posttest Quasi Experimental Design used both qualitative and quantitative techniques to analyze the data, and draw the conclusion for its broad generalization. Audio, Video and audio-video on environment and environmental sustainability was developed and played in the teaching of environmental sustainability. Before programme and after programme, all the feedbacks and achievement test score were analyzed and interpreted by using t test, ANOVA and Scheff multiple comparison techniques. It was resulted that local community members, secondary school students, and the university students performed better after the participation in the Multimedia in Environmental Awareness programme. So, there existed a significant effect of multimedia programme on the awareness of environmental sustainability.
Talus fabric in Tuckerman Ravine, New Hampshire: Evidence for a tongue-shaped rock glacier

Tuckerman Ravine is a glacial cirque located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The Ravine contains four talus accumulations formed through rockfall and toppling and characterized by large joint blocks with long axes of at least one meter. Previous research has classified one of the deposits (identified as Site 1 in the current study) variously as a moraine, a lobate rock glacier, and a protalus rampart. To resolve this controversy and provide a more reliable interpretation, block fabric analysis was performed at this and the other three talus sites. A bimodal fabric distribution was encountered at Site 1 and implies that the blocks at the base of the deposit collectively met some obstruction to movement. Such arrangement is not accounted for in simple talus accumulation models or in previous interpretations. The fabric data and its other characteristics support the classification of Site 1 as a relict tongue-shaped rock glacier. Fabric analysis indicates that the majority of blocks at Sites 2, 3, and 4 have a preferred orientation in the downslope direction and that these deposits represent rockfall talus which has not experienced post-depositional movement or activity. The mere presence of the talus deposits and their locations (which include the cirque headwall) do not support the reactivation of cirque glaciers in the White Mountains during the Holocene.
Current status of bacterial contamination in some fish species of Bakkhali river Estuary, Bangladesh

Received: 30 January 2019 Revised received: 26 February 2019 Accepted: 02 March 2019 The present study aims to investigate the isolation of human pathogenic bacteria (Escherichia coli , Salmonella spp. Shigella spp. and Vibrio spp.) and in gills, intestines, skin of fishes of Bakkhali River Estuary, Cox’s Bazar. A total of 50 fish species (25 of Pomadasys hasta and 25 of Glossogobius giuris) were collected from two sampling stations namely Station-1 (Rumalia Chara) and Station-2 (Kusturi Ghat). Bacterial analyses were made by standard methods. Total heterotrophic bacterial load of the isolates was found to be lower than the recommended public health and standard. However, the highest pathogenic bacterial ( E. coli, Salmonella spp. Shigella spp. and Vibrio spp.) count at Station-2 might be due to the contamination of municipal and domestic wastes and discharges from small industries that constitute the main pollution source of this estuarine river. Skin was found to be the most preferred organs for higher bacterial load compared to intestine and lower count was recorded in gills. Further research on the microbial quality assessment should be undertaken to prevent pollution of this river estuary.
All of one kind? Labour market reforms under austerity in Italy and Spain

Most scholars have highlighted the commonalities of labour market reforms under austerity in Europe, mostly in terms of liberalization. We argue that a more differentiated analysis is in order, as empirical developments point to distinct reform trajectories. We analyse in detail the two South-European cases where pressure for austerity was intense but governments maintained a degree of discretion as they were not subjected to direct bailout conditions: Italy and Spain. We examine the period since 2010, which includes a major labour market reform in each of the two states in 2012. Using a theoretical framework that allows distinguishing forms of liberalization, we find that reforms in the two states indeed differed markedly. In Spain flexibilisation and declining coverage of protection prevailed whereas in Italy flexibilisation was combined with improved protection of workers at the margin of the labour market. The differing influence of the centre-left helps to explain this divergence.
15N abundance in nitrogen of naturally occurring substances and global assessment of denitrification from isotopic viewpoint

Natural abundance of 15N in organic and inorganic nitrogenous substances in land was investigated. Available data on 15N abundance of biogenic nitrogen were summarized. Denitrification is divided into four types on the basis of the mode of isotope fractionation and environmental conditions. According to the simplified model on nitrogen isotope balance, the contribution of denitrification on land to the global denitrification is twice as much as that in the sea. The mode of 15N distribution in biogenic substances was discussed along the biogeochemical cycle of nitrogen with special reference to the fractionation of nitrogen isotopes occurring in denitrification and nitrogen fixation.
A deep tow magnetic survey of Middle Valley, Juan de Fuca Ridge

We report here results from a deep tow magnetic survey over Middle Valley, Juan de Fuca Ridge. A series of track lines are combined to generate a high‐resolution map of the magnetic field anomaly within a 10 × 12 km region surrounding the Bent Hill massive sulfide (BHMS) deposit. A uniformly magnetized body (5 A/m) with a cross section approximating the body inferred from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) drilling can account for the observed near‐bottom magnetic anomaly amplitude. Assuming this magnetization is entirely induced, the average susceptibility (0.11 SI) corresponds to ∼3.5% magnetite + pyrrhotite by volume, consistent with the abundance of these phases observed in drill core samples. However, this uniform magnetization model significantly underestimates the magnetic anomaly measured a few meters above the seafloor by submersible, indicating that the upper portion of the sulfide mound must have a significantly higher magnetization (∼10% magnetite + pyrrhotite) than at deeper levels. On a larger scale, the near‐bottom magnetic anomaly data show that basement magnetizations are not uniformly near zero, as had been inferred from analysis of the sea surface anomaly pattern. We interpret this heterogeneity as reflecting primarily differences in the degree of hydrothermal alteration. Our results highlight the potential of magnetic anomaly data for characterizing hydrothermal deposits where extensive drill core sampling is not available.
ESPR guidelines on pediatric parenteral nutrition : Complications

ESPGHAN/ESPEN/ESPR guidelines on pediatric parenteral nutrition: Complications Corina Hartman a, b, , Raanan Shamir a, , Venetia Simchowitz , Szimonetta Lohner d, , Wei Cai , Tam as Decsi , the ESPGHAN/ESPEN/ESPR/CSPEN working group on pediatric parenteral nutrition a Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Institute, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel b Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel c Pharmacy Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK d Department of Paediatrics, University of P ecs, P ecs, Hungary e Cochrane Hungary, Clinical Center of the University of P ecs, Medical School, University of P ecs, P ecs, Hungary f Department of Pediatric Surgery, Xin Hua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China