Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
KOMPETENSI GURU DALAM PENINGKATAN PRESTASI BELAJAR PADA SMP NEGERI DALAM KOTA BANDA ACEH

Kompetensi guru dapat memberikan kontribusi atas peningkatan prestasi belajar mampu menjadi teladan aktif kreatif inovatif dan mempunyai integritas yang tinggi di sekolah. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kompetensi pedagogik, kompetensi kepribadian, kompetensi sosial dan kompetensi profesional guru dalam peningkatan prestasi belajar pada Sekolah Menengah Pertama di wilayah Kota Banda Aceh. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi, wawancara, dan studi dokumentasi. Subjek penelitian adalah kepala sekolah, wakil kepala sekolah bidang kurikulum, guru, ketua musyawarah guru mata pelajaran dan siswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: (1) Kompetensi Pedagogik lebih diprioritaskan kepada pengelolaan peserta didik dengan memahami potensi dan keragaman peserta didik, memahami akan landasan dan filsafat pendidikan, mampu menyusun rencana dan strategi pembelajaran, menggunakan informasi hasil penilaian dan evaluasi untuk merancang program remedial dan pengayaan dan tidak semua guru mampu melaksanakan penelitian tindakan kelas. (2) Kompetensi kepribadian antara lain, guru menghargai keanekaragaman suku dan agama yang dianut oleh masing-masing peserta didik dan menjadi teladan yang jujur, tegas, bijaksana dan mampu menjaga nama baik. (3) Kompetensi sosial, guru dapat berkomunikasi secara lisan dan tulisan, mampu bergaul secara efektif dengan peserta didik, sesama pendidik, tenaga kependidikan, orang tua/wali peserta didik; dan dapat bergaul secara santun dengan masyarakat sekitar. (4) Kompetensi profesional, guru sudah menguasai substansi keilmuan yang terkait dengan bidang studi, memahami materi ajar yang ada dalam kurikulum sekolah, memahami struktur, konsep dan metode keilmuan yang menaungi atau koheren dengan materi ajar, Mengembangkan keprofesionalan secara berkelanjutan dengan melakukan tindakan refleksi dan Memanfaatkan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi untuk mengembangkan diri. Kata Kunci: Kompetensi Guru, Prestasi Belajar Siswa
Emerging lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic about the decisive competencies needed for the public health workforce: A qualitative study

The global COVID-19 crisis exposed the critical need for a highly qualified public health workforce. This qualitative research aimed to examine public health workforce competencies needed to face COVID-19 challenges and identify the gaps between training programs and the competency demands of real-world disasters and pandemics. Through a sample of thirty-one participant qualitative interviews, we examined the perspectives of diverse stakeholders from lead public health organizations in Israel. Grounded Theory was used to analyze the data. Six themes emerged from the content analysis: public health workforce's low professional status and the uncertain future of the public health workforce; links between the community and Higher Education institutions; the centrality of communication competencies; need to improve health promotion; the role of leadership, management, and partnership, and innovation in public health coherence. Increasing the attractiveness of the profession, professional and financial support, and improving the working conditions to ensure a sustainable and resilient PH system were deemed necessary. This paper describes and cultivates new knowledge and leadership skills among public health professionals, and lays the groundwork for future public health leadership preparedness programs.
Construction and characterization of a contagious ecthyma virus double-gene deletion strain and evaluation of its potential as a live-attenuated vaccine in goat

Contagious ecthyma is a highly contagious viral disease with zoonotic significance caused by orf virus (ORFV) that affects domestic, ruminants and humans. Live attenuated virus and attenuated tissue culture vaccines are widely used in the fight against ORFV, however, the conventional attenuated vaccine strains have many drawbacks. The aim of this project was to construct a promising contagious ecthyma vaccine strain with safety, high protection efficacy and accessibility by genetic manipulation to against the disease. Using a natural ORFV-GS14 strain as the parental virus, recombinant virus, rGS14-ΔCBP-ΔGIF, with double deletions in the genes encoding the chemokine binding protein (CBP) and granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor inhibitory factor (GIF) was generated and characterized in vitro and in vivo. Results showed that the growth kinetics curve of rGS14-ΔCBP-ΔGIF and parental virus was consistent, both reaching plateau phase at 48 h post infection, which indicated that the double deletion of cbp and gif genes had little impact on the replication properties of the recombinant virus in primary goat testis (PGT) cell cultures compared with the parental virus. The safety of the double gene-deleted virus was evaluated in lambs. The lambs were monitored for 21 days post infection of the recombinant virus and no ORFV associated symptoms were observed in 21 days post-infection except for slight fever and anorexia in 5 days post-infection, and all lambs inoculated with either recombinant virus or PBS exhibited no clinical signs. To assess the protection efficacy of the rGS14-ΔCBP-ΔGIF, groups of four lambs each were inoculated with rGS14-ΔCBP-ΔGIF, rGS14-ΔCBP, rGS14-ΔGIF or PBS and challenged by a wild type virulent ORFV strain that was isolated from proliferative scabby lesions tissues of infected goat at 21-day post-inoculation. During 14 days post-challenging, lambs inoculated with rGS14-ΔCBP-ΔGIF all remained healthy with unimmunized group all infected, while the single gene-deleted viruses only protected 40% to 50% animals. These results indicated that the double gene-deleted recombinant virus could provide complete protection against virulent ORFV challenging. In conclusion, the double gene-deleted recombinant virus strain, rGS14-ΔCBP-ΔGIF, would be a promising candidate vaccine strains with safety, high protection efficacy and availability.
Mental computation, number sense and general mathematics ability-are they linked?

Number sense is generally regarded as an important aspect of general mathematics knowledge, while mental computation performance is frequently thought to link to number sense ability. With current national numeracy testing, placing an emphasis on number sense, this study explores the relationship between number sense, mental computation and general mathematics performance of primary students. Results indicate that performance in these three areas was often disparate, and raise some interesting questions about number sense and mental computation and assessment of mathematics curriculum. ; ;
Zebrafish mutants reveal unexpected role of Lrp5 in osteoclast regulation

Low-density Lipoprotein Receptor-related Protein 5 (LRP5) functions as a co-receptor for Wnt ligands, controlling expression of genes involved in osteogenesis. In humans, loss-of-function mutations in LRP5 cause Osteoporosis-Pseudoglioma syndrome, a low bone mass disorder, while gain-of-function missense mutations have been observed in individuals with high bone mass. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a popular model for human disease research, as genetic determinants that control bone formation are generally conserved between zebrafish and mammals. We generated lrp5- knock-out zebrafish to study its role in skeletogenesis and homeostasis. Loss of lrp5 in zebrafish leads to craniofacial deformities and low bone mineral density (total body and head) at adult ages. To understand the mechanism and consequences of the observed phenotypes, we performed transcriptome analysis of the cranium of adult lrp5 mutants and siblings. Enrichment analysis revealed upregulation of genes significantly associated with hydrolase activity: mmp9, mmp13a, acp5a. acp5a encodes Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) which is commonly used as an osteoclast marker, while Matrix metalloprotease 9, Mmp9, is known to be secreted by osteoclasts and stimulate bone resorption. These genes point to changes in osteoclast differentiation regulated by lrp5. To analyze these changes functionally, we assessed osteoclast dynamics in mutants and observed increased TRAP staining, significantly larger resorption areas, and developmental skeletal dysmorphologies in the mutant, suggesting higher resorptive activity in the absence of Lrp5 signaling. Our findings support a conserved role of Lrp5 in maintaining bone mineral density and revealed unexpected insights into the function of Lrp5 in bone homeostasis through moderation of osteoclast function.
The Gain-Loss Model: A formal model for assessing learning processes

The thesis presents the Gain-Loss Model, a formal model for assessing learning processes. The theoretical framework is knowledge space theory, which is a novel approach to the assessment of knowledge proposed by Doignon and Falmagne in 1985. The Gain-Loss Model assesses the knowledge of students in the different steps of the learning process, and the effectiveness of educational interventions in promoting specific learning. The core element is represented by a skill multimap associating each problem with a collection of subsets of skills that are necessary and sufficient to solve it. The model is characterized by parameters which provide information relevant at different levels of didactic practice. The model has been the subject of investigation at different levels. Its functioning has been analyzed under different conditions, and theoretical developments have been proposed for improving its informative power in practical applications. The investigations have been conducted through simulated studies and empirical applications. The thesis presents the work completed on the model. On one hand, the theoretical development of the model itself, as well as some extensions of it, are described. On the other hand, the results of the simulation studies and the empirical applications are presented and discussed.
A Reference Model for Designing a Curriculum for E-commerce

E-business is a process that provides Internet-based support for buying and selling goods, services, and digital information, generating demand for them through marketing and advertising and through sales and customer service. Business-tobusiness (B2B) revenue is projected to rise from $43 billion in 1998 to $1 trillion in 2003, a 23-fold increase. Consumer purchases online are expected to be worth $380 billion in 2003, up from an estimated $31.2 billion in 1999. According to a recent study by the University of Texas Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/), the Internet economy in the U.S. generated a combined revenue of $301 billion and was responsible for 1.2 million jobs in 1998. It is interesting to note that the Internet economy has already surpassed traditional sectors such as energy ($223 billion) and telecommunications ($270 billion) and is comparable with the automobile sector ($350 billion). The growth in e-commerce activities has been phenomenal and is expected to increase even further.
Athènes, de la balkanisation à la mondialisation

Les jeux Olympiques de 2004 a Athenes sont une occasion de revisiter l'histoire contemporaine de la capitale grecque. Ville neuve au XIXe siecle, Athenes partage pendant pres d'un siecle (1834-1922) les paradoxes d'une refondation artificielle : mediocrite des destinees demographiques et economiques, internationalisme exterieur des elites nationales, grandiloquence de facade de l'urbanisme public neoclassique. L'echec humiliant de la conquete d'Asie mineure met un terme a ces balbutiements. Pendant un demi-siecle, a travers des incertitudes politiques dramatiques, se construit le visage de la ville actuelle : concentration humaine et materielle qui controle l'espace grec, triomphe de la societe civile sur l'Etat pour remodeler la zone centrale et etendre l'agglomeration. Enfin, depuis la chute de la dictature (1974), Athenes prend une stature mondiale : entree de la Grece dans l'Europe politique, attraction migratoire internationale, infrastructures grandioses, monumentalite symbolique. Au-dela de ses specificites, Athenes ne revele-telle pas les trois âges des capitales europeennes : internationalisme des Lumieres, organisation des territoires nationaux, metropolisation de l 'echange ?
Rongorongo Script: Carving Techniques and Scribal Corrections

Studies of three original rongorongo tablets (Tahua, Aruku Kurenga and Mamari) revealed clear traces of two-stage carving (pre-incising with an obsidian flake and contour enhancement with a shark tooth). Most probably, the texts were written in short fragments with shark-tooth engraving applied before passing to the next fragment. Additional multiple engraving sessions might been performed for finished inscription, aiming to enhance glyph contours. Despite laborious and time-consuming writing technology, the scribes display extremely high professional level, making only a few errors and corrections in the studied inscriptions totaling to about 4,000 glyphs. These errors usually consist in pre-term writing of a passage, re-insertion of omitted symbols (even on the edge of the tablet) and palimpsest corrections. Pronounced shape variation of signs entering inline repetitive fragments seems indicative of direct on-tablet composition of the text without any draft inscriptions. Corrections and parallel passages suggest allography of glyphs 133 and 067, which by analogy may imply allography of signs 055b and 068 in Barthel’s notation.
DIETA DE CAFETERIA REMODELA A ESTRUTURA DA AORTA DE RATOS OBESOS

O excesso de tecido adiposo esta associado ao aumento da morbidade e da reducao da expectativa de vida. Estudos revelam uma associacao entre obesidade e pressao arterial elevada, colocando os problemas cardiovasculares como uma das principais causas de morte em pessoas obesas. O presente artigo teve por objetivo avaliar a estrutura da aorta toracica de ratos induzidos a obesidade por dieta de cafeteria. Para tanto, utilizou-se de uma pesquisa com ratos Wistar (machos e femeas) com 21 dias de idade foram divididos em dois grupos: o grupo controle, alimentado com dieta padrao balanceada e o grupo cafeteria que recebeu dieta hipercalorica, constituida de racao balanceada acrescida de alimentos industrializados. Os animais foram acompanhados ate completarem 30 semanas de idade. Amostras de sangue foram coletadas por meio de puncao caudal e a glicemia foi analisada atraves de um glicosimetro. O estudo estrutural foi realizado no segmento descendente da aorta toracica, com cortes transversais de 5? m, sendo 15 cortes de cada arteria, totalizando 300 cortes, corados atraves do metodo Tricromico de Masson. A contagem de pontos foi realizada por meio do sistema-teste de cicloides. A dieta de cafeteria causou um aumento significativo no peso corporal e elevou a glicemia dos ratos de ambos os sexos. Os segmentos aorticos analisados nao apresentaram espessamento da intima, o que indicaria a formacao aterosclerotica, porem, mostraram reducao do musculo liso e aumento do colageno. A dieta de cafeteria promove enrijecimento da arteria, aumentando o risco para o desenvolvimento de patologias cardiovasculares. CAFETERIA DIET REMODELS THE STRUCTURE OF AORTA OF OBESE RATS ABSTRACT The adipose tissue excess is closely associated with the increase of morbidity and reduction of life expectancy. Studies reveal a relationship between obesity and high blood pressure, standing the cardiovascular problems as one of the main causes of obese people death. This study aims to assess the structure of the thoracic aorta of obese rats induced by cafeteria diet. Wistar rats (male and females) at 21-day-old were divided in two groups: control group, fed with standard balanced diet and; cafeteria group, that received hypercaloric diet, constituted by balanced diet plus industrialized foods. The animals were accompanied until 30-week-old. Blood samples were collected by caudal puncture and the glycemia was analyzed with a glycometer. The structural study was accomplished in descending segment of thoracic aorta, with cross sections of 5 ? m. Fifteen sections of each artery (a total of 300 sections) were stained according to Masson’s trichrome method. The stitch count was realized by the cycloid system-test. The cafeteria diet caused a significant increase in body weight and raised the glycemia of rats from both genders. The analyzed aortic segments showed no thickening of intima, that indicates atherosclerotic formation, but they showed smooth muscle reduction and increase of collagen. The cafeteria diet promotes hardening of the artery that increases the risk of cardiovascular pathologies.
Text Categorisation of Racist Texts Using a Support Vector Machine

The automatic processing of text is a major challenge because of the increasing availability of textual information and the need to organise and manage such information effectively and efficiently. Automatic Text Categorisation is one of a number of functions we would like to have available to us and involves the assignment of one or more predefined categories to text documents in order that they can be effectively managed. In this paper we examine the problems associated with categorising texts documents (web pages) based on whether or not they are racist. We describe work in the PRINCIP project, which aims at the development of a system to detect racism based on the results of linguistic and statistical analysis of candidate texts. We take what we have learned from the PRINCIP research and apply machine learning techniques, specifically Support Vector Machines, to automatically categorise web pages. Our work shows that it is possible to develop automatic categorisation of web pages, based on these approaches.
Web 2.0 geotagged photos: Assessing the spatial dimension of the phenomenon

Among popular Web 2.0 applications are the social networking, photo-sharing websites like Flickr, Panoramio, Picasa Web, and Geograph. The phenomenon of user-generated content and the increased presence of geographic information in such applications have motivated researchers to consider them as a source of geographic information. In this paper we question whether such web applications can serve as reliable sources of spatial content. We differentiate between spatially explicit and implicit applications, in accordance to their declared aims, and evaluate if they have an impact on the spatial distribution of geotagged photos for Great Britain. We also compare the spatial distribution of the photos submitted with population data, and the patterns of contribution to these sources over a period of 18 months. Finally, at a larger scale, we examine the spatial distribution of photos and their spatial density for 15 test areas and look into issues such as data currency and user behaviour. Our findings show that only web applications that urge users to interact directly with spatial entities can serve as reliable, universal sources of spatial content.
Bringing Transformative Learning to Life

Acknowledgments Introduction The Author Chapter 1. Pathways of Transformative Learning Chapter 2. The Transformative Learning Opportunities Model's Guiding Frame Chapter 3. The Transformative Learning Opportunities Model in Action Chapter 4. For the Educator: The Vital Role of Reflection and Evaluation Chapter 5. For the Learner: Keeping Supports Strong Chapter 6. Looking Forward: Imperatives for Action Appendix A. Diagrams of the Transformative Learning Opportunities Model Appendix B: Materials for Continuing Higher Education Appendix C: Materials for Adult English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Appendix D: Materials for Adult Basic Education (ABE) Appendix E: Materials for Workplace Learning Appendix F: Materials for Faculty Development Appendix G: Instructional Strategies and Resources References Index.
Nonlinear adaptive robust control of one-DOF electro-hydraulic servo systems

This paper intends to provide a rigorous theoretic framework for the high performance robust control of electro-hydraulic servo-systems. This is achieved through applying the recently proposed adaptive robust control (ARC) while taking into account the particular nonlinearities and model uncertainties of the electrohydraulic servo-systems. In particular, the robust motion control of a typical one degree of freedom (DOF) electro-hydraulic servo-system will be considered. The system consists of an inertia load driven by a double rod cylinder regulated by a two-stage servovalve. The paper will consider the e ect of both parametric uncertainties coming from the inertia load and the cylinder and the uncertain nonlinearities such as friction forces. Non-di erentiability of the inherent nonlinearities associated with hydraulic dynamics is carefully examined and strategies are provided for handling the non-di erentiability of the control term due to the directional change of valve opening when doing backstepping design via ARC Lyapunov function. The resulting controller guarantees a prescribed transient performance and nal tracking accuracy in the presence of both parametric uncertainties and uncertain nonlinearities while achieving asymptotic tracking in the presence of parameteric uncertainties.
Avaliação físico -química, microbiológica e sensorial de tilápias do nilo (Oreochromis niloticus) inteiras evisceradas submetidas a salga e secagem natural

Os peixes sao produtos de grande valor nutritivo, alem de ser uma atividade economica, para producao de alimentos que mais cresce no mundo.Assim,o presente trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar fisico quimicamente, microbiologicamente e sensorialmente amostras de tilapias apos a salga e secagem natural seguidas de armazenamento a temperatura ambiente por 30 dias. Os resultados indicam que o processo de salga e secagem foi efetivo, resultando na diminuicao da umidade e na penetracao do sal para o interior do pescado. Microbiologicamente o produto obtido foi estavel e obedecia aos padroes da ANVISA. Os provadores nao foram capazes de identificar a amostra contendo o produto, quando comparadas com formulacao contendo bacalhau comercial e batatas, sendo ainda que sensorialmente o produto obteve uma boa aceitacao para os atributos de textura, cor, aroma e sabor.
Tracing semantic change with latent semantic analysis

Research in historical semantics relies on the examination, selection, and interpretation of texts from corpora. Changes in meaning are tracked through the collection and careful inspection of examples that span decades and centuries. This process is inextricably tied to the researcher‟s expertise and familiarity with the corpus. Consequently, the results tend to be difficult to quantify and put on an objective footing, and “big-picture” information about statistical trends and changes other than the specific ones under investigation are likely to be discarded. In this paper we present a method that uses Latent Semantic Analysis (Landauer, Foltz & Laham, 1998) to automatically track and identify semantic changes across a corpus. This method can take the entire corpus into account when tracing changes in the use of words and phrases, thus potentially allowing researchers to better account for the larger context in which these changes occurred, while at the same time considerably reducing the amount of work required. Moreover, because this measure relies on readily observable co-occurrence data, it affords the study of semantic change a measure of objectivity that was previously difficult to attain. In this paper we describe our method and demonstrate its potential by applying it to several well-known examples of semantic change in the history of the English language.