Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
G-SEC WORKING PAPER No . 3 Starting “ Leadership R & D ” Activities — Field Origination in the Complex System View —

For the science of leadership to be practical in the true sense, it must be able to explain the relative merits of a leader’s actions, and also be able to design methods on how best to foster leaders as human beings, and how leaders can motivate the group or organization. It is when the outcomes of leadership research activities (R) can be applied to leadership development activities (D) that the science of leadership indeed becomes practical. Moreover, the essence of the leadership structure is the individual to the group/organization, and their interrelationship forms a complex system. Leadership R&D activities must maintain this view. 1 Senior Research Fellow, Global Security Research Institute, Professor,Graduate School of Business, Keio University 2 Co-Active Coach / Consultant 3 Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Business Administration, Research Assistant, Global Security Research Institute
Investigation of critical concentrations of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) in N, N-dimethylformamide by a viscosity technique

The viscosity of solutions of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) in N,N-dimethylformamide over a wide range of concentrations and at different temperatures was measured. The polymer solutions exhibited a critical concentration c**, separating dilute solutions into extremely dilute solutions and dilute solutions. The viscosity–temperature dependence is discussed on the basis of a formula of the correlation between the true and the experimental relative viscosity. The results revealed that an abnormal viscosity of neutral PVP solutions in the dilute solution region (c › c**) and extremely dilute solutions (c ‹ c**) can be ascribed to interface effects. The polymeric solutes were readily adsorbed on the wall surface of the cone-plate rheometer, which greatly influenced the viscosity measurements of the PVP solutions and resulted in the apparent abnormal viscosity behaviour. The intrinsic viscosity [η] and the Huggins constant kH, were calculated. The solute adsorption behaviours and structural information of the polymer were discussed in depth.
A CRITICAL VIEW OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING REVISITED: A RESEARCH FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TRAINING PROCESSES IN ORGANIZATIONS

Orgutsel ogrenme gerek akademik yazinda gerekse is dunyasinda 1960’lardan bu yana ilgi ceken bir kavram olarak degerlendirilmektedir. Orgutlerin ogrenme sureclerini irdeleyen calismalarda, orgutsel ogrenmenin daha cok pozitif sonuclarina odaklanildigi gorulmektedir. Bu literaturde, orgutsel ogrenmenin orgutler uzerinde bilgi yaratma, kapasite artirma, performans iyilestirme, yetenek gelistirme ve rekabet avantaji saglama gibi olumlu etkiler yarattigi; en nihayetinde orgutlerin calisanlarinin surekli ogrendikleri ve kapasitelerini surekli gelistirdikleri bir yapiya kavustuklari vurgulanmaktadir. 1990’larin sonu 2000’lerin basindan itibaren orgutsel ogrenme literaturunde pozitif odakli calismalarin yaninda, kavrami elestirel acidan inceleyen calismalar da gorulmeye baslanmistir. Sayica daha az olan bu elestirel calismalarda orgutlerin gercekten ogrenip ogrenmedikleri, kim(ler)in ogrendigi, surekli ogrenmenin gerceklestigi orgut yapisinin ve surekli ogrenme isteginin gercekte var olup olmadigi degerlendirilmektedir. Bu calismada da orgutsel ogrenmeye elestirel bir acidan yaklasilmaya calisilarak, ilgili literatur dogrultusunda orgutsel ogrenmenin beklenmeyen sonuclarinin isletmelerde nasil algilandigi belirlenmeye calisilmistir. MBA egitimi alan 11 ust duzey yoneticiyle odak grup gorusmesi yapilarak, isletmelerindeki egitimler odaginda orgutsel ogrenme surecinin degerlendirilmesi istenmistir. Literature paralel olarak orgutlerdeki orgutsel ogrenme surecinde de; farkli boyutlardaki ogrenme engelleri nedeniyle beklenmeyen sonuclar ortaya ciktigi belirlenmistir.
Stability analysis in pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.]

An experiment was conducted to study the stability of thirty pearl millet accessions including inbreds and hybrids procured from ICRISAT, Hyderabad during summer 2017 over three dates of sowing viz., 1 March, 16 March and 31 March. The G × E interaction was significant for days to flowering, plant height, number of effective tillers per plant, earhead girth, seed setting on main tiller, leaf area, grain yield per plant and harvest index when tested against pooled error. The results of estimates of environmental index (Ij), suggested that E1 (Date of sowing 1 March, 2017) was most favourable environment. From the stability analysis, the nine genotypes possess average stability and showed wider adaptability for grain yield per plant also displayed either average or above or below average stability for other characters. The hybrids viz., ICMA 98444 × 18587 R, ICMA 98222 × 17369 R, ICMA 99222 × 17829 R and ICMA 98444 × 17369 R were identified average stable for most of traits studied in the present investigation.
DETECTION OF C3678T SNP IN GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE RECEPTOR (GHSR) GENE POLYMORPHISMS AND ITS EFFECT ON SOME OF PRODUCTION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL TRAITS OF IRAQI LOCAL CHICKEN

Ghrelin receptor or Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor (GHSR) gene is candidate gene associated with Productive Performance and physiological responses in chicken by modulating growth hormone which release from the pituitary by binding to its ligand of ghrelin. Growth hormone secretagogue (GHS) effect on the feed intake and body weight, glucose and lipid metabolism, energy balance in birds and mammals. The aim of this study was to detect C3678T SNP in GHSR using PCRRFLP and Bsp119l restriction enzyme and evaluate the association with some growth and physiological traits in Iraqi local chickens. 160 birds had been used in this study and reared in single cages. The result showed three genotypes Two alleles C and T and wild type (CC) homozygous, heterozygous (CT), mutant (TT) homozygous. The size of the target fragment of GHSR gene was 598bp. The C allele frequency was 0.74, whereas T allele frequency was 0.26. The distribution percentage of GHSR gene polymorphisms for CC, CT and TT genotypes were 62%, 24% and 14%, respectively. The differences among percentages were significant (P<0.01). A significant ( P<0.05) differences were showed between CC and TT genotypes at third and four weeks of age, the CC genotype was higher than TT and CT genotypes in egg production traits. There were no significant differences between CC, TT, CT genotypes in egg weight and body weight and physiological traits.
Relationship Between Breath Regulation and Stroke Volume with Exercise Intensity: a Pilot Study

—Exercise is a physical activity that can enhance or maintain physical ability and health. For oxygen extraction, the ventilation will be affected by the breathing response. Cardiac Output (CO) amounts to blood by the heart pumping through the circulatory system. This blood ensures that oxygen is delivered to active tissue. During inspiration or expiration, Stroke Volume (SV) also changes. As we can see, the cardiopulmonary reactions during exercise face dynamic changes. In this work, we used a non-invasive method to measure SV and Breathing Frequency (BF) in order to investigate cardiopulmonary interactions observed during incremental exercising. The result in this experiment showed that SV would decrease to a stable value in the last stage of exercise. CO and BF would increase. SV and BF have opposite changes during incremental exercise. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first one to use non-invasive methods to observe the changes in hemodynamic parameters during incremental exercising. The benefit of a non-invasive approach is that it is more suitable for home activities.
Efficacy of low-level laser therapy as an adjunct to non-surgical mechanical debridement in the treatment of peri-implantitis.

We hypothesized that in the long-term (6-months follow-up), non-surgical mechanical debridement (NSMD) with adjunct low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is more effective for the treatment of peri-implantitis compared with NSMD alone. The aim of the present 6-months follow-up convenience-sampled cohort study was to assess the efficacy of LLLT as an adjunct to NSMD in the treatment of peri-implantitis. A questionnaire was used to collect demographic information. Patients with peri-implantitis in the test-and control groups underwent NSMD with and without adjunct LLLT, respectively. Randomization was done by tossing a coin. In the test group, the laser was applied perpendicularly to the periodontal pocket for 20 seconds at a constant distance of 15 mm and with a continuous wavelength (3.41 J/cm2 delivery with a 1.76 cm2 spot and average output of 0.3 W). In both groups, peri-implant probing depth, bleeding upon probing and crestal bone resorption were assessed at baseline and at 3- and 6-months' follow-up. Group comparisons were performed and P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Sixty-seven individuals with peri-implantitis were included. The mean age of individuals that underwent NSMD with adjunct LLLT and NSMD alone 46.5±3.4 and 45.3±1.1 years, respectively. At 3 and 6-months' follow-up, peri-implant PI (P<0.05), BUP (P<0.05) and PrD (P<0.05) were significantly higher among patients that underwent NSMD alone compared with individuals that underwent NSMD with adjunct LLLT. There was no significant difference in CBR in all patients up to 6-months' follow-up. In the short-term, NSMD with adjunct LLLT is a useful treatment protocol for the treatment of peri-implant soft-tissue inflammation.
Preliminary results on classiﬁcation based on Topological Data Analysis(1)

1 In recent years, algebraic topology techniques have been applied to data analysis, giving rise to an 2 emerging research ﬁeld called Topological Data Analysis (TDA). TDA tools are useful for inferring 3 the topology underlying a dataset. On the other hand, it is known that most Machine Learning (ML) 4 techniques cannot capture topological information. Consequently, TDA has been used to create 5 ﬁlters and topological descriptors to improve the results of ML methods. However, and despite the 6 good results, these hybrid methods do not to fully exploit the potentials of TDA and hence implicit 7 duplications of computations occur. This paper proposes a TDA-based method to solve a 3-class 8 classiﬁcation problem. The method constructs a ﬁltered simplicial complex K from a training set S 9 and testing set X . This construction produces a large size O (2 | S ∪ X | ) searching space to classify each 10 x ∈ X . We use persistent homology to downsize the searching space by detecting persistent intervals 11 of desired topological features. In consequence, the searching space is reduced to O (2 q +1 · | X | ), with 12 q (cid:28) | S ∪ X | the constant dimension of the sub-complex K i ⊂ K resulting from selected persistent 13 interval. In the last stage, the algorithm labels each x ∈ X , by using the label-contribution of 14 every 0-simplex ∈ K i which shares at least a simplex with x . We develop an experimental proof of 15 concept by comparing our TDA-based classiﬁer with a k-NN classiﬁer on the Iris dataset, using 10 16 evaluation metrics in a repeated-cross validation process. Our method gets 96% accuracy versus 17 97% for k-NN. Our work shows that it is possible to classify only with TDA, with no additional 18 machine learning algorithms. For future work we plan to apply the proposed method to datasets 19 with highly dimensional and noisy samples. 20
POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAH) AND POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (PCB) IN DENSITY FRACTIONS OF URBAN SOILS IN BANGKOK, THAILAND

The distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) among differently reactive soil organic matter (SOM) pools may influence their mobility and bioavailability. Our objective was to examine the distribution of PAH and PCB among density fractions of urban soils of Bangkok. We determined the concentrations of 20 PAH and 7 PCB in bulk samples and in density fractions <1.6 g cm−3, 1.6–2.0 g cm−3, 2.0–2.2 g cm−3, 2.2–2.4 g cm−3, and >2.4 g cm−3 of five urban surface soils (0–5 cm) from Bangkok. In the bulk soil, the sum of PAH concentrations ranged from 47 to 140 μg kg−1 and that of the PCB concentrations ranged from 0.10 to 1.20 μg kg−1. The two fractions with a density >2.2 g cm−3 contained more than 90% of the total soil mass. The C and N concentrations increased with increasing density; the C/N ratio decreased, indicating increasing SOM alteration with increasing density. In the sum of the five density fractions we found, on average, 158% of the sum of PAH concentrations and 246% of the sum of PCB concentrations in the bulk soil. This indicated that density fractionation provided better access to sorption sites for the solvent. In general, the concentrations of PAH and PCB in the density fractions decreased with increasing density. The organic C concentration in the density fractions was significantly correlated with the sum of PAH concentrations (r = 0.84), with the sum of PCB concentrations (r = 0.64), and with the concentrations of each individual PAH (r >0.60) and PCB (r >0.54). There were no significant differences in the contributions of low-molecular weight PAH (<203 g mol−1) and PCB (Nos. 28 and 52) to the sum of PAH and of PCB concentrations between the density fractions, indicating that the mixture of PAH and PCB was not altered in the same way as SOM. Our results suggest that PAH and PCB are partitioned to SOM in density fractions independent of SOM composition. We conclude that density fractions of soils do not represent specific PAH and PCB pools.
Soil Stabilization by Alkali Activated Fly Ash: A Review

The construction industry has attained new heights because of research work and its applications. Not only development in concrete technology but also importance of soil has been realised and has greater impacts in construction industry. As soil is the ultimate load bearer so it’s stability is a necessity and hence many efforts have been done for its stabilization. The performance of any structure depends upon the behavior of underlying soil mass and on the bearing capacity of soil. Expansive soil is catastrophic to construction as it swells and shrinks frequently and thereby it needs stabilization with different materials. Soil stabilization with various combinations of chemical, physical and biological methods has been employed to improve soil properties to make it adequate for intended engineering purpose. There is a huge generation of fly ash by thermal power plants which contribute to about 57% of power generation in India. There have been efforts to stabilize expansive soil using fly ash which is activated by alkali as it serves the dual purpose of sustainable development and fly ash disposal issues as fly ash poses hazardous threat to environment. Literature survey on this subject shows the importance of investigations on fly ash and alkali activated fly ash to stabilize expansive soil. It also shows variation in properties of expansive soil after its stabilization by fly ash and alkali activated fly ash. It also contains various additives to curb expansive behavior of soil by different combinations. This overall leads to sustainability in construction industry. This paper reviews behavior of Expansive Soil after stabilization with alkali activated fly ash on the basis of available literature.
An Analysis of the Factors Affecting House Prices in Malaysia – An Econometric Approach

The housing price in Malaysia remains an issue that makes a significant concern to the government as well as potential house buyers at large. The trend has portrayed discernable expansion of housing prices over the years. The study intends to expand on a previous research that only found Gross Domestic Product to have a significant impact on house prices in Malaysia. The results from the study were only able to explain merely 15% of the variations in house pricing. Further research in this study intends to determine other possible factors which could significantly impact the housing price in Malaysia. Variables selected include gross domestic product, inflation, unemployment rate and population. This study covers a period of 23 years from 1988 to 2010 using Multiple Regression method. The aim of the study is to develop a significant econometric model that can be used to forecast Malaysian housing price. By determining the significant factors that could affect housing prices in Malaysia, this study would outline concerns on the factors that contribute to volatile housing prices and hence assist the government in making significant policies in controlling the price of residential properties from escalating uncontrollably which can potentially invite financial disaster such as the subprime crisis that occurred in the USA recently.
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN VISUAL IMAGERY: OBJECT AND SPATIAL IMAGERY

Gorsel imgelemde cinsiyet farkliliklari konusunda bulgular tutarlilik gostermemektedir. Alan yazinda buna neden olarak, ampirik calismalarda gorsel imgelemin tekil ve birlesik bir kavram olarak dusunuluyor olmasi gosterilmektedir. Buradaki arastirmada, gorsel imgelem ve cinsiyet iliskisi, gorsel imgelemin iki cesidi ele alinarak, yani, nesnesel imgelem ve uzamsal imgelem ayristirilarak incelenmektedir. Ayni zamanda akademik egitim (orn., Sosyal Bilimler ya da Muhendislik Bilimleri egitimi almis olmak) ve gorsel imgelemi olcmek icin kullanilana aracin cesidi (performans tipi ya da ozbildirim olcekleri) de bu iliski kapsaminda degerlendirilmistir. Bu baglamda, yuz yirmi (120) universite ogrencisi katilimci, Nesnesel-Uzamsal Imgeleme ve Sozel Olcegini (NUS Olcegi), Gorsel Imgelemin Canliligi Olcegini (VVIQ) ve Mental Rotasyon Testi (MRT) tamamlamistir. Bulgular, kadin katilimcilarin gorsel imgelemede imgelemin canliliginda ve nesnesel imgelemede erkek katilimcilara gore daha yuksek skorlar aldiklarini; erkek katilimcilarin ise mental rotasyonda ve uzamsal imgelemede kadin katilimcilara gore daha yuksek skorlar aldiklarini gozlenmistir. Olcum araci tipinin ya da akademik egitimin etkisi gozlenmemistir. Buna gore, gorsel imgeleme cesitlerinin toplumsal cinsiyet ile iliskisinde farkli oruntuler izledigi alan yazindaki bulgular ile karsilastirmali olarak degerlendirilmistir.
Skin Conductance as an Index of Alexithymic Traits in the General Population

Alexithymia concerns a difficulty identifying and communicating one’s own emotions, and a tendency towards externally-oriented thinking. Recent work argues that such alexithymic traits are due to altered arousal response and poor subjective awareness of “objective” arousal responses. Although there are individual differences within the general population in identifying and describing emotions, extant research has focused on highly alexithymic individuals. Here we investigated whether mean arousal and concordance between subjective and objective arousal underpin individual differences in alexithymic traits in a general population sample. Participants rated subjective arousal responses to 60 images from the International Affective Picture System whilst their skin conductance was recorded. The Autism Quotient was employed to control for autistic traits in the general population. Analysis using linear models demonstrated that mean arousal significantly predicted Toronto Alexithymia Scale scores above and beyond autistic traits, but concordance scores did not. This indicates that, whilst objective arousal is a useful predictor in populations that are both above and below the cut-off values for alexithymia, concordance scores between objective and subjective arousal do not predict variation in alexithymic traits in the general population.
The Effect of Employee Empowerment and Work Stress on Employee Organizational Commitment Mediated by Job Satisfaction (Case Study of Financial Services Cooperatives in Denpasar)

A cooperative is a business entity owned and operated by an individual for the benefit of members. The business outgrowth is aligned with the small-medium business expansion in the local area, Bali as general. The objectives of this study are to examine the effect of employee empowerment, job stress, organizational commitment, job satisfaction at the Financial Services Cooperative in Denpasar and to examine the role of job satisfaction in mediating the effect of employee empowerment on organizational commitment at the Financial Services Cooperative in Denpasar. The data for this study conducted from representable cooperatives in Denpasar based on the criteria of a minimum asset, and Good cooperate governance score, this researched collected 63 numbers of respondents by random sampling method. This study is implemented qualitative and quantitative research by spreading the questionnaire to the respondence and also interviewed after the respondence filled up the questionnaire, Partial least square (PLS) has been used as hypothesis testing. The results of this study show that (1). Employee empowerment process is effect positively significant to job satisfaction for the cooperatives employment, (2). Work field pressure has a positive effect on job satisfaction, (3). Work field pressure is positive but insignificantly effect to the organizational commitment, (4). Job satisfaction is showing positive insignificant effect toward the organizational commitment, (5). This research found that mediation factor between commitment and employee empowerment is work satisfaction.
Laboratory and Modeling Study on Gas Diffusion with Pore Structures in Different-Rank Chinese Coals

The coalbed methane production rate is mainly controlled by two parameters: diffusivity in the coal matrix and permeability in the cleat system. As one key parameter, diffusion plays an important role in coalbed methane producing process. However, till now there is no systematic study on the relationship of diffusivity, pore size and coal ranks. In this work, three Chinese coal samples which belong to low, middle and high rank, respectively, were studied using experimental and modeling methods. Four gases, H2, N2, CH4 and CO2, are used to study the diffuse characters at four different pressures steps. The experimental results showed that the adsorption balance time varies with different testing gas type and it is closely related with coal rank. Balance time testing with CO2 is the longest, and then is CH4, while He is the slowest. Moreover, high rank coal takes the longest time to reach balance, while low rank coal takes the least. Generally, the sorption balance time for JCC-01 is about 150–350 S 0.5, it is about 250–400 S 0.5 for CZ-1, while it is about 900–1200 S 0.5 for JCC-01. Modeling results showed that for all these three ranked Chinese coals, the bidisperse model can be used to model the diffuse process. The β value, which is the ratio of macropore adsorption/desorption to the total adsorption/desorption, increases with the increasing of pore pressure, except for sample JCC-01 when measured using CO2. There is no regular law for both micropore and macropore diffusion coefficient. In order to study the relationship of diffusivity, pore structure and coal ranks, the experiments of mercury injection test and low-temperature liquid nitrogen experiment were done to analyse the relationship. The results show that, for the low rank coal sample TCG-1, the mesopore takes the majority while the macropore also takes part of the pore distribution, there are few even no micropore. For middle rank sample CZ-1, the mesopore also takes the majority and the macorpore accounts for a small percentage. While for high rank coal sample JCC-01, micropore takes the majority, and mesopore and macropore take small part of the pore structure distribution. The conclusion drawn from these testing results can be used to explain the adsorption and diffusion laws found before.