Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PENGARUH STRES KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA PEGAWAI PADA DINAS PENDAPATAN, KEUANGAN DAN ASET DAERAH KABUPATEN MUSI MANYUASIN

Stres kerja mengakibatkan kelelahan kerja, seringkali tanda awal dari stres kerja adalah suatu perasaan bahwa dirinya mengalami kelelahan emosional terhadap pekerjaan-pekerjaan. Bila diminta menjelaskan yang dirasakan, seorang karyawan yang lelah secara emosional akan merasa kehabisan tenaga dan lelah secara fisik. Dinas Pendapatan, Pengelolaan Keuangan dan Aset Daerah Kabupaten Musi Banyuasin merupakan salah satu Satuan Kerja Perangkat Daerah (SKPD) di Kabupaten Musi Banyuasin yang bertugas melaksanakan urusan pemerintahan daerah bidang pendapatan, pengelolaan keuangan dan aset berdasarkan asas otonomi dan tugas pembantuan diseluruh Kabupaten Musi Banyuasin. Beratnya tugas Dinas Pendapatan, Pengelolaan Keuangan dan Aset Daerah Kabupaten Musi Banyuasin menyebabkan para pegawai pada dinas tersebut harus memiliki profesionalitas dan kinerja yang optimal. Besarnya korelasi (R) variabel stres kerja (X) terhadap kinerja pegawai (Y) adalah 0,791 artinya hubungan/ korelasi antara stres kerja terhadap kinerja pegawai Dinas Pendapatan, Pengelolaan Keuangan dan Aset Daerah Kabupaten Musi Banyuasin menunjukkan adanya hubungan/korelasi yang bersifat kuat dan positif. Besarnya pengaruh stres kerja terhadap kinerja pegawai Dinas Pendapatan, Pengelolaan Keuangan dan Aset Daerah Kabupaten Musi Banyuasindilihat dari nilai R Square yaitu 0,624 yang memberikan pengertian bahwa 62,4% variabel kinerja pegawai (Y) dapat dipengaruhi oleh variabel stres kerja (X), sedangkan sisanya 37,6% dijelaskan oleh faktor lainnya.
Students’ relationships to knowledges, place identity and agency concerning the St. Lawrence river

ABSTRACT Our study is framed according to a transformational-sociocritical approach to an education for sustainable development (ESD) that, in particular, considers landscapes as learning contexts of potential use for fostering engagement in the areas of environmental protection and sustainable development. In keeping with this perspective, we surveyed students aged 16–17 years from the Lower St. Lawrence region (Quebec, Canada) concerning their knowledge and perceptions of issues pertaining to the St. Lawrence, the river facing them on an everyday basis, and about their role as citizens in that connection. In respect of theoretical considerations, we propose developing the concepts of relationships to knowledge, place identity and agency. An analysis of questionnaires (N=334) has served to: bring out the learnings and issues pertaining to the St. Lawrence River that students consider to be meaningful; characterise the various identity-centred relationships with this landscape; and define the eco-civic agency of the students surveyed. The results of this analysis then provide a basis for some proposals for an ESD curriculum relating to the St. Lawrence River that is rooted in students’ concerns. While the environmental issues dealt with occur locally, the potential transfer of results into other curricula and educational contexts is also discussed.
Adaptive DFE with regularization for indoor wireless data communications

Recursive least-squares adaptive decision-feedback equalizers (DFE) can be classified into the direct adaptation (DA) and channel-estimation-based adaptation (CEBA) approaches. The CEBA provides better performance than DA when the channel length is known exactly. However, for wireless channels, the channel length is a random unknown quantity. We evaluate the performance of the DA and CEBA DFE without assuming knowledge of the channel length. We find that the DA DFE is more robust with respect to delay-spread variations than the CEBA DFE. We also use a regularization technique for the fractionally-spaced CEBA DFE, which achieves a gain as large as 6 dB. Since we did not assume knowledge of the channel length, these results apply for wireless communication systems.
The growing hierarchical self-organizing map: exploratory analysis of high-dimensional data

The self-organizing map (SOM) is a very popular unsupervised neural-network model for the analysis of high-dimensional input data as in data mining applications. However, at least two limitations have to be noted, which are related to the static architecture of this model as well as to the limited capabilities for the representation of hierarchical relations of the data. With our novel growing hierarchical SOM (GHSOM) we address both limitations. The GHSOM is an artificial neural-network model with hierarchical architecture composed of independent growing SOMs. The motivation was to provide a model that adapts its architecture during its unsupervised training process according to the particular requirements of the input data. Furthermore, by providing a global orientation of the independently growing maps in the individual layers of the hierarchy, navigation across branches is facilitated. The benefits of this novel neural network are a problem-dependent architecture and the intuitive representation of hierarchical relations in the data. This is especially appealing in explorative data mining applications, allowing the inherent structure of the data to unfold in a highly intuitive fashion.
From conscientization to imagining redistributive strategies: social justice collaborations in elite schools

ABSTRACT In this paper we reflect on the challenges of engaging in social justice work within elite schools. Drawing on experiences collaborating with an elite school in a justice-oriented research project, we consider the theoretical resources that informed this work. We demonstrate how Freire’s work has been critical in forming the kind of relations that acknowledge and benefit from multiple perspectives. Other conceptual frameworks are then considered, which may facilitate the further embedding and extension of social justice work. We conclude by proposing that Fraser’s work offers the necessary tools for this, but emphasise the importance of hope and persistence.
Modifying the ‘how’ of an arrest: reducing the interacting effects of childhood exposure to intimate partner violence and parental arrest

ABSTRACT Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) as a child is a well-known risk factor for impaired psychosocial functioning contributing to elevated risks of internalizing and externalizing behaviours. Witnessing a parent’s arrest for IPV can interact with and further extend these consequences. This narrative review discusses the research on these adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and identifies the potential for greater traumatic outcomes resulting from their interaction. The authors provide strategies for police to minimize the negative effects on children when arresting a parent who has perpetrated IPV and recommend transitioning towards more integrated units that enable collaborative responses between police practitioners and child experts to minimize the resulting harm of exposure to these particular ACEs.
Ameliorating Effects of Ethanol Extract of Fructus mume on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Impairment in Mice

We previously reported that Fructus mume (F. mume) extract shows protective effects on memory impairments and anti-inflammatory effects induced by chronic cerebral hypoperfusion. Neurodegeneration of basal cholinergic neurons is also observed in the brain with chronic cerebral hypoperfusion. Therefore, the present study was conducted to examine whether F. mume extracts enhance cognitive function via the action of cholinergic neuron using a scopolamine-induced animal model of memory impairments. F. mume (50, 100, or 200 mg/kg) was administered to C57BL/6 mice for 14 days (days 1–14) and memory impairment was induced by scopolamine (1 mg/kg), a muscarinic receptor antagonist for 7 days (days 8–14). Spatial memory was assessed using Morris water maze and hippocampal level of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) was examined by ELISA and immunoblotting. Mice that received scopolamine alone showed impairments in acquisition and retention in Morris water maze task and increased activity of AChE in the hippocampus. Mice that received F. mume and scopolamine showed no scopolamine-induced memory impairment and increased activity of AChE. In addition, treatments of F. mume increased ChAT expression in the hippocampus. These results indicated that F. mume might enhance cognitive function via action of cholinergic neurons.
Immune Evasion by Yersinia enterocolitica: Differential Targeting of Dendritic Cell Subpopulations In Vivo

CD4+ T cells are essential for the control of Yersinia enterocolitica (Ye) infection in mice. Ye can inhibit dendritic cell (DC) antigen uptake and degradation, maturation and subsequently T-cell activation in vitro. Here we investigated the effects of Ye infection on splenic DCs and T-cell proliferation in an experimental mouse infection model. We found that OVA-specific CD4+ T cells had a reduced potential to proliferate when stimulated with OVA after infection with Ye compared to control mice. Additionally, proliferation of OVA-specific CD4+ T cells was markedly reduced when cultured with splenic CD8α+ DCs from Ye infected mice in the presence of OVA. In contrast, T-cell proliferation was not impaired in cultures with CD4+ or CD4−CD8α− DCs isolated from Ye infected mice. However, OVA uptake and degradation as well as cytokine production were impaired in CD8α+ DCs, but not in CD4+ and CD4−CD8α− DCs after Ye infection. Pathogenicity factors (Yops) from Ye were most frequently injected into CD8α+ DCs, resulting in less MHC class II and CD86 expression than on non-injected CD8α+ DCs. Three days post infection with Ye the number of splenic CD8α+ and CD4+ DCs was reduced by 50% and 90%, respectively. The decreased number of DC subsets, which was dependent on TLR4 and TRIF signaling, was the result of a faster proliferation and suppressed de novo DC generation. Together, we show that Ye infection negatively regulates the stimulatory capacity of some but not all splenic DC subpopulations in vivo. This leads to differential antigen uptake and degradation, cytokine production, cell loss, and cell death rates in various DC subpopulations. The data suggest that these effects might be caused directly by injection of Yops into DCs and indirectly by affecting the homeostasis of CD4+ and CD8α+ DCs. These events may contribute to reduced T-cell proliferation and immune evasion of Ye.
Lossless compression of encrypted grey-level and color images

The feasibility of lossless compression of encrypted images has been recently demonstrated by relying on the analogy with source coding with side information at the decoder. However previous works only addressed the compression of bilevel images, namely sparse black and white images, with asymmetric probabilities of black and white pixels. In this paper we investigate the possibility of compressing encrypted grey level and color images, by decomposing them into bit-planes. A few approaches to exploit the spatial and cross-plane correlation among pixels are discussed, as well as the possibility of exploiting the correlation between color bands. Some experimental results are shown to evaluate the gap between the proposed solutions and the theoretically achievable performance.
Bayesian single change point detection in a sequence of multivariate normal observations

A Bayesian method is used to see whether there are changes of mean, covariance, or both at an unknown time point in a sequence of independent multivariate normal observations. Noninformative priors are used for all competing models: no-change model, mean change model, covariance change model, and mean and covariance change model. We use several versions of the intrinsic Bayes factor of Berger and Pericchi (Berger, J.O. and Pericchi, L.R., 1996, The intrinsic Bayes factor for model selection and prediction. Journal of the American Statistical Association,\/ 91, 109–122; Berger, J.O. and Pericchi, L.R., 1998, Accurate and stable Bayesian model selection: the median intrinsic Bayes factor. Sankhya Series B, 60, 1–18.) to detect a change point. We demonstrate our results with some simulated datasets and a real dataset.
Self-compassion and Psychological Resilience Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Self-compassion is an adaptive way of relating to the self when considering personal inadequacies or difficult life circumstances. However, prior research has only examined self-compassion among adults. The current study examined self-compassion among adolescents (N = 235; Mage = 15.2) and included a sample of young adults as a comparison group (N = 287; Mage = 21.1). Results indicated that self-compassion was strongly associated with well-being among adolescents as well as adults. In addition, family and cognitive factors were identified as predictors of individual differences in self-compassion. Finally, self-compassion was found to partially mediate the link between family/cognitive factors and well-being. Findings suggest that self-compassion may be an effective intervention target for teens suffering from negative self-views.
Unruly Women and Carnivalesque Countercontrol: Offensive Humor in Mediated Social Protest

At the Women’s March in January 2018, many protest posters featured offensive jokes at the expense of Trump’s body and behavior. Such posters were shared widely online, much to the amusement of the movement’s supporters. Through a close analysis of posts on Instagram and Twitter, we explore the role of “vulgar” and “offensive” humor in mediated social protest. By highlighting its radical and conservative tendencies, we demonstrate how we can understand these practices of offensive humor as a contemporary expression of “the carnivalesque” that is complexly intertwined with social change.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? College Students' 11th-hour Course Drop Strategies

Marc A. Lo (marc_lo@brown.edu) is Assistant Director for Assessment and Evaluation at the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. He has presented, lectured, and taught on a number of topics related to research design, student development, campus climate, and professional development in higher education. His scholarship focuses on the connections between student identity, learning, and psychosocial development in college.
Considerations on the Diffraction Limitations to the Spatial Resolution of Optical Transition Radiation

The interest in using optical transition radiation (OTR) in high energy (multiGeV) beam diagnostics has motivated theoretical and experimental investigations on the limitations brought by diffraction on the attainable resolution. This paper presents calculations of the diffraction effects in an optical set-up using OTR. The OTR diffraction pattern in a telescopic system is calculated taking into account the radial polarization of OTR. The obtained diffraction pattern is compared to the patterns obtained by other authors and the effects of different parameters on the shape and on the size of the OTR diffraction pattern are studied. The major role played by the radial polarization on the shape of the diffraction pattern is outlined. An alternative method to calculate the OTR diffraction pattern is also sketched
Speech emotion recognition with i-vector feature and RNN model

Machine-based emotion recognition from speech has emerged as an important research area in recent years. However, most studies have been done on artificial data. The difficulty of the recognition task increases when we facing natural speech data such as real-world conversations from call centre. Along with that difficulty, there are some new properties which may be useful to the real-world recognition tasks. In this paper, we focus on the recognition task on real-world conversations. Traditional prosodic acoustic features and the novel i-vector features are introduced and compared to represent the speech signal more abstractly. We also propose a Recurrent Neural Network approach to map the features to emotion labels. With only prosodic acoustic features and SVM multi-clasifier, we obtain a f-measure of 38.3%. By adding the i-vector features and the RNN model, we achieve a better result of 48.9%.
Development of Learning Tools Based on Malay Culture and Contextual Approach to Improve Visual Representation Thinking Achievement of MTs Negeri Tanjung Pura Students

This research is about the development of learning tools developed using the development model of Thiagarajan Shamel and Shamel. The research aims to find out: (1) Validity of Malay Culture Based Learning and Contextual Approach to Increase Visual Representation Thinking Capabilities of MTs Negeri Tanjung Pura Students. (2) the practicality of Malay Culture Based Learning and Contextual Approach to Improve Visual Representation Thinking Achievement of MTs Negeri Tanjung Pura Students. (a) Student responses to instructional devices, (b) Teacher's response to instructional devices. (3) the effectiveness of Malay Culture Based Learning and Contextual Approach to Increase Visual Representation Thinking Ability of MTs Negeri Tanjung Pura Students. (a) Student achievement reaches ≥ 85% with mean score of visual thinking representation ability of student reaches 2.67 scale 4. (b) ability of teacher to manage learning reaching minimum criteria good. (c) Criteria for achieving the effectiveness of student activities in learning if the six categories of student activity are met with a 5% tolerance. (4) Improvement of students' visual thinking representation. Keywords— Development, Learning Tool; CTL; Malay Culture; Visual Thinking Representation .
The Life Story, Domains of Identity, and Personality Development in Emerging Adulthood

This book is about the life story and its integration into the wider personality in development, as depicted in Erikson’s theory of personality stages. The authors focus on how this personal identity narrative develops in emerging adulthood, the transition period from adolescence to young adulthood. They utilize a framework proposed by McAdams, which treats personality development as composed of three levels acquired across the life course: behavioral traits; personal values and motives; and finally, the life story, which provides some sense of a coherent personal identity. The life story and identity development are examined through the lens of different identity domains, including ideological domains such as religion, morality, and vocation, and various relational domains, including family, close peer and romantic relationships, and wider civic concerns. In a series of chapters the authors review personality development in each of these domains following McAdams’s three-part model, and describe the growth of the life story in each. All these chapters review the empirical personality research literature and then discuss findings from the authors’ ongoing longitudinal, mixed methods study following a sample of young Canadians across emerging adulthood, drawing on the individual narrative voices of the sample to illustrate this life story development. The authors also present case studies of the emerging adulthood of well-known public figures at the end of each chapter. The final chapter ties together these various lines of evidence around some general issues concerning the role of the life story in the study of the emerging adult personality.
Efficacy and Safety of Abciximab in Diabetic Patients Who Underwent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Thienopyridines Loading: A Meta-Analysis

Background It has been controversial whether abciximab offered additional benefits for diabetic patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with thienopyridines loading. Methods MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane library clinical trials registry, ISI Science Citation Index, ISI Web of Knowledge and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) were searched, supplemented with manual-screening for relevant publications. Quantitative meta-analyses were performed to assess differences between abciximab groups and controls with respect to post-PCI risk of major cardiac events (MACEs), angiographic restenosis and bleeding complications. Results 9 trials were identified, involving 2,607 diabetic patients receiving PCI for coronary artery diseases. Among those patients who underwent elective PCI or primary PCI, pooling results showed that abciximab did not significantly reduce risks of MACEs (for elective-PCI patients: RR1-month: 0.93, 95% CI: 0.60–1.44; RR1-year: 0.95, 95% CI: 0.81–1.11; for primary-PCI patients: RR1-month: 1.05, 95% CI: 0.70–1.57; RR1-year: 0.98, 95% CI: 0.80–1.21), nor all-cause mortality, re-infarction and angiographic restenosis in either group. The only beneficial effect by abciximab appeared to be a decrease 1-year TLR (target lesion revascularization) risk in elective-PCI patients (RR1-year: 0.83, 95% CI: 0.70–0.99). Moreover, occurrence of minor bleeding complications increased in elective-PCI patients treated with abciximab (RR: 2.94, 95% CI: 1.68–5.13, P<0.001), whereas major bleedings rate was similar (RR: 0.83, 95% CI: 0.27–2.57). Conclusions Concomitant dosing of abciximab and thienopyridines provides no additional benefit among diabetic patients who underwent PCI; this conclusion, though, needs further confirmation in larger studies.
English as a Second Language in Contemporary Nigerian Society, a Reality or Farce?

It is no longer news that the English language in Nigeria has been the official language and the language of teaching and instruction in Nigerian schools, of legislature and governance ever since the coming of the colonial master. This stance occupied by the language in Nigeria has resulted in the use of the language for daily linguistic activities both in Nigerian homes and outside of it. The persistent preference and the prestigious stance assigned to the English language have led to a dramatic shift from the use of the indigenous languages to English which threatens to dislodge the Igbo language from its natural position in the society. This study therefore strives to discover the actual status of English language as L2 and the indigenous languages, in this case Igbo, as L1 in Nigerian homes and schools, particularly, in the urban areas. The study also hopes to direct its search effort towards the root causes of the linguistic status assigned to the two languages in the contemporary Nigeria, the users attitude towards them, the looming linguicide posed by one of them on the other and finally make some useful recommendations on how to salvage the situation.
Alternative venous drainage of heart ventricles in rabbits

The objective of this study was to describe the uncommon connections between cardiac veins, alternative pathways within cardiac venous circulation and complex variability of the venous system in the heart ventricles. The study was carried out on 30 adult New Zealand White rabbits. The arrangement of the cardiac veins was studied by using the corrosion casts prepared with the Spofacryl® and by perfusion of coloured latex. The presence and organization of principal veins of the heart ventricles was relatively constant with a great variability in the mode of opening and forming a common trunk. The highest variations were observed in the region of the paraconal interventricular vein, the left and right marginal vein and the left distal ventricular vein. The left proximal ventricular vein was an inconstant tributary of the left circumflex vein and was seen in 17% of cases. The left distal ventricular vein was visible as one (13% of cases) or two veins (87% of cases). Angular vein was observed in 20% of cases. Numerous anastomosis were found among cardiac veins.