Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Principal’s Participatory Leadership and School’s Culture on Teacher’s Job Satisfaction

This study aims to determine whether there is an influence between the principal’s participatory leadership and school culture on the job satisfaction of teachers of SMA Negeri in Prabumulih Timur District. The population of this study were teachers at State Senior High Schools in East Prabumulih District, namely State Senior High School 3 and State Senior High School 7 Prabumulih, totaling 167 teachers and the research sample was taken using the Slovin formula as many as 96 teachers. This type of research uses quantitative research with correlation and quantitative descriptive research methods, while the sampling is done by random sampling. the research instrument uses a questionnaire or questionnaire that has been tested for validity and tested for reliability. The results of the research hypothesis using the regression test, namely simple linear regression and multiple linear regression using SPSS indicate that there is a significant influence between the principal’s participatory leadership on teacher job satisfaction, school culture on teacher job satisfaction in SMA Neger in Prabumulih Timur District with a significant value of p <0 . 05, namely 0.000, it can be concluded if the alternative hypothesis is accepted. Then between the principal’s participatory leadership and school culture on the job satisfaction of public high school teachers in East Prabumulih District is at a level of p <0.05 which is equal to 0.000, so the alternative hypothesis is accepted which means that there is a significant influence simultaneously between the principal’s participatory leadership and culture schools on the job satisfaction of public high school teachers in East Prabumulih District.
Utilisation of small grain cereals and their contribution to the protein and energy intakes of Children aged 6-59 months in Yathui Division, Machakos District, Kenya.

A cross sectional study which was descriptive in nature was carried out during the month of September, 2004 among households with children aged 6-59 months in Kiunduani and Itumbule sub-locations of Kibauni location, Yaihui division, Machakos district. The main objective of the study was to determine the factors associated with production and utilization of small grain cereals and their contribution to the protein and energy dietary intakes of children aged 6 to 59 months. The principal tool of investigation was a structured questionnaire that was administered to mothers or children care takers. Methods used were anthropometric measurements and dietary intake recall. Purposive sampling was done at District and Division levels whereas simple random sampling was done at location and sub-location levels. Systematic sampling was done at household level giving a sample size of 260 households. The inclusion criteria was a child aged between 6-59 months. In households with more than one child at this age category, only one child was picked randomly as the index child. A sub sample of 36 households was randomly selected for the 24-hour dietary recall. Data was collected with the assistance of five field assistants. The SPSS computer package was used for data entry and analysis. Nutritional status indices such as weight-for-age, height-for-age and weight-forheighl were computed using the Epi-info program.
Phenology and wasp population dynamics of several species of dioecious fig in a lowland tropical rain forest in Sarawak, malaysia

The phenology of several dioecious figs and the population dynamics of their pollinating and non pollinating wasps were studied, with respect to climatic variability and sexual specialisation, at Lambie Hills National Park, Sarawak ( 4° 20' N, 113° 50' E, 150 250 m above sea level), over a four year period from October 1994. Figs and their pollinating wasps have evolved a unique seed predator/pollinator interaction, in which the fig wasps in return for pollination services raise their offspring in the fig inflorescence. In dioecious species different plants specialise in seed production or in pollinator wasp and pollen production, the female and male roles respectively. The high specificity of the fi_g fig wasp interaction and the short adult life-span of pollinators tightly couples the production of fig inflorescences to the population dynamics of their pollinators, making this system an ideal subject for investigating the impact of climatic variability on plant animal interactions. Wide variation in phenological strategies was demonstrated in the three main species studied. Leaf production increase following periods of drought, although all three species, and especially Ficus cereicarpa, produced new leaf continuously. However, in F. cereicarpa and F. schwarzii, both cauliflorous species, leaf production was not correlated to the production of inflorescences. By contrast, F. fulva flushed both new leaf and inflorescences simultaneously on the same young twigs. There was no sexual specialisation in leaf production. Differences between species in reproductive phenology were more pronounced. All showed increased production of inflorescences following droughts, however, F. cereicarpa produced inflorescences asynchronously
CRIMP: Compact & Reliable DNN Inference on In-Memory Processing via Crossbar-Aligned Compression and Non-ideality Adaptation

Crossbar-based In-Memory Processing (IMP) accelerators have been widely adopted to achieve high-speed and low-power computing, especially for deep neural network (DNN) models with numerous weights and high computational complexity. However, the floating-point (FP) arithmetic is not compatible with crossbar architectures. Also, redundant weights of current DNN models occupy too many crossbars, limiting the efficiency of crossbar accelerators. Meanwhile, due to the inherent non-ideal behavior of crossbar devices, like write variations, pre-trained DNN models suffer from accuracy degradation when it is deployed on a crossbar-based IMP accelerator for inference. Although some approaches are proposed to address these issues, they often fail to consider the interaction among these issues, and introduce significant hardware overhead for solving each issue. To deploy complex models on IMP accelerators, we should compact the model and mitigate the influence of device non-ideal behaviors without introducing significant overhead from each technique. In this paper, we first propose to reuse bit-shift units in crossbars for approximately multiplying scaling factors in our quantization scheme to avoid using FP processors. Second, we propose to apply kernel-group pruning and crossbar pruning to eliminate the hardware units for data aligning. We also design a zerorize-recover training process for our pruning method to achieve higher accuracy. Third, we adopt the runtime-aware non-ideality adaptation with a self-compensation scheme to relieve the impact of non-ideality by exploiting the feature of crossbars. Finally, we integrate these three optimization procedures into one training process to form a comprehensive learning framework for co-optimization, which can achieve higher accuracy. The experimental results indicate that our comprehensive learning framework can obtain significant improvements over the original model when inferring on the crossbar-based IMP accelerator, with an average reduction of computing power and computing area by 100.02× and 17.37×, respectively. Furthermore, we can obtain totally integer-only, pruned, and reliable VGG-16 and ResNet-56 models for the Cifar-10 dataset on IMP accelerators, with accuracy drops of only 2.19% and 1.26%, respectively, without any hardware overhead.
Oxygen Isotope and Ionic Concentrations in Glacier River Water: Multi-Year Observations in the Austre Okstindbreen Basin, Norway

Austre Okstindbreen, the largest glacier of the Okstindan area, Norway, covers about 14 km2 within a drainage basin of 22.5 km 2 . Each year, about one third of the discharge of the glacier river results from snowmelt outside the glacier margins. Snow melting on the glacier contributes about twice as much water to the river as does glacier ice. Early in the melt season, the glacier river is supplied almost entirely by snow meltwater. Na + ion concentrations in the snow are much higher than those of Ca 2+ ; percolation of meltwater from the surface results in chemical changes. Water entering the body of the glacier from the melting snow cover is relatively depleted of 18 O, whilst the residual snow is more enriched. As the ablation season proceeds and the transient equilibrium line rises up-glacier, an increasing amount of ice meltwater is mixed with snow meltwater, diluting the overall concentration of ions in the river. Ice meltwater is 18 O-rich, and the δ 18 O value of glacier river water rises at times of high ice ablation. Water which percolates through the snow cover above the transient equilibrium line during the melt season may maintain river discharge in late summer. Mean concentrations of the principal cations in the river water vary between years; after winters with above-average snow accumulation, Na + values tend to be high. Ca 2+ concentrations are determined largely by subglacial conditions.
Mechanistic partitioning of species richness in diverse tropical forest tree communities with immigration and temporal environmental stochasticity

Hyperdiverse tropical forest tree communities illustrate a fundamental problem in ecology: How can many species coexist given relatively few limiting resources? Neutral theory provides a solution by positing that species have equal fitness and hence drift to extinction slowly. However, neutral theory seriously under‐predicts temporal changes in species abundances. This can be remedied by breaking neutrality and adding temporal environmental stochasticity (TES), but the mechanisms mediating the effects of TES on species richness remain unclear. Here, we make progress by analysing a local community model with species competing for a common resource under TES, to derive formulae partitioning species richness according to different mechanisms. By applying our formulae to generic parameter sets for tropical forest tree communities, we found that when the autocorrelation time of TES was short, the dominant mechanism driving species richness was non‐linear averaging of the interspecific competition term over time, which reduced the typical strength of interspecific competition and boosted richness relative to the neutral case. However, greater immigration to the community resulted in more species and hence weaker non‐linear averaging due to the law of large numbers. In contrast, when the autocorrelation time of TES was long, the dominant mechanism driving species richness was strong selection between changes in environmental conditions, which increased the typical strength of interspecific competition and reduced richness relative to the neutral case. By applying our formulae to a specific parameter set for a tropical forest tree community in Panama, we found that TES had minor effects on species richness because (i) the immigration rate was sufficiently large for non‐linear averaging of the interspecific competition term to be weak and (ii) the autocorrelation time was sufficiently short to suppress the effects of selection. Synthesis. We provide a novel mechanistic explanation of how TES affects tree species richness in tropical forests, in particular how TES often has minor effects on richness despite having substantial effects on temporal changes in species abundances. This provides a deeper insight into why a neutral model with added TES can accurately capture static and dynamic aspects of tree community diversity in the tropics.
Improving Doctoral Educator Development: A Scaffolding Approach

In response to a need for improved training of business school teaching, this research explores US doctoral programs in management and finds a need to purposefully embed scaffolding—the process of gradually enabling the doctoral student to take on more challenging aspects of teaching—into doctoral program design. We also recommend a more influential role to be played by professional organizations to address doctoral educator development. As we followed a grounded theory approach, our methodology started with an analysis of program marketing documents and materials followed by behavioral event interviews (BEIs) and perceptual interviews (PIs) with doctoral students in management. Following coding, we reviewed the literature on doctoral education to explore how our emergent data mapped against prior research. By also taking into consideration the lived experience of students, the study data provides evidence that doctoral programs are not properly designed to support educator development. We discuss our findings related to what programs do to support students and what students do to support themselves. Theorizing from our data, we present our model that illustrates how programs could embed scaffolding to support programs’ commitment to develop future educators.
Production of Functional Karish Cheese Fortified with Vitamin D3 in Nanoemulsion

: Karish Cheese is one of the most Egyptian low fat dairy products consumed. The deficiency of vitamin D is a major global public health problem especially in Middle East. The aim of this research is to develop fortification methods to improve the vitamin retention and Karish cheese properties. VD 3 nanoemulsion was formulated using maltodextrin (MD) and modified starch (MS) to achieve a fortification level 600 IU/100g of VD 3 in cheese. The vitamin was added to cheese with two different addition methods either direct in skim milk after heat treatment or by spraying into the scooped curd before the whey draining. Four treatments were made to investigate the effect of the fortification methods on vitamin retention and the properties of cheese. T1 and T2 were the treatments of cheese fortified with nanoemulsion with two addition methods direct and spraying respectively. T3 and T4 represent the treatments of cheese fortified with VD 3 emulsion under the same two methods. However, the most of VD 3 was lost for T1, T3 and T4 in the drained whey. Treatment T2 has a significant ( P < 0.05) difference exposed in vitamin retention by 87 % in comparison with T1, T3 and T4 which retain only 33.3, 6.66 and 40.25 % respectively. Slight changes were observed in pH and titratable acidity and no changes were reported in fat and salt contents. Moisture content of T1 was about 1.3 - 2.3% higher than other treatments and control in zero time and was achieved 1.9-2.9% after 28 days. T1 was significantly ( P < 0.05) lower in protein and ash contents than control and other treatments. There were no differences between the sensory properties of T2, T4 and control. The lowest score of sensory properties was observed for T1 and T3. Karish cheese fortified by spraying with VD 3 nanoemulsion could be a suitable strategy for production of functional free fat Karish cheese for those suffering from vitamin D deficiency.
Distribution and 13C Signature of Dicarboxylic Acids and Related Compounds in Fine Aerosols Near Underground Coal Fires in North China: Implications for Fossil Origin of Azelaic Acid

To understand the characteristics of chemical components and dicarboxylic acids, oxocarboxylic acids and α‐dicarbonyls in atmospheric aerosols at underground coal fire environment, we collected fine aerosols (PM2.5) from Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, North China, where the underground coal fire often occurs. PM2.5 samples were analyzed for the measurements of carbonaceous components, stable carbon isotopic composition (δ13C) of total carbon, and molecular distribution and compound‐specific δ13C of diacids, oxoacids and α‐dicarbonyls. Oxalic acid (C2) was the most abundant species, accounting for 43.2%–63.1% (avg. 50.8%) of total diacids, followed by phthalic acid (Ph) (13.7%). Azelaic acid (C9) was the third most (7.4%) abundant, followed by succinic (C4) and malonic (C3) acids. Significant correlations of C2 diacid with glyoxylic (ωC2) and 3‐oxopropanoic (ωC3) acids and C3 diacid and their δ13C implied that diacids and related compounds were mainly derived from the underground coal fire emissions and subsequent in situ secondary formation. Based on molecular distribution, seasonal pattern and linear relations of C9 diacid with C2, C3, ωC2 and ωC3 as well as with Ph acid and total diacids, together with the comparability and similarity of its δ13C (−27.0 ± 0.9‰) with that of Ph acid and organic matter in coals, respectively, we found that the C9 diacid has been mainly derived from its precursors such as unsaturated fatty acids emitted from underground coal fires and their subsequent in situ photochemical oxidation. However, further research is needed to confirm such an importance of coal combustion for azelaic acid loading in atmospheric aerosols.
Interaction of Vitamin D and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α can modulate the Outcomes of ICSI

Objective: To investigate the relation between vitamin D sufficiency (VDS) levels and outcomes of ICSI for infertile women. Materials and Methods: 104 infertile women were clinically evaluated and given blood samples for estimation of serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and 25-Hydroxy VD (25-OHVD) and were categorized according to VDS levels. All women underwent frozen embryo transfer after controlled ovarian stimulation. The chemical (CPR) and clinical pregnancy rates (CLPR), the early pregnancy loss (EPL), and the successful pregnancy rate (SPR) were evaluated concerning the estimated levels of 25-OHVD and TNF-α. Results: The CPR was 53.8% and was higher among VD deficient (VDD) women. The CLPR was 36.5% and showed an insignificant difference according to VDS status. The EPR was 20.2%, while the SPR was 16.3% and was significantly higher in VDS than in VDD women. There was a negative significant correlation between serum levels of 25-OHVD and TNF-α. The CPR and CLPR showed negative significant correlations with serum TNF-α levels. The SPR showed positive and negative significant correlations with serum levels of 25-OHVD and TNF-α, respectively. Conclusion : VD might improve ICSI outcomes through its modulatory action on the systemic inflammatory milieu. Pro-inflammatory cytokines had deleterious effects on ICSI outcomes and the balance between pre-and anti-inflammatory cytokines must be corrected before committing ART procedures.
Somatosensory and auditory change detection system in humans

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Study and evaluation of a frequential multiplexing based on OFDM/OQAM

Cette these est consacree a l’etude de la modulation OFDM/OQAM en tant qu’alternative a la modulation OFDM. Nous traitons plus particulierement le contexte multiusagers. De ce point de vue, les aspects de synchronisation sont determinants. Les differentes options plus le choix de la forme d’onde sont donc examines de ce point de vue. Un autre objectif est de montrer de maniere precise comment la modulation OFDM/OQAM peut s’adapter a une transmission de type cellulaire, en prenant comme reference le systeme 3GPP/LTE. Les principales contributions que nous avons apportees sont : 1) Une analyse des phenomenes de desynchronisation : nous analysons l’effet de la desynchronisation, suivant les axes temporel et frequentiel, sur les performances de l’OFDM/OQAM au recepteur. 2) Methode de synchronisation : nous analysons une methode de synchronisation temporelle definie dans un contexte de transmission OFDM/OQAM mono-usager et nous l’adaptons a un scenario de type multi-usagers. 3) Proposition d’un schema d’acces multiple : nous proposons un schema d’acces multiple base sur la modulation OFDM/OQAM, alternatif aux techniques connues OFDMA et SC-FDMA, pour la transmission en liaison montante dans un contexte de type 3GPP/LTE.
A Tracer Study of the Graduates of Education Graduate Programs 2018-2022 of the University of Negros Occidental- Recoletos Graduate School

This explanatory sequential inquiry determined the contribution of graduate education to the development of skills, the satisfaction with the delivery of the graduate school program and services, and the practice of graduate attributes of the graduates of education graduate programs of the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos Graduate School. Likewise, it explored deeper insights on the quantitative data to generate a broader perspective on the graduates’ experiences on the contributions of the graduate school to the development of their skills, satisfaction with the delivery of programs and services, and graduate attribute practice. The participants were the graduates of education graduate programs during 2018-2022 and determined using purposive sampling. In data gathering, survey questionnaire and semi-structured in-depth interview were employed. In analyzing the data, mean and standard deviation were utilized in the quantitative analysis while Lichtman’s (2013) 3C’s were used in the qualitative data. The data revealed a very great extent of the contribution of graduate studies, extremely satisfied with the delivery, and a very great extent of graduate attribute practice. Meanwhile, the qualitative data presented salient findings. The graduate education experiences provide the development of their competencies, knowledge, skills, and attributes, which leads to better opportunities in their profession. Also, their satisfaction develops their attributes of humility, Christian values, integrity, love, and the quest for excellence, thus forming values essential to the practice of profession and life in general. Moreover, this study validated that tracer studies could assist the graduate school in complying with the accreditation and quality assurance measure requirements for a quality management system. Furthermore, the satisfaction of graduates encourages continual improvement towards engaging the alumni in open, mutually beneficial ways and spreading knowledge to uplift others and positively use their influence to impact the community, the country, and the world.