The Impact of Social Media on Public Service Reform: Mediating Role of Netizen’s Engagement in Cambodia

After social media has played the vital role in Cambodia, the voice of citizens has been being raised up to the public with what they are concerning in their daily lives especially the public service delivery. Thus, the paper is talked on the impact of social media on the public service reform in Cambodia. The main theme focuses on the mediating role of netizen’s engagement. The research is going to explore how the social media is the key factor to improve the public service delivery. Based on the data analysis, the netizen’s engagement is really plays the major role in public service reform through the social media. In contrast, the social media will be the two sharped knife to the netizen when its’ role is not independent and trustful. Furthermore, the paper will provide the recommendations and strategy to the government, researchers, and scholars to presumably understand how important social media is toward the public service reform. Key Words: Social Media, Public Service, Impact, Netizen, Engagement, and Reform

An Empirical Investigation of Organizational Justice and Public Service Motivation through Employee Commitment

Despite a highly paid private sector why people eager to join public sector. For understanding this phenomena, it is important to understand the theory and practice of public service motivation. This study aimed to identify possible predictors of public service motivation and its underlying a mechanism from a multilevel perspective. This paper also analyzed the mediating role of organizational Commitment in the relationship between Public Service Motivation and organizational justice in public sector universities in Pakistan.  A survey method was employed to collect the data from the employees who are working in public universities. The detail about results, implication and limitations are also discussed at the end. Keywords: Public service motivation (PSM), organizational justice, organizational commitment, public secto

Paternal chromosome elimination of inducer triggers induction of double haploids in Brassica napus

A synthetic octoploid rapeseed, Y3380, induces maternal doubled haploids when used as a pollen donor to pollinate plant. However, the mechanism underlying doubled haploid formation remains elusive. We speculated that double haploid induction occurs as the inducer line’s chromosomes pass to the maternal egg cell, and the zygote is formed through fertilization. In the process of zygotic mitosis, the paternal chromosome is specifically eliminated. Part of the paternal gene might have infiltrated the maternal genome through homologous exchange during the elimination process. Then, the zygote haploid genome doubles (early haploid doubling, EH phenomenon), and the doubled zygote continues to develop into a complete embryo, finally forming doubled haploid offspring. To test our hypothesis, in the current study, the octoploid Y3380 line was back bred with the 4122-cp4-EPSPS exogenous gene used as a marker into hexaploid Y3380-cp4-EPSPS as paternal material to pollinate three different maternal materials. The fertilization process of crossing between the inducer line and the maternal parent was observed 48 h after pollination, and the fertilization rate reached 97.92% and 98.72%. After 12 d of pollination, the presence of cp4-EPSPS in the embryo was detected by in situ PCR, and at 13–23 d after pollination, the probability of F1 embryos containing cp4-EPSPS gene was up to 97.27%, but then declined gradually to 0% at 23–33 d. At the same time, the expression of cp4-EPSPS was observed by immunofluorescence in the 3rd to 29th day embryo. As the embryos developed, cp4-EPSPS marker genes were constantly lost, accompanied by embryonic death. After 30 d, the presence of cp4-EPSPS was not detected in surviving embryos. Meanwhile, SNP detection of induced offspring confirmed the existence of double haploids, further indicating that the induction process was caused by the loss of specificity of the paternal chromosome. The tetraploid-induced offspring showed infiltration of the induced line gene loci, with heterozygosity and homozygosity. Results indicated that the induced line chromosomes were eliminated during embryonic development, and the maternal haploid chromosomes were synchronously doubled in the embryo. These findings support our hypothesis and lay a theoretical foundation for further localization or cloning of functional genes involved in double haploid induction in rapeseed

Transportation policy toward sustainable tourism development: Province of East Java, Indonesia

At Indonesia of East Java Province has great tourism potential with a development based on tourism that can provide economic growth to East Java province. In trying to maintain the existence of developing tourism and government of transportation policy through various tourist destinations and new infrastructure completeness. With the rapid development of tourism, making tourism sub-sector contributes greatly to the local income government. So, the purpose of this research is to identify the result of the analysis of tourism policy and transportation policy. In this study, The research would like to discuss how big the role of transportation in supporting tourism activities and increasing the growth of tourism in East Java along with the opportunities, supporting factors, and obstacles in increasing the growth of tourism. In the identification, it is found that transportation plays a big role in the growth of tourism that also affects the economic growth of the surrounding communities and the area so that poverty declines. The method used in this study is a descriptive statistical analysis by considering qualitative aspects as quantitative descriptors of the data obtained

Why do citizens use e-tax system? Extending the technology continuance theory

Among the various online services provided by the government, e-tax system is one of the commonly used e-government platforms, which offers significant benefits to government and citizens by reducing costs, eliminate human errors, and reduce the turnaround time for processing income tax returns. Despite these plausible benefits, some reservations have been articulated regarding the continuance usage intention of e-tax system. Thus, we investigate the most critical factors of e-tax continuance usage in this paper. We developed an integrated theoretical model based on the technology continuance theory (TCT) extended with social influence and perceived risk. The proposed conceptual model was empirically validated with data collected from a sample of 345 e-tax service users in Bangladesh. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed to analyze the collected data. The study findings suggest that user satisfaction, perceived usefulness, and attitude have a direct impact on continuance usage intention where confirmation, ease of use and social influence have indirect influence on continuance usage intention of e-tax system. This paper discusses some contributions to theory and practice based on our finding

Magnetostrictive Properties of the Grain-Oriented Silicon Steel Sheet under DC-Biased and Multisinusoidal Magnetizations

As an intrinsic property, elasticity of soft material is affected significantly by the externally applied alternating magnetic field. Magnetostrictive properties of the grain-oriented (GO) silicon steel under DC-biased and multisinusoidal magnetizations are measured by using a laser-based measuring system. Magnetostriction curves of the GO silicon steel sheet under different magnetizations are obtained and the influence of frequency and DC bias on the magnetostrictive property is observed and analyzed based on the measured data. In addition, the spectrum of magnetostriction under harmonic magnetization is obtained, and the acoustic noise level of the GO silicon steel sheet represented by the A-weighted decibel value caused by magnetostriction is measured under DC-biased and multisinusoidal magnetizations. The measurement results are applied to the simulation of the three-limb laminated core model, and the effects of DC bias and harmonics on magnetic flux density and displacement are analyzed

Integrative analysis revealed the role of glucagon-like peptide-2 in improving experimental colitis in mice by inhibiting inflammatory pathways, regulating glucose metabolism, and modulating gut microbiota

IntroductionUlcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease characterized by recurrent and remitting inflammation of the mucosa of the colon and rectum, the incidence of which is on the rise. Glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) is a newly discovered neurotrophic factor, but its efficacy and mechanism of action in UC remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the protective effects and potential targets of GLP-2 on dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced UC in mice through integrative analysis.MethodsThe effects of GLP-2 on UC were assessed by calculating the disease activity index, colonic mucosal damage index, and pathological histological scores. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunohistochemistry were used to detect the expression of GLP-2, nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (STAT3). The 16SrRNA gene was used to detect changes in gut microbiota in mouse colonic tissues, and oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) blood glucose levels were used to analyze the differences in flora.ResultsThe results showed that GLP-2 could reduce the inflammation of UC mice, which may be achieved by inhibiting the potential targets of NF-κB, and Janus kinase (JAK)/STAT3 inflammatory pathways, regulating sugar metabolism, increasing dominant species, and improving microbial diversity.DiscussionThis study provides new insight into the potential of GLP-2 for achieving more ideal UC treatment goals in future