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Integrating Mathematical Modeling of Real-Life Problems: A Contextualized Approach to Developing Instructional Material in Basic Calculus
No full textThis study focuses on the creation of contextualized educational materials for senior high school basic calculus that integrates mathematical modeling with real-life problems. The research follows the ADDIE model employing only three stages: analysis, design, and development (ADD). In the analysis phase, the researcher determines the level of modeling competency, self-efficacy, and appreciation of the learners using the Assessment of the Modeling Skills (RAMS), Indices for Mathematical Modeling Self-Efficacy Scale (IMMSES), and the Indices for the Level of Appreciation of Mathematical Modeling (ILAMM) respectively. The results from the previous phase were considered in designing and developing contextualized instructional material that aligned with the concepts of didactical situations and mathematical modeling. Quantitative data analysis includes descriptive statistics to determine the level of modeling competency, self-efficacy, and appreciation of the learners and the assessment of the teachers on the mathematical modeling activities. This study also reveals that the learner’s lack of prior knowledge in algebra and trigonometry contributed to the difficulty in solving real-life problems in Basic Calculus. Moreover, teaching materials are limited only on problem-solving and formative assessment. With this, the researchers designed and developed instructional materials that incorporate a variety of resources, including problem scenarios, data sets, visualizations, and technology tools, to facilitate students' exploration and analysis of the modeled problems. Ultimately, it aims to enhance students' understanding and engagement by providing them with meaningful and practical applications of the subject matter
A Study of the Moderating Mediation Model of Pay Equity on Job Performance
Get PDFWith the development of the commercial economy, the continuous intensification of market competition, the continuous transparency of marketing methods, so that the development of enterprises cannot be limited to market competition, more and more enterprises pay attention to the competition of talents, so enterprises will pay more attention to the management of human resources, salary management is an important part of human resources, while salary management is also one of the core elements of enterprise management talents and talent absorption. However, because salary management is the most difficult to grasp in human resources, it is also the sector that needs to be repeatedly demonstrated and studied, in the development of enterprises, there are many enterprises do not have a complete salary system, resulting in management chaos and unclear incentive means, and when implemented at the grassroots level, because the implementation of grassroots managers is not in place, the fairness of salary is not fully displayed, resulting in employees dissatisfied with the salary system, and the development of enterprises has also been affected a lot. This situation has attracted the attention of many experts and scholars, who have begun to do more research and exploration on pay equity. A total of 400 valid survey questionnaires were sent out in this survey, a total of 238 valid survey questionnaires were returned, and finally screened, a total of 200 valid research questionnaires were selected, and the overall validity of the questionnaire exceeded 84%. Background variables include gender, age, education, etc. Through research, the authors found that employees' emotional intelligence has a mediating role between perceived pay equity and job performance, and this paper concludes that employees need to further strengthen their emotional intelligence, the higher the emotional intelligence of employees, the more flexible they will be when dealing with conflicts between employees in the organization, which is conducive to the formation of good employee relationships and the improvement of employee cohesion perception
Entrepreneurship Behavior and Performance Factors of Local Cassava Enbal Food Agroindustry
Get PDFThis study was conducted to describe individual, socioeconomic entrepreneurial behavior, and performance factors of local cassava enbal food agro-industry. It also aims to analyze the influence of behavior on performance of local cassava enbal food agro-industry. The focus on entrepreneurs is due to their importance in the development of agro-industry businesses. The results showed that all the indicators measured namely individual and socioeconomic factors greatly influenced entrepreneurial behavior in the development of cassava enbal processing business. This business was considered a regional local food that holds significant importance as an asset, requiring maintenance and preservation. Entrepreneurial behavior indicators had a significant influence on performance of local regional Home Food Industry with a critical ratio (CR) value of > 2.00, meaning that all indicators formed had a significant effect. The entrepreneurs of cassava enbal home industry showed great enthusiasm in developing their business by offering a variety of processed products with significant selling value. Therefore, it can be concluded that cassava enbal food is a regional food requiring maintenance and preservation for the future of the younger generation
Knowledge of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases among Healthcare Workers: Nigerian COPD Research Project (NICORP)
Get PDFBackground: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable chronic inflammatory lung disease that often causes obstruction to airflow in the lungs. The main risk factor in Nigeria is long term exposure to indoor pollution from cooking with firewood and fossil fuel in poorly ventilated spaces. Aims/ objectives: The aim was to evaluate the level of COPD knowledge among healthcare workers (HCWs) in the southwestern state of Nigeria.Materials/ methods: Self-administered online BCKQ which is made up of 65 stem questions was used to evaluate the level of knowledge of HCWs. The overall score of individual participants was represented in percentages and frequencies. Tests of statistical significance like the Chi-square test are applied to find out the statistical significance of the difference in percentages. Univariate analysis was done using respondent knowledge about COPD as the dependent variable and the socio-demographic were identified as independent variables. A p-value of <0.05 was taken as statistically significant in the calculations of variables. Results: Four hundred and five healthcare workers were involved in this study, 53.3% of whom were females. The mean age of the study cohort was 48.7±0.55 years, significant majority (75.6%) of whom were <40 years. (p< 0.001). Majority of cohorts (39.3%) were doctors, while 32.0% were nurses. Only 11.7% had PhD or Fellowship as their highest educational qualification. The overall mean total score of cohorts on the Bristol COPD questionnaire was 51.9±21.9 %, with 40.4% having good scores and only 11.3% had excellent score. Mean knowledge scores were high among doctors (69.9±02.4), HCWs with medical fellowships /PhD (69.9±02.4) and had worked for <10 years. A positive correlation was demonstrated between age, level of education and knowledge score (p<0.05). Conclusion: This study examined knowledge of COPD among healthcare workers in the southwestern part of Nigeria and confirmed that the knowledge of COPD among healthcare workers was essentially good but there were serious gaps in knowledge observed in areas of vaccination, inhalational therapy, and use of inhaled and oral steroid
Gross Motor Skills in Early Grade Students: A Bibliometric Study
Get PDFGross motor skills refer to fundamental motor skills such as running, walking, crawling, jumping and catching. This domain requires adequate coordination of muscular, skeletal and nervous system activity. The objective was to perform a bibliometric analysis of the literature indexed in Scopus on gross motor skills in students of the initial level, between 2003 and 2023. Methodologically, it was a quantitative bibliometric study. The scientific production indicators were generated from 498 documents selected from Scopus using keywords in English ("gossip", "motor", "skills", "childhood"). From 2016 to 2022, published papers increased (66.1%), indicating a growing interest in the subject of study. The United States is the country with the most scientific production (21.3%; n=157), and the University of Wollongong in Australia, has the most publications (n=21). The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published 24 papers, while the most cited was Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology with 707 citations, with author Goodway, J.D. (n=10 papers) being the most cited (n=682). From the studies analyzed, it is concluded that the early stages of a child's life are vital for the growth of gross motor skills, which in turn fosters the acquisition of knowledge, independence and confidence. Consequently, early learners can benefit from physical activity, as it helps them refine their motor skills by giving them the opportunity to work on balance, control and coordination.  
Evaluation of Phytochemical Screening and Antibacterial Activity of Latana Camara Linn. Extract Used As Antibacterial Finish on Fabrics
No full textThe aim of the research was to evaluate the antibacterial activity of a crude extract from Latana camara L. on different types of fabric samples made of cotton, bamboo, and bamboo cotton. Lantana camara L. is a well-known weed and a popular ornamental garden plant that is widely utilized in traditional medicine all over the world. Acetate, ethanol, methanol, and petroleum ether were used as solvents to make the leaves crude extract. Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus were used as test organisms for the crude extract's anti-bacterial activity, which was also used for phytochemical analysis. According to a phytochemical study, Latana camara L. extract contained alkaloids, flavonoids, phenol and tannin. As measured by inhibitory zones ranging from 09mm to 24mm, plant methanol extract demonstrated good antibacterial activity against test organism. Antibacterial activity of fabrics (cotton, bamboo and bamboo cotton) finished with plant extract revealed inhibitory zones excellent ranging from 23mm to 28mm against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The present findings imply the potential antibacterial activity of the plant. L. camara aids in the relief of inflammatory conditions and to be developed into standardized, safe, and affordable biomedical products and use as functional finish for home textiles
STONE FRUITS AS VALUABLE SOURCES OF PECTIN
Get PDFThe article contains the results of the studies on the content of pectic substances in three pomological varieties of apricot fruits, in three pomological varieties of peach and three pomological varieties of plum fruits grown in the climatic conditions of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The studies have shown that stone fruits as apricots, peaches and plums grown in Uzbekistan are characterized by a high content of pectin. According to our research, the variety Yubileyniy (anniversary) Navoi turned out to be the richest in pectic content from the studied fruit varieties, where the average content is 1.32%; in the Raspberry variety of peaches it is 1.12%; in the Violet Hungarian variety of plums, the average content is 1.32%. In all other studied varieties of apricot, peach and plum fruits, the content of pectic substances is more than one percent, with the exception of the fruits of the Yaichnaya (eggy) yellow plum variety where the average content of pectic substances is 0.93%. Due to the high content of pectic substances with good gelling properties, the studied pomological varieties of stone fruits can be successfully used to obtain a number of confectionery products with a jelly-like consistency
The Artisanal Cheese Factory in the Context of the Araucanía Region – Chile
No full textTraditional artisanal cheeses are known in Chile and Argentina as country cheeses, or in some other places as farm cheeses or farmhouse cheeses. All these terms are used to refer to cheeses made in small workshops or cheese factories, where the process is carried out by hand by the same members of the family and with a minimum presence of employees. A distinctive feature of cheese production is that the production processes have incorporated elements of the culture and environment in which the activity takes place. the purposes of this article referred to characterize the artisanal cheese factory and its producers in the context of the Araucanía Region in Chile. The region of La Araucanía is located in Chile, between the regions of Bío Bío and Los Ríos. Its area is 31,842 km² and its regional capital is the commune of Temuco. The type of study is quantitative of a transitional-descriptive type in 19 communes and 137 cheese producers of the provinces of Malleco and Cautín in the region of La Araucanía, territories where the cheese producers that are part of the sample are located. The characteristics of the producers, cheese factories and processes associated with the production of cheese, account for a cheese reality that has a set of potentialities and complexities necessary to consider not as problems of the artisanal cheese factory, but as realities and baselines on which it works and it is necessary to continue working in post of its empowerment and its value as part of the agri-food production system in the region of La Araucanía-Chile
Study of Association of the ace2 Polymorphisms rs2285666, rs879922, and rs1978124 with Muscle Strength in Sedentary Young Adult
No full textSkeletal muscle is a plastic tissue with contractile capacity to generate force. Muscle mass plays a crucial role in determining muscle strength. However, the diversity of genetic features among individuals can significantly influence muscle mass development. Among these genetic factors are polymorphisms in the ace gen which codify for angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), an enzyme that belongs to the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). In addition, there are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 gene (ace2), that codify for an enzyme that is part of the non-classical RAS axis, which has recently been shown to prevent atrophic and fibrotic processes in skeletal muscle. However, the influence of ace2 SNPs on skeletal muscle strength is unknown. This research aims to study the association between the SNPs rs879922, rs2285666, and rs1978124 of the ace2 gene with isometric muscle strength in sedentary young adults. Thirty-eight healthy sedentary men (18-25 years old) who met the exclusion criteria were recruited for the study. Anthropometric measurements were then taken, and a venous blood sample was extracted to determine the allele of each polymorphism studied. Skeletal muscle strength was measured using a handgrip dynamometer. Our results show no differences in grip strength between alleles of ace2 polymorphisms nor in comparing the muscle strength between the most common haplotypes. We can conclude that there is no association of rs879922, rs2285666, and rs1978124 ace2 polymorphisms with isometric grip strength in sedentary young adults, nor is there an association between ace2 haplotypes and muscle strength
Methodological Design of Risk Management and Social Responsibility in The School of Engineering of a Peruvian University
No full textThe objective of this study is to design the Risk Management methodology for the University Social Responsibility (USR) process, with the participation of the administrative and teaching staff of the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School of a private Peruvian university as a contribution to the licensing project in 2021. The population consisted of 38 people involved in the USR process in the University’s Mechanical and Electrical Engineering PE, including teaching and administrative staff. The methodology uses a mixed approach, explanatory scope and sequential explanatory design (DEXPLIS). Although very few universities apply risk management at the institutional level, the results show that it is feasible to design a risk management methodology applied to a specific educational management process that contributes to achieving institutional objectives. Therefore, it is concluded that the successful design of a risk management methodology facilitates the achievement of the objectives of the process to which risk management is applied and that risk management can have a direct impact on the licensing process by aligning the USR sub-processes with the sub-processes and indicators of the licensing process, being essential for a good design not only to know the dimensions of risk management but also to know the process applied, in this case, the process of University Social Responsibility