Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
In or Out of Sync: Federal Funding and Research in Early Childhood

Understanding the relation between federal investment and research has implications for promoting science production in early childhood, a rapidly expanding area in education research and policy. Federally funded research has shaped fundamental issues in early childhood, yet few studies have systematically examined the relation between federal investment and publication output. Our study applies topic modeling and regression analyses on a text corpus of 15,608 publication and grant abstracts in early childhood education to distill the most prominent topics, and the relationship between grant funding and later publications within these topics. We find that grants topics focused on health and early intervention, while publications covered a wider interdisciplinary range. A topic’s prevalence in grants, as a proxy of federal investment, was positively associated with its prevalence in publications in the following year. The study illustrates the affordances of textual analyses and contributes insights about how federal investment motivates scholarly production.
The impact of the first UK Covid-19 lockdown on carers and people living with low prevalence dementia: results from the Rare Dementia Support survey

Introduction The public health measures imposed to contain Covid-19 during the first UK lockdown resulted in significant changes in the provision of community support and care for people with dementia. People with low prevalence and young-onset dementias often experience non-memory, behavioural or neuropsychiatric symptoms that require specialised support. Objective We explored the impact of the first Covid-19 lockdown on people living with low prevalence and young-onset dementia and their carers in the UK. Method An online survey, including eleven questions about the impact of the lockdown on both the person with dementia and their family caregivers was conducted. Participants were people living with dementia and caregivers who are members of the UK national-reach organisation Rare Dementia Support. Results 184 carers and 24 people with dementia completed the survey. People with dementia experienced worsening of cognitive symptoms (70%), ability to do things (62%) and well-being (57%) according to their carers. Carers also reported a reduction in the support received for caring (55%). 93% of carers of people living in care homes reported a reduction in their ability to provide care. 26% of carers reported changes in the medication of the person with dementia during the lockdown. 74% of people with dementia reported decreased ability to connect with people socially. Conclusions People with dementia experienced a worsening of dementia symptoms, removal of support and increased difficulty to connect with other people socially during the 1st wave of Covid-19. Carers encountered barriers to both receiving and providing support and a decline in their own mental health and well-being.
Determinants of the Commodity Futures Market Performance: An Indian Perspective

This article aims to find out interlinkages between equity and commodity markets through the channel of investors’ outlook in the equity market. The proxies used for gauging perception of investors are investor sentiment index and Advance–Decline ratio. The study also incorporates the introduction of Commodity Transaction Tax (CTT) and occurrence of National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) scam in the year 2013. Additionally, returns in commodity market are examined to be a function of equity returns. The empirical findings suggest that the liquidity of commodity futures is inversely related to investor sentiments in equity market, and commodity returns are also negatively related to equity returns. Therefore, equity and commodity markets are inversely related, as liquidity in both the markets reacts to the investor sentiments; contrarily, commodity returns experience a significantly negative impact from equity returns. Additionally, the results also provide evidence that investor sentiment in equity possesses the ability to predict liquidity in the commodity futures market. The study also suggests that the CTT and NSEL scam have significantly and positively affected the liquidity of the Indian commodity market.
‘I am perfectly imperfect because I am a media professional’: Asserting the Association Between Media Consumption Attitude, Emotional Ownership and Personal Well-being

A profession that leads to well-being is rewarding and fulfilling, as it is a vital factor in ascertaining the happiness and purpose of one’s life. Information and communications technology has become an integral part of everyone’s life in contemporary times. Media professionals are engaged in using various types of digital and online media for their work-related needs. At many times, due to extensive work requirements, they carry their professional commitments outside the office hours. Due to their obsessive media consumption attitude, they lose out on spending time with their families and themselves. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of such media consumption attitude in relation to personal well-being. For this, 429 working professionals from different domains of media across the Indian subcontinent participated in our survey. The results revealed that media usage has a significant role in influencing personal well-being. At the same time, emotional ownership stood to be a mediator in the relationship between media consumption attitude and personal well-being. The findings pave the way to understand the professional and personal challenges faced by media professionals, while suggesting a possible roadmap for achieving a happy and purposeful life.
Root distribution under trickle irrigation: Factors affecting distribution and comparison among methods of determination

Abstract Four methods were used to characterize root distribution under drip (trickle) irrigation:root weight, cation exchange capacity (CEC), uptake of 86Rb, and the line intersect method. Trickle irrigated tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. var. Naama) and peanut (Arachis hvpogeae L. var. shulamit) plants were grown on sandy soil (Typic Torripsamment) and their roots were used for the study. The four methods showed that most of the roots are concentrated close to the emitter. A linear correlation was found between root weight and the uptake of 86Rb. This indicated that although roots near the emitter seem to be relatively old, the uptake activity is also concentrated there. Furthermore, it is apparent that the effect of the limited root distribution is even more pronounced when using CEC as an indicator for fine roots or surface area, than when using weight as an indicator. It was therefore concluded that all criteria emphasized the restricted distribution of roots as well as their activity in the we.
Using Earth Mover's Distance and Word Embeddings for Recognizing Textual Entailment in Arabic.

Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) is a task of Natural Language Processing (NLP), in which two texts denoted TEXT (T) and HYPOTHESIS (H) are processed by a system to determine whether the meaning of H is inferred (entailed) from T or not. This task is useful for several NLP applications and it has attracted a lot of attention in research. Most of the studies are focused on English as a target language. In this paper, we give an overview of the main studies on Textual Entailment for English and Arabic and we present a new approach to deal with this task for Arabic using a measure of similarity based on Earth Mover's Distance and word embeddings. We experimented with this approach using state of the art Arabic NLP tools and we achieved encouraging results. Although we have applied this approach only to Arabic, its application to other languages is still possible.
Do I Argue Like Them? A Human Baseline for Comparing Attitudes in Argumentations

In this paper, we present the results of a study where participants were asked to rate the similarity between sets of positions and arguments. Our goal is to provide a baseline for metrics that compare the attitudes of individual persons in argumentations, with results matching human intuition. Such metrics have diﬀerent applications, i.a. in recommender systems. We formulated several hypotheses for useful properties, which we then investigated in our survey. As a result, we were able to identify several properties a metric for comparing attitudes in argumen-tations should have, and got some surprising results we discuss in this paper (e.g., many people do not see a “neutral” position on a line between “pro” and “contra”). For some properties, further research is needed to get a clearer understanding of human intuition.
An Efficient Algorithm for Admissible Argumentation Stages

In this paper we introduce AASExts , an algorithm for computing admissible argumentation stage extensions—a.k. a. semi–stable extensions. Admis-sible argumentation stage extensions play a decisive role in unifying two lines of research in formal argumentation: admissible-based extensions as suggested by Dung in his seminar paper; and the traditional approach based on dialectical evaluation of the defeat status of arguments. In this paper, we improve techniques developed for other semantics, notably preferred semantics, as well as leverage—for the ﬁrst time—recent advances in All-SAT community. We prove our proposed algorithm is sound and complete, and we show empirically that our implementation signiﬁcantly outperforms even sophisticated ASP-based and SAT-based reduction approaches on existing benchmarks.
Evidence of electron and hole transfer in metal/CuPc interfaces

The electronic structures of interfaces between metals and Copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) organic films are investigated using the combination of ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS) and inverse photoemission spectroscopy (IPES). The lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) and highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) can be directly observed by IPES and UPS simultaneously. We found that the Fermi level, EF, in the organic film can be modified by metals through charge transfer or doping. The FERMI level at the Cs/CuPc interface is observed to shift to less than 0.2 eV below the CuPc LUMO. The IPES observation is the first direct confirmation of Fermi level pinning near the LUMO in organic films. The pinning of the Fermi level close to the LUMO can be explained by electron transfer from Cs to CuPc, which is supported by the presence of a gap state in CuPc as observed with UPS. On the other hand, the Au/CuPc interface is characterized by electron transfer from CuPc to Au, resulting in a reduced HOMO intensity shown in the UPS spectra and a new feature below the LUMO shown in the IPES spectra. These observations shed new light onto the understanding of interface formation in organic semiconductor devices.
Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Metallic Nanosystems

Nanotechnology is a crucial field for future scientific development where many different disciplines meet. Computational modelization of nanometer-sized structures is a key issue in this development because (i) it allows a considerable saving of resources and costly experimental setups intended to fabricate nanometric test devices and (ii) nowadays the study of nanometric sized systems is feasible with thoroughly designed computational codes and relatively low cost computational resources. This article describes how molecular dynamics simulations, in combination with potentials obtained in the framework of the embedded atom method, are able to describe the properties of two systems of interest for the development of future nanoelectronic devices: metallic nanowires and metallic nanofilms. Our results show that nanowire stretching results in a series of well-defined geometric structures (shells) and that thin films experiment a crystallographic phase transition for a decreasing number of layers. In both cases, good agreement with experiments is found.
OXIDATION MECHANISMS IN REAL FOOD EMULSIONS: METHOD FOR SEPARATION OF MAYONNAISE BY ULTRACENTRIFUGATION

Publication information Journal: Journal of Food Lipids Volume: 5 Issue number: 2 ISSN (Print): 1065-7258 Ratings: Scopus rating (2012): SJR 0.409 SNIP 0.874 Scopus rating (2011): SJR 0.616 SNIP 1.015 Web of Science (2011): Impact factor 1.273 BFI (2010): BFI-level 1 Scopus rating (2010): SJR 0.465 SNIP 0.863 Web of Science (2010): Impact factor 0.952 BFI (2009): BFI-level 1 Scopus rating (2009): SJR 0.716 SNIP 0.728 BFI (2008): BFI-level 1 Scopus rating (2008): SJR 0.374 SNIP 0.576 Scopus rating (2007): SJR 0.392 SNIP 0.492 Web of Science (2007): Indexed yes Scopus rating (2006): SJR 0.375 SNIP 0.721 Scopus rating (2005): SJR 0.285 SNIP 0.494 Web of Science (2005): Indexed yes Scopus rating (2004): SJR 0.263 SNIP 0.493 Scopus rating (2003): SJR 0.239 SNIP 0.27 Web of Science (2003): Indexed yes Scopus rating (2002): SJR 0.274 SNIP 0.608 Scopus rating (2001): SJR 0.342 SNIP 0.535 Web of Science (2001): Indexed yes Scopus rating (2000): SJR 0.351 SNIP 0.455 Scopus rating (1999): SJR 0.362 SNIP 0.562 Original language: English
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF STRATEGIC INTERVENTION MATERIALS (SIMS) IN TEACHING ELEMENTARY ENGLISH 4-CONTENT VALIDATION

The primary objective of the study is to develop Strategic Intervention Material (SIMs) in teaching Elementary English 4 as a teacher support material in mastering the competencies in the Elementary English 4. It is considered developmental since it underwent three phases namely: planning, development and validation. The respondents of the study were the content experts. They validated the developed SIMs through a researcher –made instrument. The content experts rated the developed SIMs “very satisfactory”. This showed that the five (5) experts viewed the suitable and appropriate to enhance the mastery of the eight (8) Elementary English 4 competencies in the first and second grading period. It is then recommended that the aspects of the materials that were rated “satisfactory” by the experts should be improved. Teachers may also develop more strategic intervention materials for other subject areas to address the pupils’ least learned skills and a similar study may be conducted covering a bigger number of respondents in another location.
ℝ‐trees and laminations for free groups III: currents and dual ℝ‐tree metrics

We study the map which associates to a current its support (which is a lamination). We show that this map is Out(FN)‐equivariant, not injective, not surjective and not continuous. However it is semi‐continuous and almost surjective in a suitable sense. Given an ℝ‐tree T (with dense orbits) in the boundary of outer space and a current μ carried by the dual lamination of T, we define a dual pseudo‐distance dμ on T. When the tree and the current come from a measured geodesic lamination on a surface with boundary, the dual distance is the original distance of the tree T. In general, such a good correspondence does not occur. We prove that when the tree T is the attractive fixed point of a non‐geometric irreducible, with irreducible powers, outer automorphism, the dual lamination of T is uniquely ergodic and the dual distance dμ is either zero or infinite throughout T.
Enhancing the low temperature hydrogen sensitivity of nanocrystalline SnO2 as a function of trivalent dopants

The effect of different indium doping concentrations on the room temperature hydrogen sensitivity of nano-SnO2 is investigated. The role of calcination temperature on the surface morphology, phase transformation, and subsequent impact on the gas sensing behavior of nanocrystalline doped SnO2 is presented. Differences in grain growth with varying doping amount give an explanation for enhanced sensing that is not always so obvious. Variation in the charge carrier density for indium doped nanocrystalline SnO2 is calculated as a function of indium concentration in the tin oxide lattice structure. The charge carrier density is correlated to the involved surface species of doped nanocrystalline SnO2 upon hydrogen gas exposure using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.
Towards systemic functional safety and security management in hazardous plants

The aim of this article is to identify and discuss ome issues related to functional safety and securi ty management in hazardous industrial plants. The safe ty functions are to be realised using the el ctric / electronic / programmable electronic systems (E/E/PESs) or the safety instrumented systems (SISs) that are designed and operated respectively according to IEC 61508 and IE C 61511 requirements in life cycle. Although the ro le f functional safety solutions in effective reducing a nd controlling the individual and/or societal risks has been widely recognised, the substantial problems emerge wh n E/E/PEs or SISs operate in industrial distribu ed computer networks. Thus, the security-related probl ems appear that can introduce some additional risks . An integrated systemic functional safety and security concept is proposed, which includes general require ments as well as appropriate using specified methods and int ernational standards.
Mitochondrial CO1 sequences of Banggai cardinal fish (BCF) from Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

This study determines the genetic structure of Banggai cardinal fish (BCF) from Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, based on the mitochondrial CO1 genetic marker. Sample collection used SCUBA gear and “chang net” fishing gear. One BCF specimen was collected in this study. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed using 5X Firepol PCR Master Mix. Bi-directional sequencing was done by First Base CO (Malaysia) using Big Dye© terminator chemistry (Perkin Elmer). PCR outcomes were separated using 0.8% agarose gel electrophoresis and shown by amplification of 718 bp band. The fish population found in the Lembeh Strait was Pterapogon kauderni Koumans, 1933 based on BLAST method. The lowest pairwise distance (d) was 0.000 (0%) and the highest was 0.324 (32.413%) with an average distance of 0.087±0.117 (8.692±11.746%). Genetic distance (d) of the ingroup was shorter than that of the outgroup. Based on the phylogenetic tree, the population of P. cauderni (ingroup) forms one cluster and is separated from other fish groups (outgroup). The closest population to P. kauderni is Sphaeramia nematoptera.
Substituted 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole- And Thiophene-Based Polymers for Solar Cells − Introducing a New Thermocleavable Precursor

Alkoxysubstituted and unsubstituted 2,1,3-benzothiadiazoles were prepared and copolymerized with substituted and unsubstituted thiophenes using both Stille and Yamamoto cross-coupling reactions. One class of the materials bore thermally labile ester groups. The materials were all found to have a reduced band gap in the range of 1.69−1.75 eV and were explored in polymer photovoltaic devices as mixtures with the soluble fullerene PCBM. High open circuit voltages of up to 0.93 V and power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of up to 2.22% was observed for materials without the thermally labile groups. The thermocleavable materials have the advantage that they are insoluble after a thermal treatment, enabling a larger degree of processing freedom when preparing multilayer devices and they provide a better operational stability for the devices. So far the process of thermocleavage has led to poorer device performance than for the soluble precursor polymers; however, we found processing conditions that lead to a high.
HARNESSING HR GOVERNANCE IN EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL TEAMS

–Abstract– This paper reports on human resource governance (HRG) that was explored in an ethically cleared, qualitative case study on effective virtual teams in the software industry of South Africa. Embedded in corporate governance, human resource management (HRM) and general management; HRG is recognised as a control mechanism employed by management. People risks in the software industry are common, with technology cited as a contributing factor. A purposive sample was selected, while data were collected by means of an electronic questionnaire. The data were analysed by means of content analysis. Empirical evidence suggests that the traditional hierarchical role and purpose of a team leader and a team manager could be compromised in virtual teams; inflexible process management augments technology risks; and cross-country compliance with legislation contributes to greater knowledge creation. This study contributes to the emerging body of knowledge on the effective functioning of virtual teams and HR governance.
Single-Molecule Spontaneous Emission in the Vicinity of an Individual Gold Nanorod

An individual gold nanorod as an optical antenna to modulate single-molecule fluorescence spontaneous emission behaviors is investigated theoretically. 2D and 3D numerical finite-difference time-domain methods are implemented to investigate changes in the excitation rate, spontaneous emission rate, quantum efficiency, and emission spectral shape as functions of the separation between the emitter and nanorod. Our simulations reveal that the 3D relative configuration between the gold nanorod and the single dipole definitely affects the quantum efficiency and emission spectral shape. The orientation of the dipole and the polarization of the excitation light are also investigated to clarify the polarization dependence of the plasmonic-enhanced fluorescence. Furthermore, we calculate the modified quantum efficiency and emission spectral shape of a single Cy5 dye molecule in the vicinity of a single gold nanorod taking experimental requirements into account.
Interest Rate and Private Consumption Behaviour in Nigeria : Some Empirical Evidences

This study examines the impacts of interest rate on private consumption behaviour in Nigeria between the period of 1981 and 2014 using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) co integrations framework. The data were sourced from the World Bank development indicators; interest rate was augmented with other macroeconomic variables like per capita income, money supply, and banking sector credit to the private sector as regresses in determining the behaviour of private consumption in Nigeria. The results confirm the existence of relationship between private consumption and its determinants, except real interest rate and the dummy for the impact of interest rate deregulation. The study therefore recommends increase in government capital expenditures that will create an enabling environment for the private sector to thrive so that the welfare of the citizenry could be enhanced. Citation: Yusuf HA, Owuru JE, Akanbi SB, Musibau HO (2017) Interest Rate and Private Consumption Behaviour in Nigeria: Some Empirical Evidences. Bus Eco J 8: 311. doi: 10.4172/2151-6219.1000311