Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mediation Role of Self-Efficacy Perceptions in the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence Levels and Social Entrepreneurship Traits of Pre-Service Teachers

The purpose of this research is to examine the motivator role of selfefficacy in relationship between pre-service teachers' emotional intelligence levels and social entrepreneurship characteristics. Relational model was used in this study. The participants of the research are 360 pre-service teachers in different programs from Kilis 7 Aralık University Muallim Rifat Faculty of Education. To collect data, "social entrepreneurship scale of pre-service teachers," "Self-efficacy scale" and "emotional intelligence scale" were used. To analyze data, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and the bootstrap method was used to determine motivator effect. As a result of analysis of the research data, statistically significant relationships with positive correlation were found between self-efficacy, emotional intelligence of pre-service teachers, and social entrepreneurial characteristics. In addition, self-efficacy perception was found to be a partial moderator role between social entrepreneurship characteristics and emotional intelligence level of pre-service teachers. Pre-service teachers understand their own and others' feelings and have the ability to manage. Thus, self-efficacy perceptions are influenced in a positive way, they trust more to their own knowledge, skills and abilities when it comes to a specific task. Therefore, the development of some entrepreneurial characteristics are positively affected towards a social problem to be solved voluntarily. Also emotional intelligence level of pre-service teachers and selfefficacy together explain 62% of the total variance of the characteristics of social entrepreneurship. In this context, in training teachers who are sensitive to social problems, and in an attempt to get sustainable innovative solutions, thereby creating social value, perceptions of self-efficacy and emotional intelligence are to important variables. Community service applications and rich experiences in social responsibility projects to improve emotional intelligence and self-efficacy perception of pre-service teacher are needed.
Gravity anomalies and segmentation at the East Coast, USA continental margin

SUMMARY The free-air gravity ‘edge effect’ anomaly at rifted continental margins has generally been attributed to the transition between thick continental and thin oceanic crust. While crustal thinning is a major contributor, recent studies suggest that sediment loading and magmatism may significantly modify the edge effect anomaly and cause it, at some margins, to be highly segmented along their strike. In this paper, we use a combined 3-D flexural backstripping and gravity anomaly modelling technique to determine the role that sediment loading has played in controlling the segmentation of Atlantic-type continental margins. We focus on the East Coast, USA since a substantial amount of high-quality seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, and magnetic data already exists for this margin. By calculating the gravity anomaly associated with rifting and sediment loading and iteratively comparing it to the observed free-air anomaly, we have determined the ‘best-fit’ elastic thickness, Te, structure of the margin. We show that 0 10 5 a) integrated strength of the lithosphere, these results imply that weak regions abut strong ones at the East Coast, USA margin. Te generally decreases with increase in the amounts of crustal thinning, β, and the flexed basement curvature, K, suggesting it is controlled, at least in part, by the mechanical structure of the pre-rift lithosphere and yielding due to flexural loading. However, there is considerable scatter, suggesting other factors such as along-strike changes in crustal composition. Irrespective, we show that an isostatic anomaly that takes into account the ‘best-fit’ Te distribution is significantly reduced in spectral power compared with one which is computed assuming only Airy compensation (i.e. Te = 0 km). This is not to imply that rifting and sediment loading completely accounts for the anomalies along-strike and across-strike the East Coast, USA margin. To the contrary, significant isostatic anomaly highs and lows persist, especially in inner and middle shelf regions. One of the most prominent is an arcuate, 670 km long, high with flanking lows offshore Carolina that we attribute to magmatism during the initial stages of continental break-up.
Cornea Hyaluronan Regulates Eyelid and Meibomian Gland Morphogenesis

Citation: Sun M, Puri S, Parfitt GJ, Mutoji N, Coulson-Thomas VJ. Hyaluronan regulates eyelid and Meibomian gland morphogenesis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2018;59:3713–3727. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.18-24292 PURPOSE. The Meibomian gland (MG) produces the lipid layer of the tear film, and changes to the MG that lead to a decrease or alteration in lipid quality/content may lead to MG dysfunction, a major cause of evaporative dry eye disease with prevalence ranging from 39% to 50%. Little is known about the developmental cues that regulate MG morphogenesis and homeostasis. Our study investigates the role of hyaluronan (HA), a major extracellular matrix component, in eyelid formation and MG development and function.
Proactive personality and training motivation among older workers: A mediational model of goal orientation

Purpose – This paper aims at examining the relationship between proactive personality and training motivation among older workers (aged over 55 years) in a context characterized by the growing ageing of the global population. First, the authors hypothesized that proactive personality predicts the motivation to learn among older workers and that this relationship is mediated by goal orientation. In particular, the authors hypothesized that learning goal orientation may mediate the relationship between proactive personality and learning motivation. Design/methodology/approach – The employees of an Italian bank completed an online questionnaire. AMOS 17 was used to carry out confirmatory factor analysis, and the SPSS macro was used to test the meditational model. Findings – The results confirmed both the hypotheses, demonstrating the influence of proactive personality on training motivation of older workers, as mediated by goal orientation and, in particular, by learning goal orientation. Practical implications – From an applicative point of view, this study may have implications for organizations that aim to increase the employability of older people by encouraging them to undertake more training. In particular, interventions aimed at increasing learning goal orientation could contribute in strengthening proactive personality that, in turn, may affect levels of training motivation. Originality/value – Even if proactive personality has already been found as a predictor of learning motivation, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the present study demonstrates that the relationship between proactive personality and training motivation is mediated by goal orientation among older workers.
Scour depths at sites selected for spawning by brown trout (Salmo trutta) along a longitudinal gradient of a North American mountain river

In the Intermountain West, USA, fry of fall‐spawning brown trout (Salmo trutta) are susceptible to scour‐related mortality because they are still in the gravel during spring snowmelt run‐off events. The goal of our research was to understand patterns of gravel scour on the Logan River, Utah, in relation to brown trout spawning and whether mobility of spawning gravels could explain the absence of brown trout from higher elevations. We collected data to characterize local entrainment potential at spawning gravels longitudinally on the Logan River during 2009 and 2010 spring flood events. We used scour chains to measure scour depth at spawning locations, and we also examined the position of redds in channel cross sections in relation to the centre line. The flood magnitude in both years approximated the 2‐year flood magnitude, but the flood in 2009 was much longer in duration. Scour at 27% of scour chain locations exceeded the estimated median upper limit of developing fry in 2009, whereas scour at 0% of locations exceeded this depth in 2010. Brown trout spawned in locations with similar entrainment potential at both mid and high elevations, which contributed to a lack of trend in scour depth with elevation. In addition, the majority of areas chosen for spawning were channel margins. The relationship between local entrainment potential at spawning gravels and scour depth was similar for the mid‐elevation canyon zone with medium brown trout density and the high‐elevation noncanyon zone with low brown trout density. In a low‐elevation backwater zone containing high densities of brown trout, scour was high despite low levels of entrainment potential. Overall, findings suggest that spawning gravel scour is not limiting brown trout abundance at high elevations in this system given shallow scour depths overall and a general lack of increase in scour depth with increasing elevation/distance upstream.
2 AN OVERVIEW OF ACTIVE FIRE DETECTION AND MONITORING USING METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES

Each year millions of acres of boreal and temperate forests and grasslands are consumed by wildfire resulting in loss of life and property with significant economic costs and environmental impacts. The 2000 fire season in the USA was the worst in nearly 50 years with over 8.4 million acres burned. The estimated cost of fire suppression alone was $1.3 billion. The cost of fire management and suppression is expected to increase, especially along the urban/wildland interface. Throughout the world, fire also serves as a tool in deforestation, land clearing, grassland management, pest control, and other agricultural applications. Current estimates suggest that globally over 85% of all fires occur in the equatorial and subtropical regions primarily in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia. Much of this activity is concentrated in developing countries where there are few resources to adequately document the extent of burning. Biomass burning associated with naturally occurring forest fires, deforestation and other human activities is a distinct biogeochemical process that plays an important role in terrestrial ecosystem processes and regional and global climate change. Fire is a major source of trace gases such as NO, CO2, CO, O3, NOx, N2O, NH3, SO2, CH3, and other nonmethane hydrocarbons. Preliminary global estimates indicate that biomass burning may be responsible for 38% of ozone in the troposphere, 32% of global carbon monoxide, 39% of the particulate organic carbon, and up to 40% of CO2. Fire is also a significant source of aerosols (Crutzen et al., 1985; Andreae et al., 1988; Crutzen and Andreae, 1990; Levine, 1991). Studies have shown that the direct and indirect radiative effects of aerosols from biomass burning are a major factor in climate change calculations (Penner et al., 1992). Nationally and within the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), countries will need to report on their greenhouse gas emissions including those from biomass burning (Justice and Korontzi, 2001). In many countries, remote sensing may be the only economically feasible way to track fire activity.
CORRELATION AND SEQUENTIAL PATH ANALYSIS BETWEEN YIELD AND RELATED CHARACTERS OF WHEAT ( TRITICUM AESTIVUM L . ) GENOTYPES IN NON-STRESSED AND SALINITY-STRESSED CONDITIONS

Study of interrelationships between grain yield and its contributing components can improve the efficiency of breeding programs through determining of appropriate selection criteria. The present research uses sequential path analysis to determine the interrelationships between grain yield and 16 related traits, by ordering the various variables in first, second and third order paths on the basis of their maximum directs model in discerning the actual effects of different predictor variables. Forty one genotypes of bread wheat were effects and minimal collinearity. The sequential path model has distinct advantages over the conventional path grown in two environments (non-stressed and salinity-stressed conditions) based on randomized complete block design with three replications. Electrical conductivity values of irrigation water were 2 and 10 dS.m -1 in nonstressed and salinity-stressed conditions, respectively. Correlation coefficient analysis showed that grain yield was positively correlated with all the traits except flag leaf length, chlorophyll content and days to heading in non-stressed environment. Grain yield was significantly correlated with all the traits except number of grain per spike, number of fertile tiller, number of spikelet per spike, inter-node weight and spike length in the salinity-stressed environment. Sequential path analysis in this research indicated that BY and HI traits as the first order variables in both environments and PH, NFT, NSP, SL, DH, CHL, SPS traits as second order variables can be used as selection criterion for improving of grain yield in wheat breeding programs.
Population density of the Blanford's fox Vulpes cana in Jordan

A survey of the Blanford’s fox was established in Jabal Masuda (Southern Jordan), to increase the knowledge of its density. Live-trapping method was used and capture mark-recapture technique was applied. We captured a total of 27 specimens including nine re-captured specimens. Density was determined using two methods: the Bondrup-Nielsen formula which identified 8.5 individuals per km², and the ArcGIS tools which showed values, between 0.177 to 9 individuals per km². This paper is the first to give measured information on the Blanford’s fox density in Jordan. As well, it showed that ArcGIS 9.3 Spatial Analyst Extension is an effective tool in establishing information on density in large spatial areas. The information provided could serve as a base for future monitoring of the Blanford’s fox’s range of occurrence.
The impact of the living mulch on plant growth and selected features of sweet corn yield.

The experiment was conducted in Garlica Murowana near Kraków in 1999 – 2001. Five living mulch treatments were investigated: white clover, mulch of white clover desiccated in mid July with Roundup, lucerne, mixture of living mulches of rye and clover, and rye, which were compared to two controls: the weeded and the twice – weeded. The living mulches were sown in the middle of April in 50 cm wide strips. Corn ‘Sweet Trophy F1’ was sown on 9 May in bare ground rows. The living mulches decreased the height of sweet corn plants. The effect of using mulches of rye and rye mixed with clover was highest, whereas that of clover lowest. In result of mulching morphological features of ear were worse: weight, length, diameter, kernel row number and ear feell. All mulches decreased marketable yield: clover by 21%, clover desiccated with herbicide by 26%, lucerne by 32%, mixture of rye with clover by 56%, and rye by 64% according to the control objects. Mulching with the mixture of rye and clover in comparison with clover alone caused deterioration of ear morphological features and yield lowering. Total sugars and starch content in kernels increased in the mulched objects. Elżbieta Jędrszczyk, Małgorzata Poniedziałek 4
Mesothelioma mortality in Britain: Patterns by birth cohort and occupation

METHODS Data were taken from the HSE's mesothelioma register, which has records of all death certificates in Great Britain since 1968 on which mesothelioma was recorded. Death rates by age and birth cohort were modelled by Poisson regression. Occupational effects were assessed by calculating proportional mortality ratios, based on the occupations recorded on death certificates. The main cohort and occupational analyses reported here are based on data up to 1991. The data for 1992-1994 have recently been released and the final set of figures compares the observed data for these three years with expected values based on projections of the age-cohort model fitted to the date up to 1991.
A CONSTANT LIMITING MASS SCALE FOR FLAT EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES FROM z ∼ 1 TO z = 0: DENSITY EVOLVES BUT SHAPES DO NOT

We measure the evolution in the intrinsic shape distribution of early-type galaxies from z ∼ 1 to z ∼ 0 by analyzing their projected axis-ratio distributions. We extract a low-redshift sample (0.04 < z < 0.08) of early-type galaxies with very low star formation rates from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, based on a color–color selection scheme and verified through the absence of emission lines in the spectra. The inferred intrinsic shape distribution of these early-type galaxies is strongly mass dependent: the typical short-to-long intrinsic axis ratio of high-mass early-type galaxies (>1011 M☉) is 2:3, whereas at masses below 1011 M☉ this ratio narrows to 1:3, or more flattened galaxies. In an entirely analogous manner, we select a high-redshift sample (0.6 < z < 0.8) from two deep-field surveys with multi-wavelength and Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging: GEMS and COSMOS. We find a seemingly universal mass of ∼1011 M☉ for highly flattened early-type systems at all redshifts. This implies that the process that grows an early-type galaxy above this ceiling mass, irrespective of cosmic epoch, involves forming round systems. Using both parametric and non-parametric tests, we find no evolution in the projected axis-ratio distribution for galaxies with masses >3 × 1010 M☉ with redshift. At the same time, our samples imply an increase of 2–3× in comoving number density for early-type galaxies at masses >3 × 1010 M☉, in agreement with previous studies. Given the direct connection between the axis-ratio distribution and the underlying bulge-to-disk ratio distribution, our findings imply that the number density evolution of early-type galaxies is not exclusively driven by the emergence of either bulge- or disk-dominated galaxies, but rather by a balanced mix that depends only on the stellar mass of the galaxy. The challenge for galaxy formation models is to reproduce this overall non-evolving ratio of flattened to round early-type galaxies in the context of a continually growing population.
Retracted on December 2, 2020: On the Value of Look-Ahead in Competitive Online Convex Optimization

NOTICE OF RETRACTION: "On the Value of Look-Ahead in Competitive Online Convex Optimization," by Shi et al., ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, Article No. 22, has been retracted at the request of the authors because they found a critical mistake in the main result Theorem 3.1. https://dl.acm. org/doi/10.1145/3376930.3376952
The Impacts of Employee Empowerment on Innovation: A Survey on Isparta and Burdur Organized Industrial Zones

This study has analyzed, by examining the relationship between empowerment and innovativeness which are significant concepts for organizations, how empowerment efforts affect innovativeness, and how behavioural, psychological, and social and structural dimensions of empowerment affects innovativeness. As a result of these examinations, all the hypotheses which comprised our research have been accepted. In other words, it has been concluded that the behavioural, psychological, and social and structural empowerment efforts concerning the employees have a highly positive impact on innovativeness, and that the simultaneous application of behavioural, psychological, and social and structural empowerment has an impact of high degree on innovativeness.
Model predictive control of urban drainage systems: A review and perspective towards smart real-time water management

ABSTRACT Model predictive control (MPC) can be used to manage combined urban drainage systems more efficiently for protection of human health and the environment, but examples of operational implementations are rare. This paper reviews more than 30 years of partly heterogeneous research on the topic. We propose a terminology for MPC of urban drainage systems and a hierarchical categorization where we emphasize four overall components: the “receding horizon principle”, the “optimization model”, the “optimization solver”, and the “internal MPC model”. Most of the reported optimization models share the trait of a multiobjective optimization based on a conceptual internal MPC model. However, there is a large variety of both convex and non-linear optimization models and optimization solvers as well as constructions of the internal MPC model. Furthermore, literature disagrees about the optimal length of the components in the receding horizon principle. The large number of MPC formulations and evaluation approaches makes it problematic to compare different MPC methods. This review highlights methods, challenges, and research gaps in order to make MPC of urban drainage systems accessible for researchers and practitioners from different disciplines. This will pave the way for shared understanding and further development within the field, and eventually lead to more operational implementations.
Discrete Choice with Presentation Effects

Experimenters have to make theoretically irrelevant decisions concerning user interfaces and ordering or labeling of options. Such presentation decisions affect behavior and cause results to appear contradictory across experiments, obstructing utility estimation and policy recommendations. The present paper derives a model of choice allowing analysts to control for both presentation effects and stochastic errors in econometric analyses. I test the model in a comprehensive re-analysis of dictator game experiments. Controlling for presentation effects, preference estimates are consistent across experiments and predictive out-of-sample, highlighting the fundamental role of presentation for choice, and this notwithstanding the possibility of reliable estimation and prediction.
Diagnóstico Rápido de los Brotes de Dengue en Instalaciones con Recursos Limitados

Objective: Dengue is a re-emerging public health problem threatening the tropical developing world, mandating rapid diagnosis and supportive management in the absence of licensed vaccines or anti-dengue therapy. Regions endemic to dengue and related viruses are overwhelmed by the sudden surge of cases during outbreaks. It is difficult to justify confirmatory diagnosis of every case using The World Health Organization (WHO) criteria or differentiate it from other concurrent viral illnesses. The study evaluated a rapid, sensitive and specific diagnostic methodology suitable for dengue outbreaks in resource-limited facilities. Methods: There were one hundred dengue patients as per WHO Criteria, as well as 100 healthy controls from New Delhi, India, were included. Samples collected on the fifth day of onset of fever were tested by lateral flow immunochromatography (LF-ICT), IgM ELISA and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and results were compared. Diagnostic accuracy indices and Kappa analysis were calculated. Results: The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values (PPV and NPV) of non-structural protein 1 (NS1) against RT-PCR was 98.31%, 100%, 100%, 99.3% and strength of agreement was good. Conclusion: Antigen-based and molecular tests are a better tool for early diagnosis of dengue. The combined LF-ICT kits are highly sensitive, specific, user-friendly, compact, frugal and thus recommended for use in dengue outbreaks, field conditions and as bed-side diagnostic tests, for confirmatory dengue diagnosis. Further studies are required to assess their utility in prognosis, surveillance and establishment of guidelines for dengue outbreaks.