Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Student Pharmacists’ Ability to Organize Complex Medication Regimens According to the Universal Medication Schedule

Objective. To assess student pharmacists’ ability to impact the administration of complex prescription regimens using the universal medication schedule in a standardized laboratory exercise. Methods. First and third professional year (P1 and P3) student pharmacists at three colleges of pharmacy completed a required activity to simplify and organize a complex medication regimen. Using a medication box, students planned how and when they would advise a patient to take seven fictitious medications over a 24-hour period. Picture documentation of each students’ activity was used for data analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to compare P1 and P3 students’ performance, and an independent t test was used to assess the frequency of daily dosing. A chi-square analysis was used to compare differences between P1 and P3 students, and analysis of variance was used to compare differences among individual institutions. Results. Of 842 students invited, 459 P1 and 372 P3 students (98.7%) consented to participate. Student pharmacists recommended 5.1 (SD=1.0; Range=3-11) dosing intervals per 24 hours, with 27% of students successfully reducing the regimen to four total intervals. The P3 students were more effective than the P1 students in planning the number of dosing intervals (4.9 vs 5.4 per 24 hours). Conclusion. Student pharmacists may become more effective at organizing complex medication regimens as they proceed through the pharmacy curriculum and gain experience. Student pharmacists can translate what they learned from this exercise to potentially improve patients’ self-organized medication regimens.
An Effective Modification of Conventional Beamforming Methods Suitable for Realistic Linear Antenna Arrays

Antenna array beamforming (BF) refers to a real-time procedure that aims at calculating the proper feeding weights applied to the array elements in order to create a main lobe and a number of nulls toward respective preassigned directions. Most of the research performed on BF has been based on a simplified mathematical model, which ignores the nonisotropic radiation pattern of the array elements and the element mutual coupling. This article introduces an innovative way to incorporate the actual radiation pattern of the array elements and the element coupling into two popular deterministic BF methods, thus making these methods applicable to realistic antenna arrays. These two modified methods are applied in several scenarios, where a desired signal and several interference signals with various directions of arrival are received by a realistic microstrip linear antenna array. The statistical analysis performed in every scenario demonstrates the validity and effectiveness of the proposed modification.
Antifungal activity of microbial nanoparticles derived from Chaetomium spp. against Magnaporthe oryzae causing rice blast

The Magnaporthe oryzae isolate PO2 was proven to cause rice blast var. PSL 2 in this study. Chaetomium elatum, Chaetomium lucknowense and Chaetomium brasiliense were antagonised to M. oryzae. The hexane extract of C. brasiliense gave the highest inhibition of the spore production with an ED50 of 35 ppm, the EtOAC extract of C. lucknowense inhibited the spore production at 57 ppm and the EtOAC extracts of C. elatum inhibited the spore production at 106 ppm. The nano-CLM (C. lucknowense) inhibited the spore production at 5.24 ppm, the nano-CBH (C. brasiliense) inhibited the spore production at 6.86 ppm and the nano-CEE (C. elatum) inhibited the spore production at 7.89 ppm. The rice leaves treated with nano-CBH from C. brasiliense produced Sakuranertin and Oryzalexin B as seen on the thin layer chromatography where the Rf value was 0.08 assumed to be Sakuranertin, and the Rf value of 0.28 supposed to be Oryzalexin B. It was found that the nanoparticles act as elicitors to induce immunity in rice plants through the production of phytoalexin.
ASSESSING IRAQI UNIVERSITY READERS' CRITICAL THINKING DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE USE READER RESPONSE STRATEGY IN THE INSTRUCTION OF SHAKESPEARE'S LITERARY TEXT

Purpose: This study centers on the significant role of Reader Response theory in instruction literary text, this study also, affirms that there is a useful and progressive influence of the Reader-response strategy in the literary text to enhance and improve the level of EFL Iraqi learners’ critical thinking. This study proves that teaching literature, without Reader response strategies, the level of development of critical thinking becomes very passive and slow. Methodology: The researcher used one group “pre-post-test”. The study was conducted at the English department, Faculty of Education in Iraq. This study was carried out for fifteen weeks. The researcher administered Cornell ClassReasoning Test as a pre-test in week 4 while post-test in week 14.The researcher used non-probability convenient sampling because it was probably the most common of all sampling techniques in social sciences and the proximity of the samples to the researchers (Patton, 1990). This test was run twice with intensive interventions for five weeks implemented between the two tests. Main Findings: Findings showed that there was a statistically significant difference in the EFL Iraqi learners' critical thinking skills between pre-test scores and post-test scores. There are statistically significant differences at the “p ≤ 0.05” level for the following item groups: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12. This study confirmed that participants significantly improved their level of critical thinking skills by implementing ReaderResponse activities in teaching literary texts. Implications: This study proposes applying the strategies of reader-response theory as an effective and encouraging concept or stimulating approach to enhance the level of recognition and appreciation of the texts in literature. This experiment could be a positive study and applicable to different educational centers to teach all the texts in English literature. This study helps instructors to change their old-style manners of instructions. Novelty: The experiment focused on the vital and encouraging role of reader-response theory in fostering EFL Iraqi readers’ capacity to generate multi-layers of versions and meanings during reading literature. The study presents a helpful and successful manner to all the persons who work as teachers in educational systems. The study directs the instructors to follow the modern approaches in explaining the literary text to their learners instead of the old-style manner. EFL tutors should practice these strategies in EFL English classes of literature so that they could make the lecture full of activity and enjoyment throughout the interesting themes of literature.
On the Outage Performance of Ambient Backscatter Communications

Ambient backscatter communications (AmBackComs) have been recognized as a spectrum- and energy-efficient technology for the Internet of Things, as it allows passive backscatter devices (BDs) to modulate their information into the legacy signals, e.g., cellular signals, and reflect them to their associated receivers while harvesting energy from the legacy signals to power their circuit operation. However, the co-channel interference between the backscatter link and the legacy link and the nonlinear behavior of energy harvesters at the BDs have largely been ignored in the performance analysis of AmBackComs. Taking these two aspects, this article provides a comprehensive outage performance analysis for an AmBackCom system with multiple backscatter links, where one of the backscatter links is opportunistically selected to leverage the legacy signals transmitted in a given resource block. For any selected backscatter link, we propose an adaptive reflection coefficient (RC), which is adapted to the nonlinear energy harvesting (EH) model and the location of the selected backscatter link, to minimize the outage probability of the backscatter link. In order to study the impact of co-channel interference on both backscatter and legacy links, for a selected backscatter link, we derive the outage probabilities for the legacy link and the backscatter link. Furthermore, we study the best and worst outage performances for the backscatter system where the selected backscatter link maximizes or minimizes the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the backscatter receiver. We also study the best and worst outage performances for the legacy link where the selected backscatter link results in the lowest and highest co-channel interference to the legacy receiver, respectively. Computer simulations validate our analytical results and reveal the impacts of the co-channel interference and the EH model on the AmBackCom performance. In particular, the co-channel interference leads to the outage saturation phenomenon in AmBackComs, and the conventional linear EH model results in an overestimated outage performance for the backscatter link.
Design of Dual Circularly Polarized Sequentially-Fed Patch Antennas for Satellite Applications

In this paper, we present the design and fabrication of two dual circularly polarized (CP) patch antennas that can be profitably used as feeders for reflector systems normally adopted for satellite applications. In the first part of the manuscript, we propose the optimization of a dual-CP patch antenna, loaded by a fence of passive monopoles around it to increase antenna gain for high elevation angles. To achieve dual-CP operation mode, the circular patch has been sequentially-fed by three pins, whose mutual phase-shift is equal to 120◦. The antenna feeding network was placed on the antenna back and designed using microstrip technology. Two different input ports provide both right-hand (RH) and left-hand (LH) circular polarizations. A prototype of such an antenna was fabricated and measured at f = 8.25 GHz. Furthermore, to test the versatility of the proposed single radiating patch, in the second part of the manuscript, we present the results of geometrically scaling at f = 2.2 GHz (higher UHF band) and this was used as a building block for the design of a dual-CP sequentially-fed 2-by-2 array antenna. The results for both the proposed antennas are satisfactory in terms of impedance bandwidth, broad radiation pattern, gain and cross-polarization rejection, thus they can be profitably used as feeders for reflectors at relatively low frequencies.
Assessing zinc tolerance in two butterfly species: consequences for conservation in polluted environments

Zinc is a widespread pollutant released from industrial combustion, automobile residue, and mining. Zinc accumulates in soils and mobilises into plant tissue where it may be consumed to potentially toxic levels by leaf feeding insects, including developing pollinators. While zinc tolerance thresholds have been previously assessed in insect pollinators, most observations are limited to model organisms and pest species. We lack understanding of zinc tolerance in insects of conservation concern. We assess dietary zinc tolerance of developing caterpillars from wild populations of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), a species of conservation concern, whose caterpillars are commonly exposed to elevated dietary zinc exposure in milkweed plants along roadsides. We contrast monarch zinc tolerance with that of cabbage white butterfly caterpillars (Pieris rapae), a non‐native pest species. Tolerance was assessed by rearing caterpillars on artificial diets containing varying levels of zinc. Zinc reduced monarch survival at levels as low as 344 mg kg−1 but positively impacted cabbage white survival at 227 and 738 mg kg−1. Cabbage whites also displayed prolonged development time, smaller adult body size, and slower growth rate, consistent with the possibility that zinc tolerance had fitness costs. Our results support previous observations that heavy metal tolerance varies between species and highlight the importance of broadening our understanding of tolerance to insect species of conservation concern before drawing general conclusions about insect susceptibility to heavy metal pollution. Nonetheless, our results suggest that zinc pollution alone is unlikely a risk in developing roadside habitat for monarch butterflies.
A revision of the genera of the tribe Platysomatini [Coleoptera: Histeridae: Histerinae]. Part 2. Redescriptions of the genera, Theropatina Mazur, 1984, Microlister Lewis, 1905 and Platybletes Therond, 1952

— T h is is a se co n d part of the revision of P latysom atin i, p rovid ing red escr ip tio n s of the gen era , Theropatina , M icro lister and P latyb letes b a sed on their type sp ec ies.
Adaptive Immune Multiobjective Algorithm for LSSVM-based NARMAX model

The LSSVM-based NARMAX model and the identification of the model are studied in the paper. By extending the immune cell subset theory and clone selection principle, a novel adaptive immune multiobjective algorithm (AIMA) is proposed. It is shown that, according to the variation of subsets in the memory set, the AIMA can produce different cell subsets adaptively, and thus regulate the related model parameters adaptively to realize the optimization. The simulation result demonstrates that with the parameters identified by the AIMA, the LSSVM-based NARMAX model has a satisfactory accuracy and it can be used to solve dynamic modeling problems.
Delayed hypersensitivity to Newcastle disease virus in high and low interferon-producing mice.

Since it was previously shown that IFN, under certain conditions, can stimulate sensitization to SRBC, we examined the intensity and duration of DH to NDV in high and low IFN-alpha and -beta producing mice that carried either the h or I allele at the If-1 locus. In C57BL/6 mice (If-1h) DH to NDV is of higher intensity and longer duration than in BALB/c (If-1l). Evidence that this difference is related to the higher IFN-alpha and -beta production induced by NDV in C57BL/6 mice was obtained by comparing DH to NDV in C57BL/6 (If-1h) mice and in mice of three congenic strains, carrying the If-1l allele on a C57BL/6 background (B6.C-H-28c-If-1l). In the latter, DH to NDV was much more of BALB/c than of C57BL/6 type, since after footpad challenge a significant reaction was only observed at 24 hr and no longer at 48 hr. When the low endogenous IFN production of the If-1l congenic mice was compensated for by giving extra IFN-alpha and -beta a few hours after sensitization with NDV, DH was enhanced. If, on the other hand, anti IFN-alpha and -beta globulins were administered to either C57BL/6 or If-1l congenic mice immediately after sensitization with NDV, DH was decreased. These results indicate that, on a C57BL/6 background, the establishment of DH to NDV is influenced by the alleles at If-1, determining the levels of endogenous IFN-alpha and -beta induced by NDV.
Reactive Barriers for Renaturalization of Reclaimed Water during Soil Aquifer Treatment

Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is known to increase available water quantity and to improve water quality. However, its implementation is hindered by the concern of polluting aquifers, which might lead to onerous treatment and regulatory requirements for the source water. These requirements might make MAR unsustainable both economically and energetically. To address these concerns, we tested reactive barriers laid at the bottom of infiltration basins to enhance water quality improvement during soil passage. The goal of the barriers was to (1) provide a range of sorption sites to favor the retention of chemical contaminants and pathogens; (2) favor the development of a sequence of redox states to promote the degradation of the most recalcitrant chemical contaminants; and (3) promote the growth of plants both to reduce clogging, and to supply organic carbon and sorption sites. We summarized our experience to show that the barriers did enhance the removal of organic pollutants of concern (e.g., pharmaceuticals and personal care products). However, the barriers did not increase the removal of pathogens beyond traditional MAR systems. We reviewed the literature to suggest improvements on the design of the system to improve pathogen attenuation and to address antibiotic resistance gene transfer.
Choice behaviour and performance of Cassida stigmatica on various chemotypes of Tanacetum vulgare and implications for biocontrol

Biological control is often an effective technique deployed to tackle invasive plant species by the release of highly specialized enemies. However, variation in plant chemistry due to high plasticity and/or evolved during the introduction process needs to be considered when testing the efficacy of potential biocontrol agents. The tortoise beetle, Cassida stigmatica Suffrian (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), is a potential biological control agent selected to control the chemically highly variable and invasive plant species Tanacetum vulgare L. (Asteraceae). This study was conducted to test whether or not plants of different chemical profiles (terpene chemotypes) are equally accepted by C. stigmatica. Therefore, female oviposition and feeding choice behaviour were examined using one pure chemotype (β‐thujone type) and three mixed chemotypes (camphor/1,8‐cineole, β‐thujone/camphor, and camphor/camphene types) in various paired‐choice combinations. Furthermore, larval survival and adult body mass were compared when beetles were reared on the four chemotypes. Overall, C. stigmatica females showed a clear preference for the pure β‐thujone chemotype over the mixed chemotypes containing camphor, and no preferences when only mixed chemotypes were offered in choice tests. However, they were able to use all offered chemotypes for oviposition and feeding. No differences in larval survival and adult body mass could be detected when reared on the various chemotypes. The study demonstrates that knowledge of the acceptance of chemically variable host species is essential when testing for applicability of biocontrol agents.
The Effect of Direct Instruction Strategy and Students’ Social Interaction on Learning Achievement of Pancasila and Civic Education

The purpose of this study was to look at the effect of learning outcomes of Pancasila and Civic Education based on students' social interactions using the Direct Instruction (DI) strategy on students of SMP Negeri I Labuhan Deli, North Sumatra Province in the 2015/2016 academic year. The population of this research was 377 students and the sample was 77 students. The sampling technique uses cluster random sampling. Data collection methods in this study were obtained using student learning outcomes tests and hypothesis testing using Anava. Before the hypothesis test was performed, the data analysis test prerequisites were done using the normality test and homogeneity test. From the two prerequisites that had been made it can be seen that the data comes from a normally distributed population and the sample comes from the same variant, then a hypothesis test can be performed. Based on the research’s hypothesis test shows that the average learning outcomes of Pancasila and Civic Education of students taught using DI learning strategies in students who have social interaction characteristics of cooperative students is 66.70, and who have social interaction characteristics of competitive type students is 74.806. Hypothesis testing results show that the learning outcomes of Pancasila and Civic Education of students taught using the DI strategy on social interaction characteristics of competitive students is higher than students who have social interaction characteristics of cooperative students.
Factors Affecting Residents’ Support for Protected Area Designation

This study examined the formation of residents’ behavioral intentions to support the expansion of protected areas (PAs). A structural equation model combining the theory of planned behavior and an expectancy disconfirmation model were employed to test seven hypotheses on the influence of expectations, performance, satisfaction, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on behavioral intention to support PA designation. The findings indicate that although the expectations of PA performance did not significantly influence the satisfaction from PAs, the perceived performance after the designation significantly contributed to building satisfaction, which in turn had a significant role in explaining attitudes. Furthermore, positive and significant associations of subjective norms and behavioral control with behavioral intention to support additional designation were identified. These results provide indications for PA managers and environmental agencies regarding aspects to consider when engaging in planning with local communities and appropriate ways to respond to their concerns.
In the field of tension between creativity and efficiency: a systematic literature review of management control systems for innovation activities

PurposeThe number of theoretical and empirical research on management control of innovation activities has significantly increased. Existing studies in this field are characterized by a wide dispersion and a multitude of different definitions. The purpose of this article is to provide a systematic review of the literature on management control of innovation activities and to synthesize the current body of knowledge.Design/methodology/approachFollowing a systematic review approach, this article reviews 79 articles on management control for innovation activities from 1959 to 2019 and inductively derives a multi-dimensional framework.FindingsThe review of existing studies advances the debate about the detrimental versus beneficial character of management control systems for innovation, showing that the repressing character of control is not inherent to control itself, but emanates from the design of the respective management control system.Research limitations/implicationsThe multi-dimensional framework connects and combines existing research and thus synthesizes the current state of knowledge in this field. Additionally, the framework can guide practitioners to systematically assess context factors and consequences of their management control systems design, and it shows avenues for future research.Originality/valueThe scientific and practical value of this paper is the convergence of the current body of knowledge consisting of various definitions and conceptualizations and the identification of avenues for future research.
How do human resource management practices affect employee well-being? A mediated moderation model

Purpose – The study examines how human resource management practices (HRMPs) – including ability practice, motivation practice, and opportunity practice – affect employee well-being (EWB) – including life well-being, job well-being, and psychological well-being – in the Chinese cultural context. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 529 employees from various industries in China participated in the survey for this study. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings – The findings indicate that HRMPs have a significant positive effect on EWB. Specifically, practices based on ability, motivation, and opportunity have a significant positive effect on job well-being, life well-being, and psychological well-being respectively. Integrity leadership moderates the impact of HRMPs on EWB. Organizational justice has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between HRMPs and EWB. Integrity leadership moderates the mediation effect of organizational justice in the relationship between HRMPs and EWB. Practical implications –Human resource policies and practices need to create a fair organizational atmosphere, and managers implementing them must have integrity leadership. When selecting and promoting managers, organizations should not only pay attention to a candidate’s ability, but also his or her integrity. Originality/value – This study uncovers how the important roles of organizational justice and integrity leadership act on the relationship between HRMPs and EWB, thus advancing our understanding of how HRMPs can effectively increase EWB.