Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Comparative Study Of Students’ Attitudes Toward Learning English As A Foreign Language According To Their Instructional Strategies Preferences At Gateway Learning Center, Hpa-An Township, Karen State, Myanmar

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate if there was a significant difference between students’ attitudes toward learning EFL according to their preferences for instructional strategies at Gateway Learning Center, Hpa-an Township, Karen State, Myanmar. This research was a quantitative comparative design utilizing two questionnaires: Attitudes Toward Learning English as a Foreign Language Questionnaire (ATLEFLQ) and Instructional Strategies Preferences Questionnaire (ISPQ) to collect data. The data were collected from 203 students in November and December, 2017. The researcher analyzed the data using descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations, frequencies, and percentages) and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for statistical hypothesis testing. The findings indicated that the students had positive attitudes toward learning English as a foreign language and the most preferred instructional strategy for learning EFL was mixed instructional strategy, followed by experiential learning, interactive instruction, indirect instruction, direct instruction and finally independent study. There was no significant difference between students’ attitudes toward learning EFL according to their preferences for instructional strategies. Recommendations for students, teachers, administrators and future researchers are provided.
Maize productivity in succession to cover crops, nitrogen fertilization and inoculation with Azospirillum brasilense

ABSTRACT The use of microorganisms in agriculture such as Azospirillum brasilense and the cultivation of cover crops in the off season, together with nitrogen fertilization, may be interesting alternatives to increase crop yield. The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth, production and nitrogen concentration of maize grown in succession to cover crops and their interactions with A. brasilense inoculation and topdressing mineral N fertilization. The experiment was conducted on Oxisol, in randomized block design in split-split-plot scheme with four repetitions. The plots consisted of four cover crops: jackbean (Canavalia ensiformis), dwarf pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), crotalaria (Crotalaria spectabilis) and spontaneous vegetation. In the subplots, with or without inoculation of A. brasilense in maize seeds, and in the sub-subplots: with or without topdressing N fertilization. It was verified that jackbean can generate increments of up to 8.3% in grains per ear, 6.9% in length of ear and 15.2% in mass of one hundred grains. Consequently, the grain yield was higher in this treatment (18%). The inoculation with A. brasilense and topdressing N fertilization did not generate significant increments in maize production components, as observed for cover crops.
Assessment methods and therapy adherence scales in hypertensive patients: Aliterature review

Arterial Hypertension (AH) is a chronic disease that requires treatment for life. Their control is directly related to the degree of patient adherence to therapy that is indicated to him. Failure to medication adherence is associated not only to the act of taking the prescribed medicines, but also in the way the patient leads the treatment indacations. To identify, evaluate and measure patient adherence to the prescribed treatment, several direct and indirect methods have been developed and used. Direct methods are characterized as the dosage of the active substance/drug metabolite and indirect methods include strategies as questionnaires and interviews, among others. The objective of this review is to identify assessment methods and therapy adherence scales in hypertensive patients.
Male involvement in family planning: a KABP study of Agra district India. Final report.

A survey conducted in the Agra district of Uttar Pradesh India examined the knowledge attitudes and practices of 517 men currently married to women 13-49 years of age; 317 of the wives had been interviewed a month earlier enabling comparison of these 2 data sets. Both men and women tended to want 3 children: 2 sons and 1 daughter. 35% of men and 46% of women believed girls should marry before 17 years of age revealing a lack of knowledge of the marriage age law. 65% of men believed husband-wife communication on family size and family planning should always be initiated by the husband. Although 85% of men supported family planning 56% felt it should be initiated only after having 2 children. 20% of women reported contraceptive use. 10% of men reported condom use but this use was confirmed by only 4% of their wives. 79% of acceptors were using contraception to stop childbearing yet 42% were relying on non-terminal methods mainly pills and condoms. Men clearly supported tubectomy over vasectomy believing the former is easier associated with fewer complications and a shorter postoperative recovery period. Overall these findings suggest a need for advocacy of family planning for birth spacing more widespread availability of long-term methods such as Depo-Provera aggressive vasectomy education and promotion of condom use among young couples as a means of protection against sexually transmitted diseases.
Analyzing the Performance Trade-Off in Implementing User-Level Threads

User-level threads have been widely adopted as a means of achieving lightweight concurrent execution without the costs of OS-level threads. Nevertheless, the costs of managing user-level threads represent a performance barrier that dictates how fine grained the concurrency exposed by an application can be without incurring significant overheads; this in turn may translate into insufficient parallelism to exploit highly parallel systems. This article is a deep dive into the fundamental costs in implementing user-level threads. We first identify that one of the highest sources of fork-join overheads stems from deviations, events that incur context switching during the execution of a thread and disrupt a run-to-completion execution. We then conduct an in-depth investigation of a wide spectrum of methods with respect to how they handle deviations while covering both parent- and child-first scheduling policies. Our methodology involves a comprehensive instruction- and cache-level analysis of all methods on several modern CPU architectures. The primary finding of our evaluation is that dynamic promotion methods that assume the absence of deviation and dynamically provide context-switching support offer the best trade-off between performance and capability when the likelihood of deviation is low.
Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View

According to an adequacy-for-purpose view, models should be assessed with respect to their adequacy or fitness for particular purposes. Such a view has been advocated by scientists and philosophers alike. Important details, however, have yet to be spelled out. This article attempts to make progress by addressing three key questions: What does it mean for a model to be adequate-for-purpose? What makes a model adequate-for-purpose? How does assessing a model’s adequacy-for-purpose differ from assessing its representational accuracy? In addition, responses are given to some objections that might be raised against an adequacy-for-purpose view.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RAIN CLOUDS DIRECTION, TOPOGRAPHY AND AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION IN BETWEEN THE OSAKA PLAIN AND THE SOUTH IKOMA MOUNTAINS, MIDDLE OF JAPAN

The area between from the Osaka Plain to the Ikoma Mountains faces sea at only west direction and is surrounded by mountains at the other directions. Then, rain clouds can directly encounter the Ikoma Mountains only from west direction before crossing any mountains. On the other hand, rain clouds cannot encounter the Ikoma Mountains from the other directions before crossing surrounding mountains. Only when rain clouds migrated from west direction, amounts of precipitation in the Ikoma Mountains were observed to be 41 % higher than in the Osaka Plain. The altitude difference between both areas is about 400 m. When rain clouds migrated from the other directions, both amounts of precipitation for the Ikoma Mountains and the Osaka plain were almost the same. Therefore, altitude effect of amounts of precipitation for foot of mountain and top of mountain was observed only when rain clouds directly encountered the mountain before crossing the other mountains.
Dot ELISA as a rapid method for serological diagnosis of canine brucellosis

In this work, we describe a dot-enzyme linked immunosorbent assay with two different antigens of Brucella canis. The antigens, soluble sonic and outer membrane proteins were adsorbed on to a solid nitrocellulose surface. The test was applied to 40 field serum samples previously analysed by the rapid slide agglutination test and the 2-mercaptoethanol tube agglutination test. Sera were obtained from clinically suspected dogs of different age, sex and breed. Sera were also obtained from four clinically healthy animals and used as a negative control. One sample originated from a female with a high antibody titer and positive isolation of Brucella canis. Out of the 44 examined sera, 19 had agglutination titers> 1/50. A positive reaction to proteins of the soluble sonic extract, was obtained with 10 sera and with outer membrane proteins with 7 sera. All positive sera in the dot-ELISAhad agglutination titers> 1/100. Thisstudy shows thatproteins of soluble sonic extract of Brucella canis in dot-ELISA are reliable and highly specific for rapid diagnosis of brucellosis in dogs.
Expert Online Review Platforms: Interactions between Specialization, Experience, and User Power

Using the “Computers are social actors” paradigm, this study brings the concept of power to human–computer interactions in tourism. Building on theories of social power and deliberate practice, the authors examine psychological effects of expert power of online travel review platforms (influencer) and its interaction effects with the power of users (influenced). Two expert platform attributes are conceptualized: specialization and experience. A significant interaction effect was identified between platform specialization, platform experience, and user power on perceived information-task fit using a 2 × 2 × 2 between-subjects experiment. When users are powerful, specialization affected perceived information-task fit for low-experience platforms; no significant effect was evident for high experience platforms. When users are powerless, specialization did not affect perceived information-task fit, regardless of experience condition. Perceived information-task fit mediated the effect of specialization on intention to use. The findings contribute to power discourses by exploring the workings of expert power.
Investigation of the Risk of Daily Officer Work Posture Based on Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (Rula) Method

Work activities in the office are generally static and take a long period of time. This activity is carried out with awkward postures that result in fatigue and injuries. The study is conducted in one of the business entities providing services construction and management of network infrastructure at the Division of Process Aligning Service Comply in January 2019. These activities are reflected in the conditions of work posture for bending, the use of maximum range and uncomfortable position of certain body parts, and will have an impact on decreasing productivity of workers. Therefore, an analysis was carried out to evaluate the posture of employees in order to find the potential problem of the work posture used. The RULA method can be used to evaluate musculoskeletal load in a job where a person has the risk of the upper-body activity. The sample used in this study was workers who work in a sitting position with their activities using a computer. Based on the analysis, it is known that worker activity gets a score that indicates that the workstation requires a change.
A Real-Time Framework for Matching Prosumers With Minimum Risk in the Cluster of Microgrids

Microgrids provide an economical solution to exploit increasing distributed energy sources by locally consuming generated power. The key to the reliable operation of microgrids is how to cope with the uncertainty of renewables when selling and buying power. Although the surplus power of each microgrid can fluctuate significantly, aggregating the contributions from multiple microgrids may produce a smoothed supply. We study the matching problem in the cluster of cooperative microgrids where surplus power from some microgrids (called sellers) can be consumed by other microgrids (called buyers) in need of more power. We develop a framework for predicting sellers and buyers for every time interval, and matching them based on the prediction. We first formulate the problem of matching sellers and buyers. This problem finds a portfolio of sellers contributions to every buyer with minimum risk of mismatch between supply from sellers and demand from buyers. We characterize the optimal matching and give some insight on how surplus power should be distributed to buyers. The formulation involves several statistical parameters of microgrids. We present a LSTM based method for predicting these parameters. Using surplus power data of real microgrids, we demonstrate that our framework can reduce the risk of mismatch.
Father Roles in Islamic Perspective on Islamic Senior High School in Jakarta

The previous study showed that the quality of father-child relationship could predict the quality of family relationship. Father involvement were positively affecting child development. This study aimed to identify father roles on children in Islamic perspective. The study was conducted in Islamic Senior High School in West Jakarta. Five hundreds student from class IX were used in this study, and selected by using cluster random sampling method. Data were collected using in-depth interview and self-report with questionnaire as the tools. Father roles consist of six dimensions: (1) leader, (2) economic provider, (3) protector, (4) educator, (5) playmates, and (6) friend. This study found that father’s role as a leader, economic provider, and protector were the roles that most felt by children. Meanwhile, father’s role as an educator, playmates, and friend were the roles that less felt by children. Based on the result of the study, it is important to provide parenting education programs (training, seminars, and counseling) for parents especially father to enhance father roles in child live
Contribution of Micro Finance on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

Poverty exists through the world as a curse and a big trouble in the way of development. When people deprived of their basic needs such as food, cloth, shelter, education, treatment and so on is termed as poverty . This paper is to examine empirically the impact of micro-credit on poverty alleviation in Bangladesh. The regular growth of the micro finance concerned parties has been promoted not only by market forces but also by conscious actions of national governments,Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the donors who view microfinance as an effective tool for eradicating poverty. This paper argues that microfinance can be considered as an important element for an effective poverty reduction strategy especially in rural areas. This study is developed by descriptive analysis based on secondary data. After the analysis of collected data and information, it shows evidence that practically microcredit can be considered as an effective tool for poverty reduction in developing countries like Bangladesh. To be more ensure that how much and how the microcredit really reduces poverty, further study and research should be carried out in future.
Vaccinia Virus Infection Inhibits Skin Dendritic Cell Migration to the Draining Lymph Node

Key Points Replication-competent VACV inhibits skin DC migration to draining lymph node. The VACV-suppressive effect is a general phenomenon of VACV infection in the skin. VACV can access the lymph node in the absence of DC transport and prime CD4+ T cells. Visual Abstract There is a paucity of information on dendritic cell (DC) responses to vaccinia virus (VACV), including the traffic of DCs to the draining lymph node (dLN). In this study, using a mouse model of infection, we studied skin DC migration in response to VACV and compared it with the tuberculosis vaccine Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG), another live attenuated vaccine administered via the skin. In stark contrast to BCG, skin DCs did not relocate to the dLN in response to VACV. Infection with UV-inactivated VACV or modified VACV Ankara promoted DC movement to the dLN, indicating that interference with skin DC migration requires replication-competent VACV. This suppressive effect of VACV was capable of mitigating responses to a secondary challenge with BCG in the skin, ablating DC migration, reducing BCG transport, and delaying CD4+ T cell priming in the dLN. Expression of inflammatory mediators associated with BCG-triggered DC migration were absent from virus-injected skin, suggesting that other pathways invoke DC movement in response to replication-deficient VACV. Despite adamant suppression of DC migration, VACV was still detected early in the dLN and primed Ag-specific CD4+ T cells. In summary, VACV blocks skin DC mobilization from the site of infection while retaining the ability to access the dLN to prime CD4+ T cells.
Numerical simulation of oscillatory flow and heat transfer in pulsating heat pipes with multi-turns using OpenFOAM

Abstract The oscillatory flow and the heat transfer in two-dimensional pulsating heat pipes (PHPs) with multi-turns were simulated using OpenFOAM. The volume of fluid method was used for the phase change, and the behavior of the working fluid was achieved by considering the mass transfer balance between the evaporation and the condensation. Ethanol was used as the working fluid, and the liquid phase and the vapor phase were assumed to be incompressible. The result revealed that the temperature variation curves did not converge to one pattern according to the number of grids in the symmetric shape of the PHP because the starting time of the working fluid circulation was different. In the PHP with the asymmetric shape, the circulation started earlier than in the PHP with symmetric shape. When the bond number was 0, which means being in zero gravity, the working fluid dried out in the evaporator section of the PHPs with 5 and 10 turns. However, the working fluid still remained in the PHPs with 15 and 20 turns. The numerical analysis performed in this article is expected to help to simulate the flow phenomenon in PHP.
Impact of liquidity and financial leverage on firm’s profitability – an empirical analysis of the textile industry of Pakistan

This study aims to determine the impact of liquidity and financial leverage on the profitability, using a sample of 40 selected publicly quoted companies in the textile sector of the Pakistani economy. ,Through quantitative approach, pooled panel regression and descriptive statistics models are used by taking annual data of Pakistan’s textile sectors from 2006 to 2016. Secondary data has been gathered from financial statements of the firms. ,The results revealed that there is a positive relationship between liquidity and profitability and negative relationship between financial leverage and profitability. The results for liquidity measure CR revealed positive strong impact on ROA and the financial leverage measure D_E ratio showed negative but not strong impact on ROA. The other part of result concluded that there is a positive strong impact of C_R on ROE too and D_E has a negative impact on ROE. ,The results are showing the impact among these ratios for the textile sector of Pakistan only. ,This study can help higher management of textile firms firm in decision-making stating clearly about how to perform well to enhance financial health of company, which can encourage investors to invest in companies having sound market standing. ,This study takes the latest empirical data with different analysis technique.
Gaussian process based optimization algorithms with input uncertainty

Abstract Metamodels as cheap approximation models for expensive to evaluate functions have been commonly used in simulation optimization problems. Among various types of metamodels, the Gaussian Process (GP) model is popular for both deterministic and stochastic simulation optimization problems. However, input uncertainty is usually ignored in simulation optimization problems, and thus current GP-based optimization algorithms do not incorporate input uncertainty. This article aims to refine the current GP-based optimization algorithms to solve the stochastic simulation optimization problems when input uncertainty is considered. The comprehensive numerical results indicate that our refined algorithms with input uncertainty can find optimal designs more efficiently than the existing algorithms when input uncertainty is present.
Lung tumor response in Swiss SWR and A/J mice after exposure to cigarette mainstream smoke

2850 Despite the causality between human smoking and lung cancer (IARC, 2004), establishing reproducible and validated animal inhalation models for lung cancer induced by tobacco smoking has proven difficult. Here we report on two mouse strains suggested as possible models for lung tumorigenicity. Male A/J mice and Swiss SWR mice were whole-body exposed to diluted mainstream smoke from the standard reference cigarette 2R4F or to filtered fresh air (control), 6 hours per day, 5 days per week for 5 months, followed by a post-exposure period of 4 months. Smoke exposure was to whole smoke at concentrations of 120 or 240 μg total particulate matter (TPM)/l, to gas phase-depleted particle phase at 240 μg TPM/l, or to gas phase at a carbon monoxide concentration equivalent to 240 μg TPM/l. Lung tumor incidence and multiplicity were determined in the control and 240 μg TPM/l whole smoke groups at the end of the exposure period and in all groups at the end of the post-exposure period. At the end of the 5-month exposure period, a severe increase in neutrophils and macrophages in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, indicating inflammation, was seen in the whole smoke groups. By the end of the 4-month post-exposure period, both inflammatory cell types had returned nearly to background levels. At the end of the 5-month exposure period, there was no difference in lung tumor response between smoke-exposed and control mice in both mouse strains. An enhanced lung tumor response was seen only after the 4-month post-exposure period: lung tumor incidence and multiplicity in the whole smoke groups was dose-dependently higher compared to controls by a factor of up to approximately 3-fold in A/J mice and a factor of up to approximately 2-fold in Swiss SWR mice. In A/J mice the lung tumor response was similar for gas phase-depleted particle phase and whole smoke at the same TPM concentration. In Swiss SWR mice, gas phase-depleted particle phase accounted for approximately 50% of the lung tumor response in the whole smoke group at the same TPM concentration. Gas phase failed to enhance lung tumor incidence and multiplicity in both mouse strains compared to controls. Microscopic examination of lung step serial sectioning in selected groups confirmed the macroscopic lung nodule assessment. Smoke exposure did not change the spontaneous lung tumor spectrum; bronchiolo-alveolar adenoma was the most prominent lung tumor type. There appears to be a need for a post-exposure period to see an increase in lung tumor incidence and multiplicity in both mouse strains. Further research is needed to evaluate the relevance of these models with regard to the human disease.