Implementasi Manajemen Mutu Terpadu Dalam Peningkatan Kinerja Sekolah Pada Smk Negeri 1 Banda Aceh

: Education is very important in improving the quality of human resource. The quality of education is a hope and a dream for community. Total Quality Management can improve school performance if it is applied appropriately. This research aimed to find out the programming, implementation programs, and factors affecting the implementation of Total Quality Management. This research employed descriptive method with qualitative approach. Technique of data collection used was interview, observation, and documentation. The research subjects were principal, teachers, and staffs. The results showed that: (1) the State Vocational High School 1 of Banda Aceh refer to the principles of Total Quality Management in programming. (2) The implementation of Total Quality Management involved all school elements. The beneficial implementation of Total Quality Management was to increase teachers\u27 performance in order to affect students\u27 achievement and school performance. (3) The factors affecting were motivating factor and inhibiting factor. Motivating factors include a good quality of teachers and principal, an adequate infrastructure, a high level of trust and public interest of parents and school committee. The inhibiting factors include inadequate human resources and the incompatibility of teachers and staff\u27s performance with Total Quality Management

Identifying maize residues in pottery vessels in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina

Plant opal silica bodies (phytoliths) obtained from scraped food residues from the inside walls of pottery vessels are described and identified as maize (Zea mays, Poaceae) cob bodies. These vessels come from the archaeological locality of Meliquina (-40° 19'S-71° 19'W), Lácar Department and Lanín National Park, Patagonia, Argentina and were dated between 730 ± 80 BP and 920± 60 BP. The presence of short-cell phytoliths diagnostic of maize cobs, called wavy-top rondels and ruffle-top rondels from the Zea mays (maize) is highlighted. It constitutes the southernmost preincaic record in the continent, whose origin is related to environmental conditions of low humidity, which would have affected social mobility and the trade of goods through long distances from east to west, with the societies of the central valleys of mid-southern Chile settled to the east of the Andean range between 1,000 and 700 years BP.Se describen los microrrestos silicios de origen vegetal (fitolitos), obtenidos de raspados realizados sobre residuos alimenticios en las paredes internas de recipientes cerámicos utilitarios datados en 730 ± 80 AP y 920 ± 60 AP, procedentes de la Localidad Arqueológica Meliquina, ubicada a 40° 19´ S y 71° 19´ O (Departamento Lácar y Parque Nacional Lanín, Provincia de Neuquén, Patagonia Argentina). Se destaca la presencia de fitolitos del tipo Wavy top y Ruffle top rondel correspondientes a Zea mays (maíz), constituyendo el registro preincaico más austral del continente, cuyo origen es concordante con momentos de disminución de la humedad ambiental en general que habrían incidido en movilidad social y circulación de bienes a larga distancia, con una acentuada territorialidad oriental cordillerana de las sociedades complejas de los valles centrales del centro-sur de Chile entre 1.000 a 700 años AP.Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Muse

Identifying maize residues in pottery vessels in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina

Plant opal silica bodies (phytoliths) obtained from scraped food residues from the inside walls of pottery vessels are described and identified as maize (Zea mays, Poaceae) cob bodies. These vessels come from the archaeological locality of Meliquina (-40° 19'S-71° 19'W), Lácar Department and Lanín National Park, Patagonia, Argentina and were dated between 730 ± 80 BP and 920± 60 BP. The presence of short-cell phytoliths diagnostic of maize cobs, called wavy-top rondels and ruffle-top rondels from the Zea mays (maize) is highlighted. It constitutes the southernmost preincaic record in the continent, whose origin is related to environmental conditions of low humidity, which would have affected social mobility and the trade of goods through long distances from east to west, with the societies of the central valleys of mid-southern Chile settled to the east of the Andean range between 1,000 and 700 years BP.Se describen los microrrestos silicios de origen vegetal (fitolitos), obtenidos de raspados realizados sobre residuos alimenticios en las paredes internas de recipientes cerámicos utilitarios datados en 730 ± 80 AP y 920 ± 60 AP, procedentes de la Localidad Arqueológica Meliquina, ubicada a 40° 19´ S y 71° 19´ O (Departamento Lácar y Parque Nacional Lanín, Provincia de Neuquén, Patagonia Argentina). Se destaca la presencia de fitolitos del tipo Wavy top y Ruffle top rondel correspondientes a Zea mays (maíz), constituyendo el registro preincaico más austral del continente, cuyo origen es concordante con momentos de disminución de la humedad ambiental en general que habrían incidido en movilidad social y circulación de bienes a larga distancia, con una acentuada territorialidad oriental cordillerana de las sociedades complejas de los valles centrales del centro-sur de Chile entre 1.000 a 700 años AP.Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Muse

Estabilidad fotoquímica de ácidos hidroxinitrobenzoicos y sus unidades cromofóricas: preparándonos para completar el diagrama de Jablonsky, cuando lo permita el covid-19

Los ácidos hidroxi-nitrobenzoicos (HNBA), han sido propuestos como matrices MALDI oxidantes inductoras de fragmentación dentro de la cámara de ionización, generando fragmentos de estructura predecible (reordenamiento McLafferty), no detectados o de baja intensidad en MALDI-MS/MS empleando matrices clásicas (ácido sinapínico; ácido α-cianocinámico). En particular este fenómeno se observa en el análisis de moléculas peptídicas el que se iniciaría por un Photochemical Induced Single Hydrogen Transfer (PI-SHP) intramolecular involucrando un H de la unidad peptídica (-CO-NH-C-CO-NH-) que lo tomaría el ácido HNBA electrónicamente excitado generando la especie radicalaria (-CO-N(.)-C-CO-NH- ó -CO-NH-C-CO-N(.)H-) a fragmentarse. Al realizar experimentos con diferentes isómeros de posición del ácido HNBA como matrices MALDI, se observó que mostraron diferencias significativas en cuanto a su eficiencia, por ende surge como interrogante el rol que cumple la isomería de posición en la regulación de la competencia entre procesos intramoleculares e intermoleculares de PI-SHP (preponderancia del primero o del segundo) y su consecuencia en la eficiencia como matrices MALDI oxidantes. En este orden de ideas, resulta importante conocer las propiedades fotofísicas de estos compuestos y las posibles PI-SHP intramoleculares, por ello se ha realizado un estudio de la estabilidad fotoquímica (366 nm; 254 nm) en solución (MeCN; MeOH) de seis isómeros del HNBA (3H4NBA; 2H4NBA; 2H5NBA; 3H2NBA; 5H2NBA; 2H3NBA) y de las unidades cromofóricas constituyentes de los mismos orto-, meta- y para-nitrofenoles (NP), nitrobenzoicos (NBA) e hidroxibenzoicos (HBA), así como de su desactivación fluorescente. Se observó que esta es de baja eficiencia y probablemente se realizaría por la vía no radiativa sugiriendo que la energía absorbida se liberaría como calor rápido al medio. El estudio de este aspecto forma parte del plan de trabajo, pero el inicio de la pandemia no ha permitido abordarlo, como tampoco los experimentos de tipo flash fotólisis y la medición de sus potenciales de óxido/reducción.Fil: Silva Rodriguez Oscar E.. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono; ArgentinaFil: Petroselli, Gabriela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono; ArgentinaFil: Erra Balsells Rosa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Centro de Investigaciones en Hidratos de Carbono; ArgentinaXI Encuentro de Estudiantes de Óptica y Fotónica (EEOF) y del XVI Taller de Óptica y Fotónica (TOPFOT)Buenos AiresArgentinaComité Territorial de Óptica de ArgentinaUniversidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturale

Restos vegetales en muestras de subsuelo, Formación Lajas, Jurásico medio, Cuenca Neuquina, Neuquén, Argentina

Se dan a conocer restos vegetales preservados como impresiones correspondientes a diferentes órganos, tales como tallos, hojas y ramas asignables a equisetópsidas, pteridospermópsidas y coníferas respecVvamente. Los mismos fueron recuperados de muestras de tesVgos coronas de la Formación Lajas, Jurásico Medio de la cuenca Neuquina, de pozos pertenecientes al área del Engolfamiento Neuquino, al norte de la Dorsal de Huincul. La Formación Lajas se describe como depósitos marinomarginales, principalmente sistemas deltaicos, compuestos por areniscas y en menor medida pelitas oscuras y verdosas con abundantes rastros carbonosos. Además de los megafósiles mencionados, se reportan numerosos restos de fitodetritos. Los fósiles vegetales fueron hallados en los niveles carbonosos asignables a ambientes de planicie deltaica, a interbarras de frente deltaico, y a barras de frente deltaico. Los procesos depositacionales en las barras de frente deltaico están dominados por procesos tracVvos, por lo cual, se infiere que algunos de los restos (tallos y ramas), corresponden a elementos resistentes a estos procesos mientras que aquellos más delicados (frondes) a ambientes de planicie deltaica, siendo depositados por suspensión en ambientes más tranquilos. Esto podría indicar la presencia de dos poblaciones vegetales, una más aun a ambiente deltaico, ya que por la buena preservación de sus partes más delicadas no evidencia transporte, y otra que representa una comunidad vegetal más conVnental-terrígena, que hubiera sufrido algún grado de transporte debido a la acción fluvial. El material estudiado se encuentra depositado en el Repositorio de material fósil de YPF Tecnología.Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Muse

ps4 70 anti phosphatidylserine prothrombin antibodies and cardiovascular risk in a sle cohort of patients

Introduction Clinical activity of SLE may wax and wane, but persistent, active systemic inflammation leads to organ damage and rises morbidity and mortality. Early damage is mostly related to disease activity, whereas later damage, in particular atherosclerosis, infections and malignancies are usual complications of long-standing disease and treatment with immunosuppressive agents. One of the major late causes of death in SLE is thrombosis, in particular stroke and myocardial infarction due to CAD. In these patients, the increased cardiovascular morbidity is not fully explained by traditional risk factors and this may lead to under-recognition and under-treatment. Petri, et al. proposed an equation for cardiovascular disease risk in SLE, which combines classical parameters and disease activity markers. Other scores such as the GAPSS(Global AntiPhospholipid Syndrome Score) have been recently evaluated. The importance of aPL in thrombosis in general is well defined, as they constitute the culprit of the so-called anti-phospholipid syndrome(APS). Their role in sustaining the high risk of cardiovascular complications of SLE patients is under-debated. Objective To study the role of the anti-phosphatidylserine/prothrombin(aPS/PT) antibodies, included in the GAPSS score, in contributing to the thrombotic risk of SLE patients. Methods We enrolled 172 patients from Ospedale San Raffaele. 132 patients with SLE(111/132, 84% without secondary APS, SAPS, and 21/132, 16% with SAPS), 19 with primary APS(PAPS) and 21 healthy controls. Each recruited patient was tested for aPS/PT IgG and IgM through ELISA by INOVA Diagnostic, Inc. San Diego, CA USA. Results 36/111 (32.4%) SLE without APS, 15/21 (71.4%) SAPS, 13/19 (68.4%) PAPS and 3/21 (14.3%) healthy donors were aPS/PT+. aPS/PT+SLE patients had a higher cardiovascular risk according to the Petri's score, when compared to aPS/PT-patients, irrespectively of a positive or negative history of overt APS(Mean ±SD Petri' score=20.8±18.1, 14.0±12.8 and 23.8±22.5, 11.6±9.3 respectively, p 10 had also higher prevalence of pregnancy complications. Conclusion aPS/PT antibodies are associated with a high risk of thrombosis and CAD in SLE. aPS/PT assays should be routinely introduced in the management of these patients

The Role of Native Language and the Fundamental Design of the Auditory System in Detecting Rhythm Changes

Accepted December 13, 2018Purpose: We investigated whether rhythm discrimination is mainly driven by the native language of the listener or by the fundamental design of the human auditory system and universal cognitive mechanisms shared by all people irrespective of rhythmic patterns in their native language. Method: In multiple experiments, we asked participants to listen to 2 continuous acoustic sequences and to determine whether their rhythms were the same or different (AX discrimination). Participants were native speakers of 4 languages with different rhythmic properties (Spanish, French, English, and German) to understand whether the predominant rhythmic patterns of a native language affect sensitivity, bias, and reaction time in detecting rhythmic changes in linguistic (Experiment 2) and in nonlinguistic (Experiments 1 and 2) acoustic sequences. We examined sensitivity and bias measures, as well as reaction times. We also computed Bayes factors in order to assess the effect of native language. Results: All listeners performed better (i.e., responded faster and manifested higher sensitivity and accuracy) when detecting the presence or absence of a rhythm change when the 1st stimulus in an AX test pair exhibited regular rhythm (i.e., a syllable-timed rhythmic pattern) than when the 1st stimulus exhibited irregular rhythm (i.e., stress-timed rhythmic pattern). This result pattern was observed both on linguistic and nonlinguistic stimuli and was not modulated by the native language of the participant. Conclusion: We conclude that rhythm change detection is a fundamental function of a processing system that relies on general auditory mechanisms and is not modulated by linguistic experience.The authors acknowledge support from Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness Grant PSI2017-82563-P (awarded to A. G. S.), the “Severo Ochoa” Programme for Centres/Units of Excellence in R&D Grant SEV-2015-490 (BCBL), and the Basque Foundation for Science Grant IKERBASQUE (awarded to A. G. S. and M. O.). D. M. G. was supported by Grant PIA/Basal FB0003 from the Chilean Research Council. L. P. was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness via Juan de la Cierva fellowship