Impact of ICARDA Research on Australian Agriculture

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POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND VOTING BEHAVIOUR IN NORTH EASTERN REGION OF KENYA

Today, voters tend to evaluate party leaders based on a group of categories that incudes integrity, reliability, and competence. Such evaluation criterion is hardly considered irrational. This study aimed at establishing the effect of political leadership on voting behaviour in the north eastern part of Kenya. It used descriptive research design. The target population was 159 political leaders and 354, 061 registered voters. The sample size was made of 81 political leaders and 322 registered voters. Qualitative data was analysed by use of content analysis while quantitative data was analysed by use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. The study established that leaders personality traits influence voting behaviour in North Eastern Kenya most followed by past performance, leadership style and leadership capacity. The study also found out that authoritarian leaders employ coercive tactics to enforce the rule and manipulate people in decision- making while transformational leaders demonstrate human understanding and guide others in creating and embracing a vision. Finally, social dominance, communication cues, political ideology, and competence were found to be a major influence on voting behaviour in North Eastern Kenya. The study recommends that political leaders should be made to avoid authoritarian leadership. Instead, they should employ servant leadership, charismatic leadership and transformational leadership. Leaders should ensure stakeholders involvement in decision-making, project implementation and avoid voter manipulations

UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KOMPETENSI SISWA DALAM MATA DIKLAT CAD MELALUI METODE PEMBELAJARAN PEER TEACHING DI SMK NEGERI 2 DEPOK, SLEMAN YOGYAKARTA

UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KOMPETENSI SISWA DALAM MATA DIKLAT CAD MELALUI METODE PEMBELAJARAN PEER TEACHING DI SMK NEGERI 2 DEPOK, SLEMAN YOGYAKARTA Oleh: Aden Wahyu P. P. 09503241027 ABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) Mengetahui penerapan metode Peer Teaching (Tutor Sebaya) pada mata diklat CAD sebagai upaya meningkatkan kompetensi siswa kelas XI TP B SMK Negeri 2 Depok, Sleman. (2) Mengetahui pencapaian kompetensi siswa kelas XI TP B SMKN 2 Depok Sleman dengan penerapan metode Peer Teaching (Tutor Sebaya) pada mata diklat CAD. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas, berlangsung dalam 3 siklus. Setiap siklus terdiri atas 2 tindakan dan 4 tahap, yaitu: perencanaan, pelaksanaan tindakan, pengamatan dan refleksi. Sebelum melaksanakan siklus I, II dan III terdapat tahap pra siklus yang berguna untuk mengetahui prestasi dan metode belajar siswa. Subjek penelitian ialah siswa kelas XI TP B SMK Negeri 2 Depok. Instrumen penelitian yang digunakan ialah lembar penilaian prestasi belajar siswa. Data kuantitatif yang didapatkan kemudian dianalisis dengan statistika deskriptif. Hasil penelitian tindakan kelas menunjukkan: (1) Penerapan metode Peer Teaching (Tutor Sebaya) pada mata diklat CAD sebagai upaya meningkatkan kompetensi siswa kelas XI TP B SMK Negeri 2 Depok, Sleman yaitu: (a) Perencanaan pemberian masalah dan tuntutan yang harus dipenuhi siswa, (b) Memilih tutor berdasarkan kemampuan dalam mata diklat CAD, (c) Pemaparan masalah dengan acuan pemecahan masalah beserta tuntutan penyelesaiannya, (d) Pengorganisasian kelas dengan membentuk kelompok diskusi dan tutoring untuk perencanaan menggambar. (e) Siswa melakukan penyelesaian masalah, dan (f) Melakukan evaluasi bersama siswa mengenai hasil pembelajaran; (2) Terdapat peningkatan, penurunan, maupun nilai tetap dari rata-rata nilai akhir individu siswa dalam kompetensi CAD. Dari siklus I ke siklus II terdapat 7 siswa atau 43,75% yang mengalami peningkatan nilai. Siswa yang mengalami penurunan nilai sebanyak 6 orang siswa atau 37,5%, dan yang mengalami nilai tetap sebanyak 3 orang siswa atau 18,75%. Dari siklus II ke siklus III terdapat 10 orang siswa atau 62,5% yang mengalami peningkatan nilai hasil belajar. Siswa yang mengalami penurunan nilai sebanyak 6 orang siswa atau 37,5%, dan tidak terdapat siswa yang mengalami nilai tetap. Kata kunci: tutor sebaya, kompetensi, CAD, penelitian tindakan kelas, dan prestasi belaja

Integration of pediatric mental health in general pediatrics in eritrea: improving access and collaboration

Background: Recognition of mental health problems among children continues to be a diagnostic challenge especially in resource poor countries where integration of such services within the primary health care framework has not been fully successfully. Objective: To document the prevailing mental services among children in Eritrea Methods: prospective descriptive study on policies, practices and interventions targeted at improvement of mental health services among children in Eritrea. Results: The Pediatric Residency Programme established at Orotta School Postgraduate School of Medicine developed a curriculum which was sensitive to recognition and management of mental disorders among children. Of a total of 42 children with mental health disorders, one third had anxiety disorders, 30% had pervasive developmental disorders one quarter psychosomatic disorders and 10% had behaviour disorders predominantly attention deficit disorder. Two illustrative cases have been presented to highlight the challenges and the requisite solutions. Conclusion: The establishment of the Pediatric residency with a dedicated curriculum to address mental health services has contributed to the awareness and integration of such services with primary health care in Eritrea

Octonionization of three player, two strategy maximally entangled quantum games

We develop an octonionic representation of the payoff function for three player, two strategy, maximally entangled quantum games in order to obtain computationally friendly version of this function. This computational capability is then exploited to analyze and potentially classify the Nash equilibria in the quantum games

Low cost infrared and near infrared sensors for UAVs

Thermal remote sensing has a wide range of applications, though the extent of its use is inhibited by cost. Robotic and computer components are now widely available to consumers on a scale that makes thermal data a readily accessible resource. In this project, thermal imagery collected via a lightweight remote sensing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was used to create a surface temperature map for the purpose of providing wildland firefighting crews with a cost-effective and time-saving resource. The UAV system proved to be flexible, allowing for customized sensor packages to be designed that could include visible or infrared cameras, GPS, temperature sensors, and rangefinders, in addition to many data management options. Altogether, such a UAV system could be used to rapidly collect thermal and aerial data, with a geographic accuracy of less than one meter

Remuneration Guidelines for Strength and Conditioning Coaches within Universities in the United Kingdom: International Universities Strength and Conditioning Association (IUSCA) Position Statement

The remuneration of strength and conditioning coaches corresponding to the professional services provided across the high school, collegiate and professional sector,1 has received increased attention in recent times. This appears to be a highly contentious topic regarding the governance of industry awards (National minimum wage) and remuneration

Potential Sand and Gravel Resources of the Canton 30 x 60-Minute Quadrangle, Ohio

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Geological Survey has completed a reconnaissance map showing areas of mineable sand and gravel resources in the Canton, Ohio, 30 x 60-minute 1:100,000-scale quadrangle. The main purpose of this map was to create a reconnaissance-level map that would show the potential for mining sand-and-gravel in this quadrangle. The map shows areas of surficial materials in increments of 10 feet and then differentiates sand, sand and gravel, and ice-contact deposits from finer grained materials, such as glacial till, lacustrine clay and silt, and alluvial materials. The sand and sand-and-gravel units include both surficial and buried outwash and valley train deposits and ice-contact deposits, such as kames, kame terraces, and eskers. This map was created to show the total thickness or accumulation of sand and gravel in the Canton 30 x 60-minute quadrangle. The thickness of sand-and-gravel deposits helps determine if it is economically viable.United States Geological Survey: National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalitio

Suitablility for Solid-Waste Disposal in the Lorain 30 x 60-Minute Quadrangle

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Geological Survey has completed a reconnaissance map showing areas suitable for solid waste disposal in the Lorain, Ohio, 30 x 50-minute (1:1,100,000-scale) quadrangle. The main purpose of this map is to provide a reconnaissance level map that shows the relative suitability of various surficial materials for the disposal or containment of solid waste in this quadrangle. Our goal was to create this map from existing ODNR Division of Geological Survey maps and GIS datasets as much as possible. Consequently, the Lorain map is a derivative map based directly from the ODNR Division of Geological Survey SG-2 Series map, Surficial Geology of the Lorain and Put-in-Bay 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangles (Pavey and others, 2005). The SG-2 series features maps based upon polygons that represent a “stack” of mapped unit lithologies and thicknesses. These maps show surficial materials in increments of 10 feet within each polygon across the study area. A set of queries were run in ESRI ArcGIS to determine the range of thickness and nature of the sediments. The main premise of this map is to specify areas of thick, fine-grained glacial till and glaciolacustrine silt and clay deposits for solid-waste disposal and containment. A minimum of 30 feet of fine-grained material was deemed necessary for waste disposal for areas where the drift overlies shale; siltstone; or interbedded, shaley limestone. If the fine-grained material was directly overlying an aquifer, the minimum required thickness was increased to 50 feet. Aquifers included sand and gravel, sandstone, limestone, and dolomite. Areas with over 20 feet of sand and gravel or sand at the surface (e.g., kames, beach ridges) were excluded as were areas with alluvium (active streams) and organic deposits at the land surface. The main factor in the decision-making process was to have adequate fine-grained materials overlying the aquifers.United States Geological Survey, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalitio