Talking about oneself

Second language instructors often have students talk about their own experiences rather than abstract impersonal topics. Intuitively, such topics seem more likely to encourage student engagement. Unfortunately, virtually no empirical research has examined the effects of personal prompts on spoken output. To address this gap in research, the current study (N = 117) compares the spoken output of Japanese university English students who responded to a personal prompt with students responding to an impersonal prompt. Output was recorded in transcripts and then analyzed using a battery of measures related to complexity, accuracy, and fluency. Findings showed that personalized prompts were associated with greater fluency. Moreover, there was some evidence that impersonal prompts led to output with greater lexical complexity. Rates of accuracy were similar in both groups. Correlational analysis suggested that lexical sophistication was associated with reduced fluency. The conclusion addresses practical implications and avenues for further research.

Credit and Liquidity Risk Assessment of NCC Bank: A Correlational Analysis

Credit risk and default risk are two interchangeable terms. Credit risk arises mainly from the lending, trade finance, leasing, and treasury business. This can be described as a potential loss from a counterparty's failure to perform as per contractual agreement with the bank being financially incapable or unwilling to repay it. Financial incapability arises when the creditor's source of earning becomes volatile. The unwillingness comes from the creditor's tendency to cheat and to make a bulk grain from the fraudulent activities. At a stretch, credit risk for the bank illustrates that the bank's performing loan portion can turn into non-performing ones. And that will decrease the recovery rate of the loan extended, and, as a result, the bank will face trouble providing the required interest amount by the depositors. Gradually the bank will become insolvent and maybe some days a bankrupt one.

Analysing the Correlation between Convolutional Filter Sizes and Classification Accuracy Using MNIST

Handwriting recognition is the process of automatically converting handwritten text into electronic text (letter codes) usable by a computer. The increase in technology reliance during an international pandemic caused by COVID-19 has showcased the importance of ensuring the information stored and digitised is done accurately and efficiently. Interpreting handwriting remains complex for both humans and computers due to the various styles and skewed characters. In this study, we conducted a correlational analysis on the association between filter sizes and the convolutional neural networks (CNN’s) classification accuracy. The testing has been conducted from the publicly available MNIST database of handwritten digits (LeCun and Cortes, 2010). The dataset consists of a training set (N=60,000) and a testing set (N=10,000). Using ANOVA, our results indicate a strong correlation (.000,P≤0.05) between filter size and classification accuracy. However, this significance is only present when increasing the filter size from 1x1 to 2x2. Larger filter sizes were insignificant therefore, a filter size above 2x2 cannot be recommended.

Arginine-Vasopressin Expressing Neurons in the Murine Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Exhibit a Circadian Rhythm in Network Coherence in vivo

The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) is composed of functionally distinct sub-populations of GABAergic neurons such as vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)-, arginine vasopressin (AVP)-, gastrin releasing peptide (GRP)-, and neuromedin S (NMS)-expressing neurons which form a neural network responsible for synchronizing most physiological and behavioral circadian rhythms in mammals. To date, little is known regarding which aspects of SCN rhythmicity are generated by individual SCN neurons or neuronal sub-populations and which aspects result from neuronal interaction within a network. In this study, we address this question utilizing in vivo miniaturized microscopy to measure fluorescent GCaMP-mediated calcium dynamics in AVP neurons in the intact SCN of awake, behaving mice. This approach permits analysis of rhythms of single cells, populations, and correlational analysis among groups of AVP neurons in a field of view across the circadian and diurnal day and night. We report that AVP neurons in the murine SCN exhibit a periodic oscillatory increase in calcium of approximately 14 seconds across the day and night, in both constant darkness and under a 12:12 light-dark (LD) cycle. Using in vivo optogentically-targeted single unit activity recording, we demonstrated that these slow calcium waves are likely the result of burst-firing characteristic of AVP neurons previously reported for other brain regions. Rhythmicity analysis of several fluorescence measures suggests that individual AVP neurons exhibit unstable and stochastic rhythms, with approximately 30% of the neurons rhythmic during any given day across lighting conditions, and weak or absent rhythmicity at the population level. Network-level cross-correlational analysis revealed that coherence among neuron pairs also exhibited stochastic rhythms with about 25% of pairs rhythmic at any time. Notably, this analysis revealed a stronger rhythm at the population level than was observed in single cell analysis. The peak time of maximal coherence among AVP neuronal pairs occurs between CT/ZT 6 and 9, coinciding with the timing of maximal neuronal activity with the SCN as a whole. These results are the first to demonstrate robust circadian variation in the coordination between apparently weakly rhythmic or arrhythmic neurons suggesting that, for AVP neurons, interactions between neurons in the SCN are more influential than individual or single subpopulation activity in the regulation of mammalian circadian rhythms.

Faktor Sikap Ibu terhadapKelengkapan Imunisasi Lanjutan pada Anak

Introduction: Immunization is one tool that parents may use to track their child's growth and development. Immunization is a method of developing immunity against infectious illnesses and disorders that may result in disability or death. Objective: The purpose of this study was to ascertain the influence of maternal attitudes on the completion of advanced vaccination in infants. Method: The cross-sectional correlational analysis was utilized in this research. Purposive sampling was used in this research, with 58 samples collected. The data were gathered via KIA books and questionnaires, with the Spearman Rank test used for statistical analysis. Results: The research discovered that the majority of respondents (72.4 percent) had received comprehensive basic vaccination and that the majority of respondents (56.9 percent) had a favorable opinion toward immunization. The findings of the Spearman Rank test give a p-value of 0.000. (0.05). Conclusion: It is well established that the majority of moms have a positive attitude about immunizing their children. Conclusion: The results indicate that the majority of responders gave comprehensive vaccinations. The findings indicated that there was a correlation between the mother's attitude and the completion of children's basic vaccination.

Bureaucratic and humanistic management styles and organizational citizenship behavior

This study aimed to determine the effect of bureaucratic and humanistic management styles of administrators on the organizational citizenship behaviours of employees. To deepen the study, literature was reviewed and theories were established. The study used a descriptive correlational research design and used questionnaires to gather the data. The study found that the bureaucratic management style is higher than the humanistic management style. The higher the bureaucratic management style, the lower the humanistic management style becomes. Based on the correlational analysis, it found that management styles of administrators correlate to the organizational citizenship behaviours of employees. Therefore, the hypothesis of the study is accepted.

PENGARUH LINGKUNGAN KERJA DAN MOTIVASI TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN BAGIAN PRODUKSI DI PT. POLYPLEX FILMS INDONESIA

This study aims to determine how much influence the work environment and motivation have on the performance of employees in the production department at the manufacturing company PT. Polyplex Films Indonesia. This research uses descriptive quantitative method with correlational analysis. The size of the population and the sample are 58 employees of the production division, using a saturated sample, namely all existing employees. The results of testing the T hypothesis, the work environment has no effect on employee performance, obtained a T value (Tcount 1.657 < Ttable 2.00404), hypothesis 2 that motivation has a positive effect on employee performance obtained the t-value (t count 2.787 > t table 2.00404). Simultaneously the work environment and motivation on employee performance is shown by the value of Fcount of 14.511 > Ftable 3.16. Partially the work environment has no effect on employee performance, but simultaneously the work environment and motivation affect employee performance with a contribution of 34.5%