Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Financial Behavior and Quality of Life of College Students: Implications for College Financial Education

This paper reports preliminary findings from a study on financial behaviors of college students. Objectives of the study are to identify factors associated with financial behaviors and to examine associations between financial behavior and quality of life of the students surveyed. Results of bivariate analyses show that frequencies of performing positive financial behaviors are associated with many factors, such as attitude toward performing the behavior, perceived control, parental influence, peer influence, class standing, etc. In addition, performing desirable financial behaviors is positively associated with financial satisfaction, physical health, mental health, academic performance and satisfaction, and life satisfaction.
Moderating Effect of Dividend Policy and Share Prices of Quoted Firms in Nigeria

This study empirically investigated the moderating effect of a firm size on the relationship between dividend policy and share price among consumer firms in Nigeria by employing a sample of twelve (12) consumer companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The data set was collated for 12 years (2007-2018) and employed the fixed effect regression technique. The results tend to annul the theory of Miller and Modigliani (1961) which suggests that dividend are irrelevant but lends credence to the ‘Bird in Hand Dividend Theory’ supported by Fairchild (2010). This suggests that larger firms have good chances of paying dividend which will lead to improvement in share price. This finding negates the dividend irrelevant proposition that dividend does not matter to corporate value.
Vulnerability Analysis of Rural Households to Food Insecurity in Ondo State, Nigeria

This study examines the vulnerability of rural households to food insecurity in Ondo State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from two hundred and forty (240) rural household heads through a multi-stage random sampling procedure using a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression model were employed to analyse the field survey data. Results from the study showed that the mean age was 52 years, indicating that the respondents were still fairly young. Majority (77.5%) of the respondents were male households with 62.5% married. More than half (51.0%) of the household heads were uneducated and 62.5% of the respondents had less than 2 acres, while 58.8% were food insecure. The estimated logit regression results revealed that marital status, household size, dependency ratio and proneness to sickness increase the probability of rural households falling into food insecurity while education, cooperative membership, farm size decrease same at 1% and 5% level of significance, respectively. Result from the study also showed that majority of the respondents eats less preferred food as one of the coping strategies employed to cushion the effects of economic shock in the study area. Based on the findings, the study concludes and recommends that policies that are meant to increase educational level, cooperative membership and farm size in order to reduce food insecurity should be put in place.
Pharmacological properties of Boerhavia diffusa: A review

Now a day due to various side effects of allopathic medicine, scientists of pharmaceutical industries and research centers have been engaged to explore the pharmacological properties of herbal plants. The present review explains the pharmacological properties of Boerhavia diffusa plant. This plant commonly known as punarnava, is herb of family Nyctaginaceae. B. diffusa known to have medicinal properties and used as Ayurvedic medicine in India. Battery of phytochemicals like alkaloids, flavonoids, rotenoids and phytosterols has been found in the plant which are responsible for its various pharmacological properties such as analgesic, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, hepatoprotective, immunomodulator and nephroprotective, antiulcer and antihistaminic etc. Moreover, several new phytochemicals are discovered which again validate its medicinal importance. This review presents the evidence-based pharmacological properties of B. diffusa. In conclusion B. diffusa contain many bioactive phytochemicals that may be use as prophylactic as well as for cure of various ailments of human and animals.
Land Subsidence Studies of Seberang Perai Malaysia, By Integrating Remote Sensing Technique and Resistivity Survey Method

This days land subsidence activities have been increasing rapidly in Malaysia. Land subsidence is now one of the serious threats to the country which is caused by excessive withdrawal of ground water and extraction of ground resources along with the rapid development of infrastructures of cities and urban areas. Ground subsidence is define as the differential sinking of the Earth’s surface with respect to terrain that surrounded the surface area. It is due to the extraction of ground resources and presence of voids in the subsurface generated either naturally or by human activities. This study aims to detect and measure the ground movement in SeberangPerai using active remote sensing and geophysical approach. RADAR interferometry (InSAR) is a remote sensing technique which measures the minute changes in ground movement to millimetre scale. Persistent Scatter (PS) and Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) interferometry stacking techniques were applied to Sentinel-1A data to measure the changes in ground movement of Seberang Perai. Integration of both remote sensing and 2D resistivity method helped in identifying the possible subsidence areas and to also identify the subsurface anomalies of Seberang Perai in order to achieve that Dipole-Dipole array electrode configuration survey were conducted in Juru and Taman Bukit Minyak, subsidence was able to identified at different zone and relatively some uplift. Problems related to land subsidence has to be put in to consideration in order to save life and properties, hence a proper awareness is important in such affected areas.
Prediction of evaluated energy balance (NEL and ME) in dairy cows by milk mid-infrared (MIR) spectra.

1Regional association for performance testing in livestock breeding of Baden-Wuerttemberg (LKV Baden-Wuerttemberg), Stuttgart, Germany Corresponding Author: ldale@lkvbw.de 2Institute for Animal Nutrition and Feed Management, Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture (LfL), Grub, Germany 3TiDa Animal and Data GmbH, Westensee, Germany 4German Association for Quality and Performance Testing e.V. , Bonn, Germany
Critical Utterances

It has been said that there is something deeply touching about creating something and then having a chat with it. Machines in general, and more speci(cid:2)cally computers, are not the exception to that tendency. However, in spite of the accelerated advances in arti(cid:2)cial intelligence (AI), the barrier of computer ’understanding’ and naturally communicating in natural language has not been completely pulled down. In this paper we review the computer’s shortcomings when having a chat with a user and propose our idea of the creation of critical utterances in order to have a better simulation of the human conversational behavior.
Osblr8 orchestrates intrachromosomal loop structure required for maintaining stem cell pluripotency

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), derived from reprogramming of somatic cells by a cocktail of transcription factors, have the capacity for unlimited self-renewal and the ability to differentiate into all of cell types present in the body. iPSCs may have therapeutic potential in regenerative medicine, replacing injured tissues or even whole organs. In this study, we examine epigenetic factors embedded in the specific 3-dimensional intrachromosomal architecture required for the activation of endogenous pluripotency genes. Using chromatin RNA in situ reverse transcription sequencing (CRIST-seq), we identified an Oct4-Sox2 binding long noncoding RNA, referred as to Osblr8, that is present in association with pluripotency status. Osblr8 was highly expressed in iPSCs and E14 embryonic stem cells, but it was silenced in fibroblasts. By using shRNA to knock down Osblr8, we found that this lncRNA was required for the maintenance of pluripotency. Overexpression of Osblr8 activated endogenous stem cell core factor genes. Mechanistically, Osblr8 participated in the formation of an intrachromosomal looping structure that is required to activate stem cell core factors during reprogramming. In summary, we have demonstrated that lncRNA Osblr8 is a chromatin architecture modulator of pluripotency-associated master gene promoters, highlighting its critical epigenetic role in reprogramming.
Microstructure Modeling of High b-Value Diffusion-Weighted Images in Glioblastoma

Apparent diffusion coefficient has limits to differentiate solid tumor from normal tissue or edema in glioblastoma (GBM). This study investigated a microstructure model (MSM) in GBM using a clinically available diffusion imaging technique. The MSM was modified to integrate with bi-polar diffusion gradient waveforms, and applied to 30 patients with newly diagnosed GBM. Diffusion-weighted (DW) images acquired on a 3 T scanner with b-values from 0 to 2500 s/mm2 were fitted in volumes of interest (VOIs) of solid tumor to obtain the apparent restriction size of intracellular water (ARS), the fractional volume of intracellular water (Vin), and extracellular (Dex) water diffusivity. The parameters in solid tumor were compared with those of other tissue types by Students’ t test. For comparison, DW images were fitted by conventional mono-exponential and bi-exponential models. ARS, Dex, and Vin from the MSM in tumor VOIs were significantly greater than those in WM, GM, and edema (P values of .01–.001). ARS values in solid tumors (from 21.6 to 34.5 um) had absolutely no overlap with those in all other tissue types (from 0.9 to 3.5 um). Vin values showed a descending order from solid tumor (from 0.32 to 0.52) to WM, GM, and edema (from 0.05 to 0.25), consisting with the descending cellularity in these tissue types. The parameters from mono-exponential and bi-exponential models could not significantly differentiate solid tumor from all other tissue types, particularly from edema. Further development and histopathological validation of the MSM will warrant its role in clinical management of GBM.
Factors Affecting the Foveal Avascular Zone Area in Healthy Eyes among Young Chinese Adults

Purpose To evaluate the influence of systemic and ocular factors on the foveal avascular zone (FAZ) area in young Chinese subjects' healthy eyes. Methods The current observational, cross-sectional study included 344 eyes from 172 healthy individuals (103 women, 69 men). Optical coherence tomography angiography realized with the split-spectrum amplitude-decorrelation angiography (SSADA) algorithm was used to assess the area of superficial FAZ. To determine the related factors and to reveal their potential correlations with the FAZ area, comprehensive examinations including both systemic and ocular ones were executed. Systemic examination involved factors including age, gender, and body mass index, while ocular examination involved factors including BCVA, refractive error, intraocular pressure, axial length (AL), anterior chamber depth, and central corneal thickness. Especially for fundus examination, central macular thickness (CMT), retinal volume, mean retinal thickness, macular blood flow area/vessel density in the superficial retinal layer (SRL) and deep retinal layer (DRL), mean retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness, ganglion cell layer (GCL) thickness, C/D rate, rim area, and subfoveal choroid thickness were assessed, using mixed-effects regression models to appropriately account for intereye correlation. Subgroup analyses were performed based on gender and high myopia categories. Results The mean FAZ area was 0.30 ± 0.11 mm2 and varied significantly across gender (P = 0.0024). AL, CMT, and RNFL thickness were found significantly correlated with the FAZ area in the univariate regression analysis (AL, P = 0.0005; CMT, P < 0.0001; and RNFL thickness, P = 0.0461). According to the multivariate results, CMT and macular blood flow in SRL were negatively correlated with FAZ (CMT: P < 0.0001; macular blood flow in SRL: P = 0.00223). Mean retinal thickness, mean GCL thickness, and macular blood flow in DRL were positively correlated with FAZ (mean retinal thickness: P = 0.0005; mean GCL thickness: P < 0.0001; and macular blood flow in DRL: P = 0.0099). Correlation results among these filtered factors and FAZ were more pronounced in non-high-myopic eyes than in high-myopic eyes and had a significant difference when data of male and female subjects were processed separately from each other. Conclusion The present cross-sectional study performed comprehensive systemic and ocular examinations in young Chinese adults and filtered factors affecting FAZ. We indicated that among all the assessed candidate factors, gender, AL, retinal thickness, macular blood flow, RNFL, and GCL thickness affected the FAZ area most significantly. Such findings would facilitate future research concerning the role of FAZ variation in fundus diseases.
Regulation and roles of bicarbonate transporters in cancer

A unifying feature of solid tumors is a markedly altered pH profile compared to normal tissues. This reflects that solid tumors, despite completely different origins, often share several phenotypic properties with implications for intra- and extracellular pH. These include: a metabolic shift in most cancer cells toward more acid-producing pathways, reflecting both oncogenic signaling and the development of hypoxia in poorly perfused regions of the tumors; the poorly perfused and often highly dense tumor microenvironment, reducing the diffusive flux of acid equivalents compared to that in normal tissues; and the markedly altered regulation of the expression and activity of pH-regulatory transport proteins in cancer cells. While some of these properties of tumors have been well described in recent years, the great majority of the research in this clinically important area has focused on proton transport, in particular via the Na+/H+ exchanger 1 (SLC9A1, NHE1) and various H+ ATPases. We have, however, recently demonstrated that at least under some conditions, including in vitro models of HER2 positive breast cancer, and measurements obtained directly in freshly dissected human mammary carcinomas, bicarbonate transporters such as the electroneutral Na+, HCO−3 cotransporter (SLC4A7, NBCn1), are upregulated and play central roles in pH regulation. In this review, we summarize and discuss the current knowledge regarding the regulation and roles of bicarbonate transporters in cancer. Furthermore, we present new analyses of publicly available expression data demonstrating widely altered expression levels of SLC4- and SLC26 family transporters in breast-, lung-, and colon cancer patients, and we hypothesize that bicarbonate transporter dysregulation may have both diagnostic and therapeutic potential in cancer treatment.
Using differential somatic cell count to improve udder health

Mastitis continues to be one of the costliest diseases found on US dairy farms. Routine milk analysis for Somatic Cell Count (SCC) has provided a valuable and inexpensive means to monitor udder health. New technologies such as PCR analysis of preserved milk samples have provided additional detail by determining which pathogens may be present allowing a more pinpoint approach in addressing mastitis. Although PCR is a valuable tool the costs for routine analysis of milk samples is too expensive for US dairy farmers. Differential Somatic Cell Count (DSCC) data can now be obtained as part of a regular milk analysis for SCC. Using monthly and weekly collected data AgSource has started the process to determine where DSCC can provide additional value and be incorporated in AgSource information management services. Although several trends have been observed regarding future udder health status, no conclusive results have been obtained using a machine learning approach. To improve the predictive capabilities more weekly milk samples will need to be collected and combined with PCR milk analysis results in order to get more detailed information about the type of infections.
When the Network of a Smart City Is Not So Smart

In this paper we show that a simple repeated (ON- OFF) jamming attack on a wireless distance vector protocol can have a global effect on the network and be as harmful as a sophisticated Network layer attack. This attack takes advantage of the nodes’ limited awareness of topological changes when distance vector routing is used. To present the attack in a specific context, we consider the new RPL protocol, which plays an important role in the context of Smart City and Smart Utility networks. We describe the RPL approach to recover from link failures and show that this protocol is susceptible to the proposed attack. We also present a remedy technique and show that it can significantly alleviate the impact of the proposed attack.
Investigation of Physical, Mechanical and Surface Properties of Stem Woods of Some Fruit Trees

ÖZET Bu çalışmada, Türkiye’de yetişen Diospyros lotus, Olea europaea ve Eriobotrya japonica meyve ağaçlarının gövde odunlarının fiziksel (yoğunluk, daralma ve genişleme yüzdeleri), mekanik (liflere paralel basınç direnci, statik eğilme direnci ve eğilmede elastikiyet modülü) ve yüzey özellikleri (yüzey pürüzlülüğü ve renk parametreleri) araştırılmıştır. Örnek ağaçların gövde odunlarından elde edilen deney örneklerinin teknolojik özellikleri ilgili standartlara uygun olarak belirlenmiştir. Elde edilen sonuçlara göre, her üç meyve ağacı gövde odununun ağır ağaçlar sınıfında yer aldığı, Olea europaea ve Eriobotrya japonica gövde odunlarının hacimsel daralma yüzdesinin Diospyros lotus’un hacimsel daralma yüzdesinden fazla olduğu, Eriobotrya japonica gövde odununun en yüksek genişleme yüzdesine sahip olduğu belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca her üç meyve ağacının liflere paralel basınç direnci değerleri bakımından büyük ağaçlar sınıfında, elastikiyet modülü bakımından küçük ağaçlar sınıfında yer aldıkları ve Eriobotrya japonica gövde odununun mekanik özelliklerinin en yüksek olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Olea europaea gövde odununun diğerlerinden daha pürüzlü bir yüzeye sahip olduğu ve Diospyros lotus’un diğerlerinden daha açık renkli oduna sahip olduğu belirlenmiştir. Sonuç olarak, bu üç meyve ağacı gövde odunlarının, yüksek yoğunlukları ve liflere paralel yöndeki basınç direnci değerlerinin büyük, elastikiyet modüllerinin küçük olmaları nedeniyle; işlenme özelliklerinin önemli olduğu ve yüksek direnç gerektiren kullanım yerlerinde değerlendirilmesi önerilmektedir.
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Invertebrate footprints on detritus processing , bacterial community structure , and spatiotemporal redox profiles Hunting

Detritus processing is driven by a complex interplay between macroinvertebrate and microbial activities. Bioturbation/feeding activities of invertebrates in sediments are known to influence decomposition rates. However, direct effects of invertebrates on bacterial communities and detritus processing remain ill-defined, mainly because identifying interactions between invertebrates and sediments is methodologically challenging. We incubated 5 macroinvertebrate species with various bioturbation/feeding traits separately in sediment-filled microcosms inoculated with bacterial communities for 5 d. At the end of the experiment, we assessed: 1) detritus processing (mass loss on ignition [LOI] and dissolved organic C accumulation in the overlying water [absorbance at 280 nm]), 2) bacterial community structure (intergenic spacer analysis [RISA]) and bacterial activity (electron transport system activity [ETSA]), and 3) development of redox potential (Eh) over time (with permanently installed microelectrodes). Invertebrates enhanced bacterial activity and detritus processing, and the magnitude depended on bioturbation/feeding traits. Bacterial community structure differed significantly between microcosms with burrowing invertebrates and microcosms with sediment-dwelling invertebrates. Eh profiles were similar among microcosms with invertebrates with similar bioturbation/feeding traits, but differed among microcosms with invertebrates with dissimilar bioturbation/feeding traits. Our results suggest that bioturbation by aquatic invertebrates mediates detritus processing, Eh dynamics, and structure of the microbial community. These findings highlight the significance of bioturbation and show the utility of spatiotemporal Eh dynamics as footprints reflecting functioning of benthic detrital food webs.
Effect of Presence of Impurity on Plasma Parameters in Fusion Reactor ITER-90HP

Abstract. One of the important problems in a tokamak is the existence of inherent thermal instability. For this reason, the control of plasma density and temperature are the most important issues in fusion reactors. We have considered the effect of presence impurity on fusion (50:50) deuterium-tritium plasma parameters in tokamak reactor. This study has been carried out on the base of the particle and energy balance equations in a zero-dimensional model, then the obtained results are compared with the particle and energy balance equations in presence of Beryllium and Argon impurities. We have shown that thermal instability in two states (without impurity and with impurity) then by using refueling rate removed this instability and plasma parameters have thermal stability. The results of our study show that the presence of impurity increases the time to reach steady state and that causes an increase of the plasma temperature, decrease of the plasma density and decrease of β parameter of plasma in a controlled state.
Measures to monitor and improve claw health, lameness and animal welfare in Austrian dairy farms

1ZuchtData EDV-Dienstleistungen GmbH, Vienna, Austria 2University Clinic for Ruminants, Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria 3Federation of Austrian Claw Trimmers, Hitzendorf/Styria, Austria 4Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Division of Livestock Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
Yes you can, follow your goals! Individual Coaching for female Computer scientists on career development

Abstract Earlier results show that female computer scientists show a lower self-efficacy compared to male colleagues. Similarly, gender-typical attributions, in the sense of gender stereotypes, are considered a disorder. As a result, a coaching program that supports computer scientists after a re-entry into professional life also, in a new orientation or with regard to management ambitions has been developed at the University of <blinded>. The measure strengthens computer scientists in their motivational resources and enables them to take advantage of professional opportunities. A scientifically founded analysis of their potential helps the coachees to become aware of their abilities and competences. The coaching program based on the potential analysis, takes important life goals of the coachees into account. Individual career plans are developed in coaching sessions, including a clear definition of the objective and implementation strategy. An open and modern corporate culture offers new opportunities of career paths for female computer scientists. If the company philosophy is based on appreciation of good performance, women in computer science are more motivated strengthen their career ambitions. Keywords: Women in computer science; self-efficacy beliefs; potential analysis; individual coaching;career development