Multiple Styles Research Articles

Workhorse or Trojan Horse? The Alternative Risk Premium Conundrum in Multi-Asset Portfolios

Diversified alternative risk premium (ARP) portfolios seek to generate absolute returns using a broad range of systematic trading strategies incorporating multiple investment styles covering all the major asset classes. Against a backdrop of low developed market bond yields and fully valued equities, ARP offered a reasonably priced combination of low correlation with traditional asset classes, attractive expected Sharpe ratio, and reasonable liquidity. Following a period of rapid adoption, disappointing performance over the 2018–2020 period has produced considerable soul searching regarding the role of ARP in institutional portfolios. Should these strategies remain a candidate for multi-asset portfolios, or is the experience of the past years a death knell regarding their usefulness? To examine this very topical issue, in this article, the authors use a unique array of benchmarks leveraging a proprietary database of 2,000 tradable bank indexes. They evaluate whether recent returns are consistent with long-term expectations. In the process, they consider the extent to which unique environmental headwinds and a lack of true breadth across ARP strategies contributed to this outcome.

Innovation and Integration of Technology Livelihood Education (TLE): A Transition to Educational System in the 22nd Century

The study aims to identify the innovation and integration of Technology Livelihood Education (TLE) as a transition of the educational system in the 22nd century in the area of students’ engagement and retain information, multiple learning styles and accommodation, encouragement and collaboration, instant feedback for teachers, and prepares students learners in their future and to explore on how does innovation and integration contribute to the Technology Livelihood Education (TLE) as a transition to the educational system in the 22nd century among the respondents. Stratified random sampling is utilized in the study where descriptive quantitative is the research methods and designed for the conduct of the study. The study comprised seventy-eight (78) respondents only from the selected private and public school teachers. Results reveal that students engagement and retain information shows to motivate students to feel comfortable in the classroom and participate in the learning activities worth for the educational goal in TLE, multiple learning styles and accommodation shows to attempt to fit the students’ approach in the effectiveness of teaching and learning, and to encourage active learning conditions in accommodating the learning and multiple styles in the delivery of the TLE, encouragement and collaboration shows to bring the technology of teaching in the classroom that leads to progress and greater collaboration in the educational system in TLE, instant feedback for teachers shows feedback as an efficient and timely method for the better progress and improvement of TLE students’ meaningful and productive learning, and preparing students learners in their future shows to focus as they begin their life after their graduation and apply the principles of TLE among them, and to help them to prepare their career wherever they go in life and path in the ability to balance their knowledge as individuals. Findings show that there is a significant correlation between the i

Predicting students' learning styles using regression techniques

Traditional learning systems have responded quickly to the COVID pandemic and moved to online or distance learning. Online learning requires a personalization method because the interaction between learners and instructors is minimal, and learners have a specific learning method that works best for them. One of the personalization methods is detecting the learners' learning style. To detect learning styles, several works have been proposed using classification techniques. However, the current detection models become ineffective when learners have no dominant style or a mix of learning styles. Thus, the objective of this study is twofold. Firstly, constructing a prediction model based on regression analysis provides a probabilistic approach for inferring the preferred learning style. Secondly, comparing regression models and classification models for detecting learning style. To ground our conceptual model, a set of machine learning algorithms have been implemented based on a dataset collected from a sample of 72 students using visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic (VARK's) inventory questionnaire. Results show that regression techniques are more accurate and representative for real-world scenarios than classification algorithms, where students might have multiple learning styles but with different probabilities. We believe that this research will help educational institutes to engage learning styles in the teaching process.

An Edge Filter Based Approach of Neural Style Transfer to the Image Stylization

Transferring artistic styles onto any image or photograph has become popular in industry and academia in recent years. The use of neural style transfer (NST) for image style transfer is getting more popular. Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) based style transfer provides a new edge and life to the images, videos, and games. The re-rendering procedure of the content of one image with the style of another using various models and approaches is widely used for image style transfer. However, there are many drawbacks, including image quality, enormous loss, unrealistic artefacts, and the style of localized regions being less compared to the desired artistic style. For the reason that transfer technique fails to capture detailed, miniature textures and keep the true artwork’s texture scales. We propose a multimodal CNN that stylizes hierarchically with several losses of increasing sizes while considering faithful representations of both colour and luminance channels. We may transfer not only large-scale, evident style cues but also subtle, exquisite ones by effectively handling style and texture cues at different sizes using various modalities. Our approach providing aesthetically pleasing results and is more comparable to multiple desirable creative styles using colour and texture cues at different scales.

Public Health Perspective of Primary Palliative Care: A Review through the Lenses of General Practitioners.

The rising trend of chronic life-threatening illnesses is accompanied by an exponential increase in serious health-related suffering. Palliative care is known to ameliorate physical and psychosocial suffering and restore quality of life. However, the contemporary challenges of palliative care delivery, such as changing demographics, social isolation, inequity in service delivery, and professionalisation of dying, have prompted many to adopt a public health approach to palliative care delivery. A more decentralised approach in which palliative care is integrated into primary care will ensure that the care is available locally to those who need it and at a cost that they can afford. General practitioners (GPs) play a pivotal role in providing primary palliative care in the community. They ensure that care is provided in alignment with patients’ and their families’ wishes along the trajectory of the life-threatening illness and at the patient’s preferred place. GPs use an interdisciplinary approach by collaborating with specialist palliative care teams and other healthcare professionals. However, they face challenges in providing end-of-life care in the community, which include identification of patients in need of palliative care, interpersonal communication, addressing patients’ and caregivers’ needs, clarity in roles and responsibilities between GPs and specialist palliative care teams, coordination of service with specialists and lack of confidence in providing palliative care in view of deficiencies in knowledge and skills in palliative care. Multiple training formats and learning styles for GPs in end-of-life care have been explored across studies. The research has yielded mixed results in terms of physician performance and patient outcomes. This calls for more research on GPs’ views on end-of-life care learning preferences, as this might inform policy and practice and facilitate future training programs in end-of-life care.

The Impact of Middle and Senior Leadership Styles on Employee Performance -- Evidence From Chinese Enterprises

The Impact of Middle and Senior Leadership Styles on Employee Performance -- Evidence From Chinese Enterprises

Relationship of Organizational Behavior and Students’ Emotional Quotient

This study focused on the relationship of organizational behavior of United Evangelical Christian School (UECS), Sta. Cruz, Laguna, and students? emotional quotient. It also includes assessment of students? multiple intelligences and learning styles as moderating variables. In going on with the study, the researcher made use of descriptive-survey design. Nineteen teaching and non-teaching faculty participated in the organizational behavior survey, while 134 students from grade 4 to 4th year became the subject of emotional quotient (EQ), multiple intelligences (MI) and learning styles (LS) assessment test. For organizational behavior, EQ, MI and LS, simple mean and percentage were used to answer the specific problems posed at the beginning of the study. On the other hand, t-test was used to know the relationship of organizational behavior to each of the five dimensions emotional quotient, namely: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. It was found out that UECS management, faculty and employee prefer collegial mode, more than supportive, autocratic and custodial mode of organizational behavior, as evidenced by their average rating of 3.89 (frequent). In terms of emotional quotient, 64.18% of the students already have ?self-awareness? competency, 56.72% already have ?self-regulation? competency, 53.73% already have ?motivation? competency, 52.99% already have ?empathy? competency, and 63,43% already have ?social skills? competency. In terms of multiple intelligences, 41.04% of the students are inclined in linguistics, 19.40% of the students have kinesthetic ability, 24.63% are inclined with intrapersonal relationship, 39.55% are inclined in mathematical, 31.34% are inclined in musically, 50.75% are naturalists, 29.85%have spatial ability, and 37.31% are inclined with interpersonal relationship. In terms of learning styles, 103 out of 134 students (76.87%) are left-brain hemisphere oriented, while 31 out of 134 (23.13%) of the students are right-brain hemisphere oriented. Using statistical test, it was found out that organizational behavior has significant relationship to each of the five dimensions of emotional quotient. Because of this, this paper recommends that UECS management, faculty and employees maintain their team concept in building management-employee partnership for it will boost up the development of emotional quotient of the students.

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated instruction (DI) improves student performance and student satisfaction especially when preliminary instructor training is provided. However, the DI literature is overwhelming, excessively challenging many instructors to create a DI for multiple learning styles. This paper employs a transdisciplinary approach to address this gap between theory and challenging operational implementation. #1) The discipline of architecture introduced the approach of universal design, advocating that new buildings be initially built to allow universal access; this contrasts with the prior method of attempting to comply with regulations after building completion, which is often costly and wasteful. #2) The discipline of neuro-psychology identifies higher cognitive brain function with (performance) executive function which in turn is simply implemented using a multiple-modality approach. This suggests that pedagogic emphasis should be given to initial universal instruction addressing several modalities in contrast to one current DI approach requiring a costly continual monitoring and evaluation of individual student learning styles. This multiple modality approach, derived from neuropsychology is consistent with a wide variety of learning theories. #3) The discipline of industrial psychology emphasizes goal-setting, the skillful breaking up of a complex task into component tasks each of which is clearly defined, achievable timely, but challenging. #4) Goal setting coupled with the self-efficacy approach introduced by the discipline of social psychology, with an emphasis on perceptions of the self as a key motivating factor in learning, advocate that use of software technology, with numerically differentiated difficulty levels, allowing each student to both self-assess and self-improve with their own actions (self-regulation) The transdisciplinary approach advocates numerous innovations for DI which it is hoped that other researchers and instructors will pursue.

Deep Learning in Computer Real-time Graphics and Image Using the Visual Effects of Non-photorealistic Rendering of Ink Painting

This study is to explore the effect of deep learning algorithms applied to the non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) of ink painting. The powerful processing capabilities of NPR technology and convolutional neural networks (CNN) in computer vision are analyzed. Aiming at the features of ink texture images, a new sample-based ink texture synthesis method is proposed. The feature representation of ink texture is calculated using the CNN model, and then an ink texture with the same feature representation is generated on a random image. In addition, a synthesis method of ink painting picture is proposed based on the CNN. The results show that the ink texture generated by the ink texture synthesis algorithm is very good, and the Visual Geometry Group Network (VGG-Net) model shows the best generation effect. For images generated by high-level networks lack a lot of pixel information, but retain the main feature information of the image. When the learning rate is 10, the effect of the ink image synthesized based on the content image is slightly worse; and the image generated by the fusion of multiple styles confirms the feasibility of synthesizing ink images of different "sizes and styles". Therefore, this ink image synthesized on the basis of the CNN model shows a better effect, which extends the possibility of computer creation of richer ink painting works.

Developmentally appropriate pedagogies and training needs among Senior High School teachers in the new normal: a comparative study

In-service training programs in any organization enable employees to carry out their responsibilities concerning the organizations' standard and effective delivery. In the pandemic, there is an uprising concern among educators on delivering instruction and their readiness to do so. Hence, a descriptive-comparative approach was conducted to investigate senior high school teachers' readiness on developmentally appropriate pedagogies and their training needs. The data was collected using a researcher-developed electronic-based survey instrument thru Google Form among 35 senior high school teachers in Dolores National High School. The data analyses include mean computation in assessing respondents' level of academic competence, the median for readiness on developmentally appropriate pedagogies and training needs, and non-parametric Mann Whitney U-test and Kruskal Wallis H-test on the significant difference of teacher readiness when compared according to their academic competence indicators. Findings revealed that the majority of the senior high school teachers possessed low academic competence, were exposed to developmentally appropriate pedagogies on teaching methods and modes of assessment and needed immediate training in managing learners with multiple intelligences and learning styles and provided instruction via electronic or distance learning mode. Also, results revealed a significant gap in the respondents' exposure to developmentally appropriate teaching methods compared to their training acquired (p = .002). Hence, the researcher recommends reviewing schools' in-service training and directing them in preparing senior high school teachers to deliver new-normal-based education.

The compatibility of multiple leadership styles in responding to a complex crisis: leading a health service COVID-19 response

PurposeThe health service response to COVID-19 provided a unique opportunity to build our understanding of the leadership styles in use in managing a crisis event. Existing literature emphasises command and control leadership; however, there has been less emphasis on relational approaches and the behaviours necessary to ensure the agility of the response and minimise the risk of relational disturbances. The purpose of this paper is to understand leadership styles in use, as part of a health service response to COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on data from semi-structured interviews with 27 executives and senior leaders from a tertiary health service in Australia. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. Notes and examples were coded according to deductively derived criteria around leadership styles and competencies from the literature, while remaining open to emergent themes.FindingsHealth system leaders described examples of both command and control and relational leadership behaviours. This dually provided the discipline (command and control) and agility (relational) required of the crisis response. While some leaders experienced discomfort in enacting these dual behaviours, this discomfort related to discordance with leadership preferences rather than conflict between the styles. Both leadership approaches were considered necessary to effectively manage the health system response.Originality/valueCrisis management literature has typically focused on defining and measuring the effectiveness of behaviours reflective of a command and control leadership response. Very few studies have considered the relational aspects of crisis management, nor the dual approaches of command and control, and relational leadership.

Celebrating a Heterogeneous Community: The Ebibi Festival of the Epe People

The Ijebu people and their rituals have been the subject of several scholarly studies, but existing work concentrates on the larger and more prominent Ijebu communities. Little attention has been paid to the more obscure communities, particularly those in the riverine areas. This article examines the coastal community of Epe, divided into an Ijebu and a Lagos "town," through a study of the Ijebu Ebibi festival. It pays attention to the origin and plural nature of the community, to participation in the various communal events, and it offers a comparison between the coastal and upland Ijebu communities. Other areas of focus include the aesthetics and didacticism of oral performances, moral codes and communal self-reliance. The article concludes that Ebibi is a festival that delineates community both through bringing together multiple performances, styles, and social groups in Ijebu Epe, by highlighting differences between different Ijebu communities that celebrate Ebibi, and by confirming the boundary between Ijebu and Lagos Epe.

韓愈《送窮文》及其傳衍體式與抒寫意義探析

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.
 “送窮鬼”是古代新年歲俗，以求袪癘禳災，迎富納吉。送窮成型於六朝，唐宋蔚爲風氣，流傳至今。唐憲宗元和六年，韓愈首創《送窮文》，除記録當時儀式，進而與窮鬼問對，抒情寫志，歷代續衍不絶。令人好奇的是，文人爲何一再摹寫與重述？書寫樣態具有哪些承傳與嬗變？至今未獲學界關注。本文以《送窮文》爲依據，上下求索。因韓愈仿自《逐貧賦》，首要分析揚雄寫作心態與辭賦手法，爲韓文立下基調，其次，《送窮文》在韓集中歸入“雜文”，體式介於數種文體之間，乃借鑒賦體、祝文與唐代小説，完成了以袪癘爲基型的傳衍體式。由此進入本文重心，後世仿效，常見作者身分處境與心聲，自傳性强，故以創作心態爲視角，發現抒寫類型有四：一是炫才，展示異代文人的競寫現象；二是娱情，受揚、韓二家影響，具有抒放自我的自娱需求；三是淑世，部分賡續文章跳脱“悲己”情調，兼懷天下，格局宏大；四是傳世，看似是仕途失敗者，卻從道德倫理獲得補償，重獲定位與自我認同，盼能託言垂後。探索韓愈《送窮文》文章傳衍，可以檢視書寫創變，發現遺落已久的書寫譜系。相關續衍不應視爲疊床架屋，而是不得不作，體現多元敘事心態，而且集體證明韓愈《送窮文》藴藏的修辭力量與存在價值。
 The ritual of “sending off ghosts of poverty” was a New Year custom in ancient China: a means to ward off plagues and disasters, and pray for good health and luck. The ritual emerged during the Six Dynasties era, became popular in Tang-Song times, and has been passed down to the present. In the sixth year of the Yuanhe reign-period of the Tang (811) , Han Yu (768 一 824) wrote an essay entitled “Sending off Poverty,” the first such writing that records the ritual of the time. It initiated a tradition of writing conversations with poor ghosts. One feels curious to ask why authors of later times rewrote and retold this piece of work over and over again. In these activities，what remained intact and what changed from the original writing style? These questions have hitherto remained unheeded in relevant scholarship. Therefore, this article takes Han's “Sending off the Ghosts of Poverty” as the basis for investigation. As the piece was an imitation of Yang Xiong's (58 BC - 18 AD) “Rhapsody on Expelling Poverty,” our first task is to analyze Yang's motives behind this work as well as his use of rhetoric, to see in what ways this piece set a foundation for Han Yu's emulation. Secondly, Han's piece is classified under “ miscellaneous essays” in his collected works. Its form and structure reveal a combination of multiple literary styles, and it achieved a synthesis of prose, prayers, and novels of the Tang. Since these works deal mostly with the position, situation, and thoughts of their authors, they are full of autobiographic elements. Four categories are observed according to the motives behind creation. The first is flaunting one's literary talents. It demonstrates a competition with authors of previous times. The second is entertaining. Influenced by Yang Xiong and Han Yu, these writers developed self-entertaining as a means to express their inner feelings. The third is meliorism. Some authors set themselves free from self-sympathy and instead set out to care about the world, and thus achieved a grandiose style. The fourth is transmission of learning to later generations. This seems to result from the authors' failed career path. By instead seeking remedy from achievements in noble ethics and morality, they thereby regain their position and self-recognition, hoping to pass down their words to later generations through literary works. The study of this tradition formed around Han Yu's “Sending off Poverty” shall show the changes of writing in every era and discover the long-lost lineage of this writing tradition. These kinds of imitations should not be considered redundant but a corollary. They reflect diverse narrative psychological statuses, which collectively attest to the rhetoric power and enduring value of Han Yu's “Sending off Poverty.”

The art of dialogueor „How the Bessarabian playwrights of the 1990s discussed with Plato

The inner mobility of the theater, doubled by the fast pace of life under the wave of postmodernity at the end of the twentieth century, conditioned not only the re-definition of a new theatrical language, but also the re-writing of dialogic forms specific to theatrical art. Or, in the texts of Constantin Cheianu, Val Butnaru, Nicolae Negru, Mircea V. Ciobanu, Dumitru Crudu, Irina Nechit, Maria Șleahtițchi and Nicolae Leahu, dialogue does not only have the classic role of triggering and motivating the action. The (sub)layers of conflict dialogues and „deaf dialogues”, parallel and echo dialogues, seemingly „absurd” association dialogues and „thesis-antithesis” dialogues, the dialogue monologues and the monologue dialogues evoke the alternation of linguistic registers and the play of languages. Completing and continuing the openness to multiple textual styles, the language of dialogues triggers and finalizes the communicative process between written and spoken, but also between text-show-audience. The „palpation” of the types of dialogues and the „immersion” in the mise en abysses of language give us the revelation of deciphering the symbols and meanings of contemporary national and universal drama and theater.

Comparative Morphology and Taxonomic Study of Chlorophytum sabiense And Two Other Species in the Genus Chlorophytum Ker-Gawl

Chlorophytum sabiense Omok. (a newly identified species in the family Asparagaceae) is unique, having multiple styles emerging from fused ovaries. This specialized character may be overlooked in conjuring up archetype for the genus Chlorophytum, since the genus is characterized by single and simple style. Comparative morphology and taxonomic study of Chlorophytum sabiense and two other species in the genus (Chlorophytum macrophyllum and C. stenopetalum) was carried out to appraise level of relatedness of Chlorophytum. sabiense and these existing members. Distribution of the three species is sympatric in the North Central part of Nigeria. Chlorophytum sabiense may be confused with either of the two species because of the attributes they have in common. Samples collected were raised in a garden and closely observed for duration of three years. Data collected from morphological studies were analyzed statistically. The three species show similarity in most of the vegetative characters studied, however Chlorophytum sabiense is distinguished from the two others having; multiple styles, smaller fruit size and shorter length of pistil relative to the stamen. Exceptional characteristics exhibited by Chlorophytum sabiense makes it stand out among species in the genus, while its close resemblance with its allies accounts for reason why it had escaped recognition for a long time.

Uraninite chemistry of the Central Mineral Belt, Labrador, Canada: Application of grain-scale unsupervised machine-learning

The Central Mineral Belt (CMB) in Labrador hosts several enigmatic U ± base ± precious metal showings, prospects, and deposits. Multiple mineralization styles occur within different host rocks, which has led to a variety of ore system models to be proposed. Here, unsupervised machine-learning (principal component (PCA) and targeted cluster analyses) applied to quantitative LA-ICP-MS trace element maps of uraninite were used to understand genesis the U systems in the CMB.Trace element mapping, PCA and cluster analysis indicate that: i) the largest source of data variance in uraninite from the occurrences is related to Th, REE, Zr, Hf, As, V and Ba contents, and ii) there are distinct uraninite compositions at the Two-Time deposit, Near Miss and Anomaly No. 7 mineral occurrences, not recognized from petrographic studies or major element chemistry.Trace element chemistry indicates that uraninite precipitated from fluids under (1) high-temperature magmatic and/or metasomatic conditions (> 350 °C; Dandy prospect; U/Th = 107 and ΣREE = 0.9 wt%), (2) low-temperature (< 350 °C) and locally oxidizing hydrothermal vein-type environments (e.g., Two-Time and Anomaly No. 7; U/Th ≥104 and ΣREE ≤0.1 to 3.6 wt%), and (3) complex environments were precursor uraninite was overprinted by presumably lower temperature hydrothermal fluids (e.g., Jacques Lake and Nash deposits; U/Th = 102 to 105 and ΣREE ≤0.1 to 1.4 wt%). Hydrothermal alteration caused LREE enrichment and/or increased U/Th ratios of the primary uraninite and locally, U remobilization into microfractures. Recognizing high- and low-temperature uraninite from the same mineral occurrences provides new evidence for multiple stages of hydrothermal fluid influx. Therefore, our results further support previous studies indicating significant variation in the trace element contents of uraninite due to hydrothermal alteration.In addition to the genetic constraints, PCA results and normalized REE patterns also show that the CMB uraninites have distinct geochemical signatures. Combining petrographic studies, trace element mapping, and unsupervised machine-learning unravelled cryptic chemical variations in key minerals that can guide future mineral exploration in the district. In the CMB, these chemical signatures provide insights on the evolution of U-rich fluids, in particular the presence of multiple fluid sources that evolved through a complex tectono-magmatic history.

Interactive Artistic Multi-style Transfer

Artistic style transfer is to render an image in the style of another image, which is a challenge problem in both image processing and arts. Deep neural networks are adopted to artistic style transfer and achieve remarkable success, such as AdaIN (adaptive instance normalization), WCT (whitening and coloring transforms), MST (multimodal style transfer), and SEMST (structure-emphasized multimodal style transfer). These algorithms modify the content image as a whole using only one style and one algorithm, which is easy to cause the foreground and background to be blurred together. In this paper, an iterative artistic multi-style transfer system is built to edit the image with multiple styles by flexible user interaction. First, a subjective evaluation experiment with art professionals is conducted to build an open evaluation framework for style transfer, including the universal evaluation questions and personalized answers for ten typical artistic styles. Then, we propose the interactive artistic multi-style transfer system, in which an interactive image crop tool is designed to cut a content image into several parts. For each part, users select a style image and an algorithm from AdaIN, WCT, MST, and SEMST by referring to the characteristics of styles and algorithms summarized by the evaluation experiments. To obtain richer results, the system provides a semantic-based parameter adjustment mode and the function of preserving colors of content image. Finally, case studies show the effectiveness and flexibility of the system.

The exposures and health effects of benzene, toluene and naphthalene for Chinese chefs in multiple cooking styles of kitchens.

Commercial cooking has higher intensity and more severe instantaneous cooking pollution from volatile organic chemicals compared to home cooking, making health risk assessment of occupational exposure for chefs a priority. In this study, chefs from three cooking styles of kitchens, including steaming, frying, and grilling, were selected to investigate the external and internal exposures, health risks and effects of several typical aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene and naphthalene). Naphthalene was found to be the most concentrated contaminant in air samples among the different kitchens, while benzene had the lowest concentration. The concentration of toluene in frying kitchens was significantly higher than that in steaming kitchens. Air concentrations of toluene in frying kitchens, as well as benzene concentrations in grilling kitchens exceeded the standard level according to indoor air quality standard (GB/T18883-2002). Regarding the metabolites of pollutants in urine, the content of S-benzylmercapturic acids (S-BMA) for frying chefs was significantly higher than that for other cooking styles of chefs, which was consistent with the relatively higher air concentrations of toluene. There was a good correlation between internal and external exposure of the pollutants. The level of oxidative stress was influenced by 2-hydroxynaphthalene (2-OHN) and S-BMA, indicating the potential health risks of these occupational exposed chefs. This study indicates the need to improve the monitoring of typical aromatic hydrocarbons, as well as to investigate their potential health effects in large-scale groups, and improve the ventilation in kitchens.

Mentoring Guides for U.S. College Faculty and Administrators in Culturally Diverse Settings

The purpose of this paper is to provide answers to the following research questions: Is effective mentoring a function of culture, learning or hereditary, birth/ nature? Or are people born with certain traits that make them more effective or better mentors than others or is it based on learning or socialization/ nurture?; Is cross gender or cross-racial more effective than mentoring based on demographic similarities characteristics? Are there some types or techniques or practices of mentoring that are more appropriate or more suitable to some demographic groups or populations – women, blacks and other racial minorities etc. than others? This paper defines mentoring, discusses competing schools/ theories of mentorship, as well as typologies of mentoring approaches. The paper concludes that multiple/ group mentoring approach is indicative of the new trend in the business; and that while each mentoring technique or model supplements or complements the other, multiple mentoring styles or systems tend to present the best possible path to achieving efficiency and effectiveness. Finally, it recommends appropriate mentoring strategies and techniques to improve mentoring that include programs that take into account demographic similarities between mentors and protégés, gender and race-based norms, stereotypes and discrimination, as well as cultural diversity.

Learning History Through Augmented Reality

History has been adapted as a compulsory subject since 1931 alongside math and science. However, learning history in Indonesia could be a challenge since Indonesia placed in the second lowest of literature behaviour. For the past decades, educators have been implementing the term of in class edutainment and gamification. One of the forms of edutainment could be accomplished by Augmented Reality. This project is conducted to provide an alternative learning tool in history learning, especially for elementary school students who tend to have a negative paradigm that learning history means reading textbooks. In addition, the function of Augmented Reality will be beneficial to students and teachers in order to support multiple learning styles without losing its substance as it is based on the K13 curriculum