Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE EFFECT OF COMMUNICATION, EDUCATION, AND TRUST ON MEMBER PERFORMANCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE :STUDY IN PIDIE POLANTAS

This study is to analyze / test the effect of communication, education, and trust on member performance and its implications on the organizational performance. The object is Pidie Polantas Organization, while the variables are communication, education, trust, member performance and organizational performance. The population is all personnel, both the Police and Civil Servants, totaling 148 personnels. Sample is taken using census method, so the amount of population is the same with the amount of the sample. Structural Equation Modeling is used for analyzing the data, with AMOS application. The research result shows that communication effects member performance, Education effects member performance, Trust effects member performance, Member performance effects organizational performance, Communication effects organizational performance, Education effects organizational performance, Trust effects organizational performance, Communication effects organizational performance through member performance, Education effects organizational performance through member performance, and Trust effects organizational performance through member performance. This research model can be a reference for academic and practical lessons that update the previous theories especially in the causalities. The new findings lies in its new object, that is the Pidie Polantas, and the combination of causality theories. The limitation resides in the amount of variables, and only use one object. Keyword: Communication, Education, Trust, Member Performance and Organizational Performance.
dsRNA Binding Activity of Silkworm Larval Hemolymph is Mediated by Lipophorin Complex

RNAi induction by the injection of long dsRNA into hemocoel has been tried to archive efficient gene knockdown in silkworm larvae or pupae, and severas reports successfully applying RNAi to silkworm have been brought out. However, effect of RNAi in silkworm is often insufficient and improvement of efficiency is desirable. On the other hand, the metabolic turnover or organ uptake of dsRNA injected into insects has not been sufficiently clarified so far. In this study, we report that silkworm larval hemolymph has dsRNA binding activity. We also show that the molecular entity of dsRNA binding activity of hemolymph is lipophorin, a major lipoprotein complex in insects. dsRNA binding activity of silkworm larval hemolymph was observed by electrophoretic mobility shift assay. dsRNA binding activity–associated protein was purified by affinity chromatography with immobilized dsRNA as a ligand. Amino acid sequence of the purified protein was determined by Edman degradation and the protein was revealed to be a silkworm homolog of Apolipophorin I, an unexchangeable apolipoprotein subunit of lipophorin. Lipophorin fraction prepared from hemolymph by density gradient ultracentrifugation also exhibited the similar dsRNA binding activity. We determined full– length sequence of Apolipophorin II/I precursor homolog of silkworm, whose structure was highly conserved among insects. Although physiological role of dsRNA binding activity is still unknown, the present study indicates potential effect by injection of dsRNA into silkworm individuals.
New Insights on Psychological Factors for the Development of Women Entrepreneurs in Indonesia

The Problem Despite efforts to develop women entrepreneurs in Indonesia, the majority of them are unable to grow their businesses. The literature suggests that cultural factors (i.e., non-egalitarian sex roles) may limit the actualization of psychological factors that are critical for their successes. The Solution To investigate the motivation, challenges, and opportunities facing women entrepreneurs in Indonesia, this article focused on (a) characteristics of women entrepreneurs based on their motives: necessity- versus growth-oriented, and (b) psychological factors that influence their success. Focusing on micro and small enterprises, we collected data from 200 (87 necessity-oriented, and 113 growth-oriented) women entrepreneurs in Indonesia. The study findings demonstrate that the success of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia is associated with their identity conflict (i.e., induced by non-egalitarian sex-role culture), passion, and future time orientation, all of which interplay differently for necessity- and growth-oriented women entrepreneurs. The Stakeholders This article is important for scholars, practitioners, and government officers in a non-egalitarian sex-role country like Indonesia. It informs involved stakeholders of the specific aspects that need to be considered in coaching and leadership training for women entrepreneurs who are managing micro and small enterprises.
Using co-constructed mental models to understand stakeholder perspectives on agro-ecology

ABSTRACT Agro-ecology has been recognized as a potential route to realizing the multiple economic, social, and environmental benefits increasingly required of agricultural systems. However, views on what constitutes agro-ecology differ considerably between countries, and also between stakeholder groups such as natural scientists and farmers. To identify areas of convergence and divergence in understandings of agro-ecology in the Scottish context, we used a novel co-constructed mental modelling approach with a sample of 8 scientists and 7 farmers in the North East of Scotland. Results show that agro-ecology in Scotland is currently mainly understood as a scientific discipline applying ecological analysis to agricultural systems. Farmers’ mental models show a wider consideration of the food system, including consumer health, markets and sustainable energy. Precision farming featured prominently in farmers’ mental models but not in the scientists’ mental models. Our discussion therefore raises the question to what extent precision farming and agro-ecology support or contradict each other. We conclude that although farmers and scientists differ considerably, there are areas of shared understanding, such as the potential of novel crops and new crop rotations, which could be the starting point of working towards an agriculture that delivers multiple benefits.
Effect Addition of Urea Molasses Multi-nutrient Moringa Block (UM3B) on the Ovarian Follicular Dynamics in Crossbred Cows

| The purpose of this study was to examine the follicular wave, total of follicle dominant and diameter of the follicle during the estrous cycle in cross-breed (local breed x limousin) cows. A total of 40 crossbreeds cows, average body weights of 350-425 kg, aged 3-6 years were used for the present study. All samples were divided into two groups; each group was containing the 20 cows. Group 1 was given 350 gr/head/day of UM3B as long as one month, and group 2 was not given UM3B (control). Follicular dynamics during the estrous cycle were assessed using a portable ultrasound (USG) scan device. The parameters in the research were including the number of the follicular waves, follicle dominant and diameters of follicles. The results showed that the average number of follicular wave and dominant follicles in group one (with UM3B) were significantly different (P 0 <0.5) compared to group two (control). Whereas, the average diameter follicle was no significant different (P 0>0.05) between group one and group two. The conclusion adding of urea molasses multi-nutrient moringa block (UM3B) on cross-breed cows could increase follicular dynamics.
Adding Coronary Calcium Score to Exercise Treadmill Test: An Alternative to Refine Coronary Artery Disease Risk Stratification in Patients with Intermediate Risk Chest Pain

Introduction: Chest pain is a common symptom for cardiology referrals. The ACC-AHA guidelines recommend exercise stress electrocardiography (TMX) as the initial diagnostic test. However, the TMX only has moderate sensitivity and non-diagnostic cases may require further stress imaging studies. In this study we aimed to look at the feasibility of combining coronary artery calcium (CAC) score with TMX to refine risk stratification. This may be an alternative to stress imaging in cases of non low-risk TMX, with the added advantage of short time turnaround time and low radiation dose. Methods: A total of 145 patients who presented consecutively to the National Heart Centre Singapore with chest pain were included in this study. These were intermediate risk patients with an average Duke Clinical Score of 38.8%. All patients underwent both TMX and computed tomography scan of the coronary arteries (CTCA) which also includes CAC. The primary outcome was defined as obstructive coronary artery disease i.e. >50% left main artery stenosis and/or >70% stenosis in other epicardial arteries. Results: The combination of TMX and CAC was comparable to stress imaging in detecting obstructive coronary artery disease. When added to TMX, CAC has an integrated discriminative improvement of 74.1%, achieved an area under the curve of 0.974 and adjusted R2 of 0.670 in detecting the primary outcome. Conclusion: The strategy of combining TMX and CAC is feasible in clinical practice to refine risk stratification in outpatients with intermediate risk chest pain. The calcium score readout also further guides therapy for primary prevention. Highlights: Treadmill exercise is one of the first line tests for cardiac chest pain work up. Non diagnostic test treadmill results requires further adjunctive tests. Downstream stress imaging causes delay in time to diagnosis. Coronary artery calcium scoring needs minimal preparation with fast turnaround time. Addition of coronary artery calcium to treadmill performs comparably to stress imaging. This is a feasible alternative to risk stratify non diagnostic treadmill tests and guide therapy for primary prevention.
The Perception and Barriers of Peoples to Prevent Noncommunicable Diseases” Through Physical Activities: In the Case of Debre Markos and Fnoteselam Towns, Ethiopia

This study attempted to assess the habits and awareness of people towards physical exercise and its challenges and opportunities in the process of preventing selected NCD. To conduct this study the researchers delimited to Debre Markos and Fnoteselam towns in different respective population groups and offices. The total sample sizes were2200 and a minimum of 600 sample respondents were taken by 10 % rule among this 470 for questionnaire and 130 for interview respondents. Each office has been selected by stratified sampling based on purposively expected availability of information and participants were categorized according to their demographic placement such as sex, age, education and habit of involvement then followed by simple random sampling techniques. In this research, the data collection tools employed questionnaires, interview with focus group discussion and document were analyzed in triangulation manner. The reason why the researchers chooses these methods is to get valuable and reliable data for outshined barriers of physical exercise, causes of prevention of disease (NCD) in the case of Debre Markos and Fenoteselam towns. After that the questionnaires were administered and the data was collected, tailed, analyzed and logical conclusion and recommendation was reported. Keywords: Barriers, Perception, Physical exercise, Physical fitness DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/72-03 Publication date: March 31 st 2020
Editorial to the Special Issue on the Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS)

Welcome to this special issue of ACM TOMACS on the Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), which is based on selected articles from the 2018 ACM SIGSIM-PADS Conference. This is the flagship conference of the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling (SIGSIM), whose 2018 edition was held at the University of Rome La Sapienza, on May 23–25, 2018. This special issue is edited by Georgios Theodoropoulos, Alessandro Pellegrini, and Francesco Quaglia, who served as the conference program and general chairs, and were responsible for the proceedings of the conference. The articles appearing in this special issue have been selected also thanks to the help of Prof. Adelinde Uhrmacher, who acted as the Editor in Chief of ACM TOMACS until August 2019. The outcome of the selection process identified seven articles, top ranked in the review process of PADS 2018, as possible candidates for this special issue. The authors of three of them have been able to meet the deadlines for submitting the substantially extended versions of the original conference articles, while the others were not able to produce sufficiently new results on time to meet the special issue schedule. The submission process for this special issue started in November 2018, and the final decisions for all the involved articles have been made by November 2019, with a very minimal delay with respect to the originally planned schedule. The articles submitted to this special issue and having the organizers of PADS 2018 as authors have been handled directly by Prof. Adelinde Uhrmacher. As an additional mean for keeping the quality of the articles accepted in this special issue at excellent levels, the invited authors had to provide an extension plan of their original conference articles, the adequacy of which has been early assessed by the Guest Editors and by the TOMACS Editor in Chief. Also, a minimum of three reviewers peer reviewed the submitted articles. The special issue finally consists of three articles. The first article [Rahman and Kemper 2020] focuses on Markov models, which are commonly used in the context of modeling and simulation of dynamic systems. The objective of the article is to investigate the role of specific properties of a discrete-time Markov chain for the purpose of time-series analysis. The properties of interest include entropy and the second-largest eigenvalue. One relevant achievement by the authors is that these properties are affected in a non-independent manner by the presence of trends or periodicity. The article has a strong theoretical focus, but it also shows the potential for pragmatical applications, for example in the study of processes’ similarities. The second article [Andelfinger et al. 2020] addresses the issue of making microscopic traffic simulation more efficient. The idea is to avoid time-stepped state updates of the involved entities. Rather, an approach is provided based on the identification of independent updates among entities. The introduction of a fast-forward state update function is the mean exploited to support
The reproductive ecology of the rare and endangered Mexican flannel bush (Fremontodendron mexicanum)

OF THE THESIS The Reproductive Ecology of the Rare and Endangered Mexican Flannel Bush (Fremontodendron mexicanum) by Bertrand C. Austin Master of Science in Biology with a Concentration in Ecology San Diego State University, 2014 The Mexican flannel bush (Fremontodendron mexicanum) is a rare and federally endangered plant species known to currently exist on one mountain within the United States. The goal of this study was to identify components to the reproductive biology of F. mexicanum that would better assist in managing the remaining plants and address the apparent lack of dispersal out of the current recorded range. To identify potential limiting traits in the reproductive life cycle (phenology) of the species, various stands of F. mexicanum were analyzed for pollination, seed dispersal, and germination characters in 2010 and 2011. The European honey bee (Apis mellifera) was the predominant floral visitor to F. mexicanum flowers comprising 88.5% of all floral interactions in both 2010 and 2011 combined. Ultraviolet floral pigmentation in a pattern similar to that reported for the sister taxa, Fremontodendron decumbens was identified on all F. mexicanum flowers examined (n = 20). Seed set appeared to be robust with each fruit producing approximately nine seeds, indicating that seed production is most likely not the cause of limited dispersal. One of the most important finds of the study was the identification of an elaiosome structure on 97.4% of all seeds examined. An elaiosome is indicative of ant dispersal (myrmecochory), and is found in both California flannel bush (Fremontodendron californicum) and Pine Hill flannel bush (F. decumbens) with 93.6% and 100% occurrence, respectively. While examining seeds in a scanning electron microscope (SEM), stomata were found on the elaiosome. The purpose of the seed stomata is unknown; however, they could act as a secondary pathway for water imbibition signaling mesic germination conditions are present. A graniverous ant species, Messor andrei, was found between two of the canyons where F. mexicanum is currently found. This same species of ant was found to be the primary seed disperser for F. decumbens. To assess the possibility of native ant dispersers facing competition from invasive species, the three canyons were F. mexicanum is found was surveyed for the occurrence of the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile); none were found. A side by side comparison of germination rates under different conditions was conducted on both F. mexicanum and F. californicum. The treatments were based off of a study assessing the reproductive attrition of F. decumbens and included: control, scarification, stratification (5C for eight weeks), heat (100C for five min.), heat + soil amended with charate, and heat-stratification-charate. The heat treatment had the highest germination totals for F. mexicanum (47.5%) and the heat + charate treatment had the highest
The AT2 Receptor Selectively Associates with Giα2 and Giα3 in the Rat Fetus*

The effects of angiotensin II are mediated by a family of seven transmembrane receptors. In the adult, the majority of the receptors are of the AT1 isoform, which is coupled to heterotrimeric G proteins (either Gqα or Giα). In contrast, the AT2 receptor is expressed at low levels in the adult but is the major form expressed in the fetal and neonatal animal. Previous results have failed to show G protein coupling of the AT2 receptor in the fetus. We now provide evidence that the AT2 receptor is G protein-coupled. An antibody that binds several Gα subunits immunoselected angiotensin II receptor-Gα complexes. In addition, Giα1-3 antibody, which recognizes Giα1, Giα2 and Giα3, also co-immunoselect the AT2 receptor. Anti-Giα2 and anti-Giα3 antibodies were both able to co-immunoselected AT2 receptor-Giα complexes, but consistent with the lack of Giα1 in the fetal extracts, anti-Giα1 antibodies did not nor did any other G protein-directed antisera. The finding that AT2 receptor couples to both Giα2 and Giα3 raises the possibility that selective interactions between AT2 receptor and different G proteins may result in specific cellular effects mediated by AT2 stimulation.
Brain Eating Amoeba: Alarming Rise of Naegleriasis in Pakistan

Naegleriasis also known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a fulminant brain infection is caused by a single-celled, ameboflagellate known as Naegleria fowleri. Naegleria fowleri has been difficult to eradicate since its growth is typically found in bodies of warm freshwater, unchlorinated, piped water, swimming pools and moist soil. This letter focuses on characteristics and route of spread of infection caused by Naegleria Fowleri and preventative measures that can be taken to limit its spread. A thorough literature review was performed to identify different route of spread of Naegleria Fowleri infection and specific measures that should be taken to limit its spread. We found that Naegleria follows a nasal route of infection, migrating along the olfactory nerve, through the cribriform plate into the brain where it evokes a substantial immune response causing a widespread inflammation, hemorrhage and necrosis eventually leading to death. The at-risk population includes individuals associated with swimming, diving and water skiing in freshwater and poorly chlorinated swimming pools and individuals performing ablution. Therefore, specific measures should be taken to limit the spread of Naegleria Fowleri infection which includes education and awareness of the public as well as of the health professionals regarding Naegleriasis and its preventative measures.
The impact of sensory activity schedule (SAS) intervention on classroom task performance in students with autism – a pilot randomised controlled trial

Sensory processing difficulties can negatively affect children with autism at school. There is limited evidence to guide practice in this area. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a sensory activity schedule (SAS) used in a school setting on task mastery and occupational performance in the classroom. ,A randomised control trial (RCT) was conducted with 30 children to evaluate the efficacy of a school-based SAS. Children in the intervention group received SAS intervention and usual teaching. Children in the control group received only usual teaching. Outcome measures were the perceive, recall, plan and perform stage one procedural task analysis and goal attainment scaling. ,Children in the intervention group demonstrated statistically significant improvements in school performance when compared with the control group in both outcome measures. ,This was a pilot study with small sample size, so results should be interpreted with caution. Further research is needed to replicate these findings. ,A classroom-based SAS may have a positive effect on classroom performance for children with autism. This has implications for professionals who support children with autism and sensory processing difficulties in a school setting. ,To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study was the first of its kind in evaluating SAS intervention in a school setting using RCT methodology.