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Effect of Brainstorming strategy on Senior Secondary School Students’ Academic Achievement in Chemistry in Rivers State, Nigeria
Authors: Samuel O. Wagbara  
Published: January 2021

The paradigm shift of modern teaching and learning of Chemistry tilt towards activity oriented strategies that focus on creative thinking and team work to build new ideas. Hence, the main purpose of this study was to determine the effect of brainstorming strategy on senior secondary school student’s academic achievement in chemistry. This study adopted quasi experimental research design. A sample of (200) SS2 Chemistry students who were obtained by simple random sampling by balloting participated in the study. The data collected were analyzed by using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while Analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) was used for testing the hypotheses at 05 level of significance. The study found that brainstorming had significant effect P < .05 on students mean achievement score in Chemistry. There was significant difference between the mean achievement scores of students exposed to brainstorming strategy in Chemistry P < .05 and those of lecture method in favor of brainstorming strategy. Gender does not have significant effect P > .05 on students taught Chemistry by use of brainstorming strategy. Hence, it becomes necessary for chemistry teachers to use brainstorming strategy in order to boost the academic achievement of students in chemistry.
Comparative analysis of adjectives in English and Uzbek languages
Authors: Yuldashev Sherzod Rabbimkulovich  , Yakubov Fakhiriddin Jurakulovich  , Osmanov Mustafo Tashtanovich  , Hakimov Halim Nasimovich  , Radjabov Jamol Togamurotovich  
Published: January 2021

Quality refers to the character of the horse and tells us what the horse is like.

(what car?) - Yellow car.
(what car?) - Small car.
(What car?) - Strange car.
(what car?) - Useless car.

The words "yellow," "small," "strange," and "useless" above are called adjectives in grammar. There are 3 different levels of quality: normal level, comparative level and incremental level. Let's put the following three cars in three levels of goodness.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STAFF COMPETENCY AND IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORK IN THE DEVOLVED GOVERNMENTS IN KENYA
Authors: Matunga Denish Ateto , Ngugi Patrick Karanja , Odhiambo Romanous 
Published: January 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship between staff competency and implementation level of public procurement regulatory framework in the devolved governments in Kenya.
Methodology: The study used descriptive design. The population targeted was 47 devolved governments in Kenya. The study adopted census because of the small size of the population. A structured questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The study also undertook a pilot test on the instrument’s reliability and validity in the 3 counties; Nyamira, Kisii, Homa-Bay Counties where nine (9) respondents were engaged in the pilot study. Cronbach’s co-efficient Alpha and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to measure the reliability and validity respectively. The data was cleaned and coded then entered into SPSS 25 to be analyzed. The use of descriptive and inferential statistics for data analysis was considered. Study engaged the key informers from the 44 county Governments who positively responded hence achieving 100% response rate. The statistical tests were also done in the study. Presentation of data was in form of charts and tables as deemed appropriate. The study also used ANOVA to analyze the degree of relationship between the variables in the study.
Results: The findings of the study indicate that there was a positive significant relationship between Procurement Staff Competency and implementation level of public procurement regulatory framework in the devolved governments in Kenya. The findings were found to be significant as the p-value of 0.00000 which was less than 0.05. This means that Procurement Staff Competency significantly affects positively Implementation level of public procurement regulatory framework in the devolved governments in Kenya. The findings therefore, implied that procurement staff competency was an important factor in determining the level of implementation of public procurement regulatory framework in the devolved governments in Kenya
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended the adoption of procurement staff competency as a way of improving the implementation level of public procurement regulatory. The study therefore, recommended that the county government to heavily invest on procurement staff capacity building as an important factor in improving the level of implementation of public procurement regulatory framework in devolved governments in Kenya. Since some staff members lacked technical skills beyond secondary education, the study recommended that the county governments need to identify, support and organize in-service training for the procurement staff officers to improve on their knowledge and skills capacity. The study found out that Competency theory model was applicable in the study and can provide more knowledge to future researchers and scholars.
Manajemen Jaringan menggunakan Remote Authentication Dial in User Service (RADIUS)
Authors: Majid Abdul 
Published: January 2021

Networking today is a much needed service. Existing problems include user authentication, hotspot user management, bandwidth management and any unwanted intruders. It is necessary to the development of a network system that can provide security for user authentication and bandwidth management. Network development means developing new systems and will replace the old system or improve the existing system. Particularly the issue of authentication and bandwidth. Type of this research is the Applied Research with the system development using the NDLC (Network Development Life Cycle) method. Data collection method using interviews, observation and literature study. The Method system testing is adopts the ISO 9126 standards such as functionality, reliability, usability and efficiency. This research resulted in the network security system to have a good quality with a percentage of 82.5% and meet the needs of organizations in Pondok Pesantren Madinatunnajah.
Klasifikasi Status NEET pada Penduduk Usia Muda di Indonesia dengan SVM dan Random Forest
Authors: Ramadhanti Herdina Dwi 
Published: January 2021

Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET) adalah suatu indikator untuk mengetahui tingkat kerentanan penduduk usia muda dalam pengangguran, putus sekolah, serta keputusasaan terhadap pasar tenaga kerja. Menurut ILO, Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara dengan tingkat NEET tertinggi di Asia sehingga merupakan suatu masalah yang perlu untuk segera diatasi. Salah satu alternatif yang dapat dilakukan untuk mengatasi fenomena tersebut adalah dengan deteksi dini terhadap penduduk yang berisiko menjadi NEET yang dapat dilakukan dengan menggunakan indikator-indikator yang telah melekat dalam individu seperti jenis kelamin, status perkawinan, dan disabilitas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melakukan klasifikasi terhadap status NEET pada penduduk usia muda agar dapat digunakan untuk memprediksi apakah seorang individu termasuk ke dalam NEET dengan menggunakan metode klasifikasi yang meliputi Support Vector Machine (SVM) dan random forest. Data yang digunakan merupakan data sekunder yang diperoleh dari raw data SAKERNAS periode Agustus 2018. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa metode random forest memberikan hasil akurasi yang lebih tinggi sehingga memiliki kemampuan yang lebih baik dalam mengklasifikasikan penduduk muda menurut status NEET yaitu dengan akurasi sebesar 82,94 persen. Oleh karena itu, metode ini dapat digunakan untuk memprediksi status NEET dalam rangka menunjang pengurangan persentase NEET di Indonesia.
Кадастр карта ва планларини масофадан зондлаш материаллари асосида янгилаш
Authors: Алланазаров Олимжон , Умаров Нурали 
Published: January 2021

Мақолада кадастр карта ва планларини масофадан зондлаш материалларидан фойдаланиш масалалари келтирилган. Ҳозирги кунда масофадан олинган материаллар билан ишлаш натижасида, улардан фойдаланиб турли мавзудаги карталарни тузиш, сақлаш, зурур ҳолларда янгилаш ва мақсадга қараб тўпланган маълумотларни таҳлил қилиш ва қайта ишлаш имкониятига эга бўлган махсус дастурлар билан таъминланган техник воситалар орқали ушбу жараёнларни бажаришга эътибор қаратилган.
Evaluación fisicoquimica y capacidad antioxidante de Moringa (Moringa oleífera) Y Maracuyá (Passiflora edulis)
Authors: López Angie-Lisseth , Matute Nubia-Lisbeth , Echavarria Ana-Paola 
Published: January 2021

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo evaluar los componentes nutricionales, físicoquímicos y la capacidad antioxidante de una mezcla óptima a base de maracuyá (Passiflora edulis) y extracto hidroalcohólico de moringa (Moringa oleífera), en diferentes concentraciones (1:2, 1:5 y 1:8), se ha tomado como materia de estudio a estas dos variedades agrícolas con la finalidad de obtener una base para el desarrollo de una bebida funcional. Para definir las propiedades fisicoquímicas (solidos totales, pH, acidez densidad, fructosa y glucosa) de las mezclas se realizó un diseño experimental D-óptimo con las tres concentraciones de mezclas. De acuerdo a los datos obtenidos para la actividad antioxidante y utilizando el método de DPPH (2-difenil-1-picril hidrazilo), se obtuvo una mezcla óptima (1:8), con un valor de IC50 de 139,531 μg/mL con presencia de saponinas, fenoles y taninos permitiendo así relacionar los resultados obtenidos con su actividad antioxidante.Los resultados de esta investigación han demostrado que se comprueba la hipótesis planteada, debido a que al analizar los componentes por separado y en los tres tipos de concentraciones, se ha obtenido una mezcla óptima con propiedades antioxidantes para el desarrollo de la bebida funcional.
Prevalencia de bacterias Gram negativas en tilapias comercializadas en el cantón Milagro, Octubre – Noviembre 2013
Authors: Pazmiño Gómez Betty Judith 
Published: January 2021

Los bacilos Gram negativos que pertenecen a enterobacteriaceae, son bacterias oxidasa negativa, que se recuperan con mayor frecuencia en humanos y animales, en el hombre ocasionan síndromes diarreicos acompañados de fiebre y septicemia. El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar la presencia de bacterias Gram negativas en tilapias comercializadas en la ciudad de Milagro. A través de un estudio de tipo descriptivo, prospectivo y transversal, realizado en los meses de octubre y noviembre del 2013, de un total de 48 muestras tomadas de 3 mercados de la ciudad de Milagro y estudiadas a través de métodos: cultivos selectivos (Agar MacConkey), tinción de Gram y pruebas bioquímicas para identificar enterobacterias. En este estudio se identificaron las siguientes prevalencias de bacterias Gram negativas: Escherichia coli (46%), Proteus mirabilis (4%), klebsiella oxitoca (4%), reportándose por primera vez estas bacterias en este hospedero del Ecuador, lo que constituye un peligro inminente para los consumidores, al ingerir tilapias sin la adecuada cocción y un manejo inadecuado.
Drawn to Type
Authors: Blake Marty 
Published: January 2021

Illustrated lettering is one of the most recognisable trends in design, but how do you take your work in this area to new levels and make your projects stand out from the crowd?
Illustrator, designer, and educator Marty Blake takes you through the craft of creative lettering: what you need to know about working with various media and how to incorporate image and text successfully. Each chapter focuses on one technique, covering its history and the tools and skills needed to achieve it, along with examples from designers and illustrators from around the world – all with critical reflection on what works, and why.
Whether you’re lettering by hand or digitally, Drawn to Type is perfect for use alongside courses in illustration and typography, and as an inspirational guide for designers looking to give the written word that visual impact.
Religious Hatred
Authors: Hedges Paul 
Published: January 2021

Why does religion inspire hatred? Why do people in one religion sometimes hate people of another religion, and also why do some religions inspire hatred from others?
This book shows how scholarly studies of prejudice, identity formation, and genocide studies can shed light on global examples of religious hatred. The book is divided into four parts, focusing respectively on: theories of prejudice and violence; historical developments of Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and race; contemporary Western Antisemitism and Islamophobia; and, prejudices beyond the West in the Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions. Each part ends with a special focus section.
Key features include:
- A compelling synthesis of theories of prejudice, identity, and hatred to explain Islamophobia and Antisemitism.
- An innovative theory of human violence and genocide which explains the link to prejudice.
- Case studies of both Western Antisemitism and Islamophobia in history and today, alongside global studies of Islamic Antisemitism and Hindu and Buddhist Islamophobia
- Integrates discussion of race and racialisation as aspects of Islamophobic and Antisemitic prejudice in relation to their framing in religious discourses.
- Accessible for general readers and students, it can be employed as a textbook for students or read with benefit by scholars for its novel synthesis and theories.
The book focuses on Antisemitism and Islamophobia, both in the West and beyond, including examples of prejudices and hatred in the Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions. Drawing on examples from Europe, North America, MENA, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, Paul Hedges points to common patterns, while identifying the specifics of local context.
Religious Hatred is an essential guide for understanding the historical origins of religious hatred, the manifestations of this hatred across diverse religious and cultural contexts, and the strategies employed by activists and peacemakers to overcome this hatred.
Iraqi Women
Authors: Al-Ali Nadje Sadig 
Published: January 2021

The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. For years, their lives have been framed by state oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now they must play a seminal role in reshaping their country’s future for the twenty-first century.
Nadje Al-Ali challenges the myths and misconceptions which have dominated debates about Iraqi women, bringing a much needed gender perspective to bear on the central political issue of our time. Based on life stories and oral histories of Iraqi women, she traces the history of Iraq from post-colonial independence, to the emergence of a women’s movement in the 1950s, Saddam Hussein’s early policy of state feminism to the turn towards greater social conservatism triggered by war and sanctions. Yet, the book also shows that, far from being passive victims, Iraqi women have been, and continue to be, key social and political actors. Following the invasion, Al-Ali analyses the impact of occupation and Islamist movements on women’s lives and argues that US-led calls for liberation has led to a greater backlash against Iraqi women.
Land, Freedom and Fiction
Authors: Maughan-Brown David 
Published: January 2021

This now classic work examines the contrasting ways in which the Mau Mau struggle for land and independence in Kenya was mirrored, and usually distorted, by successive generations of English and white Kenyan authors, as well as by indigenous Kenyan novelists. Against the turbulent background of the Mau Mau Uprising, Dr Maughan-Brown explores the relationship between history, literary creation and the myths that societies cultivate. Spanning the breadth of colonial and post-colonial African literature, his subjects range from the colonialist authors Robert Ruark and Elspeth Huxley to the post-independence novels of Meja Mwangi and Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
Maughan-Brown's book is invaluable on many levels. He presents a concise account of the uprising and its place in Kenyan identity, and significantly increases our understanding of settler attitudes and the role of literature within colonial ideology. Land, Freedom and Fiction succeeds in showing the subtle insights a materialist approach can bring to the study of literature, ideology and society.
Rebuilding the Left
Authors: Harnecker Marta 
Published: January 2021

What future is there for the left, faced with the challenges of the twenty-first century? Based on a lifetime’s experience in politics, Marta Harnecker addresses the crisis facing the left today.
At its heart, this book is a critique of social democratic realpolitik. Harnecker reminds us that, contrary to today’s orthodoxy, politics is not the art of the possible but the art of making the impossible possible by building a social and political force capable of changing reality.
She believes that the social experiments being carried out in Latin America today hold out hope that an alternative to capitalism is possible; they are essentially socialist, democratic projects in which the people are the driving force. To create a real alternative to capitalism, though, the left must change.
Rebuilding the Left offers real hope to those who still believe that we can create a different world.
Aircraft-based inversions quantify the importance of wetlands and livestock for Upper Midwest methane emissions
Authors: Yu Xueying , Millet Dylan B. , Wells Kelley C. , Henze Daven K. , Cao Hansen , Griffis Timothy J. , Kort Eric A. , Plant Genevieve , Deventer Malte J. , Kolka Randall K. , Roman D. Tyler , Davis Kenneth J. , Desai Ankur R. , Baier Bianca C. , McKain Kathryn , Czarnetzki Alan C. , Bloom A. Anthony 
Published: January 2021

Abstract. We apply airborne measurements across three seasons
(summer, winter and spring 2017–2018) in a multi-inversion framework to
quantify methane emissions from the US Corn Belt and Upper Midwest, a key
agricultural and wetland source region. Combing our seasonal results with
prior fall values we find that wetlands are the largest regional methane
source (32 %, 20 [16–23] Gg/d), while livestock (enteric/manure; 25 %,
15 [14–17] Gg/d) are the largest anthropogenic source. Natural
gas/petroleum, waste/landfills, and coal mines collectively make up the
remainder. Optimized fluxes improve model agreement with independent
datasets within and beyond the study timeframe. Inversions reveal coherent
and seasonally dependent spatial errors in the WetCHARTs ensemble mean
wetland emissions, with an underestimate for the Prairie Pothole region but
an overestimate for Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Wetland extent and
emission temperature dependence have the largest influence on prediction
accuracy; better representation of coupled soil temperature–hydrology
effects is therefore needed. Our optimized regional livestock emissions
agree well with the Gridded EPA estimates during spring (to within 7 %) but
are ∼ 25 % higher during summer and winter. Spatial analysis
further shows good top-down and bottom-up agreement for beef facilities (with
mainly enteric emissions) but larger (∼ 30 %) seasonal
discrepancies for dairies and hog farms (with > 40 % manure
emissions). Findings thus support bottom-up enteric emission estimates but
suggest errors for manure; we propose that the latter reflects inadequate
treatment of management factors including field application. Overall, our
results confirm the importance of intensive animal agriculture for regional
methane emissions, implying substantial mitigation opportunities through
improved management.
Lexikální strategie ve výuce němčiny jako druhého cizího jazyka po angličtině
Authors: Kousalová Barbora 
Published: January 2021

This paper describes the state of the art in the field of learning strategies with an emphasis on the foreign language teaching context. The contribution presents research from both the Czech Republic and abroad concerning the topic of vocabulary learning strategies in German as a second foreign language (L3) after English (L2).
Řečové akty omluvy u českých studentů v angličtině (L2): vybrané výsledky pilotáže
Authors: Vališová Marie 
Published: January 2021

During the second half of the 20th century, there was a shift in focus in second language acquisition research from linguistic competence to communicative and pragmatic competence (Hymes, 1972; Canale & Swain, 1980; Canale, 1983; Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996; Usó-Juan & Martínez-Flor, 2006). This resulted in a growing number of studies on speech acts in general. Motivated by a lack of studies on the speech acts of apology in conversations of Czech learners of English as a foreign language, my dissertation project aims to shed light on apology strategies used by Czech university students.
La formación médica en comunicación de malas noticias: Una revisión narrativa.
Authors: Díaz-Martínez Luis Alfonso , Cuesta Armesto Mitzy Helein , Díaz Rojas María José 
Published: January 2021

Una parte fundamental de la atención en salud es la comunicación con los pacientes y sus familias, proceso crítico a la hora de dar malas noticias. Desafortunadamente, muchos médicos no reciben entrenamiento específico durante su pregrado, desarrollando, muchas veces en forma inadecuada, sus habilidades para hacerlo. Este artículo presenta las bases conceptuales, pedagógicas y didácticas para formular cursos o actividades formales de entrenamiento en dar malas noticias en un programa de Medicina. Se incluye una síntesis de lo que se conoce sobre la percepción que tienen médicos, estudiantes y pacientes sobre el dar o recibir malas noticias, sobre los protocolos existentes y sobre las experiencias documentadas sobre tal entrenamiento.
In health care, communication with patients and their families is essential, and a critical process when breaking bad news. Unfortunately, many doctors do not receive specific training during their undergraduate studies, often developing their skills in an empirical way to do so. This article presents the conceptual, pedagogical, and didactic bases for formulating courses or training activities to break bad news in every medicine program. It includes a synthesis of what is known within physicians, students and patients perception about this task, on existing protocols and on documented experiences of such training.