Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Linking Teacher-Student Relationship to Academic Achievement of Senior High School Students

Students’ level of academic engagement and achievement at any level of education is partly knit to the kind of relationships that exist between them and their teachers. The study examined the impact of teacher-student relationship on academic achievement of students in Senior High Schools in Winneba, Ghana. Eighty students were conveniently sampled from two strata whiles data was qualitatively collected using semi-structured interview guide and analyzed thematically. The study uses the four clusters of teacher-student relationship as a framework to discuss the types of relationships that exist in Ghanaian Senior High Schools. The study revealed that connectedness, dependent, peaceful and conflicting teacher-student relationships prevail in Senior High Schools. However, administrative restrictions, and certain attitudes of teachers and students impede the development of effective teacher-student relationship. Whereas positive relationships create environments that augment academic achievement, threatening relationships stifle academic achievement. Teachers should deliberately express concerns both about students’ academic and non-academic life, as this makes the latter feel accepted and motivated to improve academic work.
Spatiotemporal variability in seawater carbon chemistry for a coral reef flat in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i

Coral reef community composition and ecosystem function may change in response to anthropogenic ocean acidification. However, the magnitude of acidification on reefs will be modified by natural spatial and temporal variability in seawater CO2 chemistry. Consequently, it is necessary to quantify the ecological, biogeochemical, and physical drivers of this natural variability before making robust predictions of future acidification on reefs. In this study, we measured temporal and spatial physiochemical variability on a reef flat in Kāne‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, using autonomous sensors at sites with contrasting benthic communities and by sampling surface seawater CO2 chemistry across the reef flat at different times of the day during June and November. Mean and diurnal temporal variability of seawater CO2 chemistry was more strongly influenced by depth gradients (~ 0.5–10 m) on the reef rather than benthic community composition. Spatial CO2 chemistry gradients across the reef flat reflected the cumulative influence from benthic metabolism, bathymetry, and hydrodynamics. Based on graphical assessment of total alkalinity–dissolved inorganic carbon data, reef metabolism in November was dominated by organic carbon cycling over inorganic carbon cycling, while these processes were closely balanced in June. Overall, this study highlights the strong influence of depth on reef seawater CO2 chemistry variability through its effects on benthic biomass to seawater volume ratio, seawater flow rates, and residence time. Thus, the natural complexity of ecosystems where a combination of ecological and physical factors influence reef chemistry must be considered when predicting ecosystem biogeochemical responses to future anthropogenic changes in seawater CO2 chemistry.
Environmental Capabilities and Environmental Innovations of Manufacturing Firms in Malaysia

The popularity of achieving environmental sustainability among businesses is not exceptional in the green business literature. However, despite its popularity, businesses are still practically clueless about its benefits. This study employs the dynamic capabilities theory to investigate the relationship between environmental capabilities (i.e., environmental strategic focus, shared vision, management support, collaboration, and technological capabilities) and environmental innovation. To test the hypotheses, data from a sample of 124 firms were collected from managers of environmental management system (EMS) 14001-certified Malaysian manufacturing firms. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling with partial least squares (PLS-SEM) version 3.0. Results indicated that environmental technological capabilities and environmental collaboration both have a positive impact in directly enhancing the firms' environmental innovations. The findings of this study indicate the possibility that manufacturers can remain competitive by integrating environmental considerations at the strategic level; collaborating with suppliers, customers, and the local community for environmental solutions; and investing in environmental technological capabilities.
Principals Application of Students’ Satisfaction and Leadership Principles of Total Quality Management for Secondary School Improvement in Anambra State

The main purpose of the study was to determine the principals’ application of students’ satisfaction and leadership principles of total quality management for secondary school improvement in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The study was carried out in Anambra State. The population of the study comprised 6664 principals and teachers (258 principals and 6406 teachers) from the 258 public secondary schools in the six education zones of the State. The sample of this study was 1999 respondents made up of 77 principals and 1922 teachers in secondary schools in Anambra State. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The instrument was validated by three experts in the Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The questionnaire reliability was ascertained through a pilot test. The data collected were analyzed with Cronbach Alpha and coefficient values of 0.75 and 0.77 for the two clusters with an overall reliability co-efficient value of 0.76 for the instrument. The data collected from the respondents were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as arithmetic mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics specifically the t-test. Findings revealed that principals applied students’ satisfaction and leadership principles to a moderate extent. Based on the findings of the study the following recommendations were made among others, that the Post Primary School Service Commission in Conjunction with the Ministry of education should organize in-service training programmes that will educate principals on the current trends in improving students' satisfaction in secondary schools. It was also recommended that Principals should delegate responsibilities more to teachers as that will give them a feeling of belonging and increase their work commitment.
Tipikal Kendala Guru PAUD dalam Mengajar pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19 dan Implikasinya

Pandemi covid 19 menjadikan semua jenjang pendidikan termasuk PAUD menghentikan kegiatan pembelajaran secara tatap muka dan berganti dengan sistem daring. Hal ini menimbulkan kekagetan budaya dan kendala dalam proses pembelajaran. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengungkap tipikal kendala mengajar guru PAUD saat pandemi covid 19 dan implikasinya pada kegiatan pembelajaran berbasis konsep normal baru. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode survey. Data penelitian diperoleh secara online menggunakan media google form. Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah 645 guru yang berada di wilayah Jawa Barat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kendala mengajar yang dialami guru PAUD pada masa pandemi covid 19 berada pada empat indikator yaitu kendala komunikasi, metode pembelajaran,materi dan biaya serta penggunaan teknologi dengan kecenderungan prosentase yang tinggi berada pada kategori sering dan kadang-kadang. Tentunya perlu solusi untuk mengatasi masalah ini supaya tidak berdampak secara sistemik serta supaya guru PAUD lebih siap menerapkan kegiatan pembelajaran berbasis konsep normal baru.
The Effect of Firm-Level ESG Practices on Macroeconomic Performance

This paper investigates whether the development and adoption of firm-level environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices affects national macroeconomic performance, and whether this differs between developed countries and emerging economies. Using dynamic panel techniques – generalised method-of-moments (GMM) estimators – we find that an increase of micro-ESG performance can result in the improvement of living standards as measured by GDP per capita. When we test this link by country type, we find that firm-level social performance in a country is positively associated with GDP per capita in both developed countries and emerging economies. As for the other two components of firm-level ESG measures, namely environmental and governance performance, we find that these affect macroeconomic performance in emerging economies, but that the effects remain insignificant in developed countries. While further research is needed, these results may be of particular interest to policymakers and central banks, as they suggest that encouraging the adoption of ESG practices at the firm-level could support macroeconomic performance.
School Climate and Peer Victimization. Involvement, Affiliation and Help Perceived in School Centers as Protective Factors against Violent Behavior in Adolescent Couples

This article presents the results of a non-experimental, quantitative cross-sectional study conducted on an adolescent group. The sample of adolescents was acquired from high schools and vocational training, where the relationship between the school climate, more specifically, the involvement, affiliation, and perception of help and violence that is both experienced and exercised between partners. The study sample consisted of 433 adolescents aged 12–19 years from four educational centers from a municipality of Greater Bilbao. Since there are analyses that refer specifically to romantic relationships, in those cases, the 67.7% (N = 275) of the sample that claims to have or have had a romantic relationship is considered. Finally, there was evidence to suggest the existence of influence between the school climate and the implication of violence in adolescent couples.
INFLUENCE OF SOIL COVER ON ORGANIC MATTER AND EDAPHIC VARIABLES IN ITATIAIA-RJ NATIONAL PARK

Forest ecosystems in the Middle Valley region of Paraiba do Sul have undergone profound changes throughout history. Currently, degraded pastures and secondary forest fragments predominate in different successional stages, responsible for numerous environmental services, among them the sequestration and stabilization of CO 2 . In order to understand successional processes, their influence on soil variables and soil organic matter (SOM), different land uses and geomorphological diversity must be considered, since environmental variability can influence this dynamic. The objectives of the study were to evaluate physical and chemical variables and the organic matter of soils located in the southern slope of the Itatiaia National Park (RJ); as well as to characterize possible patterns under coverings of Dense Ombrophilous Forest and pastures and indicate which cover would accumulate the highest levels of carbon (C) and in its most stable forms. The pasture areas had the highest C averages, but more stable fractions of SOM were found in the different stages of forest succession. An increase in SOM stability was also observed due to the progression of successional stages.
Distracting Linguistic Information Impairs Neural Entrainment to Attended Speech

Listening to speech is difficult in noisy environments, and is even harder when the interfering noise consists of intelligible speech as compared to non-intelligible sounds. This suggests that the ignored speech is not fully ignored, and that competing linguistic information interferes with the neural processing of target speech. We tested this hypothesis using magnetoencephalography (MEG) while participants listened to target clear speech in the presence of distracting noise-vocoded signals. Crucially, the noise vocoded distractors were initially unintelligible but were perceived as intelligible speech after a small training session. We compared participants’ performance in the speech-in-noise task before and after training, and neural entrainment to both target and distracting speech. The comprehension of the target clear speech was reduced in the presence of intelligible distractors as compared to when they were unintelligible. The neural entrainment to target speech in the delta range (1–4 Hz) reduced in strength in the presence of an intelligible distractor. In contrast, neural entrainment to distracting signals was not significantly modulated by intelligibility. These results support and extend previous findings, showing, first, that the masking effects of distracting speech originate from the degradation of the linguistic representation of target speech, and second, that delta entrainment reflects linguistic processing of speech. Significance Statement Comprehension of speech in noisy environments is impaired due to interference from background sounds. The magnitude of interference depends on the intelligibility of the distracting speech signals. In a magnetoencephalography experiment with a highly-controlled training paradigm, we show that the linguistic information of distracting speech imposes higher-order interference on the processing of the target speech, as indexed by a decline of comprehension of target speech and a reduction of delta entrainment to target speech. This work demonstrates the importance of neural oscillations for speech processing. It shows that delta oscillations reflect linguistic analysis during speech comprehension, which can critically be affected by the presence of other speech.
Remanufacturing of Woven Carbon Fibre Fabric Production Waste into High Performance Aligned Discontinuous Fibre Composites

The composites industry generates considerable volumes of waste in a wide variety of forms, from the production of by-products to end-of-life parts. This paper focuses on the remanufacturing of dry fibre off-cuts, produced during the composite fabric weaving process, into highly aligned discontinuous fibre prepreg tapes with High Performance Discontinuous Fibre (HiPerDiF) technology. Unidirectional laminate specimens are prepared using various combinations of fibre lengths and tested in tension, obtaining a stiffness of 80 GPa, a strength of 800 MPa, and a failure strain of 1%. Several applications are envisaged for the produced tape: adhesive film, feedstock for filament winding, and tow for weaved fabrics. This work demonstrates the possibility to extract value from what is currently considered manufacturing waste.
Occupation and Parkinson disease in Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study

Introduction There is a lack of consistency in associations between workplace factors and risk of Parkinson disease (PD), and paucity of such data on women. We took a classic occupational epidemiology approach that assesses associations with occupational groups in order to derive insights about potential occupation-specific exposures that may be causal. Methods The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI-OS) is a prospective cohort that enrolled 91,627 postmenopausal women, 50 to 79 years of age from 10/01/93 to 12/31/98, at 40 clinical centers across the US with average follow-up of 11 years, who reported up to three paid jobs held the longest since age 18; these jobs were coded and duration of employment calculated. We defined the case by self-report of doctor-diagnosed PD (at baseline or follow-up), death attributed to PD, or medication consistent with PD. Results Among 2,590 cases, we report evidence of excess risk among “counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists”. There was a suggestion of increase in risk among post-secondary teachers, and “building and grounds cleaning and maintenance”. There was also evidence of deficit in risk among women who worked in sales. Results with ever-employed and duration were similar, except for evidence of excess of risk among “health technologists and technicians” with more than 20 years of employment. Longer duration of life on a farm was associated with higher risk. Conclusion Our findings paint a largely reassuring picture of occupational risks for PD among US women, especially for trades largely unaffected by recent technological advances.
How variable characteristics of bean cropping systems affect Fusarium and Rhizoctonia root rot epidemics?

Abstract Fusarium root rot (FRR) and Rhizoctonia root rot (RRR) are potential threats to bean production worldwide. Disease incidence, severity and index, and yield were assessed at vegetative, flowering–podding and maturity stages in 122 commercial bean fields. Area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC), linear and quadratic coefficients of disease-time regressions were also used as epidemiological descriptors. From factor analysis, development of FRR and RRR epidemics were characterized mainly by AUDPC. Using redundancy analysis, 30 agricultural indicators accounted for 69% variations in FRR- and RRR–AUDPC, and bean production. Severe FRR and RRR epidemics and less pod and seed production corresponded with deep seeding, dense weed, low soil organic matter, planting White bean, mechanical cultivation, planting in Abhar region, frequent irrigation, growing continuous bean, lack of herbicide application, fungicidal treatment of soil, urea application, flat seedbed, short initial-drought period, unfertilized planting and early planting. Such epidemiological information assists with improving disease control programs.
Early Neoproterozoic Deformation Kinematics in the Chottanagpur Gneiss Complex (Eastern India): Evidence from the Curvilinear Hundru Falls Shear ZoneAnalysis

Curvilinear steep shear zones originate in different tectonic environments. In the Chottanagpur Gneiss Complex (CGC), the steeply dipping, left-lateral and transpressive Early Neoproterozoic Hundru Falls Shear Zone (HFSZ) with predominantly north-down kinematics comprises two domains, e.g., an arcuate NW-striking (in the west) to W-striking (in the east) domain with gently plunging stretching lineation that curves into a W-striking straight-walled domain with down-dip lineation. The basement-piercing HFSZ truncates a carapace of flat-lying amphibolite facies paraschist and granitoid mylonites, and recumbently folded anatectic gneisses. The carapace—inferred to be a midcrustal regional-scale low-angle detachment zone—structurally overlies an older basement of Early Mesoproterozoic anatectic gneisses intruded by Mid-Mesoproterozoic/Early Neoproterozoic granitoids unaffected by the Early Neoproterozoic extensional tectonics. The mean kinematic vorticity values in the steep HFSZ-hosted granitoids computed using the porphyroclast aspect ratio method are 0.74–0.83 and 0.51–0.65 in domains with shallow and steep lineations, respectively. The granitoid mylonites show a chessboard subgrain microstructure, but lack evidence for suprasolidus deformation. The timing relationship between the two domains is unclear. If the two HFSZ domains were contemporaneous, the domain of steep lineations with greater coaxial strain relative to the curvilinear domain formed due to strain partitioning induced by variations in mineralogy and/or temperature of the cooling granitoid plutons. Alternately, the domain of gently plunging lineations in the HFSZ was a distinct shear zone that curved into a subsequent straight-walled shear zone with steeply plunging lineation due to a northward shift in the convergence direction during deformation contemporaneous with the Early Neoproterozoic accretion of the CGC and the Singhbhum Craton.
Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of Otus sunia (Strigiformes: Strigidae)

Abstract The complete mitochondrial genome of Otus sunia was 17,835 bp in length and its overall base composition was estimated to be 31.0% for A, 23.3% for T, 32.4% for C, and 13.3% for G. It consisted of the typical structure of 13 PCGs, 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, and 1 control region. The phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that O. sunia was more closely related to O. scops than O. bakkamoena.
PENGARUH LOAN TO DEPOSIT RATIO (LDR) TERHADAP PROFITABILITAS DENGAN NON PERFORMING LOAN (NPL) SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING PADA SUBSEKTOR PERBANKAN

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui Pengaruh Loan To Deposit Ratio (Ldr) Terhadap Profitabilitas Dengan Non Performing Loan (NPL) Sebagai Variabel Intervening Pada Subsektor Perbankan Yang Terdaftar Di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) Periode 2014-2018. Populasi penelitian berjumlah 81 perusahaan subsektor perbankan dan diambil sampel sebanyak 22 perusahaan subsektor perbankan dengan teknik sampling yang digunakan adalah purposive sampling. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa LDR dan NPL berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap profitabilitas, LDR tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap NPL, pengaruh langsung LDR terhadap Profitabilitas lebih besar dibandingkan pengaruh tidak langsung melalui NPL.
Pandemic Motherhood and the Academy: A Critical Examination of the Leisure-Work Dichotomy

Abstract In late 2017, a critical investigation of the impact of motherhood on perceptions of success in academia, specific to leisure scholars in the United States, was undertaken by the authors of this critical review. Results from this study indicated that leisure scholars who are also mothers experience a great deal of pressure to be productive educators and researchers. This stems from unrealistic work expectations, unsupportive colleagues, and workplace policies that are difficult to navigate. The impacts of these are exacerbated by the pandemic conditions caused by COVID-19 due to existing patriarchal structures in academia. Community mitigation efforts result in working mothers balancing multiple full-time responsibilities, including providing childcare and education for their children while struggling to complete their paid work. We asked our previous research participants to share how their work and family experiences have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic conditions, specifically as it relates to performing simultaneously as both primary childcare providers and faculty members at their institutions. While necessary to address a global health emergency, transitioning to remote work has increased employment expectations for mothers employed in higher education. Leisure scientists reported that telecommuting has led to an unideal merger of their personal and professional spaces, disrupting any harmony that these mothers were working so tirelessly to achieve. Leaders in higher education must address this misguided “hurry up model” and lack of concern for their employees as both scholars and human beings that need leisure to ensure quality of life and wellbeing.