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Kecerdasan Emosi dengan Organizational Citizenship Behavior pada Karyawan di Kantor Universitas Pattimura Ambon
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan antara
Kecerdasan Emosi dengan Organizational Citizenship Behavior pada karyawan di
Universitas Pattimura Ambon. Partisipan dalam penelitian ini terdapat 41 karyawan di
Kantor Universitas Pattimura Ambon melalui Teknik Saturation Sampling. Metode
pengumpulan data menggunakan Google Form yakni dimana varaibel Kecerdasan
Emosi terdapat 28 aitem dan OCB terdapat 30 aitem. Variabel Kecerdasan Emosi
diukur menggunakan lima dimensi Goleman (2000) yaitu; mengenal emosi diri,
mengelola emosi, motivasi diri, empati dan membina membina hubungan. Sedangkan,
variable OCB diukur menggunakan lima dimensi Organ (1988) yaitu; altruism, civic
virtue, sportsmanship, dan conscientiousness. Dari hasil penelitian tersebut dinyatakan
bahwa terdapat hubungan Positif yang signifikan antara Kecerdasan Emosi dan
Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Dengan kata lain semakin tinggi kecerdasan
emosi, maka semakin tinggi pula OCB karyawan. Sebaliknya semakin rendah
Kecerdasan Emosi, maka semakin rendah pula OCB karyawa
Identification of a two-marker-haplotype on Bos taurus autosome 18 associated with somatic cell score in German Holstein cattle
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The somatic cell score (SCS) is implemented in routine sire evaluations in many countries as an indicator trait for udder health. Somatic cell score is highly correlated with clinical mastitis, and in the German Holstein population quantitative trait loci (QTL) for SCS have been repeatedly mapped on <it>Bos taurus </it>autosome 18 (BTA18). In the present study, we report a refined analysis of previously detected QTL regions on BTA18 with the aim of identifying marker and marker haplotypes in linkage disequilibrium with SCS. A combined linkage and linkage disequilibrium approach was implemented, and association analyses of marker genotypes and maternally inherited two-marker-haplotypes were conducted to identify marker and haplotypes in linkage disequilibrium with a locus affecting SCS in the German Holstein population.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We detected a genome-wide significant QTL within marker interval 9 (<it>HAMP_c.366+109G>A </it>- <it>BMS833</it>) in the middle to telomeric region on BTA18 and a second putative QTL in marker interval 12-13 (<it>BB710 </it>- <it>PVRL2_c.392G>A</it>). Association analyses with genotypes of markers flanking the most likely QTL positions revealed the microsatellite marker <it>BMS833 </it>(interval 9) to be associated with a locus affecting SCS within the families investigated. A further analysis of maternally inherited two-marker haplotypes and effects of maternally inherited two-marker-interval gametes indicated haplotype <it>249-G </it>in marker interval 12-13 (<it>BB710 </it>- <it>PVRL2_c.392G>A</it>) to be associated with SCS in the German Holstein population.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Our results confirmed previous QTL mapping results for SCS and support the hypothesis that more than one locus presumably affects udder health in the middle to telomeric region of BTA18. However, a subsequent investigation of the reported QTL regions is necessary to verify the two-QTL hypothesis and confirm the association of two-marker-haplotype <it>249-G </it>in marker interval 12-13 (<it>BB710 </it>- <it>PVRL2_c.392G>A</it>) with SCS. For this purpose, higher marker density and multiple-trait and multiple-QTL models are required to narrow down the position of the causal mutation or mutations affecting SCS in German Holstein cattle.</p
L’espace de la fiction
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Quick Reference Guide, Best Practice Statement for Screening, Assessment and Management of Vision Problems in the First 30 Days After an Acute Stroke
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Quick Reference Guide, Best Practice Statement for Screening, Assessment and Management of Vision Problems in the First 30 Days After an Acute Stroke
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Distinct and Conserved Prominin-1/CD133–Positive Retinal Cell Populations Identified across Species
Besides being a marker of various somatic stem cells in mammals, prominin-1 (CD133) plays a role in maintaining the photoreceptor integrity since mutations in the PROM1 gene are linked with retinal degeneration. In spite of that, little information is available regarding its distribution in eyes of non-mammalian vertebrates endowed with high regenerative abilities. To address this subject, prominin-1 cognates were isolated from axolotl, zebrafish and chicken, and their retinal compartmentalization was investigated and compared to that of their mammalian orthologue. Interestingly, prominin-1 transcripts—except for the axolotl—were not strictly restricted to the outer nuclear layer (i.e., photoreceptor cells), but they also marked distinct subdivisions of the inner nuclear layer (INL). In zebrafish, where the prominin-1 gene is duplicated (i.e., prominin-1a and prominin-1b), a differential expression was noted for both paralogues within the INL being localized either to its vitreal or scleral subdivision, respectively. Interestingly, expression of prominin-1a within the former domain coincided with Pax-6–positive cells that are known to act as progenitors upon injury-induced retino-neurogenesis. A similar, but minute population of prominin-1–positive cells located at the vitreal side of the INL was also detected in developing and adult mice. In chicken, however, prominin-1–positive cells appeared to be aligned along the scleral side of the INL reminiscent of zebrafish prominin-1b. Taken together our data indicate that in addition to conserved expression of prominin-1 in photoreceptors, significant prominin-1–expressing non-photoreceptor retinal cell populations are present in the vertebrate eye that might represent potential sources of stem/progenitor cells for regenerative therapies
Automated Code Generation for Lattice QCD Simulation
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of strong nuclear force, responsible of the interactions between sub-nuclear particles. QCD simulations are typically performed through the lattice gauge theory approach, which provides a discrete analytical formalism called LQCD (Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics). LQCD simulations usually involve generating and then processing data on petabyte scale which demands multiple teraflop-years on supercomputers. Large parts of both, generation and analysis, can be reduced to the inversion of an extremely large matrix, the so-called Wilson-Dirac operator. For this purpose, and because this matrix is always sparse and structured, iterative methods are definitely considered. Therefore, the procedure of the application of this operator, resulting in a vector-matrix product, appears as a critical computation kernel that should be optimized as much as possible. Evaluating the Wilson-Dirac operator involves symmetric stencil calculations where each node has 8 neighbors. Such configuration is really hindering when it comes to memory accesses and data exchanges among processors. For current and future generation of supercomputers the hierarchical memory structure make it next to impossible for a physicist to write an efficient code. Addressing these issues in other to harvest an acceptable amount of computing cycles for the real need, which means reaching a good level of efficiency, is the main concern of this paper. We present here a Domain Specific Language and corresponding toolkit, called QIRAL, which is a complete solution from symbolic notation to simulation code
The progenitor mass of the magnetar SGR1900+14
Magnetars are young neutron stars with extreme magnetic fields (B >
10^{14}-10^{15}G). How these fields relate to the properties of their
progenitor stars is not yet clearly established. However, from the few objects
associated with young clusters it has been possible to estimate the initial
masses of the progenitors, with results indicating that a very massive
progenitor star (M_prog >40Msun) is required to produce a magnetar. Here we
present adaptive-optics assisted Keck/NIRC2 imaging and Keck/NIRSPEC
spectroscopy of the cluster associated with the magnetar SGR 1900+14, and
report that the initial progenitor star mass of the magnetar was a factor of
two lower than this limit, M_prog=17 \pm 2 Msun. Our result presents a strong
challenge to the concept that magnetars can only result from very massive
progenitors. Instead, we favour a mechanism which is dependent on more than
just initial stellar mass for the production of these extreme magnetic fields,
such as the "fossil-field" model or a process involving close binary evolution.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figs. Accepted to Ap
XBootes: An X-Ray Survey of the NDWFS Bootes Field - Paper I Overview and Initial Results
We obtained a 5 ksec deep Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS-I map of the 9.3
square degree Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. Here we describe
the data acquisition and analysis strategies leading to a catalog of 4642
(3293) point sources with 2 or more (4 or more) counts, corresponding to a
limiting flux of roughly 4(8)x10^{-15} erg cm^{-2}s^{-1} in the 0.5-7 keV band.
These Chandra XBootes data are unique in that they consitute the widest
contiguous X-ray field yet observed to such a faint flux limit. Because of the
extraordinarily low background of the ACIS, we expect only 14% (0.7%) of the
sources to be spurious. We also detected 43 extended sources in this survey.
The distribution of the point sources among the 126 pointings (ACIS-I has a 16
x 16 arcminute field of view) is consistent with Poisson fluctuations about the
mean of 36.8 sources per pointing. While a smoothed image of the point source
distribution is clumpy, there is no statistically significant evidence of large
scale filamentary structure. We do find however, that for theta>1 arcminute,
the angular correlation function of these sources is consistent with previous
measurements, following a power law in angle with slope -0.7. In a 1.4 deg^{2}
sample of the survey, approximately 87% of the sources with 4 or more counts
have an optical counterpart to R ~26 mag. As part of a larger program of
optical spectroscopy of the NDWFS Bootes area, spectra have been obtained for
\~900 of the X-ray sources, most of which are QSOs or AGN.Comment: 18 Pages, 10 figures (AASTex Preprint format
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