Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Leadership Communication: Three Model Approaches

The objective of this article is to portray the close relationship between communication and leadership. Communication approaches to leadership mean the dynamics of leadership could be explained and understood by theories of communication. By using literature review, there were three model of communication in viewing leadership. Firstly, leader uses communication as a tool for influencing people (liner or transmission model). Secondly, communication is view as something discursive that emphasizes leadership as a dialogical process (relational model). Lastly, leadership is viewed communication as distortion and manipulation that aims at dominating (distortion model). The best model depends on situation, culture, and size of people in organization. Keywords—leadership communication; transmission model; relational model; manipulation model
Korrelation zwischen Artenzahlen und Flächengrößen von isolierten Habitaten dargestellt an Kartierungsprojekten aus dem Bereich der Regionalstelle 10 B

Am Beispiel des nordlichen Harzvorlandes wird fur isolierte Habitate wie alte Walder, Waldwiesen, stadtische Geholzbestande und Stadte die Abhangigkeit der Artenzahlen von den Flachengrosen dargestellt. Die Artenzahl steigt i.a. mit der Flache an. Fur alte Walder, Waldwiesen und stadtische Geholzbestande zeigt sich bei lognormaler Darstellung in grosen Bereichen eine lineare Abhangigkeit. Die Artenzahl der Gefaspflanzen ist in mitteleuropaischen Stadten enger mit der Einwohnerzahl bzw. -dichte als mit der Flachengrose korreliert. Nach den bisherigen Ergebnissen sind ca. 530-560 Arten fur Kleinstadte, ca. 650 - 730 fur kleinere Grosstadte, 900 - 1000 fur zumeist altere Grosstadte und mehr als 1100 (meist wohl uber 1300) fur Millionenstadte zu erwarten.
Fostering an Enriching Learning Experience: A Multisite Investigation of the Effects of Desktop Learning Modules on Students' Learning Experiences in Engineering Classrooms

Several studies have demonstrated that active learning methods prime students to learn better in the classrooms. As part of an initiative to advance efforts to promote active learning facilitated using hands-on learning modules, we have been conducting research on the effects of desktop learning modules (DLMs) on the learning experiences of students in engineering classrooms. We reported the effect of using DLMs on students’ motivations and learning strategies skills at the ASEE 2015 conference. However, in this follow-up study, we report a multi-site implementation of DLMs on the learning experiences of a different cohort of students. We examined the robustness of the effects of using DLMs on student learning motivation and learning strategies across multiple learning contexts. We also examined their effect in situational interest development in the classroom. Using data from 50 participants, this paper reports the effects of DLM-facilitated instruction on students learning experience. Participants were undergraduate students who enrolled in heat transfer courses in two universities in the United States. Participants first learned concepts of heat transfer using DLMs and then took inventories of motivation and situational interest. Results of the analyses showed similarities in DLM effect on students’ motivation and use of learning strategies across the two universities. We found no significant difference in gender across participants. The paper concludes with a discussion of effects of the implementation of DLM on situational interest development with participants across the two universities.
Myelin‐Associated Glycoprotein and Other Proteins in Trembler Mice

Abstract: The myelin‐associated glycoprotein (MAG) and other myelin proteins were quantitated in homogenates of whole sciatic nerve from adult and 20‐day‐old Trember mice. In the nerves of adult mice, the concentration of MAG was increased from 1.1 ng/μg of total protein in the controls to 1.4 ng/μg protein in the Tremblers. By contrast, the concentrations of P0 glycoprotein and myelin basic proteins were reduced to 27% and 20% of control levels, respectively. Immunoblots demonstrated that P2 was also greatly reduced in the Trembler nerves. The specific activity of 2′,3′‐cyclic nucleotide 3′‐phosphodiesterase (CNP) was 65% of the control level. Immunoblot analysis showed that MAG had a higher than normal apparent Mr in the sciatic nerves of the Trembler mice, but its apparent Mr was normal in the brains of these mutants. In 20‐day‐old Tremblers, the P0 and myelin basic protein were reduced slightly less to about 40% of the level in the nerves of age‐matched controls. CNP and MAG levels were not significantly different from those in controls, and MAG exhibited a shift toward higher apparent Mr similar to that in the adults. The maintenance of high MAG levels despite the severe deficit of myelin, as reflected by the decrease of the major myelin proteins, is consistent with the immunocytochemical localization of MAG in periaxonal Schwann cell membranes, Schmidt‐Lantermann incisures, lateral loops, and the outer mesaxon and its absence from compact myelin. The abnormal form of MAG in the peripheral nervous sytem (PNS) of the Trembler mice may contribute to the pathology in this mutant.
A Literature Review Exploring the use of Programming in Mathematics Education

Programming is now included in mathematics curricula in several countries; thus, the purpose of this literature review is to determine the research-based justifications for these educational decisions. From a selection of relevant articles, 15 articles were identified and analyzed, each of which had varying study types, themes, and designs. Three themes from the studies were identified: the motivation to learn mathematics, student performance in mathematics, and the collaboration between students and the changed role of the teacher. It was found that in certain circumstances, including programming in mathematics education could improve student motivation to learn mathematics and improve student performance in mathematics. To gain a better understanding of the potential of programming in mathematics education, the entire collective learning process should be considered by discussing the roles of the teacher and the collaboration between students as part of these roles. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.17. 12.2
Application of FTIR spectroscopy for analysis of the quality of honey

Every kind of honey is a very precious natural product which is made by Mellifera bees species. The chemical composition of honey depends on its origin or mode of production. Honey consists essentially of different sugars, predominantly fructose and glucose. There are also non – sugar ingredients like proteins and amino acids, as well as some kind of enzymes, such as: invertase, amylase, glucose oxidase, catalase and phosphatase. The fact that honey is one of the oldest medicine known worldwide is remarkable. Scientists all over the world have been trying to improve analytical methods as well as to implement new ones in order to reaffirm the high quality of honey the benefits of which may be distracted or disturbed. There are many methods and popular analytical techniques, including as follows: mass spectroscopy and molecular spectroscopy (especially FTIR spectroscopy). The infrared spectroscopy technique is one of the most common analytical methods which are used to analyse honey nowadays. The main aim of the task was to use ATR-FTIR infrared spectroscopy to compare selected honey samples as well as typical sequences coming out from certain functional groups in the analysed samples.
Verslag van de commissie Lorentz (gevolgen afsluiting Zuiderzee op het getij)

Verslag van de staatscommissie met opdracht te onderzoeken in hoeverre, als gevolg de afsluiting van de Zuiderzee te verwachten is dat tijdens storm hogere waterstanden en een grotere golfoploop, dan thans het geval is, zullen voorkomen voor de kust van het vaste land van Noord-Holland, Friesland en Groningen, alsmede voor de daarvoor gelegen Noordzee-eilanden. Beschrijving van de stormvloeden in de periode 1824-1926. Opzet van tweedimensionale getijberekeningen voor de Waddenzee, golfoploopberekeningen.
An Introduction to Bibliometrics: New Development and Trends

An Introduction to Bibliometrics: New Development and Trends provides a comprehensible, readable and easy to read introduction to bibliometrics. Importantly, the book surveys the latest developments of bibliometrics (such as altmetrics, etc.) and how the field is likely to change over the next decade. In the literature, bibliometrics is generally discussed from one of two perspectives: (1) Purely mathematical/statistical or (2) Its sociological implications. Both approaches are very far from how most users want to apply bibliometrics. This book fills that need by providing tactics on how bibliometrics can be applied to their sphere of scientific activity.Provides readers with an understanding of bibliometric indicators, including their background and significance, classification in quantitative performance, and an evaluation of science and researchIncludes an overview of the most important indicators, their areas of application, and where and when they should and should not be usedDiscusses future trends in the quantitative performance evaluation of scientific research
Inégalités face à la mort et au risque de dépendance

Nous utilisons les donnees de l’enquete SHARE afin d’estimer la relation entre le statut socio-economique, la mortalite et le risque de dependance chez les europeens de 50 ans et plus. Apres avoir confirme que les probabilites subjectives de survie telles que declarees dans l’enquete sont de bons predicteurs des probabilites de survie reelle, nous estimons l’effet de la richesse du menage sur ces probabilites subjectives de survie. Les resultats montrent que les individus les plus riches ont une plus grande probabilite de survie et ceci quelle que soit la methode d’estimation utilisee (MCO ou VI). La force de cette relation diverge selon les pays et nous observons que dans les pays les plus bismarckiens, la richesse explique davantage la survie que dans les pays beveridgiens. Enfin, nous montrons egalement que les individus les moins riches sont ceux qui ont une plus grande probabilite de devenir dependant mais egalement ceux qui connaissent des periodes de dependance les plus longues. Nos resultats identifient donc une triple peine liee au niveau de vie, resumee par le constat que les plus pauvres vivent moins longtemps, sont plus dependants et ce, pour une plus longue periode.
Why do firms disclose a Supplementary CEO-employee Pay Ratio? Initial evidence from Dodd-Frank Act Section 953 (b)

Section 953 (b) of the Dodd-Frank Act requires all listed firms to disclose a CEO-employee Pay Ratio. Firms are permitted certain discretions in the Pay Ratio calculation and can disclose a Supplementary Pay Ratio if necessary. In this paper, we analyze initial CEO-employee Pay Ratio data disclosed from January to July 2018 by 1,125 firms in the S&P 1500 Index. We examine whether firms disclose a Supplementary Pay Ratio to inform stakeholders of the Pay Ratio more transparently or to manage stakeholder perceptions of the Pay Ratio. We find evidence consistent with both informational and opportunistic motives driving the Supplementary Pay Ratio disclosure. Furthermore, firms appear to consider two different kinds of political costs—the political costs of disclosing a high Pay Ratio and the political costs of disclosing a supplementary “downward” Pay Ratio. Finally, we find that some firms disclose a Supplementary Pay Ratio higher than the Required Pay Ratio to signal the existence of stronger tournament incentives for labor market considerations.
An evaluative study of the 11th grade text passages and literature aspects with regard to values and social orientation

The study aimed at evaluating the availability of values and social orientation in the text passages and literature in the 11th Grade Palestinian English textbook. The study also examined the role of gender, qualification, experience and specialization on the degree of analyzing the textbook. To achieve the study purposes, the researchers used the descriptive analytical approach. The content analysis card is used for collecting and analyzing data regarding the availability of values and social orientations available in the reading activities of English for Palestine 11th grade. The researchers also used a 30-item questionnaire and distributed it among 16 male and female teachers of English who were chosen randomly from Nablus Directorate during the scholastic year 2018-2019. Results showed that there are some values and social orientation concepts which were included in the textbook in many fields few of the vales are a reflection of students' lives. The researchers recommended thinking of ways to make them all reflection of students’ life via their model teachers. In addition, curriculum designers should integrate more values with the language skills improvement.
Repeated Reversal of Training in Octopus

Octopuses were trained by successive presentations to discriminate between two figures by means of a combination of food rewards and electric shocks. This was followed by a series of up to nine daily sets of trials in which reward and punishment were systematically reversed on alternate days. It was found that performance became progressively less accurate with successive reversals until it reached a random level; this appeared largely due to a continual fall in the total number of attacks at the figures. At the same time, such attacks as were made were mainly at the positive figures and there was evidence that performance as judged by this criterion became more accurate during each day and perhaps progressively more accurate on successive days. Octopuses lacking the vertical lobe showed a fall in the total number of attacks but did not show this improvement within each day or over successive days. A theoretical interpretation of the results is put forward.
Characterization of Damping Properties in 3D Printed Structures

Current research on the effectiveness of a subordinate oscillator array (SOA) as a broadband mechanical filter relies on adequate knowledge of the SOAs material properties. Recent studies have shown a high sensitivity of these structures to disorder. A desire to produce large numbers of arrays to test this sensitivity to disorder motivated a transition from metal to 3-dimensional printed plastic SOAs. Irregularities associated with the curing process of the 3D printed polymers, as well as a general inconsistency of material properties of plastics, in turn highlighted the need for characterization of properties of 3D printed materials, especially those properties related to damping. As part of this study, several 3D printed plastic cantilevers, varying in material, printing technique, and printing orientation, are measured. Quantities of interest include the Young’s modulus and density, as well as phenomenological properties, like the quality factor of specific designs. An ASTM standard test method for property determination is implemented with a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) to test each polymer. In addition to the ASTM protocol, tests are conducted in vacuum to distinguish internal damping mechanisms of the cantilever from external fluid mechanisms. Results are compared to both analytic and numeric predictions and published theory.
The Effect of Oral Motor Intervention on Oral Feeding Readiness and Feeding Progression in Preterm Infants

Background: Advances in neonatal intensive care have markedly improved survival in preterm infants. These babies need hospitalization due to the immaturity of the respiratory and digestive systems. The timing for the initiation of proper feeding in premature infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is an important challenge for physicians, parents, and nurses. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of oral motor intervention (OMI) on the early onset of oral feeding in preterm infants. Methods: This clinical trial was carried out on 40 premature infants who were admitted to the NICU of Ali-ibn Abi Talib Hospital, Zahedan, Iran, in 2012 with the gestational age of 28-32 weeks. The subjects were randomly allocated to two equal groups of intervention and control. In the intervention group, 5-minute oral stimulations were performed based on premature infant OMI (PIOMI) by the researcher on a daily basis 15 minutes before gavage for seven days. On the other hand, the control group received routine care. Then, the groups were compared using the premature oral feeding readiness assessment scale in terms of timing, initiation of oral feeding, and hospitalization duration. Results: The intervention group achieved independent feeding significantly earlier than the control group (P=0.034). In addition, the duration of hospitalization was shorter in the intervention group, compared to that of the control group (P=0.027). Conclusion: The utilization of PIOMI method to stimulate oral movements is beneficial in the early onset of oral feeding and reduces the duration of hospitalization. Therefore, this method can be effective in treating premature infants and reducing treatment costs.
Outlines of wildlife conservation in Angola

A review of the history and present status of wildlife conservation in the Portuguese west African state of Angola is presented. The geomorphology, geology, climate and major biogeographic divisions are briefly descriptionbed and the history of wildlife legislation and administration reviewed. The present status of existing conservation areas, wildlife utilization threatened ecosystems and rare species is discussed. Research priorities are noted and future trends in conservation policy outlined.
Aproveitamento do casquilho de soja para a produção de painéis aglomerados convencionais de baixa densidade

Wood accounts for more than 40% of the production cost of clad of aglomerates panels and to meet industry demand and reduces the production costs of panels, the use of agro-industrial waste is an alternative. In this sense, the objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of the substitution of wood by soybean hull on the physical and mechanical properties of the panels. The panels were produced with a nominal density of 0.60 g cm -3 . It replaced the percentages of 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% of soybean hulls in relation to the eucalyptus particles. The particles were glued with 12% of the urea-formaldehyde. The pressing cycle comprised a pressure of 4.0 MPa and a temperature of 180 ° C for 15 minutes. The results showed that the conventional agglomerated panels produced with soybean residue showed an increase in their physical properties and a reduction of the mechanics as the replacement of the wood by residue was increased. It is concluded that, from the technical point of view, the physical and mechanical properties are met with a maximum substitution of the wood per soybean residue in the proportion of 28.9%.
Developing work placements in a discipline-oriented education

Education within higher education is often divided into discipline-oriented and professional programs. Professional programs prepare students for a specific profession and include relevant theoretical- and practical knowledge. Discipline-oriented programs emphasize theoretical knowledge and research within a specific discipline or field. Except for a career within research and higher education, discipline-oriented programs provide less obvious links to future careers. The transition from student life to working life may therefore be challenging. In this paper, we present and discuss the development and implementation of a work placement course as part of the disciplinary programs in biology at the University of Bergen. The course was developed to provide students with practical- and work- related skills and competences, inform about future careers and to foster motivation and learning. We have revised the course according to feedback from students, workplace hosts and our experience during the six semesters the course has been running. The work placement course is at the bachelor (BSc) level and consists of two main components; the work placement itself and the student’s own reporting of placement outcomes. For the placement, the students work 140 hours at a workplace as a biologist. The reporting consists of four open blog-posts, one written reflective essay and a final oral presentation. The course teachers also meet with the students and convey information on the roles of biology and biologists in today’s society through a Facebook group. Feedback from the students, hosts and course teachers point to a range of benefits from work practice courses in discipline- oriented study programs. Based on our experience, we provide guidance for developing such courses as part of discipline-oriented curricula.
Akademik Öz-yeterlik Arttırma: Erken Ergenler Arasında Uygulanmış Bir Müdahale Programının Etkinliği

This research presents findings of a brief intervention study designed to promote academic self-efficacy and academic motivation among early adolescent students recruited from a low to middle socio-economic status school in Turkey. The intervention consisted of social-cognitive strategies adapted from self-efficacy literature, including self-evaluation and verbalization, modeling, imaginal experience, effort feedback, social persuasion, and coping strategies. The effectiveness of the intervention was tested using a pretest-posttest control design among 157 students (82 boys, 75 girls; Mage = 13.17, SD = .99). Students completed questionnaires including demographic information, academic self-concepts (only in pretests), academic self-efficacy and motivation 7 weeks apart before and after the intervention. The effectiveness of the intervention was tested with 2 (time: pretest/posttest) X 2 (group: control/experimental) X 2 (gender: boy/girl) mixed-design ANOVA tests. While girls did not benefit from the intervention, boys in the intervention group, but not in the control group, displayed increases in most of the positive outcomes over time. Practical implications highlighting the need to consider the role of gender and socio-cultural differences in the implementation of motivational strategies among early adolescents are discussed.
ĐÀO TẠO SONG NGỮ CẤP TIỂU HỌC: GÓC NHÌN NGƯỜI TRONG CUỘC

Giáo dục song ngữ Việt - Anh ở cấp tiểu học tại Việt Nam đang thu hút rất nhiều sự quan tâm của các nhà quản lý, nhà giáo dục va các bậc phụ huynh. Tại hầu hết các trường tiểu học ở Việt Nam, tiếng Anh được đưa vào chương trình từ lớp 3, thậm chí một số trường đã thử nghiệm sử dụng tiếng Anh để giảng dạy một số môn như Toán và Khoa học từ lớp 1 nhằm hướng tới giáo dục song ngữ cho trẻ. Nghiên cứu này được tiến hành tại hai trường tiểu học trên địa bàn Hà Nôi với mục đích tìm hiểu mô hình, định hướng, quan điểm về giáo dục song ngữ thông qua khảo sát 41 giáo viên và phỏng vấn 2 phụ trách chuyên môn và 2 lãnh đạo của trường. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy mặc dù ý kiến chung của lãnh đạo và giảng viên hai trường đều ủng hộ giáo dục song ngữ nhưng hiện tại, các trường mới chỉ theo hướng tiếng Anh tăng cường, chưa có mô hình đào tạo song ngữ do các nguyên nhân như số lượng môn có thể giảng dạy bằng tiếng Anh, thời lượng giờ học, đội ngũ giáo viên và chính sách giáo dục.