Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Heat sensitization of human enteric viruses by plant extracts and validation of their thermal inactivation by bacterial surrogates

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Transformational Leadership and Personal Demographic Profile in the Education System of India

Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people towards becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. Leadership and the styles of leadership is one of the frequently discussed subjects within management discipline. Transformational leadership (TL) style is being considered as the most effective leadership style among all the styles. The purpose of this article is to examine the perception of faculty members towards TL of their academic leaders in the sample select universities and to study the impact of demographic variables on TL. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The data for the study were collected through both the primary and secondary sources. The measuring items used for the study were sourced from existing validated scales and literature. Descriptive statistics was employed to know the descriptive information across various demographic variables on a total sample of 719. The various demographic variables, which were considered for the study, were gender, age, designation and experience. The results revealed that the faculty members of the sample select universities perceived the TL of their academic leaders at an above-average level; presently, they are fairly satisfied with their academic leader’s TL. The results also revealed that the perception of the respondent faculty members towards their HOD’s transformational leadership from different universities and states is more or less the same and also the demographic variables have a significant impact on TL. Besides having theoretical implications that open pathways for conducting further research, the findings of the study may serve as a reference for service practitioners in designing strategies that will ensure superior performance of academic leaders in higher educational institutions.
Evaluating temporal stability of the New Zealand quasigeoid following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake using satellite radar remote sensing

J.C. McCubbine ,1 V. Stagpoole ,2 F. Caratori Tontini ,2 W.E. Featherstone ,3 M.C. Garthwaite ,1 N.J. Brown ,1 M.J. Amos ,4 Y. Fukuda ,5 T. Kazama ,5 H. Takiguchi6 and J. Nishijima7 1National Geodesy Section, Positioning and Community Safety Division, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. E-mail: jack.mccubbine@ga.gov. au 2GNS Science, 1 Fairway Dr, Avalon, Lower Hutt 5011, New Zealand 3School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia 4Land Information New Zealand, PO Box 5501, Wellington 6145, New Zealand 5Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606–8501, Japan 6JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ochanomizu sola city, 4–6 Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101–8008, Japan 7Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Location and Tracking for Ultra-WideBand In-Body Communications in Medical Applications

Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is a remarkable and attractive technology adopted in the biomedical sector several years ago. It provides a non-invasive wireless imaging technology for the entire gastrointestinal (GI) tract. WCE allows specialists to recognize and diagnose diseases affecting the whole GI tract. Although physicians can receive clear pictures of abnormalities in the GI tract, they have no information about their exact location. Precise localization of the detected disorders is crucial for the subsequent removal procedure by surgery. Currently, the frequency band allocated for capsule endoscopy applications is the MICS band (402-405 MHz). This band offers data rate up to 500 kbps, which is insufficient to transmit high quality images. Recently, Ultrawideband (UWB) technology has been attracting attention as potential candidate for next-generation WCE systems. The advantages of UWB include simple transceiver architectures enabling low power consumption, low interference to other systems and wide bandwidth resulting in communications at higher data rate. In this dissertation, performance of WCE localization techniques based on Radio Frequency (RF) information are investigated through software simulations, experimental laboratory measurements involving homogeneous and heterogeneous phantom models and in vivo experiments which constitute the most realistic testing scenario. Ultra-Wideband technology (3.1-10.6 GHz) is considered as communication interface in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy. In such scenario, the wireless transmitter is located in the gastrointestinal track while one or more wireless receivers are located over the surface of the body. Received Signal Strength (RSS)-based approach is mainly explored due to its implementation simplicity and less sensitivity to bandwidth limitations. Impact of the position and the number of selected receivers on the localization accuracy is analyzed. Finally, a graphical user interface (GUI) is developed to visualize the three-dimensional (3D) localization results obtained through in vivo measurements.
Preliminary Fractional Factorial Design (FFD) study using incorporation of Graphene Oxide in PVC in mixed matrix membrane to enhance CO2/CH4 separation

Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) comprising of where polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and graphene oxide (GO) were employed in the membrane fabrication in order to improve the membrane characteristics. In this study of gas separation using mixed matrix membrane, gases such as CO2 and CH4 were used. The objectives of this research were to synthesize and develop MMMs PVC/GO, and also to carry out screening to determine best factors condition for membrane to function at high selectivity. The development of MMMs PVC/GO was based on 5 factors. Based on the screening tests, the run which was made up of factors PVC 20%, GO 4%, 1 bar of pressure during gas permeation, NMP solvent, and immersion time of 300s, shows to have the highest selectivity at 26.09 which was above the upper bound lines in the Robeson’s Upper bound plot. Fractional Factorial Design (FFD) was applied to study the minimalization of influenced factors during MMMs preparation. Based on the FFD run, the R-squared (R2) was
Contemporary Management Accounting Practices and Managerial Performance Amongst the Malaysian Co-operatives Sector

Co-operatives in Malaysia have urgent jobs in creating business frameworks, and making it workable for the nation to join the worldwide co-operatives society and refined economies. Thus, top management in Malaysian cooperatives aggressively design and implement their strategic plan through strategic accounting procedures in leadership. The purpose of this research is to examine the association between the contemporary management accounting practices (MAP) and managerial performance in the Malaysian’ co-operative sector. Management team from the 100 leading co-operatives in Malaysia were the respondents. Descriptive on the adoption level and its relationship with the managerial performance has been analysed. The finding indicates the level of contemporary MAP is high and there is significant relationship between contemporary MAP and managerial performance among Malaysian Co-operatives. This research offers a exclusive details investigation of the contemporary MAP and an signal of upcoming trends.
FTIR time series of tropospheric HCN in eastern China: seasonality, interannual variability and source attribution

Abstract. We analyzed seasonality and interannual variability of tropospheric HCN column amounts in densely populated eastern China for the first time. The results were derived from solar absorption spectra recorded with ground-based high spectral resolution Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer at Hefei (117°10′ E, 31°54′ N) between 2015 and 2018. The tropospheric HCN columns over Hefei, China showed significant seasonal variations with three monthly mean peaks throughout the year. The magnitude of the tropospheric HCN column peak in May > September > December. The tropospheric HCN column reached a maximum of (9.8 ± 0.78) × 1015 molecules/cm2 in May and a minimum of (7.16 ± 0.75) × 1015 molecules/cm2 in November. In most cases, the tropospheric HCN columns at Hefei (32° N) are higher than the FTIR observations at Ny Alesund (79° N), Kiruna (68° N), Bremen (53° N), Jungfraujoch (47° N), Toronto (44° N), Rikubetsu (43° N), Izana (28° N), Mauna Loa (20° N), La Reunion Maido (21° S), Lauder (45° S), and Arrival Heights (78° S) that are affiliated with the Network for Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC). Enhancements of the tropospheric HCN columns were observed between September 2015 and July 2016 compared to the counterpart measurements in other years. The magnitude of the enhancement ranges from 5 to 46 % with an average of 22 %. Enhancement of tropospheric HCN (ΔHCN) is correlated with the coincident enhancement of tropospheric CO (ΔCO), indicating that enhancements of tropospheric CO and HCN were due to the same sources. The GEOS-Chem tagged CO simulation, the global fire maps and the PSCFs (Potential Source Contribution Function) calculated using back trajectories revealed that the seasonal maxima in May is largely due to the influence of biomass burning in South Eastern Asia (SEAS) (41 ± 13.1 %), Europe and Boreal Asia (EUBA) (21 ± 9.3 %) and Africa (AF) (22 ± 4.7 %). The seasonal maxima in September is largely due to the influence of biomass burnings in EUBA (38 ± 11.3 %), AF (26 ± 6.7 %), SEAS (14 ± 3.3 %), and Northern America (NA) (13.8 ± 8.4 %). For the seasonal maxima in December, dominant contributions are from AF (36 ± 7.1 %), EUBA (21 ± 5.2 %), and NA (18.7 ± 5.2 %). The tropospheric HCN enhancement between September 2015 and July 2016 at Hefei (32° N) were attributed to an elevated influence of biomass burnings in SEAS, EUBA, and Oceania (OCE) in this period. Particularly, an elevated fire number in OCE in the second half of 2015 dominated the tropospheric HCN enhancement in September–December 2015. An elevated fire number in SEAS in the first half of 2016 dominated the tropospheric HCN enhancement in January–July 2016.
Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome and phylogenetic analysis of Silene jenisseensis (Caryophyllaceae)

Abstract The first complete chloroplast genome (cp) sequences of Silene jenisseensis were reported in this study. The S. jenisseensis cp genome was 150,299 bp in size, with two inverted repeat (IR) regions of 25,384 bp, the large single-copy (LSC) region of 82,153 bp, and the small single-copy (SSC) region of 17,378 bp. The cp genome of this species contained 111 genes, including 77 protein-coding genes, 4 ribosomal RNA, and 30 transfer RNA genes. The overall GC content was 36.4%. Phylogenetic analysis of the cp genomes within the Caryophyllaceae family suggests that S. jenisseensis is closer to the clade formed by S. capitata and S. aprica.
The Priority of Exploiting Fiscal Revenue or Lessening Public Expenditure: Evidence from China

In the past 28 years, we find that except for the fiscal revenue of 5,132.1 billion yuan in 2007, which is greater than the fiscal expenditure of 4,978.1 billion yuan, presenting a fiscal surplus, the fiscal expenditure of the rest years is greater than the fiscal revenue, showing the situation of public sector net cash requirement (psncr), especially in 2011, the deficit( the gap between fiscal expenditure and fiscal revenue) is 537.3 billion yuan. Since then, the gap between expenditure and revenue has been increasing with each passing year. In 2015, the fiscal deficit is 2,368 billion yuan. In 2018, the fiscal deficit has been expanded to 3,754.4 billion yuan. In order to avoid the continuous increment of the deficit. This paper discusses the causal relationship between China's fiscal revenue and public expenditure from 1990 to 2018. If fiscal revenue has a positive impact on public expenditure, showing that the government shall reduce fiscal deficit through tax increment. On the contrary, it makes public expenditure continue to expand, leading to the continuous deterioration of fiscal deficit, so as to further decide whether China's future fiscal policy should adopt increasing fiscal revenue or deducting public expenditure policy to reduce the deficit.
Semisupervised Feature Extraction Based on Collaborative Label Propagation for Hyperspectral Images

This letter presents a semisupervised feature extraction based on collaborative label propagation (SSCLP) for hyperspectral images (HSIs). SSCLP first proposes a novel collaborative label propagation method to predict the labels of unlabeled data that are termed weak labels. Then, SSCLP combines the known labels and the predicted weak labels to construct two new discriminative matrices. Finally, the discriminative matrices are utilized to find an optimal transformation matrix to achieve feature extraction for HSIs. The proposed SSCLP not only preserves the compactness of intraclass and the separability of interclass but also explores the weak labels information and the local neighbor information of unlabeled data. Experiments on the Pavia University and Kennedy Space Center datasets demonstrate that the proposed SSCLP has a better performance than other related methods.
Student Reflections on Learning and Studying during the Transition to University: Implications for Tertiary Learning Advisors

Tertiary learning advisors (TLA) are key support staff for university students in Aotearoa New Zealand and serve a major role by promoting effective strategies for students’ studying and learning. For TLAs to effectively assist students, particularly first-year university students, institutions must have a greater understanding of the academic transition experience as reported by students. The current study used a mixed-method approach to consider students’ reflections on their learning and study after their first semester of university. Results show that 2 out of 3 students reported feeling underprepared for their university courses, and most students reported attempts to modify their learning and study approaches in their adaptations to university. Further, students’ perceptions of the learning environment as clear and organised, interesting and personally relevant, and supportive of building a peer-based learning network were linked to positive changes in their learning and study practices. Such findings highlight the importance of the psychosocial climate on learning and learners during the student transition to university. While the majority of participants reported that their modified learning strategies were effective, a small minority felt incapable of overcoming this challenge. The implications of these results are discussed about stress and coping theory. Recommendations for TLAs to support transitioning students are included.
Towards a Cashless Society: The Imminent Role of Wearable Technology

ABSTRACT Wearable payment, which is the use of wearable technology to make payment, is anticipated to be the future of proximity mobile payment. However, the acceptance and use of wearable payment in Malaysia leave much to be desired. Additionally, this area of research is currently under-addressed. Thus, this study looks into the elements that influence the intention to adopt wearable payment in Malaysia. The results are robustly insightful in revealing the intention to adopt wearable payment in Malaysia. Hence, there are numerous implications to wearable technology companies, wearable payment system designers, merchants and other stakeholders. Overall, this research is anticipated to serve as one of the pioneering research for future studies related to this area.
Multi-dimensional dynamics and spatial connections in food retail markets in Thailand

ABSTRACT The diffusion of global retailers and the introduction of ‘modern’ channels of distribution and sourcing, combined with affluent domestic demand for higher-quality fresh produce, have caused significant transformations in food retail systems in the Global South. This paper examines Thai food systems undergoing transformation by drawing on qualitative interviews with key stakeholders along selected agri-food value chains in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Through an analysis of the spaces of interaction in ‘traditional’ and supermarket-driven food-retail value chains, the paper shows that similar food safety and quality requirements are transmitted upstream in both ‘types’ of chain. The paper argues that supermarket-driven agri-food value chains do not evolve or operate separately from ‘traditional’ ones. Distantly located urban wholesale traders and modern food-retail outlets are dependent on and interconnected with similar traders located in villages and towns in rural areas, who perform a pivotal role in product differentiation and in coordinating and monitoring compliance with requirements. The paper ends by discussing how spatial connections in agri-food value chains influence local development patterns in distant but interconnected localities.
THE ANTECEDENT OF GROSS DOMESTIC REGIONAL BRUTO IN JAKARTA PROVINCE, INDONESIA

This study aims to determine how the influence of inflation, unemployment, poverty and investment in regional economic growth in Jakarta province for the period of 2008 - 2019. In this study the model used is Error Correction Model (ECM) by looking at the effect on short and long term inter-macroeconomic variables on economic growth in Jakarta Province. The results of the study show that only unemployment has an influence on the long term and has no effect in the short term, while the variables of inflation, poverty and investment have no influence on economic growth in the short and long term.
Physical geography contributes

Physical geography is a process, conducted by people, of integration and synthesis of ideas and observations to advance scientific understanding of Earth’s surface and atmosphere and to apply this knowledge to the greater good of the planet and its people. Therefore, physical geography matters; that is, physical geography makes a difference to people and contributes to environmental decision making at various scales. Based upon presentations and discussion at the 2019 AAG Annual Meeting (see editorial above in this issue), we provide here a historical perspective and distillation of how and why, in our opinions, physical geography matters. Although we provide several specific examples, these represent only a small portion of the large body of excellent and relevant physical geography research.
Coral bleaching susceptibility is predictive of subsequent mortality within but not between coral species

Marine heat waves instigated by anthropogenic climate change are causing increasingly frequent and severe coral bleaching events that often lead to widespread coral mortality. While community-wide increases in coral mortality following bleaching events have been documented on reefs around the world, the ecological consequences for conspecific individual colonies exhibiting contrasting phenotypes during thermal stress (e.g. bleached vs. not bleached) are not well understood. Here we describe the ecological outcomes of colonies of the two dominant reef-building coral species in Kāne□ohe Bay, Hawai□i, Montipora capitata and Porites compressa, that exhibited either a bleaching susceptible phenotype (bleached) or resistant phenotype (non-bleached) following the second of two consecutive coral bleaching events in Hawai□i in 2015. Conspecific pairs of adjacent bleaching susceptible vs. resistant corals were tagged on patch reefs in two regions of Kāne□ohe Bay with different seawater residence times and terrestrial influence. The ecological consequences (symbiont recovery and mortality) were monitored for two years following the peak of the bleaching event. Bleaching susceptible corals suffered higher partial mortality than bleaching resistant corals of the same species in the first 6 months following thermal stress. Surprisingly, P. compressa had greater resilience following bleaching (faster pigment recovery and lower post-bleaching mortality) than M. capitata, despite having less resistance to bleaching (higher bleaching prevalence and severity). These differences indicate that bleaching susceptibility of a species is not always a good predictor of mortality following a bleaching event. By tracking the fate of individual colonies of resistant and susceptible phenotypes, contrasting ecological consequences of thermal stress were revealed that were undetectable at the population level. Furthermore, this approach revealed individuals that underwent particularly rapid recovery from mortality, including some colonies over a meter in diameter that recovered all live tissue cover from >60% partial mortality within just one year. These coral pairs continue to be maintained and monitored in the field, serving as a “living library” for future investigations on the ecology and physiology of coral bleaching.