Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Struggling with New Media and Old Expertise: Reconstructing the Professional Role of Communication Consultancy

ABSTRACT This study investigates how communication consultants struggle to reconstruct their professional role in the digital media landscape. The extant literature on professional roles in public relations has a tendency to render roles as static pregivens. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to contribute conceptually and empirically to role research by focusing on the process of “role-making” and how role actors purposefully engage in role construction in order to maintain legitimacy. The qualitative study of Scandinavian communication consultants reveals how these actors effectively refashion their role as expert advisors by describing the client and her problems, the competitors, their own knowledge and values. The role construct is supported by a narrative strategy and an epic storyline, where social media serves as a vehicle for self-definition and the consultancy role is framed and reinforced by social media. However, the jurisdictional claims of professional expertise and values that constitute the core of a consultant’s role construct are becoming increasingly difficult to sustain in a digital society. A critical reading of the consultants’ narrative thus implies that social media may in fact constitute a professional identity crisis rather than a consolidation of the expert role.
Wheat

Wheat is world’s most widely cultivated food crop and in India is the second important staple cereal food. As a rabi season (winter) crop, wheat played vital role in stabilizing the food grain production in the country. It is mostly eaten in the form of chapaties. Besides, wheat is also consumed in various other forms such as poories, dalia, halwa, sweet meals etc. In areas where rice is the staple food, wheat is used in the form of upma or poories. Wheat is also used for manufacturing of bread, flakes, cakes, biscuits etc. Wheat contains more protein [8-15% (grain), 8-13% (flour)] than other cereals. Wheat proteins are of special significance. Besides their significance in nutrition, these are principally concerned with providing the characteristic substance ‘gluten’, which is very essential for backers. Wheat straw is good source of feed for livestock in our country. Geographic Distribution Wheat is grown globally in 217 m ha area with a total production of 632 million tonnes. The area remained constant at about 220 m ha in the past 3 decades, however, the production has increased from 355 million tonnes (1975) to the present level owing to enhanced productivity. Though it is grown on largest acreage in India, but the total production is highest in China. The area, production and productivity in major countries of the world and states of India are given below in Table 1 and Table 2 respectively. Table 1.Major wheat producing countries of world
The contribution of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus to Catholic education in West Africa

This article discusses the extent to which the charism and the philosophy of education of Venerable Cornelia Connelly founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus are being maintained in the twenty-first century in West Africa (Nigeria and Ghana). Using data gathered from Sisters and former students of Holy Child schools as evidence it seeks to discover to what extent Cornelia Connelly's educational vision is indeed alive and flourishing today in the light of contemporary challenges for leadership in Catholic schools and the many threats posed by modern secular and materialistic society.
Communication Practices of Professional Service Providers: Predicting Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty

This study examined customers' perceptions of personalized service communication performance in relation to their expectations as predictors of their satisfaction and loyalty intentions in four professional service contexts. Survey data were obtained from 253 customers regarding their expectations and experiences with physicians, dentists, auto mechanics, or hairdressers. Multisample covariance structure analysis procedures were performed to assess the level of support for alternative theoretical models across all four professional contexts. Results provided support for one model, specifying that customers' perceptions of communication performance accounted for significant variation in customer satisfaction, which, in turn, predicted customers' loyal behavioral intentions. Customers' expectations did not play an influential role in predicting customer satisfaction and loyalty, as proposed in an alternative model
Editorial

Observant readers may notice that this issue of the journal is slightly different from the norm. After twenty-six successful years, Letters are no longer to be published in this journal and hence none will be found at the back of this issue. While the International Journal of Remote Sensing will still accept short articles (there is no lower limit to the length of articles published), Letters are now to be published in a new journal, Remote Sensing Letters. Remote Sensing Letters is a peer-reviewed international journal committed to the rapid publication of short articles (up to 10 journal pages) advancing the science and technology of remote sensing as well as its applications. Articles may address any aspect of remote sensing of relevance to the journal’s readership including, but not limited to, developments in sensor technology, advances in image processing and Earth-orientated applications, whether terrestrial, oceanic or atmospheric. Articles should make a positive impact on the subject by either contributing new and original information or through provision of theoretical, methodological or commentary material that acts to strengthen the subject. The journal is not, however, suited to case studies or articles that primarily confirm knowledge. Remote Sensing Letters will maintain a formal link with this, its parent, journal and it may be possible to transfer articles between the journals. The new journal is not, however, just the old Letters section in another guise. Behind the scenes there is a completely new processing system designed to ensure rapid publication of accepted articles. The editorial board has also a different role to that of the parent journal and the speed of article processing was a major criterion in its formation. Remote Sensing Letters will aim to provide authors with an initial editorial decision within 60 days from submission and statistics on the speed of article processing will be published regularly. Accepted articles will be published online within approximately 4 weeks of final decision before publication in hardcopy format. As with the parent journal, there will be no charge for necessary colour illustrations. For further details, why not look at the first issue of Remote Sensing Letters (available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/Trsl)? This first issue of the journal contains articles on a diverse array of topics. The latter includes studies using optical (Cho and Lu 2010; Shukla et al. 2010) and radar sensor data sets (Agustan et al. 2010) for applications that include the mapping (Ghimire et al. 2010; Lizarazo 2010), monitoring (Mohler and Goodin 2010) and estimation (Souza et al. 2010) of environmental variables. I should close by thanking all who have contributed to the past success of the Letters Section as this has provided the foundation for the new venture. I hope that the new journal enhances the work of our community and welcome contributions to its future success.
Testing EU fiscal surveillance: how sensitive is it to variations in output gap estimates?

Real‐time estimates of potential output are used for the calculation of the cyclically adjusted budget balance, one of the main indicators in the assessment of the fiscal performance of EU member states. The estimation of potential output involves a decomposition of actual output into a cyclical and a structural component based on arbitrary assumptions about the statistical properties of the two unobserved components. With a very high degree of smoothing, variations in GDP are mostly taken to be temporary, as are the ensuing changes in the budget deficit. Conversely, with a low degree of smoothing, variations in GDP are mostly taken to be permanent, leading to different policy conclusions. Our paper examines whether and how different potential output estimates would have supported different decisions in the EU budgetary surveillance in terms of both timing and substance. The results show that only a very high degree of smoothing of potential output would significantly reduce the reliability of the surveillance indicators. We conclude that a higher degree of smoothing compared with current practice would not be harmful for EU fiscal surveillance, while it could contribute to more cautious policies by signalling larger and longer periods of economic ‘good times’.
Comparative sensory and energetic ecology of sciaenid fishes and their competitors in Chesapeake Bay, VA

xviii AUTHOR'S NOTE . xix INTRODUCTION . 2 Chesapeake Bay: A brief physical and ecological overview . 3 Sciaenid fishes of Chesapeake Bay . 5 Non-sciaenid competitors in Chesapeake Bay . II Rationale for proposed work . 14 Sensory ecology . 14 Energetic ecology . 16 REFERENCES . 17 TABLES . 25 CHAPTER 1: Acoustic Pressure and Acceleration Thresholds in Six Sciaenid Fishes . 27 INTRODUCTION . 28 MATERIALS AND METHODS . 30 Auditory brains tern response . 31 Statistical analyses . 34 RESULTS . 36 DISCUSSION . 38 REFERENCES . 44
Searching for analytical concepts in the research process: Learning from children1

This paper addresses some methodological and theoretical issues of the role that concepts and conceptualization play in the process of analysing qualitative data. Studying children as research subjects, and reflecting upon their movement and relational dynamics in day‐care institutions in Norway, led to a critical consideration of the process of conceptualization and the concepts themselves. It is argued that reflexivity and a dialectical relationship between empirical data, theory and relevant literature are vital components in this process. This is illustrated and discussed in relation to two main approaches of analysing empirical data: a top–down approach, where established theoretical concepts are applied; and a bottom–up approach, where theoretical concepts grounded in empirical data are generated. Two concepts from ethnographic research in day‐care centres are introduced to illustrate both approaches and to illustrate the effort of avoiding adult‐centricism.
An Empirical Study of the Influence of Teaching Approaches and Academic Ability on Students' Understanding of Environmental Issues in Hong Kong

This paper reports on a study conducted in Hong Kong which addresses the question of whether teaching approaches can influence the development of learning outcomes within the context of environmental education, how such outcomes are affected by different academic ability levels, and whether they vary over time. The overall hypothesis is that enquiry teaching is more effective than didactic approaches for the development of environmental understanding, irrespective of students' original academic ability and the time frame of measurement. A quasi-experimental design based on a pre-test and two post-tests and follow-up interviews administered to geography classes at matriculation level was used to collect numerical data about changes in understanding after the teaching of a people-environment topic. Students showed a moderate level of environmental understanding to begin with. Results showed that, irrespective of academic ability, those taught with an enquiry approach did better than those who were taught didactically in the short term but not in the long term. The reasons for this trend are discussed in terms of student ability and teaching conditions in schools. To increase the effectiveness of enquiry teaching, improvements in teacher education and training, curriculum revision, funding and research support and changes in examination questions are called for.
Absorption of Marine vs Non‐Marine sources of EPA and DHA

DHA from algae oil has been incorporated into tissues at a lower level and been less effective than fish oil (FO) at reducing body fat. Our objective was to determine the fecal excretion of EPA and DHA from different sources. Male mice (n=100) were fed a 12% lipid diet with soy oil (SO), FO, yeast oil (YO, equal EPA to FO diet), algae oil (AO, equal DHA to FO diet), or AO+YO (equal EPA + DHA as FO diet). For 4 weeks fecal samples were collected over night once per week. There were no differences in feed intake, body weight, or body fat (P>;0.05). FO‐fed mice did have heavier livers (P<0.05). AO+YO‐fed mice had greater fecal DHA content than AO‐fed mice and FO‐fed mice for the first 3 weeks (P<0.05) and AO‐fed mice had greater (P<0.05) fecal DHA content than FO‐fed mice in weeks 2–4. FO‐fed mice had greater fecal EPA than YO‐fed mice and AO+YO‐fed mice on week one (P<0.05). FO‐fed mice and YO‐fed mice had greater fecal EPA on week 1 than weeks 2–4 (P<0.05). Thin layer chromatography was performed and verified that the oil sources were primarily composed of triglycerides. In conclusion DHA in FO appears to be more bioavailable than in AO.
Universal alienation

Abstract The evidence of alienation with respect to work, daily life, politics and inclusion is widespread and has much to do with the increasing influence of right wing populism. Marx changed the basis for his thinking about alienation from a subjective humanist to an objective historical materialist basis. But the relations between the two forms of alienation cannot easily be severed. The contemporary conditions producing subjective states of alienation need to be investigated, chief among these is the rise of personal indebtedness that forecloses upon future possibilities and restricts freedoms. Debt peonage and alienation are in our times a primary material basis for increasing subjective states of alienation.
Calcium and phospholipid signalling in permeabilized Chlamydomonas moewusii cells

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Mapping evaporate minerals by ASTER

Evaporate minerals are important industrial raw materials that have been used in diverse industries for many years. As one of the most extensively used evaporate minerals, gypsum is an important raw material in the construction, agriculture, textile, dentistry and chemical industries, resulting in a massive increase in demand of these minerals in recent years. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the responses of common remote sensing mapping techniques and further develop some of them while evaluating their success in well-known gypsum outcrops using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) imagery. The region selected for the test area was Ankara Bala, which has gypsum outcrops with operational mines mapped in detailed studies by the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA). The methods of band ratioing (BR), decorrelation stretch (DS), feature-oriented principal component analysis (FOPCA) and thermal indices were tested to map the mineral gypsum. For the BR method, the ratio 4:9, for DS the Red–Green–Blue (RGB) composite 1-4-8, for FOPCA Principal Component (PC) 3 and for thermal infrared (TIR) indices the previously known Quartz Index (QI) modified as the Sulfate Index (SI) were found to be successful in general terms for evaporate mapping. For an absolute accuracy assessment the results of these methods were checked in the field and, from the areas where the results showed common anomalies, samples were taken for field spectrometry analyses and X-ray analyses. For a relative accuracy assessment all of the results were compared with each other to evaluate the differences and their successes. We found that all of the methods were successful in mapping evaporates; however, despite its lower spatial resolution, the TIR data from ASTER when used as the SI yielded a more refined result than the other methods.
Abrasion resistance of concrete made with recycled aggregates

Global sustainable development will require using every resource to its maximum potential. The potential of construction and demolition waste's inert fraction can be maximised if it is reused as recycled aggregates (RA) for concrete production. However, there are technical risks involved in this technique, particularly due to lack of knowledge in terms of the long-term behaviour of concrete made with these aggregates. Abrasion resistance is one of the least known properties of hardened concrete but nevertheless one of the most important for certain applications (hydraulic structures and floors/pavements). Hardly any research has been published on this property for concrete made with RA. In this paper, the results of four experimental research projects supervised by the author are put together to draw conclusions on this property. It is concluded that there is no loss of abrasion resistance with the incorporation of RAs and that there are reasons to believe that it even improves, even though the quantification of that improvement needs further investigation to be accurate.
VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1

Insects, arachnids, and other medically important arthropods affect human health directly by bites, stings, and blisters, and indirectly by disease transmission. In this paper, three widely divergent cases of insector arachnid-caused human illness are presented–a spider bite, a mosquito-borne disease case, and an imaginary mite problem. Some key references are included for each topic, as well as editorial comment to add perspective.
The impact of maternal age on foetal growth patterns and newborn size

Abstract The association patterns between maternal age and foetal growth parameters as well as newborn size were analysed using a dataset of 4737 singleton term births taking place at the Viennese Danube hospital. Foetal growth patterns were reconstructed by the results of three ultrasound examinations carried out at the 11th/12th, 20th/21th and 32th/33thweek of gestation. In detail, crown-rump length, biparietal diameter, fronto-occipital diameter, head circumference, abdominal transverse diameter, abdominal anterior-posterior diameter, abdominal circumference, and femur length were determined. Birth weight, birth length and head circumference were measured immediately after birth. Young teenage mothers (≤15 years), older adolescent mothers (16-19 years), mothers of optimal age range (20-35 years) and mothers of advanced age (>35 years) differed significantly in body height, pre-pregnancy weight status and gestational weight gain. Surprisingly, the foetuses of young adolescent mothers were the largest ones during first trimester. During the second and third trimester however, the foetuses of mothers of optimal age range (20-35 years) and mothers older than 35 years showed larger biometric dimensions than adolescent mothers. According to multiple regression analyses, maternal age was significantly related to Foetal head size (ß =-0.04; 95% CI = -0,08 - 0.01; p=0.034) and abdominal dimensions (ß= 0.03; 95% CI = 0.01-0.05; p=0,011) during the second trimester and to birthweight (ß= -0.03; 95% CI= -4.40 - 0.04; p=0.050). The associations however, are quite weak and the statistical significance is maybe due to the large sample size. At the time of birth, offspring of mothers of optimal age range (20 to 35 years) is significantly larger than that of adolescent mothers and mothers of advanced age. Mothers of advanced age showed the significantly highest (p=<0.0001) prevalence (5.6%) of SGA newborns (<2500g). The small size of newborn among young adolescent mothers may be due to a competition over nutrients between the still growing mothers and the foetuses during the third trimester, while placental ageing may be responsible for smaller size of offspring among mothers of advanced age.
Sudden Increase and Regrowth of Fecal Coliforms and Escherichia Coli in Wastewater Biosolids After High Solids Centrifugation

Treatment plants that operate either thermophilic or mesophilic anaerobic digesters with centrifugal dewatering processes have consistently observed densities of fecal coliform and Escherichia coli, both indicator bacteria, that decrease during digestion but then increase after dewatering and storage. The increases have been characterized as two separate phenomena to explain this observation: 1) “Sudden Increase,” or SI, which is defined as the increase that occurs immediately after dewatering and 2) “regrowth,” which is defined as an increase during storage of cake samples over a period of hours or days. The SI observation appears to be more prevalent with biosolids that are generated with thermophilic processes and dewatered by centrifugation. Both thermophilic and mesophilic digesters with centrifuge dewatering processes have observed the regrowth phenomena. This research hypothesizes that the SI phenomenon is due to the presence of viable nonculturable (VNC) bacteria that are reactivated during dewatering. In other words, the bacteria were always present but were not enumerated by standard culturing methods (SCM). Analysis of the E. coli density in thermally treated solids by SCMs and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) indicated that E. coli densities are often underestimated by SCM. When analyzed with qPCR, the E. coli density after digestion can be 4-5 orders of magnitude greater than the non-detect levels identified by SCMs, which supports the non-culturable hypothesis. The VNC state describes a condition where bacteria are alive but unable to sustain the metabolic process needed for cellular division. Supplements added to culturing media were investigated to determine if the resuscitation of VNC bacteria could be enhanced. The autoinducer molecules Nhexanoyl-L-Homoserine lactone (C6-HSL), 3-oxo-N-octanoyl-L-Homoserine lactone (3-oxoC8-HSL), and norepinephrine were unable to induce the resuscitation of VNC E. coli.
Correlation between grip strength and scapular muscle

The human hand is designed to perform various kinds of skilled movements in the daily activities. Such activities are termed as ‘Prehension Activities’. Grip strength has been used to assess general strength in order to determine work capacity, to determine the extent of injury and disease processes and progress of rehabilitation. To perform distal movements it is important to have proximal joint stability. The hand being the distal component, a good grip might require adequate shoulder stability which will be dependent upon its musculature. Hence this study was conducted to find out if there exists a correlation between these two. Aim: To find out if there is a correlation between grip strength and scapular muscles Methodology: Grip strength assessment was done using dynamometer and scapular muscle strength was assessed using Micro-FET. Results: Pearson’s correlation coefficient was calculated for the correlation between grip strength and scapular muscle strength Conclusion: There is the statistically significant correlation between grip strength and scapular muscle strength