Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PENGGUNAAN SIKLUS BELAJAR 5E UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KETERAMPILAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA MATA PELAJARAN IPA DI SEKOLAH DASAR

Abstrak: Penelitian ini dilakukan atas dasar temuan peneliti bahwa banyak siswa yang masih memiliki kemampuan yang kurang dalam keterampilan berpikir kritis. Sehingga penelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimanakah aktivitas guru dan siswa, mengetahui bagaimanakah peningkatan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa melalui model pembelajaran siklus belajar 5E pada pembelajaran Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian tindakan kelas dengan menggunakan teknik analisis data diskriptif kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Sebagai subyek siswa kelas VB SDN Jeruk I/469 Surabaya yang berjumlah 38 siswa. Instrumen yang digunakan lembar observasi dan lembar tes keterampilan berpikir kritis. Sedangkan teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi dan tes. Penelitian ini dilakukan selama dua siklus. Data yang diperoleh aktivitas guru pada Siklus I mencapai 75,8%, dan pada Siklus II 82,8%. Aktivitas siswa pada Siklus I mencapai 76,5%, dan pada Siklus II 92,2%. Untuk keterampilan berpikir kritis Siklus I mencapai 71,1%, dan pada Siklus II 86,8%. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah model pembelajaran siklus belajar 5E dapat meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa. Dan dapat dijadikan sebagai salah satu alternatif pada pembelajaran Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam. Kata Kunci: Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam, keterampilan berpikir kritis, model pembelajaran siklus belajar 5E. Abstract: The research was conducted on the basis of research findings that many students who still have the lack of ability in critical thinking skills. This study was conducted in order to determine how the activity of teachers and the students, to know how an increase in students critical thinking skills through the 5E learning cycle model to study natural sciences. This study was classroom action research which used qualitative data analysis techniques and quantitative descriptive. The subject in this study were fifth graders of Jeruk I/469 State Elementary School of Surabaya consisting of 38 students. The instruments that were observation sheets and sheets test of critical thinking skills. While data collection techniques used observation and tests. This research was conducted during two cycles. The data obtained in the first cycle of teacher activity reached 75.8 %, and second cycle 82.8 %. Student activity in the first activity reached 76,5% and second cycle 92,2%. For critical thinking skill first cycle reached 71,1% and second cycle 86,8%. It was concluded that the learning model of 5E learning cycle improved students critical thinking skill and it could be used as an alternative way to learning of natural sciences. Keyword: Natural sciences, critical thinking skills, the learning model of 5E learning cycle.
BPR in the Public Sector : A Case of Successful Failure Nereu

Recent surveys show that business process re-engineering (BPR) has had widespread adoption in western countries. This has been motivated by case studies where drastic improvements in quality, productivity, cost reduction and competitiveness have been reported. The rate of failure in reengineering attempts, though, has been reported to be equally high. It is estimated that over 70 per cent of all re-engineering attempts fail to produce bottom-line improvements. This paper describes one such failed attempt in a large public organisation in Brazil. As a result of the re-engineering attempt, the organisation had its IT infrastructure significantly improved, and the access to IT was decentralised by the downsizing of computer applications from a mainframe to a local area network. On the other hand, no radical changes in the organisation's business processes had resulted, despite the US$ 8 million invested in the BPR attempt. Moreover, even though some processes had been automated, almost no staff reduction was effected. The lack of layoffs meant that even the increase in efficiency in those processes, which by no means was radical, was not realised.
The Perceived Clarity of the Axis II Criteria Sets

The DSM-III-R personality disorders continue to be plagued by low diagnostic reliability. It has been suggested that the Axis II criteria sets themselves contribute to this low reliability by being unclear and poorly worded. To date there has been no direct empirical exploration of the perceived clarity of these criteria. In this study, groups of mental health professionals and lay persons rated the DSM-III-R PD criteria and the criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) for clarity and understandability. The results showed that the lay group rated all 11 of Axis II criteria sets as being significantly more clear than did the mental health professionals. No difference was seen between the two groups on their ratings of the MDD criteria. Furthermore, professional group rated the majority of the PD criteria sets as being less clear than the MDD criteria, whereas the lay people rated 9 of the 11 PD criteria sets as being more clear than the MDD criteria.
The Buller-McGinnis Model of Serial Homicidal Behavior: An Integrated Approach

The seemingly random and motiveless natures of serial homicides make identifying and capturing serial killers nearly impossible. Theories of violent behavior and models exploring the etiology of serial murderers fail to provide an accurate method of predicting serial homicidal tendencies. The present paper seeks to construct an integrated model of serial homicidal behavior designed to pinpoint commonalities shared by serial killers, in order to discover a link between certain characteristics and future homicidal behavior. After examining the lives of four known serial killers, the results yielded two prominent general traits: poor childhood social environments and isolation common amongst all subjects.
Randomised, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled studies on flurbiprofen 8.75 mg lozenges in patients with/without group A or C streptococcal throat infection, with an assessment of clinicians' prediction of ‘strep throat’

Diagnosing group A streptococcus (Strep A) throat infection by clinical examination is difficult, and misdiagnosis may lead to inappropriate antibiotic use. Most patients with sore throat seek symptom relief rather than antibiotics, therefore, therapies that relieve symptoms should be recommended to patients. We report two clinical trials on the efficacy and safety of flurbiprofen 8.75 mg lozenge in patients with and without streptococcal sore throat.
Prediction-based handover schemes for relay-enhanced LTE-A systems

Relay nodes (RN) have been suggested to be placed near the edge of a cellular network in order to improve link qualities of cell edge user equipments (UEs). Compared to conventional homogeneous networks, system performance for the relay-enhanced network can be significantly degraded if handovers between the RNs and evolved node base-station (eNB) are not correctly and immediately determined by the eNB. Therefore, the UEs may suffer from worse channel conditions which can result in increased energy consumption of entire network. In existing long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) standard, fixed reporting time period from the UEs to eNB is considered inflexible which can be too long to provide immediate handover decisions. Hence, prediction-based handover (PH) scheme is proposed to allow eNBs to make potential handover decisions within the UE's reporting period. The channel qualities for both the direct and relay-enhanced links during this period are predicted based on the partially observable Markov decision process. Moreover, three objectives are designed for the proposed PH scheme including maximizing received signal to interference plus noise ratios of UEs, and minimizing system energy consumption without and with considerations of energy outage of relay nodes. Numerical results show that the proposed PH schemes outperform conventional handover scheme from the perspectives of both system energy consumption and outage probability.
Student Teachers’ Motives of Becoming Mathematics Teachers: An Exploratory Study

Abstract Recruiting and retaining mathematics teachers is a matter of concern in many countries especially in South Africa. So far distance education in South Africa has been identified as the system that could assist in training more mathematics teachers. This paper therefore explores student teachers motives of becoming future mathematics teachers. A qualitative research design was employed to investigate what motivates students to choose mathematics as an area of teaching. The findings revealed that most students choose to teach mathematics because of the passion, enjoyment of teaching mathematics and the fulfilling love of mathematics that they have which in turn they want to pass to their learners. These teachers value the potential contribution of mathematics and appreciate the nature of mathematics from their school career. Suggestions are formulated to provide insights which could assist in recruiting motivated mathematics teachers to the now seemingly dwindling profession.
Physiological responses and political behavior: Three reproductions using a novel dataset

One of the most provocative recent findings in our understanding of political behavior is the link between physiological responses to environmental stimuli and political attitudes and behavior. This line of research holds much promise in explaining some of the foundational evolutionary origins of basic political orientations. Much of this recent research focused specifically on skin conductance response to threatening and disgusting stimuli, however, is based on analyses of a data collection sample of approximately 200 study participants drawn from the same community at a single point in time. Herein we attempt to reproduce many of the basic findings of recent research on skin conductance response and political behavior using data collected from a novel and unique dataset in a different context. In brief, we fail to reproduce many of the basic findings from this incipient line of research which suggests that the link between skin conductance and political behavior may be more contingent than previously assumed.
Engagement Features in Russian & English: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Academic Written Discourse

This paper examines discursive features of engagement (Hyland, 2009) demonstrated by native English- and Russian-speaking academics in their research articles. Pronoun choice, formation of directives, references to shared information, and use of rhetorical questions are identified in written academic discourse and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. This research connects the use of interactional features in research-based writing and the communicative practices of the authors. It is argued that academic discursive traditions are molded by the sociocultural environment, which either encourages or discourages a writer to engage in dialogue with the reader.
Negative perceptions of asking for support in law enforcement

Police culture can be extremely powerful and may dictate many of the behaviors required of an officer. Some behaviors may be perceived as stigmatizing and engagement in these activities can cause the officer to feel ostracized. Using the Conservation of Resources Theory, this research attempted to shed some light on the perceived effect of using certain benefits and if this perception led to benefit avoidance (BA). This research also explored some potential antecedents of BA (e.g. supervisory support). Results showed that officers do perceive a negative effect related to BU and perceived supervisory and organizational support do impact BA.
Responsibility and Reciprocity: Social Organization of Mazahua Learning Practices

This article describes Mazahua children's participation in learning interactions that take place when they collaborate with more knowledgeable others in everyday activities in family and community settings. During these interactions they coordinate their actions with those of other participants, switching between the roles of “knowledgeable performer” and “observing helper. ” It is argued that experience with this way of interacting implies readiness to take on responsibility for carrying out important family and community activities, and an understanding of and capacity for reciprocity. Observations in a sixth-grade classroom with a Mazahua teacher and children show that children continued to interact in ways that allowed for collaborative task-oriented organization of classroom learning activities. [Indigenous education, family and community learning, interactional practices, Mazahua learning]
Successive interference cancelation for space-time block codes over time-selective channels

In this letter, we propose a very simple successive interference cancelation (SIC) based signal detector for space-time block codes (STBC) to combat time-selective fading. The main idea is to treat un-detected symbols as noise using a Gaussian approximation. Simulation results show that our scheme can provide performance very close to ML decoding with extremely low computational complexity
UBE2T silencing suppresses proliferation and induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in bladder cancer cells

Ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2T (UBE2T), a member of the ubiquitin-conjugating E2 family in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, has been reported to be overexpressed in certain tumor types and to have an important role in the Fanconi anemia pathway. In the present study, the expression of UBE2T and its association with bladder cancer were investigated; to the best of our knowledge, this has not been reported previously. Immunohistochemistry and western blot analysis demonstrated that UBE2T was significantly upregulated in bladder cancer tissues and cell lines compared with adjacent normal bladder tissues and a normal human urinary tract epithelial cell line, respectively. UBE2T was detectable in the nuclei and cytoplasm of cancer cells, exhibiting stronger expression in the nuclei. A UBE2T-siRNA-expressing lentivirus was constructed and used to infect human bladder cancer 5637 cells, in order to examine the role of UBE2T in bladder cancer cell growth in vitro. The knockdown of UBE2T significantly decreased bladder cancer cell proliferation and colony formation. Furthermore, UBE2T silencing induced cell cycle arrest at G2/M phase and increased cell apoptosis. Therefore, UBE2T serves an important role in the growth of bladder cancer cells, and may be considered as a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for bladder cancer.
An Intervention to Promote Appropriate Management of Allergies in a Heavy Manufacturing Workforce: Evaluating Health and Productivity Outcomes

This work presents the evaluation of a first-of-its-kind intervention to improve the management of allergies among workers in a largely blue-collar industrial setting. This intervention implemented eight educational strategies focusing on appropriate medication use in the context of a controlled, nonrandomized, pre-post quasi-experimental study design. Program implementation occurred during summer 2001, with change assessed by means of measures of health and productivity, developed from employee surveys timed to occur at the height of the spring and fall allergy seasons, and measures of contemporaneous adverse events developed from administrative databases. Evidence of improvement was found at one experimental site but not at the other experimental sites or the control site. Tests using exploratory and confirmatory analyses were conducted of two hypotheses linking the gains of this site’s allergy group to 1) intervention process changes and 2) changes in allergy severity caused by seasonality. Neither hypothesis is found to fully account for the explained variation between sites. Similar pre-post productivity gains for other disease groups at this site relative to the other sites suggest that the inclusion of other unmeasured variables would improve explanation; e.g., the responses of employees with chronic disease to notably challenging labor negotiations at this site. The implications for promoting behavioral change in the management of the impact of disease on productivity are explored.
Enriching Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation with POS Information

This work presents an extension to phrasebased statistical machine translation models which incorporates linguistic knowledge, namely part-of-speech information. Scores are added to the standard phrase table which represent how the phrases correspond to their translations on the partof-speech level. We suggest two different kinds of scores. They are learned from a POS-tagged version of the parallel training corpus. The decoding strategy does not have to be modified. Our experiments show that our extended models achieve similar BLEU and NIST scores compared to the standard model. Additional manual investigation reveals local improvements in the translation quality.
Desarrollo y validación de un cuestionario para la evaluación del conocimiento declarativo en voleibol

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire for the assessment of declarative knowledge in volleyball. Due to interest in the cognitive skills study, differents tools to access knowledge players have been developed (McPherson and Kernodle, 2007). The sample consisted of 489 subjects, aged between 13 and 16 years, with different experience levels and gender, which was accessed during the Spain Championship and various schools. The results showed appropriate values in tests of validity and reliability made, considering the elimination of one of the items of the questionnaire, so that the instrument was finally composed of 24 questions. We obtained Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of . 77 for internal consistency and reliability of . 76 for the temporal reliability. The regression analysis determined that experience predicted the declarative knowledge, not age. Future researchs to develop new tools are essential to the analysis of cognitive variables involved in sports activities.
Helium Breakdown Characteristics under 100 kHz Range Pulsed Voltages in Partial Vacuum for Point-to-point Electrode Geometry

In this paper we present our work on breakdown studies conducted in helium at partial vacuum conditions for a point-to-point electrode setup. A high frequency pulsed voltage signal is applied across the electrodes and the voltage-current characteristics are observed. The applied signal consists of a train of square pulses in the frequency range of 50 to 200 kHz with 50% duty cycle and rise/fall times in the range of 20-30 ns. These studies were conducted to understand and compare the role of the pulse repetition rate in electrical breakdown initiation in low pressure conditions. Preliminary data of voltage and current waveforms, along with the light emission data are presented. The optical data collected by a PMT (photo multiplier tube) as a function of the time is presented in comparison to the varying voltage
Aminophylline versus caffeine citrate for apnea and bradycardia prophylaxis in premature neonates

We investigated the efficacy and adverse effects of aminophylline and caffeine citrate in 180 premature neonates for 10 days and nights. Aminophylline (n = 98) and caffeine citrate (n= 82) were equally effective in preventing apnea and bradycardia. The caffeine citrate group had a lower median heart rate on day 3, fewer neonates with tachycardia and a smaller amount of gastric aspirate on day 7. The need for mononasal continuous positive airway pressure and respirator therapy was similar in both groups. We conclude that caffeine citrate is the drug of choice for apnea and bradycardia prophylaxis in premature neonates with a gestational age ≤33 full weeks.
Music preference in adulthood: Why do we like the music we do?

range of psychological approaches have been used in the study of music preferences and music in everyday life, yet none of these have successfully approached the complexities of meaning involved in people's everyday use of music. Two studies were carried out which aimed to map individual levels of engagement with music; to tap into the content and quality of people's emotional experi- ences with the music they prefer and why this valued; to investigate how technology affects the ways people engage with music; and to discover what it is about the specific characteristics of the music that is preferred. Qualitative methodology was used to ground the research in people's experiences with music, to identify how they account for their listening behaviour, and to focus on what they per- ceive to be important in shaping their music preferences. 23 participants (aged 18-47) were interviewed and the tran- scripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Themes identified include the use of technology in music listening behaviour; changes and fluctuations in music preferences over time; the number of different styles people used; the complex and idiosyncratic ways in which people categorise and organise the music they own; and the way in which people use music as a form of 'self-therapy' - especially for purposes of mood-regulation. Adults are consciously aware of the many ways in which they use and engage with music, and emphasise music as a meaningful and important personal and social undertaking. The research provides a rich soil from which to develop hypotheses about the na- ture of people's engagement with music, and highlights important dimensions of preference for further investiga- tion.
Top management credibility and employee cynicism: A comprehensive model

By combining quantitative and qualitative methods of study, we develop a comprehensive model of top management behaviors, perceived management credibility, and employee cynicism and outcomes. Specifically, we identify managerial behaviors that affect employees’ perceptions of two components of top management’s credibility — trustworthiness and competence — and examine how each of those components relates to employee cynicism. Top management competence and trustworthiness relate to different components of employee cynicism (cognitive, affective, and behavioral cynicism), and these dimensions of cynicism differentially relate to organizational commitment and self-assessed job performance. Content analysis of critical incidents revealed that different sets of managerial behaviors generate attributions of competence, incompetence, trustworthiness, and non-trustworthiness. This study and the resulting model open the door to more finely distilled research on management credibility and employee cynicism.
The safety of treatments for tobacco use disorder

ABSTRACT Introduction: Tobacco continues to be a leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the world. First-line pharmacotherapies for the treatment of tobacco use disorder include nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion sustained-release (SR), and varenicline. We provide an overview of current evidence on the safety of first-line pharmacotherapies for the treatment of tobacco use disorder. Areas covered: Randomized clinical trials published in English up to July 2015 were identified and reviewed through searches of PUBMED using the terms nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion SR, varenicline, smoking, and tobacco cessation. Expert opinion: Nicotine replacement has few contraindications and side effects and can be recommended to almost all tobacco users. Bupropion SR should be used with caution in patients with bipolar disorder or liver or kidney disease, and alternative treatments should be considered for patients with a history of seizures or who are at risk for seizures. The only contraindication for varenicline is an allergy to the medication, and nausea is the most common side effect. Varenicline can be used safely in patients with cardiovascular disease. Varenicline can be used in patients with stable psychiatric disease and safety can be ensured through close clinical monitoring.