Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Influence of the Transformational Leadership of Kindergarten Heads, Job Satisfaction, Work Spirit of Work on the Performance of Kindergarten Teachers in the Pelangi Cluster, South Banjarmasin District

This study aims to describe and analyze: (1) the influence of the kindergarten head transformational leadership on the per-formance of kindergarten teachers, (2) the effect of job satis-faction on the performance of kindergarten teachers, (3) the influence of work morale teachers on the performance of kin-dergarten teachers, (4) the influence of the kindergarten head transformational leadership, job satisfaction, and the enthusi-asm of teachers working together on the performance of kin-dergarten teachers. This research is explanatory research with a quantitative approach. The research sample of 51 people kin-dergarten teachers in the Pelangi Cluster, South Banjarmasin District. Data collection instruments are questionnaires that have met the validity and reliability test requirements. Data analysis to test hypotheses using multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that: (1) The kindergarten head transformational leadership and kindergarten teacher performance were included in the high category, while the job satisfaction of teachers and the kindergarten teacher's morale were in the medium category. which is significant to the performance of kindergarten teachers (3) Job Satisfaction gives a significant influence on the perfor-mance of kindergarten (4) Work spirit gives a significant influ-ence on the performance of kindergarten teachers (5) Simulta-neous Transformation Leadership of Kindergarten Heads, job satisfaction and morale have a significant influence on the per-formance of kindergarten teachers in the Pelangi Cluster, South Banjarmasin District. Conclusion: there is a partial and simulta-neous influence of the kindergarten head transformational lead-ership, job satisfaction, and work spirit on performance. Princi-pals should strive to build positive communication when com-municating with subordinates as part of the kindergarten trans-formational leadership to analyze changes that need to be made internally. This can be done by opening a sharing forum or sharing opinions with the teachers who are subordinates to the problems and progress of the school.
What can the EU Learn from the USA in the Field of Innovation?

The rationale for more European Commission (EC) support for Open Innovation is there, as a whole-of-society approach seems to be the best to address the challenges arising mainly from competition at the global level. This paper supported this view and was built as a case study research paper based on the EU and USA case studies. In the first sections, a theoretical framework is built, which establishes a link between R&D, innovation, and competitiveness, introduces culture and military as factors influencing innovation, and shows how open innovation has changed innovation. A discussion evolves regarding the current position of the EU and EU countries in terms of innovation and what the EC is undertaking to address the identified challenges. The core section is dedicated to the case study, elaborates benchmarks, gains learnings from a country successful in the field of (open) innovation such as the USA, and suggests what the EC could concretely implement in the case of the EU. The outlook section suggests a few possible areas for future research and policies.
WORK MOTIVATION TO AFECTIVE COMMITMENT THROUGH JOB SATISFACTION IN EMPLOYEES PRONAFA SKIN CLINIC

Employees are important components in a company, related to how the company can achieve its goals. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of work motivation (reward) on employee commitment through perceived satisfaction. The object used in this study is Pronafa Skin Clinic in Sidoarjo. Data collection was specifically carried out by distributing questionnaires to the study sample. The sample was determined using non-probability sampling techniques and obtained as many as 45 employees as research respondents. The analytical method used is path analysis with the SmartPLS program. The results found that both hypotheses were accepted. (1) The first result found that work motivation (reward) has a positive and significant effect on commitment. (2) The second result found that satisfaction has a significant role in mediating the effect of work motivation (reward) on commitment.
Motivators of Job Satisfaction Among Financial Managers and The Role of Gender

Copyright © 2020, Mark Mattia. This article is published under a Creative Commons BY-NC license. Permission is granted to copy and distribute this article for non-commercial purposes, in both printed and electronic formats Despite extensive efforts to recruit females to the financial management sector, women in the industry remain a distinct minority. For instance, only 23% of Certified Financial Planners (CFP’s) are women (CFP Board, 2019). Additionally, more executive females and senior managers (23%) exit the financial services labor market compared to males at the same levels (17%) (Mercer Study, 2016). This paper utilizes the 2017 National Survey of College Graduates to examine the motivational factors related to job satisfaction among males and females in the financial management field. Research findings reveal that highly intrinsic job satisfaction factors that can be considered more intrinsic are more highly correlated with overall job satisfaction for females. Correlations of the factors with job satisfaction tend to be higher for females compared to their male peers. The female model of job satisfaction produced odds ratios that were the highest for two intrinsic type motivator variables (intellectual challenge and degree of independence). Among male financial managers, the odds ratios were the highest for two extrinsic motivators (salary and job security). These findings are promising in terms of relating Self-Determination Theory (STD) and motivation among financial managers. Such findings provide the impetus for original survey research incorporating the Motivation at Work Scale to explore more deeply the connection of STD and work motivation in the financial services areas. Determinants of job satisfaction among full-time employed financial managers include several intrinsically oriented satisfiers. The factor intellectual challenge of the work is a major driver of job satisfaction.
Innovative process and technology for the production of wood mulch

Plant nurseries usually control weed growth with N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine treatment. Some studies have suggested potential impacts of this treatment on both the environment and users. A possible ecological alternative is the use of ground wood particles for mulching. However, the production of the required wood particles for use in potted plants is challenging. In this article, the classical chipping and sieving process is compared with a new proposed process involving chipping and refining phases. The two processes were applied to wood logs (spruce) from the forests of the Tosco-Emiliano Apennine. The tests were performed over a week using the machinery available at the Mo.To. R.E. (Montagna Toscana Ricerca Energie) consortium. Although the results achieved were based on preliminary evaluations, they indicated the potential superiority of the new process in terms of both economic and ecological efficiency. These findings can pave the way to the development of optimized processes aimed at a significant reduction in the use of chemical herbicides for weed control.
Assessment of Biotic Integrity in Streams of Biological Reserve of Una, Bahia, Brazil

The objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental quality of streams of the Biological Reserve of Una through the Biotic Integrity Index (IBI). Integrated quality index (IQI) and the Habitat Assessment index (HAI) were used for validation of the IBI. These indices were calculated from attributes of fish community. Four seasonal collections were performed with a seine net at seven sampling points. A total of 5549 individuals were collected from 4 orders, 9 families and 22 species. According to IBI, point 7 could be considered as having good environmental quality, points 1, 2 and 5 of regular quality, points 3 and 4 as poor and point 6 as very poor quality. The results were considered similar to those obtained by HAI and IQI, indicating that points 1, 2, 5 and 7 had a better environmental quality than point 6. No point were classified as excellent, suggesting a possible environmental degradation in the reserve. The attributes "Richness of benthic species", "Richness of nectonic species" and "Per centage of individuals with anomalies and diseases" did not significantly influence the index result, and the other parameters appeared to be more effective. The IBI was considered an useful tool in the environmental evaluation of the region since it was sensitive to the gradient of degradation of the points sampled.
Green Gaps: Firm ESG Disclosure and Financial Institutions’ Reporting Requirements

Background: Globally, governments are responding to climate change. The financial industry has followed, integrating climate risk to their investment decisions via Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations. Firms in environmentally sensitive industries, like oil and gas, are notably scrutinized for their ESG performance especially regarding climate change. Methods: Two samples were selected for a content analysis and comparison of environmental disclosure and investor requirements. The first sample is comprised of the sustainability reports for 30 oil and gas firms operating within Alberta. The second sample includes the ESG reports of 19 financial institutions with investment in the oil and gas industry. This data was triangulated via fieldnotes from conferences and informal discussions with oil and gas and financial industry representatives. Results: We find that both ESG investor requirements and firm disclosures suffer from a lack of standardization. Consequently, the financial industry is moving toward the adoption of the TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) recommendations and the SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board) framework in firm evaluations. European financial institutions have been leading the way in requiring firms to define their climate risk, set targets, measure performance, show improvement, and connect to strategy. Alberta oil and gas companies are responding with more robust ESG disclosure, though SASB and TCFD reporting is not yet widespread. Conclusions: Industry failure to respond to evolving disclosure requirements can lead to divestment. We contend that oil and gas companies that do not acknowledge climate risk and outline energy transition strategies tied to their business models and reputations potentially sacrifice access to capital. We expect firm ESG disclosure, especially radical transparency on environment, to increase as financial institutions execute on climate change risk evaluations. We contribute to the sustainability reporting and ESG literature by showing the impact of investors as stakeholders in effecting change to oil and gas firm level environmental disclosure.
Atrophic Thymus in the First Case of the Interleukin 10 Receptor Beta Deficiency due to the Homozygous Large Deletion

Interleukin 10 (IL-10) and IL-10 receptor (IL-10R) deficiencies are among the primary immunodeficiency disorders (PIDs) caused by the loss-of-function mutations in the IL-10 or IL-10R encoding genes. IL-10 and IL-10R deficiencies are not prevalent and only a few cases have been reported in this regard so far. Among the patients, very early onset of the inflammatory bowel disease (VEO-IBD), usually during the infancy is the most common clinical manifestation of the disease. Almost all the patients come from the consanguineous families and present a similarly severe state of the disease. Therefore, in this study, the case of a 7-month-old girl, admitted with severe dehydration due to the watery diarrhea, fever, and repeated hospitalization with atrophic thymus was reported. According to the patients past medical history, she came from a family with consanguineous marriage, and her sister also had died from the chronic diarrhea. She was nominated for the genetic examination to identify the underlying causes of her disease because of the normal laboratory analysis and standard immunological workup. Genetic evaluation by the whole exome sequencing revealed a homozygous mutation in the gene encoding the IL-10RB with a large deletion in the exons 3-7. Unfortunately, she deceased at the age of one before the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Predicting soil carbon by efficiently using variation in a mid-IR soil spectral library

Abstract. Traditional laboratory methods of acquiring soil information remain important for assessing key soil properties, soil functions and ecosystem services over space and time. Infrared spectroscopic modelling can link and massively scale up these methods for many soil characteristics in a cost-effective and timely manner. In Switzerland, only 10 % to 15 % of agricultural soils have been mapped sufficiently to serve spatial decision support systems, presenting an urgent need for rapid quantitative soil characterization. The current Swiss soil spectral library (SSL; n = 4374) in the mid-infrared range includes soil samples from the Biodiversity Monitoring Program (BDM), arranged in a regularly spaced grid across Switzerland, and temporally-resolved data from the Swiss Soil Monitoring Network (NABO). Given the relatively low representation of organic soils and their organo-mineral diversity in the SSL, we aimed to develop both an efficient calibration sampling scheme and accurate modelling strategy to estimate soil carbon (SC) contents of heterogeneous samples between 0 m to 2 m depth from 26 locations within two drained peatland regions (HAFL dataset; n = 116). The focus was on minimizing the need for new reference analyses by efficiently mining the spectral information of SSL instances and their target-feature representations. We used partial least square regressions (PLSR) together with a 5 times repeated, grouped by location, 10-fold cross validation (CV) to predict SC ranging from 1 % to 52 % in the local HAFL dataset. We compared the validation performance of different calibration schemes involving local models (1), models using the entire SSL spiked with local samples (2) and 15 subsets of local and SSL samples using the RS-LOCAL algorithm (3). Using local and RS-LOCAL calibrations with at least 5 local samples, we achieved similar validation results for predictions of SC up to 52 % (R2 = 0.94–0.96, bias = −0.6–1.5, RMSE = 2.6 % to 3.5 % total carbon). However, calibrations of representative SSL and local samples using RS-LOCAL only required 5 local samples for very accurate models (RMSE = 2.9 % total carbon), while local calibrations required 50 samples for similarly accurate results (RMSE
A UTOMATIC M USIC P RODUCTION U SING G ENERA -

When talking about computer-based music generation, two are the main threads of research: the construction of autonomous music-making systems, and the design of computer-based environments to assist musicians. However, even though creating accompaniments for melodies is an essential part of every producer’s and songwriter’s work, little effort has been done in the field of automatic music arrangement in the audio domain. In this contribution, we propose a novel framework for automatic music accompaniment in the Mel-frequency domain. Using several songs converted into Mel-spectrograms – a two-dimensional time-frequency representation of audio signals – we were able to automatically generate original arrangements for both bass and voice lines. Treating music pieces as images (Mel-spectrograms) allowed us to reformulate our problem as an unpaired imageto-image translation problem, and to tackle it with CycleGAN, a well-established framework. Moreover, the choice to deploy raw audio and Mel-spectrograms enabled us to more effectively model long-range dependencies, to better represent how humans perceive music, and to potentially draw sounds for new arrangements from the vast collection of music recordings accumulated in the last century. Our approach was tested on two different downstream tasks: given a bass line creating credible and on-time drums, and given an acapella song arranging it to a full song. In absence of an objective way of evaluating the output of music generative systems, we also defined a possible metric for the proposed task, partially based on human (and expert) judgement.
The effect of human resource management practices and innovation: Colombian small and medium-sized enterprises

The need for small and medium-sized enterprises to innovate and their limited human resource management practices have led to growing research into how the organization’s internal staff-focused characteristics promote a higher degree of innovation. Faced with scarce literature about this relationship in smaller companies in Colombia and the everpresent need to be competitive, this research aims to identify the effect of human resource management practices on innovation in Colombian SMEs. Four hundred and ninety-two surveys were applied to SME managers in Cali, Bogotá, and Medellín to meet such an objective. This research made it evident that human resource management practices affect innovation, but not all practices exert the same influence. Staff selection and performance evaluation affect product innovation, processes, and overall innovation, while compensation only influences product innovation. The other human resource management practices do not account for any kind of effect. This research contributes to prioritizing human resource management practices for innovation and the management thereof within small and medium-sized enterprises.
Internal Hernia following Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, preventive measures

Introduction: Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) is one of the commonest operations for weight loss surgery especially in the western countries. Internal hernia (IH) can occur following LRYGB and may lead to dreadful complications as small bowel obstruction and strangulation. Objective: To analyze trends of IH after LRYGB and how to prevent it. Methods: A narrative review of the literature was through an online search of the MEDLINE (via PubMed) database, using the following keywords “Obes*”, “Gastric Bypass” and “Internal Hernia”. Results : Different methods were prescribed for management of mesenteric defects after LRYGB. Closure revealed better out come in front of non-closure technique. Closure with sutures was the most popular and had a superior outcome. Conclusion: Closure of all IH defects after LRYGB defects revealed lower incidence of internal hernias. Superior long-term results came with closure using sutures. There are other methods for closure but still need more evaluation. Mansoura Medical Journal (Official Journal of Mansoura Faculty of Medicine) pISSN: 1110-211X; eISSN: 2735-3990
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF RING FOOTINGS RESTING ON SAND BEDS

Nowadays, more and more ring footings are used in practice specially for axi-symmetric structures. In this paper, a numerical analysis was performed using PLAXIS software for calculating bearing capacity factor Nγ for rough circular and ring footings on sand. The analysis was carried out using Mohr-Coulomb’s criterion for soil. The bearing capacity was calculated for rough circular and ring footings and then the bearing capacity factor Nγ was calculated. The effect of different factors such as angle of internal friction of sand, φ, radius ratio (n) and different external diameters of circular and ring footings (Do) were studied. The load settlement curves for circular and ring footings were compared, with emphasis on the ultimate bearing capacity. The analysis indicated that radius ratio has a significant effect on the ultimate bearing capacity of ring footings, were ultimate bearing capacity decreases with increasing radius ratio. However, little or no change in bearing capacity factor Nγ was observed. Also, the results indicated that there is no significant effect of footing size (Do) on the bearing capacity factor Nγ value. It is found that the space in ring footing (Di) has a significant effect on the change of failure mode of soil from both local and punching shear failure to a general shear failure for loose and medium sand, respectively. Also, the space in ring footing has a significant effect on the length and width of failure zone under ring footings. © 2021 Published by Faculty of Engineering – Sohag University. DOI: 10.21608/SEJ.2021. 155946.
RELIABILITY OF FLUORESCENT CAMERA VERSUS VISUAL ASSESSMENT IN DIAGNOSIS OF OCCUSAL CARIOUS LESION IN ADULT PATIENTS: INVIVO DIAGNOSTIC STUDY

Aim: This study aimed to compare the diagnostic predictive values of a light induced fluorescence intra oral camera (VistaCam iX) versus visual assessment method (ICDAS-II) in identification of occlusal carious lesion. Methodology: Occlusal surfaces of 199 molar teeth from 43 adult patients who fulfill the eligibility criteria were examined by two observers using two diagnostic methods. The teeth were firstly assessed visually according to the criteria of the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS-II) then by fluorescence camera. Inter observer agreement was measured for ICDAS-II using Kappa and weighted Kappa Values and for the camera using inter class correlation (ICC). Correlation between methods was calculated using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (rs) and the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC curve) between the tested methods was estimated. Results: Significant positive correlation was found between the ICDAS-II and the camera measurements (rs= 0.8739, P< 0.001). The area under the ROC curve was (0.932, p < 0.001) indicating a great association between the two tested methods when selecting adequate cut-off values for the camera. There was a statistically significant agreement between the two observers for ICDAS-II values (Kappa =0.8125, weighted Kappa = 0.8558). Excellent inter examiner agreement was found between the two observers when using the FC, ICC = 0.9774 (95% CI, 0.789 to 0.889), (p < 0.001). Conclusion: The camera showed high reliability and agreement with ICDAS-II for initial occlusal caries detection. Sensitivity and specificity values for the camera varied depending on the cut-off value.
The effect of liming and organic fertilisation on the incidence of weeds in the crops of the rotation

To maintain the potential productivity of Retisol and produce stable yields of agricultural crops, one has to regularly lime and replenish soil reserves with organic matter. If the necessary amount of manure cannot be accumulated on farms, it is relevant to use other organic fertilisers. The current paper presents the results of long-term manuring experiment that was carried out at the Vėžaičiai Branch of Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry under humid littoral climatic conditions during the 2015–2019 period. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of liming and organic fertilisation on the changes in weed incidence in the crops of the sustainable crop rotation. The experiment was carried out in the soils differing in acidity: unlimed soil with pH 4.13 and limed soil with pH 5.87. The organic fertilisation treatments were: 1) without organic fertilisers (control); 2) green manure; 3) farmyard manure 40 t ha-1; 4) green manure, on the background of 40 t ha-1 farmyard manure; 5) farmyard manure 60 t ha-1; 6) green manure, on the background of 60 t ha-1