Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Intellectual Capital and Competitive Advantage of Selected Commercial Banks in Anambra State

The world of today has gradually moved away from an equipment and machinery dependent world to a more knowledge dependent world. A world where knowledge, skills and ability rule; a knowledge based economy. The importance of knowledge is even more prominent in the service offering sector of the economy where the survival of the firm depends on their employees skill-set and competencies. This is however not to play down its importance in other sectors of the economy. Moradi, Saeedi, Hajizadeh and Mohammadi (2013) posit that in the 21st century, economic success is dependent upon knowledge, innovation and creativity in making new products and offering better service. This brings to the fore the concept of Intellectual Capital (IC) as an important concept. This concept has over the years been capturing much attention in management and other related field of study. IC plays a fundamental role within modern organizations and is part of the foundation of business in the 21st century (Li-Chang& Chao-Hung, 2010). Thus, in the last decades the strategic management literature has emphasized the crucial role of intangible factors or the intellectual capital as determinants of business competitiveness (Teece, 2000).
Development of a Transformational Engagement Model to Study University Community Partnerships

Mutuality of benefits and reciprocity are the characteristics of university community engagement partnerships that render them democratic and enable universities to serve a larger purpose in working with communities. A review of literature shows that 1mutually beneficial and reciprocal partnerships are not always the case in practice, 2the terms lack conceptual clarity, and 3the literature provides varied and at times contradictory evidence on how to develop such partnerships. By bringing the university community engagement literature in conversation with the Social Exchange tradition, particularly, Social Commitments Theory and Reciprocity Theory, through a critical interpretive synthesis approach, this study develops a new model to study university community engagement and partnerships. Transformational Engagement Model (TEM) provides a clear definition for mutuality of benefits and reciprocity, suggests that reciprocity can be developed from mutually beneficial partnerships through a transformational process, and provides recommendations on how to facilitate formation of transformational partnerships. By framing reciprocity as an outcome of transformational partnerships, TEM criticizes the current direction in institutionalizing engagement through training individuals to do the counter-normative work. TEM suggests that intentionality from institutions should be directed toward encouraging formation of transformational partnerships. TEM also criticizes portraying mutually beneficial partnerships as selfish, and reciprocal partnerships as selfless and nonutilitarian. Rather, TEM suggests that reciprocal partnerships have to be mutually beneficial and universities can have self-interest in engaging with communities. Finally, TEM provides recommendation on how to form structures that may facilitate formation of transformational partnerships. First, partnerships should be designed in ways that the relationships between individuals could be sustained for long periods. Second, different task types that incorporate different engagement structures are encouraged. Third, tasks need to be interdependent and groups, and not individuals, should be kept accountable for the partnership outcomes. Finally, engagement structures allow analysis of sophisticated engagement structures and investigation of formation of reciprocity among groups and beyond dyadic relationships. I also argue that TEM’s conceptualization of reciprocity is more aligned with the Deweyan conception of learning by doing that the university community engagement advocates.
ePubWU Institutional Repository

Kartal, Melis (2018) Honest Equilibria in Reputation Games: The Role of Time Preferences. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 10 (1). pp. 278-314. ISSN 1945-7669 This version is available at: https://epub.wu. ac.at/6067/ Available in ePubWU: February 2018 ePubWU, the institutional repository of the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, is provided by the University Library and the IT-Services. The aim is to enable open access to the scholarly output of the WU. This document is the publisher-created published version.
Health Related Quality of Life among Norwegian children and adolescents with Type 1 diabetes at the Paediatric Department at Oslo University Hospital

3 Acknowledgement . 4 Abbreviations . 5 List of figures, tables and appendices . 6 Introduction . 7 Diabetes Mellitus . 7 Type 1 diabetes Epidemiology . 8 Aetiology and pathogenesis . 8 Complications . 9 Microvascular complications. 9 Macrovascular complications . 10 Mortality . 11 Treatment . 12 Psychosocial aspects of living with type 1 diabetes . 13 Health Related Quality of Life . 14 Aims and objectives . 15 Subjects and methods . 15 Design . 15 Subjects . 15 Instrument . 18 Statistical analysis. 19 Ethical considerations . 20 Results . 21 Chronic Generic Module (DCGM-37) . 23 Diabetes Specific Module (DDM-10) . 24 Discussion . 29 Conclusion . 31 Conflicts of interest . 32 Reference list . 32 Appendix . 38 Student thesis 09.02. 18 Side 3 av 41 Abstract
Intelligent Control: A Taxonomy

In this paper we highlight the stages of development towards intelligent control and define it based on literature. Furthermore, we propose a novel taxonomy of intelligent control methods which categorises these based on their level of uncertainty in three areas: the environment, the control system, and the goals. These areas are consistent with the key elements of intelligent control present in existing definitions. Using this taxonomy, we present some example intelligent control methods and their classifications to illustrate the applicability of the taxonomy.
Making Things Easier by Making Them Harder: Can Listening at a Low Volume Improve Hearing?

Can listening to information at a low volume improve hearing? To test this hypothesis this experiment had undergraduate students listen to a podcast at a low volume. In addition, this study also explored expectation or priming someone to anticipate a particular outcome. The central questions of this study asked how both listening to a podcast at a low volume and expectation influenced hearing outcomes, reaction times, the comprehension of auditory information and perceived mindfulness. A secondary line of inquiry examined whether one’s perceived mindfulness is correlated with reaction times. To this end, 111 Harvard undergraduate students with no history of hearing impairment were recruited into a 2 x 2 factorial designed study, where podcast volume and expectation were the factors at play. All participants completed a Langer Mindfulness Scale and a hearing test before being placed into one of four conditions: condition 1, participants listened to a podcast at a regular volume and were told they could expect their hearing to improve, condition 2, participants listened to a podcast at a regular volume, condition 3, participants listened to a podcast at a low volume and were told that they could expect their hearing to improve, and condition 4, participants listened to a podcast at a low volume. Participants then completed a second Langer Mindfulness Scale and hearing test, as well as a visual reaction time test, an auditory reaction time test and a quiz designed to test participants’ comprehension of the podcast material. This study found that found that that participants that listened to podcasts at a low volume would experience improvements in their posttest hearing test scores. Additionally, being within an expectation group was significantly associated with better scores on hearing tests. It should be noted that this study presupposed that listening to podcasts at a lower volume level will allow participants to mindfully notice change. Due to the fact that other mindfulness interventions have produced positive changes in auditory processing (Langer, 2009) this study’s results may give further credence to the notion that engaging in mindfulness can positively impact sensory processing. In light of these results it may be prudent to explore whether listening to information at a low volume can improve the hearing of those who live with mild to moderate hearing impairment. Conversely, based on the analysis of this thesis the podcast volume and expectation were not significantly correlated with reaction times or perceived mindfulness. Similarly, perceived mindfulness was not significantly correlated with reaction times. Lastly, the comprehension assessment used to evaluate the comprehension of podcast material proved to be too easy. As a result, a ceiling effect was observed and thus whether listening to podcasts at a low volume impacts comprehension remains unknown.
Motivational Features in an Application for Presenting Dysfunctional Movement Patterns and for Providing Support in Conducting Exercises

— This paper describes motivational features in a mobile application for physiotherapy related exercises. The features support goal setting, possibilities to follow progress, personalization and possibilities to compare own progress or performance with other users. During the iterative development of the application, an explorative study was conducted where the participants were interviewed about the motivational aspects described above. The respondents emphasized the importance of goal setting together with the physiotherapist and being able to follow progress. With respect to being able to compare performance or progress with other users, the outcome of our work is in line with previous research where comparisons have been rejected. However, people may be more positive if the comparison is disguised as a gamification element, for example, as a part of a competition or in terms of contributing to a group.
DETECTION OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS GENOTYPES IN CANCER CERVIX PATIENTS: DAMIETTA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections remain a significant problem worldwide particularly in underdeveloped countries. To develop cervical cancer, it is necessary to have a persistent infection with a high-risk or oncogenic HPV. Objectives: This study aimed to detect the HPV and its possible genotypes in cervical samples from some Egyptian female patients, histopathologically diagnosed to have cancer cervix; to guide the introduction of prophylactic vaccines. Patients and methods: Fifty women were recruited. Pap smears were taken and examined, followed by colposcopic examinations, pathologic examination, and HPV detection in cervical samples by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Then HPV genotyping of positive samples was done by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). Results: HPV-DNA was detected in 40 % of patients. HPV 16 was detected in 25 %, HPV 31 in 20 %, HPV 11in 15 %, HPV 6 in 10 %, and HPV 18 in 5% of cases. About 25% (5/20) cervical cancer specimens exhibited multiple infections by HPV genotypes 16and 18, which showed a higher risk for development of cancer cervix. Correlations of age, age-specific prevalence, residence, multiple marriages, parity, contraceptives, and its duration, diabetes mellitus were statistically significant . while correlations of occupation, level of education, age at marriage, duration of marriage, recurrent and chronic infections, smoking, and family history of cancers were insignificant. Conclusions: The prevalence of HPV in cancer cervix was 40%. So, the association between HPV and the development of cancer cervix in the studied Egyptian women cannot be fully established. HPV infection was mostly (75%) in the form of single infections with HPV16, 18, 31, 11, and 6 genotypes. However, HPV infections in multiple forms, 16+18 genotypes were in 25% of positive cases.
University of Southern Denmark Differential Expression and Localization of Branchial AQP1 and AQP3 in Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes) Ellis,

Aquaporins (AQPs) facilitate transmembrane water and solute transport, and in addition to contributing to transepithelial water transport, they safeguard cell volume homeostasis. This study examined the expression and localization of AQP1 and AQP3 in the gills of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) in response to osmotic challenges and osmoregulatory hormones, cortisol, and prolactin (PRL). AQP3 mRNA was inversely regulated in response to salinity with high levels in ion-poor water (IPW), intermediate levels in freshwater (FW), and low levels in seawater (SW). AQP3 protein levels decreased upon SW acclimation. By comparison, AQP1 expression was unaffected by salinity. In ex vivo gill incubation experiments, AQP3 mRNA was stimulated by PRL in a timeand dose-dependent manner but was unaffected by cortisol. In contrast, AQP1 was unaffected by both PRL and cortisol. Confocal microscopy revealed that AQP3 was abundant in the periphery of gill filament epithelial cells and co-localized at low intensity with Na+,K+-ATPase in ionocytes. AQP1 was present at a very low intensity in most filament epithelial cells and red blood cells. No epithelial cells in the gill lamellae showed immunoreactivity to AQP3 or AQP1. We suggest that both AQPs contribute to cellular volume regulation in the gill epithelium and that AQP3 is particularly important under hypo-osmotic conditions, while expression of AQP1 is constitutive.
Network Planning Policies for Joint Switching in Spectrally-Spatially Flexible Optical Networks

—The spectrally and spatially flexible optical networks (SS-FON) are the promising solution for future optical transport networks. The joint switching (J-Sw) paradigm is one of the possible switching schemes for SS-FON that brings optical component integration alongside with acceptable networking performance. The network planning of J-Sw is investigated in this paper. The formulation of resource allocation for J-Sw is introduced as in integer linear programming to find the optimal solution. To find the near-optimal solution, the heuristic algorithms are initiated with sorted connection demands. The way connection demands are sorted to initiate the heuristic algorithms affects the accuracy of algorithms. Therefore, six different sorting policies are introduced for J-Sw. Moreover, the heuristic algorithm called joint switching resource allocation (JSRA) algorithm is introduced, especially for J-Sw. The heuristic algorithm performance initiated with different sorting policies is investigated through simulation for a small-size network. The optimality gap is the most important indicator that shows the effect of each sorting policy on the near-optimal solution. The new sorting policy of connection demands called descending frequency width (DFW) policy achieved the least optimality gap. Also, the JSRA performance initiated with these sorting policies is investigated for a real network topology. The obtained results indicate that DFW shows better performance than other sorting policies in realistic networks, too.
Alternative methodologies for genotyping polymorphisms in the CAST and CAPN1 genes in beef cattle

ABSTRACT The objectives of this study were to genotype single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) AF159246:g.2959A>G (CAST/DdeI) and AF248054.2:g.6545C>T (CAPN4751) in beef cattle by PCR-RFLP (Polymerase Chain Reaction – Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism), using the restriction enzyme DdeI for both SNP, and describe the use of these genotyping methodologies for the first time. For the SNP located in the CAST gene, new primers were designed, and for the SNP of the CAPN1 gene, the same primers previously described in the literature were [. ]
On the use of algebraic topology concepts to check the consistency of genome assembly

This paper presents a preliminary work consisting of two contributions. The first one is the design of a very efficient algorithm based on an “Overlap-Layout-Consensus” (OLC) graph to assemble the long reads provided by 3rd generation technologies. The second concerns the analysis of this graph using algebraic topology concepts to determine, in advance, whether the assembly of the genome will be straightforward, i.e., whether it will lead to a pseudo-Hamiltonian path or cycle, or whether the results will need to be scrutinized. In the latter case, it will be necessary to look for “loops” in the OLC assembly graph caused by unresolved repeated genomic regions, and then try to untie the “knots” created by these regions.
Physical Facilities and Teacher Trainees Satisfaction with Quality of Education in Early Childhood Training Colleges in Kiambu County, Kenya

Globally, provision of quality early childhood education training remains elusive especially in most developing countries. In Kenya, early childhood teachers for many years were training through the District Centre for Early Childhood Education until recently when the training was shifted to the formerly teacher training colleges due to the ongoing education reforms in Kenya. The purpose of this study was to assess the trainees’ satisfaction with the quality of training in Colleges offering early childhood development and education programmes in Thika West Sub County, Nairobi County. The study was premised on ExpectancyDisconfirmation Theory of Customer Satisfaction as the theoretical underpinning of the study. Descriptive survey design was employed for the study. The study targeted 424 trainees and 40 trainers from 6 ECDE Colleges from Thika West Sub-County. The findings showed that majority of trainees in the ECDE colleges were not satisfied with the quality of education due to inadequate classrooms and teaching-learning materials. The study recommended that the management of the colleges should equip them with the essential physical facilities in order to enhance the quality of training and education. The findings of the study may be useful to the key stakeholders in establishing approaches towards improving the wellbeing of the trainees in ECDE colleges.
Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Collaborative Representation Using Projection Dictionary Pair

In state analysis of rolling bearings using collaborative representation theory, how to construct an excellent redundant dictionary to collaboratively represent the acquired normal or abnormal data has been being a significant issue. Thus, a new method for fault detection and classification of rolling bearings is proposed in this paper. The proposed algorithm mainly consists of three components. First, a wavelet transform is employed to extract features, which takes advantage of the observation that vibration signals under different conditions have similar frequency spectra. This similarity ensures that we can collaboratively represent any test sample by using training samples. Second, under the similarity assumption, a dictionary pair learning strategy is employed to build an overcomplete dictionary pair, which is used to realize an optimal representation of the vibration signal. Meanwhile, the sparse constraint is also taken into account during dictionary training to enhance the robustness of the classification. Finally, the learned dictionary combined with collaborative representation is used to intelligently perform pattern classification of rolling bearings. The effectiveness and superiority of the method are verified by applying the proposed algorithm on the simulated and real vibration signals. The results show that, for different fault categories generated from different fault size and motor loads, our method can rapidly and accurately identify the fault category to which the input sample belongs.
Preservice teachers’ reflections on teaching science with practical work in multiple-deprived classrooms

Practical work is central to science education because it has several affordances for teaching and learning. Preservice science teachers may learn to facilitate practical work in schools during teaching practice. However, it is important for teacher training programmes to establish what the preservice science teachers learn about teaching science with practical work in the schools. Most of the science classrooms in the schools are characterised by challenges that result in conditions of multiple-deprivation for teaching and learning. Using a pedagogical content knowledge conceptual framework for science teaching, this study explored the teaching of science with practical work in schools through the reflections of five final year preservice physical sciences teachers at one South African university. In a qualitative case study of teaching science with practical work in multiple-deprived classrooms, purposive sampling was used to select the preservice science teachers. The data collection tools were the preservice teachers’ reflection journals completed during practicum. The preservice teachers reflected on how science was taught with practical work in the multiple-deprived classrooms and on how they could improve the practices. Findings point to reflection as a potentially powerful tool for preservice science teachers to develop positive attitudes and perceptions on key aspects of the pedagogical content knowledge for science teaching with practical work. In addition, the study identifies knowledge and beliefs of science classroom contextual settings as aspects of the pedagogical content knowledge for science teaching with practical work. Recommendations for practice are made.
NUTRITIVE VALUE OF SOME EGYPTIAN CLOVER VARIETIES AS AFFECTED BY VARIOUS LEVELS OF PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZATION

In order to evaluate nutritive value of some Egyptian clover varieties two field experiments were carried out at the Experimental Research ٍ Station, Faculty of Agriculture at Moshtohor, Benha University during the two growing seasons of 2010/2011 and 2011/2012. Chemical constituents potentialities of five Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum, L.) varieties i.e.Gemiza 1, Sakha 4, Helali, Giza 6 and Serw 1 under various phosphorus fertilization levels i.e.0, 22.5 and 45 kg P2O5/fed were investigated chemical analysis was conducted for the second and fourth cuts of each of the two growing seasons for the different grown varieties. Combined analysis of the two seasons was done after insuring the validity of partlet test (Steel and Torrie, 1981). Results could be concluded as follows: Results of the combined analysis of the two seasons indicated significant differences in crude protein (CP), crude fiber (CF), Ash, ether extract (EE), nitrogen free extract (NFE), total digestible nutrients (TDN) and digestible protein (DP%) among the studied five Egyptian clover varieties during two cuts. Highest content of CP, CF, P, DP and TDN% were obtained for Gemiza1, whereas, Helali variety recorded highest content of Ash and EE% with significant differences of different magnitudes. Also, highest NFE content was recorded for Giza 6. Results showed that CP, CF, Ash, EE, P, DP and TDN % were substantially increased as phosphorus fertilization levels increased from 0 to 22.5 and up to 45 kg P2O5 /fed. However, reverse trend was observed for NFE content. It could be concluded that highest forage quality of Egyptian clover was produced from sown Gemiza 1 variety and fertilizing with 45 kg P2O5/fed.under North Delta conditions.