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The Effect of Transformational Leadership, Work Discipline, and Satisdaction on Lecturers’ Performance at the Tarbiyah and Teaching Faculty of UIN Antasari Banjarmasin

Lecturer performance is critical in determining the quality of education in higher education. The objective of the study is to analyze some variables that theoretically influence the lecturers’ performance. Those variables are Transformational Leadership, Work Discipline, and Job Satisfaction. This study was conducted at the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training of Antasari UIN Banjarmasin. This research uses quantitative descriptive method. A research sample of 125 people was chosen randomly from 181 lecturers at the Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty of UIN Banjarmasin. The data collection was done using a valid and reliable questionnaire and analyzed using Path Analysis technique. The results show: (1) transformational leadership, work discipline, and job satisfaction have a direct correlation to the lecturers’ performance; and (2) It also confirms that there is an indirect effect of the transformational leadership and work discipline through job satisfaction on the lecturers’ performance at the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training at UIN Antasari Banjarmasin. This study concludes that different results obtained in terms of influence and significance and for the independent variables studied.
Analisis pengaruh pertumbuhan ekonomi, indeks pembangunan manusia (IPM) dan upah minimum provinsi (UMP) terhadap kemiskinan di Kabupaten Merangin

This study aims to analyze: 1) The effect of economic growth, HDI, and Provincial minimum wage (PMW) on poverty levels in Merangin Regency. 2) The effect of economic growth, HDI, and PMW on the depth of poverty in Merangin Regency. 3) The effect of economic growth, HDI, and PMW on the severity of poverty in Merangin Regency. The data used are secondary data during the period 2002-2017. Data analysis tool using multiple linear regression method. Based on the results of the analysis, it is known that: 1) Simultaneously, economic growth, HDI, and PMW have a significant effect on the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Merangin Regency. 2) Partially economic growth has a significant effect on the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Merangin Regency, 3) HDI partially has a significant effect on the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Merangin Regency. 4) The PMW partially has a significant effect on the poverty level, but the PMW has no significant effect on the depth and severity of poverty in Merangin Regency. Keywords: Poverty, Economic growth, HDI,Provincial minimum wage(PMW)
Assessing Movement Quality in Youth Footballers: The Relationship between Hip and Lower Limb Movement Screen and Functional Movement Screen

The Hip and Lower Limb Movement Screen (HLLMS) was developed to detect altered movement patterns and asymmetry specifically related to hip, pelvic, and lower limb movement control, as the other tools, such as the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), lacked focus on the hip and pelvic area. Both screening tools contain symmetrical and asymmetrical motor tasks which are based on observation of different aspects of each task performance. One motor task is in both screening tools. Therefore, they have some common features. The present study aimed to assess the relationship between the HLLMS and FMS performance in youth football players. The study included 41 elite male football (soccer) players (age: 15.6 ± 0.50 years), and the HLLMS and FMS scores were analyzed by assessing Spearman’s rank correlation. The FMS total score and the FMSMOVE were moderately correlated with the HLLMS total score (R = −0.54; −0.53, respectively). The FMS rotatory stability task was moderately correlated with the HLLMS small knee bend with the trunk rotation task (R = −0.50). The FMS deep squat task was moderately correlated with the HLLMS deep squat task (R = −0.46). The FMS hurdle step was weakly correlated with two of the HLLMS tasks: standing hip flexion (R = −0.37) and hip abduction with external rotation (R = −0.34). There were no other relationships found (p > 0.05). Out of the seven FMS tasks, only one asymmetrical (trunk rotary stability) and one symmetrical (deep squat) task were moderately related to the newly developed HLLMS tool contributing moderate relationship between the FMS total score and the HLLMS total score. Other FMS tasks were weakly or unrelated with the HLLMS. These findings indicate that these two screening tools mainly assess different aspects of movement quality in healthy youth football players.
Benefits and safety impact of night work-zone activities

A literature review and discussions with highway and transportation officials in several states provided information on issues relating to the planning, safety, and traffic control aspects of night maintenance and construction activities, and their advantages and disadvantages. The information was used to develop general guidelines for nighttime maintenance and construction work. Although there are many potential disadvantages to working at night, it is believed that experience, proper planning, and attention to workmen and motorist safety make the night alternative feasible for selected work.
Is gestational weight loss safe for obese women?

Yanfang Guo1-4*, Nabil Islam5, Alysha L. J. Harvey3 and Shi Wu Wen3,4,6 1Better Outcomes Registry & Network Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 3Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Newborn Care, OMNI Research Group, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, Canada 4School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, Canada 5Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, Canada 6Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa, Canada
Robust nonlinear control : from continuous time to sampled-data with aerospace applications.

The dissertation deals with the problems of stabilization and control of nonlinear systems with deterministic model uncertainties. First, in the context of uncertain systems analysis, we introduce and explain the basic concepts of robust stability and stabilizability. Then, we propose a method of stabilization via state-feedback in presence of unmatched uncertainties in the dynamics. The recursive backstepping approach allows to compensate the uncertain terms acting outside the control span and to construct a robust control Lyapunov function, which is exploited in the subsequent design of a compensator for the matched uncertainties. The obtained controller is called recursive Lyapunov redesign. Next, we introduce the stabilization technique through Immersion \& Invariance (I\&I) as a tool to improve the robustness of a given nonlinear controller with respect to unmodeled dynamics. The recursive Lyapunov redesign is then applied to the attitude stabilization of a spacecraft with flexible appendages and to the autopilot design of an asymmetric air-to-air missile. Contextually, we develop a systematic method to rapidly evaluate the aerodynamic perturbation terms exploiting the deterministic model of the uncertainty. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is highlighted through several simulations in the second case-study considered. In the final part of the work, the technique of I\& I is reformulated in the digital setting in the case of a special class of systems in feedback form, for which constructive continuous-time solutions exist, by means of backstepping and nonlinear domination arguments. The sampled-data implementation is based on a multi-rate control solution, whose existence is guaranteed for the class of systems considered. The digital controller guarantees, under sampling, the properties of manifold attractivity and trajectory boundedness. The control law, computed by finite approximation of a series expansion, is finally validated through numerical simulations in two academic examples and in two case-studies, namely the cart-pendulum system and the rigid spacecraft.
Knowledge Works: The Handbook of Practical Ways to Identify and Solve Common Organizational Problems for Better Performance

Introduction. A handbook that you can dip into according to your needs, or that you can work through in a more systematic way to improve your organization's performance. SECTION I: Establish strategic priorities. By understanding from the outset the sort of knowledge that makes a difference to your organization's performance you can focus limited resources of time and attention on the things that will have the biggest impact in terms of generating value. CHAPTER 1:Identifying valuable knowledge. CHAPTER 2:Making a comprehensive assessment of knowledge flows. Section II: Enable operational effectiveness. By connecting well established knowledge-sharing practices with core business activities you can avoid "reinventing the wheel" and do more with less. CHAPTER 3:Taking knowledge initiatives to the front line of the organization. CHAPTER 4:Integrating knowledge practices into projects. CHAPTER 5:Working collaboratively in partnerships. Section III: Stimulate innovation. By retaining and developing expertise and understanding how to combine knowledgebased methods and approaches more effectively, you generate more innovation. CHAPTER 6:Building knowledge enabled innovation capability. CHAPTER 7:Retaining and developing expertise. Section IV: Increase learning capacity. By creating mechanisms to join up the learning that is happening around the organization, you create the conditions for greater operational effectiveness and stimulate new thinking and innovation. CHAPTER 8:Joining up individual and organizational learning. CHAPTER 9:Extracting knowledge value using document management systems. CHAPTER 10:Sustaining effective communities of practice. CHAPTER 11:Learning from external collaborations. Section V: Become more agile. By creating the conditions that help people adapt their knowledge and understanding to the constant turbulence in the outside world, the organization can become more responsive to new challenges. CHAPTER 12:Making more knowledgeable decisions. CHAPTER 13:Using social media for knowledge sharing. CHAPTER 14:Transforming relationships and structures in organizations. Section VI: Make change stick. By developing key knowledge-sharing behaviours and using effective communication approaches you show people why a knowledge approach matters and what they need to do themselves to contribute. CHAPTER 15:Developing knowledge-sharing behaviours and effective knowledge activists. CHAPTER 16:Moving from hard sell to compelling buy. CHAPTER 17:Improving the quality of conversations. CHAPTER 18:Taking account of national culture in designing knowledge initiatives. Index.
Planar inverted-F antenna design for W-CDMA

In this paper, a novel broadband planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) for application in the W-CDMA mobile terminal is presented. Computer-aided design (CAD) tools are employed to simulate the performance characteristics of PIFA, such as return loss, impedance match and frequency bandwidth. Finally, the experimental results show that the bandwidth is 250 MHz from 1.92 GHz/spl sim/2.17 GHz, VSWR<2.0 and the gain is about 4 dbi. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulation data.
Assessment of ALS-Inhibiting Herbicides Tolerance in Pepper Cultivars

Selection of pepper (Capsicum sp.) cultivars tolerant to acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides {imazethapyr, 2-[4,5-dihydro-4-methyl-4-(1-methylethyl)-5-oxo-1H-imidazol-2-yl]-5-ethyl-3=pyridine-carboxylic acid, and primisulfuron methyl 2-[[[[[4,6-bis(difluoromethoxy)-2-pyrimidinyl]amino] carbonyl]amino]sulfonyl]benzoate} was investigated. Pepper cultivars such as Red Top, Happy Dry, Golden Tower, and Hagyeorae showed relatively tolerant response to imazethapyr, while cultivars; Korea, Cheongyang, Oriental Glory, and Hanam were susceptible. Red Horn, Jopoong, Kwangbok, and Wangcho cultivars were tolerant to primisulfuron whereas Korea, Dahhong, Chamjoah, and Poongchon cultivars were susceptible. Determination of growth inhibition by ALS-inhibiting herbicides showed that the estimates of growth from the susceptible- and tolerant-cultivars were 0.075 and 0.20kg ai/ha for imazethapyr; 0.06 and 0.16kg ai/ha for primisulfuron, respectively. Furthermore, the estimates of growth from the susceptible and tolerant cultivars were 0.05 and 0.20kg ai/ha for imazethapyr; 0.07 and 0.16kg ai/ha for primisulfuron, respectively. This result, based on the and values, indicates that responses of pepper to ALS-inhibiting herbicides between tolerant- and susceptible-cultivars were different about 3- to 4-fold to imazethapyr, and 2- to 3-fold to primisulfuron.
Handbook of innovation in the food and drink industry

Introduction, R. Rama Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Food and Beverage Industry, R. Rama and N. von Tunzelmann Nature and Determinants of Product Innovation in a Competitive Environment of Changing Vertical Relationships, G. Galizzi and L. Venturini Productivity and Innovation in the U.S. Food Processing Sector, P.C. Geylani, G.K. Pompelli, and S.E. Stefanou) Managing Knowledge for Product Innovation, K. Tollin The Interaction of Public and Private Incentives in Promoting Food Safety Innovation in the U.S. Meat Industry, J.A. Caswell, T. Roberts, E. Golan, and E. Salay Innovation, ISO Certification and Quality Normalization in the Food Industry, N. Lopez, J.M. Montes, and C. Vazquez Biotech Innovation in Europe's Food and Drink Processing Industry: Promise, Barriers and Exploitation, J. Senker and V. Mangematin Evolution of the Global Lysine Industry, 1960-2000, J.M. Connor Organisational and Technological Changes in French Agribusiness: Forms and Determinants, D. Galliano and P. Roux Knowledge-Sourcing for Product Innovation in the Food and Drinks Industry, J. Lindgaard Christensen Vision, Innovation and Identity: The Transformation of a Wine Cluster in the Niagara Peninsula, L.K. Mytelka and H. Goertzen Technological Innovation in the Brazilian Food and Beverage Industry, J. Ednilson de Oliveira Cabral and R. Rama Appendix Index Reference Notes Included
Force control of a fluidic muscle driven parallel platform

In this paper a new method for the force control of a parallel platform consisting of six fluidic‐muscles of type RRPS is presented. Fluidic muscles require that the gas model as well as the rubber nonlinearities are included in the control scheme. Moreover, the control law for the gas flow in the proportional directional control valve in 3/3‐way function needs to be taken into account. The present paper describes the basic dynamic models as well as testbed results for the existing fluidic‐muscle parallel platform “HexaSpine” [3]. Here each leg is equipped with a force sensor, a pressure sensor and a magnetostrictive position encoder. The control scheme for the platform comprises six control loops for the six operated actuators with a model based force control each. It is shown that the aforementioned control scheme leads to a stable force control of the platform driven by fluidic muscles. As an application, the device will be employed in fields of biomechanics, as well as in general environments requiring physical simulation. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Optimizing Multireservoir Operation: Hybrid of Bat Algorithm and Differential Evolution

AbstractThis paper introduces an improved bat algorithm (IBA) with a hybrid mutation strategy to improve its global search ability. In an effort to guide the evolution and reinforce the convergence efficiently, the spatial characteristics of the social and cognitive experience of each bat in the population with the differential evolution (DE) algorithm were developed. More specifically, it has been employed in original bat algorithm (BA) six DE mutation mechanisms, namely the explorative and the exploitative mutation operators. The mutation plays an important role to avoid trapping in a local optimal solution, to ensure the search efficiency of a near global optimal solution, and to increase diversity of population. Also, five unimodal and multimodal benchmark functions were used to test the performance of IBA. The results show that the new bat algorithm performs better than the original bat algorithms for each of the test functions. In addition, IBA could keep the diversity of bats and have a better glob.
Price Elasticity of Sectoral Lending in Nepal

During 2015 to 2019, there was a significant upsurge observed in the lending rate in Nepalese credit market. Interestingly, the lending amount also went up significantly in this period showing an anomalous relationship between lending and lending rate. This paper is an attempt to analyse this observed anomaly. We have estimated and examined the degree of elasticity of sectoral lending with lending rate in Nepalese context undertaking panel regression analysis covering all 28 commercial banks in operation in Nepal till mid-July 2019.The results show a positive and inelastic relationship to exist between sectoral lending and lending rate during the study period despite decreasing Herfindahl-Hirschman index in the same period, which means that level of competition is increasing in Nepalese banking industry. Our scenario analysis indicates syphoning of funds, and the changed role of bankers as major causes for this anomalous relationship.
A Randomised Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Administration of the Health Improvement Card as a Health Promotion Tool: A Physiotherapist-Led Community-Based Initiative

A randomised controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the administration of the Health Improvement Card (HIC) on lifestyle practices and biometric variables in community-dwelling Chinese participants. Adults living in Shanghai were randomly assigned to either the HIC-intervention or control group. Measurements/assessments were conducted at baseline and three-month follow-up. Supervised physiotherapy students administered the HIC and four standardised questionnaires related to health and wellbeing. Both groups received a health promotion education pamphlet. Based on participants’ HIC biometric and lifestyle scores, students prescribed lifestyle, and exercise advice to the HIC-intervention group. 171 individuals (39 men, 132 women) (mean age 68.4 ± 9.7 y) participated. At follow-up, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference decreased significantly in the HIC-intervention group. Furthermore, the number of participants in the HIC-intervention group categorised as low risk regarding their physical activity and dietary practices, increased by 32.2% and 20%, respectively. Changes in standardised questionnaire scores did not meet minimum clinically importance differences in either group. This is the first study to demonstrate that HIC-informed health promotion education can improve people’s lifestyle practices, thereby, objective biometric variables. Evaluation of the effect of HIC-informed lifestyle education on some biometric parameters (blood pressure and BMI) may warrant a longer timeframe.
Leaving Science : Occupational Exit from Scientific Careers

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An assessment of sugarcane yield monitoring concepts and techniques from commercial yield monitoring systems

A number of attempts have been made to monitor cane yield variation across a block in Australia. These have ranged from the early yield monitoring systems based on discrete mass measurement, to the current focus of predicting yield via surrogate measurements based on chopper pressure, feed train roller displacement and elevator power. Recent work aimed at assessing commercially available sensors (Jensen et al. 2010) suggested that there were several areas in which there was room for marked improvement. Rather than testing commercially available sensors, this paper details the testing that was conducted on evaluating the measurement concept. These concepts included; the pressure drop across the elevator and chopper motors, a load cell in the elevator floor and the angle of opening of the top feed roller. These concepts cover those being employed in the commercial units, both past and present. Trials were conducted during the 2010 season in the Bundaberg region and in both the Bundaberg and Herbert regions in 2011. Campbell Scientific CR3000 dataloggers were used to read each of the sensors at 40 Hz and record the averaged value every second, along with the GPS information. In addition to this sensor data, sugarcane yield was also measured to determine the accuracy and resolution of the respective yield monitoring concepts. Yield was determined using two methods and included mill (bin) weight data for individually consigned sub-blocks and weighed 50 m row samples into a weigh truck. The approach used was consistent with the methodology previously developed to assess the accuracy of commercial yield monitoring equipment during 2008/09. Preliminary analysis indicates that there are considerable similarities between the yield monitoring concepts in terms of their ability to measure yield, and that how the sensor data is recorded and managed is critical to the accuracy and overall performance of these concepts as yield monitors. This paper reports on the findings of this work and makes recommendations for further refining the devices and for additional work.
High fidelity hardware-in-the-loop simulation development for an autonomous underwater vehicle

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have many, scientific, military, and commercial applications because of their potential capabilities and significant cost-performance improvements. Typical AUV development requires critical system design and many costly at-sea trials during which systems specifications can be validated. Modeling and simulation provides a cost-effective method for carrying out preliminary component or system (hardware and software) testing and verification. Due to the complexity of most AUV development and their tight schedules, the simulated systems often differ considerably from the actual embedded architecture, thereby reducing the fidelity of the entire simulation. We adopted a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation approach that includes some level of the system's hardware and software. As expected, an HIL simulation requires all components be run under hard real-time constraint. The paper presents our implementation and considerations on HIL simulation for single and multiple vehicles. A brief mention of sensor and environment modeling is also provided.
Triple Therapy With Budesonide/glycopyrrolate/formoterol Fumarate Used in Asthmatic Coexisting With Covid-19

Background: Awareness of the association between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and airway diseases can effectively help in the treatment during the coronavirus pandemic. Case presentation: Herein, we present a COVID-19 case who confirmed to coexist with asthma. BGF was used as sequential medicine to systemic glucocorticoidsfor his persisted symptoms related to bronchospasms.Conclusion: Our case suggests patients with long-term airway diseases like asthma probably attribute to COVID-19 instead of primary diseases, which make it more difficult in the treatment.BGF is able to be an effective and convenient choiceas sequential medicine to systemic glucocorticoidsin some refractoryasthmatic patients complicated with COVID-19.