Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DEVELOPMENTAL COACHING FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS: EXECUTIVE COACHING GOES TO SCHOOL

Teachers are in a very real sense the embodiment of leadership, providing direction, guidance, and feedback to their students in addition to acting as role models. Teachers may well thus benefit from developmental coaching that draws on theories of leadership. This study was both an experimental (randomly assigned conditions) and a quasiexperimental (pre‐post) study. A randomized controlled design was used to explore the impact of coaching on goal attainment, mental health, workplace well-being, and resilience, and a quasi-experimental (pre‐post) design was used to explore the impact of coaching on leadership styles. Forty-four high school teachers were randomly assigned to either coaching or a waitlist control group. The coaching used a cognitive‐behavioral, solution-focused approach and was informed by theories of self-leadership and transformational leadership. Participants in the coaching group received multirater feedback on their leadership style and undertook 10 coaching sessions conducted by professional coaches over a 20-week period. Compared with randomly allocated controls, participation in coaching was associated with increased goal attainment, reduced stress, and enhanced workplace well-being and resilience. Pre‐post analyses for the coaching group indicated that coaching enhanced self-reported achievement and humanistic‐ encouraging components of constructive leadership styles and reduced self-reported aggressive/defensive and passive/defensive leadership styles. Findings suggest that coaching, as a professional development methodology, has great potential to contribute to the development and well-being of society beyond the corporate and organizational settings with which leadership coaching and executive coaching are normally associated.
The effects of social media on cognitive development in undergraduate economics students

The study attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of social media on cognitive development among undergraduate economics students at a South African university. The study collects data on student postings to discussion topics posted on Facebook and Twitter. The use of 3 well-known rubrics for evaluating cognitive development: Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2001), revised Bloomâ€™s taxonomy (Anderson et al. 2001), and Greenlaw and Deloach (2003), are used. Results indicate that student posts fall mainly into lower levels of thinking suggesting that social media may not be effective in cultivating critical thinking. Moreover, these results shed light on the voluntary versus mandatory nature of participation, the time length for student responses, and "big think" style questions in a developing country context (i.e. poor internet).
Virtualization Techniques InCloud Computing

C loud computing is a technology that increase application in terms of functioning, elastic resource management and collaborative. The main things of cloud computing is virtualization which enables industry or academic IT resources through on demand allocation dynamically. The resources have different forms such as network, server, storage, application and client. This paper focus as on how virtualization helps to improve elasticity of the resources in cloud computing environment. In addition to, this paper gives a detailed review on open source virtualization techniques, challenges and future research direction.
The effect of breed and dietary level of avocado fat on the N and energy balance in young pigs

The effect of breed and dietary avocado level on the total apparent digestibility (RAD) and balance of nitrogen (N) energy, in young pigs, was studied. Four Pelon Mexicano (PM) and four Yorkshire × Landrace (Y×L) barrow male pigs (39.2 kg average inital liveweight) distributed in two groups according to a change over design in a 2×2 factorial arrangement (breed and diet) were used. The pigs received on a pair feeding basis (0.10 kg DM/kg W0.75 per day), the experimental diets. The diets were formulated to contain 30 or 150 g crude fat by partial replacement of the maize/soyabean meal diet by avocado (Persea americana Mill.) fresh pulp. The RAD of crude fat was 73.8 and 71.5% and that of N was 83.4 and 82.8 % in PM and Y×L pigs, respectively. There was no significant effect (P>0.10) of crude fat level on RAD of N and energy. N and energy balance significantly (P<0.05) favoured Y×L as compared with PM pigs. In conclusion, the poor N retention of PM pigs could be related to body composition of this local, non improved genotype. The use of avocado for feeding pigs, PM included, should determine a high digestibility of the crude fat fraction and at the same time a considerable deterioration of N retention, probably due to an unbalanced composition of amino acids. The level of avocado pulp inclusion in the diet of the pig should be involved in these circumstances.
Influence of Clopidogrel on Life Quality in Patients with Transient Ischemic Attack and its Influencing Factors

Purpose: To analyze the basic situation and health related quality of life (HRQOL) results of patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA), and to study the influencing factors of health related quality of life in patients receiving clopidogrel. Method: Divide the TIA patients into clopidogrel group, aspirin group and untreated group. Measure HRQOL scores of TIA patients using the short form 36 questionnaire (SF-36) scale and analyze influencing factors of HRQOL with one-way ANOVA and multivariate stepwise linear regression statistical methods. Results: The differences of HRQOL scores among three groups are of statistical significance (F = 4.29, P = 0.00). There is no difference in HRQOL score between clopidogrel group and aspirin group (t = 5.35, P = 0.00), but HRQOL scores of clopidogrel group and aspirin group are higher than those of the untreated group (t = 6.14, P = 0.00; t = 5.16, P = 0.00). The HRQOL scores of clopidogrel group are positively correlated with diet, exercise, gender and family harmony (P < 0.05), but negatively correlated with diabetes, hypertension, smoking, drinking, hyperlipidemia, age, career and ABCD2 score (P < 0.05). Conclusion: TIA patients who received secondary prevention with clopidogrel and aspirin show better life quality results than those who did not. There were many factors influencing clopidogrel's treatment effect. Paying attention to middle-aged and elderly, the obese, mental workers and female TIA patients, teach TIA patients to quit smoking, drinking and eating low-salt and low-fat food, actively treating their hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes and laying emphasis on psychological counseling and exercise can significantly improve the treatment effect of clopidogrel.
The ALFALFA H I mass function: a dichotomy in the low-mass slope and a locally suppressed `knee' mass

The authors acknowledge the work of the entire ALFALFA collaboration in observing, flagging, and extracting the catalogue of galaxies that this paper makes use of. The ALFALFA team at Cornell is supported by NSF grants AST-0607007, AST-1107390 and AST-1714828, and by grants from the Brinson Foundation. M.G. J. also acknowledges support from the grant AYA2015-65973-C3-1-R (MINECO/FEDER, UE). We also acknowledge helpful comments from A. Robotham concerning the satellite and central MFs. We thank the referee for their thorough reading of the manuscript. This work made use of SDSS data products. Funding for the SDSS IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the US Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss. org.
Obesity and Leanness Caused by Mutations in the Leptin Gene: Already 6 Pathogenic Mutations Reported in this Gene

Obesity and leanness are the medical conditions in which excess and deficient body fat present respectively. It may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and increased health problems. Environmental factors, especially increased consumption of high caloric diet, are considered responsible for the obesity epidemic, although genetic factors also contribute dysregulation of food consumption. Leptin gene may have an effect on the obesity and leanness because six pathogenic mutations already reported in leptin gene. Leptin gene mutations have a vital role to cause different types of cancers.
Resilience in action : practical ideas for overcoming risks and building strengths in youth , families , and communities

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On the complexity of standard negation

From an information-theoretic viewpoint, the complexity of a phenomenon can be defined in terms of the length of the description it requires. With this background, grammatical complexity may be approached using as criteria the number of grammaticalized distinctions in a functional domain and the extent to which the expression of these distinctions conforms to the one-meaning-one-form principle. The standard negation structures found in the world’s languages may be divided into two basic types, symmetric and asymmetric negation, according to whether or not there are structural differences between affirmatives and negatives in addition to the presence of negative markers. According to the proposed criteria of complexity, asymmetric negation under its different manifestations is generally more complex than symmetric negation.
Beyond Organic: Information Provision For Sustainable Agriculture In A Changing Market

As organic agriculture evolves from a movement to an industry, the organic label is increasingly disconnected from the founding spirit of organic, which is now more associated with the broader term sustainable agriculture. Increased competition due to the "commodification" of organic agriculture poses challenges to sustainable organic farmers in the Northeast U.S. This paper discusses the options for creating and maintaining niche markets by providing information on "process" attributes to consumers who wish to support a more sustainable food system, including labeling alternatives and the role of government. It concludes with a discussion of the prospects for this movement and research needs for the future.
Infinite monochromatic sumsets for colourings of the reals

N. Hindman, I. Leader and D. Strauss proved that it is consistent that there is a finite colouring of $\mathbb R$ so that no infinite sumset $X+X=\{x+y:x,y\in X\}$ is monochromatic. Our aim in this paper is to prove a consistency result in the opposite direction: we show that, under certain set-theoretic assumptions, for any $c:\mathbb R\to r$ with $r$ finite there is an infinite $X\subseteq \mathbb R$ so that $c$ is constant on $X+X$.
Empirical Study of Islamic Banks versus Conventional Banks of GCC

Numerous precious researches that have been conducted at professional and academia level have established Islamic banking to be superior and a viable manner of banking in terms of profitability and stability. The objective of the study would be to analyze the performance of Islamic banks and conventional banks during the crisis and after the crisis. The study will further focus on finding the steps that have been taken by the banks so as to reduce the effects of crisis. The study will be examined by comparing the performance of Islamic and conventional banks based in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) during the period of 2008 â€“ 2011 by deploying the CAMEL testing factors. A sample of 17 Islamic banks and 10 conventional banks were selected to study the objective. Using the 2 tailed t test, our study found out that after crisis Islamic bank increased their LLR, while conventional banks increased their LLR and EQTA. During the four year period of 2008 â€“ 2011, Islamic banks possessed adequate capital structure but have recorded lower ROAE and poor management efficiency. Asset quality and liquidity for both the modes of banking system have not recorded any significant difference.
modification to suppress the gas generation of Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 node battery

Commercial Li4Ti5O12 is modified by AlF3 with the purpose of suppressing the gas generation of Li4Ti5O12 anode battery. The prepared AlF3-modified Li4Ti5O12 is characterized by a variety of means such as X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The results indicate that only part of Al3+ and F− have co-doped into the bulk phase of Li4Ti5O12 particles, while the rest of the Al3+ and F− remain on the surface of the Li4Ti5O12 particles eywords: i4Ti5O12 lF3-modified ayer to form an AlF3 coating layer. The AlF3 coating layer on the surface of AlF3-modified Li4Ti5O12 is very effective in suppressing the gas generation of Li4Ti5O12 anode battery. AlF3 modification is a simple yet very effective strategy, which can both improve the high-rate charge/discharge performance of Li4Ti5O12 and suppress the gassing behavior of Li4Ti5O12 anode battery. uppress as generation
Pharmacognostic Standardization and Hypoglycemic Evaluations of Novel Polyherbal Formulations

The present investigation was carried out to focus on the hypoglycemic effect of newly developed polyherbal formulation (5EPHF) consisting of five medicinal plant extracts viz., Aegel marmelos, Murraya koenigii, Aloe vera, Pongamia pinnata and Elaeodendron glaucum in normal and alloxan induced diabetic rats. The formulation was subjected to pharmacognostic, physico-chemical and phytochemical evaluations which will assist in standardization for authenticity, quality and identification of the herbal products. Further, the results showed that the formulation treated group significantly altered the glucose level in normoglycemic and experimentally-induced diabetic animals. Treatment with 5EPHF at dose 200 mg/kg to diabetic rats resulted in significant reduction of serum glucose, glycosylated haemoglobin, total cholesterol, triglyseride, low density lipoprotein, creatinine, urea whereas significant increased level of insulin and high density lipoprotein was observed. The formulation treatment significantly inhibited lipid peroxidation and elevates the level of antioxidants enzymes in alloxanized rats. Histopathological studies on 21 day revealed that the regeneration effect of 5EPHF on damaged pancreatic islet cells was found almost comparable to that of standard tolbutamide drug. The present study clearly demonstrated that the developed novel phytomedicine is having potential hypoglycemic and antioxidant activities which may be beneficial for the management and treatment of diabetes mellitus.
Analysis of hospital account of malaria cases in a Malawian hospital

The current study has been undertaken by studying the data from the hospital registers at the Kasugu District Hospital, Malawi. The malaria cases of 2014 were chosen for the study. They typically represent disease distribution based on the ages and genders of the patients. The data suggest that the cure rates among patients under age 5 and above do not have any significant difference, contrary to the commonly anticipated outcome that the older children should have better developed immune systems and should have higher cure rates. A notable point is there are huge dichotomies between genders in terms of the reported registered cases, the cure and mortality rates. The gender differentiation in the reporting and management of malaria is understood under the contemporary socio-cultural beliefs and economic realities of the Malawian society. This analysis has been carried out from a qualitative perspective, but with an attempt to identify a pattern from a year's length of statistical data. Key words: Malaria epidemiology, malaria cases, mortality, case fatality rates.
Sneutrino dark matter: Symmetry protection and cosmic ray anomalies

We present an $R$-parity conserving model of sneutrino dark matter within a Higgsphilic $U(1{)}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. In this theory, the $\ensuremath{\mu}$ parameter and light Dirac neutrino masses are generated naturally upon the breaking of the $U(1{)}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ gauge symmetry. One of the right-handed sneutrinos is the lightest supersymmetric particle. The leptonic and hadronic decays of another sneutrino, taken to be the next-to-lightest superpartner, allow for a natural fit to the recent results reported by the PAMELA experiment. We perform a detailed calculation of the dark matter relic density in this scenario, and show that the model is consistent with the ATIC and Fermi LAT experiments.
Microcosmic Study of Nickel Stress towards Soil Bacteria and their Biochemical Characterization

Heavy metal contamination of soil decreases microbial diversity and causes bacterial communities to lose part of their degradative capabilities. The present work is mainly related to Nickel (Ni) toxicity. Ni is the twenty fourth most abundant element of the earth’s crust and has been detected in the biosphere. High concentration of Nickel frequently inhibits enzymatic activity, DNA replication, transcription and translation by binding to proteins and nucleic acids. We investigated the impact of Ni-stress on the soil bacterial populations in artificial microcosmic conditions as well as compared the artificially created stress with the natural long term heavy metal stress to bacterial populations. Microcosmic conditions were provided by using sterile test tubes for two different intervals (24 and 48 hours) by addition of 20g soil and Ni treatments (500, 1000 and 1500 ppm). Our results showed that Ni stress significantly reduce the bacterial densities as compared to control without Ni contamination. The impact of Ni increased with increase in its concentration. The isolates were picked and characterized using different biochemical tests. The bacterial strains isolated in the study may be useful for bioremediation of heavy metals. Similarly, identifying the enzymes produced in the Ni resistant strains will also be an important future perspective.
Ionospheric anomalies immediately before Mw7.0–8.0 earthquakes

Recent observations suggested that ionospheric anomalies appear immediately before large earthquakes with moment magnitudes (Mw) of 8.2 or more. Do similar phenomena precede smaller earthquakes? Here we answer this question by analyzing vertical total electron contents (VTEC) observed near the epicenters before and after 32 earthquakes with Mw7.0–8.0 using data from nearby Global Navigation Satellite Systems stations. To detect anomalies, we defined the reference curves to fit the observed VTEC and considered the departure from the curves as anomalies. In estimating the reference curves, we excluded time windows, prescribed for individual earthquakes considering Mw, possibly affected by earthquakes. We validated the method using synthetic VTEC data assuming both preseismic, coseismic, and postseismic anomalies. Out of the 32 Mw7.0–8.0 earthquakes, eight earthquakes showed possible preseismic anomalies starting 10–20 min before earthquakes. For earthquakes of this Mw range, we can observe preseismic ionospheric changes probably when the background VTEC is large, say 50 TECU (total electron content unit, 1 TECU = 1016 el m−2) or more.
Association of fat intake and socioeconomic status on anthropometric measurements of adults Associação do consumo de gorduras e do nível socioeconômico sobre as medidas antropométricas de adultos

We aimed to identify the influence of dietary fat profile on body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in a middleclass general population sample. A cross-sectional study of 448 adults aged 35-85 years was carried out from January 2004 to December 2007. Patients were divided in two groups according to family income: Group 1 (G1) with higher income, and Group 2 (G2) with lower income. Demographic and socioeconomic status were identified, along with anthropometric data, health eating index (HEI) and dietary profile. The groups were similar with respect to gender, age, BMI and WC. HEI was higher in G1 due to a higher intake of protein (+12.8%), dairy products (p<0.001), higher intake of vegetables (p<0.01), fruit (p<0.001), and less dietary fat (-9.8%). The main contribution of fats was saturated fat for G1 (+5.0%) and polyunsaturated fat for G2 (+14.4%). Besides differences in socioeconomic status the groups had similar BMI and abdominal fatness. Only differences in fat profile were correlated with the anthropometric measures mostly explained by the lower vegetable oil intake in higher income participants.
Development of an All-NbN Waveguide SIS Mixer for 0.5 THz

With a gap frequency double that of Nb-based ones (~0.7THz), NbN SIS tunnel junctions are of particular interest for the development of heterodyne mixers at frequencies beyond 1 THz. To demonstrate the potential of NbN SIS tunnel junctions for astronomical applications, we developed a 0.5 THz all-NbN waveguide SIS mixer to observe the CO (J=4−3) emission at 0.46 THz with the POST submillimeter-wave telescope. In this paper, we mainly describe the mixer design, NbN junction fabrication and mixer performance. In particular, the mixer performance is compared with that of a 0.5-THz Nb SIS mixer previously installed on the same telescope. Some testing observation results are also presented.
A Comparison of Sperm DNA Damage in the Neat Ejaculate of Sperm Donors and Males Presenting for their Initial Seminogram

A standardised value for characterization of sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) and fertility prediction in patients is regarded as controversial and is one of the primary reasons why the assessment of the sperm DNA is not commonly incorporated into the routine seminogram. To address this conundrum we have conducted an analysis of the incidence of sperm DNA damage between sperm donors and a random cohort of males requested for a first seminogram. The underlying assumption was that sperm DNA damage is a neutral sperm characteristic and differences would not be expected between both cohorts. We analyzed SDF using the sperm chromatin dispersion assay in two large cohorts of individuals that included a comparison of seminograms from 210 sperm donors and 775 couples presenting to the clinic for first time. Results of the analysis revealed that sperm DNA damage cannot be considered as neutral parameter between the two populations (Donor: SDF Mean = 10.7; SD: 8.7; First seminogram: Mean =29.2; SD: 17.6; U-Mann-Whitney 20486; P 0.000). Receiving operating characteristics curves constructed under the parameters of this study showed that a SDF value of 16% was able to discriminate both cohorts of individuals with a sensitivity of 85% and a specificity of 75%. We suggest that when clinics are selecting for sperm donors, they are also likely to be indirectly selecting for a level of SDF which is in the order of 20 points lower than the level found in those couples presenting to the clinic for the first time.