Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE AND JOB SATISFACTION: MEASURING LMX QUALITY AND JOB SATISFACTION OF SUPERVISORS AND SUBORDINATES

Hayden, Colleen Marie. M.S., Department of Educational Leadership, Wright State University, 2011. The Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchange and Job Satisfaction: Measuring LMX Quality and Job Satisfaction of Supervisors and Subordinates. There is an abundance of literature focusing on the relationship between leader-member exchange (LMX) quality and job satisfaction of subordinates. The purpose of this study was to further examine the relationship between the leader-member exchange (LMX) quality and job satisfaction of subordinates as well as introduce the analysis of this relationship for supervisors into the literature. This non-experimental, correlational study focused on the analysis of 22 pairs of supervisor and subordinate LMX and job satisfaction survey responses. The data were analyzed to determine the relationship between: (1) subordinate LMX quality and job satisfaction; (2) supervisor LMX quality and job satisfaction; (3) subordinate and supervisor LMX quality; and (4) subordinate and supervisor job satisfaction. The analyses of these research hypotheses concluded that there is a relationship between LMX quality and job satisfaction in all four conditions.
Dynamics of sward condition and botanical composition in mixed pastures of marandugrass, forage peanut and tropical kudzu

This study was carried out to evaluate the dynamics of sward condition and botanical composition of a mixed pasture of marandugrass (Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu), forage peanut (Arachis pintoi cv. Mandobi) and tropical kudzu (Pueraria phaseoloides), rotationally stocked at four daily forage allowance levels (6.6, 10.3, 14.3 and 17.9% of live weight). Sward condition was characterized in each stocking cycle by measuring pre- and post-grazing sward height, forage mass and percentage of bare ground. Botanical composition (grass, forage peanut, tropical kudzu and weeds) was evaluated before each stocking period. Swards under smaller forage allowances presented lower height, forage mass and ground cover. This condition favored the growth of forage peanut, which constituted 21.1, 15.2, 8.4 and 3.8% of forage mass in the last quarter of the experimental period, from the lowest to the highest forage allowance, respectively. Tropical kudzu was sensitive to all forage allowance levels and its percentage in the botanical composition was strongly reduced along the experimental period, especially during the dry season (July to September). Forage peanut cv. Mandobi and marandugrass form a more balanced mixture when pre-grazing sward height is maintained shorter than 45 cm. Tropical kudzu is intolerant to intensive grazing management systems when associated to marandugrass.
BFF ": Best Facebook Forever? The impact of social media attachment on the attitude towards brand

this article. Agnès Helme-Guizon is Associate Professor of Marketing at Pierre Mendès-France University, CERAG UMR 5820 – 150 Rue de la chimie, 38400, Grenoble Cedex 09, France. Phone: +33/476 655 390, Fax: +33/476 546 068, E-Mail: agnes.helme-guizon@upmfgrenoble.fr Cindy Caldara is Assistant Professor of Marketing at IUT2 Pierre Mendès-France University CERAG UMR 5820 – 150 Rue de la chimie, 38400, Grenoble Cedex 09, France. Phone: +33/476 284 710, Fax: +33/476 284 562, E-Mail: cindy.caldara@upmf-grenoble.fr Karine Raı̈es is Assistant Professor of Marketing at INSEEC Business Schools and Affiliate researcher at CERAG UMR 5820, Laboratoire de Recherche INSEEC – 27 Rue Claude Vellefaux 75010 Paris, France, Phone: +33/437 929 244, Mobile: +33/678 841 213, E-Mail: kraies@groupeinseec.com «BFF»: Best Facebook Forever? The impact of social media attachment on the attitude towards brand presence on Facebook
Engaging community health workers in maternal and newborn care in eastern Uganda

Background Community health workers (CHWs) have been employed in a number of low- and middle-income countries as part of primary health care strategies, but the packages vary across and even within countries. The experiences and motivations of a multipurpose CHW in providing maternal and newborn health have not been well described. Objective This study examined the perceptions of community members and experiences of CHWs around promoting maternal and newborn care practices, and the self-identified factors that influence the performance of CHWs so as to inform future study design and programme implementation. Design Data were collected using in-depth interviews with six local council leaders, ten health workers/CHW supervisors, and eight mothers. We conducted four focus group discussions with CHWs. Respondents included 14 urban and 18 rural CHWs. Key themes explored included the experience of CHWs according to their various roles, and the facilitators and barriers they encounter in their work particular to provision of maternal and newborn care. Qualitative data were analysed using manifest content analysis methods. Results CHWs were highly appreciated in the community and seen as important contributors to maternal and newborn health at grassroots level. Factors that positively influence CHWs included being selected by and trained in the community; being trained in problem-solving skills; being deployed immediately after training with participation of local leaders; frequent supervision; and having a strengthened and responsive supply of services to which families can be referred. CHWs made use of social networks to identify pregnant and newly delivered women, and were able to target men and the wider family during health education activities. Intrinsic motivators (e.g. community appreciation and the prestige of being ‘a doctor’), monetary (such as a small transport allowance), and material incentives (e.g. bicycles, bags) were also important to varying degrees. Conclusions There is a continued role for CHWs in improving maternal and newborn care and linking families with health services. However, the process for building CHW programmes needs to be adapted to the local setting, including the process of training, deployment, supervision, and motivation within the context of a responsive and available health system.
Intangible Capital and Firms Productivity

Firms competitive strategies and performances in industrialised countries is increasingly based on assets, labelled as "intangible capital", such as the inventions of new processes and products, the improvements of the employees skill, the creation of a reputation for company's products. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role of internal intangible capital on firms productivity in addition to the well-known one played by traditional inputs. Moreover, firms productivity is crucially affected by the external socio-economic conditions; thus, we control for the availability of intangible assets specific to the region (human, technological and social capital) as well as for the regional infrastructural endowments. In our empirical application we analyse a large panel of European companies belonging to 116 regions of six countries, considered over the period 2002-2006. The estimation results - robust to various ways of disaggregating the sample data (by country, macro-sector and firms dimension) and to different econometric methodologies (IV, Olley-Pakes, Levinsohn-Petrin) - show the positive influence of the internal intangible capital on firms productivity levels and also the crucial role played by the intangible assets at the regional level. These results remark the importance of policies designed to stimulate the accumulation of intangible capital stocks internal to the firms through appropriate fiscal policies and to create a favourable external environment based on high endowments of human, social and technological capital.
How A Teacher Educator in the Field of the Education of Hearing- Impaired Children provides Feedback to a Student Teacher

Absract: The aim of this article was to investigate how an experienced teacher educator (TE) specialized in the education of hearing-impaired children provides feedback to a student teacher regarding a planned, one-to-one conversation activity. This case study was conducted at Anadolu University, Education and Research Centre for HearingImpaired Children with the participation of a TE, a student teacher, and a hearing-impaired student. Based on the study results, main aspects relating to the TE’s activities before, during, and after the conversation and his feedback were identified. The study findings were discussed in light of the current literature, and various recommendations were proposed.
The Catch Per Unit of Swept Area (CPUA) and Estimated Biomass of Large Head Hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus) with an Improved Trawl in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran

The Kish trawler fleet targets large head hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus) in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. These vessels are equipped with a new improved trawl. The objectives of this study were (i) to estimate the catch per unit area (CPUA) and biomass of T. lepturus, (ii) to identify the catch composition and percentage of target and bycatch species in the total catch and (iii) to compare the CPUA between two selected strata using a bottom trawl survey. Surveys were conducted during the periods August to October 2007 in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. The sampling area was divided into two strata and a stratified random sampling design was used to determine sampling sites. Catch per unit of area varied significantly between the two selected strata (P<0.001). Mean CPUA for T. lepturus in the total area was 4,308 kg . nm -2 . The total biomass of T. lepturus was estimated to be 842 tonnes in stratum 1 and 1,430 tonnes in stratum 2. Trichiurus lepturus made up 74.4% of the total weight in stratum 1 and 70.02% in stratum 2. Among the non-target species in the trawl catches, the species with highest catch rate were Pampus argenteus (4.629%), Batoids (2.274%), Carangidae (2.693%) and Ilisha sp. (2.672%) in stratum 1 and Carangidae (5.710%), P. argenteus (5.245%), Batoids (3.256%) and Ilisha sp. (2.995%) in stratum 2.
High resolution x-ray micromachining using SU-8 resist

This paper investigates the feasibility of using SU-8 as a high contrast x-ray resist. The SU-8 resist was irradiated with various x-ray doses and then developed for a fixed time. The developing rate was then measured and plotted versus absorbed x-ray dosage. The results revealed that SU-8 exhibited very high lithographic contrast other than elevated sensitivity. Therefore, a very thin mask absorber is required to switch the negative resist 'ON' or 'OFF'. Preliminary results showed that 1 µm wide, 17 µm thick SU-8 resists could be successfully patterned using an absorber of submicron thickness. Once the absorber thickness is effectively reduced to less than 1 µm, a high-resolution x-ray mask can be patterned simply by conventional UV lithography. An extra soft x-ray beamline was not required to increase the absorber's thickness in certain cases. The process of fabricating the membrane x-ray mask could thus be considerably simplified. X-ray micromachining may be an easy way to pattern high-resolution and high-aspect-ratio microstructures for optical and photonic applications.
Raman and Infrared Spectroscopic Marker Bands for Rapid Detection of Cyanomaclurin

Methanol extracts from Artocarpus heterophyllus, which is a tropical polyphenol-rich tree species, were separated by column chromatography and six fractions were obtained as powder. Raman and infrared (IR) spectra of all the fractions were recorded, and it was found that cyanomaclurin, which was one of the fractions and a flavonoid available for biomedical research, showed two characteristic Raman and IR bands in the 750-700 cm -1 wavenumber region. These spectroscopic results show the high potential of these vibrational bands as a marker for rapid detection of cyanomaclurin.
Learning Discriminative Motion Features Through Detection

Despite huge success in the image domain, modern detection models such as Faster R-CNN have not been used nearly as much for video analysis. This is arguably due to the fact that detection models are designed to operate on single frames and as a result do not have a mechanism for learning motion representations directly from video. We propose a learning procedure that allows detection models such as Faster R-CNN to learn motion features directly from the RGB video data while being optimized with respect to a pose estimation task. Given a pair of video frames---Frame A and Frame B---we force our model to predict human pose in Frame A using the features from Frame B. We do so by leveraging deformable convolutions across space and time. Our network learns to spatially sample features from Frame B in order to maximize pose detection accuracy in Frame A. This naturally encourages our network to learn motion offsets encoding the spatial correspondences between the two frames. We refer to these motion offsets as DiMoFs (Discriminative Motion Features). In our experiments we show that our training scheme helps learn effective motion cues, which can be used to estimate and localize salient human motion. Furthermore, we demonstrate that as a byproduct, our model also learns features that lead to improved pose detection in still-images, and better keypoint tracking. Finally, we show how to leverage our learned model for the tasks of spatiotemporal action localization and fine-grained action recognition.
Observation of the Near-Earth Plasmas by Telescope of Extreme Ultraviolet (TEX) Onboard SELENE: Science from the Moon

The Upper Atmosphere and Plasma Imager (UPI) was launched in 2007, and went to the moon. From the lunar orbit, two telescopes direct toward the Earth. The moon has no atmosphere, which leads no active emission near the spacecraft, thus we have a high quality image of the near-Earth environment. Moreover the moon orbits the Earth once a month and the Earth is observed from many different directions. This is called a "science from the Moon". The two telescopes are mounted on 2-axis gimbal system, Telescope of Extreme ultraviolet (TEX) and Telescope of Visible light (TVIS). TEX detects the O II (83.4nm) and He II (30.4nm) emissions scattered by ionized oxygen and helium, respectively. The targets of EUV imaging are the polar ionosphere, the polar wind, and the plasmasphere and the inner magnetosphere. The maximum spatial and time resolutions are 0.09 Re and 1 minute, respectively.
Secondary School Students' (11-14 Years) Effective Input Characteristics for Mathematics, Self-Regulation Skills and Self-Esteem.

Based on Confucius’ saying “ A word may change your mind, an emotion may change your life and a person may change you ”, our emotions affect our learning if we take life as a process of learning. Some of our learning on which we are successful and unsuccessful are student characteristics. Effective properties are one of the characteristics of students. As Wang (2006) states, in terms of mathematics, effective factors related to mathematics lesson are effective on the importance given to mathematics and on the withdrawal from mathematics. Students strive to succeed if they have positive effective input characteristics. However, if they have negative effective characteristics, they may give up not being able to resist the challenges they face. The striving students determine the learning environment and conditions and can make arrangements. This result obtained by the students may sometimes turn out as they wanted, or on the contrary as an undesirable situation. In this case, self-esteem will come into play. Self-esteem is a concept related to the self-appreciation, ability to reveal their skills and knowledge, and success is important in the formation and development of self-esteem (Kohut, 1971). Hence, this study analyzes the effective input characteristics, self-regulation skills and self-esteem of secondary school students together. Among the screening models, general screening model was used in this study. The participants of the study consisted of 361 secondary school students (11-14 years) who study in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades of secondary schools in a city of Turkey in the spring term of 2017-2018 academic year. In the collection of data “Effective Input Characteristics for Math Scale” developed by Caliskan and Serce (2016), “Perceived Self-Regulation Scale” developed by Arslan and Gelisli (2015), “Self-esteem Scale” developed by Rosenberg (1965) and adapted to Turkish by Cuhadaroglu (1985) were used. Students’ effective input characteristics towards mathematics, perceived self-regulation skills and self-esteem were evaluated according to gender, grade level, mathematics course achievement score, and parental attitude. It was determined that secondary school students’ effective input characteristics for Math and self-regulation skills were higher than average; and self-esteem was average. Based on the findings of the research, suggestions were presented about effective input characteristics, self-regulation skills, and self-esteem for secondary school students. Article visualizations:
Optimisation of coal wash–slag blend as a structural fill

Coal wash (CW) and basic oxygen steel slag fines (BOS) are by-products of the coal mining and steel industries, respectively. Their effective reuse and recycling through large-scale geotechnical projects, such as port reclamation, is economically beneficial and environmentally sustainable. In this study, CW and BOS were blended in order to explore the possibility to obtain synthetic fills having geotechnical properties similar or superior to conventional fills, therefore suitable as a structural fill for the Port Kembla Outer Harbour reclamation near Wollongong City, Australia. A framework with four levels of acceptance is proposed in this paper to select granular waste as structural fill materials. This framework was used for optimising the CW-BOS blend. It was found that for the Port Kembla Outer Harbour reclamation, a CW-BOS blend with a BOS content between 30 and 45% can meet most geotechnical specifications (i.e. high shear strength and bearing capacity, low swelling and particle breakage levels, and.
THE DEFINITION A N D NOMENCLATURE OF HALLOYSITES

-This review of the literature shows that there have been many attempts to modify or revise the original definition of halloysites as distinguished from kaolinites, which was based on the greater water content of the halloysites. In general; these various attempts have arrived at definitions of halloysites as distinguished from kaolinites that are based on one or more particular instrumental or chemical techniques. Further investigations with almost all of these techniques have shown the apparently clear distinctions of this kind to be misleading. All such instrumentally--or chemically--based definitions were shown to either complicate and confuse the distinction between halloysites and kaolinites or to provide only empirical and subtle distinctions. It is concluded that only the original definition, with slight adaptations, enables clear and unambiguous distinctions to be made between halloysites and kaolinites. It is noted, however, that a distinctive structure for halloysite has been postulated as a result o f electron diffraction studies. Further studies of this kind could well establish such a structure as being definitive of the mineral species. The literature also reveals a long-standing disagreement over the nomenclature of different forms of halloysite and particularly over the nomenclature of and distinction between the two forms of halloysite at the extreme ends of the hydration series. An analysis of experimental studies of the relationship between these two and other hydration states of halloysite reveals that forms of halloysite with all possible interlayer water contents between 0 and 2 molecules H20 per AlzSi2Os(OH)a unit cell may exist and that the two end members of the hydration series may not be seen as distinct phases. The fully dehydrate d halloysite is the only thermodynamically stable form of the mineral. A nomenclature system which was proposed by MacEwan in 1947 is consistent with these results. This system, amended only by the exclusion of the unnecessary term 'metahalloysite' should therefore be adopted in all studies of halloysites. DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN HALLOYSITES AND KAOLINITES
Anti-androgenic activity of Xylopic acid in orchidectomerized rats

To characterize anti-androgenic properties of xylopic acid (XA) and to elucidate the possible mechanism of the antifertility activity of XA, XA was administered to orchidectomized rats following the Hershberger assay protocol. Thirty male Sprague-Dawley rats were orchidectomized or sham operated at 42 days of age. At 11 days post-castration the rats were weighed and assign to five treatment groups as follows; Group 1 received 0.4 mg kg-1 day-1 of testosterone propionate (s.c.), group 2 received 0.4 mg kg-1 day-1 of testosterone propionate (s.c.) plus 10 mg kg-1 of XA orally, group 3 received 0.4 mg kg -1 day -1 of testosterone propionate (s.c.) plus 30 mg kg -1 of XA orally, group 4 received 0.4 mg kg-1 day-1 of testosterone propionate (s.c.) plus 100 mg kg-1 of XA orally, group 5 received only distilled water. The animals were treated daily for 10 days and the weight of the animals taken daily. On the day after the last treatment the rats were necropsied to isolate organs and tissues for study of androgenic or anti-androgenic effects. The endpoints evaluated were the growth/ body weight, and weight of the seminal vesicles plus coagulating glands with fluid, ventral prostate, levator ani plus bulbocavernosus muscle, glans penis, Cowper’s glands (bulbourethral glands), and liver all without fixation. XA exhibited anti-androgenic activity by decreasing the weight of these androgen dependent organs. Journal of Medical and Biomedical Sciences (2013) 2(1), 30-36
Dairy Cattle Farming in Kars District, Turkey: I. Characteristics and Production

The objectives of the present study were to determine farm characteristics and production traits on dairy farms in Kars. A 2-stage stratified random sampling strategy was used to select localities (7) and farms (45). The study involved an interview with the farmers and regular visits to the farms. The survey identified important farm characteristics including demography, production and management practices. The results describe (a) farm demographics (number of family members, education of farmers, animal caretakers employed, types of herds, herd sizes, breeds, and age categories), (b) farm management practices; management at feeding (type, source, storage of feedstuffs, feeding, water supply and use of feed supplements during the indoor and outdoor periods, and pasture management), management at calving (use of maternity pens, colostrum feeding, and grouping of calves) and management at housing (period of housing, types of buildings, use of bedding, ventilation systems, and building cleanliness), and (c) production traits (breeding methods, dry period, calving rate, milk yield and processes). Some identified practices (period of housing, dairy breeds, dry period, milk yield and calving rate) differ from those in previous reports and others (use of crumbled dung as bedding, rare use of maternity pens, water from streams during the outdoor period, and common use of pastureland) require serious attention in terms of cattle health. The results may be of use in designing strategies to overcome drawbacks that are detrimental to feasible and profitable farming and also in forming bases for future epidemiological studies in Kars.