Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Landscape of Electronics Instruction: Teachers’ Teaching Difficulties and Coping Strategies

Electronics course is one of the vital components of Technical Vocational and Livelihood strand of the K to 12 Curriculum. As such, evaluation of the electronics instruction is vital. In such light, this case study explored the teaching difficulties and coping strategies of two electronics teachers. The interviews with teachers and learners, classroom observations, and focus group with the learners revealed that difficulty in dealing with diverse learners and lack of teaching resources are the identified difficulties of the teachers. With these difficulties, using varied learning activities and buying or borrowing instructional materials are the coping strategies of the teachers. Therefore, this study posits that successful electronics instruction is dependent on capability of teachers to deal with the diversity among learners and the availability of learning resources.
Supporting the wellness of laity: clinicians and Catholic deacons as mental health collaborators

ABSTRACT Religion is a salient part of cultural competence for mental health clinicians. This paper describes rationales for clinicians to work with a less well-known Catholic clergy: permanent deacons. Demographic, personality structure and religious commitment data from nearly 2,000 deacons support collaboration with clinicians to improve the continuity of mental health care. Guidelines for this work are provided by the Clergy Outreach & Professional Engagement (COPE) model: clergy first support mental health without clinicians, then clergy may need to reach out to clinicians, then clinicians may need to reach out to clergy to provide care salient to persons of religious faith and to help sustain recovery. Deacon examples are provided throughout the paper. Future research is recommended.
Hubungan Tingkat Pengetahuan Petugas Pengelola Obat dengan Tingkat Ketersediaan Obat Di Puskesmas Kota Malang

Pengelolaan obat merupakan kegiatan mengelola sediaan farmasi untuk menjamin keamanan produk, dan terhindar dari kerusakan fisik maupun kimia. Indikator yang dapat digunakan salah satunya adalah tingkat ketersediaan obat. Tingkat ketersediaan obat merupakan nilai persentase jumlah obat yang diperlukan di puskesmas harus sesuai dengan keperluan masyarakat sehingga jumlah obat di gudang puskesmas minimal harus sama dengan jumlah stok selama waktu tunggu kedatangan obat. Petugas pengelola obat harus memiliki pengetahuan tentang pengelolaan obat di puskesmas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan tingkat pengetahuan petugas pengelola obat dengan tingkat ketersediaan obat di beberapa Puskesmas Kota Malang. Penelitian yang dilakukan merupakan observasional analitik cross sectional. Teknik pengambilan sampel responden adalah dengan total sampling. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah kuesioner pengetahuan petugas pengelola obat dan lembar pengumpul data tingkat ketersediaan yang dilihat dari data LPLPO. Hasil rata-rata persentase pengetahuan 10 petugas adalah 84,32%, yang termasuk dalam kategori baik. Hasil rata-rata persentase tingkat ketersediaan obat adalah 64,19%. Kategorisasi persentase tingkat ketersediaan obat terdiri dari sebanyak 10% dengan kategori baik, 70% dengan kategori cukup, dan 20% dengan kategori kurang. Hasil uji statistik korelasi dengan Uji Rank Spearman menunjukkan nilai Spearman Correlation adalah -0.034 (p=0.870), menunjukkan bahwa tidak ada hubungan antara tingkat pengetahuan petugas pengelola obat dengan tingkat ketersediaan obat di puskesmas Kota Malang.
(Re)examining the effects of open classroom climate on the critical consciousness of preadolescent and adolescent youth

Abstract An open classroom climate, one where diverse opinions and discussion of social and political issues are welcome, promotes civic development among youth and fosters critical consciousness. Critical consciousness, defined as the capacity to recognize societal inequity along with the motivation and action taken to challenge such inequity and promote positive social change, also engenders civic development and engagement. Advancements in critical consciousness measurement and changes in the sociopolitical climate over the past two decades suggest the need to reexamine the effects of open classroom climate on critical consciousness. This paper explores the extent to which an open classroom climate is associated with critical consciousness in a contemporary, diverse sample of preadolescent and adolescent youth (n = 4,901, Mage = 14.69). Results suggest open classroom climate is linked with the reflection, motivation, and action dimensions of critical consciousness. Implications for promoting an open classroom climate and critical consciousness are discussed.
COVID19 Pandemic: How Effective Are Interventive Control Measures and Is A Complete Lockdown Justified? A Comparison of Countries and States

Background For fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, countries used control measures of different severity, from ‘relaxed’ to lockdown. Drastic lockdown measures are considered more effective, but also have a negative impact on the economy. When comparing the financial value of lost lives to the losses of an economic disaster, the better option seems to be lockdown measures.Methods We developed a new parameter, the effectiveness of control measures, calculated from the 2nd time derivative of daily case data, and normalised to the average of the daily case data during the effective phase; and also calculated from the derivative of the logarithm of the reproductive number. We calculated this parameter and two associated parameters, i.e. effectiveness, duration of effective phase, and ratio of the 2 former parameters, for 92 countries, states and provinces, whose effective phase ended the latest on 15 May 2020. We compared these effectiveness parameters, and also the mortality during and after the effective phase, for countries with and without lockdown measures by means of the Mann-Whitney test.Results We did not find any statistically significant difference in the three effectiveness parameters, between countries with and without lockdown (p > 0.76; very small effect size). There was also no significant difference in mortality during the effective phase (p > 0.1; very small to small effect sizes), however a significant difference after the effective phase, with higher mortality for lockdown countries. The effectiveness parameter derived from the daily case data correlated well with the parameter derived from the reproductive number (R2 = 0.9480). The average duration of the effective phase was 17.3 ± 10.5 days.Conclusions The results indicate that lockdown measures are not necessarily superior to relaxed measures, which in turn are not necessarily a recipe for failure. Relaxed measures are, however, more economy-friendly. The higher mortality of lockdown countries is explained from the fact that, in our database, more lockdown countries than no-lockdown countries have higher mortality already during the effective phase that became significant only after the effective phase.
Analysis on Cytotoxicity and Oxidative Damage of Iron Nano-Composite on Allium cepa L. Root Meristems

Summary The toxic eﬀect of iron in nano-composite and salt form was tested on onion ( Allium cepa L.) root tip cells in this study. Heavy metals are core pollutants of the environment but their toxicity is dose dependant and has an issue in the state of Odisha particularly in iron contaminated soil for crop production and its food chain associated human health hazard. Plants growing in such an environment are the mute witnesses to these contaminations and crop plants played a major role as carriers of heavy metal. Onion is a biomarker that is used for various genotoxic studies as it has large chromosomes, pronounced mitotic phases in the root tip. Root growth dynamics are very sensitive to any kind of pollution. Iron accumulation within the plants can be toxic at the cellular level. Stable iron oxide/ silica nano-composite (Fe 2 O 3 NC) is characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). An increase in chromosomal aberrations in root meristems along with lipid peroxidation and a decrease in SOD activity was clearly seen after treatment with FeNC. Since, iron oxide nanocomposites, owing to their submicron dimension, permeate into the intracellular space and produce hydrogen peroxide that leads to an increase in an oxidative burst in the cell. To mitigate oxidative damage, scavenging of antioxidative enzymes were found in FeNC treatment more as compare to its salt form. However, a high dose of FeNC found carcino-genic in A. cepa root tip that might have the potential for human health hazards.
City-State Britain: A Counter-Narrative to ‘Brexit’

ABSTRACT The incipient crisis of the British state, which seems so apparent in ‘Brexit’, the move towards Scottish Independence, and the succession of minority governments, ought to be understood as a historical conjuncture. This conjuncture has entailed a profound reconfiguration of the social relations that constitute the British state-territory in the context of the world-system, making of it something as geographical as it is historical. Understanding this reconfiguration in novel, innovative, critical, productive or even sublative ways seems therefore to be a priority in the study of post-Brexit British politics and global political economy. Furthermore, as ‘Brexit’ has become the dominant narrativization of the objective conditions and subjective perceptions of this crisis, a convincing counter-narrative must be conceived for critical thinking and praxis. In the struggle over how to define our crisis in the British state, and drawing upon Critical Urban Theory, World-System Analysis, and poststructuralist political thought, the paper introduces the concept of the axiomatic city-state. This concept offers not merely an alternative empirical characterisation of the reconfigured British state, but a means of conceptualising broader transformations across the world-system at large. More importantly, it suggests a politically potent means for exploring critical vocabularies, strategies, and perhaps organization into the near future.
Change Detection in Image Time-Series Using Unsupervised LSTM

Deep learning-based unsupervised change detection (CD) methods compare a prechange and a postchange image in deep feature space and require precise knowledge of the event date for selecting proper pre-/post-change images. However, in many applications changes may occur gradually over a span of time making pre-/post-dates difficult to establish or prior knowledge of event date is unknown. On the other hand, deep learning-based time-series analysis methods are generally supervised. Considering such scenarios, we propose a novel unsupervised deep learning-based method to detect changes in an image time-series. The method does not make any assumption on the date of the occurrence of the change event. It treats CD as an anomaly detection problem by exploiting multilayer long short term memory (LSTM) network to learn a representation of the time series. The proposed method ingests a shuffled time series and uses an encoder–decoder LSTM model to rearrange the input sequence in correct order. While the model fails to rearrange the changed pixels, unchanged data can be rearranged in the correct order. This enables the identification of the changed pixels. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, we tested it on two multitemporal Sentinel-1 data sets over Brumadinho, Brazil, and Bhavanisagar, India.
Gender differences in the relationships between work-to-family conflict and satisfaction among dual-earner spouses

ABSTRACT The study explores how gender affects the relationships linking work-to-family conflict to job and life satisfaction among dual-earner spouses. Data were collected from 157 paired Chinese managers and their spouses. Our findings supported a pattern of gender asymmetry in both the within-person effect and the crossover effect. For the within-person effect, we found the relationship between work-to-family conflict and job satisfaction was negative for wives, but null for husbands, the relationship between work-to-family conflict and life satisfaction was negative for husbands, but null for wives. As for the crossover effect, husbands’ work-to-family conflict was negatively related to wives’ life satisfaction, but wives’ work-to-family conflict had a null relationship with husbands’ life satisfaction. Theoretical implication and future research directions are discussed.
Diffuse Scattering Directive Model Parameterization Method for Construction Materials at mmWave Frequencies

The determination for diffuse scattering model parameters is of critical importance to improve the accuracy of prediction and analysis for millimeter-wave radio propagation. In this paper, a reliable parameterization method with a simplified tuning procedure for a diffuse scattering model is proposed and validated based on measurements and ray-tracing simulations. Typical construction materials are measured from 40 GHz to 50 GHz, and the complex permittivity is estimated by the propagation coefficients match method. The directive model, which can better characterize the scattering patterns of construction materials in this paper, is adopted to calibrate the ray-tracing simulation. Model parameterization is performed and simulated results with the optimal model parameters show distinct accuracy improvement.
Impact of Adoption of Directly Measured Low-Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol (LDL-C) on Targets of Lipid Control and Its Comparison With Friedewald Formula-Calculated LDL Cholesterol in People With Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus

Objectives: The accurate and precise measurement of low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) is important in the assessment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk (ASCVD) in people with diabetes mellitus. This study is aimed at comparing directly measured LDL-C with Friedewald formula (FF)-calculated LDL-C (c-LDL-C) in people with type-2 diabetes. Methods: Fasting lipid profiles of 1905 people with type-2 diabetes, whose LDL-C was estimated by direct LDL assay, were chosen for the study. In the same group, LDL-C was calculated with FF. Correlation and agreement between these methods were analyzed at various strata of triglycerides (TGs). The possibility of misclassifying people at various levels of LDL-C targets proposed in literature was calculated. Results: The mean LDL-C levels were lower in the c-LDL-C group across various TG strata. A significant correlation was found between c-LDL-C and direct LDL-C for all the study samples (r = 0.948, P < .001) and across all TG strata. Analysis of agreement showed a positive bias for direct LDL-C which increased at higher strata of TGs. c-LDL-C underestimated ASCVD by misclassifying people at various LDL-C target levels. Conclusion: There is a difference between direct LDL-C and c-LDL-C values in people with diabetes and this may result in misclassifying ASCVD especially at lower levels of LDL-C and higher levels of TGs.
Attitudes about and Perpetration of Violence against Women among Turkish Men

This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of men regarding violence against women. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. Research data were collected using a Men’s Information Form and a Scale of Attitude towards Violence against Women. The mean age of the participating men was 39.54 ± 13.55 years. The men’s general mean score for attitude regarding violence was 52.02 ± 10.81, which showed that such attitudes had a patriarchal tendency. In the univariate analyses, there was a significant difference between age group, education status, place of residence, situations of domestic violence and violent behaviour against mothers or wives, years of marriage and wife’s education status and the scores of the Scale of Attitudes towards Violence against Women (p < 0.05). Based on our findings, it is suggested that socioeconomic factors such as witnessing and experiencing violence in childhood, female unemployment, low education level, unemployment and poverty, and place of residence affect and increase violence against women. Original Research Article Bolsoy et al.; JALSI, 23(12): 18-30, 2020; Article no.JALSI. 63087 19
Platooning of Car-Like Vehicles in Urban Environments: Longitudinal Control Considering Actuator Dynamics, Time Delays, and Limited Communication Capabilities

This brief proposes a longitudinal control framework for platooning in an urban environment. The targeted application is to redistribute vehicles involved in car-sharing systems, where only the leader vehicle is human-driven. We propose a platoon model and control law considering actuator dynamics. This control relies on a hybrid information flow topology (IFT), where the leader broadcasts its state, but each follower only measures the position of its predecessor. A consensus-based control law incorporates the effect of the network/sensor time delay and the variable velocity of the leader. Conditions for the platoon internal and string stability are given. Experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the framework in simulation and real experiments with three commercial cars.
COMPUTER SIMULATION OF STRUCTURAL VIBRATION DAMPING WITH ALLOWANCE FOR NONLOCAL PROPERTIES

Different approaches to the computer simulation of damping properties of structural elements, which are made of materials with complicated physical structure, such as composites and nano-materials, are considered in this paper. In such cases application of classical models, e.g. ones based on the Kelvin-Voight hypothesis, can lead to the results that are not even close to the real composite structure behavior. The main point of the proposed approaches is delocalization of the damping effects in space and time. The described nonlocal damping models are more flexible in comparison to classic ones. The model calibration based on the experiment data allows to determine the optimum value of the characteristic parameter of nonlocal model using the least square method. The results of three-dimensional numerical simulation of the composite beam vibration were used for model calibration. The numerical simulation was implemented in SIMULIA Abaqus software. The material was considered as orthotropic; its parameters were picked up according to the physical properties of the real composite material. The developed beam vibration models considering nonlocal damping were created in MATLAB. The obtained results were compared to the results based on classic Kelvin-Voight damping model.
L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écrit

Nous etudions l’utilisation de la construction passive en francais ecrit, en mettant au jour des contraintes preferentielles. Nous avons extrait et annote un echantillon de 500 phrases (250 actives et 250 passives) du corpus arbore du francais (Abeille et al., 2019) puis nous avons modelise les donnees par regression logistique (Baayen, 2008). Si le passif court (sans complement d’agent) est plus frequent que le passif long (77 % des passifs sont courts), nous observons que dans pres de 80 % des cas de passif court, l’argument omis est recuperable en contexte. Nous montrons le role preponderant de la longueur des arguments et de la structure informationnelle dans l’alternance actif / passif. Nous montrons egalement que la construction passive obeit a des contraintes plus generales sur l’alignement harmonique des arguments (Bresnan et al., 2001 et 2007).
Correlated sensitivities in reliability analysis and probabilistic Burland-and-Burbidge method

ABSTRACT The first-order reliability method (FORM) is regarded by most practitioners as difficult in concept and implementation, despite its merits over the deterministic approach. Another hurdle in adopting probabilistic approach is the lack of data for estimating statistical inputs. This paper first illustrates a simple reliability-based design (RBD) with respect to the rotational limit state involving two correlated random variables, to facilitate understanding of reliability analysis using FORM. It is demonstrated that RBD-via-FORM offers valuable information and insights on parametric sensitivities at its design point. An intuitive graphical perspective in the space of correlated dimensionless sensitivity indicators is explained as a complementary alternative to the perspective in the space of original random variables. The effect of parametric correlations on parametric sensitivities is also investigated. This is followed by statistical analyses of the compressibility data in the empirical Burland and Burbidge method of settlement prediction, and subsequent probabilistic analysis of the serviceability limit state (SLS) of a water storage tank which was originally designed based on Eurocode 7 (EC7). Comparisons are made between reliability analysis and EC7 design. The importance of distinguishing negative from positive reliability indices is also explained. The complementary role of RBD-via-FORM to partial factor design approach is suggested.
An Estimated Search and Matching Model of the Croatian Labor Market: Post-crisis Analysis

The paper specifies a simple search and matching model of the labor market and studies how well the model can describe aggregate Croatian labor market dynamics. The model developed is a discrete-time search and matching model with convex vacancy posting costs and two types of shocks: productivity and separation shocks. The model is estimated on unemployment and vacancy data during the period from 2012 to 2020 by using Bayesian methods. The model fits the data well and the estimation shows that productivity shocks are the main driving force of the fluctuations in the labor market, especially for the case of vacancies and output, while the separation shock process accounts for a large percentage of unemployment fluctuations.
Can SMEs Capture the Social Media Phenomenon?: CRM Strategies to Improve Relationship Performance

This paper examines the implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and the role of social media in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Understanding these phenomena is very critical since SMEs have used social media to interact with their customers, however little researches has been conducted so far that linked social media and CRM capabilities. This study applied a sequential mixed method, including interview with informants, and surveys to a total of 206 respondents in the SMEs Gapura Digital forum. The collected data was checked using the structural equation modeling. This study clarifies that social media is a mandatory tool to connect with customer needs. In which the environmental context has a positive impact of 24% therefore, this study suggested an application of CRM in SMEs which is strongly motivated by the environmental context, such as a forum or group of SMEs that enable them to coordinate and exchange information easier among themselves. The study of this phenomenon is expected to contribute to the development of science, especially CRM and SMEs.
GREEN INVESTMENT DAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE TERHADAP NILAI PERUSAHAAN: PROFITABILITAS SEBAGAI PEMEDIASI

The purpose of this study determines the effect of corporate governance and green investment on firm value with profitability as a mediating variable. Corporate governance variables are proxied by independent commissioners, audit committees, managerial ownership, and managerial ownership. While the green investment variable is proxied by PROPER rating. This study uses 40 samples of companies registered in the 2014-2018 SRI KEHATI Index. The data analysis technique used is path analysis and multiple tests. The results of the study prove that corporate governance and green investment affect profitability, profitability influences peer value, and profitability can mediate the relationship between green investment and firm value.