Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparative Progress of Odisha in Millet Farming: An Inter-State Analysis through Agricultural Efficiency Index

Odisha is an ‘agro-ethnic’ state located in the eastern region of India. A total of 76 per cent of the state working population is engaged in agriculture and allied sectors along with 22.84 per cent of the total state population is tribal in nature. The colonial period of the pre-Independence era and the green revolution period of the post-Independence era have imposed the mono and duo cropping culture in all states of the country including Odisha and caused the marginalization of millet farming. The basket of millets constitutes the crops like ‘Jowar, ‘Bajra’, ‘Ragi’, and ‘Small Millets’. These are economic, nutrition-rich, disease-resistant, drought-tolerant, and climate-resilient crops in nature. Therefore, to improve both individual and farm health the government of Odisha has initiated the focus on millets production by launching the ‘Odisha Millets Mission’ (OMM) in 2017-18. As with Odisha, some other states are also functioning with their millets program such as – the Andhra Pradesh Millets Programme (2016) and Telangana Millets Mission (2018). This paved the way for the declaration of the ‘National Year of Millets’ in 2018 by the Indian Government and the ‘International Year of Millets’ in 2023 by the United Nations Organisation. This paper intends to analyse the comparative progress of Odisha in millets farming with the other major states in light of its vibrant millets mission program. For this, we have applied the method ‘Measures of Agricultural Efficiency’ suggested by S.S. Bhatia (1967). The secondary data on the area, production, and yield of four main millets crops, viz., Jowar, Bajra, Ragi, and Small Millets extracted from the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India enable us to construct the ‘Agricultural Efficiency Index’ of millets farming for the selected 20 major states of India at two-time points, i.e., 2016-17 and 2020-21. The results from the analysis show that the agricultural efficiency index of Odisha has decreased from 59.73 to 55.58 but in a relative sense the rank of Odisha has improved from the 17th position to the 16th position between the two-time points of 2016-17 to 2020-21. It also states that Himachal Pradesh has increased from the ‘low efficiency’ category to the ‘high efficiency’ category, Kerala has decreased from the ‘high efficiency’ category to the ‘low efficiency’ category and the remaining 18 states including Odisha have no change in their efficiency category between 2016-17 and 2020-21. The result of Spearman’s rank correlation test (.965) also states that the selected states have shown relatively low progress in terms of millet farming as their respective ranks are highly correlated between both periods.
Quadratic error bound of the smoothed gap and the restarted averaged primal-dual hybrid gradient

We study the linear convergence of the primal-dual hybrid gradient method. After a review of current analyses, we show that they do not explain properly the behavior of the algorithm, even on the most simple problems. We thus introduce the quadratic error bound of the smoothed gap, a new regularity assumption that holds for a wide class of optimization problems. Equipped with this tool, we manage to prove tighter convergence rates. Then, we show that averaging and restarting the primal-dual hybrid gradient allows us to leverage better the regularity constant. Numerical experiments on linear and quadratic programs, ridge regression and image denoising illustrate the findings of the paper.
International Review of Accounting, Banking and Finance

In recent years, awareness of gender equality has risen, political and economic power are no longer dominated solely by the male. More and more female are appearing in leadership roles in politics and corporate organizations, and the era of gender equality is fully reflected in the power distribution of political participation and various kinds of organizations. While most academic research has focused on how female participation in senior management and board of directors affects financial and non-financial consequences, empirical studies on female participation in the board of directors of large-scale publicly traded firms and its impact on ESG performance are relatively rare due to limited data availability. Filling this research gap is the main research motivation of the study. Based on data from 1,590 non-financial industry listed firms in Taiwan from 2015 to 2020, this study examines whether the increase in female participation in the board of directors affects firm's ESG performance, particularly its ESG rating, ESG score, ranking within industries based on SASB’s classification, and detailed information on scores and rankings for individual ESG aspects. Empirical evidence generally shows that higher level of female participation in the board of directors correspond to worse ESG performance, which can be explained by communication costs, poor coordination, and the minority opinions are not given sufficient weight or consideration by the majority in the Social Identity Theory. However, interestingly, higher levels of female participation among independent directors help to improve a firm's ESG performance, especially in environmental performance. Furthermore, greater frequent attendance by female directors, longer tenure, and higher education levels also contribute to improving a firm's ESG performance. This indicates that gender diversity has a beneficial cost-effectiveness effect in the position of independent directors, and the appointment of female directors should consider their characteristics such as attendance, tenure, and education level.
Histomorphometric Adaptations of Superior and Inferior Vena Cavae after Moderate Intensity Continuous Exercise - A Preclinical Trial

Objective: This study was aimed at evaluation of effects of Moderate Intensity Continuous Training(MICT) on the histomorphometric parameters of superior vena cava (SVC) and inferior vena cava(IVC) in Sprague Dawley rats. Methods: Twenty-four male healthy Sprague Dawley rats were randomly divided into two groups.Group A (n=12) was assigned to the Moderate Intensity Continuous Training whereas Group B (n=12)was the control group with no exercise. The exercise intervention was workout on treadmill at 70%Maximal exercise intensity for 22-24 mins for 5 consecutive days/week for four weeks. The animalswere sacrificed after completion of exercise protocol for histomorphometry of the Inferior Vena Cavaand Superior Vena Cava. H&E stained slides were examined under Nikon Ts2R-FL inverted micro-scope and images were taken. Images were analyzed and morphometry was performed by using Im-age J software. Luminal area, wall thickness and wall to lumen ratio were evaluated. Statisticalanalysis was performed on SPSS version 23. Results: Histomorphometric evaluation of the luminal area, wall thickness and wall to lumen ratio ofboth large veins showed statistically significant difference between control and the exercise groups.The luminal area, wall thickness and wall to lumen ratio of the IVC was significantly increased in theexercise group with p values 0.003, 0.04 and <0.001 respectively. There was statistically significant in-crease in luminal area and wall thickness of SVC in the exercise group (p<0.0001) and (p = 0.0001),whereas wall to lumen ratio was found to be reduced significantly p<0.001. Conclusion: Our study has revealed that moderate intensity continuous exercise of four weeks duration has profound effects on the histomorphometry of superior and inferior vena cava. The findings ofour study highlight that the venous morphological adaptations to meet the heightened demands generated after moderate intensity continuous exercise are as prevalent as cardiac and arterial adapta-tions
Left ventricular systolic function assessed by standard and advanced echocardiographic techniques in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A systemic review and meta-analysis

Objectives: Aim of the study was to perform a systemic review and meta-analysis of the current case-control studies based on the assessment of the left ventricular (LV) systolic function with standard and advanced echocardiographic methods. Materials and methods: Objectives of the study, methods of statisticalanalysis, literature search strategy, inclusion andexclusion criteria, and outcome measurementswere defined according to Cochrane Collaborationsteps, 13 including recommendations for metaanalysisof observational studies in epidemiology (MOOSE). Results: A total of 850 papers were collected. Of those, eight papers (10 groups) including 174,442 SLE patients and 45,608,723 controls with heart failure (HF), 20 papers including 1,121 SLE patients and 1,010 controls with an evaluated LV ejection fraction (LVEF), and eight studies (nine groups) including 462 SLE patients and 356 controls with a measured LV global longitudinal strain (LVGLS) met the predefined inclusion criteria. HF rate in SLE patients was 2.39% (4,176 of 174,442 patients with HF), and SLE patients showed a 3.4 times higher risk for HF compared to controls. SLE patients had a lower LVEF compared to controls. LVGLS was more impaired in SLE patients compared to controls, irrespective of two-dimensional or three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography. Conclusion: Heart failure rate in SLE patients is high, and SLE patients showed a 3.4 times higher risk in patients with SLE compared to controls. LV systolic function, as measured by LVEF and LVGLS, is significantly affected in SLE patients, and LVGLS potentially represents a new tool for the early assessment of LV function.
Detection over Social Media Platforms Using Hybrid Ensemble Model with Fuzzy Logic

: A ﬁgurative language expression known as sarcasm implies the complete contrast of what is being stated with what is meant, with the latter usually being rather or extremely offensive, meant to offend or humiliate someone. In routine conversations on social media websites, sarcasm is frequently utilized. Sentiment analysis procedures are prone to errors because sarcasm can change a statement’s meaning. Analytic accuracy apprehension has increased as automatic social networking analysis tools have grown. According to preliminary studies, the accuracy of computerized sentiment analysis has been dramatically decreased by sarcastic remarks alone. Sarcastic expressions also affect automatic false news identiﬁcation and cause false positives. Because sarcastic comments are inherently ambiguous, identifying sarcasm may be difﬁcult. Different individual NLP strategies have been proposed in the past. However, each methodology has text contexts and vicinity restrictions. The methods are unable to manage various kinds of content. This study suggests a unique ensemble approach based on text embedding that includes fuzzy evolutionary logic at the top layer. This approach involves applying fuzzy logic to ensemble embeddings from the Word2Vec, GloVe, and BERT models before making the ﬁnal classiﬁcation. The three models’ weights assigned to the probability are used to categorize objects using the fuzzy layer. The suggested model was validated on the following social media datasets: the Headlines dataset, the “Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus” (SARC), and the Twitter app dataset. Accuracies of 90.81%, 85.38%, and 86.80%, respectively, were achieved. The accuracy metrics were more accurate than those of earlier state-of-the-art models.
High-resolution fast microseismic source collocation and source time-function estimation

Sparsity promotion based joint microseismic source collocation and source time function estimation, using Linearized Bregman algorithm, although simple to implement, suffers from slow convergence. This is due to the fact that Linearized Bregman algorithm has only first order of convergence. In this work, we propose to accelerate the existing Linearized Bregman algorithm using the L-BFGS algorithm. Without any initial guess for the source location or source time function, our method is able to estimate the source location and source time function for kinematically correct smooth velocity model. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method for multiple sources spaced within half a wavelength. We also compare our results with Linearized Bregman based method in 2.5D instead of 2D.
Clinical profile and factors associated with the death of COVID-19 patients in the first months of the pandemic

Objective: to analyze the individual and clinical characteristics and the factors associated with mortality in patients with COVID-19, in a public hospital in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Methods: a cross-sectional, retrospective, documentary study (n= 86), with adult inpatients, from March to June 2020. Results: mortality was 12.8%, the highest risk group was the elderly with comorbidities, especially cardiovascular ones. The chance of death was 58 times higher in the elderly compared to adults, and eight times higher in those with comorbidities compared to the healthy ones. Most patients presented with respiratory symptoms, fever, and myalgia. Treatment was based on antibiotics, anticoagulants and antivirals, associated with ventilatory support. The main complications were hypoxia, acute renal failure, and secondary infection. Conclusion and implications for practice: elderly people with cardiovascular comorbidities who required intensive care had a higher chance of death. The results from one of the reference centers in the pandemic make it possible to discuss epidemiological measures adopted, with emphasis on restrictive concepts in the first months.
The effects of decomposition

Multi-isotope analysis ( e.g. , Sr – Pb – O – H – C – N) of human scalp hair is routinely used in forensic investigations of human remains to constrain the geographic origin of unidenti ﬁ ed bodies, and to investigate antemortem mobility patterns. However, while it is known that postmortem processes can affect the preservation of, or even overprint, the biogenic isotopic signatures in hair, the speed and nature of these processes have rarely been studied. This study investigates the effects of decomposition and environment on the H – Pb – Sr isotope compositions of human hair as well as the relationship between structural hair shaft degradation and isotopic signature change over time. Human scalp hair samples from four body donations were collected at different stages throughout gross body decomposition. The willed-donated bodies were placed to decompose outdoors at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF) at Texas State University. Hair ﬁ bers from two of the donations were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and high-resolution light microscopy (HRLM). Chemical and microbiological degradation of hair ﬁ bers occurred rapidly after placement of the body outdoors. Measurements of scalp hair isotopic composition demonstrated that H – Pb – Sr isotope ratios were altered within days after environmental exposure, presumably by deposition, leaching and/or exchange with the local bioavailable soil, and vapor. The degree of physical hair degradation and changes in H – Pb – Sr isotope composition were not correlated. We conclude that antemortem isotopic H – Pb – Sr isotope ratios are dif ﬁ cult to recover in hairs derived from decomposing whole bodies. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Lawns and meadows in urban green space –- A comparison from perspectives of greenhouse gas, drought resilience and biodiversity perspectivesplant functional types

Nowadays,Today, city planners design urban futures by considering climate change and biodiversity loss. Here, we studied the greenhouse gas fluxes of urban lawns and meadows and linked the observations with plant functional diversitytypes and soil properties. In eight lawns and eight meadows in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland, carbon dioxide (CO 2 , ), 20 methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) fluxes, as well as plant diversity, were measured using manual chambers and plant functional types were recorded.in eight lawn–meadow pairs in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland. Among the Four of these sites, i.e., an irrigated lawn, an old mesic meadow, a non-irrigated lawn, and a young dry meadow and an old mesic meadow , were more intensively studied especially using manual chamber measurements in 2021–-2022. The process-based ecosystem model JSBACH was utilized together with the momentary observations collected approximately every second week 25 on CO 2 exchange to quantify the annual Ccarbon (C) balance of these intensive study sites. On another hand, the remaining sites, we studied the initial dynamics of conversion from lawns to meadows were studied with the six other pairs, whereby transforming part of lawns to meadows in late 2020 and conducting measurements were conducted from 2020 to 2022 and the transformation of half of the sites had been performed in late 2020. We found that without considering the impact of management and unstabilized soil, lawns are clear sink of carbon, whereas sinks of carbon (NEE = −336 ± 187 and −157 ± 30 139 g CO 2 m −2 yr −1 ) compared with meadows (NEE = −151 ± 198 and −63 ± 134 g CO 2 m −2 yr −1 ), and the conversion from a lawn to a meadow did not affect the fluxes of CH 4 and N 2 O. Moreover, the mesic meadow was more resistant to drought events than athe non-irrigated lawn. Moreover, according to our. Lastly, the proportion of flowering plants (forbs, including legumes) was found to be higher in meadows than in lawns. Even though social and economic aspects also steer urban development, these results, the conversion from lawn to meadow did not affect the fluxes of CH 4 and N 2 O. Last, the relation between C and 35 N cycle and plant diversity was unclear and would need further investigations. can guide planning when considering biodiversity and carbon-smartness.
Relationship between mothers' narcissism and the temperament of their children

It was aimed to evaluate the relationship between the narcissism of mothers and the temperament of children which is an important age for personality development. Sample consisted of mothers who wanted to participate in the study and could be reached by using social media (n =470). Young adult mothers with less education living in nuclear families appear to Pathological Narcissism Inventory score higher. The Temperament Scale for Childeren scores of mothers aged 26-35 years were found to be statistically significantly higher than other mothers. The relationship between mothers' narcissism and their children's temperament was found to be significant. It has been observed that there is a relationship between narcissism of mothers and temperaments of children.
What It Takes to Teach in a Fully Online Learning Environment: Provisional Views from a Developing Country

Teachers and teaching play a critical role in the success of the online learning space. However, information about the specific strategies they employ in navigating this alternative learning space and the challenges they face remains limited. Thus, the present study was undertaken to obtain a clearer picture of teachers’ online instructional delivery and dig deeper into their difficulties for possible intervention. This study involved 17 teachers from nine higher education institutions in the Philippines. Using a descriptive case approach, overall data indicated that they promoted flexibility and interaction, facilitated learning processes, and fostered an affective learning climate as much as they could. However, these teachers faced several challenges related to technological sufficiency, learner-related factors, teaching delivery and assessment, technological complexity, and self-regulation, among others. Their varying experience was linked to their unique context brought about by several factors, namely available tools, institutional policies, pedagogical goals, and learner-related factors. Implications for classroom practices, policy-making, teacher training, and future research are discussed.
Structural heterogeneity in non-crystalline Te x Se 1 (cid:2) x thin films

Rapid crystallization behavior of amorphous Te x Se 1 (cid:2) x thin ﬁlms limits the use of these alloys as coatings and in optoelectronic devices. Understanding the short-and medium-range ordering of the amorphous structure and the fundamental physics governing the crystallization of the ﬁlms is crucial. Although the lack of long range crystalline order restricts the characterization of the amorphous ﬁlms, electron microscopy offers a way to extract information about the nanoscale ordering. In this paper, the local ordering of amorphous Te x Se 1 (cid:2) x thin ﬁlms with x ¼ 0 : 22 ; 0 : 61 ; 0 : 70 ; 0 : 90 ; and1 grown by thermal evaporation is investigated using radial distribution function (RDF) and ﬂuctuation electron microscopy (FEM) analysis. RDF results show that the nearest-neighbor distances of selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te) in their crystalline structure are preserved, and their bond lengths increase with the addition of Te. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations
Biology Teaching and Learning

Innovative and creative teaching methods are prioritized in 21st century education. Many teachers still do not fully utilize technology, despite the fact that it is accessible to help learning. Therefore, a framework is required for the integration of pedagogy, technology, and educational resources. Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge is one pertinent strategy (TPACK). An overview of the relationship between teachers at Makassar's Sekolah Penggerak knowledge and their capacity to apply TPACK is the goal of this quantitative descriptive study . The following result were reached: 1) The percentage of Sekolah penggerak Teachers in Makassar who possess TPACK knowledge is 92%; 2) The percentage of Sekolah penggerak Teachers in Makassar who possess TPACK ability is 92%; 3) The percentage of Sekolah penggerak Teachers in Makassar who can develop teaching modules using the TPACK approach is 94%; and 4) There is a significant correlation between TPACK knowledge and the ability to implement the TPACK framework through the development of learning tools, with a large relationship of 0.608 x 0.591 = 0.359 with a total effect of 0.518 + 0.359 = 0.87 at a significance level of 0.047 (<0.05). In general, the categories of knowledge and skills of the TPACK teachers of the Sekolah penggerak in Makassar include very good and the knowledge of TPACK has a significant relationship to the ability to implement a TPACK framework through the capacity to develop learning devices at the Sekolah penggerak in Makassar.
Effect of improved management practices on factor of productivity on groundut (Arachis hypogaea L.) cultivation

The present investigation entitled" Effect of improved management pratices on factor of productivity on groundnut(Arachis hypogaea L.)cultivation" was conducted at farmer's field i.e.in five loction of the same village Hiregundgal,District Tumkur (Karnataka)under the project of Bhoo Samruddhi collaboration between KSDA(Karnataka State Department of Agriculture) and ICRISAT (Internatoinal Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Agriculture),Hyderabad during kharif season 2016. The Soil of the experiment plots was sandy to sandy loam. Medium available nitrogen in three plots were recorded lower available nitrogen, phosphorus was medium at all polt, potassium was high in one plot and medium in remaining plots,relatively lower available sulphur recorded in all plots,Zinc and boron were recorded relatively optimum.