Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy on Adolescents’ Aggressive Behavior

IntroductionThis study investigated the efficacy of cognitive behavioral group therapy on aggression among adolescents in secondary schools, Ibadan metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria.MethodThe study employed a pretest-post-test quasi-experimental research design. Participants included 160 secondary school adolescents from four randomly selected public secondary schools who were randomly allocated to treatment and control groups for this study. Aggressive Behavior Questionnaire by Buss and Perry was used to collect data for the participants. All the formulated hypotheses were tested using the Analysis of Covariant (ANCOVA). ResultsResults revealed that the treatment was effective in treating adolescents’ aggressive behavior. Furthermore, findings revealed that the moderating variables (gender and socio-economic background) did not individually have significant effects on the aggressive behavior of adolescents. The two-way interaction of gender and socio-economic background had no significant effect on the criterion variable; and the three-way interaction of gender, socio-economic background and treatment were not significant.ConclusionIt is therefore recommended that cognitive behavioral group therapy can be adopted as an effective intervention strategy for addressing aggression among adolescents in secondary schools
The turnpike property in maximization of microbial metabolite production

We consider the problem of maximization of metabolite production in bacterial cells. Numerical methods showed that the major phase of the solutions for different initial states and final times is the singular regime which exhibits a special structure reminiscent of the turnpike phenomenon. We prove that singular trajectories indeed have the turnpike property by providing an estimate both on singular trajectories and on the associated controls. This result can be further used for construction of simple realistic suboptimal control strategies.
Estimasi Luas Area Tanaman Teh Berbasis Pendekatan Segmentasi Gambar Menggunakan Metode DeeplabV3

Abstrak Saat ini Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara penghasil teh terbesar di seluruh dunia dan memiliki lahan pertanian teh sekitar 103 ribu hektar. Saat ini, Luas lahan yang dimiliki oleh para petani teh kecil lebih besar dari milik big estate, tetapi produktivitas teh yang dihasilkan lebih besar big estate daripada yang dihasilkan petani teh kecil. Hal tersebut dikarenakan para petani teh masih menghitung populasi tanaman teh secara manual sehingga membutuhkan banyak waktu dan kemungkinan terjadinya kesalahan perhitungan sehingga menyebabkan populasi teh yang tertanam di kebun teh milik petani sangat sedikit dan para petani kurang mengetahui langkah yang baik untuk memelihara kebun teh mereka sehingga mempengaruhi tingkat produktivitas teh yang dihasilkan. Dalam Tugas Akhir ini, pada parameter mIoU, didapatkan mIoU terbesar adalah 79.98% pada 300.000 step training, pada paramater akurasi didapatkan akurasi sebesar 80%, pada parameter presisi didapatkan nilai presisi terbaik 0.61% pada data uji kedua dan terbesar 6.33% pada data uji ketiga, dan pada parameter waktu, didapatkan waktu rata-rata 15.85 detik pada gambar dengan dimensi 512 G 320 dan 20.71 detik pada gambar dengan dimensi 3840 G 2160 Kata kunci: Image Processing, Semantic Segmentation, Deep Learning, DeepLabV3+, Spatial Pyramid Poo- ling, Encoder-Decoder Networks. Abstract At this time, Indonesia is one of the biggest tea producers in the world and has around 103 thousand hectares of tea plantation. Currently, the area of tea plantation owned by smallholders is greater than big estates, but the productivity owned by big estates is greater than smallholders. That is because the smallholders still calculate the tea population manually, so it requires a lot of time and the possibility of miscalculation that causes the tea at smallholderstea plantation is very small and the farmers do not know the best steps to maintain their tea plantations so that it affects the level of productivity of the tea produced. In this final project, in the mIoU parameter, the highest mIoU is 79.98% at 300.000 step training, In the accuracy parameter, an accuracy of 80%, in the precision parameter the best precision value is obtained 0.61% in the second test data and the highest is 6.33% in the third test data, in time parameter an average time of images with 512 G 320 is 15.85 seconds and 20.71 seconds in the image with 3840 G 2160. Keywords: Image Processing, Semantic Segmentation, Deep Learning, DeepLabV3+, Spatial Pyramid Pooling, Encoder-Decoder Networks.
FUNGSI GINJAL AYAM BROILER DENGAN PEMBERIAN BERBAGAI JENIS ACIDIFIER SEBAGAI FEED ADDITIVE DALAM PAKAN YANG MENGANDUNG PROBIOTIK

Ginjal merupakan salah satu organ yang sangat penting terutama dalam membantu proses metabolisme protein. Sisa hasil metabolisme protein yang dikeluarkan melalui ginjal adalah asam urat, kreatinin, ureum, dan albumin. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui fungsi ginjal (asam urat, kreatinin, ureum, albumin) pada darah ayam broiler dengan pemberian berbagai jenis acidifier. Materi yang digunakan adalah broiler strain CP 707 sebanyak 200 ekor, dengan 4 perlakuan dan 5 ulangan, dengan 10 ekor/ulangan. Perlakuan: R0: Pakan basal; R1: Pakan basal + asam sitrat; R2: Pakan basal + asam laktat; R3: Pakan basal + asam format. Rancangan dengan RAL (Rancangan Acak Lengkap) dan analisis data dengan ANAVA. Hasil analisis variansi menunjukkan bahwa perlakuan berpengaruh tidak nyata (P>0,05) terhadap kadar kreatinin, berpengaruh nyata (P<0,05) terhadap kadar asam urat dan kadar albumin, serta berpengaruh sangat nyata (P<0,01) terhadap kadar Ureum darah ayam broiler. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Kadar kreatini sebesar 1,70±0,31 sampai dengan 2,52±0,71 mg/dl; Perlakuan dengan pemberian asam format menghasilkan kadar Asam Urat terrendah sebesar 3,44±1,25 mg/dl, Kadar Ureum sebesar 3,78±1,09 mg/dl serta kadar ureum tertinggi yaitu sebesar 5,31±1,28 mg/dl. Kesimpulan menunjukkan bahwa 1. Acidifier (asam sitrat, asam laktat dan asam format) dapat digunakan dalam pakan ayam broiler yang mengandung probiotik tanpa mengganggu proses kinerja Ginjal 2. Asam format merupakan acidifier yang paling baik dengan menurunkan kadar kreatinin dan meningkatkan kadar albumin darah ayam broiler.
Estimation of combining ability and it’s variances in the cultivars of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Ten of the genotypes of bread wheat ( Abu-Graib(1), Kawz (2), Osais (3), Site mall(4), Florka (5), Kalak (6), Millan (7), Hithab (8), Ibaa 99 (9) and Sham 6 (10) were used in this study with its half-diallel crosses, all of them were planted to be (10 parents + 45 crosses) in Dialla Governorate – Blad ruz province in the ( 2017-2018) season. (RCBD) Randomized Complete Block Design was used with three replicates to study the Combining Ability for the traits: number of the days to spike formation stage, plant height (cm), leaf area (cm2), number of the grains in the spike, number of the spikes/plant, the weight of 1000 grains (g) and single plant yield (g). Analysis of variance table showed significant difference of all parents and first filial crosses in the all studied traits at (1%) level of probability and the ratio between general combining ability to specific combining ability was less than one in the traits: number of the days to spike forming, plant height, leaf area and number of the spike (m2), while in the grain number of the spike, weight of 1000 grains and single plant yield was more than one to refer to the role of the Dominance action of the genes. The parent (Florka) showed a general combining ability for plant height, a number of the grains, and the grains yield, while the crosses (Abo-Graib X Heithab ) and (Kawz X Site mall ) showed significant differences to specific combining ability to the desired direction for more number of the traits included grain yield.
Which is Better for Disc Diffusion Assays of Essential Oils—IsoSensitest or Nutrient Agar?

Abstract The disc diffusion assay is often used for screening of essential oils for antimicrobial activity. In this paper we describe an investigation into whether differences exist in the zone of inhibition obtained with two agar types; IsoSensitest and nutrient agar. Standard disc diffusion assay was performed using both agar types using three essential oils against two bacteria and one yeast. Statistically significant differences in the size of zone of inhibition were recorded for the two agar types however differences were not found consistently across essential oil or organism types. These data suggest that there is a complex interaction between bacteria, the oil being assayed and agar type and that no generalizations about the superiority of one agar or another can be made.
Zinc Surfactant Effects on Improved Mechanical Properties of Silica-Filled Silicone Rubber/Natural Rubber Blends Using TESPD Coupling Agent

Abstract Zinc surfactant (ZS) is added into natural rubber (NR)/silica/TESPD (bis (triethoxysilyl propyl) disulfide) and silicone rubber (SR)/NR/silica/TESPD compounds and these compounds are vulcanized. The addition of the ZS shows significant improvements on mechanical properties on both compounds. It increases the torque maximum values of the compounds as well as the tan values, which is an indirect implication that the vibration isolation property is increased. It shows the presence of zinc ion in the ZS helps silane coupling with double bond in the rubber chain. This results in improved mechanical properties such as the modulus, tensile strength, elongation at break, and hardness.
SPIN modification for low temperature experiments

The SPectrometer for Ice Nuclei (SPIN) has been modified to access ice nucleation at low temperatures. The modification consists of a reconfiguration of components from SPIN’s cooling system to provide refrigerant with a low boiling point to the chamber. We describe the setup modification and determine the temperature and humidity range accessible to experiments. The modification extends the measurement range of SPIN to 208 K, which enables measurements in the temperature regime relevant for ice formation in cirrus clouds. This addition of low-temperature capability allows for far more comprehensive measurements of the temperatureand humidity-dependent ice nucleation of test substances, to investigate fundamentals of ice nucleation mechanisms. We present exemplary data of heterogeneous ice nucleation on silver iodide and homogeneous ice nucleation in solution droplets to demonstrate the usefulness of the modified SPIN setup for precision measurements to detect discrepancies between experiments and widely used theories.
Adsorption of Methyl Orange from Aqueous Solution using Chitin and Polystyrene-Modified Chitin: Kinetics and Isotherm Studies

Chitin is a natural, biodegradable and non-toxic biopolymer. Batch adsorption experiments were conducted to remove methyl orange from aqueous solution. The influence of physicochemical parameters, such as solution pH, dye concentration, adsorbent dosage and contact time were investigated. The results showed that the modified chitin has improved adsorption capacity and the percentage dye removal strongly depends on pH, nature and structure of the dyes. The maximum adsorption of methyl orange by both raw chitin and polystyrenemodified chitin occurred at the pH of 6, with percentage dye removal of 26.38% and 35.20% respectively, for an initial concentration of 10 mg/L. The pseudo-first-order model gives poor fittings for both chitin and the modified chitin as indicated by the low coefficients of determination (R2). The pseudo-second-order model fits the experimental data well, having R2 close to unity. The Langmuir isotherm was found to conform better than the Freundlich model in the adsorption of both dyes on both chitin and the modified chitin with R2 of nearly unity. Keywords: Adsorption, Chitin, Isotherms, Kinetics, Methyl orange, Modified chitin
In Pursuit of Engaged Learning with Latinx Students: Expanding Learning beyond Classrooms through Performance-Based Engagements

Background/Context Urban public high schools serving low-SES communities historically have underserved nondominant culturally and linguistically diverse students by divesting them of social and cultural resources and delivering impoverished curriculum and instruction. Associated with such subtractive schooling, many Latinx youth have suffered from academic disengagement and limited academic success and futures. Focus of Study This study investigates one school's efforts to promote Latinx students’ academic and intellectual engagement through a schoolwide system of performance-based assessments (PBAs) that featured meaningful, embodied, discourse-rich activities, many of which occurred beyond classrooms during after-school hours. We examine the scope of PBA opportunity across the school and the ways educators enacted PBAs to optimize nondominant students’ engagement. We also report the organizational structures that enabled the PBA system and some implementation challenges/tensions. Setting This study features Mario Molina High, a small urban Title 1 public California school serving 262 students, of whom 90% received free/reduced-price lunches, 76% were Latinx, and 33% were emergent bilinguals. MHS emphasized an explicit social justice mission and had a record of some success with Latinx students, as measured by graduation and college-going rates, course completion for admission to California universities, and standardized achievement tests. Research Design We treat MHS as a “critical case,” holding strategic importance to the problem on which the study focuses. Using qualitative methods, we employed a bi-level design to uncover links between school organization and instruction. Data Collection and Analysis We drew on 240 hours of school observations, with special attention to PBA enactments. We also drew on 45 interviews with key stakeholders; faculty survey responses; school documents; student work; and email list communications. Our analysis involved thematic coding, memos, metamatrices, and situated/discourse analyses. Findings/Results MHS's PBAs drew school actors out of the spatial/temporal boundaries of classrooms and fostered serious, spirited, interactive spaces for learning. Three aspects of PBAs—authentic audiences, embodied action, and dialogic argumentation—transformed these assessments into what we call performance-based engagements (PBEs). This shift enhanced students’ engagement and contributed to a schoolwide culture of engaged learning. We argue that sustained participation in PBEs encouraged students to experiment with and adopt expanded practice-based identities as critical thinkers and change agents. Conclusions/Recommendations Our study suggests how the schoolwide implementation of dynamic, innovative, and culturally sustaining forms of assessment can expand and revivify traditional school learning in ways that promote the academic and intellectual engagement of historically underserved students.
Selective Separation of Uranium Containing Glutamic Acid Molecular-Imprinted Polymeric Microbeads

Uranium, which is included in lanthanides series and an element with the highest atomic number of any naturally occuring element, is found in granites, metamorphic rocks, lignite, monazite sands, and phosphate deposits as well as minerals. The concentration in phosphate rocks can be as high as 0.12 mg/g. Currently, uranium is the most important nuclear fuel. Enriched uranium is used as a material of high density in the aeronautics industry, as radiation shielding, as an additive for catalysts or steels, and in the glass and ceramics industries. Some plants, such as olive trees and certain fungi, are able to store uranium contents of several g/kg. Uranium compounds are extremely
QUANTIFY IMPACT OF WIND EROSION ON ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT UNDER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, WADI EL RAML, NWCZ, EGYPT

ind soil erosion is one of the land degradation processes in North Western Coastal Zone (NWCZ) of Egypt. It was assessed under condition of wheat crop grown on a sandy loam soil in Wadi El Raml in 2018/2019. Three tillage treatments of no-tillage (NT), minimum tillage (MT) and conventional tillage (CT) were assessed with or without organic manuring (30 m3 ha-1) combined with or without mulching (with rice straw covering 60% of soil surface). The aim of the study was assessment the impact of wind erosion on wheat yield and soil organic matter content (SOM) under different tillage practices under rainfed agriculture at Wadi El Raml in NWCZ. The highest bulk density was associated with NT. Losses (kg m-2 y-1) of about 275, 221 and 173 were shown in the CT, MT and NT treatments, respectively. The erodibility average values and loss of OM and TN were highest in the bare soil. Soil loss materials for the bare soil was higher than for the cultivated soils, which gave their the highest loss of 275 kg m-2 y-1 with non-manured non-mulched CT and the lowest of 16 kg m-2 y-1 for the manured and mulched NT. The highest wheat yield was obtained with manured and mulched CT. The results of this study showed that the use of 30 m3 ha-1 of organic manure and 60% of the coverage with rice straw in each cultivation type led to improving the soil content of organic matter and reducing soil loss by erosion by wind. This study emphasized the benefits of conservation tillage, such as improving bulk density as a guide to soil quality, which keeps it from degradation, as happens with conventional tillage. The study also recommended the use of conservation tillage in cultivated cereal crops for more than one season under rainfed conditions in Egypt to increase the content of soil organic matter, thus increasing crop productivity compared to the traditional tillage system to achieve sustainable agricultural production in NWCZ of Egypt.
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT STUDIES IN MEGAPROJECTS CONTEXT: THE ROLE OF TRUST, FORMAL CONTRACT AND RELATIONAL CAPITAL

In megaprojects context, it is vital to build good relationships with the stakeholders who are identified as being the most crucial for the end results, for example the subcontractors. The purpose of this paper is to address the impact of specific investment, which are argued to rely on different mediating paths for building good project-stakeholder relationships, specifically: trust, formal contract and relational capital. In this paper, trust is presented first as a mediating variable, often mobilized to create, develop and maintain lasting relationships, and then as a moderating variable that can enhance the effect of other variables. This paper presents an empirical study that is based on a survey using a questionnaire with a sample of Masen's subcontractors. Masen (Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy) is the contracting authority for the megaproject Noor of Ouarzazate. The results highlight the antagonistic nature of stakeholder management in the context of megaprojects. Indeed, the complementarity between transactional and relational mechanisms could serve as a springboard for a better understanding of how Masen (main contractor) involves its stakeholders. In the context of the Moroccan megaproject Noor of Ouarzazate, we must pay particular attention to trust cultivated by the investment in specific assets. If it is presented as a complement to formal contract, it appears to have a negative effect on the relation between relational capital and the sustainability of the exchange.
Using Network Partitioning to Design a Green Supply Chain

In supply chain network design, a retailer may determine the number and locations of facilities based on the cost of opening the facility, a customer driving to the facility, and a replenishment truck driving to the facility from a warehouse. However, this does not include the system’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Given the existential threat posed by global warming, it is pertinent to consider how the design of the system affects its GHG emissions. We model the supply chain as a network of customers and store locations, with customers driving in cars to and from stores and the retailer resupplying the stores from a central warehouse. The number and location of stores is determined while minimizing the GHG emission. Our contributions are (1) to remove the assumption of uniform demand, and instead build a model of a GSC based on population data; (2) to model the GSC as a two-echelon k-median problem. We conduct a sensitivity analysis to study the effect of a carbon tax in encouraging a greener system considering various scenarios under which emissions might increase or decrease. Specific scenarios lead to a lower overall GHG emission. For example, doubling the fuel efficiency of cars decreases emissions by 46% compared to the baseline scenario. The proposed design approach is not limited to GSC design and can be extended to many design problems, including manufacturing, material design, and healthcare.
MODEL IDENTIFICATION AND LEVEL CONTROL OF COUPLED TANKS SYSTEM

The Couple Tank (CT) system remains as a benchmark to investigate and test new emerging control schemes in the process industry since its dynamic emulates many factual system in the field of process control. In this paper, we examine the performance evaluation of two control algorithms, proportional derivative controller (PD) and proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID). The dynamics of the CT system is experimentally derived by system identification method and validated with a mathematical model that depicts the dynamic behaviour of the coupled tank system. Furthermore, the control schemes are expanded on the model obtained through system identification method. The simulation results showed that the PD controller did not meet all the specified control objectives. To improve the response an integral controller was incorporated to the PD controller and the response was compared to that of the PID controller and uncompensated system. The results revealed that the PID controller satisfied all the control goals. However, the PD controller was more satisfactory in terms of time response criteria.
Destruction of Salmonella enteritidis inoculated in liquid whole egg by high hydrostatic pressure: comparative study in selective and non-selective media

Abstract The destruction of Salmonella enteritidis inoculated in liquid whole egg at approximately 10 7 −10 8 cfu ml −l was studied under combinations of pressure (350 and 450 MPa), temperature (50, 20, 2 and −15°C) and time (5, 10, 15 min and cycles of 5+5 and 5+5+5 min). One non-selective medium (tryptone soy agar) and two selective media (brilliant green agar and salmonella-shigella) were used to evaluate viability of S. enteritidis after pressurization. The inactivation rate increased with pressure and exposure time, being minimal at 350 MPa and −15°C for 5 min (over 1 log 10 of reduction) and reaching total inactivation (8 log 10 of reduction) in several treatments at 50°C. Treatments in cycles showed greater effectiveness than continuous treatments of the same total time. The effect of pressure was enhanced by elevated temperatures. The higher counts were obtained in the non-selective medium, indicating the presence of injured cells after pressure treatment. D -values obtained for two temperatures (2 and 20°C) and different times (0–60 min) under controlled pressure (400 MPa) showed that microbial inactivation followed a first-order kinetics with a decimal reduction time evaluated in tryptone soy agar medium of 9·5 min at 2°C and 8·8 min at 20°C.