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THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOVERY LEARNING - BASED E-BOOK TEACHING E-BOOK BASED ON KVISOFT FLIPBOOK MAKER ON SCIENCE LITERATION

This research is motivated by the outstanding printed books that do not display interactive simulations by combining text, images, audio, video, and animation so that they are less attractive, the availability of communicative science learning media and have many interesting displays that have not yet been developed, teaching materials used in schools in the form of printed-based teaching materials such as physics textbooks and the availability of instructional media less utilizing existing technology in the learning process and lack of reading skills, interest in reading and lack of understanding of scientific concepts of students as well as the lazy nature possessed by students. Research and teaching materials e -Book discovery based flipbook maker kvisoft aided learning is a research and development ( Research and Developmet) by adapting the procedural step, namely ADDIE Analysis (analysis), Design (design), Development (development), Implementation (implementation) and Evaluation (evaluation). The validity test of e- book teaching materials based on discovery learning assisted by Kvisoft Flipbook Maker was conducted by five experts, two material experts, two media experts and one linguist. Practicality test of discovery learning based e- book teaching material assisted by flipbook maker kvisoft by looking at the practicality questionnaire sheet by science educators and some students of class X-MIA MAN 2 Padang Pariaman. Test the effectiveness of discovery learning based e-book teaching materials using Kvisoft Flipbook Maker by looking at the scientific literacy of students using the effectiveness questionnaire sheets by class X-MIA MAN 2 students in Padang Pariaman. The results showed, e- book teaching materials based on discovery learning assisted by Kvisoft Flipbook Maker on material momentum and impulses and simple harmonious vibrations of class X-MIA MAN 2 Padang Pariaman on the ability of students' scientific literacy, learning materials based on Kvisoft discovery learning assisted by Kvisoft flipbook maker on the material of momentum and impulses and simple harmonic vibrations class X-MIA MAN 2 Padang Pariaman is very valid with an average of getting 88.7% for the material of momentum, impulses and simple harmonic vibrations with a very valid category. Practicality results obtained an average value of 88.49% categorized as very practical, while for the effectiveness of e- book learning materials based on Discovery Learning assisted by Flipbook Maker obtained an average value of 80.89% for the scientific literacy ability of students. The results can be concluded that the e-book teaching material based on discovery learning assisted by Koftoft Flipbook maker on material momentum, impulses, and simple harmonic vibrations is very valid, very practical, and effectively used in physics learning class X MIPA -1 MAN 2 Padang Pariaman.
EVALUATION OF MEDETOMIDINE- AND KETAMINE-INDUCED IMMOBILIZATION IN MARKHORS (CAPRA FALCONERIMEGACEROS) AND ITS REVERSAL BY ATIPAMEZOLE

Medetomidine- and ketamine-induced immobilization were studied clinically and by serial evaluations and determinations in 18 captive Markhors {Capra falconeri megaceros) on 21 occasions. Medetomidine and ketamine induced reliable immobilization with good muscle relax ation at mean doses of 69.0 Mg/kg and 1.60 mg/kg, respectively. In six Markhors, serial recordings and determinations were done at 10, 30, 45, and 60 min after darting. During the immobilization period, most clinical, hematological, and serum chemistry parameters remained within physiological limits, although there were statistically significant decreases in heart rates, rectal temperatures, packed cell volumes, and in serum aspartate aminotransferase, Na, Cl, and Ca levels. Significant increases in glucose levels were detected in EDTA blood and serum samples. Respiratory rates, leukocyte counts, and serum creatine kinase, urea, K, and inorganic phosphate levels remained stable. Atipamezole given by i.V. , i.m. , and i.v. +i.m. injections (mean doses 296.7, 323.0, and 287.7 Mg/kg, respectively) was used to reverse the medetomidine- and ketamine-induced immobilization. Atipamezole induced rapid, calm, and persistent reversal in most animals. Markhors were able to walk in a directed manner within 1-7 min.
Determinants of field salespersons’ sales performance in deposit money banks: Does organizational commitment mediate?

ARTICLE INFO Edwin Chukwuemeka Idoko, Gerald Nwora Nebo and Stephen Ikechukwu Ukenna (2020). Determinants of field salespersons’ sales performance in deposit money banks: Does organizational commitment mediate? Banks and Bank Systems, 15(4), 204-220. doi:10.21511/bbs.15(4). 2020.17 DOI http://dx.doi. org/10.21511/bbs.15(4). 2020.17 RELEASED ON Monday, 28 December 2020 RECEIVED ON Monday, 02 November 2020 ACCEPTED ON Tuesday, 08 December 2020
Valence changes at interfaces and surfaces investigated by X-ray spectroscopy

In this thesis valence changes at interfaces and surfaces of 3d and 4f systems are investigated by X-ray spectroscopy, in particular X-ray photoemission (XPS), X-ray absorption (XAS) and resonant photoemission spectroscopy (ResPES). The first part addresses the electronic properties of the oxides LaAlO3, LaGaO3 and NdGaO3 grown by pulsed laser deposition on TiO2-terminated SrTiO3 single crystals along (001)-direction. These polar/non-polar oxide interfaces share an insulator to metal phase transition as a function of overlayer thickness including the formation of an interfacial two dimensional electron gas. The nature of the charge carriers, their concentration and spatial distribution, and the band alignment near the interface are studied in a comparative manner and evaluated quantitatively. Irrespective of the different overlayer lattice constants and bandgaps, all the heterostructures behave similarly. Rising Ti3+ concentration is monitored by Ti 2p XPS, TiL-edge XAS and by resonantly enhanced Ti 3d excitations in the vicinity of EF (ResPES) when the layer number n increases. This indicates that the active material is in all cases a near interface SrTiO3 layer of ∼ 4 nm thickness. Band bending in SrTiO3 occurs but no electric field is detected inside the polar overlayers. Essential aspects of the findings are captured by scenarios where the polar forces are alleviated by surface defect creation or the separation of photon generated electron-hole pairs in addition to the electronic reconstruction at n = 4 unit cells layer thickness. Furthermore, deviations from an abrupt interface are found by soft X-ray photoemission spectroscopy which may affect the interface properties. The surface sensitivity of the measurements has been tuned by varying photon energy and emission angle. In contrast to the core levels of the other elements, the Sr 3d line shows an unexpected splitting for higher surface sensitivity, signaling the presence of a second strontium component. From a quantitative analysis it is concluded that during the growth process a small amount of Sr atoms diffuse away from the substrate and segregate at the surface of the heterostructure, possibly forming strontium oxide. In the second part of this thesis the heavy fermion superconductors CeM In5 (M = Co, Rh, Ir) are investigated by temperatureand angle-dependent XPS. In this material class the subtle interplay between localized Ce 4f and itinerant valence electrons dominate the electronic properties. The Ce 3d core level has a very similar shape for all three materials and is indicative of weak f -hybridization. The spectra are analyzed using a simplified version of the Anderson impurity model, which yields a Ce 4f occupancy that is larger than 0.9. The temperature dependence shows a continuous, irreversible and exclusive broadening of the Ce 3d peaks, due to oxidation of Ce at the surface.
Provision of Assistive Technology for Students with Disabilities in South African Higher Education: A Decolonial Perspective

This paper used the decolonial theory to analyse provision of Assistive Technology and assistive devices at an institution of higher education in South African. It was an empirical study, in which data were collected through interviews with students with disabilities and the Disability Rights Centre staff members. The paper sought to understand the invisible hidden implications of provision of Assistive Technology and assistive devices. The finding was that it is students with disabilities who were provided with Assistive Technology and assistive devices at the institution. The institution provided them through the Centre, to support their learning. However, this way of provision was found to be stigmatising and segregative. Furthermore, while the provision on one hand enabled students with disabilities’ learning, on the other, it constrained it. The argument of the paper is that when provision of Assistive Technology and assistive devices is for a particular group of students it defeats the whole purpose for it is intended, and could hinder rather than promote learning. It is hoped that the paper will contribute to contemporary debate on provision of Assistive Technology and support services for people with disabilities in low resource settings, from a South African context specifically, and in higher education broadly.
Compact optical system for cesium atomic fountain clock

The optical system plays a significant role to cesium atomic fountain clocks, which manipulates and detects population of cesium atoms. This paper presents a compact optical system for cesium atomic fountain clocks. The optical system provides two beams with 32mW separately for cooling atoms and six beams of 12mW respectively for trapping atoms with the frequency tuning from 80MHz to 220MHz. The relative intensity noise of the detect laser beam reduces from 1.33×10-6 Hz to 1.52×10-10 Hz at 1Hz by the laser power stabilization system. The optical system operates continuously for 30 days with the fluctuation of optical power less than 3% approximately. And the frequency stability is 3×10-15 at 1000s. The results show the optical system satisfies with the needs of our cesium atomic fountain clock developed and establishes the foundation for cesium atomic fountain continuous operation.
169. Development of a Real Time Electronic Algorithm to Identify Hospitalized Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Syndrome-based antibiotic stewardship can be limited by difficulty in finding cases for evaluation. We developed an electronic extraction algorithm to prospectively identify CAP patients. We included non-oncology patients ≥18 years old admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital from 12/2018 to 3/2019 who 1) received common CAP antibiotics for ≥48 hours after admission and 2) had a bacterial urinary antigen and chest imaging ordered within 48 hours of admission that was not for assessment of endotracheal tube or central line placement. Charts of patients meeting these criteria were reviewed by 2 authors to identify true cases of CAP based on IDSA guidelines. Cases identified in 12/2018 (n=111) were used to explore potential indicators of CAP, and cases identified 1–3/2019 (n=173) were used to evaluate combinations of indicators that could identify patients treated for CAP who did have CAP (true CAP) and did not have CAP (false CAP). This cohort was divided into a training and a validation set (2/3 and 1/3, respectively). Potential indicators included vitals signs, laboratory data and free text extracted via natural language processing (NLP). Predictive performance of composite indicators for true CAP were assessed using receiver-operating characteristics (ROC) curves. The Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness fit test was used to test model fit and the Akaike Information Criteria was used to determine model selection. True CAP was observed in 41% (71/173) of cases and 14 potential individual indicators were identified (Table). These were combined to make 45 potential composite indicators. ROC curves for selected composite indicators are shown in the Figure. Models without use of NLP-derived variables had poor discriminative ability. The best model included fever, hypoxemia, leukocytosis, and “consolidation” on imaging with a sensitivity and positive predictive value 78.7% and specificity and negative predictive value of 85.7%. Table. Indicators evaluated to identify patients with CAP Figure. ROC curves for composite indicators Patients with CAP can be identified using electronic data but use of NLP-derived radiographic criteria is required. These data can be linked with data on antibiotic use and duration to develop reports for clinicians regarding appropriate CAP diagnosis and treatment. All Authors: No reported disclosures
The Prediction Method on the Early Failure of Hydropower Units Based on Gaussian Process Regression Driven by Monitoring Data

The hydropower units have a complex structure, complicated and changing working conditions, complexity and a diversity of faults. Effectively evaluating the healthy operation status and accurately predicting the failure for the hydropower units using the real-time monitoring data is still a difficult problem. To this end, this paper proposes a prediction method for the early failure of hydropower units based on Gaussian process regression (GPR). Firstly, by studying the correlation between different monitoring data, nine state parameters closely related to the operation of hydropower units are mined from the massive data. Secondly, a health evaluation model is established based on GPR using the historical multi-dimensional monitoring information and fault-free monitoring data at the initial stage of unit operation. Finally, a condition monitoring directive based on the Mahalanobis distance (MD) is designed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by several typical examples of monitoring data of a hydropower station in Guangxi, China. The results show that, in three cases, the abnormal conditions of the unit are found 2 days, 4 days and 43 days earlier than those of regular maintenances respectively. Therefore, the method can effectively track the change process of the operation state of hydropower units, and detect the abnormal operation state of hydropower units in advance.
Performance Comparison of Native Android Application on MVP and MVVM

The performance of the android application is one factor that needs to be considered because an android device has limited power, memory and resources. This is a challenge for developers to improve performance so that applications can run optimally. There are several architectures that are commonly used, namely MVC, MVP, and MVVM. Previous studies have measured performance among the three architectures, and it can be concluded that the performance of MVC < (MVP = MVVM), but between MVP and MVVM which is better is still unclear. This study aims to compare the performance of MVP and MVVM architectures measured from 3 (three) aspects, namely CPU usage, memory usage, and execution time. Based on experiments, the results show that MVVM performance is better at CPU usage and execution time, while MVP is better at memory usage. CPU usage in MVVM applications is lower with an average difference of 0.55%. Execution time in MVVM applications is faster with an average difference of 126.21 ms, while memory usage in MVP applications is lower with an average difference of 0.92 Mb. This happens because the MVVM architecture has an additional library (in the form of a data-binding) that can increase application response so that CPU usage and execution time are better, but another impact is its memory usage is higher than MVP.
Sampling-Based Motion Planning for Free-Floating Space Robot without Inverse Kinematics

Motion planning is one of the most important technologies for free-floating space robots (FFSRs) to increase operation safety and autonomy in orbit. As a nonholonomic system, a first-order differential relationship exists between the joint angle and the base attitude of the space robot, which makes it pretty challenging to implement the relevant motion planning. Meanwhile, the existing planning framework must solve inverse kinematics for goal configuration and has the limitation that the goal configuration and the initial configuration may not be in the same connected domain. Thus, faced with these questions, this paper investigates a novel motion planning algorithm based on rapidly-exploring random trees (RRTs) for an FFSR from an initial configuration to a goal end-effector (EE) pose. In a motion planning algorithm designed to deal with differential constraints and restrict base attitude disturbance, two control-based local planners are proposed, respectively, for random configuration guiding growth and goal EE pose-guiding growth of the tree. The former can ensure the effective exploration of the configuration space, and the latter can reduce the possibility of occurrence of singularity while ensuring the fast convergence of the algorithm and no violation of the attitude constraints. Compared with the existing works, it does not require the inverse kinematics to be solved while the planning task is completed and the attitude constraint is preserved. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.
Prioritization of Factors Affecting Sustainability Property Improvement by Using Analytical Hierarchy Process and Important-Satisfaction Model: The Case of TAIPEI 101 Tower

Almost without exceptions office buildings in the world investigate the approaches of optimizing the building operation and property facilities in order to maintain the best conditions of the building from the first day of opening. For sustainable buildings, how to make continuous profit must rely on the maintenance and improvement of facilities to satisfy users. However, building managers often have trouble prioritizing improvement projects toward their sustainable objectives due to the large number of facilities that have different durability years and the importance and satisfaction of these facilities to users are also different. In the past, financial consideration was usually the only one that matters when improvement of facilities was brought up. Users feedback of satisfaction was not taken into consideration, resulting in huge expenditures did not bring in high user satisfaction. This research, by scientific analysis of the data from user feedback, applies the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) using TAIPEI 101 Tower as a case study to explore the key factors affecting tenants’ willingness to lease office buildings by distributing questionnaires to real estate experts. By filtering out key indicators related to property facilities that users care about, this study used Importance and Satisfaction Analysis (IS Analysis) to identify items that need urgent improvement. This innovative analysis methodology can systematically and logically find out the priority of improvement projects, assisting building managers effectively invest limited resources in projects with substantial benefit, which is helpful for sustainable property management.
Paenibacillus sp. Strain SB-6 Induces Weathering of Ca-montmorillonite: Illitization and Formation of Calcite

ABSTRACT Investigation of the weathering of silicate minerals is helpful to understand the process of soil development, cycling of nutrient elements, and potential applications in fixation of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through carbonate precipitation. In this study, weathering experiments of calcium-montmorillonite were conducted using Paenibacillus sp. strain SB-6 for 70 days. The results indicated that the Si4+, Al3+, Ca2+ and Na+ concentrations in the medium of the biotic experiments were evidently higher than those of the abiotic experiments, and that Paenibacillus sp. could help the transformation of partial montmorillonite into an illite–montmorillonite mixed-layer. In the process of illitization, K+ went into the interlayer of montmorillonite and hydrated Ca2+ and Na+ released from it. In the late stage of the experiments, the Ca2+ released from montmorillonite combined with carbonate ions generated by the bacterial metabolism, forming calcite.
Risk factors for graft failure in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a single-center study

Igor Novitzky-Basso 1, Eshrak Al-Shaibani 1, Mats Remberger 2, Carol Chen 1, Wilson Lam 1, Arjun D. Law 1, Ivan Pasic 1, Fotios V. Michelis 1, Auro Viswabandya 1, Dennis D. Kim 1, Jeffrey H. Lipton 1, Armin Gerbitz 1, Jonas Mattsson 1, Rajat Kumar 1, Zeyad Al-Shaibani 1 1 Hans Messner Allogeneic Transplant Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 2 Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University and KFUE, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden Risk factors for graft failure in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a single-center study Cellular Therapy and Transplantation (CTT). Vol. 9, No. 4, 2020 doi: 10.18620/ctt-1866-8836-2020-9-4-37-47 Submitted: 22 September 2020, accepted: 04 December 2020
LncRNA TSIX acts as a ceRNA of miR-342-3p to Promote the Progression of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by Regulating AGR2

Background: LncRNA TSIX has been observed to be abnormally expressed in many human cancers. However, its roles in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) remains unclear, and this study aims to explore the functions of TSIX in NPC.Methods: The expression of TSIX and miR-342-3p in NPC tissues and corresponding cell lines was detected by qRT-PCR. Bioinformatics analysis and luciferase activity assay and RIP assay were applied to determine the interaction between TSIX, miR-342-3p, and AGR2. The roles of TSIX, miR-342-3p and AGR2 in the proliferation, apoptosis, migration and invasion of NPC cells were explored both in vitro and in vivo. In addition, the rescue experiments were used to confirm the functions of TSIX, miR-342-3p, and AGR2 in NPC progression.Results: Our study firstly found that TSIX was significantly upregulated in NPC tissues and corresponding cell lines. Moreover, upregulation of TSIX obviously exacerbated the NPC progression including the proliferation, apoptosis, migration and invasion, while downregulation of TSIX efficiently attenuated the development of NPC. Further, our results demonstrated that TSIX could increase the expression of AGR2, which was directly targeted by miR-342-3p, and then lead to the facilitated development of NPC cells.Conclusion: In summary, our study revealed that lncRNA TSIX promoted the progression of NPC through targeting miR-342-3p/AGR2 axis, suggested that it might be a potential therapeutic target for NPC.