Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE IMPACT OF SALE PROMOTION ON IMPULSE BUYING BEHAVIOUR AMONG MUSLIM CREDIT CARDHOLDERS IN MALAYSIA

DOI: 10.35631/IJMTSS.311003. Studies pertaining to impulse buying have been substantially conducted in developing countries. Nevertheless, such studies are in scarcity amidst Asian countries, particularly Malaysia. Besides, studies that have looked into the variables of sale promotion is also rather sparsely carried out in the light of impulse buying behaviour. As such, this study examined the correlations between sale promotion on impulse buying behaviour among Muslim credit cardholders in Malaysia. In terms of instrument development, this study instrument adopted and adapted from prior studies. Questionnaires were distributed to 1,000 Muslim credit cardholders in Malaysia via purposive and snowball sampling techniques, wherein only 635 were usable for final data analysis. The analysis was performed via Partial Least Square (PLS-SEM) analysis. The outcomes revealed that sale promotion displayed significant positive correlations with impulse buying behaviour.
The role of the ECF sigma factor SigG in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of Tuberculosis (TB). Two billion people are currently infected with M. tuberculosis bacilli, one in ten of whom will develop active TB in their lifetime. M. tuberculosis is able to survive within macrophages but the exact mechanisms used for intracellular survival are poorly understood. DNA-dependent RNA polymerase is the enzyme responsible for transcription in all living organisms. In bacteria this enzyme recognises different promoters by binding to sigma factors that recognise those promoters. This study focuses on the role and regulation of the M. tuberculosis extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factor, SigG. ECF sigma factors are responsible for upregulating genes necessary for bacterial stress responses. SigG has previously been shown to be upregulated in response to DNA damage and during macrophage infection. It has been demonstrated that sigG is expressed from at least 2 promoters and that only promoter P1 is DNA-damage inducible. sigG is co-transcribed with the two downstream genes Rv0181c and Rv0180c, which were hypothesised to be anti- and anti-anti-sigma factors to SigG. Protein-protein interaction studies showed that SigG and Rv0181c do not interact. Potential anti-sigma factors to SigG were identified, the most promising of which was the thioredoxin family protein Rv1084. Two potential SigG-dependent genes had previously been identified, Rv0887c and Rv0911. It has been demonstrated that SigG is able to bind to the promoter regions of these genes but this interaction was not specific. An M. tuberculosis sigG-Rv0180c deletion strain was constructed and complemented with the whole operon as well as with sigG alone. The phenotype of the mutant strain was examined in vitro as well as in vivo to test the hypothesis that SigG has a role during infection. Use of a phenotype microarray revealed an enhanced susceptibility of the mutant strain to oleic acid and its ester, Tween 80, leading to investigation of the sensitivity of the strains to a range of fatty acids.
The Effect of Various Legume Herbs Supplementation on Intake, Digestibility and Growth of Fat-tailed Lambs Given Mulato Grass

This experiment was conducted to examine the effect of various legume herbs supplementation on feed intake, digestibility and liveweight gain of fat-tailed lambs given Mulato ( Brachiaria mulato ) grass. Twenty four male fat-tailed lambs (8 months of age and 12.73± 0.56 kg (SE) of initial liveweight) were randomly allotted to four treatment groups based on unfasted liveweight. Animals were housed in individual metabolism crates. The experiment was designed in a completely randomized block design, with four treatments and six replicates. The dietary treatment tested included Mulato grass ad libitum (M), M + Centrosema pascuorum (MCP), M + Dolichos lab lab (MDL) and M+ Clitoria ternatea (MCT). All supplement was offered at 1.5% body weight (W) per day. The experiment lasted for 10 weeks, with 2 and 8 weeks for adaptation and measurement period, respectively. The main parameter measured included feed intake, feed digestibility, and average daily liveweight gain (ADG). Results showed that total DM intakes (DMI) were not affected (P>0.05) by legume herbs supplementation. Total DMI was 2.75, 2.79, 2.84 and 2.87 %W/d for lamb treated with M MCP, MDL and MCT respectively. In contrast, supplementation with various legume herbs significantly increased (P 0.05) between legume herbs. Feed DMD was 58.17, 67.48, 64.91; 65.03% and ADG were 35.67; 58.39; 54.31 and 54.41 g/day, for lamb treated with M, MCP, MDL and MCT respectively. It was concluded that supplementation of legume herbs to fat-tailed lamb fed Mulato grass significantly increased DMD and ADG, but no significant differences across the legume herbs as feed supplements were observed.
Production of genetically superior goats through embryo transfer technology in Sri Lanka.

This study was conducted to establish techniques for embryo production and transfer in goats and also to examine the feasibility of application of such techniques in Sri Lanka to improve the reproductive efficiency of superior animals. Two groups of genetically superior does were inserted with progesterone releasing intravaginal pessaries (45 mg, Cronolone) on Day-1 of the program. The does in group one (n = 3) and group two (n = 4) were given injections of pure porcine Follicular Stimulating Hormone (pFSH, 20 mg/ml) and pure ovine Follicular Stimulating Hormone (oFSH, 0.88 mg/ml), respectively. On Day-8, all animals were injected with Pregnancy Mare Serum Gonadotropin (PMSG, 500 μg/ml). Subsequent injections of pFSH or oFSH were given in the morning and evening on Day-9 and Day-10. Does were injected with Prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α, 263 μg/ml) in the morning of Day-9 and vaginal pessaries were removed in the evening of Day-10. On the evening of Day-11, Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) injections were given and the does in estrus were kept for 48 hours with a Jamnapari buck for breeding. Seven days post-estrous, embryos were collected, surgically, by flushing the uterus with warm embryo flushing medium containing Lactated Ringers Solution with 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA). The quality of the embryos was assessed and the recovered embryos were transplanted surgically to estrus synchronized goat recipients (n = 8) at 7 days post-estrus. Following embryo transplantation, four does were found to be pregnant by ultra sound scanning at 35 days in pregnancy. One healthy female offspring (Peradeniya Kumari) was born at full term (150 days) to Group-1. Another four goat kids were born to Group-2, while one kid died. In the same group, one abortion was reported. During the first six weeks of birth, weight gain of first born kids to Group-1 and 2 were 152.3 g and 149.2 g /day, respectively. The results suggest that genetically superior goats can be produced using embryo transfer technology in Sri Lanka.
Suivi de la lixiviation du nitrate en plein champ par la technique lysimétrique : retour de huit années d’expérience

Depuis 2003, la lixiviation du nitrate est suivie dans six parcelles situees en region limoneuse (Hesbaye, Belgique) vouee aux grandes cultures et aux cultures legumieres industrielles. L’outil utilise pour ce suivi est le lysimetre, installe en conditions reelles d’exploitation des parcelles, de maniere a ne pas entraver les operations culturales. Un des objectifs de l’etude est l’evaluation de l’APL (Azote Potentiellement Lessivable) defini dans le Programme de Gestion Durable de l’Azote (PGDA) en tant qu’indicateur environnemental en comparant les modes de gestion de l’azote (en ce compris les conseils de fertilisation), les valeurs d’APL et la qualite de l’eau de percolation. Les resultats obtenus montrent que les lysimetres constituent un outil efficace pour recolter des volumes representatifs de l’eau en voie de percolation. Cette etude a valide l’APL en tant que bon indicateur de la concentration en nitrate qui sera mesuree de six a dix-huit mois plus tard dans l’eau de percolation, a une profondeur ou il ne sera pas recuperable par la culture suivante. La lixiviation de l’azote nitrique observee in situ montre la necessite et la pertinence des normes d’epandage definies dans le PGDA. Par ailleurs, l’outil lysimetrique a clairement mis en evidence que le maintien de la qualite de l’eau de percolation sous les terres agricoles doit etre approche par une gestion integree et globale des rotations et successions culturales completes, en ce compris les fertilisations raisonnees et l’implantation de CIPAN (Cultures Intermediaires Pieges a Nitrate). Des successions culturales favorables et defavorables a la qualite de l’eau de percolation ont ainsi pu etre identifiees.
Mutation detection in normal mucosa and early lesions of colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC) has a relatively poor prognosis when detected at a later stage, therefore understanding its development to allow prevention or early detection is key to improving outcomes. Bowel cancer screening allows for the detection of tumours and precursor lesions. Even earlier changes could potentially be detected; genetic aberrations within the normal bowel before phenotypic changes occur. Early lesions may develop independently throughout the bowel or through a cancer field effect. FAP adenomas are a useful model due to adenomas developing within the same environment and all incurring the same first “hit” within APC. Using next generation sequencing the genetic profiles of FAP adenomas can be compared to better understand the development of these lesions. Firstly the sensitivity of pyrosequencing and NGS was determined as was the value of PCR-based mutant enrichment techniques. Samples of carcinoma, adenoma and their associated normals alongside normal mucosa from patients with normal colonoscopies were tested for mutations in commonly mutated genes in CRC using NGS. Multiple FAP adenomas from four patients were also tested with this mutation panel. Alongside this, copy number analysis was performed. The mutational and copy number data was used to ascertain the pattern of adenoma development throughout the bowel. Mutations were detected in carcinoma associated normal in APC, KRAS, CTNNB1 and SMAD4. The KRAS mutations in carcinoma associated normal differed to the KRAS mutation in the matched tumour. No mutations were detected in oncogenes in adenoma associated normal or normal mucosa from patients with normal colonoscopies. Studying mutations and copy number aberrations in FAP adenomas revealed that some adenomas shared specific lesions, indicating that they were clonally related. These results have confirmed previously findings of KRAS mutations in carcinoma associated normal mucosa as well as describing mutations in APC, CTNNB1 and SMAD4. This combined with the large amount of similarity in terms of mutations and copy number seen in adenomas from the same patient provides evidence for the cancer field theory.
Nuevo sistema de fijación espinal en caninos

Resumen: Los diversos procedimientos utilizados en la actualidad para la reparacion de fracturas espinales incluyen: Placas plasticas tomadas a las apofisis espinosas con tornillos pasantes, Alambres y clavos de acero inoxidable en el compartimiento dorsal, Clavos cruzados en los cuerpos vertebrales, Placas con tornillos en los cuerpos vertebrales, Tornillos en las apofisis articulares yTornillos o clavos de Steinman en el cuerpo vertebral, tomados con metilmetacrilato. Ninguno logra por si sola neutralizar las diferentes fuerzas, de modo que sea capaz de inmovilizar con exito un trauma espinal y poseen limitaciones relacionadas con: la region de la columna en que debe ser utilizado, el tamano, edad y temperamento del paciente, los tipos de fuerzas que debe neutralizar y el tipo de fractura y/o luxacion. Creemos que El Sistema Argentino de columna Modificado (SCAM), es una opcion adecuada en muchos paciente ya que se adapta en las diferentes regiones espinales, es de facil y rapida colocacion, y aporta una excelente inmovilidad, debido a la union implante-oseo en el cuerpo vertebral, que neutraliza el compartimiento ventral y medio, requisito necesario en una instrumentacion espinal. palabras claves: columna vertebral, fijacion espinal, canino. NEw spiNaL FixatioN systEm iN Dog
Microfabrication of Ni-Fe Mold Insert via Hard X-ray Lithography and Electroforming Process

In this research, a Ni-Fe mold insert for the efficient replication of high aspect-ratio microstructure arrays was fabricated via hard X-ray lithography and an electroforming process. For the X-ray exposure on a photoresist, a gold-based X-ray mask was prepared with conventional UV photolithography. The gold thickness was designed to be over 15 μm to prevent development underneath the absorber and to enhance the adhesion strength between the photoresist and substrate. By using the X-ray mask, a positive-type photoresist was selectively exposed to X-ray under an exposure energy of 4 kJ/cm3. Thereafter, the exposed region was developed in a downward direction to effectively remove the residual photoresist from the substrate. During the evaporation process, deionized water mixed with a surface additive prevented the bending and clustering of the photoresist microstructure arrays by lowering the capillary force, resulting in a defect-free mother structure for electroforming. Lastly, the mother structure was uniformly Ni-Fe electroformed on a conductive substrate without the formation of any pores or detachment from the substrate. Based on the proposed microfabrication process, a Ni-Fe mold insert with a 183 μm pattern size, 68 μm gap size, 550 μm height, 2116 microcavities and a hardness of 585 Hv was precisely manufactured. It can be utilized for the mass production of high aspect ratio metal and ceramic microstructure arrays in micro molding technologies.
Computerized Group Dynamic Assessment and Listening Comprehension Ability: Does Self-Efficacy Matter?

The present study investigated the effect of group dynamic assessment (DA) through software on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension ability. The main question of the study was whether dynamic assessment via CoolSpeech software had any effect on the listening comprehension ability of learners with high and low self-efficacy. To find the answer, 80 Iranian intermediate learners were selected from among a population of 120, based on their scores on a placement test. A self-efficacy questionnaire was then used to assign selected participants into two experimental groups as low self-efficacious experimental group (n=20) and high self-efficacious experimental group (n=20), as well as two control groups, each containing 20 participants. Next, a pretest of listening comprehension ability was administered to all groups, and no significant difference between their mean scores was observed. After a period of two months, during which the experimental groups received treatment of dynamic assessment through CoolSpeech software and the control groups received a placebo, a posttest of listening comprehension was administered to all groups. The data analysis results revealed that the participants in high self-efficacious experimental group achieved significantly better scores than the other groups. However, in the second experimental group, no significant change was observed, and participants in the second experimental group did not significantly outperform the control group. It was concluded that the group dynamic assessment method via software could have a significant effect on the listening comprehension ability of EFL learners with high self-efficacy.
A computable general equilibrium model for banking sector risk assessment in South Africa

In this article a banking sector Computable general equilibrium (CGE) model for South Africa is developed. The model is used to estimate the potential effect of regulatory policy on the economy and as a risk assessment tool to assess how changes in regulation affect the economy. The model provides a methodology for regulators of the banking sector and policy makers in South Africa to deal with risk assessment and future regulatory planning. The CGE model allows interactions amongst various entities of the economy so that policy makers could detect the risks in the banking sector. The CGE model used in this paper performed well as a risk assessment tool for the South African banking sector. The results of the various shocks from the model are consistent with the results obtained from similar shocks done in the UK. We establish that default penalty has a higher effect on the banks’ profits and the interest rates than capital requirement infringement penalty. Our results also suggest that interest rate targeting has more controlled effects than monetary base targeting since pecuniary externalities are reduced.
Heterosis in landrace hybrids of post-rainy sorghum {Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench}

Twenty hybrids, derived from a line x tester trial, were evaluated in post-rainy season (rabi) during 2002–03 along with the parents and the checks. Heterosis over standard checks CSH 19R and M35-1 and better parent was studied for grain yield and its component characters. Negative heterosis over the checks for days to flowering and plant height was observed for most of the hybrids indicating their earliness and at par status for height. Heterosis for test weight over CSH 19R was higher and significant for all the hybrids. The cross 117AxPU 28 was the highest yielding, exhibiting significant heterosis over better parent and both the checks. Among landraces, PU 28 and PU 16 proved to be better because of their good combining ability and could be utilized as restorers for commercial exploitation of heterosis.
Abusive supervision and employee creativity: a moderated mediation model

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the harmful effect of abusive supervision on employee creativity through feedback-seeking behavior (FSB) and the moderation of this mediation by proactive personality.Design/methodology/approachThis study conducted hierarchical regression and path analysis to analyze the 341 manager–employee dyads data gathered from 11 companies in China.FindingsThe results reveal that abusive supervision had a detrimental effect on employee creativity partially mediated by employee FSB, and employees' proactive personality moderated the mediation.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the findings of this research are based on multiple sources data, it is hard to draw causal inferences because the nature of the data is cross-sectional.Practical implicationsOrganizations should be aware of the deleterious effect of abusive supervision on employee creativity and should seek to inhibit supervisors' abusive behavior in the workplace.Originality/valueThis study re-examines the relationship between abusive supervision and employee creativity in the Chinese context from the social exchange perspective. The mediating role of FSB and the moderating role of proactive personality offer new insights in-to the mechanisms and boundary conditions associated with the relationship between abusive supervision and employee creativity.
An Improved PDR/UWB Integrated System for Indoor Navigation Applications

The challenges of the inertial navigation system based pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) are mainly stochastic errors and serious accumulated errors caused by sensor variance, while the ultra-wideband (UWB) based positioning approaches are vulnerable to the external environment and produce many outliers under non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. To overcome these shortcomings, this paper proposes a three-level improved PDR/UWB integrated system, in which the gait detection is first performed by a dual-frequency Butterworth filter, and the step length is accurately estimated based on a linear combination model. Then the position of the target is calculated by combining the step length and the heading information but calibrated periodically through the drift-free output of the UWB system. Finally, the noise distribution is dynamically adjusted through the NLOS assessment function, and the positioning accuracy is improved at information fusion level using the proposed variable noise variance Kalman filter. The positioning data is collected by our integrated small-scale sensors in both LOS and NLOS environments, and experiment results have demonstrated that the proposed PDR/UWB integrated system can significantly improve the accuracy of positioning information and can apply in indoor navigation applications.
Human influence on frequency of temperature extremes

We investigate the influence of external forcings on the frequency of temperature extremes over land at the global and continental scales by comparing HadEX3 observations and simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Programme Phase 6 (CMIP6) project. We consider four metrics including warm days and nights (TX90p and TN90p) and cold days and nights (TX10p and TN10p). The observational dataset during 1951–2018 shows continued increases in the warm days and nights and decreases in the cold days and nights in most land areas in the years after 2010. The area of the so-called ‘warming hole’ in North America is much reduced in 1951–2018 compared with that in 1951–2010. The comparison between observation and simulations based on an optimal fingerprinting method shows that the anthropogenic forcing, dominated by greenhouse gases, plays the most important role in the changes of the frequency indices. Changes in CMIP6 multi-model mean response to all forcing need to be scaled down to best match the observations, indicating that the multi-model ensemble mean may have overestimated the observed changes. Analyses that involve signals from anthropogenic and natural external forcings confirm that the anthropogenic signal can be detected over global land as a whole and for most continents in all temperature indices. Analyses that include signals from greenhouse gas (GHG), anthropogenic aerosol (AA) and natural external (NAT) forcings show that the GHG signal is detected in all indices over the globe and most continents while the AA signal can be detected mainly in the warm extremes but not the cold extremes over the globe and most continents. The effect of NAT is negligible in most land areas. GHG’s warming effect is offset partially by AA’s cooling effect. The combined effects from both explain most of the observed changes over the globe and continents.
Modelling of axial‐flux eddy‐current couplers

Analytical models are widely employed in the design of electromagnetic devices. This study presents a flux-tube model for axial-flux eddy-current couplers with surface magnets. Thanks to the developed three-dimensional magnetic equivalent circuit, the proposed model is able to handle complex geometries and take into account all dimensional parameters and material properties such as iron saturation and permanent magnet (PM) characteristics. In addition, the associated practical design considerations including iron saturation, demagnetisation criteria, actual current paths, and heating conditions are analytically presented. Also, a three-dimensional finite-element analysis is utilised in the assessment of the model. Finally, a prototype is made to experimentally analyse the design and confirm analytical and numerical results.
The beak and unfeathered skin as heat radiators in the southern ground‐hornbill

1 South African Research Chair in Conservation Physiology, South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 754, Pretoria 0001, South Africa 2 DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa 3 Mabula Ground Hornbill Project, P.O. Box 876, Bela-Bela, Limpopo, South Africa 4 Applied Behavioural Ecology and Ecosystem Research Unit, University of South Africa, Private Bag X6, Florida, 1710, South Africa