scholarly journals Interrelationships between some vegetative components and fruit quality of Algerian date palm

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
A. Rekis ◽  
Z. Laiadi
Keyword(s):  
Date Palm ◽  
Hierarchical Classification ◽  
Phenotypic Traits ◽  
Desert Plant ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The One ◽  
Ascending Hierarchical Classification ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Spine Number

Abstract. The date palm is a monocotyledon thermophilic desert plant, in Algeria grown more than 18 million trees. To have a better quality of dates for the most answered cultivars in Algeria, we can act with fertilization on the palm and these components of the leaflets and spines that affect dates quality. The three cultivars of date palms (Deglet nour-C1, Ghars-C2 and Mechdegla-C3) have been studied to estimate the relationship between leaflet and spine number and date quality. Five phenotypic traits were exploited and subjected to analysis of the principal components in ascending hierarchical classification. The results revealed that the cultivar Deglet nour scored the highest value for the parameters spine number (25) and weight of the date (8.63g), the cultivar Ghars also recorded the highest value for the parameters: number of leaflets (80) and length (4.35cm) and thickness (2.25cm) of the date. In all studied cultivars positive correlations between the length and width of the leaf – on the one side, and weight of the date – on the other, and between the width of leaf and width of the date were found.

scholarly journals The relationship between the perceived class climate, motivation for achievement and school success among elementary and high school students

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 426-460
Author(s):  
Irina Milosevic ◽  
Ruzenka Simonji-Cernak
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Success ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Class Climate ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this research is to determine the correlation between perceived class climate, motivation for achievement and school success among elementary and high school students. The research was conducted on a sample of 400 subjects. The instrument used for class climate survey is an Attitude scale, created as the combination of two instruments for measuring class climate. The MOP/D scale was used to survey motivation for achievement. The obtained results show that the quality of the overall class climate is not high, while the scores on the three dimensions of the class climate indicate that the students perceive Class Cohesion as the most favourable one, then the Teachers? Support and finally the Order and the Organisation. Significant differences in perceptions of class climate were found concerning age. Significant differences in perceptions of climate (both in the overall and in the Teachers? Support dimension) were also found with respect to the gender of the students. The findings indicate low positive correlations between perceived class climate and the motivation for achievement, and also between school success and the motivation for achievement. No correlation was found between the perceived class climate and school success. More detailed research shows that the climate dimensions Teachers? Support and Order and Organisation are significant predictors of the overall motivation for achievement and the Learning dimension, and that they are positively correlated. Learning and Persistence, the dimensions of the motivation for achievement, were found to be significant predictors of school success. A perceived class climate did not prove to be a significant predictor of school success, except for the Class Cohesion dimension, only on the subsample of high school students.

scholarly journals The Provision and Accessibility to Parks in Ho Chi Minh City: Disparities along the Urban Core—Periphery Axis

Urban Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh Hoang ◽  
Philippe Apparicio ◽  
Thi-Thanh-Hien Pham
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Hierarchical Classification ◽  
Spatial Accessibility ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Ascending Hierarchical Classification ◽  
The City

In Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC, Vietnam), there is now an urgent need for evaluating access to parks in an effort to ensure better planning within the context of rapid and increasingly privatized urbanization. In this article, we analyze the provision and accessibility to parks in HCMC. To achieve this, the information gathered was then integrated into the geographical information systems (GISs). Based on an Ascending Hierarchical Classification, we were able to identify five different types ranging in their intrinsic characteristics. The accessibility measurements calculated in the GISs show that communities are located an average of at least 879 meters away from parks, which is a relatively short distance. Children have a level of accessibility comparable to that of the overall population. Accessibility also seems to vary greatly throughout the City—populations residing in central districts (planned before 1996) enjoy better accessibility compared to those in peripheral neighborhoods (planned after 1996). Parks located in areas planned between 1996 and 2002 are the least accessible, followed by parks in areas planned after 2003. Our findings suggest possible approaches that could be used to help ensure the quality of parks and their spatial accessibility.

scholarly journals Design transformations: teaching design through evaluations

Kybernetes ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 1372-1380
Author(s):  
Ann Morrison ◽  
Hendrik Knoche
Keyword(s):  
Real Data ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
The Other ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
The One ◽  
High Engagement ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synchronize two courses to focus on the students working with learning and applying tools in the one course and acting on understandings gained to produce artefacts in the other. Design/methodology/approach – Working with real users throughout all stages of the design process, the authors structured two courses so findings from the evaluation methods learnt in the one course (their analyses) were directly acted on in the other (their re-designs). The authors fostered a group-spirited learning environment where students presented designs-in-process; explained the findings from focused evaluation methods using tangible representations; identified the relationship from these findings for subsequent re-design rationales; and discussed and critiqued each other's work using multiple feedback, teach-back and discursive strategies. Findings – The authors found that in-depth coverage of material, working with real data and users at all stages of assessment and producing visualizations from evaluations, naturally forced student motivation to act and redesign better solutions. The authors noted improved attendance and students reported high engagement and content appreciation. Research limitations/implications – Ensuring relevance, by adding larger context concerns, expansive critical methods and feedback processes in a cycle of understanding, acting, learning can have useful practical and social implications. This is germane when designing for quality of everyday use in, for example, education, urban environments and mobile applications. Practical implications – The paper includes implications for the development of learning environments where course and semester content is developed in tandem to support integrated learning by acting with project output and teach back “presentations” throughout the course. Originality/value – The paper proposes a unifying tandem approach to learning and applying evaluation tools with real users, teachback and acting to improve redesigns with potential to improve human computer interaction educational standards for learning and design outcomes.

scholarly journals Escribir historias desde una balsa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Magnani
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Falkland Islands ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Ideological Position ◽  
Epistolary Writing ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Quality

They are in a raft – real or metaphorical – and from there they try to rescue their lives and their stories, the characters of Sobrevivientes (2012), a novel by Argentine writer and journalist Fernando Monacelli awarded with the Clarín Prize. The text is inserted in the group not very extensive, but at this point not negligible by number and literary quality, of narratives that thematise the Falkland Islands war and, like the previous ones, presents a strong anti-heroic vein. The novel combines the years of military dictatorship and the war that ended it and looks at the consequences of the two events from a private and intimate environment. It not only denies the heroism of the combatants but tacitly equates them, as victims, with the opponents of the regime. The analysis is proposed, on the one hand, to consider this new ideological position, on the other hand, to emphasise the formal aspects of the novel – located between epistolary writing and intimate diary – and in the relationship with the other narratives of the war of the South Atlantic.

scholarly journals ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI KEPATUHAN PAJAK REKLAME PADA DINAS PELAYANAN PAJAK DAERAH PROVINSI DKI JAKARTA

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Dwi Ratnaningsih ◽  
Waluyo Waluyo
Keyword(s):  
Tax Compliance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Tax Fairness

<p class="Style1">Tax compliance is an important aspect to achieve maximum tax revenue target. This study aims to determine the relationship among variables Knowledge Taxpayer, Rates &amp; Tax Base, Complexity of The Rules, Tax Fairness, Administration and Advertisement Tax Procedures , Quality of Tax Officer, Penalties, Inspection And Control of The Billboard with the compliance of advertisement tax to the Local Tax Department of DKI Jakarta. This research was conducted by questionnaire survey method. The population in this study is advertisement tax payer, the one who serving advertisement in Jakarta. The sampling technique is purposive sampling random sampling, which in this case is limited to a specific subject that can provide the desired information. A total of 100 samples was selected based on the selection of this sample. The data was processed by multiple regression method. The results of this study show that the variable Taxpayers Knowledge, Tax fairness, Sanctions and Investigation and Control Billboard positive effect on advertisement tax compliance on the Local Tax Department of DKI Jakarta. Rates and Tax Base, as well as the complexity of the Regulation have a negative effect on the advertisement tax compliance. While the service factors that Administration and Procedures and Officer quality does not affect the advertisement tax.</p>

scholarly journals Overimitation in Dogs: Is there a Link to the Quality of the Relationship with the Caregiver?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludwig Huber ◽  
Denise Kubala ◽  
Giulia Cimarelli
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
High Variability ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pet Dogs ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Functional Actions

Overimitation, the copying of causally irrelevant or non-functional actions, is well-known from humans but completely absent in other primates. Recent studies from our lab have provided evidence for overimitation in canines. Previously, we found that half of tested pet dogs copied their human caregiver's irrelevant action, while only few did so when the action was demonstrated by an unfamiliar experimenter. Therefore, we hypothesized that dogs show overimitation as a result of socio-motivational grounds. To test this more specifically, here we investigated how the relationship with the caregiver influenced the eagerness to overimitate. Given the high variability in the tendency to overimitate their caregiver, we hypothesized that not only familiarity, but also relationship quality influences whether dogs faithfully copy their caregiver. For this purpose, we measured on the one hand the overimitation tendency (with the same test as in the two studies before) and on the other hand the relationship quality between the dogs and their caregivers. Although not significant, results revealed that dogs who overimitated seemed to show more referential and affiliative behaviours towards the owner (like gazing, synchronization and greeting) than dogs who showed less or no copying of the irrelevant action. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Deterioration of Sexual Health in Cancer Survivors Five Years after Diagnosis: Data from the French National Prospective VICAN Survey

Cancers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 3453
Author(s):  
Lorène Seguin ◽  
Rajae Touzani ◽  
Anne-Déborah Bouhnik ◽  
Ali Ben Charif ◽  
Patricia Marino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Hierarchical Classification ◽  
Cancer Site ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Younger Patients ◽  
Treatment Type ◽  
Ascending Hierarchical Classification ◽  
The Relationship

Little is known about cancer survivors’ sexual health (SH)—particularly, from well after diagnosis and in cancers unrelated to sexuality. This study aimed to assess SH deterioration five years after diagnosis. We analyzed data from the French national VIe après le CANcer (VICAN) survey. Six items from the Relationship and Sexuality Scale were used to assess SH. Respondents were grouped according to an ascending hierarchical classification in four clusters: strong, moderate, and weak deterioration or stable (WD, SD, MD, or St). Out of 2195 eligible participants, 57.3% reported substantial SH deterioration as either SD (30.8%) or MD (26.5%), while WD and St accounted for 31.2% and 11.5% of respondents, respectively. Substantial deterioration was reported in all cancer sites (from 27.7% in melanoma to 83.1% in prostate). Treatment type, cancer sequelae, and pain, as well as psychological consequences (depression and anxiety, especially for younger patients) were associated with substantial SH deterioration. The same factors were identified after restricting the analysis to survivors of cancers unrelated to sexuality. Five years after diagnosis, the majority of cancer survivors reported SH deterioration. Interventions should be developed to improve SH regardless of cancer site. Particular attention should be paid to depression and anxiety, especially in younger survivors.

The Effects of Behavioral Factors on the Creditworthiness of Small-Scale Enterprises

2018 ◽  
pp. 100-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Shevchenko ◽  
Ellah Igoche Godwin
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Behavioral Factors ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter uses the relationship between behavioral factors and the creditworthiness of small-scale enterprises to increase access of SMEs to credit facilities. The inability of several small businesses to secure loans cannot be overemphasized. Heuristics affecting entrepreneurs are explained in this chapter, and a regression model showing the dependence of creditworthiness on behavioral factors is proposed. If banks consider using psychometric tools in testing for creditworthiness of small-scale entrepreneurs, access to credit facilities will be significantly increased and businesses will flourish. Regressesion models such as the one explained in this chapter may be imbedded in psychometric tools to enhance creditworthiness testing and improve the quality of loans that banks give.

Quality of Government and Environmental Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 398-426
Author(s):  
Marina Povitkina ◽  
Simon Matti
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Environmental Public Goods ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Previous research on the relationship between quality of government (QoG) and environmental sustainability is scant, scattered across different disciplines, and is characterized by a disconnect between studies focusing on the effects of QoG on the micro level (individual behavior) and micro level (country policies and actions). The chapter synthesizes the different literatures on the connection between various elements of QoG, such as low levels of corruption, bureaucratic capacity, and rule of law, on the one hand, and environmental sustainability on the other hand. On the macro level, it theorizes the role of QoG in securing governments’ production of environmental public goods. On the micro level, the chapter discusses how QoG can shape cooperation in collective action dilemmas over natural resource use, as well as how it contributes to generating public support of and compliance with environmental policies.

The Relationship Between Bacteria and Breast Cancer: Focusing on the Common Staphylococcus aureus

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1571-1574
Author(s):  
A. Na-Er ◽  
Yunhong Liu ◽  
Yanjun Gan
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Staphylococcus Aureus ◽  
Surgical Site Infection ◽  
Tnm Classification ◽  
Site Infection ◽  
The Common ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Background: The risk of post-operative infection still accounts for a high proportion among the patients. The peptidoglycan on Staphylococcus aureus promotes cellular invasiveness and adhesiveness of tumor cells by pathways activation, including NF-kB, STAT3 and Smad3. Methods: This study included 132 patients age ranging from 45–55 that have been diagnosed with IIA phase breast cancer based on the TNM classification system in one hospital located in the relatively high-income area. These patients have been scheduled the operations and are distributed into two groups: one group will be given certain dosage of antibiotics on presumed Staphylococcus aureus infections, and another group will not be given any unnecessary antibiotics before surgery. Results: We found that 6 patients present surgical site infection related Staphylococcus aureus, with 1 patient in the antibiotics group and the other 5 patients are in the non-antibiotics group. Within the one-year period after surgery, 4 patients presented with metastasis to adjacent lymph nodes, 3 patients are in the non-antibiotics group and another one in the antibiotics group. Conclusion: Early intervention could be an accessible method to decrease the incidence of surgical site infection, which has been illustrated in this study. We consider to take preventive dosage of antibiotics before surgery, which could improve the prognosis of breast cancer and their quality of life in a larger extent.

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