Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction and Teacher Well-Being in the K-12 Educational System

Teacher job satisfaction and well-being have a significant impact on educational outcomes, considering that teaching is the main objective of the educational process. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between teacher job satisfaction and four main categories of determinants: self-efficacy, relational aspects (colleague collaboration, student behavior, school management), work-related aspects (administrative workload, teaching tasks), and working conditions, in order to identify various implications for teachers’ well-being. The study employs a survey delivered to 658 K-12 (pre-university) teachers, from the North-West region of Romania. We used factorial analysis and a structural equation model to test eight proposed hypotheses. The results showed that self-efficacy, promotion, positive student behavior, and working conditions have significant effects on job satisfaction. These factors influence job satisfaction and well-being in the teaching profession because they ensure a positive work environment in which teachers and students thrive, thus leading to higher levels of involvement from teachers, students, and parents alike. An efficient work environment decreases attrition, burnout, emotional exhaustion, and teacher turnover, while increasing job satisfaction, well-being, and teacher retention.
Urban Travel Route and Activity Choice Survey

This paper presents the results of an Internet-based prompted-recall activity travel survey using Global Positioning System (GPS) data collection combined with a short activity preplanning and scheduling survey. In addition to collecting traditional activity travel diary data, this survey collects basic information about activity planning and scheduling processes. Because aging is a growing concern among transportation planners, this survey has a special focus on the elderly population with about half of the survey sample consisting of elderly households. Respondents carried a portable GPS device for 14 consecutive days and at the end of each day uploaded the collected data to a website where the activity travel survey questionnaires were answered. Results indicate that the quality of the data collected is superior to other survey approaches and that the response rates are satisfactory considering the time commitment involved in participation. The results reinforce previous findings that GPS surveys have an improved ability to capture trips that are frequently underreported and provide valuable data about the activity planning and scheduling process itself. Respondents' feedback on their participation experience and fatigue and conditioning analysis reveal that this type of survey has great potential for data collections that last longer than 2 weeks.
Acupuncture’s neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic basis

: Ever since acupuncture’s tenets were first delineated in the Huangdi Neijing (Neijing) treatise ~200 BCE, theorists and researchers have sought to define the anatomic and physiologic bases for acupuncture’s beneficial clinical effects in treating pain and non-pain medical conditions. In the last century, technical advances in both the basic biomedical sciences (including anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology, electrophysiology, and radiology) and also clinical research methodologies have led to publication of an extensive body of basic science and clinical research publications on the topics of acupuncture anatomy, physiology, and clinical effects. This body of literature demonstrates that the beneficial clinical effects of acupuncture derive from the activation of peripheral nerves by needling, with resulting secondary modulatory effects on the peripheral nervous system, the central nervous system (CNS) (including the limbic system), the autonomic nervous system, and the immunologic and endocrinologic systems. A neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic model of acupuncture’s mechanisms and effects is the only theory that can be reconciled with research findings of the efficacy of laser acupuncture and the positive randomized clinical trial results in studies that used non-penetrating or minimally penetrating “sham” needle control interventions, and this model is also consistent with anatomic and physiologic descriptions contained in the Neijing . This review article summarizes the anatomic, basic science, and clinical evidence that demonstrates acupuncture signaling and its myriad clinical benefits can be understood as arising from and transduced by neural mechanisms.
The metabolic landscape in chronic rotator cuff tear reveals tissue‐region‐specific signatures

Degeneration of shoulder muscle tissues often result in tearing, causing pain, disability and loss of independence. Differential muscle involvement patterns have been reported in tears of shoulder muscles, yet the molecules involved in this pathology are poorly understood. The spatial distribution of biomolecules across the affected tissue can be accurately obtained with matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI‐MSI). The goal of this pilot study was to decipher the metabolic landscape across shoulder muscle tissues and to identify signatures of degenerated muscles in chronic conditions.
Assessment of Work Performance of Maintenance Contractors in Saudi Arabia

In Saudi Arabia as well as in other countries, building owners often differ in their approach to evaluating the work performance of their maintenance contractors. To unify the approach for such evaluation, the intent of this paper is to assess the evaluation approaches used by a variety of building owners and then focus on the main criteria used for the evaluation. To achieve this objective, this study is divided into two phases. The first phase includes a review of literature on the main criteria that can be used to evaluate maintenance contracts, followed by interviews with building owners and maintenance contractors to modify and update the criteria obtained from this review. The result of this phase is grouped into eight major categories. Each category involves a detailed list of the criteria used for the evaluation. The main categories include providing proper planning and scheduling; procuring materials for the site; providing suggestions on cost cutting; providing safety precautions at the building.
How Deeply Does Media and Technology Usage Affect the Sustained Attention?

ABSTRACT Sustained attention, a fundamental function of attention, also plays an important role in determining the effectiveness of other aspects of attention, such as selective attention, divided attention, and general cognitive capacity. Effective recognition, learning, and memory cannot be achieved in a learning process that does not involve sustained attention. This study, therefore, aims to define the relationships between the sustained attention level of students in higher education and their media and technology usage behaviors. This study of 198 university students was designed using quantitative methodology. A computerized sustained attention test (~65 hours) and the media and technology usage scale were used as data collection tools. According to the findings, there is a significant relationship between sustained attention levels and playing multi-user games. With the data obtained from this research, it is aimed to create a roadmap based on learner characteristics in order to define user profiles and customize designs accordingly.
WORK EXPERIENCES OF CCTV SURVEILLANCE OPERATORS

The present research focused on the work experiences of CCTV operators. The rationale for this study was due to the fact that there has been a dearth of research regarding the ‘human element’ behind the actual operation of the CCTV surveillance system. Consequently, the aim of this study was to investigate the job design and characteristics of CCTV operators, and the factors perceived to influence job satisfaction and employee engagement. The design of this study was qualitative in nature and semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten CCTV operators who monitor cameras in shopping malls. The findings indicated that there are various activities that CCTV operators engage in, however, monitoring the cameras is the main activity. Other factors contributing to the operators’ job satisfaction and employee engagement was the relationships with supervisors, managers, co-workers and interactions with the public. In addition autonomy, fairness with regards to pay and hours, high workload, their own safety as well as the fact that their work has a significant impact on the lives of others were all found to add to their job satisfaction and employee engagement.
Factors Affecting Long-Term Efficiency of Compensation Grouting in Clays

Compensation grouting has been attracting attention in recent years to control ground settlement caused by underground construction. A successful and effective application of compensation grouting depends not only on the use of a good monitoring system in the field but also on a fundamental understanding of grout behavior in soils. For compensation grouting in clay, there is a need to consider the long-term effectiveness of compensation grouting. Grout injection tests were conducted in the laboratory to examine soil fracturing patterns and consolidation effects in relation to compensation grouting. Both compaction and hydrofracturing modes of grouting were tested on kaolin clay specimens with different overconsolidation ratios. Finite-element analysis was also conducted to simulate the balloon expansion tests ~ideal compaction grouting tests! and the results were compared with the data from the laboratory tests. Based on the research findings, new design criteria are proposed to improve the long-term efficiency of compensation grouting for clays.
Mechanisms for Air Pocket Entrapment in Stormwater Storage Tunnels

The behavior of stormwater systems can be greatly altered by the presence of air pockets within the pressurized portion of the flow. While rapid filling conditions in stormwater storage tunnels can result in air pocket entrapment, the mechanisms for this phenomenon have not been studied systematically to date. This paper summarizes an investigation conducted at the University of Michigan on an experimental setup that reproduces the essential features of a below grade storage tunnel. Various filling scenarios were tested in which the filling rate, initial water depth and ventilation configurations were varied. Different and previously unreported mechanisms for air pocket entrapment were identified. For the conditions investigated in the experiments, the formation of air pockets was relatively common.
Gut microbiome is associated with the clinical response to anti-PD-1 based immunotherapy in hepatobiliary cancers

Background The gut microbiome is associated with the response to immunotherapy for different cancers. However, the impact of the gut microbiome on hepatobiliary cancers receiving immunotherapy remains unknown. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the gut microbiome and the clinical response to anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) immunotherapy in patients with advanced hepatobiliary cancers. Methods Patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma or advanced biliary tract cancers who have progressed from first-line chemotherapy (gemcitabine plus cisplatin) were enrolled. Fresh stool samples were collected before and during anti-PD-1 treatment and analyzed with metagenomic sequencing. Significantly differentially enriched taxa and prognosis associated taxa were identified. The Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes database and MetaCyc database were further applied to annotate the differentially enriched taxa to explore the potential mechanism of the gut microbiome influencing cancer immunotherapy. Results In total, 65 patients with advanced hepatobiliary cancers receiving anti-PD-1 treatment were included in this study. Seventy-four taxa were significantly enriched in the clinical benefit response (CBR) group and 40 taxa were significantly enriched in the non-clinical benefit (NCB) group. Among these taxa, patients with higher abundance of Lachnospiraceae bacterium-GAM79 and Alistipes sp Marseille-P5997, which were significantly enriched in the CBR group, achieved longer progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) than patients with lower abundance. Higher abundance of Ruminococcus calidus and Erysipelotichaceae bacterium-GAM147 enriched in the CBR group was also observed in patients with better PFS. In contrast, worse PFS and OS were found in patients with higher abundance of Veillonellaceae, which was significantly enriched in the NCB group. Functional annotation indicated that the taxa enriched in the CBR group were associated with energy metabolism while the taxa enriched in the NCB group were associated with amino acid metabolism, which may modulate the clinical response to immunotherapy in hepatobiliary cancers. In addition, immunotherapy-related adverse events were affected by the gut microbiome diversity and relative abundance. Conclusions We demonstrate that the gut microbiome is associated with the clinical response to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in patients with hepatobiliary cancers. Taxonomic signatures enriched in responders are effective biomarkers to predict the clinical response and survival benefit of immunotherapy, which might provide a new therapeutic target to modulate the response to cancer immunotherapy.
Single particle dark current spikes induced in CCDs by high energy neutrons

This paper presents an analysis of dark signal nonuniformity induced in a charge coupled device (CCD) by 90 MeV neutrons. Random telegraph signal switching between multiple levels was seen for some dark current spikes. The probability distribution of the dark current spikes is shown to be pseudo-exponential and the distribution remains exponential during annealing, but with an increasing decay constant. Similar dark current spikes were also observed to be generated in an APS device exposed to high energy neutrons at the WNR facility.
A generalized computational approach to predict high-frequency acoustic pressure response of cavity structures for structural health monitoring of wind turbine blades

This paper details the development of a generalized computational approach that enables prediction of cavity-internal sound pressure distribution due to flow-generated noise at high frequencies. The outcomes of this research is of particular interest for development of an acoustics-based structural health monitoring system for wind turbine blades. The methodology builds from existing reduced-order aeroacoustic modeling techniques and ray tracing based geometrical acoustics and is demonstrated on the model NREL 5 MW wind turbine blade as a case study. The computational predictions demonstrated that damage could be successfully detected in the first half of the blade cavity near the root and that the change in frequency content may be indicative of the type of damage that has occurred. This study provides a foundation to analyze specific blades and likely damage cases for determining key factors of system design such as number and placement of sensors as well as for hardware selection.
Developing an ISO27001 Information Security Management System for an Educational Institute: Hashemite University as a Case Study

Information is becoming one of the most important assets for almost every organization. Information systems are essential for every organization to access its information. However, these systems need to be secure in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information. Information security comes as a magical solution for these requirements where a security audit of the system is developed to define and prioritize the risks that face information asset of the information system. So, risk assessment is applied to identify the risks and their impact on the system. Risk assessment is developed based on the vulnerability assessment, targeting specific information assets. Securing the information systems is the concern of the Information Security Management System ISMS adopted by the organization. Universities information systems are critical systems due to the rapid growth demand of students enrolling in universities in different programs, which will pay a higher level of complexity of these information systems. In this paper, an evaluation of the information security level at the Jordanian universities has been developed by launching a case study targeting the Hashemite University (HU). The case study focuses on analyzing the risks that faces HU information systems from two different perspectives (organizational and technical risks) by applying vulnerabilities assessment and penetration testing, finally organized into a risk assessment plan. During the case study, an ISO/IEC 27001:2005 ISMS has been developed in order to eliminate the risks that face the HU information systems. The ISMS (Information Security Management System) provides the required policies and controls in order to minimize the identified risks and to facilitate examining and enhancing the information security experience of HU.
Bed morphology near a finite patch of vegetation under emergent and submerged conditions

*Ph. D. student Division of Field Engineering for Environment, Hokkaido University (North 13, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8628) ** Dr. of Eng. Associate Prof. Division of Field Engineering for Environment, Hokkaido University (North 13, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8628) *** Dr. of Eng. Prof. Division of Field Engineering for Environment, Hokkaido University (North 13, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8628)
Breast Cancer Cell Subtypes Display Different Metabolic Phenotypes That Correlate with Their Clinical Classification

Simple Summary Recent studies on cancer cell metabolism have achieved notable breakthroughs that have led to a new scientific paradigm. How cancer cell metabolic reprogramming is orchestrated and the decisive role of this reprogramming in the oncogenic process and tumor adaptative evolution has been characterized at the molecular level. Despite this knowledge, it is essential to understand how cancer cells can metabolically respond as a living whole to ensure their survival and adaptation potential. In this work, we investigated whether different cancers and different subtypes display different metabolic phenotypes with a focus on breast cancer cell models representative of each clinical subtype. The potential results might have significant translational implications for diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic applications. Abstract Metabolic reprogramming of cancer cells represents an orchestrated network of evolving molecular and functional adaptations during oncogenic progression. In particular, how metabolic reprogramming is orchestrated in breast cancer and its decisive role in the oncogenic process and tumor evolving adaptations are well consolidated at the molecular level. Nevertheless, potential correlations between functional metabolic features and breast cancer clinical classification still represent issues that have not been fully studied to date. Accordingly, we aimed to investigate whether breast cancer cell models representative of each clinical subtype might display different metabolic phenotypes that correlate with current clinical classifications. In the present work, functional metabolic profiling was performed for breast cancer cell models representative of each clinical subtype based on the combination of enzyme inhibitors for key metabolic pathways, and isotope-labeled tracing dynamic analysis. The results indicated the main metabolic phenotypes, so-called ‘metabophenotypes’, in terms of their dependency on glycolytic metabolism or their reliance on mitochondrial oxidative metabolism. The results showed that breast cancer cell subtypes display different metabophenotypes. Importantly, these metabophenotypes are clearly correlated with the current clinical classifications.
Factors influencing adoption of feed conservation technologies in smallholder dairy farms in Mathira East District of Nyeri County in Kenya

th June, 2013 The study was an assessment of the factors influencing the adoption of feed conservation technologies in smallholder dairy farms in Mathira East District of Nyeri County. The study adopted a cross sectional descriptive survey research design. The target population was the farmers in Mathira East District of Nyeri County. Due to a lack of a sampling frame, the population was assumed to be large and undefined. The sample size was 68 farmers arrived at using Israel formula and sampled using convenience stratified sampling technique. The study used a questionnaire and the data was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as means and frequencies. Inferential statistics such as logistic/odd ratio regression analysis, chi square-tests and Pearson correlation were also used. The findings indicated that the adoption of tube silage, silo and box baling technologies was low and that none of the technological factors influenced the adoption level of the three feed conservation technologies. Results revealed that various socioeconomic factors such as the level of education of respondents and the source of labour had a positive and significant relationship with the adoption of tube silage and silo technology. It was also found that farm size had a positive and significant relationship with adoption of tube silage technology and that the level of income had a positive and significant relationship with adoption of box baling technology. Results from odd ratio/ binary logistic regression revealed that the only information seeking behaviour that influenced the adoption of tube silage technology was information seeking from the internet. The odds of adoption if a respondent’s sought the information from internet was significantly higher than if a respondents did not seek information from internet. The study recommends that awareness and knowledge of feed conservation technologies be improved through practical demonstrations in a participatory manner because lack of knowledge acts as an impediment to the adoption of feed conservation technologies.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: Conservative Versus Surgical Treatment

The most frequent type of ligament injury is an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The mechanisms of an ACL injury are classified as direct contact, indirect contact, and non-contact. Physical examination for the assessment of the ACL is commonly used in routine care in the evaluation of the knee and is part of the diagnostic process. Due to the high degree of variability in their presentation and outcomes, treatment must be tailored according to factors such as patient demographics, the severity of the damage, and long-term improvement profile. When it comes to ACL injuries, low-quality data have been produced that reveals no difference in patient-reported knee function results between surgical ACL restoration and conservative therapy. However, these results must be evaluated in the perspective of the fact that many individuals with an ACL rupture remained symptomatic after rehabilitation and eventually underwent ACL reconstruction surgery. This article has reviewed the risk factors and the mechanisms that commonly lead to ACL injuries. This article has also discussed the clinical significance of conservative and surgical management and has highlighted the implications of both approaches.