Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Emotional Labor on Turnover Intention of Hotel Employees: Mediating Effect of Emotional Dissonance

Based on the theory of emotional labor, this study explored the relationship between emotional labor and turnover intention of hotel staff by constructing intermediary effect model. The employees of different hotels in Guangdong province in China were investigated by emotional labor scale, emotional dissonance scale and turnover intention scale. The results showed that the hotel staff paid more deep acting than surface acting in emotional labor; emotional dissonance and turnover intention were in the middle level. There were differences in the deep acting of employees in education level and job position; emotional dissonance had significant differences in education level; and turnover intention had significant differences in working years. The surface acting of emotional labor had a significant positive correlation with emotional dissonance and turnover intention. Emotional dissonance had a completely mediating effect between surface acting and turnover intention.
Community Participation in Political Development: A Study of Political Engagement in General Election in Indonesia

—Legislative elections are a form of community participation in political development. Public participation in the elections is one of significant factors in the victory of a legislative candidate. This encourages a legislative candidate deciding manners to assemble public participation to win the election, includes by engaging methods that violate ethics and law. Community trend and participation in legislative elections in Indonesia have experienced a shift or different political approaches between new order regime and reforms era. The political power approaches do not result authentic community participation in legislative elections, whereas the mass society political approach produces genuine participation without unfavourable vote.
Duration Perception and Auditory Masking

Massaro and his colleagues have developed a model of auditory information processing that is based, in part, on the results of backward recognition masking experiments. ' The model assumes that the features of a presented sound are initially stored in a preperceptual auditory store. Perception of the sound involves reading out the features from this store and synthesizing a perceptual unit. If a second sound (a backward mask) occurs shortly after a target, it is assumed to replace the target in preperceptual storage, thereby terminating perceptual processing of the target. The perceptual clarity of the target sound thus depends on the amount of processing time available prior to mask presentation. This model has been applied to the perception of auditory duration. * The model assumes that a subject's ability to discriminate auditory durations improves as the interstimulus interval (ISI) separating a target sound from a backward mask increases. In addition to the loss of discriminability with short ISIS, Massaro and Idson's data suggested that the perceived durations of both long and short target sounds are shortened when processing time is limited by a backward mask. In the present study, the effects of forward as well as backward masks were assessed. If the effect of the backward mask is presumed to result from its' terminating the processing of the preceding target, there is little reason to expect comparable forward masking. Backward and forward mask conditions were presented in separate blocks to ten undergraduates. The subject's task was to judge whether a target tone (which had a duration of either 38 or 72 msec) was relatively long or short. After the response, the subject received feedback indicating the correct answer. The target and the 100-msec mask had frequencies of 800 Hz and were separated by a silent IS1 of either 20, 40, 60, 80, 160, 250, or 500 msec, although on backward mask trials a no-mask condition was substituted for the 500-msec ISI. The target was presented at either 71 or 81 dB(A) and the mask was always presented at 81 dB(A). All experimental conditions occurred randomly within a block of trials, except that forward and backward mask conditions were blocked and counterbalanced.
The community composition and biomass of pelagic ciliated protozoa in East African lakes

The community composition and biomass of planktonic ciliates were studied in 17 tropical East African lakes varying from freshwater to saline, and from oligotrophic to eutrophic. The conductivity of the lakes varied from 207μS cm−1 to 70 000μS cm−1. Chlorophyll a concentration ranged from <5mg m−3 to >50mg m−3, while bacterial numbers were between 2.9 × 106 and 2.55 × 108 bacteria ml−1. Principal components analysis based on environmental variables revealed a single strong environmental gradient across the lakes related to conductivity, alkalinity, bacterial abundance, chlorophyll a, and (negatively) to Secchi depth. Oligotrichs (e.g. Strombidium, Strobilidium, Halteria) and scuticociliates (e.g. Cyclidium, Pleuronema, Cristigera) dominated the ciliate communities numerically. The species-environment correlations, as revealed by canonical correspondence analysis, indicate a strong relationship between ciliate genera and the environmental gradient. Herbivorous oligotrichs were characteristic of oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes, which were also freshwater to moderately saline lakes. On the other hand, scuticociliates, primarily bacterivores, were most abundant in alkaline and saline lakes with high chlorophyll a concentrations. Biomass of ciliates was related to chlorophyll, as has been observed in temperate and subtropical lakes, but was more strongly related to bacterial concentration.
The biology of rocky shores

The shore environment - problems for organisms and their investigators Vertical distributions - zonation and its causes Communities on the shore - the effects of wave exposure Algae, the primary energy sources Grazers and their influences Suspension feeders - how to live on floating food Predators and their influences The functioning of rocky shore communities Biodiversity, pollution, and conservation.
Modifying DSSAT Crop Models for Low‐Input Agricultural Systems Using a Soil Organic Matter–Residue Module from CENTURY

In low-input systems, where most nutrients become available from soil organic matter (SOM) and residue turnover, the applicability of DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer) crop simulation models is limited because (i) it recognizes only one type of SOM (i.e., humus) and recently added, but not yet humified, residue; (ii) it does not recognize a residue layer on top of the soil; (iii) newly formed humus is given a fixed C/N ratio of 10; (iv) only one litter pool is recognized for N although three are recognized for C; (v) for residues with C/N ratios <25, the three litter pools for C decompose at a rate that is independent of the residue's N concentration; and (vi) SOM and residue flows are independent of soil texture. A SOM–residue module from the CENTURY model was incorporated in the DSSAT crop simulation models, and a residue layer was added on top of the soil. Modifications were also made in the senescence module of CROPGRO, a model within DSSAT, so that senesced material is now added daily to the soil. Evaluation of the model, using a data set of 40 yr of bare fallow, showed an excellent fit [product moment correlation coefficient ( r ) of 0.983] between simulated and measured values for SOM-C. Soil N from decomposing SOM and residues was evaluated with data from a Brazilian experiment with seven leguminous residue types. By incorporating the CENTURY SOM–residue module, DSSAT crop simulation models have become more suitable for simulating low-input systems and conducting long-term sustainability analyses.
The discrepancies in the results of bioinformatics tools for genomic structural annotation

A major focus of sequencing project is to identify genes in genomes. However it is necessary to define the variety of genes and the criteria for identifying them. In this work we present discrepancies and dependencies from the application of different bioinformatic programs for structural annotation performed on the cucumber data set from Polish Consortium of Cucumber Genome Sequencing. We use Fgenesh, GenScan and GeneMark to automated structural annotation, the results have been compared to reference annotation.
Formation of Cytokinin Nucleotides in a Detached Inflorescence Stalk and the Occurrence of Nucleotides in Phloem Exudates from Attached Yucca Plants

The metabolism of isopentenyl adenine, Δ-isopentenyl pyrophosphate, DL-mevalonic acid and adenine in detached inflorescence stalks of Yucca has been studied using radioactive tracer techniques. Xylem feeding of detached stalks with Δ-isopentenyl pyrophosphate, DL-mevalonic acid or adenine did not result in the formation of zeatin- or isopentenyl adenine cytokinins. In contrast isopentenyl adenine fed to a detached inflorescence stalk lead to the formation of isopentenyl- and zeatin nucleotides in the exudate. After alkaline phosphatase treatment of this exudate an unknown compound, presumably isopentenyl adenine-7-glucoside was also detected. The same compound was found after incubation of phloem exudate with isopentenyl adenine. The occurrence of both zeatin- and isopentenyl adenine nucleotides in phloem exudate from an attached inflorescence stalk of Yucca is described.
Self-efficacy and Self-regulation Linkage with Mathematics Achievement in Girls from Secondary Schools

: Research studies have proved that students’ mathematics elf-efﬁcacy and self-regulation is directly related to students’ mathematics achievement and overall learning. In this research, correlations and differences of students’ mathematics self-efﬁcacy, self-regulation and mathematics achievement in a sample of ﬁve hundred female students from ﬁve public sector secondary schools studying in grade nine were investigated. The sample was selected by multistage random sampling technique. Two questionnaires were administered to collect data and then it was analyzed. The study exposed that self-efﬁcacy, self-regulation and achievements regarding mathematics are positively connected. Furthermore, it was concluded that students from different schools have no difference in self-efﬁcacy and self-regulation when compared with achievement with mathematics. It was recommended that efﬁcacy beliefs might be built at higher level mathematics students.
Design of a Two-DOFs Driving Mechanism for a Motion-Assisted Finger Exoskeleton

This paper presents a novel exoskeleton mechanism for finger motion assistance. The exoskeleton is designed as a serial 2-degrees-of-freedom wearable mechanism that is able to guide human finger motion. The design process starts by analyzing the motion of healthy human fingers by video motion tracking. The experimental data are used to obtain the kinematics of a human finger. Then, a graphic/geometric synthesis procedure is implemented for achieving the dimensional synthesis of the proposed novel 2 degrees of freedom linkage mechanism for the finger exoskeleton. The proposed linkage mechanism can drive the three finger phalanxes by using two independent actuators that are both installed on the back of the hand palm. A prototype is designed based on the proposed design by using additive manufacturing. Results of numerical simulations and experimental tests are reported and discussed to prove the feasibility and the operational effectiveness of the proposed design solution that can assist a wide range of finger motions with proper adaptability to a variety of human fingers.
Dual-Task in Large Perceptual Space Reveals Subclinical Hemispatial Neglect

Abstract Objective: Both clinically observable and subclinical hemispatial neglect are related to functional disability. The aim of the present study was to examine whether increasing task complexity improves sensitivity in assessment and whether it enables the identification of subclinical neglect. Method: We developed and compared two computerized dual-tasks, a simpler and a more complex one, and presented them on a large, 173 × 277 cm screen. Participants in the study included 40 patients with unilateral stroke in either the left hemisphere (LH patient group, n = 20) or the right hemisphere (RH patient group, n = 20) and 20 healthy controls. In addition to the large-screen tasks, all participants underwent a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment. The Bells Test was used as a traditional paper-and-pencil cancellation test to assess neglect. Results: RH patients made significantly more left hemifield omission errors than controls in both large-screen tasks. LH patients’ omissions did not differ significantly from those of the controls in either large-screen task. No significant group differences were observed in the Bells Test. All groups’ reaction times were significantly slower in the more complex large-screen task compared to the simpler one. The more complex large-screen task also produced significantly slower reactions to stimuli in the left than in the right hemifield in all groups. Conclusions: The present results suggest that dual-tasks presented on a large screen sensitively reveal subclinical neglect in stroke. New, sensitive, and ecologically valid methods are needed to evaluate subclinical neglect.
Climate change: can we predict the impacts on plant pathology and pest management?

The science of climate change has matured considerably during the past decade, both relative to the strength of the evidence documenting the ongoing anthropogenic climate change and in terms of the quality of climate models projecting future changes in climate. Concomitantly, modeling studies to project the likely impacts of climate change on agricultural production also have become more sophisticated. Nonetheless, agricultural impact assessments still do not account for all important factors; for example, potential changes in yield losses due to altered dynamics and intensity of pests (insects, plant pathogens, and weeds) under climate change are generally ignored — an important omission, given the significant role of plant pests in constraining the production of food and fiber worldwide. This paper highlights selected challenges that must be overcome before we can hope to quantify the impacts of a changing climate on plant disease intensity and yield loss. They pertain both to retrospective analyses seeking to identify fingerprints related to climate change in long-term plant-disease records, as well as to the use of mathematical models to predict likely impacts on plant pathosystems in the future. The use of climate-change fingerprints has been limited because time series containing disease variables collected in a standardized manner are unavailable for most plant pathogens; in cases where such long-term records do exist, trends are often confounded by changes in biological or management factors over time. As for the use of models for impact assessment, key challenges pertain to uncertainty in input variables, the difficulty in predicting biological responses in the presence of nonlinearities and thresholds, and the high likelihood of genetic adaptation to climate change.
POPULATION AND COMPARATIVE BEHAVIOUR OF OCHOTONA ROYLEI AND OCHOTONA MACROTIS IN GOSAINKUNDA AREA, LANGTANG NATIONAL PARK, NEPAL

Study on the behavior of pika (Ochotona roylei and O. macrotis) was carried out during the monthsof July and August 2011 in Gosainkunda, Langtang National Park (LNP), Nepal. Pika inhabits in thetalus habitats of the alpine area. Tharepati (3651 m asl), Phedi (3825 m asl), Gosainkunda (4436 masl), and Laurebina (3903 m asl) were selected for behavior recording. Quadrates of 50 m × 50 mwere randomly plotted at each site except in Phedi. Only two species of pika were recorded in thoseareas: Ochotona macrotis was 75 individuals and Ochotona roylei 49 individuals. The ratio of agegroup adult and infant in O. macrotis was 29:46 and O. roylei 16:33 population with density 21/haand14/ha, respectively. Eleven pikas were observed for 455 min to record their behaviour from 5:30AM to 19:30 PM in each day. Feeding, foraging, musing, grooming, chasing each other (playing)were the recorded behavior. They were active at dawn and dusk but were not observed during rainyperiod. They spent their 26% of time in feeding, 24% in musing, 16% in foraging, and 11% ingrooming. Pikas were observed digging soft rocks, soil and mosses on the rock before dischargingpellets. Study on the behavior of pika ( Ochotona roylei and O. macrotis ) was carried out during the months of July and August 2011 in Gosainkunda, Langtang National Park (LNP), Nepal. Pika inhabits in the talus habitats of the alpine area. Tharepati (3651 m asl), Phedi (3825 m asl), Gosainkunda (4436 m asl), and Laurebina (3903 m asl) were selected for behavior recording. Quadrates of 50 m × 50 m were randomly plotted at each site except in Phedi. Only two species of pika were recorded in those areas: Ochotona macrotis was 75 individuals and Ochotona roylei 49 individuals. The ratio of age group adult and infant in O. macrotis was 29:46 and O. roylei 16:33 population with density 21/ha and14/ha, respectively. Eleven pikas were observed for 455 min to record their behaviour from 5:30 AM to 19:30 PM in each day. Feeding, foraging, musing, grooming, chasing each other (playing) were the recorded behavior. They were active at dawn and dusk but were not observed during rainy period. They spent their 26% of time in feeding, 24% in musing, 16% in foraging, and 11% in grooming. Pikas were observed digging soft rocks, soil and mosses on the rock before discharging pellets. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3126/eco.v19i0. 9853 Ecoprint An International Journal of Ecology Vol. 19, 2012 Page: 57-62 Uploaded date : 2/14/2014
Laboratory studies of fresh and aged biomass burning aerosols emitted from east African biomass fuels – Part 2: Chemical properties and characterization

There are many fuels used for domestic purposes in east Africa, producing a significant atmospheric burden of the resulting aerosols, which includes biomass burning particles. However, the aerosol physicochemical properties are poorly understood. Here, the combustion of eucalyptus, acacia, and olive fuels was performed at 500 and 800 C in a tube furnace, followed by immediate filter collection for fresh samples or introduction into a photochemical chamber to simulate atmospheric photochemical aging under the influence of anthropogenic emissions. The aerosol generated in the latter experiment was collected onto filters after 12 h of photochemical aging. 500 and 800 C were selected to simulate smoldering and flaming combustion, respectively, and to cover a range of combustion conditions. Methanol extracts from Teflon filters were analyzed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography interfaced to both a diode array detector and an electrospray ionization high-resolution quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer (UPLC/DAD-ESI-HR-QTOFMS) to determine the light absorption properties of biomass burning organic aerosol constituents chemically characterized at the molecular level. Few chemical or UV–visible (UV: ultraviolet) differences were apparent between samples for the fuels when combusted at 800 C. Differences in single-scattering albedo (SSA) between fresh samples at this temperature were attributed to compounds not captured in this analysis, with eucalyptol being one suspected missing component. For fresh combustion at 500 C, many species were present; lignin pyrolysis and distillation products are more prevalent in eucalyptus, while pyrolysis products of cellulose and at least one nitro-aromatic species were more prevalent in acacia. SSA trends are consistent with this, particularly if the absorption of those chromophores extends to the 500–570 nm region. Upon aging, both show that resorcinol or catechol was removed to the highest degree, and both aerosol types were dominated by loss of pyrolysis and distillation products, though they differed in the specific compounds being consumed by the photochemical aging process.
Isotope geochemistry evidence for Laurussian-type sources of South Portuguese Zone Carboniferous turbidites (Variscan Orogeny)

Abstract New Rb–Sr isotopic data from South Portuguese Zone (SPZ) turbidites show that the 87Sr/86Sr(t) ratio increases from the basal Mértola Formation (Visean–Serpukhovian: 0.706–0.707), through the Mira Formation (Serpukhovian–Bashkirian: 0.706–0.712) to the uppermost Brejeira Formation (Bashkirian–Moscovian: 0.713–0.715). In addition, estimated Nd TDM model ages for the Mértola (1.29–1.09 Ga), Mira (1.58–1.1 Ga) and Brejeira (1.73–1.37 Ga) formations indicate inverted stratigraphy for their isotopic sources. The isotope geochemical data indicate significant changes in the sources from which the SPZ Carboniferous turbidites are derived, consistent with the progressive denudation of a continental magmatic arc built on the Laurussian margin. Mértola turbidites inherited their geochemical and isotopic characteristics from an adjacent dissected Middle–Late Devonian continental magmatic arc with an intermediate–felsic composition: that is a Laurussian (Rheic magmatic arc)-type source. The progressive erosion of its plutonic roots and older host continental basement rocks are indicated in the Mira and Brejeira formations by the increasing contribution of recycled ancient continental crust. The pronounced similarity between the Nd TDM model ages and the detrital zircon populations of the Mira and Brejeira formations (SW Iberia) suggest that they share a common Laurussian (West Avalonia/Meguma terrane)-type source but a contribution from Gondwanan (Ossa-Morena)-type sources cannot be discarded.
Chromosome numbers of the 59 species of Eucalyptus L'Herit. (Myrtaceae)

Abstract The paper presents the results of the chromosomal counting of 59 species of genus Eucalyptus among which 55 are newly examined. All these species possess 2n = 22 including the four species for which the numbers 2n = 20, 24 and 28 have been reported. The number 2n = 24 previously raported in 9 species appears to result from a break of the chromosome first pair very often observed in the Eucalyptus in the metaphase and especially premetaphase stage. Although some contradictory cases of aneuploid have been reported in the literature, the large homogeneity of the chromosome number 2n = 22, now known for 135 (33.5%) distinct species, makes the genus Eucalyptus to be considered as a vast caryologic continuum who probably adopts a process of evolution based fundamentally on chromosome alterations.
The conversion of a field‐emission scanning electron microscope to a high‐resolution, high‐performance scanning transmission electron microscope, while maintaining original functions

Recently, the reliability of field-emission electron guns has increased. In addition, the cost of computer systems for on-line processing has dropped. Hence, we should now consider the use of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) for routine work, especially, in the field of biology where one may expect to utilize digital image processing techniques. An STEM has been constructed, without disturbing the original functions, by converting a commercial scanning electron microscope equipped with a fieldemission gun. The STEM is generally operated at accelerating voltage 30 kV, focal length 7.5 mm, and beam current 1−2 × 10−10 A. Several improvements have been incorporated for removing the effects of vibration, contamination, and stray magnetic fields. Also, an adjustable detector aperture was utilized. The modified instrument was connected to an on-line digital image processing system for utilizing the information obtained from STEM images. The advantages of the modified system were studied from various viewpoints.