Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pengaruh motivasi dan disiplin kerja terhadap kinerja guru SD di Kabupaten Cilacap

Motivasi adalah hal yang menyebabkan, menyalurkan, dan mendukung perilaku manusia, supaya mau bekerja giat dan antusias mencapai hasil yang optimal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh motivasi dan disiplin kerja secara bersama-sama dan parsial terhadap kinerja guru SD di Kabupaten Cilacap. Penelitian ini termasuk penelitian ex post facto dengan pendekatan kuantitatif, penarikan sampel menggunakan Proportional Cluster Random Sampling dan Analisis data dengan Analisis regresi berganda. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dan pembahasan dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh positif motivasi secara parsial terhadap kinerja guru, disiplin kerja secara parsial tidak berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru, dan terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan secara simultan motivasi dan disiplin kerja terhadap kinerja guru SD di Kabupaten Cilacap. Upaya meningkatkan motivasi dan displin kerja perlu dilakukan secara bersama-sama dalam meningkatkan kinerja guru Kata kunci: motivasi, disisplin kerja, kinerja guru EFFECT OF MOTIVATION AND DISCIPLINE WORK ON THE PERFORMANCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN CILACAP DISTRICT Abstract Motivation is the thing that causes, distributes, and supports human behavior, in order to work hard and enthusiastically achieve optimal results. This study aims to analyze the influence of motivation and work discipline together and partially to the performance of elementary school teachers in Cilacap regency. This research includes ex post facto research with quantitative approach, sampling using Proportional Cluster Random Sampling and Data Analysis with multiple regression analysis. Based on the results of research and discussion can be concluded that there is a positive influence of partial motivation on teacher performance, work discipline partially does not affect the performance of teachers, and there is a significant influence simultaneously motivation and work discipline on the performance of elementary school teachers in Cilacap regency. Efforts to improve motivation and work discipline need to be done jointly in improving teacher performance. Keywords: motivation, discipline work, teacher performance
Skin Biopsy in the Context of Dermatological Diagnosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Background. Skin biopsy is an established method for allying the dermatologist in overcoming the diagnostic dilemmas which occur during consultations. However neither do all skin biopsies produce a conclusive diagnosis nor the dermatologists routinely perform this procedure to every patient they consult. The aim of this study was to investigate the favourable clinical diagnoses set by dermatologists when performing skin biopsy, the diagnoses reached by the dermatopathologists after microscopic examination, and the relationship between them and finally to comment on the instances that skin biopsy fails to fulfill the diagnostic task. Methods. Six thousand eight hundred and sixteen biopsy specimens were reviewed and descriptive statistics were performed. Results. The mean age of the patients was 54.58 ± 0.26 years, the most common site of biopsy was the head and neck (38.3%), the most frequently proposed clinical diagnoses included malignancies (19.28%), and the most prevalent pathological diagnosis was epitheliomas (21.9%). After microscopic examination, a specific histological diagnosis was proposed in 83.29% of the cases and a consensus between clinical and histological diagnoses was observed in 68% of them. Conclusions. Although there are cases that skin biopsy exhibits diagnostic inefficiency, it remains a valuable aid for the dermatology clinical practice.
Scheduling on airdisks: efficient access to personalized information services via periodic wireless data broadcast

There has been considerable interest in delivering information to distributed mobile clients via wireless broadcast. Information transmitted periodically over wireless media can be regarded as a virtual disk, which we call an airdisk, analogous to a standard magnetic disk. Airdisks offer an efficient mechanism for delivering personalized information services to mobile clients with portable or laptop computers by broadcasting data and allowing clients to filter out the items of interest to them. We study the problem of scheduling the order in which data items are broadcast so as to minimize the access time of the clients, focusing on the case where the server inserts an index at the start of the broadcast period. We observe that the problem is analogous to that of determining how data should be laid out on the disk, and show that the problem is in general NP-complete. We develop a branch-and-bound procedure for solving the problem optimally, and then develop a fast, simple heuristic. The results of our simulation experiments show that the heuristic runs substantially faster than the branch-and-bound procedure, and yet produces schedules that are only slightly longer.
Object Delineation by -Connected Components

The notion of "strength of connectedness" between pixels has been successfully used in image segmentation. We present extensions to these works, which can considerably improve the efficiency of object delineation tasks. A set of pixels is said to be a -connected component with respect to a seed pixel, when the strength of connectedness of any pixel in that set with respect to the seed is higher than or equal to a threshold. We discuss two approaches that define objects based on -connected components with respect to a given seed set: with and without competition among seeds. While the previous approaches either assume no competition with a single threshold for all seeds or eliminate the threshold for seed competition, we show that seeds with different thresholds can improve segmentation in both paradigms. We also propose automatic and user-friendly interactive methods to determining the thresholds. The proposed methods are presented in the framework of the image foresting transform, which naturally leads to efficient and correct graph algorithms. The improvements are demonstrated through several segmentation experiments involving medical images.
Implementasi Sosialisasi Insentif Ekonomi dalam Pelaksanaan Program Perlindungan Lahan Pertanian Pangan Berkelanjutan (PLP2B)

English To maintain the existence and capacity of agricultural production, the Government Regulation No. 1/2011 (PP No.1/2011) was issued to regulate the Establishment and Conversion of Sustainable Food-Crop Agricultural Land. This regulation is a mandate of the Law No. 41/2009 (UU No. 41/2009) on sustainable food-crop agricultural land protection (PLP2B). Implementation of PLP2B need support of regional plan (RTRW), economic incentive, and institutional aspect. PLP2B implementation depends on support and participation of farmers such as consolidated land especially on irrigated lowland areas. The study aims: (i) to review the policy and implementation of PLP2B and the influencing factors; (2) to review economic incentive instrument; and (3) to review institutional aspect. This Act implementation is not well disseminated at regency’s level. Farmers’ response to this Act is good enough. Indonesian Dalam upaya menjaga eksistensi dan kapasitas produksi pertanian, pemerintah menetapkan Peraturan Pemerintah (PP) Nomor 1 Tahun 2011 tentang Penetapan dan Alih Fungsi Lahan Pertanian Pangan Berkelanjutan. PP tersebut, merupakan amanat Undang-Undang Nomor 41 Tahun 2009 tentang Perlindungan Lahan Pertanian Pangan Berkelanjutan (PLP2B). Untuk menunjang implementasi PLP2B perlu dukungan konkrit yang dalam operasionalnya berupa penetapan Rencana Tata Ruang Wilayah (RTRW), insentif ekonomi dan aspek kelembagaan. Implementasi PLP2B sangat tergantung dari dukungan dan partisipasi masyarakat petani dan dalam pelaksanaan PLP2B konsolidasi lahan/usaha perlu diarahkan ke wilayah lahan sawah irigasi. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, telaahan ini bertujuan untuk: (1) membahas kebijakan dan implementasi Undang Undang PLP2B serta faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhinya; (2) mengkaji instrumen insentif ekonomi yang dibutuhkan dalam PLP2B; dan (3) mengkaji kelembagaan yang kondusif. Pelaksanaan program PLP2B belum sepenuhnya tersosialisasikan di tingkat kabupaten. Respon petani terhadap program PLP2B sangat baik.
Adult mortality and antiretroviral treatment roll-out in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

OBJECTIVE To investigate trends in adult mortality in a population serviced by a public-sector antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme in rural South Africa using a demographic surveillance system. METHODS Verbal autopsies were conducted for all 7930 deaths observed between January 2000 and December 2006 in a demographic surveillance population of 74,500 in the Umkhanyakude district of northern KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. Age-standardized mortality rate ratios (SMRRs) were calculated for adults aged 25 to 49 years, the group most affected by HIV, for the 2 years before 2004 and the 3 subsequent years, during which ART had been available. FINDINGS Between 2002-2003 (the period before ART) and 2004-2006 (the period after ART), HIV-related age-standardized mortality declined significantly, from 22.52 to 17.58 per 1000 person-years in women 25-49 years of age (P < 0.001; SMRR: 0.780; 95% confidence interval, CI: 0.691-0.881), and from 26.46 to 18.68 per 1000 person-years in men 25-49 years of age (P < 0.001; SMRR: 0.706; 95% CI: 0.615-0.811). On sensitivity analysis the results were robust to the possible effect of misclassification of HIV-related deaths. CONCLUSION Overall population mortality and HIV-related adult mortality declined significantly following ART roll-out in a community with a high prevalence of HIV infection. A clear public health message of the benefits of treatment, as revealed by these findings, should be part of a multi-faceted strategy to encourage people to find out their HIV serostatus and seek care.
Deep Searches for Radio Pulsations and Bursts from Four Southern Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars

We have searched for persistent radio pulsations, bright single pulses, and bursts from four southern anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs). Deep observations were conducted at 1.4 GHz in 1999 July and August with the Parkes 64 m telescope. For all of the target AXPs, the upper limits on integrated pulsed emission are ~0.02 mJy, while the limits on the flux of single pulses are ~1 Jy or better. The corresponding radio luminosity limits are significantly below the observed luminosities of the majority of the observed radio pulsars, and they are significantly below the radio luminosity of XTE J1810-197, the only AXP known thus far to emit radio pulsations, at the epoch when radio pulses were first detected from this source. Our null results support the hypothesis that pulsed radio emission from AXPs is only present in conjunction with X-ray outburst activity. However, we cannot rule out the possibility that pulsed radio emission is present, but that it is too weak to be detected in our observations, or that unfavorable viewing geometries prevent this emission from being seen by terrestrial observers. Given the possible association between the radio emission and transient X-ray behavior of XTE J1810-197, continued radio searches of these and other AXPs at different epochs are warranted, particularly after periods of X-ray burst activity.
C-like receptors in the brain of Xenopus laevis initiate sex-typical fictive 7 vocalizations 8

H. J. Yu, and A. Yamaguchi 9 Department of Biology, Boston University 10 5 Cummington St., Boston, MA 02215 11 12 Abbreviated title: 5-HT2C control of Xenopus vocalization 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Corresponding author: 27 28 H. J. Yu 29 BU Biology Department 30 5 Cummington St. 31 Boston, MA 02215 32 33 Phone: 617-358-2181 34 Fax: 617-353-6340 35 Email: hjwalker@bu.edu 36 37 Figures: 7 38 Tables: 4 39 Pages: 36 40 Abstract: 188 4
Who I Am and What I Think: The Contribution of Personality and Socioeconomic Traits to the Attitudes of Homeschooling Parents toward the Education System and Homeschooling in Israel

ABSTRACT The consistent growth of homeschooling in recent decades can be considered a reflection of public criticism of the education system. This criticism has given rise to alternative education methods; homeschooling is one of the most radical examples. In light of the increasing scope of homeschooling and its significant implications, it is important to understand its origins. However, the research on the attitudes of parents who choose homeschooling has not considered the role of personality of parents in their attitudes. The purpose of the present research was to examine the contribution of socioeconomic and personality traits of parents to their attitudes, focusing on neuroticism, openness to experience, and anxiety and avoidance attachment styles. The findings indicated that parents’ personality contributed significantly to the explanation of their attitudes; in some cases, this contribution was mediated by their socioeconomic traits.
Tangaroa : a Byzantine Fault Tolerant Raft

We propose a Byzantine Fault Tolerant variant of the Raft consensus algorithm, BFTRaft, inspired by the original Raft[1] algorithm and the Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance algorithm[2]. BFT Raft maintains the safety, fault tolerance, and liveness properties of Raft in the presence of Byzantine faults, while also aiming towards to Raft’s goal of simplicity and understandability. We have implemented a proof-of-concept of this algorithm in the Haskell programming language.
Sufficient Statistics as a Generalization of Binning in Spectral X-ray Imaging

It is well known that the energy dependence of X-ray attenuation can be used to characterize materials. Yet, even with energy discriminating photon counting X-ray detectors, it is still unclear how to best form energy dependent measurements for spectral imaging. Common ideas include binning photon counts based on their energies and detectors with both photon counting and energy integrating electronics. These approaches can be generalized to energy weighted measurements, which we prove can form a sufficient statistic for spectral X-ray imaging if the weights used, which we term μ-weights, are basis attenuation functions that can also be used for material decomposition. To study the performance of these different methods, we evaluate the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) of material estimates in the presence of quantum noise. We found that the choice of binning and weighting schemes can greatly affect the performance of material decomposition. Even with optimized thresholds, binning condenses information but incurs penalties to decomposition precision and is not robust to changes in the source spectrum or object size, although this can be mitigated by adding more bins or removing photons of certain energies from the spectrum. On the other hand, because μ -weighted measurements form a sufficient statistic for spectral imaging, the CRLB of the material decomposition estimates is identical to the quantum noise limited performance of a system with complete energy information of all photons. Finally, we show that μ -weights lead to increased conspicuity over other methods in a simulated calcium contrast experiment.
Antidepressant-like effects of apigenin and 2,4,5-trimethoxycinnamic acid from Perilla frutescens in the forced swimming test.

We studied the effects of apigenin and 2,4,5-trimethoxycinnamic acid (TMCA) on the behavioral despair test (forced swimming test), and the central noradrenergic, dopaminergic and serotonergic activities in mice. Apigenin at intraperitoneal doses of 12.5 and 25 mg/kg significantly decreased the duration of immobility in the forced swimming test in mice. At 100 mg/kg, the duration of immobility was returned to the control level in the test. On the other hand, TMCA treatment (25-200 mg/kg, i.p.) failed to significantly alter the duration of immobility. Based on the behavioral data, we examined changes in the monoamine turnover in mice having been subjected to forced swimming for 40 min. The monoamine turnover was measured in seven brain regions. Forced swimming exposure induced a significant decrease in dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC)/dopamine (DA) in the striatum and amygdala and in 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA)/5-hydroxytriptamine (5-HT) in the hypothalamus, and a significant increase in DOPAC/DA in the thalamus and hypothalamus and in 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylethyleneglycol (MHPG)/norepinephrine (NE) in the amygdala, frontal cortex, hypothalamus, and midbrain. Apigenin (25 mg/kg) treatment produced attenuation of forced swim test-induced decrease of DA turnover in the amygdala and increase of DA turnover in the hypothalamus. Furthermore, intraperitoneal administration of haloperidol (0.2 mg/kg), a dopamine D(2) antagonist, blocked the apigenin (25 mg/kg)-induced decrease in immobility in the forced swimming test. These behavioral and biochemical results indicate the antidepressant properties of apigenin, which may be mediated by the dopaminergic mechanisms in the mouse brain.
Jatropha curcas, a biofuel crop: Functional genomics for understanding metabolic pathways and genetic improvement

Jatropha curcas is currently attracting much attention as an oilseed crop for biofuel, as Jatropha can grow under climate and soil conditions that are unsuitable for food production. However, little is known about Jatropha, and there are a number of challenges to be overcome. In fact, Jatropha has not really been domesticated; most of the Jatropha accessions are toxic, which renders the seedcake unsuitable for use as animal feed. The seeds of Jatropha contain high levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids, which negatively impact the biofuel quality. Fruiting of Jatropha is fairly continuous, thus increasing costs of harvesting. Therefore, before starting any improvement program using conventional or molecular breeding techniques, understanding gene function and the genome scale of Jatropha are prerequisites. This review presents currently available and relevant information on the latest technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics) to decipher important metabolic pathways within Jatropha, such as oil and toxin synthesis. Further, it discusses future directions for biotechnological approaches in Jatropha breeding and improvement.
Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting

We use international household-survey data to document that experience-wage profiles are flatter in poorer countries than in richer countries. We find a quantitatively similar pattern when we estimate returns to foreign experience by country of origin among U.S. immigrants. The most likely explanation for both findings is that workers accumulate less human capital from experience in poorer countries. Taking this into consideration in development accounting substantially increases the role of human capital in accounting for cross-country income differences.
Creating the brain and interacting with the brain: an integrated approach to understanding the brain

In the past two decades, brain science and robotics have made gigantic advances in their own fields, and their interactions have generated several interdisciplinary research fields. First, in the ‘understanding the brain by creating the brain’ approach, computational neuroscience models have been applied to many robotics problems. Second, such brain-motivated fields as cognitive robotics and developmental robotics have emerged as interdisciplinary areas among robotics, neuroscience and cognitive science with special emphasis on humanoid robots. Third, in brain–machine interface research, a brain and a robot are mutually connected within a closed loop. In this paper, we review the theoretical backgrounds of these three interdisciplinary fields and their recent progress. Then, we introduce recent efforts to reintegrate these research fields into a coherent perspective and propose a new direction that integrates brain science and robotics where the decoding of information from the brain, robot control based on the decoded information and multimodal feedback to the brain from the robot are carried out in real time and in a closed loop.
Assessing the precision of FindBugs by mining Java projects developed at a university

Software repositories are analyzed to extract useful information on software characteristics. One of them is external quality. A technique used to increase software quality is automatic static analysis, by means of bug finding tools. These tools promise to speed up the verification of source code; anyway, there are still many problems, especially the high number of false positives, that hinder their large adoption in software development industry. We studied the capability of a popular bug-finding tool, FindBugs, for defect prediction purposes, analyzing the issues revealed on a repository of university Java projects. Particularly, we focused on the percentage of them that indicates actual defects with respect to their category and priority, and we ranked them. We found that a very limited set of issues have high precision and therefore have a positive impact on code external quality.
Health related quality of life in adults with repaired tetralogy of Fallot: psychosocial and cognitive outcomes

Objective: To assess the health related quality of life of patients who were operated on during childhood for total correction of tetralogy of Fallot, focusing on the psychosocial and cognitive outcomes. Patients: 54 patients (24 men and 30 women, mean (SD) age 32 (4) years), operated on for total correction of tetralogy of Fallot at mean age of 8.2 years, underwent a cardiological examination, psychological assessment (semistructured interview, Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory), evaluation of quality of life (36 item short form health survey), and neuropsychological assessment with an extensive neuropsychological battery of tests. Results: Psychological characteristics—(1) a lower than normal academic level, (2) a job inadequate for educational level, (3) a preference for an overprotective familiar setting, and (4) a difficulty communicating own corporal image. Denial of the cardiopathy was found to be a common behaviour to normalise functioning. Very few patients had a deficit in memory, learning, or attention functions; rather, patients had a deficit in the executive functions, problem solving, and planning strategies. Conclusions: Despite a satisfactory health related quality of life, there are residual psychological and social problems in addition to impaired cognitive outcomes in the presence of a normal intelligence quotient.
On invariant polyhedra of continuous-time linear systems

The author presents some conditions of existence of positively invariant polyhedra for linear continuous-time systems. These conditions are described algebraically and then interpreted on the basis of the system eigenstructure. A simple state-feedback placement method is described for solving some linear regulation problems under constraints. The proposed solution describes the structural conditions (on the invariant zeros) under which the domain of constraints can be made positively invariant by a simple eigenstructure assignment algorithm. <<ETX>>
Large neighborhood improvements for solving car sequencing problems

The NP-hwd problem of car sequencing has received a lot of attention these last years. Whereas a direct approach based on integer programming or constraint programming is generally fruitless when the number of vehicles to sequence exceeds the hundred, several heuristics have shown their efficiency. In this paper, very large-scale neighborhood improvement techniques based on integer programming and linear assignment are presented for solving car sequencing problems. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated through an experimental study made on seminal CSPLIB'S benchmarks.