Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Structural Equation Model of Work Situation and Work–Family Conflict on Depression and Work Engagement in Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) Drivers

The shortage and aging of drivers are not problems limited to the truck industry, but are common in the broader commercial motor vehicle (CMV) industry of Korea. This study investigates the relationships between work situation, work–family conflict, depression, and work engagement of taxi, bus, and truck drivers. We extracted 512 CMV drivers from the 5th Korea Working Conditions Survey. A structural equation model (SEM) was used to investigate the impact of a work situation or work–family conflict on depression and work engagement. Results showed that 38.9% of all respondents had symptoms of depression. In the SEM, a poor work situation (standardized path coefficient = 0.250) and work–family conflict (0.117) significantly affected depression. ‘Enough time’ and ‘feeling well’ were influential variables of work situation. ‘Responsibility’ and ‘concentration’ were influential variables of work–family conflict. Additionally, depression affected work engagement (0.524). ‘Vigor’ and ‘dedication’ were influential variables of work engagement. These results show that the relationships between work situation, work–family conflict, depression, and work engagement of CMV drivers are intricately linked.
Higher Education in Pakistan: Challenges, Opportunities, Suggestions

Higher education provides opportunities to censoriously reveal the cultural, moral, socio-economic, and spiritual issues faced by the human race. Pakistan's higher education system has many institutional drawbacks includes a lack of quality management, institutional structure, and knowledge gaps between cross-culture educations systems to improve the efficiency of the current higher education system in Pakistan. To make Pakistan an educational center, Pakistan must strengthen the education system by developing modern technology and higher education. This study focuses on low enrolment and dropout gaps, quality and quantity of higher education standards, infrastructure, facilities, and low-quality teaching methods. This study summarizes these problems with suggestions to improve higher education standards and quality through cross-culture developments, performance standards, teaching methods, and examination reforms in Pakistan's higher education system.
How Corporate America is Enhancing the Economy: An Analysis on How Corporate America Sources and Dispenses Profits into the Economy, with Capital and Labor Effects

This paper examines how private sector investment boosts the American economy. Here we use time series data collected from the U.S. government publishing office to understand the relationship between GDP and corporate investment, how corporate is investing its profit after a contribution to tax payments and how private domestic investment is dispensed into residential and non-residential industrial fields. We mostly focus on a corporate business cycle and selected manufactures. Corporate would invest their profits into structure, equipment, and intellectual properties. This paper takes a close look at how investment by corporates enters the economy and promote productivity. By such analysis, we answer issues on corporate behaviour, its contributions to the society and how it would retain its profits or reinvest its profits into every aspect of both its own business cycle and the society in general. We answer questions such as to what extent, investment would influence GDP, how much are corporates willing to invest their after-tax profits into manufactures, fixed investments and general social welfare promotion and study their investment-dispensing behaviour. Afterall, we concluded that Corporate America has a balanced industry chain that maintains the well-being of American people. However, we notice a lack of manufacturing capital investments and employment in manufacturing sector. Compared to labour, capital is the driver that directly related to the economic growth as well as the increase of stock index.
Using Classroom Video in Designing Open-ended Problem Situations

Teacher and teacher trainees have been introduced to practice Thailand Lesson Study incorporated Open Approach Model as the problem-solving-based teaching approach for the past two decades. The problem-solving-based teaching approach has to begin with posing open-ended problem situation in order to encourage students to solve the problem independently using their own method. Therefore, open-ended problem situation design is considered a key factor for teachers or teacher trainees to provide sufficient opportunities to students’ learning experiences in solving the problems (Inprasitha, 2017). As a result, this research was aimed to use video recordings of classroom teaching and experts’ reflection practice to analyze teacher trainees’ abilities in designing open-ended problem situations. A total of 10 teacher trainees were selected from the Department of Mathematics (English Program), Faculty of Education, Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University under the Royal Patronage using a purposive sampling technique. A multi-cases study survey research design was employed using a qualitative approach. There were four research instruments used, namely lesson plan, video and audio recording, field notes, and interview protocol. Data were collected using various sources such as research lesson plans, audio, and video recording as well as interviewing. The results revealed that teacher trainees utilized classroom teaching videos to support them in clarifying indecisive problem situations, revising the sequence of teaching, and modifying appropriate words used in giving the direction of the problem situations. On the other hand, the experts’ reflection video has successfully assisted them to have a better understanding of mathematical contents in problem-solving teaching approach and teacher trainees’ intention of each action in the learning activities.
Trauma-Informed Care in Schools: A Necessity in the Time of COVID-19

With students having experienced dramatic changes to their lives and perhaps personally experiencing serious illness and death within their immediate or extended families due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools may have to examine how to broadly implement the use of trauma-informed care in schools. This article examines why experiences related to the pandemic are considered traumas and what supportive practices have been identified in the research that educators can use to help students.
Evaluación de la toxicidad de metales pesados en dos suelos agrícolas de Colombia mediante bioensayos

This study aimed to determine the toxicity of Cu, Cd, Ni, Pb and Zn in two Colombian agricultural soils, Andisol and Vertisol, by bioassays with Lactuca Sativa and Vibrio fischeri. The metals were individually added to soils exceeding the intervention level of Andalusia. Subsequently, they were incubated at 25 °C and 60% humidity for 60 and 90 days, respectively. The experimental design was completely randomized with three replicates. After each incubation, the concentration of the metals in aqueous extracts was determined, and bioassays were carried out with Lactuca Sativa and Vibrio fischeri. Statistical analysis of results, post hoc comparisons (Tukey), correlations and principal component analysis were performed to find the factors that affected the organisms under study. It was found that Vertisol showed a higher immobilization capacity of all metals, based on their clay content and neutral pH, which was reflected in less toxicity on the organisms tested, indicating that this soil acted as a protection against mobility of pollutants in soil solution. The V. fischeri test presented greater sensitivity to contaminants, allowing a better discrimination of toxicity levels. The ability of both soils to inhibit toxicity increased over time, possibly through the interaction of metals with the different soil components, and the decrease in their mobility by mechanisms such as the formation of stable complexes, and was related to the increase of pH.
Impulsive Shopping Overseas: Do Sunk Cost, Information Confusion, and Anticipated Regret Have a Say?

Building on three theoretical perspectives, Alchian–Allen theorem, sunk cost fallacy, and mental account theory, this study proposed and tested a model on Chinese outbound travelers’ impulse shopping behaviors as determined by sunk cost, information confusion, after-sale risk, and anticipated regret (both downward and upward). Using a sample of 314 Chinese outbound travelers, findings of the study suggested that sunk cost, after-sale risk, and downward anticipated regret significantly influence travelers’ impulsive shopping, with downward anticipated regret mediating the relationship between information confusion and impulsive purchase and between sunk cost and impulsive purchase. The study contributes to existing theories and literature for a better understanding of how sunk cost influences outbound travelers’ impulsive shopping behavior from three theoretical perspectives, particularly in a Chinese cultural context. The findings of the study also have important implications for destination stakeholders.
Determination of progesterone concentration during the estrous cycle in dairy cows using a chemiluminescence assay

The study aimed to determine the patterns of serum progesterone concentration in estrous cycle in dairy cows by a chemiluminescence assay (CLIA). Four non-lactating multiparous Jersey cows were used. Animals with a corpus luteum (CL) in any of the ovaries were induced into estrus. Day zero (d0) of the estrous cycle was defined as the day of visible estrus. Blood samples were collected and ultrasonography (US) of the ovaries were performed until a new manifestation of visible estrus was observed. The lengths of the estrous cycles (estrus to estrus) of the four cows were 20, 21, 22, and 23 days. The mean serum concentrations of P4 (x ± s) were 2.8 ± 1.4 ng/mL in proestrus, 2.4 ± 1.5 ng/mL in estrus, 2.0 ± 1.8 ng/mL in metestrus, and 11.9 ± 5.7 ng/mL in diestrus. The follicular and luteal phases of the estrous cycle were established based on P4 concentrations. P4 serum concentrations ≥5.48 ng/mL indicated the presence of functional CL, which was observed from d3 to d12 of the cycle. P4 concentrations decreased from d13 until next estrus. Thus, the previously mentioned P4 serum concentration was established as the limit for a predominantly functional CL. P4 concentrations < 5.48 ng/mL indicated a nonfunctional CL or CL that is not yet fully formed, which is observed in metestrus. A P4 standard curve, constructed based on the Lorentz distribution, was used to determine values of < 5.48 ng/mL of serum P4 concentration for the follicular phase and ≥ 5.48 ng/mL for the luteal phase. Data obtained from US examinations were consistent with P4 concentrations determined using CLIA. In conclusion, the automated CLIA was efficient in determining the P4 concentrations during the various stages of estrous cycles in dairy cows. The findings of the study will help researchers in the animal reproduction field. We recommend the use of CLIA because it´s available in many laboratories worldwide with the ability to process thousands of samples per day.
Complejidad estructural en textos escolares descriptivo-expositivos: estudio de corpus

Este artículo de investigación tiene como objeto de estudio la complejidad lingüística estructural, específicamente larelacionada con los textos escolares descriptivo-expositivos. De esta forma, en el texto se indagó acerca de los factores (dimensiones) lingüísticos que permiten medir la complejidad y clasificar los textos de una muestra. Se analizaron 80 textosescolares a partir de una serie de rasgos (agrupados en dos niveles: morfosintáctico y semántico) y a través de un análisis factorial. Los resultados muestran que los factores cantidad, prototipicidad e informatividad, resultaron significativos y elfactor variedad parcialmente productivo. Frente a los rasgos, se valida la hipótesis de que es necesario incluir en el análisisno solo rasgos sintácticos sino también semánticos e incluso pragmáticos; no obstante, estos resultados son provisionalespues se requiere repensar los criterios y las hipótesis explicativas dadas.
Relationship between Characteristics and Nutrient Intake with Anemia among Pregnant Women at Kebon Jeruk Public Health Center, Jakarta

The number of anemia pregnant women in Indonesia increased to 48.9% in 2018. The number of maternal deaths in DKI Jakarta (2018) risen from 53 out of 100,000 live births, with 25% of them due to bleeding and infection. Anemia increases the risk of bleeding and infection. This study aimed to explore the characteristics, nutrient intake among pregnant women, and their relationships with anemia in Public Health Center Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta. This cross-sectional study was carried out with 60 pregnant women. Two non-consecutive-24 hours dietary recalls assessed energy and protein intake. Micronutrient intakes (iron, folate, vitamins C, B6, B12, E, copper, calcium) were assessed using a semi-quantitative food frequency questioner. Independent t-test or MannWhitney and chi-square tests were applied, according to the type of data and interpretation need, to analyze the relationship between characteristics, nutritional intakes, and anemia. The result showed that trimester, mother s education, husband s income, nutritional status, intake of energy, protein, vitamins C, B6, B12, E, folate, iron, copper, and calcium were significantly related to anemia. A well-planned Communication, Information, and Education (IEC) are needed to improve the quality of nutrient intakes and increase adherence to iron tablet consumption.
Arenen zur Austragung von Dissensen in der Endlagerpolitik

Zusammenfassung DerBeitrag untersucht die Bedeutung undAuswirkungen vonExpert*innendissensen imRahmen des 2013 mit dem StandAG neu eröffneten Standortauswahlverfahrens. Anhand eines hierfür entwickelten Konzeptes von spezifischen Arenen werden die unterschiedlichen diskursiven Räume des Standortauswahlverfahrens anhand von Dokumentenanalyse und Interviewergebnissen systematisiert, in denen Expertisen vorund Dissense ausgetragen werden. Hierbei werden folgende Arenen unterschieden: Arenen der Öffentlichkeit (A1); Politisch-institutionelle Arenen (A2); Arenen der Rechtsprechung (A3) und Institutionell-öffentliche Arenen (A4). In der Analyse wird aufgezeigt, welche Formen von Expertise jeweils in den Prozess einbezogen oder ausgeschlossen werden und wie Dissense ausgetragen werden. Illustriert und zur Anwendung gebracht wird das Arenenkonzept anhand der wissenschaftlichen Ausschlussund Abwägungskriterien für die Ermittlung von Teilgebieten, wie sie im Standortauswahlgesetz festgelegt wurden. Im Spezifischen wird die Debatte nachgezeichnet, inwiefern »glaziale Ereignisse« als Ausschlusskriterium in die Standortsuche einbezogen werden sollten. Die Ergebnisse ermöglichen einen differenzierten Blick u.a. auf Transparenz und Offenheit bestehender diskursiver Räume sowie die Notwendigkeit der Schaffung neuer Arenen etwa im Bereich der Forschung aber bspw. auch im Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und staatlichen Institutionen.
Efek Perbedaan Dataran terhadap Kualitas Litter Closed House Ayam Broiler

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji efek ketinggian dataran yang berbeda terhadap kualitas litter ayam broiler yang dipelihara pada kandang closed house . Materi yang digunakan adalah peternakan ayam broiler yang dipelihara di kandang closed house pada dataran tinggi, sedang dan rendah dengan standard operation procedure (SOP) yang sama. Penelitian ini menggunakan rancangan acak lengkap (RAL) dengan 3 perlakuan dan 8 ulangan. Perlakuan yang diberikan yaitu: kandang di dataran rendah 0-400 Mdpl (Meter di atas permukaan laut) (T1), kandang di dataran sedang 400-700 Mdpl (Meter di atas permukaan laut) (T2), dan kandang di dataran tinggi >700 Mdpl (Meter di atas permukaan laut) (T3). Parameter yang diuji meliputi kadar amonia, kadar air, suhu dan pH litter, serta footpad dermatitis (FPD). Data diolah dengan analisis ragam dengan uji F pada taraf signifikansi 5%, apabila ada pengaruh perlakuan diuji lanjut dengan uji wilayah ganda Duncan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perbedaan dataran berpengaruh nyata (P 0,05). Perbedaan dataran berpengaruh nyata (P 0,05) terhadap kadar amonia litter dan FPD pada umur 28 hari. Simpulan dari penelitian ini adalah kualitas litter paling buruk berada pada dataran tinggi sedangkan paling baik pada dataran rendah dilihat dari beberapa aspek yaitu kadar amonia, kadar air, pH dan FPD pada ayam broiler.
The Relevance of Grated Inlets within Surface Drainage Systems in the Field of Urban Flood Resilience. A Review of Several Experimental and Numerical Simulation Approaches

Urban drainage networks should be designed and operated preferably under open channel flow conditions without flux return, backwater, or overflows. In the case of extreme storm events, urban pluvial flooding is generated by the excess of surface runoff that could not be conveyed by pressurized sewer pipes, due to its limited capacity or, many times, due to the poor efficiency of surface drainage systems to collect uncontrolled overland flow. Generally, the hydraulic design of sewer systems is addressed more for underground networks, neglecting the surface drainage system, although inadequate inlet spacings and locations can cause dangerous flooding with relevant socio-economic impacts and the interruption of critical services and urban activities. Several experimental and numerical studies carried out at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and other research institutions demonstrated that the hydraulic efficiency of inlets can be very low under critical conditions (e.g., high circulating overland flow on steep areas). In these cases, the hydraulic efficiency of conventional grated inlets and continuous transverse elements can be around 10–20%. Their hydraulic capacity, expressed in terms of discharge coefficients, shows the same criticism with values quite far from those that are usually used in several project practice phases. The grate clogging phenomenon and more intense storm events produced by climate change could further reduce the inlets’ performance. In this context, in order to improve the flood urban resilience of our cities, the relevance of the hydraulic behavior of surface drainage systems is clear.
Analysis on critical waves for a diffusive epidemic model with saturating incidence rate and infinitely distributed delay

The purpose of this paper is to obtain an existence theorem of critical waves for a diffusive Susceptible‐Infected‐Removed (SIR) epidemic model with saturating incidence rate and infinitely distributed delay. Our results completely answer an aforementioned unsolved questions by using the Schauder's fixed point theorem and constructing a perfect pair of upper‐lower solutions.
Pruebas monoaurales de habla de baja redundancia: Evaluación de la separación/cierre monoaural

Monaural separation and closure are auditory processing mechanisms that allow to main-tain significant communicative interactions in real environments, with adverse acoustic conditions, competitive noise and non-ideal speakers. These skills depend on intrinsic re-dundancy, which is determined by the structures and physiology of the central auditory ner- vous system, and extrinsic redundancy, which is determined by the acoustic, linguistic and contextual cues of the auditory signal. These processes have been assessed through different forms of degradation of extrinsic redundancy, giving rise to three test categories: low-pass filtered speech tests, speech in noise tests and time-compressed speech tests. Speech in noise tests have become popular in recent years, however, all three categories have documentation to support their usefulness, are available in Spanish and can be applied to both children and adults. Although some have established normative values, it is necessary to interpret the results considering their ecological validity and some variables such as schooling, socioe-conomic status and other social determinants of health that could influence performance. time-compressed tests.
Gendered fear of crime in the urban context: A comparative multilevel study of women’s and men’s fear of crime

ABSTRACT Women generally feel more fearful than men. We study this so-called fear-gender gap, by contributing to a growing body of quantitative gender-sensitive research inspired by feminist theory. We depart from traditional quantitative fear of crime research that fails to examine how determinants of fear of crime impact women and men differently. We use a Dutch governmental survey, linked to neighborhood characteristics, to conduct multilevel modeling using multifaceted sociospatial aspects on individual and neighborhood level, to explain the fear-gender gap in the city of Eindhoven. Findings indicate that the sociospatial environment and the perceptions thereof offer insights into gendered differences in fear. A central finding is that fear of crime among women is particularly complex. We discuss the concept of fear of crime, the importance of feminist theory to inform data gathering in order to further future quantitative research on fear of crime, and make suggestions for future research.
The prognostic value of T-peak T-end among patients with implantable cardiac defibrillator for secondary prevention

Aim: Cardiac death due to ventricular arrhyhtmias can occur in patients with ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) for secondaryprevention. The aim of this study is to assess the prognostic value of electrocardiographic ventricular repolarization parameters inpatients with secondary prevention.Materials and Methods: Sixty five patients with ICD for secondary prevention after sustained ventricular tachycardia, ventricularfibrillation or sudden cardiac death were enrolled to the study retrospectively. Patients were divided into groups according tomortality during a follow up period of 4,5 years (48 patients alive and 17 dead). Heart rate, QT, QTc and T peak T end (Tp-e) durationwere measured from 12 derivations ECG electronically.Results: Mean age of the study population was 70.6±11.9 years. Ventricular repolarization parameters such as QT, QTc, Tp-e durationand Tp-e index values were found to be similar between deaths and live patient groups. Patients who died during the follow-up hadadvanced age (68.7±12.5 vs 76.8±10.3 years, p=0.009), lower left ventricular ejection fraction percentage (LVEF %) (37.6±13.3 vs26.9±9.2, p=0.003) and lower estimated glomerular filtration rate (81.2±22.5 vs 61±34.3 ml/min/m2, p=0.03). Arrhythmic deathpatients only had lower LVEF % than non-arrhythmic death patient’s group.Conclusions: In patients with ICD for secondary prevention QT, QTc, Tp-e duration and Tp-e index were not related to mortality.
Advances in surface modification techniques of reverse osmosis membrane over the years

ABSTRACT Reverse osmosis (RO) near thermodynamic minimum energy requirement is the need of an hour. The present paper shows various efforts by researchers worldwide to improve the RO membrane performance by surface modification. Surface modification is the most convenient technique when it comes to modifying the top polyamide layer of the TFC RO membrane as it is not necessary to alter the manufacturing process. This paper demonstrates the advancements made in the surface modification techniques over the years. Surface modification can change the surface properties like hydrophilicity of the membrane, surface roughness and antifouling property and alter the membrane performance. Graphical Abstract