Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
21st CENTURY SKILLS OF PRINCIPALS IN THE SECONDARY
SCHOOLS OF NAKHORN NAYOK, THAILAND

st The objectives of this study were to find out the 21 century skills and the skills quotient of principals in Nakhorn Nayok public schools based on self-assessment and peer assessment by their department heads and to find out if there is correlation of the self assessment and the assessment done by the department heads. Respondents of this study are ten principals and 67 department heads. Random sampling was used in the study. This study utilized the descriptive method. The instrument utilized for gathering the data was an adopted questionnaire from the National Association of Secondary School Principals (www.nassp.org), but translation to the Thai language was done to suit the respondents and was tested for its validity and reliability. The data were statistically analyzed and interpreted through basic statistics, such as frequency, percentage, and mean; and inferential statistics, such as Pearson's correlation coefficient (Pearson r), t-test for significant difference of the self and peer assessment. Findings revealed that principals in Nakhorn ayok schools have st high 21 skills quotient based on self-assessment (4.57) and department heads assessment (4.49). Specifically, it was also found out that there is no difference in the self assessment in the following indicators: setting instructional direction (t. =0.95), teamwork (t. = 0.48666), sensitivity (t. =1.0409), development of other (t. = 1.614), and results orientation 05 (t. =0.95). However, it was found out that there is a difference in the following indicators: oral communication 05 (t. =4.097), judgment (t. = 0.643885), organizational ability (t =2.63), written communication (t. = 4.097 ), and 05 understanding strengths and weakness (t. = 3.95). Using Pearson's r correlation, it was found out that there is a high 05 st correlation (r.01=.468) at . 01 level of significance between self and peer assessment of the 21 century skills of principals. ) Therefore, the indicators with significant difference on self evaluation and department head's evaluation st should given attention. There should be capability building for enhancement of the 21 century skills of the principals.
Comparison of NTA and Elemental Sulfur as Potential Soil Amendments in Phytoremediation

The effect of NTA (nitrilotriacetic acid) and elemental sulfur (S), two soil amendments suggested for the enhancement of metal phytoavailability in phytoextraction, on heavy metal uptake by Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) and Zea mays (maize) were studied and compared in two Zn-, Cu-, Cd -, and Pb-contaminated soils from northern Switzerland. Experiments were performed in the greenhouse with topsoil (0 to 20 cm) material from two locations, Dornach and Rafz. The Dornach soil was calcareous and had been contaminated by dust emissions from a nearby brass metal smelter. The Rafz soil, free of carbonates, had been polluted by former sewage sludge application. Soil amendments with S increased the solubility (NaNO3 extraction) of Zn and Cd about 10-fold in Dornach soil and up to 30-fold in Rafz soil after 55 days. Zn and Cd removal by N. tabacum and Z. mays, however, increased only about 5.5- and 2.5-fold in these treatments in Rafz soil, respectively, while in the Dornach soil only a slight increase for Cd was found. Repeated NTA application increased soluble Zn, Cu, and Cd about 100-, 20-, and 19-fold in the Dornach soil and 13-, 4-, and 2-fold in the Rafz soil shortly after application. Soluble Pb was increased by NTA up to 50-fold in Rafz soil. After 90 days soluble heavy metal concentrations were only slightly elevated in both soils. Again, however, Zn, Cd, and Cu removal by N. tabacum and Z. mays increased only about 1.5- to 2.5-fold in the two soils, whereas Pb removal by N. tabacum increased about fivefold in the Rafz soil as a result of NTA application
The Effect of Transformational Leadership and Dimensions Organizational Commitment as Moderate Variable Towards the Performance of e-government Government of Pariaman City

This study aims to examine the influence of transformational leadership dimensions (inspirational motivation, idealized influence, individual consoneration, intellectual stimulation) and organizational commitment as a moderating variable on e-government performance in the City Government of Pariaman. This study uses a survey method with an instrument in the form of a questionnaire. The population in this study was Pariaman City Civil Servants, totaling 1114 people. The number of samples taken as many as 167 civil servants in 6 Regional Organizations in the City Government of Pariaman. The sampling technique uses the Multistage Random Sampling technique in which in determining the sample multilevel selection is performed. Data analysis uses multiple linear regression and Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA). The results showed that inspirational motivation, idealized influence and individual consoneration had a positive effect on e-government performance. While intellectual stimulation has no effect on e-government performance. each dimension of transformational leadership dimensions (inspirational motivation, idealized influence, individual consederation, intellectual stimulation) when moderated by variable organizational commitment doesn't show positive influence on e-government performance.
Letting the public in: Dialectic tensions when governments use ICT to engage citizens

Among the raft of information systems (IS) applications developed for use by local governments are those that attempt to introduce more open community engagement (CE) and facilitate e-democracy. In this paper, we report on a longitudinal study that reveals how the open nature of e-democracy challenges the practices of government bureaucracies. In 2012, we partnered with the Community Engagement Team of a Local Government Council in Australia, to study their planning for, and use of, IS for CE. Our study involved an action research intervention to gain a rich understanding of the contradictory demands of the bureaucratic imperative of the Council and the informal activities of the community. This was the first step of a longitudinal qualitative study of the Council’s e- democracy efforts over the ensuing seven years. Our analysis has been conducted through a dialectic lens, informed by the Cynefin sense-making framework. Our theoretical contribution is an e-Democracy Framework that incorporates the dialectic between the ordered environment of government and the community view that is ill-defined and unordered. As a practical contribution, government organisations can use the Framework to assess the current status of their CE and design a CE strategy to make interactions with civil society more meaningful.
Prevention of Covid-19 Infection and Related Complications by Ozonized Oils

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the human population; therefore, multiple prevention and intervention protocols are being rapidly developed. The aim of our study was to develop a new chemo-prophylactic/-therapeutic strategy that effectively prevents COVID-19 and related complications. Methods: In in vitro studies, COVID-19 infection-sensitive cells were incubated with human oropharyngeal fluids containing high SARS-CoV-2 loads. Levels of infection were determined via intra-cellular virus loads using quantitative PCR (qPCR). Efficacies for infection prevention were determined using several antiviral treatments: lipid-encapsulated ozonized oil (HOO), water-soluble HOO (HOOws), UV, and hydrogen peroxide. In in vivo studies, safety and efficacy of HOO in fighting COVID-19 infection was evaluated in human subjects. Results: HOO in combination with HOOws was the only treatment able to fully neutralize SARS-CoV-2 as well as its capacity to penetrate and reproduce inside sensitive cells. Accordingly, the feasibility of using HOO/HOOws was tested in vivo. Analysis of expired gas in healthy subjects indicates that HOO administration increases oxygen availability in the lung. For our human studies, HOO/HOOws was administered to 52 cancer patients and 21 healthy subjects at high risk for COVID-19 infection, and all of them showed clinical safety. None of them developed COVID-19 infection, although an incidence of at least 11 cases was expected. Efficacy of HOO/HOOws was tested in four COVID-19 patients obtaining recovery and qPCR negativization in less than 10 days. Conclusions: Based on our experience, the HOO/HOOws treatment can be administered at standard doses (three pills per day) for chemo-prophylactic purposes to healthy subjects for COVID-19 prevention and at high doses (up to eight pills per day) for therapeutic purposes to infected patients. This combined prevention strategy can provide a novel protocol to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mean-Nonovershooting Control of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems

We present mean-nonovershooting tracking control designs for stochastic strict-feedback nonlinear systems. Compared with the existing stochastic nonlinear tracking designs, the advantage of our design is that arbitrary reference trajectories can be tracked “from below. ” We first consider a special class of stochastic nonlinear systems where the diffusion terms satisfy the linear growth condition and the drift terms are in special triangular forms. A new controller is designed to guarantee that the mean of the system output can asymptotically track a given trajectory without overshooting while keeping all of the states mean-square bounded. In this case, an appealing feature in our design is that strict mean-nonovershooting tracking is achieved while the existing results on nonlinear systems with deterministic disturbance can only achieve practical nonovershooting tracking. Then, we design a new controller for general stochastic strict-feedback nonlinear systems to ensure that the mean of overshoot can be tuned to be arbitrarily small while all the states of the closed-loop system remain bounded in probability. In this case, the new design ingredient is that our control gains are independent of the initial conditions of system states, and the initial conditions of derivatives of the reference trajectory. This is in contrast with the existing results on corresponding deterministic systems whose control gains heavily rely on these initial conditions. Finally, two simulation examples are given to illustrate the stochastic nonlinear nonovershooting tracking designs.
Convergence properties for the partial sums of widely orthant dependent random variables under some integrable assumptions and their applications

Widely orthant dependence (WOD, in short) is a special dependence structure. In this paper, by using the probability inequalities and moment inequalities for WOD random variables, we study the Lp convergence and complete convergence for the partial sums respectively under the conditions of RCI(α), SRCI(α) and R-h-integrability. We also give an application to nonparametric regression models based on WOD errors by using the Lp convergence that we obtained. Finally we carry out some simulations to verify the validity of our theoretical results.
Potential bioactive compounds in health promotion from broccoli cultivars grown in Spain

Glucosinolates, phenolic compounds and vitamin C were evaluated in two commercial and 12 experimental cultivars of broccoli (Brassica oleracea L var italica) grown under uniform cultural conditions. The predominant glucosinolates in all broccoli cultivars were 4-methylsulphinylbutyl glucosinolate (glucoraphanin) and 3-indolylmethyl glucosinolate (glucobrassicin). Other glucosinolates such as 4-OH-glucobrassicin and N-methoxyglucobrassicin were detected in lower amounts. The total glucosinolate concentration ranged from 3.0 µmol g−1 dw (dry weight) in Pentathlon (experimental cultivar) to 28.3 µmol g−1 dw in I-9905 (experimental cultivar). Flavonoids, caffeic acid derivatives and sinapic acid derivatives were quantified in methanol extracts. The largest content of flavonoids was found in the commercial cultivars Marathon and Lord, around 60 mg kg−1 fw (fresh weight). The vitamin C content of broccoli ranged from 43.1 mg per 100 g fw in Lord (commercial cultivar) to 146.3 mg per 100 g fw in SG-4515 (experimental cultivar). © 2002 Society of Chemical Industry
A Resonance Raman Method for the Rapid Detection and Identification of Bacteria in Water

Resonance Raman spectra are reported for 16 types of carotene-containing bacteria and algae in aqueous dispersion. Spectra are obtained with ease from organisms grown in culture and collected by centrifugation. In many instances spectra produced with 488 nm incident radiation are sufficiently unique to provide a basis for identification. While most information is contained in the 900 to 1600 cm−1 region, several bacteria exhibit pronounced carotenoid overtone and combination bands which can be assigned along with the fundamental vibrations.
Provision of a Model to Spread the Use of Information Technology in Serving

After the arrival of new technologies to communities, the way of using these technologies in organizations had been encountered with several developments. An organization's authorities necessarily need to understand that today accountability and acceptance responsibility in organizational serving criteria has been reached into the field of information technology. Dependency of organizations and employees and referrers, as well as organizational processes and procedures on information technology tool has doubled the necessity to take seriously the issue called information technology universality in server organizations. Therefore, information technology universality is an organizational advantage. Organizations need to be managed effectively in information technology universality for serving in order to succeed. The purpose of this article is to provide appropriate and desirable strategies for serving by spreading the use of information technology. The effective factors on spreading the use of information technology for serving have been firstly identified in this article. Then, the current and desirable status of organization in terms of the use of information technology has been investigated. In continue the appropriate strategies have been provided to apply information technology for serving in this institution while identifying critical factors.
JENDL-4.0: A New Library for Nuclear Science and Engineering

The fourth version of the Japanese Evaluated Nuclear Data Library has been produced in cooperation with the Japanese Nuclear Data Committee. In the new library, much emphasis is placed on the improvements of fission product and minor actinoid data. Two nuclear model codes were developed in order to evaluate the cross sections of fission products and minor actinoids. Coupled-channel optical model parameters, which can be applied to wide mass and energy regions, were obtained for nuclear model calculations. Thermal cross sections of actinoids were carefully examined by considering experimental data or by the systematics of neighboring nuclei. Most of the fission cross sections were derived from experimental data. A simultaneous evaluation was performed for the fission cross sections of important uranium and plutonium isotopes above 10 keV. New evaluations were performed for the thirty fissionproduct nuclides that had not been contained in the previous library JENDL-3.3. The data for light elements and structural materials were partly reevaluated. Moreover, covariances were estimated mainly for actinoids. The new library was released as JENDL-4.0, and the data can be retrieved from the Web site of the JAEA Nuclear Data Center.
Micellar solubilization of biopolymers in organic solvents. 5. Activity and conformation of .alpha.-chymotrypsin in isooctane-AOT reverse micelles

The enzymatic activity of . cap alpha. -chymotrypsin solubilized in reverse micelles formed in isooctane by bis(2-ethylhexyl)sodium sulfosuccinate and water (0.6 to 2.5% v:v) has been investigated with the use of n-glutaryl-l-phenylalanine p-nitroanilide as the substrate. The enzyme obeys Michaelis-Menten kinetics in the investigated concentration range, with Km values which are considerably higher than those in bulk water (when concentrations are referred to as water pools). Under certain conditions, there is an enhanced turnover number (up to a factor of 6) in micelles with respect to the aqueous solution. The pH profile of the enzyme activity in the hydrocarbon micellar solution is different from that in water, being shifted to higher pH values and the more so the lower the water content. Under conditions of low water content (0.6 to 1% v:v) the enzyme's stability is greater than in aqueous solution. Structure and activity changes are discussed in terms of the size and structure of the micellar aggregate. 29 references.
Determining the Canopy Water Stress for Spring Wheat Using Canopy Hyperspectral Reflectance Data in Loess Plateau Semiarid Regions

Crop water stress significantly reduces crop yield. Several studies have employed optical and remote-sensing methods to obtain nondamage monitoring crop water content to understand the agriculture drought process. In this paper, the spectral information (i.e., the canopy absorption feature at the 350–2500 nm band range) from the field experiments was used to estimate and identify the canopy water stress. Five different levels of water treatments exist in the spring wheat field in the semiarid regions of Loess Plateau, Northwest China. The hyperspectral reflectance, soil moisture content, soil water potential, canopy water content, amount of chlorophyll, leaf area index, and environmental parameters were measured. The relationship between canopy reflectance and canopy water content was analyzed at different water stress levels. In addition, various spectral indices were tested by measurements. Results showed that a high correlation exists in semiarid water index-1, semiarid water index-2, and red-edge normalized difference vegetation index, thus denoting that these indices can indicate water stress effectively. We can conclude that canopy reflectance can identify crop water stress and can be used to develop a certain index for monitoring agriculture drought.
Predicting Potential SARS-COV-2 Drugs—In Depth Drug Database Screening Using Deep Neural Network Framework SSnet, Classical Virtual Screening and Docking

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 has altered life on a global scale. A concerted effort from research labs around the world resulted in the identification of potential pharmaceutical treatments for CoVID-19 using existing drugs, as well as the discovery of multiple vaccines. During an urgent crisis, rapidly identifying potential new treatments requires global and cross-discipline cooperation, together with an enhanced open-access research model to distribute new ideas and leads. Herein, we introduce an application of a deep neural network based drug screening method, validating it using a docking algorithm on approved drugs for drug repurposing efforts, and extending the screen to a large library of 750,000 compounds for de novo drug discovery effort. The results of large library screens are incorporated into an open-access web interface to allow researchers from diverse fields to target molecules of interest. Our combined approach allows for both the identification of existing drugs that may be able to be repurposed and de novo design of ACE2-regulatory compounds. Through these efforts we demonstrate the utility of a new machine learning algorithm for drug discovery, SSnet, that can function as a tool to triage large molecular libraries to identify classes of molecules with possible efficacy.
Raman Spectroscopic Investigations of Dicalcium Silicate: Polymorphs and High‐Temperature Phase Transformations

Polymorphs and high-temperature phase transformations of dicalcium silicate (Ca{sub 2}SiO{sub 4}) are investigated on powdered samples, using Raman scattering techniques. Raman spectra at room conditions of pure {gamma}- and {beta}-Ca{sub 2}SiO{sub 4} and stabilized {beta}-,{alpha}{prime}{sub L}-, and {alpha}-Ca{sub 2}SiO{sub 4} are presented in the frequency range of 110--1,110 cm{sup {minus}1}. Each polymorph can be identified by its Raman spectrum, even though strong similarities exist between the {beta}, {alpha}{prime}{sub L}, and {alpha} phases. In-situ high-temperature Raman spectroscopic studies in the temperature range of 298--1,433 K on heating and cooling also are reported, starting from {gamma}-Ca{sub 2}SiO{sub 4}. Modifications occurring in the Raman spectra recorded in the wavenumber range of 90--1,000 cm{sup {minus}1} show up during heating, the irreversible {gamma} {r_arrow} {alpha}{prime}{sub L} phase transformation. Coexistence of {gamma} and {alpha}{prime}{sub L} grains is observed in the temperature range of 1,091--1,119 K at least. The differences observed between the {gamma}-Ca{sub 2}SiO{sub 4} and {alpha}{prime}{sub L}-Ca{sub 2}SiO{sub 4} Raman spectra suggest that this phase transformation is a reconstructive first-order transition. The reversible {alpha}{prime}{sub L} {r_equilibrium} {beta} phase transformation also is described. Raman spectra of pure {beta} and {alpha}{prime}{sub L} phases resemble each other. The transition occurs from 949 K, on cooling, to 960--988 K,more » on heating, with a hysteresis probably dependent on the thermal history of the starting product. From the Raman scattering observations, this phase transformation also is considered as a first-order transformation and is probably of a displacive type. « less
“The Power of Ethical Leadership”: The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Creativity, the Mediating Function of Psychological Safety, and the Moderating Role of Ethical Leadership

A body of existing literature delves into how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects employees’ cognition, emotion, and behavior within an organization. These previous studies, however, pay relatively little attention to the influence of CSR on levels of creativity in employees. Considering that creativity is closely related to innovative capability, which is critical for a firm to survive, the relationship between CSR and employees’ creativity and its elaborate underlying processes need further investigation. Based on a group creativity model, we argue that CSR may increase levels of creativity in employees through mediation of enhanced levels of psychological safety in employees. In addition, existing works on CSR have relatively underexplored the contextual role of leadership in translating CSR practices into employees’ attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. Using three-wave time-lagged survey data from 311 employees in South Korea, we found that CSR enhances employees’ creativity via mediation of psychological safety. Additionally, ethical leadership positively moderates the relationship between CSR and psychological safety. Our findings suggest that psychological safety in employees functions as an important underlying mechanism to describe the CSR–employee creativity link. Furthermore, this paper emphasizes the importance of the moderating role of ethical leadership in the process of CSR activities.