Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Succession Planning On Business Performance of Private Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria

Organizations need to keep running despite the potential risk it faces. However, leaders in institutions find it difficult to survive in the face of difficulties. The study aims to determine the effect of succession planning on business performance: Empirical evidence of The Bells University, Covenant University, and Crawford University. The objective of the study was to; evaluate the effect of the transition process on business continuity, examine the impact performance metric has on corporate image and determine the influence successor training and development has on customer satisfaction of the selected firm. A hundred and fifty (150) copies of questionnaires were administered to the top and middle-level management in the selected universities. The study adopted a correlational research design. The findings show that succession planning has a significant impact on business performance. The significant value (.000) indicated that the transition process has a substantial effect on business continuity. Similarly, the performance metric showed a positive association (.000) with corporate image. The significant value for successor training and development and customer satisfaction was (.000), which was less than 0.05, indicating that successor training and development significantly affected customer satisfaction. This study thus concludes that succession planning is an effective strategy to ensure business performance.
Isolation and Characterization of Cellulolytic Marine Bacteria for Litopenaeus Vannamei Aquaculture Using Sugarcane Bagasse as Carbon Source

Background: In aquaculture system, it is essential to adjust the inherent disadvantage of C/N ratio by adding a lot of additional carbon sources, such as sugarcane molasses, organic acids, and organic acid salts, which will greatly increase the cost of shrimp aquaculture. Herein, we aimed to isolate cellulolytic marine bacteria to hydrolyze sugarcane bagasse (SB) for reducing the cost of addition of external carbon sources in industrial Litopenaeus vannamei aquaculture.Results: A total of 97 cellulolytic marine bacterial strains belonged to 6 genera were isolated from 2,585 indigenous bacteria, indicating that seagrass bed can be used as an important place for screening the cellulolytic bacteria. The hydrolysis capacity (HC) of 58 cellulolytic marine bacterial strains was ranged from 1.1–4.0. MW-M5 displayed the largest HC value, followed by MW-M10 and MW-M14. The cellulase contents of 30 strains were more than 3 U/g in the supernatant of fermentation broth after 24 h, which was significantly higher than that of commercial cellulose. 26 cellulolytic marine bacteria with HC greater than 2 were safe for L. vannamei. MW-M19 with the lowest multiple antibiotic resistance index, 0.1, had a highest SB enzyme activity, 4.14 U/mL. The SB decomposition rates of CFW-C18 and MW-M15 were up to about 63.81% and 48.57% after fifteen days, respectively. Conclusions: These results provide valuable information for further construction of a shrimp aquaculture system based on low-cost external carbon sources using cellulolytic bacteria, and even for other biotechnological applications.
Synthesis and determination of pKa values of new enantiopure pyridino- and piperidino-18-crown-6 ethers

This paper reports the preparation of eight new enantiopure amide type crown ethers and their optically active precursors. Chiral diamines were transformed to amide type pyridino-crown ethers reacting them with pyridine dicarbonyl dichlorides by high dilution technique. Two of the new pyridino-crown ethers were reduced to their piperidino analogues. A preliminary study for the potential application of nanofiltration in the purification and recovery of crown ethers is presented. According to the p K a measurements these eight new macrocycles are potential organocatalysts (for instance in Michael addition reactions) thanks to their acidic and basic moieties and chiral skeletons, respectively. ether and in situ solvent recycle. 20 This article presents a preliminary study of the potential of OSN in the purification and recovery of pyridino- and piperidino-crown ether based catalysts.
Evaluation of Storage Methods for ‘Granex’ Onions

‘Granex’ onions were stored in an air-conditioned room at 27°C, at 5° in air, 5% CO2−3% O2 or 10% CO2−3% O2, and at 1° in air or 5% CO2−3% O2. Relative humidity of storages at 5° and 1° was maintained at 70% to 85%. The quantity of marketable bulbs decreased 12% to 25% per month when stored at room temperature. Virtually all onions were marketable after 7 months of storage at 1° in 5% CO2−3% O2. More than 92% of these bulbs remained in a marketable condition after an additional 3 weeks in air at room temperature. Bulb quality of these sweet onions decreased during storage, as indicated by lower sugar concentrations and greater pungency. Bulb quality decreased most rapidly when onions were stored in air at 1° and least rapidly when onions were stored in 5% CO2−3% O2 at either 1° or 5°.
Differences in Differentiation: Rising Variety and Markups in Retail Food Stores

In this paper I show that consumers in food stores and supermarkets/hypermarkets grew significantly less price sensitive between 2006 and 2017. At the median, across thousands of stores and products in nine large categories, estimated own-price elasticities have declined by 25% over this period. I argue that these changes are likely due in large part to improved supply chain management, which has led stores to offer a larger variety of goods which better match consumers’ individual preferences. I show that newer products are indeed more “niche” in this sense, and that other potential sources of rising differentiation including increases in quality and changes in consumer wealth play a much smaller role. I relate these findings to the recent literature on rising markups in the United States and offer evidence that pricing over this time period is consistent with significant increases in markups over this decade.
OPTIMIZING TEACHER COMPETENCE TOWARDS IDEAL AND QUALITY EDUCATOR IN ISLAMIC SCHOOL

Purpose of the study: This study aims to determine the characteristics of ideal and quality teachers who pass the teacher competency test, teacher problems, teacher’s efforts in implementing learning, and the role of the principal in optimizing competencies to create ideal educators. Methodology: This research is field research with a qualitative type using two methods in the data collection process, namely questionnaires and documentation. The research was conducted at MI Muhammadiyah Kartasura Surakarta. Main Findings: Ideal and quality teachers are teachers who pass the professional competency test, which includes mastery of material, structure, concepts, and scientific mindsets that support the subject taught and sustainably develop professionalism through reflective action. While the efforts made are optimizing the use of various learning methods and media, as well as providing reinforcement or appreciation to students who ask or answer questions. The role of the principal in optimizing ideal teacher performance is to try to find solutions so that the learning process runs smoothly following the learning plan that has been made so it does not bring disadvantages to students. Applications of this study: this research is expected to be applied in schools, universities, and the wider community that focuses on education issues and the quality of teachers and teaching, as well as competence and certification. Novelty/Originality of this study: this study focuses on discussing problems, characteristics, concepts, and guidelines for optimizing teacher competence towards ideal and quality educators at MI Muhammadiyah Kartasura Surakarta and combined with the theory of ideal and professional teacher concepts according to the national education system in Indonesia.
PENGARUH KEPEMIMPINAN, LINGKUNGAN KERJA, DAN DISIPLIN KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN (Studi pada pegawai non medis Instalasi Sterilisasi di RS Dr. Kariadi Semarang)

Penelitian ini dilatar belakangi oleh terjadinya penurunan target di Instalasi Sterilisasi Rumah Sakit DR. Kariadi Semarang, untuk itu dapat dirumuskan masalahnya adalah bagaimana upaya Bagian Instalasi Sterilisasi meningkatkan Kinerja Karyawan agar target sasaran mutu tercapai. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis pengaruh Kepemimpinan, Lingkungan Kerja dan Disiplin Kerja terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Bagian Instalasi Sterilisasi di Rumah Sakit DR. Kariadi Semarang. Data dikumpulkan melalui metode kuisioner dengan menggunakan teknik Sensus terhadap 61 orang responden bagian Instalasi Sterilisasi. Pengolahan data menggunakan analisis regresi berganda, pengujian hipotesis melalui uji t, pengujian model dengan uji f, serta analisis koefisien determinasi. Hasil yang diperoeh dalam penelitian ini adalah besarnya nilai koefisien determinasi adalah 0,547 yang artinya 54,7% variabel Kepemimpinan, Lingkungan Kerja dan Disiplin Kerja berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap Kinerja Karyawan. Kata kunci : Kepemimpinan, Lingkungan Kerja,Disiplin Kerja,Kinerja Karyawan.
Study on the Necessity of Establishing Customized Limits for the Daily QA Program Performed With Daily QA3

Background: Due to no corresponding action limits for some new daily QA items , limits of the monthly or annual QA procedures have to be used for daily QA program at present. The general purpose of this paper is to discuss whether it is feasible to do so.Methods: 3 groups daily quality control process during 2017-2019 performed with Daily QA3 were analyzed using SPC. In Calculation of capability indices for output, daily QA tolerance ±3% in the TG142 was used as specification limit, while for flatness and symmetry, annual QA tolerance ±1% was used. An appropriate number of data points were analyzed , capability indices (Cp, Cpk, Cpm and Cpmk) were calculated, and customized tolerance and action limits were established for each process. Meanwhile, the locations of the UCL、CL、LCL in I-MR charts of daily QA performed by 5 therapists in turns were compared with that of daily QA performed by only one physicist during the same period . Results: Process capability indices of output were all ≥1, some were even up to 3-4. While, for symmetry, most of them failed to meet the requirements. For the same daily QA item, the calculated customized limit of different quality control processes were quite different. For the daily QA performed with only one physicist, the range of UCL and LCL was smaller or the central line was closer to the target value 0 in I-MR charts.Conclusions: It is necessary to establish customized limits for daily QA program performed with Daily QA3, because customized limits and improved operation constancy both can improve the daily quality control level.
Clinical Features and Outcomes in Imported and Non-Imported Patients With COVID-19: A Retrospective, Multi-centre, Descriptive Study

Background: Global outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern. However, few studies have directly compared the differences of clinical features and outcomes between imported and non-imported COVID-19 patients. We aimed to directly compare the differences of clinical features and outcomes between imported and non-imported COVID-19 patients.Methods: we enrolled 275 patients (53 imported and 222 non-imported cases) with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 from four designated hospitals in Chongqing, China. Epidemiological, demographic, clinical, laboratory, treatment, and outcome data were collected and analyzed. Independent samples t- test, Mann- Whitney U test, Wilcoxon test,χ2 test, or Fisher’s exact test were adopted to compare the difference between imported and non-imported groups where appropriateResults: The imported group had a higher proportion of asymptomatic patients (18.9% vs. 3.8%, p=0.016), lower lymphocyte count (1.1×109/L vs. 1.5×109 /L, p=0.018), higher neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) (2.6 vs. 2.3, p=0.0237), higher proportion of CD4+ T cells reduction (70% vs. 44.6%, p=0.043), longer duration of viral shedding (20 days vs. 18 days, p = 0.0416) than the non-imported group. The symptomatic non-imported group had a lower lymphocyte count (1.3×109/L vs. 1.6×109 /L, p=0.003), lower CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, longer viral shedding (20 days vs.13 days, p< 0.001) and hospital stay (17 days vs.14 days, p=0.015) than the asymptomatic non-imported group. Furthermore, when compared with imported group, asymptomatic non-imported group showed higher lymphocyte count (1.6×109/L vs. 1.1×109 /L, p< 0.001) and CD4+ T cells(567 vs.375, p=0.029), while the symptomatic non-imported group showed no difference in lymphocyte count, CD4+ or CD8+ T cells (p ≥ 0.0894). Conclusion: Our results indicated that when compared with imported patients, damage to the immune system by SARS-Cov-2 in non-imported patients was milder, and this might be mainly due to its higher asymptomatic proportion.Clinical trial registration: ChiCTR2000033980. Registered 19 June 2020 - Retrospectively registered, http:// www.chictr. org.cn.
Cleaning Up the Rust Belt: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants

The Great Lakes and their tributaries make up the largest freshwater system on the planet, providing drinking water and recreational value to millions of people. Yet manufacturing plants have left a legacy of toxic pollutants in the region, creating the stigma of the "Rust Belt. " In 1987, the Area of Concern (AOC) Program designated 31 areas in the region as having hazardous water quality. Over 700 million federal dollars have been spent since 2004 on grants to clean up the areas. Our paper is the first to provide causal estimates of the program's impact on local housing markets. We find negative and statistically significant effects of AOC designation, indicating that consumers value clean water and incorporate information about water quality into their housing purchases. We develop two estimators to bound the effects of remediation grants on housing prices. Our estimates imply that the benefits of remediation grants range from $16.9 billion to $25.6 billion, greatly exceeding grant costs.
Felicity conditions of a theory of expertleadership in professional football

This thesis is a critical investigation of a theory of expert leadership (hereafter TEL) and has the central aim of theory development. In proposing a TEL, Goodall (2012) argues that those at the top of organisations should be among the best experts in their industry, as opposed to general, professional managers. Empirical support for the TEL and its effects are reported in a small number of studies that show positive correlations between expert leadership and organisational performance. Moreover, expert leaders are thought to gain credibility and respect and are better able to understand motivations and values of followers having been one of them. Whilst these findings are interesting and imply something important in terms of what we might look for when choosing leaders, they raise conceptual and methodological concerns that were the starting point for this study. My approach draws on Gadamer’s (1989) conceptualisation of hermeneutics and Josselson’s (2011b) narrative approach in what I described as hermeneutic storytelling to account for the lived experiences of managers in the backdrop of men’s professional football, on the assumption that stories about our lives are representations of reality. To explore this phenomenon, I borrow from J. L. Austin's (1962) work, How to Do Things With Words, and the idea of felicity conditions, as a theoretical lens to understand expert leadership influence. Felicity conditions refer to criteria that must be in place and satisfied for performative acts to achieve their purpose. As a theoretical contribution to knowledge I found first that, for expert leadership influence to be felicitous, football managers need to meet, in the requisite way, conditions of; authority and be authorised beyond the position they hold; which is granted by virtue of authenticity, in the way they operate in relation to others; and sincerity, with thoughts, intentions and motivations that embodied the virtue. This is mediated by interplay of thoughts, beliefs and expectations of people who interact with football managers and also what is rooted in historically affected cultures and traditions. Second, there is a dark side to this leadership that undeniably exists and in any study involving people who have great authority and hold powerful positions this reality needs to be truthfully told. Third, as a practical contribution my thesis proposes the Human Resources (HR) profession, and recruitment in general, moves away from traditional competency and behavioural practice, to selecting leaders on a values-based process, that assesses the fit of human values and the cultural of an organisation. My thesis allows the reader to reimagine expert leadership and proposes the need to examine what is human about the phenomenon in question. I conclude, the TEL is a paradoxical mix of perceptions of leadership qualities, human conditions and performativity in context.
Learning in the Time of COVID-19

In response to the uncertainties of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, universities closed to face-to-face learning, shifting entirely to online instruction midway through the spring 2020 semester. Understanding the impact of this shutdown on student learning is important for university planning; such efforts can help to clarify the tradeoffs associated with choices about continued online learning, re-opening of face-to-face learning, and possible short and long-term reclosures. In this paper, we compare student performance in the COVID-19 affected semester to that of the previous unaffected semester. We consider both student grades and student performance on standardized post-tests in introductory macroeconomics, microeconomics, and statistics courses. While course grades were statistically significantly higher in the COVID-19 affected semester, student performance on post-tests of general subject knowledge was slightly lower. Senior students and students enrolled in statistics courses were the most negatively affected, whereas non-white students and women recorded improvements. We conclude that the closure of campus to face-to-face instruction did not yield substantially worse learning outcomes for students.
The Protective Effect of Ascorbic Acid and Curcumin on the Chronic Toxicity of Meloxicam on the Testis of Adult Albino Rats

Meloxicam is a type of NSAIDs that has more selectivity on COX-2. Rehashed organization of meloxicam was accounted for to instigate testicular poisonousness, while curcumin and ascorbic corrosive have defensive properties against testicular injury. This examination was expected to explore the poisonous impacts of constant meloxicam organization on the testis, assess the part of oxidative worry in this impact and assess the conceivable defensive impact of curcumin and nutrient C each alone on this harmfulness. For progressive 63 days, grown-up male pale skinned person rodents were designated into 7 gatherings. Gathering A, regulated refined water; bunch B, directed corn oil; bunch C, managed curcumin [100 mg/kg/day intragastric] broke down in corn oil; bunch D, administrated ascorbic corrosive [200 mg/kg/day intragastric] disintegrated in refined water; bunch E, administrated meloxicam [8 mg/kg/day intragastric] broke down in refined water; bunch F, administrated intragastric meloxicam and curcumin in similar past portions and gathering G, administrated intragastric meloxicam and ascorbic corrosive in similar past dosages. Blood and testis tissue tests were gathered for biochemical, histopathological, and ultrastructural assessment. The outcomes uncovered that meloxicam organization in high rehashed dosages prompted a critical lessening in testis weight, sperm boundaries, and cell reinforcement movement of testicular tissue. Plasma testosterone level demonstrated non-critical lessening. Histopathological assessment uncovered rounded degeneration, intercellular vaculaization, interstitial edema and blockage of veins. The ultrastructure assessment uncovered cytoplasmic vacuolations and mitochondrial growing of spermatogenic and sertoli cells. Attendant organization of curcumin or ascorbic corrosive with meloxicam improved these changes. End: The outcomes explained the solid defensive impact of curcumin and ascorbic acids each alone on meloxicam prompted testicular harmfulness in rodents at biochemical, histopathological, and ultrastructural levels.
Utilization of Food by Products in Preparing Low-Calorie Biscuits

This research aims to utilization of food processing by products such as orange peels and apple pomace in some low-calorie bakery products, where this research was to explore the possibility of using of why protein concentration and some food processing by products (i.e. orange peels and apple pomace) as a fat replacers in biscuits . Impacts on physical, chemical, sensory and nutritional characteristics biscuits samples were prepared by replacing butter up to 75 by whey protein concentrate, orange peels and apple pomace, which were comparable to their full-fat biscuits. Obtained results showed an observed. decreases in fat content and caloric value in biscuits sample, beside the increase amount in protein content in biscuits prepared with whey protein concentrate and also increased in crude fiber in prepared biscuits sample orange peels and apple pomace. Sensory characteristics of biscuits prepared with fat replacers showed that color, taste, flavor and overall acceptability of biscuits prepared using different fat replacement (whey protein concentrate) at levels of 25, 50 and 75% of butter was increased by the increasing replacement levels, but overall acceptability value of biscuits prepared using (orange peels and apple pomace ) was accepted at level of 50% and 25%, respectively.
The Role of Job Satisfaction in the Effect of Compensation on Employee Performance

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of compensation on job satisfaction, to determine the effect of compensation on lecturer performance through job satisfaction. The population and sample in this study were 52 permanent lecturers at the LP3M Superior Polytechnic. Furthermore, the sampling technique uses saturated samples. Then the data collection technique used a questionnaire with a Likert scale. Data analysis using path analysis. Path analysis is used to see the direct and indirect effects of compensation, job satisfaction and performance variables. The results showed that compensation and work discipline had a positive and significant effect on lecturer job satisfaction. Furthermore, the indirect effect shows that the compensation variable has no effect on lecturer performance through job satisfaction.