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Exploring the effect of an eHealth intervention on women's physical activity: Design and rationale for a randomized controlled trial

Objective This manuscript reports on the protocol for a three-arm randomized controlled trial aiming to assess the effect a self-determination theory-based eHealth intervention on physical activity among insufficiently active women who are overweight or obese. Methods The intervention-of-interest provided (A) six weekly behavioural support emails, (B) a wearable activity tracker, and (C) a copy and verbal explanation of the Canadian physical activity guidelines, and was compared to an intervention that provided (B + C) and another that provided (C). Women from a local community were invited to participate in this study. Participants were recruited between September 2018 and March 2019. Data were collected using self-report and direct measures three times: at baseline (week 0), post-intervention (week 7), and at follow-up (week 21). The primary outcome was self-reported total metabolic equivalent minutes of physical activity per week (MET-m/week); exploratory outcomes included number of days of strength training per week, self-determination theory constructs (i.e. motivational regulations, basic psychological needs satisfaction and thwarting), and well-being indicators (i.e. affect, vitality, depression). Conclusion Findings will provide insight into which combination of intervention components may be more effective at promoting physical activity among insufficiently active women who are overweight or obese, and thus inform the design of future interventions aiming to promote physical activity.
Analisis Dampak Impor Cina Terhadap Kebertahanan Dan Pertumbuhan Industri Tekstil Dan Produk Tekstil Indonesia

Abstract We try to analyze the impact of Chinese Textile and Garment (T&G) imports, and the internal and external factors to the firm survival and growth of T&G industry in Indonesia, for the period study of 2002 to 2007. Probit regression model is used to analyze the impact of Chinese imports to the survival of firm, while OLS regression model is used to analyze its growth. It shows that the ability of firms' survival is influenced by the internal and external factors. The Chinese imports give positive impact to the firms' survival ability. On the other hand, firm's growth is only affected by its internal characteristics, while the impact of Chinese imports is proven not significant. The Heckman test result stated that there are no correlation between firms' ability to survive and the firm growth behavior. Keywords: Growth, Survival, Chinese Imports, Textile, Indonesian Textile and Garment Industry Abstrak Studi ini menganalisis dampak dari penetrasi impor TPT Cina, faktor internal, serta faktor eksternal terhadap kebertahanan dan pertumbuhan perusahaan dalam industri TPT Indonesia periode tahun 2002-2007. Metode probit regression digunakan untuk mengetahui dampak impor Cina terhadap kebertahanan perusahaan, sementara regresi linear sederhana (OLS) digunakan untuk menganalisis pertumbuhannya. Ditemukan bahwa kebertahanan perusahaan dipengaruhi oleh karakteristik internal dan eksternal, serta impor Cina yang memberikan dampak positif. Sementara pertumbuhan perusahaan hanya dipengaruhi oleh faktor internal, di mana impor Cina tidak memberikan dampak signikan. Hasil pengujian Heckman menyatakan tidak ada indikasi hubungan antara kebertahanan perusahaan dengan perilaku pertumbuhannya. Kata kunci: Pertumbuhan, Kebertahanan, Impor Cina, Tekstil, Industri Tekstil dan Produk Tekstil Indonesia
The Immunological and Oxidative Costs of Reproduction and Associations between Maternal and Egg Yolk Physiology in a Reptile

Energetic constraints caused by reproductive investment may incur immunological and oxidative costs to a female and potentially to her developing offspring. Oviparous reptiles are capable of altering offspring phenotype through differential allocation of physiological factors during vitellogenesis (yolk formation), depending upon the external environment and the physiological state of the female. Despite its importance in protecting developing offspring against infection, maternal transfer of immune factors has rarely been studied in reptiles. Furthermore, the extent to which offspring may be impacted by the inherent oxidative costs of vitellogenesis is not well understood. Using the Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana) as a model, we examined how reproductive investment (clutch size and mass) influenced maternal immunological (BKA) and oxidative state (ROMs) and whether these metrics covaried with egg yolk immunity and oxidative state. We assessed factors influencing variation in egg yolk BKA and ROMs within and across clutches from all females and found that females with smaller clutches had higher BKA and ROMs than females with larger clutches. There was also an overall positive relationship between maternal BKA and ROMs and clutch mass, regardless of clutch size. We did not find maternal and egg yolk BKA and ROMs to be directly related, but yolk ROMs decreased as egg mass increased. Within-clutch variation in yolk BKA and ROMs was not related to maternal investment, but variation among clutches was explained by maternal identity. Because egg yolk physiology can impose long-lasting or permanent changes to offspring, these results create a foundation for future work investigating factors contributing to yolk physiology and highlight the necessity of considering multiple physiological and ecological variables when conducting eco-immunological research.
Biochemical Analysis of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Accessions in Southwest of Ethiopia

Cassava is a significant contributor to food security and an income source for smallholder farmers in southern Ethiopia. However, little research effort has been done so far based on designing field experiment samples for the biochemical composition of cassava accession at the country level. The study was conducted to assess the biochemical composition of cassava accessions in southwest Ethiopia. Flour samples from the storage roots of 64 cassava accessions were collected and were run in duplicates. Data on 13 biochemical characters were collected and analyzed using standard methods. The analysis of variance showed significant to very highly significant differences among the tested accessions for biochemical composition. The flour moisture ranged from 4.83–10.11%, dry matter (89.89-95.17%), organic matter (86.71–92.65%), ash (2.1–3.96%), fiber (1.14–3.00%), fat (0.26-1.4%), crude protein (1.28-2.86%), starch (65.1–74.2%), carbohydrate (81.29–87.94%), energy (341.44–367.61 kcal/100g DM), and cyanide (1.67–3.14). The highest GCV = 29.54% was shown for crude fat, followed by GCV = 16.94% for crude fiber, and GCV = 16.11% for tannin, whereas, among the characters, dry matter was observed to be the lowest (GCV = 0.84%). The GAM ranged from protein 0.30% to 54.94% for fat, while heritability ranged from flour moisture and dry matter (17.29%) to 84.88% for cyanide. The first five principal components explained 80.1% of the total variation, with PC I accounting for 37%, PC II 15.4%, PC III 11.6%, PC IV 8.4%, and PC V 8.20% of the total variation. This study found the presence of high biochemical variability among the tested accessions’ roots and could be used to select accessions with desirable biochemical composition in future breeding work.
The Iron Grip of Productivity Software within Teacher Education

This chapter discusses several challenges and recommendations in obtaining the desired outcome from technology-rich teacher education programs, including a novice teacher prepared to make decisions supporting students’ subject-area learning with technology. The authors shape the discussion using select findings from two studies of preservice teachers enrolled in a technology-rich teacher education program at a U.S. university. The authors discuss the importance of the modeling relationship between instructors’ and preservice teachers’ experiences with digital technologies and describe productivity software’s enduring grip as the most used digital technology among preservice teachers during teacher education – even in technology-rich teacher education programs. The authors argue that teacher education’s overemphasis on productivity tools is not adequately preparing new teachers for the knowledge society in which teachers live, work, and educate. The authors argue that educational change, such as shifts toward technology-rich teaching and learning, will only be successful with a concerted change effort in both teacher education programs and PK-12 institutions. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0014-0.ch012
The relationship between the incorporation of sustainability in higher education and the student’s behavior: self-reported sustainable behavior scale

Purpose This study aims to describe the development and validation of a scale that measures the self-reported sustainable behavior of students in higher education institutions (HEIs) regarding their knowledge on incorporating sustainability into education, research and outreach, mediated by the attitude toward the triple bottom line. Design/methodology/approach The scale was applied to students from HEIs, with a total of 759 valid cases and respondents from various countries. The technique used was structural equation modeling and multigroup analysis using the SmartPLS software. Findings Respondents’ self-reported sustainable behavior scale was affected by their economic attitude and the knowledge about sustainability that they assimilated. However, the economic dimension received more attention from the participating students. Both for the total sample and for respondents older than the study average, environmental attitude and social attitude did not affect the self-reported sustainable behavior. Research limitations/implications The study’s limitations can offer opportunities for future research, as more constructs should be inserted into the model to check the existence of differences in relation to self-reported sustainable behavior, such as beliefs in the affective stage. Practical implications The practical implication is on the fact that HEIs can use the scale of self-reported sustainable behavior to evaluate the incorporation of sustainability in the students behavior. Thus, with appropriate guidelines, HEIs will be able to analyze the results looking for to achieve balance in the incorporation of sustainability in education, research and outreach in a transdisciplinary way, improving HEI program and preparing future decision-makers to collaborate for sustainable development. Originality/value The originality of the study is on the verification of the influence of sustainability teaching in higher institutions through self-reported sustainable behavior scale, based on the sustainable development goals in three dimensions – cognitive, affective and conative.
Effect of Corona-virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Inflation Rate on the Foreign Exchange Rate in Kenya

The general objective of this research was to investigate the effect of COVID-19 and Inflation rate on the Foreign Exchange rate in Kenya. Census technique was used in collecting a 263 days data from the World Health Organization, Central Bank of Kenya and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. Analysis of data was through quantitative techniques, inferential analysis; specifically, correlation analysis was conducted. Overall model fitness test was through F-test. The coefficients generated from the regression model were used to test the hypothesis. Correlation results indicated a significant positive relationship between COVID-19 and inflation rate against the foreign exchange rate. Hypothesis testing at 5% level of significance established a significant effect on COVID-19 and Inflation rate with the foreign exchange rate, hence rejecting H01 and H02. It was concluded that COVID-19 and Inflation rate significantly affect the Foreign Exchange rate in Kenya, hence requiring a close monitoring, proper policy formulation and mitigation measures. For further studies, we proposed that another study may be conducted to cover current emerging issues which may affect the foreign exchange rate in Kenya and the economy at large.
Private Readerly Experiences of Presence: Why They Matter

This article draws on Philip Barnard's model of the interactions between theory and practice, between basic and applied research, to investigate the paradox of reading as an experience both private and public. It uses internal reader experience as a starting point for exploration, evoking the concept of a readerly sense of presence as a selection criterion. Investigating chapters in two novels for young readers, Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman and The Moffats by Eleanor Estes, and drawing on cognitive models of reading, it analyzes the textual constructs that set up a potential for the kind of enactive resonance that enables (though does not mandate) a sense of presence. It investigates the methodological implications of an enhanced sense of reading as a non-reproducible experience and considers the policy and pedagogical implications of not restricting public concepts of reading to what can be readily measured or repeated.
Board Independence, Board Diligence and Audit Report Lag in Listed Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria

This paper focuses on the impact of board independence and board diligence in audit report lag in listed deposit money banks in Nigeria. A case study of 10 deposit money banks listed on the Nigeria stock exchange. The major objective of the study is, to determine the impact of board independence on audit report lag in listed deposit money banks in Nigeria and to determine the impact of board diligence on audit report lag in listed deposit money banks in Nigeria. The data was gotten for the annual reports of these banks for the period of 2008 to 2017. A panel ordinary least square regression to achieve the set objectives. The major finds are: board independence exerted negative impact on audit reporting lag of Nigerian banks. Some of the recommendation suggested that; corporate organizations in Nigeria should adopt optimal board size that promote early financial disclosure; Security and Exchange Commission should engage in more supervision among corporations in Nigeria who engage in audit lag as a measure of engaging in earnings management; Sequel to the point raised above, it is imperative to increase board rotation among corporations in Nigeria so as to mitigate against earnings management; Corporations in Nigeria should be made to pay heavy penalty for audit report lag.
Migration and Racialization Part II: The Light and Shadow of Inclusion

The five articles in this second of a two-part special issue on racialization and migration discuss how racialization is not exclusively linked to the exclusion of migrants, at least not explicitly so. They challenge “crimmigration,” which sits at the center of many pieces in the first part, as the core of migrant racialization in two ways. First, they speak to how organizations or contexts seemingly welcoming to migrants can (often unintentionally) reify the same racializing logics of the xenophobic social or legal regime that exclude migrants as disposable and exploitable. Or, more precisely, they demonstrate how the “inclusion” and “exclusion” of migrants are not contradictory or even in tension with each other but instead mutually constructive (De Genova, 2013). Second, they raise questions about what racialization is/does from the perspective of the migrants and consider migrants as not only the objects but also subjects of racialization. Both of these perspectives add nuance to the race and racialization scholarship by illustrating that racialization is not a status of being but a process of becoming and a process full of contention and inconsistency. This collection of articles empirically attests to the elasticity of hegemony and the complex struggle for a just or radical future. In “Building and Wedging Strategic Alliances: Racial Framing Contests in the Immigrant Rights and Nativist CounterMovements,” Hajar Yazdiha (2022) establishes the pivotal role of racial meaning in
Determinants of consumers’ purchase intention to buy smartphones online

In this technological era, online business is expanding due to increased internet conveniences. Smartphone users are drastically growing in Bangladesh, where it plays a vital role as a strong catalyst for economic development. On the other hand, the success of the online business is associated with creating online purchase tendency by determining influencing factors of consumers’ intention. The ultimate purpose of this paper is to identify the influential variables of consumers’ purchase intention to buy smartphones on online platforms. To fulfill the aim, a structured questionnaire has been elaborated based on the literature review to find this study’s objective. Cronbach’s alpha value was used to assess the inner surface of this study. The non-probability convenience sampling method and a 5% significance level are used to accept the hypotheses. Altogether, 350 survey questionnaires were distributed among the online-based social media customers, and finally, 288 responses were received genuinely, where the response rate was 82%. Henceforward, the sample size of the study is n = 288. SPSS version 26.0 has been applied to scrutinize hypothesis tests in this study. This paper also offers implications for online business people and several impactful guidelines for future research studies.
Geospatial Epidemiology of chicken-pox disease in India between 2015-2021: A GIS based analysis

Introduction: In this paper, we introduce geographical information systems (GIS) as a tool to study trends in disease spread in time and space. Based on data gathered by the integrated disease surveillance programme (IDSP), we can see where outbreaks of Chickenpox have occurred. Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the trends in chickenpox diseases in India between January 2015 and April 2021 using GIS maps. Methods: For the collection of secondary data relating to chickenpox, a free app called collect 5 was used for collecting data weekly from the IDSP website and then storing them in an online server. In this project, variables that needed to be processed with QGIS were combined with table attributes of many shapefiles of India and presented as maps. Results: Between Jan 2015 and May 2021, 1269 chickenpox outbreaks (27,257 cases) have been recorded. Thirty-one deaths have been confirmed, with most occurring in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Nineteen states did not report any deaths. According to the seasonally adjusted trend, the number of cases was highest during the months of January and March. Conclusion: In summary, geographic information systems have become an invaluable tool for mapping the hotspots of acute epidemics and planning public health interventions to prevent the spread of these diseases.
Human Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in an Artisanal Gold Mining Community of Kogi State, Nigeria

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is known to improve the standard of living in the host communities and economic performance of countries involved. However, despite the positive impact on the economy, ASGM is a significant point source of uncontrolled mobilization of hazardous chemicals, notably heavy metals into the environmental media such as soil, air and water. This study assessed human health risk of exposure to heavy metals in soil around artisanal gold mining in Ike community of Kogi State. Twelve (12) soil samples obtained from the gold mining area were analysed for heavy metals (As, Cd, Ni, Pb and Zn) using Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS). Measured concentrations of these metals were used to calculate health risk of children and adults using health risk assessment models. The results showed that mean values of heavy metal concentrations in the soil reflected low metal load (<1) with decreasing order of As>Pb>Zn>Ni>Cd. The results obtained from analysis of non-carcinogenic risk demonstrated that hazard index values of various heavy metals for three exposure pathways (ingestion, dermal and inhalational) were < 1 for children and adults populations. However, As recorded hazard index values > 1 for ingestion pathway for both populations. It was found that As recorded carcinogenic risk of 1.85E-03 for children and 9.86E-04 for adults and Cd recorded 4.67E-04 for children. These values exceeded the safety limit, ranging from 1E-06 to 1E-04, as stated by US Environmental Protection Agency. The study showed that As might pose carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risks for both populations. Also, Cd might pose carcinogenic risk for children. Hence, As and Cd would be regarded as elements of serious concern in the study area.
Self-Cleaning Coatings for the Protection of Cementitious Materials: The Effect of Carbon Dot Content on the Enhancement of Catalytic Activity of TiO2

The urgent demand for pollution protection of monuments and buildings forced the interest towards specific preservation methods, such as the application of photocatalytic coatings with self-cleaning and protective activity. TiO2 photocatalysts without and with a variety of carbon dots loading (TC0, TC25–75) were synthesized via a green, simple, low cost and large-scale hydrothermal method using citric acid, hydroxylamine and titanium isopropoxide (TTIP) and resulted in uniform anatase phase structures. In photocatalysis experiments, TC25 and TC50 composites with 1:3 and 1:1 mass ratio of C-dots solution to TTIP, respectively, showed the best degradation efficiency for methyl orange (MO) under UV-A light, simulated solar light and sunlight compared to TiO2, commercial Au/TiO2 (TAu) and catalysts with higher C-dot loading (TC62.5 and TC75). Treatment of cement mortars with a mixture of photocatalyst and a consolidant (FX-C) provided self-cleaning activity under UV-A and visible light. This study produced a variety of new, durable, heavy metal-free C-dots/TiO2 photocatalysts that operate well under outdoor weather conditions, evidencing the C-dot dosage-dependent performance. For the building protection against pollution, nanostructured photocatalytic films were proposed with consolidation and self-cleaning ability under solar irradiation, deriving from combined protective silica-based agents and TiO2 photocatalysts free or with low C-dot content.
Development of Farm Type Golden Variant of Labeo rajasthanicus (Pratap through Captive Breeding

It is desirable to have some unique external features in fishes. The external appearance, especially the colour decide the consumer's preference and price of a particular fish in the market. Similar to other animals, the colour of the body is specified by the genetic makeup (genotype) of a particular species (Gomelsky et al., 1996; David et al., 2004). However, the intensity/sharpness of the colour depends markedly on a number of external features, such as type of feed, water quality, light intensity, etc. (Wallat et al., 2005; Kim & Lee, 2015; Kop & Durmaz, 2008). Thus, the skin colour in fish, and more specifically in carps, are complex traits, involving numerous genetic and environmental factors. The colour of fish can be gainfully improved using selected strategies, such as marker-assisted selection based on molecular data. The classical genetic tools have been used to improve the external traits of commercially important aquaculture species (Pillay & Kutty, 2005); skin colour is a qualitative trait under Mendelian control. The dominant inheritance in red Stirling strain of the tilapia ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received: Sept. 10, 2021 Accepted: Feb. 19, 2022 Online: April 29, 2022 _______________