Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hubungan antara penyeliaan pengajaran, kesediaan mengajar dan profesionalisme guru di kalangan guru teknikal

Bagi memperbaiki kualiti pendidikan, penyeliaan pengajaran yang berkesan perlu ditegaskan dalam proses pengajaran guru. Penyeliaan sebagai salah satu mekanisme penting dalam Standard Kualiti Pelajaran Malaysia (SKPM) untuk menjadikan pendidikan negara bertaraf dunia, sekali gus mengesan kelemahan dan membuat penambahbaikan. Kajian yang telah dijalankan adalah berbentuk kuantitatif untuk mengenal pasti hubungan antara penyeliaan pengajaran, kesediaan mengajar dan profesionalisme guru di kalangan guru teknikal. Kajian ini bertujuan bagi mengenal pasti persepsi guru terhadap tahap kepentingan penyeliaan pengajaran, tahap kesediaan mengajar guru semasa penyeliaan pengajaran berlaku dan hubungan di antara persepsi guru terhadap kepentingan penyeliaan pengajaran dengan tahap profesionalisme guru. Secara khususnya kajian ini adalah berbentuk tinjauan di mana setiap maklumat itu diperolehi daripada borang soal selidik yang diedarkan kepada guru teknikal di enam buah Sekolah Menengah Teknik di Pulau Pinang. Sampel kajian adalah seramai 120 orang responden. Dalam kajian rintis, nilai alpa penyeliaan pengajaran keseluruhan mencapai 0.963. Perisian Statiscal Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 13.0) digunakan dalam pemprosesan dan penganalisaan data. Kesemua data dianalisis dalam bentuk statistik deskriptif dan statistik inferensi. Kaedah frekuensi dan peratus digunakan untuk menganalisis profil responden. Kaedah purata skor digunakan menganalisis data bagi persepsi guru terhadap tahap kepentingan penyeliaan pengajaran dan tahap kesediaan guru semasa penyeliaan pengajaran. Kaedah korelasi Pearson digunakan untuk mengenal pasti hubungan di antara persepsi guru terhadap tahap kepentingan penyeliaan pengajaran dengan tahap profesionalisme guru. Dapatan kajian mendapati guru sedar akan kepentingan penyeliaan pengajaran dengan purata keseluruhan skor min 3.15 dan sisihan piawai adalah 0.593. Tahap kesediaan mengajar guru adalah tinggi iaitu purata keseluruhan skor min 3.39 dan sisihan piawai adalah 0.396. Keputusan yang diperolehi daripada analisis korelasi Pearson merupakan hubungan yang positif dengan pekali korelasi yang sederhana iaitu r = 0.502. Guru-guru perlu didedahkan kepada konsep dan matlamat penyeliaan pengajaran, justeru itu dapat memperkembangkan potensi guru secara berterusan dan meningkatkan profesionalisme guru.
Awareness-Based Recommendation: Toward the Human Adaptive and Friendly Interactive Learning System

This chapter describes the interactive learning system to assist positive change in the preference of a human toward the true preference. First, an introduction to interactive reinforcement learning with human in robot learning is given; then, the need to estimate the human’s preference and to consider its changes by interactive learning system is described. Second, requirements for interactive system as being human adaptive and friendly are discussed. Then, the passive interaction design of the system to assist the awareness for a human is proposed. The system behaves passively to reflect the human intelligence by visualizing the traces of his/her behaviors. Experimental results show that subjects are divided into two groups, heavy users and light users, and that there are different effects between them under the same visualizing condition. They also show that the system improves the efficiency for deciding the most preferred plan for both heavy users and light users. Awareness-Based Recommendation: Toward the Human Adaptive and Friendly Interactive Learning System Tomohiro Yamaguchi Nara National College of Technology, Japan Takuma Nishimura Nara National College of Technology, Japan & NTT WEST, Japan Keiki Takadama The University of Electro-Communications, Japan DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4225-6.ch006
Broadband acquisition, deblending, and imaging employing dispersed source arrays

With the latest advancements and improvements in recording equipment, field management systems, and vibrator mechanical and hydraulic systems, along with lighter detector/channel receiver station distributions, the quest for broadband acquisition, processing, and interpretation is more intense than ever. In an effort to reduce the acquisition cycle time and improve seismic imaging and resolution while optimizing costs, a number of unique land acquisition experiments were conducted, employing aggressive and nonaggressive blended source effort rules. The acquired data were used to demonstrate the effectiveness of source deblending technologies and full-waveform inversion (FWI) capabilities in such a unique data set. These experiments were unique in that the key field parameters needed for FWI, such as low frequencies (1.5–6 Hz), were recorded in combination with mid- and high-sweep frequency bandwidths and variable sweep lengths. This concept is described in the industry as a dispersed source array field ac.
Jur l Teknolog i Ana ysis ( Meth ds ( f ( EEG ( Signals : ( A ( Review ( in ( EEG ( Application ( for ( Brain ( Disorder

The electroencephalograph (EEG) is a medical modality that plays crucial roles in detecting, displaying and recording electrical activity in the brain. This paper reviews the analysis method of EEG signal for common diseases in Malaysia which are autism, Cerebral Palsy (CP), Parkinson and schizophrenia from Malaysian and worldwide research paper that has been published. Fast Fourier Transform, Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) and event-related potential (ERP) are some of the techniques used in analyzing EEG signal were discussed in this paper. It can be concluded that EEG plays its role as a detection tool to detect the disease in the early stage, rehabilitation, classification or as an assistive tool for the patient according to the needs of the diseases.
Dietary breadth and overlap among five sympatric prairie carnivores

Ecological communities are shaped, in part, by the manner in which similar species consume and partition food resources. To better understand the structure of a mammalian carnivore community from a prairie habitat in central North America, we determined the dietary breadth and overlap of sympatric American badgers Taxidea taxus, coyotes Canis latrans, red foxes Vulpes vulpes, raccoons Procyon lotor and striped skunks Mephitis mephitis, via stomach content analysis of 411 carcasses salvaged as part of a predator control program in southern Saskatchewan, Canada (2000–2001). Carnivores consumed a total of 25 separate food items; for all species except raccoons, the majority of stomachs contained mammals, whereas other foods such as amphibians, bird remains and insects were also recovered. Raccoon stomachs tended to contain wheat seed, eggshells and birds. Dietary breadth varied among the five carnivore species, being narrowest for raccoons and widest for skunks. Overall, dietary overlap tended to be highest for species pairings associated with the highest level of presumed niche similarity, which included raccoon–skunk and coyote–fox dyads. Yet, levels of dietary overlap exhibited notable interannual variability for most species pairings. The assessment of a larger assemblage of carnivores within a North American prairie community shows that marked interspecific and temporal variation in dietary breadth and overlap may characterize a guild of sympatric species occupying similar habitat.
Quality Management Systems as a Support for Value Creation

Purpose: To explore the role of a quality management system (QMS) for the assurance and improvement of value in an inter-organisational business relationship. The study was carried out in the public transportation industry, where service production has been outsourced. Methodology/approach: In-depth interviews were conducted with 26 participants from two organisations involved in an inter-organisational business relationship. From the interview material we identified what creates value in the inter-organisational business relationship and for the passengers of public transportation. All value drivers were categorised according to the central areas in a QMS. Findings: The results show that internal processes and management responsibility are central areas where value is destroyed. Since service production has been outsourced, this means that the intended value is never experienced by the passenger. Research limitations/implications: The value creators and destroyers identified originate from the suppliers’ view and focus on how the different suppliers together create value for public transportation passengers. 11th QMOD Conference. Quality Management and Organizational Development Attaining Sustainability From Organizational Excellence to Sustainable Excellence; 20-22 August; 2008 in Helsingborg; Sweden 735 Practical implications: Managers should acquire knowledge regarding the value they create or destroy and focus on improving the value creation process. The QMS can be used to assure and improve value creation in an inter-organisational business relationship. Originality/value: Our research contributes to shedding light on the difficulties and possibilities in value creation where service production has been outsourced.
Price Adjustment in Taiwan Retail Gasoline Market

This paper uses weekly data over a sample research period of 2002M4 - 2011M11 to estimate the impact of crude oil price on pre-tax retail gasoline price in Taiwan. We found that there is a significant, long-run equilibrium relationship between crude oil price and retail gasoline price. In the asymmetric ECM framework, this paper finds that there was distributed lag effect symmetry (DLES) between oil price and retail gasoline price. By the cumulated adjustment function, we show that retail gasoline price in Taiwan respond more quickly to reductions in crude oil price.
Genetic tracing of farmed shrimp (Decapoda, Penaeidae) in wild populations from a main aquaculture region in Mexico

Release or escapes of aquaculture organisms may impact the genetic composition and variability of wild populations, leading to diverse issues that may compromise long-term wild stock fitness. Therefore, it is relevant to determine if farmed stocks are currently interacting with wild populations. Shrimp farming is an aquaculture activity taking place along the tropical Pacific coast of the Americas, and represents the most important culture bussiness of Northwestern Mexico. In this study, wild and farmed whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei from the State of Sinaloa were genetically evaluated to determine admixture levels. A newly developed set of 14 microsatellite markers (mean number of alleles per locus 11.8, and 0.836 expected heterozygosity) was obtained by Next Generation Sequencing to characterize samples. Sampling consisted of 32 wild shrimps collected during three years (2002, 2012, and 2013) and three different sites, and two hatchery stocks from 2007. No significant differences were observed among years in the wild samples, but cluster analyses showed that hatchery-produced individuals were different from wild specimens. Deviations from Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium and genotype assignment tests indicated that a fraction from each sample could contain individuals from hatchery origin. Even though the estimated fraction of escaped farmed individuals in the most recent samples (2012-2013; mean = 7.1 %) is considered of low genetic risk, management recommendations for hatcheries and farms were provided. Besides, the reasons that explain the intended and unintended farmed shrimp release into the wild were discussed.
Distortion Impact on Low-Dimensional Manifold Recovery of High-Dimensional Data

In this paper, we investigate the effect of various kinds of distortions on the performance of subspace recovery using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). We verify that while PCA demonstrates relative good stability characteristics in presence of mild distortions, it suffers from major shortcomings to gross corruption of input observations, even if these corruptions are sparse. We present a performance evaluation study for the performance of the classical PCA under observation distortions and compare it with the performance of the Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) approach. We verify the effectiveness of RPCA in lower-dimensional subspace recovery under different kinds of distortions.
Mapping of Cotton-Melon Aphid Resistance in Melon

Resistance to cotton-melon aphid (Aphis gossypii Glover) segregated as a single dominant gene in a melon (Cucumis melo L.) mapping population derived from the cross 'Top Mark' x PI 414723. Sixty-four F2-derived F3 families were used to map the aphid resistance locus, Vat, with respect to randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers. RFLP markers NBS-2 and AC-39 flanked Vat at distances of 3.1 cM and 6.4 cM, respectively. NBS-2 is homologous to the nucleotide binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) superfamily of plant resistance genes. Another homolog of this superfamily, NBS-5, was positioned ≈16.8 cM from Vat, raising the possibility that Vat resides in a cluster of NBS-LRR paralogs. RFLP marker AC-8, which has similarity to plant lipoxygenases, was positioned at ≈5.5 cM from Vat. Monogenic resistance to A. gossypii has been identified in two sources of melon germplasm, Indian accession PI 371795 (progenitor of PI 414723) and Korean accession PI 161375. To test for an allelic relation between the genes controlling aphid resistance in these two distinct germplasm sources, melon plants of a backcross population from a cross between two resistant lines having Indian- or Korean-derived resistance were infested with aphids. At least 90 out of 92 segregating progeny were aphid resistant, suggesting that the same resistance gene, Vat, is present in both sources of melon germplasm.
Modeling and simulation of apple drying, using artificial neural network and neuro-Taguchi's method.

Important parameters on apple drying process are investigated experimentally and modeled employing artificial neural network and neuro-Taguchi's method. Experimental results show that the apple drying curve stands in the falling rate period of drying. Temperature is the most important parameter that has a more pronounced effect on drying rate than the other two parameters i.e. air velocity and the thickness of apple slices. In order to model the drying process, a software was developed which uses the error back propagation algorithm for training. At first, the software was used to simulate the time-dependent variations of moisture content using neural network. Then in order to model the time derivation of moisture ratio in break point, the software was utilized in two ways. First, it was used with no use of any optimization method for modeling the process. In the other approach, the software in a hybrid fashion with Taguchi's method as an optimization method is utilized to correct weight matrix entries. The results demonstrate that the use of neuro-Taguchi's method can give some improvements over neural network accuracy as compared with conventional neural networks approach. By using neuro- Taguchi's method, error is reduced by about 46.4%.
A Dual-Frequency DRA based MIMO Antenna System for Wireless Access Points

An eight-element, dual-frequency, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system is proposed. Cylindrical dielectric resonator antennas (cDRAs) were used as the radiating elements in the MIMO antenna system. One group of four cDRAs covers the 2.45 GHz band, while another four cover the second band at 5.8 GHz. A reﬂector element was also proposed to tilt the radiated beam patterns and reduce ﬁeld correlations for the MIMO antenna system. The high band antenna elements were rotated 45 ◦ with respect to their low band counterparts, on the antenna ground plan, for compactness and PCB integration such that the complete antenna system occupies a volume of 160 mm by 160 mm by 14.8 mm. The measured bandwidths were at least 90 MHz and 200 MHz for the two bands of operation while the envelope correlation coefﬁcient was less than 0.17. A study of different metallic reﬂectors was also provided in terms of the impedance matching, isolation, bandwidth and envelope correlation coefﬁcient (ECC). Speciﬁc applications for the proposed design include wireless local area networks (WLANs) and other 4G access points.
Evaluation of somaclones peanut plants regenerated from repeat cycles Of in vitro selection against drought stress

The objective of this research was to evaluate the response of somaclonal peanut plants regenerated from repeated cycles of in vitro selection on medium containing 15% polyethylene glycol (PEG; w/v, corresponding to -0.41 Mpa osmotic potential) against drought stress. The R2 generation of peanut plants were used in this experiment with cv “Kelinci” and “Singa” as control cultivars. Drought treatment was the plants irrigated with water to ficapacity (optimum condition) while other plants were grown under water defi cit. Drought treatment was given at 16 to 85 days old peanut plants; after 85 days old, the plants were treated under optimum condition until plants were ready to harvest. Drought stress was measured using drought sensitivity index value (S) on scored parameters. Results of the experiment showed that peanut lines produced from repeated cycles of in vitro selection in medium containing 15% PEG were more tolerant to water defi cit, had a better vegetative growth, a higher dry pod yield, and a lower dry pod yield reduction. This research demonstrated that repeated cycles of in vitro selection method was effective to produce drought tolerant peanut genotypes with a higher proline content than genotypes without in vitro selection.
Evidence from K2 for Rapid Rotation in the Descendant of an Intermediate-mass Star

Using patterns in the oscillation frequencies of a white dwarf observed by K2, we have measured the fastest rotation rate (1.13 ± 0.02 hr) of any isolated pulsating white dwarf known to date. Balmer-line fits to follow-up spectroscopy from the SOAR telescope show that the star (SDSSJ0837+1856, EPIC 211914185) is a K, 0.87 ± 0.03 M⊙ white dwarf. This is the highest mass measured for any pulsating white dwarf with known rotation, suggesting a possible link between high mass and fast rotation. If it is the product of single-star evolution, its progenitor was a roughly 4.0 M⊙ main-sequence B star; we know very little about the angular momentum evolution of such intermediate-mass stars. We explore the possibility that this rapidly rotating white dwarf is the byproduct of a binary merger, which we conclude is unlikely given the pulsation periods observed.
Modeling Combined Braking and Steering Tire Forces

The force distributed over the contact patch between a tire and a road surface is typically modeled in component form for dynamic simulations. The two components in the plane of the contact patch are the braking, or traction force, and the steering, or side or cornering force. A third force distributed over the contacts patch is the normal force, perpendicular to the road surface. The two tangential components in the plane of the road are usually modeled separately since they depend primarily on independent parameters, wheel slip and sideslip. Mathematical expressions found in the literature for each component include exponential functions, piecewise linear functions and the Bakker-Nyborg-Pacejka equations, among others. Because braking and steering frequently occur simultaneously and their resultant tangential force is limited by friction, the two components must be properly combined for a full range of the wheel slip and sideslip parameters. This paper examines the way in which these two components are combined for an existing approach known as the Nicolas-Comstock model. First, performance criteria for tire modeling are proposed. Then the Nicolas-Comstock model is examined relative to the criteria. As originally proposed, this model falls short of meeting the criteria over the full range of transverse and longitudinal wheel slip values and sideslip angles. A modified version of the Nicolas-Comstock model is presented that satisfies these performance criteria. Finally, comparisons are made of the Modified Nicolas-Comstock model to other combined tire force models and to existing tire force measurements.
Fiberwise homogeneous fibrations of the 3-dimensional space forms by geodesics

A fibration of a Riemannian manifold is fiberwise homogeneous if there are isometries of the manifold onto itself, taking any given fiber to any other one, and preserving fibers. Examples are fibrations of Euclidean n-space by parallel n-planes, and the Hopf fibrations of the round n-sphere by great n-spheres. In this paper, we describe all the fiberwise homogeneous fibrations of Euclidean and hyperbolic 3-space by geodesics. Our main result is that, up to fiber-preserving isometries, there is precisely a one-parameter family of such fibrations of Euclidean 3-space, and a two-parameter family in hyperbolic 3-space. By contrast, we show in another paper that the only fiberwise homogeneous fibrations of the round 3-sphere by geodesics (great circles) are the Hopf fibrations. More generally, we show in that same paper that the Hopf fibrations in all dimensions are characterized, among fibrations of round spheres by smooth subspheres, by their fiberwise homogeneity.
Cell block specimens applied to diagnostic routine of thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy

Introduction: Various preparations can be used in diagnostic cytology, including conventional smears (CS), liquid-based preparations (LBP) and cell block (CB). Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of CB preparations in addition to conventional cytological specimens in cases of fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of thyroid nodules in diagnostic routine. Method: One hundred and six consecutive cases of FNAB routine thyroid nodules were independently evaluated by two cytopathologists (Obs1 and Obs2) on the cellularity of SM, LBP and CB. Results: The cellularity was rich/moderate in 56 (52.8%) CBs for both observers. LBP showed rich/moderate cellularity in 86 (81.1%) cases for Obs1 and 91 (85.8%) for Obs2; among these cases, CB showed the same cellularity in 52/86 (60.4%) cases for Obs1 and 54/91 (59.3%) for Obs2. SM showed rich/moderate cellularity in 86 (81.1%) cases for Obs1 and 87 (82%) for Obs2; among these cases, CB showed the same cellularity in 48/86 (55.8%) cases for Obs1 and 54/87 (62%) for Obs2. CB cellularity was higher than that in LBP in only five cases for Obs1 and three for Obs2. LBP was assessed as low/absent in only five (4.7%) and six (5.6%) cases for Obs1 and Obs2, respectively. Conclusion: CB can be routinely used as additional specimen in material obtained from thyroid nodules FNAB, without adversely affecting LBP specimens, enabling the conduction of further immunohistochemical and molecular studies.