Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Attitude towards androgynization of roles and emotional maturity among individuals working in female dominated professions

The present study was aimed to study attitude towards androgynization of roles and emotional maturity among individuals working in female dominated professions. The sample was selected by using purposive sampling method. Total 100 (50 males & 50 females) employees working in areas pre-dominantly assigned to females such as nursing, unisex saloons, beauty parlors, etc in Pune City were selected. Their age range was between 20 to 40 years. Their minimum educational qualification was 12th Std. They responded to Attitude towards Androgynization of Roles Scale (ATARS) by Bisht (1987) and Emotional Maturity Scale by Singh & Bhargava (2012). The statistical tool Anova was used to find gender differences in attitude towards androgynization of roles (ATARS), Model, Prescription of Behaviour, Reinforcement of Behaviour, and Exposure to varied occupations. Anova was also used find gender differences in emotional maturity, emotional stability, emotional progression, social adjustment, personality integration and state of being independent. Pearson’s correlation was used to find correlation between attitude towards androgynization of roles and emotional maturity among individuals working in female dominated professions. The result showed that there is no gender difference (F=0.47) in attitude towards androgynization of roles among individuals working in female dominated professions, there is no gender difference (F=0.023) in Model as dimension of ATARS, there is no gender difference (F=1.33) in Prescription of Behaviour) as dimension of ATARS, there is no gender difference (F=0.00) in Reinforcement of Behaviour as dimension of ATARS, there is no gender difference (F=0.36) in Exposure to varied occupations (EVO) as dimension of ATARS. There is no gender difference (F=0.48) in emotional maturity among individuals working in female dominated professions, there is no gender difference (F=0.39) in emotional stability as a dimension of emotional maturity, there is no gender difference (F=0.098) in emotional progression as a dimension of emotional maturity, there is no gender difference (F=0.21) on social adjustment as a dimension of emotional maturity, there is no gender difference (F=2.49) in personality integration as a dimension of emotional maturity, there is no gender difference (F=0.41) on state of being independent as a dimension of emotional maturity, there is no correlation (r=0.189) between attitude towards androgynization of roles and emotional maturity among individuals working in female dominated professions.
Enrichment of Phenol Degrading Moderately Halophilic Bacterial Consortium from Saline Environment

A versatile, moderately halophilic bacterial consortium was developed for the biodegradation of phenolic compounds under saline conditions. The bacterial consortium was isolated from mixtures of soil from phenol contaminated sites and as well as from areas having proximity to saline environment. The isolated moderately halophilic bacterial consortium utilized different phenolic compounds as sole source of carbon source. Phenol was utilized by the consortium at a range of salt concentrations from 10- 150 g/L NaCl where the optimum degradation was achieved at 50 g/L of NaCl. The bacterial consortium utilized up to 300 mg/L of phenol most effi ciently than the individual strains present in the consortium under saline conditions. The 16S r-RNA gene analysis and biochemical tests showed that the bacterial consortium contained six bacterial strains, which were identifi ed as Bacillus cereus, Arthrobacter sp. , Bacillus licheniformis, Halomonas salina, Bacillus pumilus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Such moderately halophilic bacterial consortium might be useful for the treatment of industrial saline wastewater, particularly, in environments contaminated with phenolic wastes.
Maximin and minimax strategies in symmetric multi-players game with two strategic variables

We examine maximin and minimax strategies for players in symmetric multi-players game with two strategic variables. We consider two patterns of game; the x-game in which strategic variables of players are x's, and the p-game in which strategic variables of players are p's. We will show that the maximin strategy and the minimax strategy in the x-game, and the maximin strategy and the minimax strategy in the p-game for the players are all equivalent. However, the maximin strategy for the players are not necessarily equivalent to their Nash equilibrium strategies in the x-game nor the p-game. But in a special case, where the objective function of one player is the opposite of the sum of the objective functions of other players, the maximin and the minimax strategies for the players constitute the Nash equilibrium both in the x-game and the p-game.
Application of the Health Belief Model -Based Educational Intervention on Hand Hygiene Performance of Intensive Care Units' Nurses

Background : Practicing hand hygiene is a simple yet effective way to prevent infections. Cleaning hands can prevent the spread of germs, including those resistant to antibiotics and are becoming difficult, if not impossible, to treat. On average, healthcare providers clean their hands less than half of the times they should. Aim of the study : This study aimed to apply the health belief model based educational intervention on hand hygiene performance among nurses working in adults and pediatric intensive care units. Materials and methods : A quasi experimental research design was used in this study. The study was conducted at pediatric and adult intensive care unit; at Tanta University Hospital. All available nurses 262who are working in the previously mentioned settings as the following: 118 nurses working in pediatric intensive care unit nurse and 144nurse working in adult intensive care unit. Tools of the study : Four tools were used to collect the data Tool I: Nurses' knowledge regarding Hand Hygiene Structured Questionnaire: it consisted of two parts: Part1 : Socio demographic data of the nurses Part II : Nurses' Knowledge Regarding Hand Hygiene Performance. Tool II : Assessment of Nurses Barriers of Hand Hygiene Performance Questionnaire, Tool III: Hand Hygiene Perception Survey and Tool IV: Hand Hygiene Performance Observational Checklist . Result; the mean score of total hand hygiene performance using soap and water of nurses working in pediatric ICUs were 8. 85±1.02 and 10.10±1.84, while among adult ICUs nurses were 8.37±1.75and10. 20±0.80 pre and post the educational intervention respectively. There was a significant difference of both groups in the; five Health Belief Model Construct in addition to nurses’ identified barriers of hand hygiene pre and post the intervention. Conclusion and recommendations : Total hand hygiene performance level and HBM construct regarding hand hygiene performance were higher among nurses working in pediatric and adult ICUs nurses post than pre application of the HBM educational intervention. Also, higher mean scores of the barriers of hand hygiene performance among all nurses in both ICUs pre compared to post intervention. Periodic and refreshment educational intervention related to hand hygiene is recommended for adult and pediatric ICUs nurses to improve their hand hygiene performance and further study for barriers in other ICUs is recommended. Keywords: Health Belief Model -Based Educational intervention, Hand Hygiene Performance
The Influence of Organizational Absorptive Capacity on Product and Process Innovation

The Influence of Organizational Absorptive Capacity on Product and Process Innovation The innovativeness of an organization has an important impact on its profitability as well as on the competitiveness of a country's economy as a whole. Since the innovativeness of Slovenian organizations is low, it is important that managers and industrial policy makers know which factors influence an organizations' innovation. One of these factors is supposed to be the organizational absorptive capacity. Absorptive capacity is one of the most important concepts that have emerged in the field of organizational research in the past years. Absorptive capacity is defined as the set of organizational routines and processes through which an organization identifies and values new external information, and then acquires it, assimilates it and applies it to commercial ends. The results of this research confirm the strong and positive impact of Slovenian organizations' absorptive capacity on process innovation and the even bigger positive influence on the organizations' product innovation.
Public Sector Reform in Central and Eastern Europe

In an OECD report entitled Government of the Future (2000), the question “Why public management reform? ” is answered in three ways. First, governments need to keep up with society in terms of responsiveness and better, faster and more services. Second, trust in government needs to be re-established. A third reason is that government’s role is changing under new pressures including the loss of the government monopoly, greater competition, the opening-up of societies and international structures. However, for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the starting positions, the challenges, the capacity to change, and the initial objectives were quite different from most of the Western European countries, except for, e.g., Portugal or Spain. (OECD 2005). In a first part, this essay will cover spans of public-sector reform which may be narrow or broad. In a second part, trajectories of reform, which are not linear but progressing in a corrective way, will be discussed. In a third and final part, remaining issues of reform practice and study are discussed. 1. Spans of public sector reform In Western Europe, there was a relatively common problem analysis. Two main problems coincided: First, there was a macro-economic problem of too big a proportion of government in the gross domestic product (GDP), of significant deficits, and of a perceived lack of public-sector performance contributing to the GDP. Second, there was a drop of trust and legitimacy in public institutions, including politicians. The macro-economic shifts (from ‘problem’ to ‘solution’) could be operationalised as follows from the ‘economic’ point of view: The proportion of the public sector in the GDP decreases; there are countries with stable patterns of decrease, others have more fluctuating decreases. Government net lending is an indicator of the yearly deficit. Of course, the European Union’s Maastricht criterion of a maximum of 3% deficit had a significant impact on reform policies within the European Union. In general, there was a downward trend. In some countries, this deficit turned into a surplus; the recent (financial) crises are reversing this pattern again.
Integrated Management of Sclerotinia Blight in Peanut: Utilizing Canopy Morphology, Mechanical Pruning, and Fungicide Timing.

Sclerotinia blight of peanut, caused by Sclerotinia minor, generally becomes severe only after vines meet in the row middles and a dense canopy develops. Dense foliage appears to support a microclimate conducive to the colonization of peanut limbs by S. minor. Removal of excess foliage before and during a Sclerotinia blight epidemic on the susceptible genotype NC 7 has been shown to reduce the rate of disease progress. Field tests in 1993 and 1994 examined control of Sclerotinia blight among four peanut genotypes (NC 7, VA 93B, NC Ac 18016, and Tam-span 90) with diverse canopy morphologies. Each cultivar had foliage pruned with a rotary mower once (1993 and 1994) or twice (1994) during the season. Applications of fluazinam (9.2 kg a.i./ha) were imposed on the genotype × pruning treatments. Soil temperatures under the canopy of each genotype and pruning treatment were measured and compared. Disease data were collected weekly by counting the number of feet of plants exhibiting lesions with visible fungus growth. Tamspan 90, a resistant Spanish peanut, had the least Sclerotinia blight incidence. Pruning measurably affected soil temperature for approximately 2 weeks following pruning. Removal of foliage reduced disease and increased disease control affected by fluazi-nam in fields with high disease pressure. In some tests, yields were increased by pruning through a reduction in disease pressure. Yields were lower when peanuts were pruned excessively, especially late in the season. Pruning of excessive vine growth can be an alternative, or complement, to fungicide treatments when done in midseason during favorable weather when moderate to high disease pressure occurs.
An Exemplary Model Study for Overcoming Stuck Fermentation during Spontaneous Fermentation with the Aid of a Saccharomyces Triple Hybrid

Sluggish or stuck fermentations cause significant financial losses for winemakers each year. In order to investigate the reasons for problems during spontaneous fermentation of Riesling must in a well-known German vineyard of the lower Moselle, yeast strains involved in must fermentation were identified during winemaking in the two years 2011 and 2012. Identification of the yeast isolates was performed by applying analyses of the ITS-1-5.8-ITS2 region and restriction fragment analyses of different gene sequences. It revealed that Saccharomyces (S.) bayanus and not Saccharomyces cerevisiae was the main fermenting yeast. Either S. bayanus finished the fermentation or led to stuck fermentation. After about four weeks of stuck, fermentation continued spontaneously S. bayanus was replaced by the triple hybrid S. cerevisiae × S. kudriavzevii × S. bayanus. The triple hybrid strain HL 78 was able to utilize fructose more efficiently than S. bayanus strain HL 77. The fructophilic character of the triple hybrid strain correlated with an enhanced uptake of radiolabeled fructose compared to glucose. In contrast to the usual starter culture S. cerevisiae, both isolates, S. bayanus strain HL 77 and the triple hybrid strain HL 78, could grow in the absence of ammonium when amino acids were present. However, the triple hybrid was able to consume glucose and especially fructose at lower amino acid concentrations. Thus, the triple hybrid strain HL 78 was a suitable strain to overcome stuck fermentation without changing the fermentation conditions and the aroma profile desired by the selected winery. It has already been successfully used to restart stuck fermentation. The procedure described here could be a useful approach for wine makers facing problems during spontaneous fermentation. Since the application of genetically modified yeast strains is not allowed for starter culture, based on these studies we suggest the generation of hybrid strains with desired phenotypical features from mother yeasts strains/species of a certain winery and their application in case that during a spontaneous fermentations a sluggish or stuck fermentation is observed.
Job insecurity, organisational commitment and work engagement among staff in an open distance learning institution

The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between job insecurity, organisational commitment and work engagement among staff in an open distance learning institution. The research was conducted through computer-aided telephone interviews and self-completion techniques. A cross-sectional survey design was conducted among 260 employees in an open distance learning institution. The measuring instruments included the job insecurity scale, organisational commitment questionnaire and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. The results demonstrated statistically significant relationships between job insecurity and organisational commitment, and between job insecurity and work engagement. A practically significant relationship between variables was also determined; however, the effect was too small to yield a practically significant relationship between the variables. The results revealed that a component of job insecurity (likelihood of loss of job features), together with a component of work engagement (vigour), explains 25% of the total variation of organisational commitment and that the remaining 75% was attributed to factors beyond the scope of this study. This study demonstrated that employees would not always reduce their commitment and work effort when confronted with uncertainty as suggested by several studies. Nevertheless, it could be assumed that the survey participants fear being unemployed and feel trapped because of a lack of alternative employment opportunities.
Bronchoscopic findings of flexible bronchoscopy: a one-year retrospective study in a tertiary care hospital

Background: Since the introduction of the first flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope by Shigeto Ikeda in 1966, fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) has been a valuable tool in the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases. Therefore, the aim of this study is to report our one-year experience with the yield of flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy at MGM Medical College and Hospital, a tertiary hospital in Maharashtra. Methods: A retrospective study of fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) was performed at MGM Medical College and Hospital, Aurangabad, Maharashtra during the period 2015-2016. Bronchoscopy was performed and collection of bronchial washing, bronchial brushing, bronchial biopsy and transbronchial needle aspiration was done. Results: Out of 192 patients, 140 were males and 52 were females. Majority of them were in age group 50-59 years. Main indication was pulmonary tuberculosis. Bronchial washings were done in 168 cases and brushing in 56 cases and common location for both was right upper lobe; bronchial biopsy was done in 90 cases with commonest location left main bronchus. Transbronchial needle aspiration was done in 4 cases, active bleed was seen in 6 cases and purulent discharge was seen in 24 cases. Bronchoscopic finding in majority of patients was normal tracheobronchial tree. Conclusions: The optimal use of conventional bronchoscopy and its techniques in the hands of experienced respiratory interventionists, with the adherence of the international guidelines for performing these techniques will improve the diagnostic outcomes of those patients with the least morbidity and mortality, employing better therapeutic strategies, and thus improving the overall management of those patients.
On modeling pollution-generating technologies: a new formulation of the by-production approach

We contribute to the literature on undesirable-output technology modeling by first discussing the limits of the recently proposed by-production approach of Murty et al. (2012) (hereafter we will refer to these authors as MRL) and second by proposing some possible extensions. We identify two theoretical limits and two practical drawbacks when using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with this approach. Theoretically, MRL’s by-production model is based on estimating two sub-technologies, one representing good outputs and the other one representing undesirable outputs. However, MRL assume independence of the sub-frontiers. In our paper, by contrast, we discuss the importance and implications of considering that all production processes are interconnected and should not be considered separately. Among the three extensions proposed, we argue that the introduction of some dependence constraints that link the two sub-technologies considered in this framework is very powerful. The two by-production approaches, MRL’s and ours, are discussed under the restrictive assumption of fixed levels of inputs and under the flexible case of free choice of polluting input quantities. An application to a sample of 112 countries reveals that MRL model gives higher inefficiency scores compared to our extension with dependence constraints.
The Use of Wireless Capability at Farmers Markets: Results from a Choice Experiment Study

One alternative for farmers’ markets to increase sales and expand the customer base is to implement wireless capability (credit and debit card, and electronic benefits transfer readers) at the markets. We estimate the value farmers’ markets managers and vendors posit on wireless machines attributes, and the values customers posit on markets’ features. The quality of the wireless machine technology and the machine provider customer service are the most important attributes for, respectively, managers and vendors. Consumers are willing to pay premium prices at farmers’ markets where this technology is available. This information is useful to policy makers and wireless machine providers to implement wireless capability at farmers markets.
Stress distribution in anchoring regions of posts cooperating with overdentures

IPSKI Chair of Stomatological Prosthetics, Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice, 41-800 Zabrze, ul. 3 Maja 13/15, Poland The paper presents the results of model research of mechanical compatibility of selected overdenture structures. The tests based on finite elements method were conducted on flat models reflecting the areas of posts anchoring in a sagittal plane. The reference point was the structure of a prosthesis seated on ball-and-socket joints secured in tooth roots. As alternative solutions, dentures placed on two cylindrical implants supporting ball-and-socket joints were compared with a denture attached to a joint which consisted of a straight axis bar and an elastic clip as well as with a denture supported by a joint of elevated retention, built of a doubly bent axis bar and three elastic bar clips. Taking advantage of the MES Algor program functions, the diverse material structures of the systems investigated were modelled. Next, the reduced stresses σ
Hatching rates and some characteristics of Yemeni and Carniolan honey bee eggs

Few studies have been performed on honey bee eggs to date, particularly on egg hatchability and other egg characteristics. In the harsh environmental conditions of Saudi Arabia, it has been found that honey bee eggs from different subspecies are impacted by low relative humidity (RH). Therefore, the hatching rates of eggs of two subspecies, Yemeni (Apis mellifera jemenitica) and hybrids of Carniolan honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica), were studied under different RH gradients, and various egg characteristics (morphology, egg surface chemicals and egg water content) were described for these two subspecies. The results of these analyses demonstrated that Yemeni honey bee eggs displayed higher hatching rates than Carniolan honey bee eggs across the humidity gradient, although no eggs were able to hatch at a relative humidity of 30%. Differences in egg morphology were detected between the two subspecies. The egg surface chemicals were approximately the same for Carniolan and Yemeni honey bee eggs, while the Yemeni honey bee eggs exhibited a higher water content. The differences between the two subspecies in egg hatching rates could be attributed to differences in egg water content as well as to some internal factors within the eggs.