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Views of Christian fathers of their role as mentors in the transmission of values within the family context

There is a crisis in society with respect to peoples' values. Families are living in an era of moral anxiety and not only South Africa but also the rest of the world is suffering from a value-dilemma. Homes, schools and institutions have problems with the behaviour and values of children. This study explored and described the views about Christian fathers of their role as mentor in the transmission of values within the family context. voluntary sampling. Data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews with the designated group in the broader Tlokwe Municipality. Field notes were taken after each interview. Data analysis was conducted using open coding as well as using an independent co-coder. The results indicated that Christian fathers view their role as vital and relevant in the current situation of families. The six main themes that emerged from the semi-structured interviews with the fathers were their personal experiences of mentorship while growing up, the expectations of the father as mentor in the lives of children, the importance of values, the importance of mentorship, the problematic factors preventing mentoring and the transmission of values and the role of the father should be emphasized in the home.
STRATEGY TYPOLOGY, ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS AND PERFORMANCE OF FREIGHT FORWARDING COMPANIES IN KENYA

The aim of this study was to determine whether organizational factors had an intervening effect on the relationship between strategy typology and organizational performance. Organizational factors which comprise of shared values, skills and systems enable companies to adapt the correct strategy and direct the conduct of their business to achieve superior performance. The research was based on Resource based theory which postulates that firm resources consist of assets, capabilities, competences and definitive techniques among other organizational factors. The firm resources enable the firm to formulate and implement strategies that are aimed at enhancing organizational performance. Positivism research philosophy and descriptive cross-sectional survey were used in this study. Stratified random sampling was applied to obtain a study sample of 120 freight forwarding firms. Primary data was collected using semi-structured questionnaires. Data was analyzed using regression analysis. The results of the study showed that there was a significant influence of strategy typology on organizational performance. However, the study found that organizational factors have no significant intervening influence on the relationship between strategy typology and organizational performance. This indicates that the management should consider enhancing skills of their human resources and instill the virtues of shared values across various organizational functions. Also, develop systems that are endowed with technology that would ensure seamless flow of communication that enhances firm performance.
Emergency Medical Service Career Longevity: Impact of Alignment Between Preemployment Expectations and Postemployment Perceptions

Emergency Medical Service Career Longevity: Impact of Alignment Between Preemployment Expectations and Postemployment Perceptions by Michael Joseph Belotto MPH, New York Medical College, 1998 BA, Queens College, City University of New York, 1981 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Public Health
Optimization, economization and characterization of cellulase produced by marine Streptomyces ruber

Cellulase is a very important enzyme due to its great industrial applications. Six marine strains of actinomycetes were screened for their carboxymethyl cellulase (CMCase) productivity. Streptomyces ruber was chosen to be the best producing strain. The highest enzyme production (25.6 U/ml) was detected at pH 6 and 40°C after 7 days of incubation. Plackett-Burman design was applied to optimize the different culture conditions affecting enzyme production. Results showed that a high concentration of KH 2 PO 4 , and a low concentration of MgSO 4 had a significant effect on enzyme production. Rice straw was used as a low cost source of cellulose. It was found that 30 g/l rice straw was the suitable concentration for maximum enzyme production. Partial purification of cellulase enzyme using an anion-exchange chromatography resulted in the detection of two different types of CMCases, type I and II, with specific activity of 4239.697 and 846.752 U/mg, respectively. Moreover, estimation of their molecular weight revealed 27.0 kDa for cellulase type I and 24.0 kDa for cellulase type II. It could be concluded that S. ruber is a powerful cellulase producer strain under our tested experimental conditions.
Acute Garlic Supplementation Ameliorates Exercise-Induced Lipid Peroxidation in Sedentary Individuals

Background : The aim of study was to determine the acute effect of garlic supplementation on total antioxidant capacity and some markers of exercise-induced oxidative stress in sedentary individuals. Methods: In a randomized and double-blinded study, 10 sedentary males (age 22.9±1.9 years, Weight 70.5±8.7 kg, BMI 22.9±2 kg/m 2 , and fat 14.2±4.6 %) performed two sessions of aerobic exercise after either placebo (1000 lg starch) or garlic consumption (1000 mg allicin). Aerobic exercise consisted of 30 minutes running at the intensity of %75-80 of maximal heart rate. Three blood samples were taken before supplementation, 4 hours after supplementation and immediately after exercise and were analyzed for total antioxidant capacity (TAC), Malondialdehyde (MDA), and creatine kinase (CK) levels. Repeated measures of ANOVA and Bonferroni post hoc test were applied to analyze the data. The significance level was set at 0.05. Results: Results showed that garlic supplementation had no significant effect on resting levels of variables (Pvalue>0.05). Aerobic exercise significantly decreased TAC and increased serum levels of MDA and CK levels (Pvalue<0.05) but the rise of MDA level following exercise was significantly diminished at garlic condition (P<0.05). Conclusions: Based on the findings of the present study, acute garlic supplementation had no effect on exercise-induced cell damage but may ameliorate exercise-induced lipid peroxidation. Key Words: Garlic, Antioxidant Capacity; Exercise, Oxidative Stress, Lipid Peroxidation, CK.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY Routing Strategies in Adhoc Network

Wireless Communication is the transfer of information over long distances without the use of wires. The connectivity of wireless communication is nearly everywhere and becoming highly affordable even for people who are in the pyramid’s bottom. Wireless networking is slowly pushing out wired networking and ideal solution for a user that wants the ability and freedom to roam without having a fixed cable determining the distance that user can go before having to stop due to a cable. – “connect anytime, anywhere, anyhow” promising ubiquitous network access at high speed to the end users, has been a topic of great interest especially for the wireless telecom industry. An ad hoc network has certain characteristics, which imposes new demand on routing protocols. The most important characteristics is the dynamic topology, which is the consequence of node mobility. Nodes can change position quite frequently, which means that we need a routing protocol that quickly adapts to topology changes. This means that routing protocol should try to minimize control traffic, such as periodic update messages, instead the routing protocols should be reactive, thus only calculate routes upon receiving a specific request.
Accelerating the Discrete Event Network Simulation by Direct Computing

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Potential Development Management of Students in Islam Moch

This study aimed to investigate and describe the management of developing potential students based on Islamic views. This study used a qualitative method with a case study approach. The subjects of the research were Madrasah supervisors, Madrasah headmasters, and the teachers. The results of the study showed that the development of potential students when referring to the objectives of national education in particular and development, in general, is to create "Total Man" by creating human beings who has complete characteristics, harmonious, and balanced in the development of all aspects of his personality. Humans as a whole are individuals who can reach all relationships with God, with the environment or natural surroundings, with other humans in a constructive social life and with themselves. Management of the development of potential students based on Islamic views stipulates that new education will end when someone dies. Physically, seeking knowledge will end when someone dies, but the process of seeking knowledge continues to an infinite limit.
Integrating Data-Driven and Participatory Modeling to Simulate Future Urban Growth Scenarios: Findings from Monastir, Tunisia

Current rapid urbanization trends in developing countries present considerable challenges to local governments, potentially hindering efforts towards sustainable urban development. To effectively anticipate the challenges posed by urbanization, participatory modeling techniques can help to stimulate future-oriented decision-making by exploring alternative development scenarios. With the example of the coastal city of Monastir, we present the results of an integrated urban growth analysis that combines the SLEUTH (slope, land use, exclusion, urban extent, transportation, and hill shade) cellular automata model with qualitative inputs from relevant local stakeholders to simulate urban growth until 2030. While historical time-series of Landsat data fed a business-as-usual prediction, the quantification of narrative storylines derived from participatory scenario workshops enabled the creation of four additional urban growth scenarios. Results show that the growth of the city will occur at different rates under all scenarios. Both the “business-as-usual” (BaU) prediction and the four scenarios revealed that urban expansion is expected to further encroach on agricultural land by 2030. The various scenarios suggest that Monastir will expand between 127–149 hectares. The information provided here goes beyond simply projecting past trends, giving decision-makers the necessary support for both understanding possible future urban expansion pathways and proactively managing the future growth of the city.
Unlocking the performance potential of functionally diverse teams: The paradoxical role of leader mood

textabstractIn a multisource, lagged design field study of 66 consulting teams, we investigated the role of leader mood in unlocking the performance potential of functionally diverse teams. In line with our hypotheses, we found that, given high levels of leader positive mood, functional diversity was positively related to collective team identification. In contrast, given high levels of leader negative mood, functional diversity was positively associated with information elaboration in teams. Furthermore, results showed that functional diversity was most strongly related to team performance when both leader positive mood and leader negative mood were high. This study highlights the value of examining seemingly contradictory leadership aspects in the effort to gain a fuller understanding of how to foster performance in diverse teams. Practitioner points To effectively lead diverse teams, leaders need to navigate between the need to promote unique ideas (i.e., information elaboration) and the simultaneous need to pull together diverse members towards a common identity. Leader mood addresses both of these needs. When the team leader exhibited a positive mood, team functional diversity was positively related to members’ identification with the team. By contrast, when the team leader displayed a negative mood, team functional diversity was positively related to information elaboration. Over a 12‐day period, diverse teams performed best when the leader showed both positive and negative mood. Leaders of diverse teams are required to be sensitive to the affective tone of their team and aware of how their emotional displays influence team members’ moods and behaviours as well as team processes.
for Mandarin speakers: Electrophysiological evidence from a masked

Languages may differ regarding the primary mental unit of phonological encoding spoken production, with models of speakers of Indo-European languages generally assuming a central role for phonemes, but spoken Chinese production potentially attributing a more prominent role to syllables. In the present study, native Mandarin Chinese speakers named objects which were preceded by briefly presented and masked prime words which were form related and either matched or mismatched concerning their syllabic structure, or were unrelated. Behavioral results showed a previously reported interaction between prime and target syllable type. Concurrently recorded electroencephalography (EEG) also exhibited this interaction, and further revealed that syllable overlap modulated ERPs mainly in the time window of 300-400 ms after picture onset. By contrast, phonemic overlap modulated ERPs from 500 ms to 600 ms. This pattern might suggest that speakers retrieved syllables before phonemes, and strengthens the claim that for Chinese individuals, syllables constitute primary functional representations (“proximate units”) .
Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest Ethiopia

Abstract In Ethiopia, the fishery sector plays an important role to improve food security, employment creation, income generation and poverty reduction. Despite the economic importance of fish farming at the household and national level, farm households have paid little attention to the sector in the study area. Consequently, this study was undertaken to examine the determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production. For this purpose, a cross-sectional survey with 120 households was conducted to collect quantitative primary data. Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and binary logit model were used to analyze the data. The result indicated that farm households’ participation in fish production is determined by various socioeconomic and institutional factors. Age of the household head, educational status, household size, extension service and access to modern transportation service had a statistically significant effect on farm households’ participation in fish production. An attempt to increase farm households’ participation in fish production should give special attention to the existing heterogeneity in socioeconomic and institutional factors.
T he effect of 30s sprints during prolonged exercise on gross 9 efficiency , electromyography and pedaling technique in elite 10 cyclists 11 12

41 Background: 42 Cycling competitions are often of long duration and include repeated high-intensity efforts. 43 44 Purpose: 45 To investigate the effect of repeated maximal sprints during 4 hours of low-intensity cycling on 46 gross efficiency (GE), electromyography patterns (EMG) and pedaling technique compared to 47 work-matched low-intensity cycling in elite cyclists. 48 49 Methods: 50 Twelve elite, male cyclists performed 4 hours of cycling at 50% of VO2max either with 3 sets of 3 x 51 30-s maximal sprints (E&S) during the first 3 h or a work-matched cycling without sprints (E) in a 52 randomized order. VO2, EMG and pedaling technique were recorded throughout the exercises. 53 54 Results: 55 GE was reduced from start to the end of exercise in both conditions (E&S; 19.0±0.2 vs 18.1±0.2, E; 56 19.1±0.2 vs 18.1±0.2%, both P=0.001), with no difference in change between conditions (condition 57 x time interaction: P=0.8). iEMG increased from start to end of exercise in m.Vastus Lateralis and 58 m.Vastus Medialis (VM; 9.9±2.4, VL; 8.5±4.0 mV, main effect of time: P<0.001 and P=0.03, 59 respectively) and E&S increased less than E in VM (mean difference -3.3±1.5 mV, main effect of 60 condition: P=0.03, interaction, P=0.06). The mechanical effectiveness only decreased in E&S 61 (E&S; -2.2±0.7, ES=0.24 vs E; -1.3±0.8 percentage points: P=0.04 and P=0.8, respectively). The 62 mean power output during each set of 3x30-s sprints in E&S did not differ (P=0.6). 63 64 Conclusions: 65 GE decreases as a function of time during 4 hours of low-intensity cycling. However, the inclusion 66 of maximal repeated sprinting does not affect the GE-changes, and the ability to sprint is 67 maintained throughout the entire session. 68 69
Damage Detection of Structures Using Blind Source Separation and Multifractal Detrend Fluctuation Analysis

In this paper, a damage detection technique is proposed based on multifractal detrend fluctuation analysis and blind source separation. In the first stage, the accuracy of three methods of blind source separation is compared and the most efficient method in decomposing structural vibration signals is selected. These methods include blind modal identification, combined method, and sparse coding. Three structural models are employed to investigate efficiency of the procedures which consists of a range of numerical SDOF model with limited degree of freedom to real structures. In the second stage, a damage index is proposed based on the width of multifractal spectrum. Results show that the aforementioned method is able to identify various damage patterns and can detect slight damages.
Effect of glutamine supplement on chemo-radiation induced mucositis in head and neck cancer patients: a prospective study

Background: Radiotherapy is one of the primary modalities of cancer treatment but may associated with short and long-term toxicities. Oral mucositis is frequently encountered in head and neck cancer resulting in unplanned treatment breaks. Few studies emphasized that use of oral glutamine may significantly reduce oral mucositis and other acute toxicities. This study aims to assess the effects of glutamine on oral mucositis in head and neck cancer patients receiving chemo-radiation. Methods: It is a prospective study carried out in sixty-four head and neck cancer patients attending radiotherapy department for chemo-radiation from January 2018 to May 2019. Patients were randomly assigned into two arms containing 32 subjects in each. All the patients in arm-A were taking oral glutamine supplement of 15 mg once daily, two hours prior to radiation and arm-B serve as the control group. Dose of radiation fixed at 66 Gy in 33 fractions over a period of 7 weeks along with an infusion of weekly cisplatin (40 mg/m). Patients were evaluated regarding onset, severity and the recovery period of mucositis. Results: Oral mucositis appeared at around 5th week in arm-A and 3rd week in arm-B (p<0.0001). Number of patients with mucositis is significantly less in arm-A (75%, 24 out of 32) as compared to arm-B (96.8%) (p=0.0310). The time required for healing of mucositis is significantly less than 1 week in arm-A compared to ~2 weeks in the arm-B (p<0.0001). Conclusions: Oral glutamine when given prior to radiation results in delayed onset of oral mucositis with decreased severity and an early healing period.
Preparation and Characterization of Nanostructured Titania-coated Silica Microsphere Membranes with Simultaneous Photo-catalytic and Separation Applications for Water Treatment

In this research, the nanostructured titania-coated silica microsphere (NTCSM) membrane consisting of titania-silica core-shell particles on α–alumina substrate was prepared by dip-coating method. The silica microspheres were synthesized by the Stöber method, and the nanostructured titania shell was obtained from a polymeric sol. Then, the prepared core-shell particles were deposited on alumina substrates. The samples were characterized by DLS, TG-DTA, XRD, FTIR and SEM. The photo-catalytic activity of the NTCSM membranes was evaluated using photo-degradation of methyl orange solution by UV–visible spectrophotometer. In addition, physical separation capability was investigated by filtration experiment based on methyl orange removal from aqueous solution using a membrane setup. The mean particle size of silica microspheres was determined to be around 650 nm, which increased to about 800nm by the deposition of titania nano-particles. After 60 min of UV-irradiation, the dye removal efficiency was determined to be 80% by the membrane. By coupling separation process with photo-catalytic technique, the removal efficiency was improved up to 97%. Thus, the NTCSM membranes showed simultaneous photo-degradation and separation capabilities for dye removal from water.
Comparative Sensitivity Performance of the Discriminant Function and Logistic Regression under Different Training and Test Samples for Predicting Birth Outcomes

Population increases with time through birth, and researchers have often used either Logistic regression model or Discriminant analysis to study and classify birth outcomes. In this paper, the authors sought to investigate the sensitivity of the two methods used separately to explain and classify birth outcomes under different training and test samples. Out of 5000 birth outcomes data comprising of 1250 stillbirth cases and 3750 live births and with four test samples (50%, 40%, 30% and 25%). The Discriminant Analysis averagely correctly classified 89.8% of birth outcome cases compared to 82.4% for the logistic regression. The Discriminant analysis on the average correctly predicted 94.2% of live births compared to 83.1% for the Logistic regression. On stillbirth, 75.7% and 80.9% success rates were recorded for Discriminant Analysis and Logistic regression respectively. All predictors (Maternal Age, Gestational period, fetus weight, parity and Gravida) were statistically significant (p-value < 0.01) in determining birth outcomes of pregnancies in both methods. The results showed that, both techniques are almost similar in predicting birth outcome. However, the Discriminant analysis is preferred for the 25% and 50% test samples whiles, the logistic regression performed well under the 30% and 40% test sample data. Original Research Article Asosega et al.; AJPAS, 6(3): 47-60, 2020; Article no.AJPAS. 54501 48
Automated Method for Cancer Pinpoint Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging-A Theoretical Study

A Partially Automated method for (Prostate) Cancer pinpoint using Multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging has been proposed in this paper, which can be used in guiding surgery. A Random Walker (RW) algorithm has been analyzed with seed initialization to perform (Prostate) cancer pinpoint using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Segmentation can be done by using Random Walker (RW) algorithm which has to be considered to be a fastest method. Random Walker (RW) method can be used with multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and then by using Support Vector Machine (SVM) method, we can determine the seed points in a partially automated manner. By using this method, more weights to the image can be assigned in order to produce improved segmentation process. The proposed method can also give high specificity rate without reducing the sensitivity which is better than earlier methods and fisher sign test can be also used to find the statistical differences.