Impact of communication competencies, job requirements and Academic performance on students' career development at the University of Hail, Saudi Arabia

Among the strategic competencies that will provide value to university students over the course of their career development plan are those that are relevant to both the needs of employers and the success of students in the classroom. This study aims to examine how students' communication skills, job requirements, and academic performance at the University of Hail, Saudi Arabia, affect their professional career development. An online survey was used to obtain the data collected for this study, which was then analysed with SPSS version 25 using multiple linear regression, making it a quantitative study. 210 students from Saudi Arabia's University of Hail were randomly selected to participate in this study's sample. Findings indicate that two of the three independent variables significantly affect the dependent variable. Therefore, a student's career development is significantly impacted by both job requirements and students’ academic performance, while communication competencies are not

Impaired β-Cell Neogenesis in a Mouse Model of Metabolic Syndrome

Pancreatic islet β-cell plays an essential role in insulin release and hence glucose homeostasis. The maintenance of glucose homeostasis depends on β-cell ability to cope with enough insulin to fulfill metabolic and physiological demands. Adequate insulin release is the result of highly complex and dynamic interplays between acute changes in β- cell electrical activity, exocytosis and chronic adaptations in cellular function, volume, mass and proliferation. All of this appears modulated, to some extent, by the functional presence of Slc12a2 symporters, also known as Na+K+2Cl– cotransporter-1 (Nkcc1), which accumulates intracellular Cl– above its electrochemical equilibrium. Recent studies from our laboratory showed that mice lacking Nkcc1 in β-cell (Nkcc1βKO) develop a cluster of metabolic phenotypes reminiscent of the metabolic syndrome i.e., hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, steatohepatitis and overweight. The present study is aimed at determining the potential relationship between those phenotypes and pancreas morphometric parameters including islet size, β-cell number, volume, mass and neogenesis. The results presented here indicate that elimination of Nkcc1 from β-cell negatively impact those parameters, even before the onset of overweight and its metabolic complications. Therefore, we propose that Nkcc1 plays a potential causative role in the development of metabolic syndrome

Personalized Recommendations on Twitter based on Explicit User Relationship Modelling

Information overload is a recent phenomenon caused by a regular use of social media platforms among millions of users. Websites such as Twitter seem to be getting increasingly popular, providing a perfect platform for sharing information which can help in the process of modelling users and recommender system research. This research studies information overload and uses twitter user modelling through making use of explicit relationships amongst various users. This paper presents a novel personal profile mechanism that helps in the provision of more accurate recommendations by filtering overloaded information as it gathered from Twitter data. The presented method takes advantage of user explicit relationships on Twitter based on influence rule in order to gain information which is vital in the building of the personal profile of the user. In order to validate this proposed method\u27s usefulness a simple tweet recommendation service was implemented by using content-based recommender system. This has also been evaluated using an offline evaluation process. Our proposed user profiles are compared against other profiles such as the baseline in order to have the proposed method\u27s effectiveness checked. The experiment is implemented based on an experimental number of users

Human Resources Practices in Non-profit Organizations: Evidence from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Non-profit organizations (NPOs) are essential to the economic planning process in Saudi Arabia. This study examines the Human Resource (HR) practices of Saudi Arabian non-profit organizations. It is based on a primary survey administered to 201 employees of the four types of existing non-profit organizations (NPOs) in Saudi Arabia (Qur'an Memorization Society, Dawah Society, Specialized Society, and Development Committee) using a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was intended for the eight existing HR practices: work design, HR planning, polarization, selection, training and development, motivation, performance evaluation, and job satisfaction. The ANOVA and Pearson correlation tests were performed on the eight segments of the HR instruments to investigate the perspectives of HR professionals in the NPO sector. The findings of the study indicate that the HR practices are moderated by the gender, age, education, and years of experience of the employees. The work design has the highest awareness among the employees, with a mean of 4.05, while job satisfaction has the lowest awareness, with a mean of 3.18 on a 5-point scale. A correlation between HR practices shows that work design improves performance evaluation, polarization affects HR planning, and training and development influence performance evaluation

Social Differences in Health Behaviours among Jordanian Adolescents

Social differences are evident in both developed and developing countries. During adolescence, there are limited differences in morbidity and mortality, but differences do appear in terms of health behaviours. This study aims to examine the relationship(s) between social differences and students’ health behaviours. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2020 with a sample of high school students (N = 2741, aged 13–18 years) in Jordan. Besides descriptive statistics, bivariate logistic regression analysis was used to detect the odds risk for each social difference indicator. Females were engaged in more healthy dietary and hygienic behaviours and less engaged in smoking. Males were more physically active. Adolescents with a higher parental education level were more engaged in healthy behaviours; however, they drank carbonated soft drinks and ate fast food more often. Higher SES (socioeconomic status) self-evaluation was positively associated with eating breakfast and fruit and vegetables, being physically active, drinking carbonated soft drinks, eating fast food, and smoking. Our findings suggest that socioeconomic differences are important to understanding Jordanian adolescents’ health behaviours. While females tend to engage in more healthy behaviours, the role of parental education and perceived family affluence is not always beneficial in terms of adolescents’ dietary habits, hygienic behaviour, or smoking

Quantum error-correcting output codes

Quantum machine learning is the aspect of quantum computing concerned with the design of algorithms capable of generalized learning from labeled training data by effectively exploiting quantum effects. Error-correcting output codes (ECOC) are a standard setting in machine learning for efficiently rendering the collective outputs of a binary classifier, such as the support vector machine, as a multi-class decision procedure. Appropriate choice of error-correcting codes further enables incorrect individual classification decisions to be effectively corrected in the composite output. In this paper, we propose an appropriate quantization of the ECOC process, based on the quantum support vector machine. We will show that, in addition to the usual benefits of quantizing machine learning, this technique leads to an exponential reduction in the number of logic gates required for effective correction of classification error

ROLE OF THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF CARDIAC MEASURES AND DECLINING OF COMORBIDITIES.

Background: Regular physical activity (PA) can prevent many non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes mellitus (DM). The present study aimed to assess the health benefits of physical activities including blood pressure and comorbid conditions. Methodology: This is a prospective cohort case-control study that recruited 300 Saudi volunteers living in the city ofHail, Northern Saudi Arabia. Results: Out of 300 participants 155(51.7%) were males and 145 (48.3%) were females. There were 111(37%) participants committed to regular physical activity and the remaining 189(63%) without a defined commitment to physical activity (Uncommitted). Among 111 persons who claimed a commitment to regular physical activity (committed), 61(55%) were males and 50(45%) were females. The majority of committed individuals were at the age group 21-25 years followed by age group 26-30 and 31-35 years representing 32, 30, and 20 persons, respectively. The physical activity was highly practiced at the age range 21-30 years and this was found to be statistically significant P < 0.001. Conclusion: There is a low prevalence of physical activity in Hail region, particularly among females, which necessitates the suggestion of appropriate awareness programs. Younger and elder populations are in much need to be targeted with PA awareness programs