Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Problem of Multi-group Analysis in Structural Equation Modeling: :―Arguments around Testing Scalar Invariance―

There have been different opinions about the requirement of scalar invariance as the prerequisite of testing factor mean difference across groups in multi-group analyses. Although it is more often suggested to test factor mean differences after scalar invariance is ascertained, there have been questions about the necessity of testing scalar invariance before testing factor mean invariance. Vandenberg and Lance (2000) argued that a judgment of whether to test scalar invariance or not should be made in consideration of research contexts. To investigate this issue, we conducted simulation studies on three cases of relationships between intercepts and factor scores in the equation of mean structure across groups: difference of response intervals, difference of thresholds, and difference of response sets such as lieniency or severity. Based on a simple model of one factor and one observed variable, we compared results from X-ANOVA(analysis of variance on observed variable) and F-ANOVA(analysis of variance on factor scores) to determine whether testing scalar invariance is necessary before factor mean difference is tested across groups in each of the three cases.
The Social Capital and Impact in Waste Management of the Waste Bank System in Yogyakarta Indonesia

ABSTRAK A waste bank is a waste treatment facility that practices the 3R (reuse, reduce, recycle) to treat waste from the source at the local level. The Waste Bank Plan is based on applying social capital and covers the core elements of social capital implementation: trust, norms, networks, reciprocity, and value. This study aims to explore the relationship between social capital and the social impact of waste management using a waste bank program in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The article considered social impacts such as income growth, employment, and environmental health. The subjects of this study were 100 waste bank customers from his five locations in Yogyakarta. This study uses Spearman's correlation to analyze data in SPSS 16. The results indicate a weak correlation between social capital and social impact on income and employment growth. This is shown to have correlation coefficient (r) values of 0.111 and 0.095, respectively, with significant values of 0.346>0.05. Furthermore, the correlation between social capital and social impact on environmental health is very powerfull, with a coefficient value (r) of 0.454 at the significance level of 0.00<0.05. ABSTRAK Bank sampah adalah salah satu strategi pengelolaan sampah dengan penerapan 3R (Reuse, Reduce, Recycle) dalam pengelolaan sampah di titik asal tingkat masyarakat. Model Pengelolaan sampah dengan bank sampah di wilayah kota Yogyakarta didasarkan pada penerapan modal sosial yang meliputi unsur-unsur yang menjadi inti dari pelaksanaan modal sosial (social capital) yaitu kepercayaan, norma, jaringan, resiprositas serta nilai. Keberadaan bank sampah akan menimbulkan manfaat ekonomi maupun dampak sosial khususnya bagi masyarakat. Tujuan dari penelitian ini dalah untuk mengetahui hubungan antara modal sosial dan dampak sosial pengelolaan sampah dengan program bank sampah masyarakat kota Yogyakarta. Dampak sosial yang diteliti meliputi peningkatan pendapatan, penyerapan tenaga kerja serta kebersihan lingkungan. Pengambilan data pada penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode pengukuran, wawancara dan observasi di lima lokasi bank sampah Kota Yogyakarta dengan jumlah responden sebanyak 100 responden. Analisis data dengan menggunakan analisi korelasi spearman. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hubungan modal sosial dengan dampak sosial terhadap peningkatan pendapatan mempunyai hubungan yang lemah dengan koefisien korelasi (r) sebesar 0,111; terhadap penyerapan tenaga kerja mempunyai hubungan yang lemah dengan koefisien korelasi (r) sebesar 0,095 dengan taraf signifikan 0,346>0,05; terhadap kebersihan lingkungan mempunyai hubungan yang cukup kuat dengan koefisien korelasi (r) sebesar 0,454 dengan taraf signifikan 0,00<0,05 (signifikan).
Pediatric ANCA-associated vasculitis presented with various clinical findings mimicking IgA Vasculitis and IgG4-related disease: Two cases

Granulomatous polyangiitis (GPA) is the most common anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), characterized by necrotizing inflammation of small and medium-sized vessels. It can affect various organs, particularly the lung, kidneys, upper respiratory tract, ears, and skin. Diagnosis of AAV poses significant challenges due to its diverse clinical features. This report presents two interesting cases of GPA: one with rare ocular involvement, who subsequently developed end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), and the other with palpable purpura mimicking immunoglobulin A vasculitis, who relapsed with mastoiditis while in renal remission. Early and effective treatment can improve patient prognosis, highlighting the importance of increasing disease awareness during initial diagnosis and in pediatric AAV patients experiencing relapses.
Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Technologies in Dairy Livestock Export: Charting a Digital Transformation

This technical note critically evaluates the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and sensor technologies in the swiftly evolving dairy livestock export industry. We focus on the novel application of the Internet of Things (IoT) in long-distance livestock transportation, particularly in livestock enumeration and identification for precise traceability. Technological advancements in identifying behavioral patterns in ‘shy feeder’ cows and real-time weight monitoring enhance the accuracy of long-haul livestock transportation. These innovations offer benefits such as improved animal welfare standards, reduced supply chain inaccuracies, and increased operational productivity, expanding market access and enhancing global competitiveness. However, these technologies present challenges, including individual animal customization, economic analysis, data security, privacy, technological adaptability, training, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability concerns. These challenges intertwine with broader ethical considerations around animal treatment, data misuse, and the environmental impacts. By providing a strategic framework for successful technology integration, we emphasize the importance of continuous adaptation and learning. This note underscores the potential of AI, IoT, and sensor technologies to shape the future of the dairy livestock export industry, contributing to a more sustainable and efficient global dairy sector.
Knowledge sharing in family SMEs: the role of communities of practice

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to analyse the role of communities of practice (CoP) as knowledge-sharing tools in family small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this context, CoPs that jointly involve family and non-family members are expected to act as knowledge-sharing tools.Design/methodology/approachThis paper employs a multiple case study methodology, analysing the cases of six small companies in different sectors and countries over a period of 8 years. Both primary and secondary data are used.FindingsThe results show the role CoPs play in involving family and non-family members in empowering knowledge-sharing initiatives. A CoP's role in knowledge sharing depends on the presence (or lack) of a family leader, the leadership approach, the degree of cohesion around shared approaches and values within the CoP, and the presence of multiple generations at work.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the literature on knowledge sharing in family businesses, by exploring for the first time the role of the CoP as a knowledge-sharing tool, depending on families' involvement in the CoP.
Integrated Ecological Hazard Assessment of Waste Site Soil Extracts Using FETAX and Short-Term Fathead Minnow Teratogenesis Assay

Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay-Xenopus (FETAX) is a 96-h whole embryo-larval assay designed to detect environmental developmental toxicants for use in ecological hazard assessment. FETAX offers several advantages in integrated biological hazard assessment including, time- and cost-effectiveness, technical ease, and versatility. FETAX has undergone extensive intra- and more recently interlaboratory validation with known mammalian teratogens and non-teratogens. Ecological hazard evaluations of contaminated sediments, waste site soils, and complex surface and groundwaters have also been performed. An integrated hazard assessment study using FETAX, the conventional, Pimephales promelas 7-d teratogenecity test, and an abbreviated P. promelas teratogenecity test utilizing the general FETAX protocol was conducted with specific reference toxicants and aqueous extracts of contaminated hazardous waste site soils. Results from the studies indicated that FETAX can be used as a component of a battery of bioassays designed to assess potential ecological hazard. Furthermore, the generalized FETAX protocol may be useful with other species in evaluating developmental toxicity hazard.
Effects of Self-management Program as Adjunctive to Usual Rehabilitation Exercise on Pain and Functional Outcomes in Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Home-based exercise (HBE) and patient education (EDU) have been reported as beneficial additions to usual knee osteoarthritis (KOA) rehabilitation. However, previous trials mostly examined the effects of HBE and EDU separately. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of a structured combined HBE and EDU program in addition to usual KOA rehabilitation on pain score, functional mobility, and disability level. Study Design: A parallel-group, single-blinded randomized controlled trial. Methods: Eighty adults with KOA were randomly allocated to experimental (n=40) and control (n=40) groups. All participants underwent their usual physiotherapy care weekly for eight weeks. The experimental group received a structured HBE+EDU program to their usual care, while the control group performed home stretching exercises to equate treatment time. The Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) for the disability level, visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain, and timed up-and-go test (TUG) for mobility were measured pre-post intervention. Results: After eight weeks, the experimental group demonstrated significant improvements in the KOOS (all subscales), pain VAS, and TUG scores compared to baseline (P<0.001); meanwhile, only KOOS (activities of daily living and sports subscales) was significant in the control group. Relative to the control, the experimental group presented higher improvements (P<0.001) by 22.2%, 44.1%, and 15.7% for KOOS, pain VAS, and TUG, respectively. Conclusion: Integrating the HBE+EDU program into usual KOA rehabilitation could reduce pain and disability, while it improved functional mobility. The finding of this study suggests a combination of a structured HBE and EDU program to be considered as part of mainstream KOA management.
Holocene and Eemian climate variability

Using a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) with applied orbital forcing, we investigate the climate evolution and variability of the last two interglacial periods, the mid-Holocene (6,000 years before present) and the Eemian (125,000 years before present). Earth’s orbital parameters in these two periods lead to an increase in the Northern Hemisphere’s seasonal insolation cycle which is stronger in the Eemian than in the Holocene. We focus on ocean circulation changes, its evolution and variability, and the seasonal temperature cycle. Time-slice simulations of the two paleo periods reveal that the induced changes in annual mean temperature are regionally enhanced through atmosphere-ocean feedbacks. In high northern latitudes, an insolation induced temperature increase is enhanced by increased ocean heat transport and reduced sea-ice cover, resulting in an intensified ocean heat release. Orbital forcing has similar effects proportional to the forcing strength on climate and climate variability in the Holocene and the Eemian simulation. In a transient simulation from the mid-Holocene to today, we find that the orbital forcing strengthens the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) due to a density increase of the North Atlantic deep water produced in the northern ocean’s convection regions. In the Labrador Sea, this results from the advection of more saline water from the eastern North Atlantic. In the Nordic Seas, decreasing temperatures cause a substantial increase in water mass density and result in enhanced overflows. The AMOC exhibits variability on interannual and multi-centennial time-scales. The interannual variability is connected to atmospheric forcing, dominated by the North Atlantic Oscillation. The multi-centennial AMOC variability results from accumulating salinity anomalies in the sub-tropical gyre which, at some threshold, spread to the sub-polar gyre and trigger a change in AMOC strength. The irregular period and amplitude of the low-frequency variability indicates that it is an accumulated response of the coupled system to small scale perturbations. Investigating the evolution of the seasonal temperature cycle, we find that its amplitude is determined by seasonal insolation changes in the lowand mid latitudes, and by sea-ice cover in the high latitudes. The sea-ice effect impacts the temperature response over the continents adjacent to the Arctic as is also visible in paleo temperature reconstructions. In a first unaccelerated transient simulation of the midto late Holocene with a comprehensive AOGCM, we were able to investigate changes in the ocean state due to slowly varying forcing. We identified and attributed an AMOC increase and AMOC variability on time-scales from interannual to multi-centennial and found that the strength of the seasonal cycle is not only insolation dependent.
Local Order in Liquid Gallium–Indium Alloys

Liquid metals such as eutectic Ga–In alloys have low melting points and low toxicity and are used in catalysis and micro-robotics. This study investigates the local atomic structure of liquid gallium-indium alloys by a combination of density measurements, diffraction data, and Monte-Carlo simulation via the empirical potential structure refinement approach. A high-Q shoulder observed in liquid Ga is related to structural rearrangements in the second coordination shell. Structure analysis found coordination environments close to a random distribution for eutectic Ga–In alloy, while electronic effects appear to dominate the mixing enthalpy.
Post—collisional Adakitic Porphyries in Tibet：Geochemical and Sr—Nd—Pb Isotopic Constraints on Partial Melting of Oceanic Lithosphere and Crust—Mantle Interaction

The distribution of Neogene felsic porphyries intruding in earlier granitic batholiths was mainly controlled by north-south-tending rifting zones and normal faults. The main rock types of the felsic porphyries include granodiorite-porphyry, monzonitic granite-porphyry and quartz monzonitic porphyry. The porphyries are characterized by high SiO2 (≥64.26%) and Al2O3 (>15% at 70% SiO2), low Y and HREE (Yb) contents, strong enrichment of LILE and LERR, especially K and Sr. Geochemical features of the porphyries show distinct adakitic magma affinity. Nd, Sr and Pb isotopic compositions of the porphyries form a linear alignment from MORB to EM2, suggesting a mixing of the MORB reservoir with the metasomatized mantle reservoir. Considering also the geochemical characteristics of the porphyries and the sequence of observable structural-thermal-magmatic events at Gangdise, it is thought that the Neogene porphyries were formed by partial melting of dead subducted oceanic crust in a post-collision setting. K-enrichment in the porphyries is attributed to the interaction of slab-derived melts, i.e., adakites, with the metasomatized mantle during the ascent. There might be a delamination of residual eclogites or amphibole eclogites before the eruption of potassic lava on the Tibetan plateau since 13 Ma.
Modified concrete for irrigation and drainage construction

Within the framework of these studies, issues related to the modification of the composition of heavy concrete based on a polydisperse binder with a complex modifier and its influence on the formation of the structure and properties of cement stone, as well as hardened concrete, are considered. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the possibility of obtaining effective heavy concrete for irrigation and drainage construction with improved indicators of operational properties in terms of strength and hydrophysical characteristics. Object of study: heavy concrete based on a polydisperse binder with a complex modifier reinforced with basalt fiber. Subject of study: the structure and properties of heavy concrete based on a polydisperse cement binder with a high packing density together with a complex modifier and reinforced basalt fiber. The influence of the three-level dispersed composition of the clinker component of cement particles on the reduction of interparticle voidness and the increase in the strength of the cement stone was studied. The resulting modified concrete is characterized by an increase in strength to 77.3 MPa, a stretching of 8.62 MPa and a decrease in water absorption to 1.9%; % in comparison with the control composition.
Part-Time Faculty: Partners in Excellence.

Over the past 2 decades community colleges have developed an increasing reliance on the use of part-time faculty, generally rationalizing the practice as an important strategy for saving money and maintaining flexibility. Critics have seen the extensive use of part-timers as a disturbing trend, and several groups have attempted to set limits on the ratio of partto full-time faculty. However, part-time faculty are good and highly motivated teachers, receiving the same ratings and achieving the same student outcomes as their full-time counterparts. They bring breadth, depth, and relevance to the curriculum and allow colleges to teach subjects that would otherwise be excluded from the curriculum. They can provide a strong link to the community and to the workplace, as well as a tried and tested talent pool for recruiting full-time faculty. If care is taken to provide for their professional development and integration into the mainstream of the institution, part-time faculty can be key institutional assets. The professional development of part-time faculty should include an orientation workshop, a mentor program, and workshops and scminars on topics such as testing, grading, and teaching. Part-time faculty should also be provided opportunities to contribute to the instructional program and be recognized and be paid for their contributions. Colleges are overdue in viewing part-time faculty as full and equal members of the collegium. (ECC) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** elk U S DEPARTMENT Of EDUCATION Olke ol Eclucahoul Rmearch and Improvrmunt EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 0 This dOCument nes been roproducsd rsoeivsct horn the parsch. Of organization otipinstinp it 'PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS 0 Minorchanpos hue brn made to imotove rsproduchon QlhIy MATERIAL HAS c'crl GRANTED BY
Pathology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Tumor-Bearing Liver Tissue in Association with hTERT Promoter Mutation

Background The hTERT promoter mutation represents a common and early event in hepatocarcinogenesis, but its linkage to the morphological status of the underlying liver tissue is poorly understood. We analyzed the connection between the histopathological changes in tumor-bearing liver tissue and the occurrence of the hTERT promoter mutation in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), correlated with clinical data. Methods The study cohort comprised 160 histologically confirmed HCC in patients with or without cirrhosis that were investigated for the hTERT promoter mutation. We evaluated the frequency of the hTERT promoter mutation in patients with HCC with or without cirrhosis and correlated it with potential clinical and histopathological drivers. In particular, we examined tumor-bearing noncirrhotic liver tissue regarding inflammation; the modified histological activity index (mHAI), fibrosis, and steatosis; and its correlation with the frequency of the hTERT promoter mutation in HCC. We evaluated overall survival with multivariate Cox regression. Furthermore, we compared hTERT antibody immunohistochemistry and molecular hTERT promoter mutation analysis of both HCC and background liver tissue. Results The hTERT promoter mutation was especially related to HCC in cirrhotic compared with noncirrhotic liver (p < 0.001) and independently of cirrhosis in patients ≥ 60 years (p = 0.005). Furthermore, the hTERT promoter mutation was associated with cirrhosis caused by alcohol toxicity and hepatitis C virus infection. In noncirrhotic liver tissue, the frequency of hTERT-promoter-mutated HCC increased with the degree of inflammation and fibrosis. Nevertheless, 25% of the hTERT-promoter-mutated HCC developed in normal liver tissue without HCC risk factors. Multivariate Cox regression analysis did not reveal an influence of the hTERT promoter mutation in HCC on overall survival at 3, 5, and 16 years. Immunohistochemical analysis with the hTERT antibodies LS-B95 and 2D8 in hTERT-promoter-mutated HCC and hTERT-wildtype HCC showed a mildly stronger immunoreaction compared with the tumor-bearing liver tissue (LS-B95: p < 0.01, 2D8: p < 0.01). Conclusions Our study reveals a connection between pathological changes in tumor-bearing liver tissue and the hTERT promoter mutation in most HCC, even in noncirrhotic liver tissue. Immunohistochemical hTERT antibodies do not discriminate between hTERT-promoter-mutated and wildtype HCC.
The Influence of Social Media Marketing on Patient Visit Intention Mediated by Brand Awareness

Social media marketing can increase consumer awareness and recognition of a brand (brand awareness) from a product or service. Brand awareness can ultimately influence the formation of consumer visit intentions for these products and services. RSU Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang (RSU UMM) is one of the Type C general hospitals conducting social media marketing since 2018. This study aims to determine the effect of social media marketing on the visit intention of patients at the hospital. The research was conducted with a quantitative observational method in a cross-sectional study using a questionnaire through Google Forms. The research sample was 96 people who were loyal consumers (followers) of the social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) of the RSU UMM. Data analysis was carried out by using Partial Least Square (PLS). The findings showed a positive and significant influence of social media marketing on the patient's visit intention, mediated by the patient's brand awareness. This research concluded that RSU UMM's social media marketing efforts positively and significantly affected patient visit intentions and strengthened by the influence of brand awareness. Therefore, RSU UMM must improve its marketing strategy, primarily through social media marketing.