Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF BRAND INVOLVEMENT IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA USE-MARKETING COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVENESS RELATIONSHIP: A CASE OF SELECTED ENTERTAINMENT SMES IN UGANDA

Brand involvement seems to be meaningful in explaining consumer decisions, despite the limited knowledge regarding the interface between social media use and brand involvement in explaining marketing communication effectiveness. It is highly likely that brand involvement plays a mediational role in the relationship between social media use and marketing communication effectiveness. To establish this, the study examined the mediating effect of brand involvement on the relationship between social media use and marketing communication effectiveness using structural equation modelling. The entertainment industry in Uganda was used as the case study. Two hypotheses were tested using a structural model because the sample size was large enough to support the stability of parameter estimates and results and the findings reveal that social media use significantly influences marketing communications effectiveness and that brand involvement is a significant mediator in this relationship. The conclusion is that relevant product information will be more effective when targeted to customers who are highly involved in the brand. The recommendation is that firms should invest in posting good and relevant product information and constantly update it on social media tools. They should also employ more selective targeting but combine this with strategies to increase brand involvement in customer s.
ADDING PROBIOTICS TO RATIONS OF FATTENED CROSSBRED FRIESIAN CALVES AND ITS INFLUENCE ON CALVES’ PERFORMANCE

As the impact of upcoming climate change scenarios on livestock feeding security (quality, availability, and price), applying alternative feedstuffs is a must. Fattening calves considered as a most process related to traditional feeding system. In the present study we purposed new feedstuffs for fattened calves consisting citrus pulp silage, wheat germ, barley sprout and molasses. Within the above feedstuffs we using mechanical, chemical, and biological treatments. Moreover, the present study evaluates the production performance of 14 male cross Friesian calves (7 per each group) for adding 10ml/calve/day probiotic ZAD in treated group. Weight data where used to calculate Average Daily Gains ADG, nutrients digestibility, boneless meat percent, and feed conversion rate. From our results applying probiotics (ZAD) increased significantly (P<0.05) ADG in the hall fattened period by 1.011±0.107 kg/calve/day and 0.886±0.107kg/calve/day, also, increased the percent of boon less meat from 51.097±1.140 % and 44.410±1.518% in the treated control group respectively. Applying probiotic increasing significantly (P<0.05) digestibility of nutrient detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber by 42.853±7.092 and 54.010±3.774 in treated group compared with 25.180±7.902 and 37.679±3.774 respectively. Based on the results of the present study concluded that the effect of probiotic treatment on feed conversion rate of intake nutrients showing significant different (P<0.05) in Total Intake of Digestible Nutrients TDNI was higher in control group (4.579) compared with treated group (3.305). However, Dry Matter Intake DMI and Crud Protein Intake CPI tended to be higher in control group compared with treated group. In conclusion applying probiotics in agriculture byproduct silage in presence of sprout, molasses and wheat germ results in improving in nutrients digestibility, growth performance, and feed conversion rate of fattened calves. Based on our results we recommend such feeding system as a solution in calves' meat production to facing the upcoming climate change scenarios (i.e. direct and indirect effects on livestock sector.
Volumetric reduction of cerebellar lobules associated with memory decline across the adult lifespan.

Background The human cerebellum plays an essential role in motor control, is involved in cognitive function and helps to regulate emotional responses. However, little is known about the relationship between cerebellar lobules and age-related memory decline. We aimed to investigate volume alterations in cerebellar lobules at different ages and assess their correlations with reduced memory recall abilities. Methods A sample of 275 individuals were divided into the following four groups: 20-35 years (young), 36-50 years (early-middle age), 51-65 years (late-middle age), and 66-89 years (old). Volumes of the cerebellar lobules were obtained using volBrain software. Analysis of covariance and post hoc analysis were used to analyze group differences in cerebellar lobular volumes, and multiple comparisons were performed using the Bonferroni method. Spearman correlation was used to investigate the relationship between lobular volumes and memory recall scores. Results In this study, we found that older adults had smaller cerebellar volumes than the other subjects. Volumetric decreases in size were noted in bilateral lobule VI and lobule crus I. Moreover, the volumes of bilateral lobule crus I, lobule VI, and right lobule IV were significantly associated with memory recall scores. Conclusions In the present study, we found that some lobules of the cerebellum appear more predisposed to age-related changes than other lobules. These findings provide further evidence that specific regions of the cerebellum could be used to assess the risk of memory decline across the adult lifespan.
Journal Club: A mechanism for bringing evidenced based practice into school?

Supporting the teacher to consider the value of using evidence based practice, and the contribution to this of the school-based Journal Club, this paper provides an account of an examination of teacher perceptions within one case study school. The examination, undertaken in partial fulfilment of the requirements of a Masters in Education degree, revealed there to be a gap between conceptual understanding and teaching practice, and that that gap was argued to be the consequence of the circumstances in which the teacher found themselves operating. Identified influences included the pressure of work, particularly the issue of the availability of time; but the extent to which the teacher had previously had involvement with research activities was also noted. Highlighted is the risk that a Journal Club can be perceived as little more than a 'talking shop'; specifically that there is a fear that the potential a Journal Club has to support the individual to adopt an evidence based approach to their teaching may not be revealed and that the presence of that fear has an inhibiting influence on engagement.
TROCHANTER TERTIUS INCIDENCE IN A BULGARIAN POPULATION

Trochanter tertius (TT) is an accessory bony protuberance of the proximal femur, thought to be involved in the function of the gluteal muscles. Reports of its incidence give variable rates in different samples. Moreover, its functional significance is not completely clear. The aim of this study is to determine the incidence of TT in a Bulgarian population and to examine possible correlations with other peculiarities of the proximal femur. The examination was performed on 61 dry femurs (32 right, 29 left), available at the osteological collection of the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. TT was distinctive in 7 right and 6 left bones (21,9% and 20,9%, respectively). When compared with control bones with the same length, it was demonstrated, that the incidence of TT is not associated with a significant difference in the size of trochanter major and/or trochanter minor. Therefore, we could not associate the incidence of TT with other peculiarities of the femur. Despite the incidence of TT is not considered a significant/progressive evolutional trait, its functional importance is not completely elucidated. Further studies, possibly with assessment of the involvement of TT in peritrochanteric fractures, should include a biomechanical study of the attachments of the gluteal muscles.
Collecting Entailment Data for Pretraining: New Protocols and Negative Results

Textual entailment (or NLI) data has proven useful as pretraining data for tasks requiring language understanding, even when building on an already-pretrained model like RoBERTa. The standard protocol for collecting NLI was not designed for the creation of pretraining data, and it is likely far from ideal for this purpose. With this application in mind, we propose four alternative protocols, each aimed at improving either the ease with which annotators can produce sound training examples or the quality and diversity of those examples. Using these alternatives and a simple MNLI-based baseline, we collect and compare five new 8.5k-example training sets. Our primary results are solidly negative, with our baseline MNLI-style dataset yielding good transfer performance, but none of our four new methods (nor the recent ANLI) showing any improvements on that baseline. However, we do observe that all four of these interventions, especially the use of seed sentences for inspiration, reduce previously observed issues with annotation artifacts.
INFLUENCE OF SERVICE QUALITY ON SWITCHING BEHAVIOR MEDIATED BY RELATIONSHIP QUALITY IN SPRING BED RETAILERS IN JABODETABEK

Retailers in the spring bed business have a privilege to choose among the various products offered by various suppliers. Typically, these retailers would have chosen the suppliers whose products are matched with their needs and at the same time could give higher profits. This condition has strengthened the competition in the spring bed industry. In order to face the challenges that come from the retailers’ switching behavior, every supplier has to give a good service quality and build a strong relationship quality with their retailers. In this study, relationship quality was measured by three components: satisfaction, trust and commitment from the retailers to the suppliers.The objective of the study is to analyze the impact of service quality on switching behavior which was mediated by the relationship quality. The components of relationship quality are: satisfaction, trust and commitment. A theoretical framework was developed as the hypotheses for testing the impact of every variables were constructed. The samples of this study were 341 spring bed retailers in Jabodetabek (Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi) area. A sixpoint Likert-type scale was used for the questionnaire variables, with 1 = strongly disagree and 6 = strongly agree. The quantitative analysis with Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was completed using Lisrel 8.8. The structural model of this study could explain the interrelationship among each variables in the model. As a result, from ten hypotheses there were five findings supporting the hypotheses: service quality had an impact on satisfaction, service quality had an impact on trust, satisfaction had an impact on trust, trust had an impact on commitment, and commitment had an impact on commitment. The findings which did not support the hypotheses were: There was no impact of service quality on commitment and switching behavior; there is no impact of satisfaction on commitment and switching behavior; and finally there is no impact of trust on switching behavior. As a conclusion, the result of the study described the importance of service quality in manufactured industry, in the business to business context between spring bed suppliers and retailers. The impact of service quality on the switching behavior was mediated by relationship quality, where commitment was the important component of relationship quality that greatly affecting the strength of service quality impact on switching behavior. For future studies, researchers may explored other model to investigate more variables with more proper indicators, more homogeneous samples and longer period of research.
Which One Functions the Best: the Multiculturalism, Color-blindness, and Assimilation Perspectives in Culture Integration Management

This paper examines the role of interethnic ideology in cultural integration management. The author hypothesized that multiculturalism ideology is more positive related to group performance, relationship with group members, intercultural interactions and group climate than color-blindness and assimilation ideology. The group performance and intercultural interactions hypotheses are supported by the experiment results. The mediation role of attitude toward culture integration was also testified.
Comparision of physical properties of turmeric rhizomes at fresh, boiled and dried conditions

The experiment was conducted during kharif season of the year 2016 at Experimental Farm of Agronomy section, College of Agriculture, Latur, to study the effect of foliar application of agrochemicals on growth, yield and economics of soybean The application of thiourea spray @ 0.1 per cent at 30 and 45 DAS (T4) was recorded higher plant height, number of functional leaves palnt-1, leaf area palnt-1, number of branches palnt-1 and dry matter accumulation palnt-1. The maximum pod yield palnt-1, seed yield palnt-1, number of seeds palnt-1 was obtained with the application of thiourea spray @ 0.1 per cent at 30 and 45 DAS (T4). Maximum seed, straw and biological yield were obtained due to the application of thiourea spray @ 0.1 per cent at 30 and 45 DAS (T4). The maximum gross and net monetary return with higher B: C ratio was obtained with the application of thiourea spray @ 0.1 per cent at 30 and 45 DAS (T4). Application of thiourea spray @ 0.1 per cent at 30 and 45 DAS (T4) was produced higher protein and oil yield. This treatment was followed by Thiourea spray @ 0.1 % at 30 DAS (T3), KNO3 spray @ 1 % at 30 and 45 DAS (T8) and 19:19:19 spray @1 % at 30 and 45 DAS (T10).
The Effect of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Respiratory Pressure, Pulmonary Function and Walking Ability in Preschool Children with Cerebral Palsy

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) on the respiratory function and the walking ability of preschool children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). A sample of seven children with spastic CP, aged 4.5 to 7 yrs. , participated in a control condition (6 weeks) and in an experimental condition (6 weeks afterwards). During the experimental period, the children performed Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT), at 40% of their Maximum Inspiratory Pressure (MIP) for 20 mins, 2 times per week. Measured variables were: Maximum Inspiratory Pressure (MIP), Maximum Expiratory Pressure (MEP), and Forced Expiratory Volume in the First Second (FEV1), Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) and Six-Minute Walk Test (6-MWT). The statistical analyses with t-tests for dependent samples showed a significant effect of the experimental condition at MIP (p=0.016) and MEP (p=0.018), while ANOVA repeated measurements and the within subjects’ contrasts were significant for FEV1 (p=0.013), FVC (p=0.005) and 6-MWT (p=0.004). Overall, the present study supported the effectiveness of IMT program on respiratory function and functional capacity in preschool children with CP. Despite the limited sample size and the absence of a control condition, the IMT may be considered with caution in the rehabilitation context of children with CP.
Genetic divergence analysis in amaranthus (Amaranthus spp.) genotypes for yield and its component characters

An experiment was carried out to identify the extent of genetic divergence that exist for the yield and yield contributing characters of 25 genotypes of Amaranthus (Amaranthus spp.) using statistics as proposed by Mahalanobis (1936) D2 analysis. Analysis of variance showed significant difference among the genotypes for most of the characters studied. The genotypes under study fell into 5 clusters. The distribution pattern indicated that the distribution pattern indicated that the maximum numbers of six genotypes each were included in cluster-IV and cluster-V each followed by five genotypes in cluster-II and cluster-III and three genotypes in cluster-I.The intra cluster D2 values ranged from 1.849 (cluster III) to 2.345 (cluster V). The intra cluster distance was observed highest in cluster V (2.345) followed by cluster IV (2.284), cluster I (2.050), cluster II (1.954) and was recorded the lowest in cluster III (1.849), which indicate distance within the cluster. However, the inter-cluster D2 values varied from clusters II and V (2.523) to clusters II and III (6.370). The maximum inter-cluster distance was observed between the clusters II and III (6.370) followed by cluster III and IV (6.272), cluster I and IV (5.314) cluster III and V (4.795), cluster I and III (4.625), cluster I and II (4.278), cluster I and V (3.818), cluster II and IV (2.880), cluster IV and V (2.800), and the minimum inter-cluster observed between cluster II and V (2.523). Above finding indicated that high inter-cluster distance were the main causes of diversity in composition of cluster and hence, can be exploited in hybridization programme.
Silicon sources for studies of rice plants in nutrient solutions

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of various Si sources currently used in studies of Si doses in nutrient solutions on dry matter yield and the accumulation of nutrients and Si in rice plants. Treatments of rice plants with three sources of Si (monossilicic acid, sodium metasilicate, potassium metasilicate) and a treatment without Si were allocated in a randomized block design with ten replications. After 39 days in the nutrient solution, the following traits were evaluated: leaf area, leaf specific mass, dry matter yield of roots and shoots, and levels of K, Na, and Si in leaves and roots. Si increased leaf area, leaf specific mass, and dry matter yield of shoots and roots regardless of the Si source. Levels of Si in leaves and roots were significantly higher in relation to the control treatment but no significant difference among Si sources was identified. It was also observed that K and Na were adequately balanced across the treatments. Thus, a cheaper and easier to obtain Si source, such as sodium metasilicate and potassium metasilicate, may be chosen to carry out studies of Si additions to nutrient solutions.
Macromolecular fungal ice nuclei in Fusarium: effects of physical and chemical processing

Abstract. Some biological particles and macromolecules are particularly efficient ice nuclei (IN), triggering ice formation at temperatures close to 0 ∘C . The impact of biological particles on cloud glaciation and the formation of precipitation is still poorly understood and constitutes a large gap in the scientific understanding of the interactions and coevolution of life and climate. Ice nucleation activity in fungi was first discovered in the cosmopolitan genus Fusarium, which is widespread in soil and plants, has been found in atmospheric aerosol and cloud water samples, and can be regarded as the best studied ice-nucleation-active (IN-active) fungus. The frequency and distribution of ice nucleation activity within Fusarium, however, remains elusive. Here, we tested more than 100 strains from 65 different Fusarium species for ice nucleation activity. In total, ∼11 % of all tested species included IN-active strains, and ∼16 % of all tested strains showed ice nucleation activity above −12 ∘C . Besides Fusarium species with known ice nucleation activity, F. armeniacum, F. begoniae, F. concentricum, and F. langsethiae were newly identified as IN-active. The cumulative number of IN per gram of mycelium for all tested Fusarium species was comparable to other biological IN like Sarocladium implicatum, Mortierella alpina, and Snomax®. Filtration experiments indicate that cell-free ice-nucleating macromolecules (INMs) from Fusarium are smaller than 100 kDa and that molecular aggregates can be formed in solution. Long-term storage and freeze–thaw cycle experiments revealed that the fungal IN in aqueous solution remain active over several months and in the course of repeated freezing and thawing. Exposure to ozone and nitrogen dioxide at atmospherically relevant concentration levels also did not affect the ice nucleation activity. Heat treatments at 40 to 98 ∘C , however, strongly reduced the observed IN concentrations, confirming earlier hypotheses that the INM in Fusarium largely consists of a proteinaceous compound. The frequency and the wide distribution of ice nucleation activity within the genus Fusarium, combined with the stability of the IN under atmospherically relevant conditions, suggest a larger implication of fungal IN on Earth’s water cycle and climate than previously assumed.
Determination of Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant System in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD

Airways are exposed to high levels of environmental oxidants, yet they also have enriched antioxidants. Airways disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has evidence of increased oxidative stress and decreased antioxidants.The aim of this study was to examine oxidant/ antioxidant status in 45 patients with COPD (Age range: 30 to 50 years) and in (40) healthy subjects. The status of oxidants in serum as represented by malondialdehyde (MDA) levels increased significantly (p<0.01) in the conditions of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), than their controls, also, non-enzymatic antioxidants (vitamin E, albumin and uric acid) which protects the lung from increased oxidative stress, were estimated in both of patients and controls groups. Vitamin E levels in patients with COPD were found to be significantly lower (p<0.01) as compared to control, On the other hand, low serum albumin (p<0.001) and uric acid levels were observed in the study group than controls. The changes in oxidant/ antioxidant status may be the effect of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease state.
Quantile Impulse Response Analysis with Applications in Macroeconomics and Finance

This paper studies quantile impulse response functions (QIRFs) and their applications in macroeconomics and finance. We build a multi-equation autoregressive conditional quantile model and propose a new construction and statistical inference of the QIRF. We investigate dynamic QIRFs of the US economy in response to monetary policy and financial shocks, providing some interesting results: (i) Economic activity has the most heterogeneous response across its distribution among the variables under study. The left tail of economic activity is the most responsive to monetary policy and financial stimuli. (ii) The conditional 5% quantile of economic activity (Growth-at-Risk) shows a much more persistent response to a monetary policy shock than the mean IRF of the economic activity. A financial shock, on the contrary, has an acute but transient impact on Growth-at-Risk. (iii) We also assess the impacts of financial and monetary policy shocks on Growth-at-Risk during the global financial crisis. Negative financial shocks during August 2007–June 2009 substantially aggravated Growth-at-Risk over 2008–2009. Unconventional monetary policy tools used during July 2009–December 2015 ameliorated Growth-at-Risk successfully over 2010–2015. (iv) When a measure of financial conditions (NFCI) stays at its right tail quantiles (tighter financial conditions), NFCI displays a locally explosive behavior. As a result, the consecutive right tail events create extreme downside risks to the economy. The tool set of QIRFs, therefore, provides detailed dynamic distributional evolution of macroeconomic and financial variables over time in response to economic shocks.