Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE INFLUENCE OF COLLEGIAL COMMUNICATIONS ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON NURSE PERFORMANCE THE REGIONAL PUBLIC HOSPITAL OF DR. SOEKARDJO, TASIKMALAYA

The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the influence of collegial communication on organizational commitment and the implications for the performance of nurses at the Regional General Hospital dr. Soekardjo City of Tasikmalaya. The method used in this research is a descriptive, explanatory method. The population in this study were nurses at the Regional General Hospital dr. Soekardjo Kota Tasikmalaya with a total of 271. The sampling technique used proportionate random sampling. The number of samples used in this study was 76 people. The results showed that collegial communication with nurses at RSUD Dr. Soekardjo City of Tasikmalaya is excellent. Organizational commitment to nurses at Dr. Soekardjo City of Tasikmalaya is in a relatively good category. The performance of nurses in Dr. Soekardjo Kota Tasikmalaya is in a suitable type. There is an influence of collegial communication on organizational commitment and its implications for nurses' understanding at Dr. Soekardjo City of Tasikmalaya. Thus, Dr. Soekardjo needed to improve internal communication, especially in the vertical communication between subordinates and superiors. Improvement can be in the form of conducting regular meetings (meetings).
Modeling and validation of lithium-ion battery with initial state of charge estimation

The modeling of lithium-ion battery is an important element to the management of batteries in industrial applications. Various models have been studied and investigated, ranging from simple to complex. The second-order equivalent circuit model was studied and investigated since the dynamic behavior of the battery is fully characterized. The simulation model was built in Matlab Simulink using the Kirchhoff Laws principle in mathematical equations, while the battery's internal parameters were identified by using the BTS4000 (Battery tester) device. To estimate the full state of charge (SOC), the initial state of charge (SOC0) must be identified or measured. Hence, this paper seeks for the SOC estimation by using experimental terminal voltage data and SOC with Matlab lookup table. Then, the simulated terminal voltage, as well as the SOC of the battery are compared and validated against measured data. The maximum relative error of 0.015 V and 2% for terminal voltage and SOC respectively shows that the proposed model is accurate and relevant based on the error analysis.
89-102 Hafez EN.pmd

Toxocara canis is a major parasite that infects many animals with high risk of human infections. This study aims at assessing the immunization with gamma radiationattenuated infective stage on rats challenged with non-irradiated dose. Level of vaccine protection was evaluated in liver and lung regarding parasitological, histopathological, biochemical and molecular parameters. Fifty rats were enrolled in three groups: group A (10 rats) as normal control; group B (20 rats) subdivided into subgroup B1 (infected control) and subgroup B2 infected then challenged after 14 days with the same dose of infection (challenged infected control); and group C (20 rats) subdivided into subgroup C1 vaccinated with a dose of 800 gray (Gy) gamma-radiated infective eggs (vaccine control) and subgroup C2 vaccinated then challenged on 14th day with same number of infective eggs (vaccinated-challenged). Tissues were stained with Haematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) for histopathological studies. Biochemical studies through detection of nitric oxide (NO) and Caspase-3 were conducted. Extent of DNA damage by Comet assay was assessed. Vaccinated-challenged subgroup revealed a marked reduction in larvae in tissues with mild associated histological changes. In addition there was accompanied reduction of NO, Casepase-3 level and DNA damage compared to the control infected group. It could be concluded that vaccination of rats with a dose of 800Gy gamma radiation-attenuated infective stage improves immune response to challenge infection and drastically reduces the morbidity currently seen.
The Effectiveness of Using A Cloud-Based Application in Developing Speaking and Critical Thinking Skills of English Major Students at Faculty of Education

The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of Voice Thread in developing speaking and critical thinking skills of English major students at Faculty of Education. A total of 30 EFL second year students enrolled in English Department at the Faculty of Education, Mansoura University participated in the study which involved one group experimental design. Instruments designed and used were an EFL speaking checklist; critical thinking Checklist; speaking and critical thinking test; rubrics for scoring speaking and critical thinking skills and an interview. Activities based on the use of VoiceThread were carried out by the study group. The results of the statistical analysis showed that there was a significant development in students' EFL speaking and critical thinking skills. Consequently, using VoiceThread proved to be effective in developing students' EFL speaking and critical thinking skills.
Brazilian citizen and consumer attitudes and preferences regarding broiler breast PSE (Pale, Soft, Exudative) meat

The objective of this work was to verify whether Brazilian consumers discriminate the broiler PSE breast fillets from normal and determine your preference, either in point of purchase (fresh) or after cooking. The PSE fillet samples were characterized by a pH=5.61 and an L*=59.26, compared to control samples with a pH=5.96 and an L=49.24, respectively (p≤0.05). In addition, the WHC (water-holding capacity) values in control samples were 14.50% higher, cooking loss was 30.92% lower and shear force was 65.41% lower compared to the PSE samples. The PSE samples were identified by consumers (untrained panelists) as paler, and the preference was for the control samples. Among the attributes of cooked samples, such as tenderness, flavor and juiciness, only flavor was significantly different (p≤0.05). Control samples presented higher acceptance values (p≤0.05) by the consumers. Keywords— tenderness, juiciness, purchasing preference, sensory analysis.
A bridge over troubled water bringing together coaching and counselling

2 Counselling at Work Spring 2005 Abstract This article addresses the issue of forced estrangement between coaching and counselling. The separation between the two fields is explored and the consequences of this for coaching in particular as a newly established profession are discussed. It will be suggested that the source of differences and similarities between various types of ‘helping-by-talking’ lies in the dynamics of the relationship between the initial motivation of the client and the ultimate goals of the helping process. Finally we are proposing a model of coaching which takes account of the theories of counselling.
Cationic Antimicrobial Neutrophil Granule Protein

Bactericidal activity and binding of a 57,000-dalton cationic antimicrobial neutrophil granule protein (CAP57) are determined by the presence on bacteria of 0-antigen polysaccharide chains and the availability of negatively charged groups in the lipid A region, the inner core region, or both regions of lipopolysaccharide. Polymyxin B (PMB)-resistant mutants with well-defined alterations in lipid A structure and charge (pmrA) are also more resistant to CAP57. We used biologically active radioiodinated CAP57 to study the characteristics and kinetics of binding to a sensitive Rb lipopolysaccharide chemotype, Salmonella typhimurium SH9178, and the relatively resistant pmrA mutant strain SH7426. Binding occurred rapidly and was specific and saturable. Because CAP57 appears to be bound in a manner similar to that of PMB, competition binding studies were performed. Excess PMB did compete with CAP57 for binding to SH9178. Nonapeptide, a polycationic derivative of PMB that has lost its hydrophobic portions, demonstrated a marked decrease in ability to compete for binding with CAP57 compared with PMB. This demonstrated the importance of hydrophobic binding in the interaction of CAP57 with the microbial surface. Thus, we have shown that binding of CAP57 to SH9178 is specific, saturable, and similar to binding of PMB. Both hydrophobic and ionic properties of CAP57 appear to be necessary for binding.
SIGNIFICANCE OF PLATELET COUNT AND PLATELET INDICES IN PLASMODIUM VIVAX CASES – A CASE CONTROL STUDY IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Background: Malaria is an infectious disease with increased morbidity. Plasmodium vivax infection is commonly associated with anemia, thrombocytopenia and altered platelet indices. This study is conducted to evaluate the alterations in various platelet indices in cases of Plasmodium vivax in comparison to the control group. Methods: This is a retrospective case control study which included 51 cases of Plasmodium vivax infection, diagnosed by microscopic peripheral smear examination and 100 healthy subjects. Platelet indices were obtained using an Sysmex XN1000 automated analyzer. The platelet count and platelet indices (MPV, PDW, PLCR and PCT) were statistically analyzed to assess their role as indicators for malaria. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to calculate the area under the curve (AUC) for various platelet indices. Results: Out of 51 cases of Plasmodium vivax infection, 78.4% were males and 21.6 % were females, with age ranging from 9 to 63 years (mean of 32.45 years). Thrombocytopenia was seen in 96.1% and 0% of Plasmodium vivax-positive cases and control groups respectively, the difference was statistically significant (p<0.001). Platelet indices revealed significant reduction in platelet crit (p<0.001) and significantly increased values of MPV (p<0.001) and PLCR (p<0.001) between Plasmodium vivax-positive cases and control groups. PDW does not show statistically significant difference among both the groups (p=0.902). Conclusion: The results of this study provides a possible utility of altered platelet indices, in predicting malaria especially when there is a strong clinical suspicion of malaria and may be helpful to evaluate the patient with specific tests for malaria.
Entrepreneurial Risk and Strategic Decision Making It’s a Matter of Perspective

Risk taking has long been a central theme of the entrepreneurship literature. However, research on the risk propensity of entrepreneurs has met with virtually no empirical support even though entrepreneurs consistently engage in risky events. This article attempts to resolve this paradox by examining entrepreneurial risk through the lens of cognitive psychology and decision making. The author proposes that entrepreneurial risk may be explained by recognizing that entrepreneurs use biases and heuristics more, which is likely to lead them to perceive less risk in a given decision situation. The data indicate that entrepreneurs do indeed use representativeness more in their decision making and are more overconfident than managers in large organizations. These findings provide a new perspective for understanding how entrepreneurs deal with the inordinate amount of risk associated with starting new ventures.
Reduction of calcium leaching in cement hydration process using nanomaterials

Abstract Continuous efforts are being made to understand the mineralogical and morphological properties of cement hydration at the early stages for speedy construction. Use of nanoparticles may provide faster kinetics due to their high surface/volume ratio. Spherical dispersed silica nanoparticles were prepared by employing the sol–gel method. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies revealed that the prepared nanoparticles are amorphous and uniform in size (∼50 nm). Further, these particles were incorporated into cement paste and investigated through SEM, XRD and thermogravimetric analysis techniques. Incorporation of silica nanoparticles into cement paste improved the microstructure of the paste, and calcium leaching is significantly reduced as silica nanoparticles react with calcium hydroxide (CH) and probably form an additional calcium–silicate–hydrate (C–S–H) gel. It was found that the CH content in the silica nanoparticle incorporated cement paste reduced by ∼86% at 1 day and up to ∼62% at 28 days of the hydration process. The XRD studies revealed that the addition of 2·5% (w/w) silica nanoparticle powder was found to be optimal to significantly digest the CH. Morphological features as studied through SEM showed that the microstructure of silica nanoparticle incorporated cement paste becomes significantly denser, and a more compact C–S–H gel is formed, thereby improving the mechanical properties of the resulting cement paste. Insight and tuning of cement based materials at nanolevel may thus greatly help in achieving ultrahigh performance concrete for durable and sustainable construction.
Objective texture measurements of commercial wheat flour tortillas

ABSTRACT Texture is a property of major importance in the evaluation of baked products. To determine a sample of commercial ranges for stretchability, rollability, firmness, and Kramer shear cell measurements for wheat flour tortillas using the TA-XT2 texture analyzer, three separate sets of five tortilla brands purchased from stores in Manhattan, KS, were evaluated. Two brands had two formulations, regular and fat-free. Significant differences (P < 0.05) in stretchability, firmness, and Kramer shear cell occurred between regular and fat-free tortillas of one tortilla brand. Significant differences (P < 0.05) also were found among the sets of some tortilla brands. Kramer shear cell and stretchability measurements are recommended because Kramer shear cell measures the force combined with compression, shearing, and extrusion. Stretchability measurements were repeatable and are an important textural property of wheat flour tortillas. Ranges for textural properties for commercial wheat flour tortillas were de.
New open clusters found by manual mining of data based on Gaia DR2

The physical nature of a series of 20 new open clusters is confirmed employing existing data on putative star members, mainly from the second Gaia Data Release (DR2). The clusters were discovered as overdensities of stars by visual inspection of either photographic DSS plates or proper motion plots of random source fields. The reported objects are not present in the most comprehensive or recent catalogs of stellar clusters and associations. For all of them, clumps of comoving stars are revealed in the proper motion space. The parallaxes of the clumped stars are compatible with the real existence of open clusters over narrow ranges of distances. Surface density calculations, free of most noise from non-member sources, allow differentiating a cluster core and an extended cluster corona in some instances. Color-magnitude diagrams generally show a definite main sequence that allows confirmation of the physical existence of the clusters and some of their characteristics. Two of the new clusters seem to form a double system with a common origin. Several of the new clusters challenge the claim of near completeness of the known OC population in the distance range from 1.0 to 1.8 kpc from the Sun (Kharchenko et al.).
HUMOR AS A MODERATOR OF NEUROTICISM’S EFFECT ON PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND LIFE SATISFACTION

HUMOR AS A MODERATOR OF NEUROTICISM’S EFFECT ON PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND LIFE SATISFACTION Adir Pinchot Previous research studies evaluated self-enhancing humor (also referred to as coping humor) as a coping strategy that enables an individual to better manage the negative emotions elicited by external stressors. Research has not, however, adequately considered the role that humor may play for neurotic individuals who are characterized by a propensity to experience stress and negative emotions and are, therefore, more susceptible to developing depression, anxiety, and low life satisfaction. Nor has research adequately explored how self-enhancing humor interacts with the maladaptive form of self-directed humor, namely, self-defeating humor. This study attempts to address these lacunae by analyzing whether self-enhancing humor and self-defeating humor serve as moderators of the relationships between neuroticism and aversive outcomes, such as depression, anxiety, and low life satisfaction. The study sample included 206 total participants, comprised of 99 adults from the general population and 107 college undergraduate students. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that self-enhancing humor moderated the impact of neuroticism on life satisfaction, regardless of the level of self-defeating humor. Highly neurotic individuals who used high levels of self-enhancing humor maintained higher ratings of life satisfaction than highly neurotic individuals who used low levels of self-enhancing humor. The regression analyses also indicated that the use of self-enhancing humor mitigated the impact of neuroticism on anxiety, but only for individuals who used low levels of self-defeating humor. In contrast, the use of both selfenhancing and self-defeating humor compounded the impact of neuroticism on anxiety. Neither humor style significantly moderated the relation between neuroticism and depression. These results indicate that self-enhancing humor mitigates the effect of neuroticism on certain negative outcomes, that the two self-directed humor styles interact and should both be considered in any study of self-directed humor, and that the overall amount of self-directed humor an individual uses may be a crucial factor in determining whether humor will mitigate or compound the impact of neuroticism.
Trade-Offs between Fairness and Privacy in Machine Learning

The concerns of fairness, and privacy, in machine learning based systems have received a lot of attention in the research community recently, but have primarily been studied in isolation. In this work, we look at cases where we want to satisfy both these properties simultaneously, and ﬁnd that it may be necessary to make trade-offs between them. We prove a theoretical result to demonstrate this, which considers the issue of compatibility between fairness and differential privacy of learning algorithms. In particular, we prove an impossibility theorem which shows that even in simple binary classiﬁcation settings, one cannot design an accurate learning algorithm that is both (cid:15) -differentially private and fair (even approximately).
Impact of nano calcium hydroxide and calcium oxide on some metabolic activities and phenolic compounds of Lupinus termis seedlings

Impact of nano calcium hydroxide and calcium oxide on some metabolic activities and phenolic compounds of Lupinus termis seedlings Awatif A. Mohsen(1), M. El-Kemary(2), Samha M.A. Dowidar(1), Shaimaa A. Abo-Hamad(1), M. A. Elhaak(1), Basma M. M. Khalaf(1) (1)Botany Department Faculty of Science, Tanta University 2)Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Kaferelsheikh University Abstract The effect of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mM nano calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 and calcium oxide CaO or bulk calcium carbonate CaCO3 on growth and metabolic changes of Lupines termis seedlings was assessed. Root fresh and dry weights were increased by nano CaO at 0.5 and 1.0 mM compared with the control, while they were decreased by increasing nano Ca(OH)2. Shoot fresh and dry weights were increased by increasing the concentration of nano Ca(OH)2 and CaO reaching their maximum at 0.5 and 2.0 mM, respectively. Bulk CaCO3 concentrations increased root and shoot fresh and dry weights at the highest concentration (2mM). The photosynthetic pigments (chl.a, chl.b and carotenoids) were markedly increased with increasing the concentration of nano Ca (OH)2, nano CaO and bulk CaCO3 with the highest magnitude recorded for nano Ca(OH)2, while the lowest was for CaCO3. The total soluble carbohydrate biosynthesis of both shoot and root was reduced by nano calcium particles, whereas it was enhanced by bulk calcium compared with control. The root soluble protein was decreased by different concentrations of either nano or bulk calcium, while shoot soluble protein was increased by all calcium treatments compared with the control. The nano calcium especially Ca(OH)2 activated the protein metabolism compared with the bulk. The root and shoot phenolic compounds were decreased by different concentrations of either nano or bulk calcium, except of the shoot phenolic compounds at CaCO3. Nano CaO at 0.5 mM increased shoot phenolic compounds by 10% compared with control.
Intermediate-Level Japanese EFL Students’ Short-Term Writing Development: Examining Fluency and Complexity in Relation to Quality

This paper examines whether and how intermediate-level Japanese EFL students change (or improve) their writing during a semester-long writing course. First, to examine short-term writing development, it compares preand post-course compositions in light of both fluency and complexity measures and writing quality ratings. Next, it investigates which measures contribute to overall writing quality ratings. Third, relationships among the 11 measures of writing fluency and complexity are examined. Multiple regression analysis reveals that 2 measures, total number of words and the Guiraud index (G), significantly explain total scores, whereas no syntactic complexity measures do so. Subsequently, exploratory factor analysis provides a three-factor solution indicating different loadings for fluency and lexical and syntactic complexity. The findings suggest that (a) fluency and G develop in parallel, whereas syntactic complexity changes little; (b) no syntactic complexity measures significantly contribute to the total scores; (c) lexical and syntactic complexity measures do not load on the same factor, indicating independent relations from each other; (d) G is partially related to fluency, whereas no other lexical measures are; and (e) syntactic complexity measures for different linguistic units (T-unit, clause, and sentence) show distinct patterns from one another. Lastly, several directions for future research are indicated.
Comparisons of earthworm populations and cast properties in conventional and organic arable rotations

Abstract. Earthworms influence a wide range of soil properties. They are affected by practices that perturb the soil or change organic inputs. This study compared populations in UK organic and conventional rotations differing in such practices. Three farm pairs, ranging from stockless to arable‐grassland systems, were sampled on three occasions in each of two crop years. Additional farm pairs were sampled on a single occasion. Nine common earthworm species were grouped into three classes based on the depth ranges from which they were recovered. Cast and soil samples were taken from leys to compare aggregate stability, organic and nutrient content, and microbial biomass. For similar rotation stages, populations of surface and shallow species classes were often larger in organic systems. In some comparisons the reverse was the case, particularly as the proportion of ley within each pair increased. System differences in biomass, but not abundance, could be attributed to the proportion of leys in rotations; individual earthworm weights were larger in conventional systems. Casts from both systems had markedly higher organic contents, stability, available P and K concentrations, and microbial biomass than underlying soil. This trend was more pronounced in conventional sites for nutrients and microbial biomass. Differences in populations and cast properties may have implications for soil fertility and wider ecosystem function.