Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Strategic Planning in Developing the Quality of Educators and Education Personnel

Educators and educational personnel as the key actors in education who have a direct effect on the education process must be able to provide the best performance so that the education process runs as expected. This brings about the importance of improving the quality of educators and educational personnel that is adjusted to the demands and progress of the times. Sadly, this has not yet been fully carried out by educational policy-makers. Improving the quality of educators and educational personnel is mostly done without a through comprehensive analysis. This study aimed to develop a strategic planning as an effort to improve the quality of educators and educational personnel based on an analysis of the internal and external conditions of the school. This research was a qualitative study conducted at a vocational high school in West Java. Participants were the school principal, vice-principals, and teachers. Data were collected through interviews and documents. Data were analyzed by presenting data, reducing data, and drawing conclusions. This study was conducted through FGDs and a SWOT analysis for determining positions and determining strategic issues. The results showed that the school's position was in quadrant I (with an aggressive strategy) which showed a potential position to develop. This study recommends that several steps can be used to improve the quality of educators and educational personnel.
Alternative computational approaches to inference in the multinomial probit model

This research compares several approaches to inference in the multinomial probit model, based on Monte-Carlo results for a seven choice model. The experiment compares the simulated maximum likelihood estimator using the GHK recursive probability simulator, the method of simulated moments estimator using the GHK recursive simulator and kernel-smoothed frequency simulators, and posterior means using a Gibbs sampling-data augmentation algorithm. Each estimator is applied in nine different models, which have from 1 to 40 free parameters. The performance of all estimators is found to be satisfactory. However, the results indicate that the method of simulated moments estimator with the kernel-smoothed frequency simulator does not perform quite as well as the other three methods. Among those three, the Gibbs sampling-data augmentation algorithm appears to have a slight overall edge, with the relative performance of MSM and SML based on the GHK simulator difficult to determine.
Transreal Arithmetic as a Consistent Basis For Paraconsistent Logics

Paraconsistent logics are non-classical logics which allow non-trivial and consistent reasoning about inconsistent axioms. They have been pro- posed as a formal basis for handling inconsistent data, as commonly arise in human enterprises, and as methods for fuzzy reasoning, with applica- tions in Artificial Intelligence and the control of complex systems. Formalisations of paraconsistent logics usually require heroic mathe- matical efforts to provide a consistent axiomatisation of an inconsistent system. Here we use transreal arithmetic, which is known to be consis- tent, to arithmetise a paraconsistent logic. This is theoretically simple and should lead to efficient computer implementations. We introduce the metalogical principle of monotonicity which is a very simple way of making logics paraconsistent. Our logic has dialetheaic truth values which are both False and True. It allows contradictory propositions, allows variable contradictions, but blocks literal contradictions. Thus literal reasoning, in this logic, forms an on-the- y, syntactic partition of the propositions into internally consistent sets. We show how the set of all paraconsistent, possible worlds can be represented in a transreal space. During the development of our logic we discuss how other paraconsistent logics could be arithmetised in transreal arithmetic.
An assessment of small and medium enterprise owners’ occupational safety and health efforts: the case of Southerton, Harare, Zimbabwe

Aims: To assess Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) owners’ efforts towards the occupational health and safety scenario of their companies. Study Design: This study followed a survey approach. Place and Duration of Study: Southerton industrial area, Harare, Zimbabwe, between March 2013 and June 2013. Methodology: Questionnaires were used to collect data from 26 managers and owners of SMEs (3 – 49 employees). Hundred and forty (140) questionnaires were administered to employees other than managers from the 26 SMEs. The number of employee participants were stratified from the size of the SMEs. A descriptive analysis of owners’ characteristics, the interventions they have put in place and how employees felt about the management of safety at their work places was done. Results: Research findings indicate that most SME managers attained tertiary level of education, and have relevant expertise and experience. This makes them capable of having sound occupational safety and health (OSH) management principles. Generally management responses show that SMEs’ safety and health scenario can be characterized as inadequate. It was found that despite 70.8 % of the managers having Original Research Article Mudavanhu et al.; JSRR, Article no. JSRR.2014. 002 408 tertiary education and 38.9% having more than 2 years’ experience still all (100%) SMEs had no safety management system, 92.3% had no safety policy, 96.2% had no hazardous exposure control strategies and 92.3% had no hazard management principles. Furthermore employees indicated that their managers used a reactive approach towards risk (87.5%), attached low priority to OSH against production, lacked commitment (62.9%), and had a blame attitude towards accidents causation (79,3%). Most employee responses indicate dissatisfaction with the OSH scenario at their work places. Recommendations: It is recommended that SME managers may improve workplace safety and health and consequently improve business performance by implementing basic safety management principles. Secondly, there is need to improve employees involvement in safety matters. Thirdly, managers should seek OSH knowledge and advice through attending workshops or taking courses on OSH management. Training of managers and owners may make concertize them on how compliance to safety may improve productivity, quality and minimize production costs. Furthermore policy makers should develop a cost effective, simple and easy to use regulatory OSH framework for SMEs managers to implement. An SME easily-accessible-database should be developed and frequently updated to allow exchange of information within the sector.
DETERMINANTS OF FINANCIAL HABITS

This study concerns financial customs and intelligence of Hungarian college students. The authors focus on practical matters, viz., which the determinants of banking and related services are. The research is based on a survey of 2020, catechizing 1004 respondents attending five disparate faculties in five different Hungarian universities. Beyond conventional sociodemographic variables, we have included two blocks of questions about financial customs and knowledge. They were aggregated to deliver the indices of financial consciousness and financial intelligence. The analysis of determinants of different personal customs was prosecuted by the classification method of CHAID decision tree. Differences among the groups of habits were principally decided by financial consciousness and not by financial intelligence. Contrary to financial consciousness, which is the key driver of group dissimilitude, financial intelligence only influenced people’s customs at the third level of the decision tree. Services in question have proven to be most peculiar to males above the age of 23 with a high level of financial consciousness, and students attending economic or law faculties, most preferably working and studying simultaneously and choosing a correspondence course instead of full-time education. Considering university students are the potential future clients of banks offering the services being analyzed, the precipitate of this study may be a useful tool to grasp the preferences and characteristics of the target group.
Tensions and striving for coherence in an academic’s professional identity work

ABSTRACT The emergence of ‘new managerialism’ in academic institutions and professions has given rise to tensions between one’s professional self and work context. Such tensions often originate from a misalignment between institutional and personal values. This study builds on a dialogical approach to identity and discusses the role of inner tensions and conflicts in terms of making sense of one’s professional identity. These aspects are explored and exemplified by introducing a sample case of one individual student and university researcher/teacher, Anna, who participated in one-year Pedagogical Studies for Adult Educators. Leaning on the narratives of Anna’s learning diaries and a later interview, the article describes tensions and critical conflicts in her professional I-positioning. The study shows how tensions and their resolutions, at their best, can lead to constructive identity work, thereby finding a new personal sense resulting in a more integrated professional identity.
The Information Economy : Old Themes and New Directions in Macroeconomics and Finance

“Data is to this century, what oil was to the last one,” proclamed the Economist in 2017. Data, or digitized information, is more central to finance and to the aggregate economy than ever before. Firms are more data-focused, trading strategies are more data-intensive, and the old manufacturing-based models of economic output are ripe for replacement with tools that reflect the new knowledge economy. The modern economy is an information economy. Understanding what information agents see and how that information impacts aggregate outcomes is a central challenge.
SEISMIC RETROFIT OF SHEAR-CRITICAL R.C. BEAMS USING CFRP

Research on the seismic performance of FRP-retrofitted reinforced concrete (RC) members has primarily focused on strengthening of columns and beam-column joints to promote a ductile collapse mechanism. However, it is also imperative that beams have sufficient shear capacity to develop plastic hinges in flexure under seismic loading. Many existing RC structures in seismic regions are inadequately designed for shear and at risk of catastrophic brittle failure during an earthquake. One such example is the cement pre-heater tower described in [1] that was designed using outdated shear provisions. The tower had shear-critical beams and was at risk of collapse during an earthquake. Testing performed on a scaled-down frame of the tower showed that shear retrofit of the beams with FRP was effective at changing the system failure mode to flexure. Unfortunately, limited information was gathered concerning FRP failure since the beams no longer failed in shear. Thus, further testing was warranted to evaluate the complete response of FRP-retrofitted shear-critical beams under simulated earthquake loading. The objective of this research is to quantify the shear strength improvement provided by various FRP wrap configurations when applied to large-size beams with different amounts of internal transverse steel. Since FRP shear capacity formulations by CSA [2] and ACI [3] were derived from the results of static testing, their validity under seismic loading is of importance. Experimental results are used to verify the accuracy of code predicted FRP shear capacities and design code strain limits.
STEADY GENERAL RELATIVISTIC MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC INFLOW/OUTFLOW SOLUTION ALONG LARGE-SCALE MAGNETIC FIELDS THAT THREAD A ROTATING BLACK HOLE

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) flows along magnetic fields threading a black hole can be divided into inflow and outflow parts, according to the result of the competition between the black hole gravity and magneto-centrifugal forces along the field line. Here we present the first self-consistent, semi-analytical solution for a cold, Poynting flux–dominated (PFD) GRMHD flow, which passes all four critical (inner and outer, Alfvén, and fast magnetosonic) points along a parabolic streamline. By assuming that the dominating (electromagnetic) component of the energy flux per flux tube is conserved at the surface where the inflow and outflow are separated, the outflow part of the solution can be constrained by the inflow part. The semi-analytical method can provide fiducial and complementary solutions for GRMHD simulations around the rotating black hole, given that the black hole spin, global streamline, and magnetizaion (i.e., a mass loading at the inflow/outflow separation) are prescribed. For reference, we demonstrate a self-consistent result with the work by McKinney in a quantitative level.
Title Quantifying the intraregional precipitation variability innorthwestern China over the past 1 , 400 years

There has been a surge of paleo-climatic/environmental studies of Northwestern China (NW China), a region characterized by a diverse assortment of hydro-climatic systems. Their common approach, however, focuses on “deducing regional resemblance” rather than “exploring regional variance. ” To date, efforts to produce a quantitative assessment of long-term intra-regional precipitation variability (IRPV) in NW China has been inadequate. In the present study, we base on historical flood/drought records to compile a decadal IRPV index for NW China spanned AD580–1979 and to find its major determinants via wavelet analysis. Results show that our IRPV index captures the footprints of internal hydro-climatic disparity in NW China. In addition, we find distinct ~120–200 year periodicities in the IRPV index over the Little Ice Age, which are attributable to the change of hydro-climatic influence of ocean-atmospheric modes during the period. Also, we offer statistical evidence of El Niño Southern Oscillation (Indo-Pacific warm pool sea surface temperature and China-wide land surface temperature) as the prominent multi-decadal to centennial (centennial to multi-centennial) determinant of the IRPV in NWChina. The present study contributes to the quantitative validation of the long-term IRPV in NW China and its driving forces, covering the periods with and without instrumental records. It may help to comprehend the complex hydro-climatic regimes in the region.
Sliding mode control of an ozone generator based on dual AC/DC/AC power converters

The aim of this study was to design a first-order sliding mode controller for dual AC/DC/AC power converters to regulate the production of a corona discharge ozone generator. The design is presented in the two following parts: (a) The first part regulates a three-branch (phase) AC/DC converter to control the DC intermedium voltage that is required to produce the desired ozone concentration, while (b) the second part regulates a one-phase DC/AC power conversion circuit that regulates amplitude of the AC voltage that must be injected into the reaction chamber of the ozone generator. For the first section, the controller regulates the switching sequence yielding the control of the input currents, which defines the amplitude of the DC voltage. In the second, the switching control regulates the amplitude of the expected output AC signal, which depends on the obtained DC voltage from the AC/DC section. This structure represents a novel form to adjust the functioning of the AC/DC/AC power device, which has not been used before in the context of ozone production. Lyapunov’s second method was the main tool for confirming the existence of an asymptotical equilibrium state point for the trajectory tracking deviation for both sections of the power converter. The voltage amplitude was tested on a previously validated mathematical model of a corona-effect ozone generator performance. Several numerical evaluations illustrated the efficient performance of the suggested discontinuous controller and considering the proposed switching sequence that realizes the control action. The proposed controller was contrasted with a usual proportional/integral/derivative (extended state) design, which is a common technique to regulate the ozone generation system.
How does organizational space help organizations cope with the challenges of ambidexterity and continue to innovate? A space reorganization experiment in a transitioning organization

Influenced by internal and external factors, organizations are increasingly operating in divergent fields that require them to develop ambidextrous competencies. While research relating ambidexterity to aspects such as strategy and innovation has reached a maturity stage, we still know little about the strategic processes that allow organizations to implement ambidexterity, and in particular about the role that organizational space can play in an organization’s attempt to become ambidextrous. By conducting a qualitative study in the medical and scientific division of the Italian National Olympic Committee trying to incorporate an exploitation logic in addition to its dominant exploration logic, we describe a two-phase experiment in which the organization leveraged the organizational space as a transition tool towards ambidexterity, while also trying to maintain its exploration innovation-driven competitive advantage. We find that organizational space can be used as a coping tool against identity and competence threats triggered by organizational transition to ambidexterity, affording both integration and differentiation of the ambidextrous logics.
Environmental Controls on Tropical Mesoscale Convective System Precipitation Intensity

Using multiple independent satellite and reanalysis datasets, we compare relationships between mesoscale convective system (MCS) precipitation intensity Pmax, environmental moisture, large-scale vertical velocity, and system radius among tropical continental and oceanic regions. A sharp, nonlinear relationship between column water vapor and Pmax emerges, consistent with nonlinear increases in estimated plume buoyancy. MCS Pmax increases sharply with increasing boundary layer and lower free tropospheric (LFT) moisture, with the highest Pmax values originating from MCSs in environments exhibiting a peak in LFT moisture near 750 hPa. MCS Pmax exhibits strikingly similar behavior as a function of water vapor among tropical land and ocean regions. Yet, while the moisture–Pmax relationship depends strongly on mean tropospheric temperature, it does not depend on sea surface temperature over ocean or surface air temperature over land. Other Pmax-dependent factors include system radius, the number of convective cores, and the large-scale vertical velocity. Larger systems typically contain wider convective cores and higher Pmax, consistent with increased protection from dilution due to dry air entrainment and reduced reevaporation of precipitation. In addition, stronger large-scale ascent generally supports greater precipitation production. Last, temporal lead–lag analysis suggests that anomalous moisture in the lower–middle troposphere favors convective organization over most regions. Overall, these statistics provide a physical basis for understanding environmental factors controlling heavy precipitation events in the tropics, providing metrics for model diagnosis and guiding physical intuition regarding expected changes to precipitation extremes with anthropogenic warming.
Disruption of 24-Hour Rhythm in Intraocular Pressure Correlates with Retinal Ganglion Cell Loss in Glaucoma

Parameters of 24-h rhythm in intraocular pressure (IOP) were assessed in patients with stable or advanced primary open-angle glaucoma (S-POAG/A-POAG) and referenced to the phase of “marker” circadian temperature rhythm of each patient. Body temperature and IOP were measured over a 72-h span in 115 participants (65 S-POAG and 50 A-POAG). Retinal Ganglion Cell (RGC) damage was assessed by high-definition optical coherence tomography. The 24-h IOP rhythm in A-POAG patients peaked during the night, opposite to the daytime phase position in S-POAG patients (p < 0.0001). The 24-h IOP phase correlated with RGC loss (p < 0.0001). The internal phase shift between IOP and body temperature gradually increased with POAG progression (p < 0.001). Angiotensin converting enzyme Alu-repeat deletion/insertion (ACE I/D) emerged as a candidate gene polymorphism, which may play a role in the alteration of the circadian IOP variability in advanced glaucoma. To conclude, a reliable estimation of the 24-h rhythm in IOP requires the degree of RGC damage to be assessed. In advanced POAG, the 24-h phase of IOP tended to occur during the night and correlated with RGC loss, being progressively delayed relative to the phase of temperature.
CHILDHOOD EXPOSURE TO SEGREGATION AND LONG-RUN CRIMINAL INVOLVEMENT by Hans Grönqvist, Susan Niknami and Per-Olof Robling

Crime is disproportionately concentrated among minority youths living in highly segregated neighborhoods. In this paper we present quasi-experimental evidence on how exposure to immigrant residential segregation during childhood affects male youths’ criminal behavior. Our analysis exploits the “Whole of Sweden Strategy” in which all newly arrived refugees and their children during the years 1985–1994 were assigned to their initial neighborhood. We follow the children for a period up to 19 years using administrative records. We find evidence that exposure to a neighborhood with a large share of immigrants increases the probability of committing drug related crimes as well as raises the likelihood of being incarcerated later in life. Our results indicate that a one standard deviation decrease in segregation would shrink the immigrant-to-native crime gap for these specific types of offenses by about 20 percent. The impacts are mainly concentrated among youths with low educated parents. Our findings further lend some support to the idea that the relationship between segregation and crime may arise because of a weakened labor force attachment among individuals who grew up in segregated areas.
Lymphocytes and Cryoglobulins in Patients Coinfected with HIV and Hepatitis C Virus : Forgetting the Hidden CD 4 + Cell Subsets

Grocott staining showed irregularly branched hyaline septate hyphae and conidia. The organisms isolated from the fungal ball were identified as Paecilomyces species. In contrast to the patient described by Chow et al. [6], neither of our patients cleared the pulmonary fungus ball after several months of therapy with voriconazole, despite the in vitro susceptibility of the fungal isolates. We administered voriconazole at the standard dosage of 200 mg po b.i. d. At this dosage, the expected steady-state serum levels with normal 90% absorption are 2.1–4.8 mg/mL [9], concentrations that are well above the voriconazole MIC for the fungal strains isolated from the patients. The failure of voriconazole treatment might have been due to low penetration of the drug beyond the outer layers of the fungus ball, resulting in insufficient intracavitary levels. Although the lesions did not show a reduction in size, for one of our patients, results of sputum cultures became negative during voriconazole therapy, and a slight improvement in symptoms was observed. The surrounding paracavitary shadowing on the CT scan for this patient suggests that chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis may have coexisted with the aspergilloma. The 2 entities are probably a continuum of the same pathological process [3], and it is believed that patients with chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis may actually respond to systemic antifungal therapy.