Service Science Research Articles

Geospatial visualization of indicators for the dynamics of innovation in an educational institution applying clustering techniques

The activities of science, technology, and innovation are related to the execution of actions involving research, experimental development, support for education and training, provision of scientific and technological services, administration, and other management activities. In this context, the SENNOVA Research System of Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje of Colombia dedicates human and technological resources to contribute to the country’s economic and social growth, looking to answer the need to develop Colombia’s productive sector. In turn, these contributions also generate social dynamics in which the activity at the institutional level can be represented as a kind of the complex systems studied by nonlinear Physics. These complex dynamics are suitable for visualization from the stochastic processes that lead to statistical distributions typical of complex systems. A data analytics model for the measurement and visualization of innovation indicators is being developed in the Antioquia regional branch of Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje, where the distinct categories of science, technology, and innovation activities are graphically identified to facilitate the analysis of the results obtained from both descriptive statistics and data science. From the perspective of complex systems for representing these institutional social dynamics, clustering processes with techniques such as K-means grouping were implemented. Potential distributions determined by the conglomerates of management processes and productivity of the projects executed in the analyzed institution over a given period are identified as innovation indicators and subsequently classified using principal component analysis. Python Folium was used as a visualization tool to graphically generate comparisons between the different Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje centers of the Antioquia regional branch in each period. The results show greater ease of interpretation and analysis of statistical results and data analytics in measuring indicators of science, technology, and innovation activities through the techniques employed in comparison with traditional data visualization tools.

Evaluation of consultation contents directed from a university training and research hospital to an oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the conditions and indications in which a research and training hospital directs outpatient and inpatient consultations to an oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic and to evaluate the expectations of physicians in the treatment and management of various conditions. Methodology: The outpatient and inpatient consultations directed from Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University’s clinics and internal and surgical medical sciences services to the same institution’s Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic between January 2013 and January 2022 were included. The patient characteristics, the aims of and responses to the consultations, and the applied interventions were recorded and classified. The quantitative data were analyzed with a t-test, and the classified data were analyzed with cross-tables and chi-square tests. P values below 0.05 were considered significant. Results: The medical records and consultation notes of 178 patients (92 males, 86 females) were evaluated. Of the consultations referred, 97 were requested from Forensic Medicine, 23 from Oncology, 11 from Neonatology, 8 from Otorhinolaryngology, 6 from Orthopedics, 6 from Neurology and Neurosurgery, 5 from Pediatrics, 4 from Emergency Medicine, and 18 from other departments. When the contents of the consultation were examined, it was observed that most of them were requested for age determination, post-assault examination, and dental abscesses. Conclusion: The present study indicates that an oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic is in close interaction with many medical branches and disciplines, especially forensic medicine, oncology, otorhinolaryngology, and neonatology. How to cite this article: Çolak S, Demirsoy MS, Erdil A, Keldal G, Altan A, Akbulut N. Evaluation of consultation contents directed from a university training and research hospital to an oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic. Int Dent Res 2023;13(1):35-43. https://doi.org/10.5577/idr.2023.vol13.no1.6 Linguistic Revision: The English in this manuscript has been checked by at least two professional editors, both native speakers of English.

Research on the effect of agricultural science and technology service supply from the perspective of farmers' differentiation

Comparing the priority order of different agricultural science and technology services adopted by cotton farmers and exploring the influencing factors of agricultural science and technology service adoption by cotton farmers from the perspective of farmer differentiation is significantly influential for high-quality agricultural development. We explore factors influencing the adoption of agricultural science and technology services by a cotton farmer from the perspective of farmer differentiation based on 335 research data in Xinjiang of China. The results show that cotton farmers adopted agricultural science and technology services in the following order: pest control technology, good seed technology, and precision sowing technology. Farm household fragmentation significantly affects the adoption of agricultural technology services by farm households. Gender and satisfaction with agricultural science and technology services were significantly influenced the adoption of agricultural science and technology services by the pure and part-time farmers; the variables of education level, planting area, and the number of household laborer was effected the adoption of agricultural science and technology services by the pure farmer. As such, organizations of agricultural science and technology service should develop personalized services according to the characteristics of cotton farmer endowments, improve the timeliness of agricultural science and technology services, and enhance service quality.

Viable System Model as A Framework for Value Co-Creation Service System Analysis of Technology-based Business Incubator

Bandung Techno Park (BTP) at Telkom University has a crucial role in the technology-based business incubation scheme. From the recruitment process, learning goals, venture capital, commercialization with all impacted to start-ups accomplishment. These observations resulted by using qualitative research methods for one year. Referring to the concept of service systems, it was founded that business incubators in higher education can produce the holistic service system diagnostics to develop the external collaboration between university and industry. These findings are successfully set out by used the Viable System Model (VSM) from service system science approach which is divided into five main functions: (1) Operationalization, (2) Coordination, (3) Monitoring and Control, (4) Intelligence, (5) Policy. The important collaboration of the integrated service system at BTP is framed in a structured concept. Incubator operation supervision focuses on service systems that play a role in four types of management, namely: business innovation and incubation, tenant service and support, marketing, and technology solutions. The findings of the analysis with VSM relate to the role of technology-based business incubators in creating value co-creation from a service science point of view.
 Keywords— Value Co-creation; New Technology-based Firms; Business Incubators; University-industry Collaboration

Impact of COVID-19 on the quantity of visitation to leisure tourism facilities in China: cases of Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao

ABSTRACT Based on mobile positioning big data, this study analyzes the quantity of visitation changes of leisure tourism facilities under the impact of COVID-19, which is a direct way to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the leisure tourism industry. The quantity of visitation to the four types of leisure facilities (scenic spots, shopping services, sports services, science and cultural education services) in the three Chinese cities (Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao) decreased by 63.06% and 44.74% respectively on the Tomb Sweeping Day and the Labor Day in 2020 compared with 2019. The biggest decreasing was in science and cultural education services, followed by scenic spots and sports services, and finally shopping services. The curve of hourly visitations to leisure facilities in 2020 shows a smooth feature, indicating that the public has reduced the risk of pandemic through peak shifting leisure. The analysis of influencing factors shows that the influence of the floor area on visitation is different in different phases. From Tomb Sweeping Day to Labour Day in 2020, the influence of area on leisure behaviour changes from negative to positive. This paper provides a technical framework for assessing the impact of crisis event, and expands the protection motivation theory.

The Lausanne Hospitality Model: a model integrating hospitality into supportive care

PurposeCancer care is undergoing a conceptual shift with the introduction of the principles of patient-centered care to support patients’ individual needs. These needs include those related to hospitality during cancer treatments. This paper aims to provide an extension of the supportive care framework by bringing in the hospitality approach inspired by the hotel industry.MethodThe “Lausanne Hospitality Model,” integrating hospitality into supportive care, was developed through an iterative process, combining expertise in supportive care and health services research, communication, and the hotel industry.ResultsThis conceptual paper integrates hospitality and service sciences into the supportive care framework. The “Lausanne Hospitality Model” offers new insights into the notions of cancer journey, patient experience, services, and practices that may be involved when facilitating hospitality. While most concepts used in the model are based on prior research, they have not been combined previously. The model highlights the place of hospitality in the patient’s experience within cancer services and, by extension, its role in professional practice.ConclusionPractices involved in the delivery of cancer care need to reinforce the importance attributed to hospitality services, as they impact patients’ experiences. By integrating the hospitality perspective into healthcare delivery and supportive care, this paper addresses previously theoretically overlooked aspects that impact patients’ experiences during cancer care.

Putting Meat to the Test: Imaging and Mechanical Testing Used to Understand the Properties of Meat Alternatives and How They Mimic Our Typical Meat Sensory Experience

AbstractAn increasing number of consumers incorporate plant-based products and meat alternatives into their diet. Researchers at Reading Scientific Services Ltd. (RSSL) have performed tensile testing on both chicken and plant-based chicken alternative samples. Using a Linkam MFS stage, the team has assessed the failure point and breaking pattern of each of the samples, to determine which plant-protein product behaved most similarly to the chicken sample. This research offers a path for manufacturers in the meat alternatives industry to better understand the textural differences between chicken and alternative products, and can help inform future new product development for manufacturers looking to expand their product offering.

Climate Induced Migration of Wolof Farmers Into Foni Bondali District, Gambia

Adger, W.N., Kelly, P.M., Winkels, A., Huy, L.Q. and Locke, C. (2002). Migration, remittances, livelihood trajectories, and social resilience. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, Vol. 31 No. 4, p. 358-366. Alagie Bah. (2018). Farmers Awareness and Adaptation to Climate Change in Kaffrine Region of Senegal. German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the West African Science Service Centre in Climate Change and Adapted Land Use Bhatta, G.D., Aggarwal, P.K., Kristjanson, P. and Shrivastava, A.K. (2016). Climatic and non climatic factors influencing changing agricultural practices across different rainfallregimes in South Asia”, Current Science Vol. 110 No. 7, p. 1272. Census of the Gambia (2014). Government of the Gambia, Banjul Chandan Kumar, Jha, Vijaya Gupta, Utpal Chattopadhyay, Binilkumar and Amarayil Sreeraman. (2017). Migration as adaptation strategy to cope with climate change: A study of farmers’ migration in rural India. International Journal of Climate ChangeStrategies and Management. Volume 10:1 Cho Renee. (2021). Climate Migration: An Impending Global Challenge. Columbia ClimateSchool. Climate, Earth and Society. Climate of Foni Bondali District (2022). Ministry of Water Resources, Banjul, Gambia. Conway, D. and Cohen, J.H. (1998). Consequences of migration and remittances for Mexicantransnational communities. Economic Geography, Vol. 74 No. 1, pp. 26-44. Bradatan, C. and Hayhoe, K. (2013). Migration and Climate change in Senegal. Texas Tech University De Haan, A., Brock, K. and Coulibaly, N. (2002). Migration, livelihoods and institutions:contrasting patterns of migration in Mali. Journal of Development Studies. Vol. 38 No. 5, pp. 37-58. De Haas, H. (2010), Migration and development: a theoretical perspective1. The InternationalMigration Review. Vol. 44 No. 1, pp. 227-264. Jha, C.K., Gupta, V., Chattopadhyay, U. and Amarayil Sreeraman, B. (2018). Migration as adaptation strategy to cope with climate change: A study of farmers’ migration in rural India. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management. Vol. 10 No.1, pp. 121-141. Massey, D.S., Arango, J., Hugo, G., Kouaouci, A., Pellegrino, A. and Taylor, J.E. (1993).Theories of international migration: a review and appraisal. Population and Development. Review. Vol. 19 No. 3, pp. 431-466. Oli Brown. (2007). Fighting Climate Change: Human solidarity in a divided world. Human Development Report 2007/2008. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/climate-forced-migration.pdf Science for Environment Policy. (2015). Migration in response to environmental change. European Commission. Thematic Issue 51. Taylor, E.J. (1999). The new economics of labour migration and the role of remittances in the migration Process. International Migration (Geneva, Switzerland). Vol. 37 No. 1, pp. 63-88. Woodruff, C. and Zenteno, R. (2007). Migration networks and microenterprises in Mexico. Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 82 No. 2, pp. 509-528.

The Third Annual US Celebration of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day: A virtual coming together to unify the global palliative care community.

On 3-4 October 2022, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Supportive Care Service and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences hosted the Third Annual United States (US) Celebration of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (WHPCD). The purpose of this article is to reflect on the event within the broader context of the international WHPCD theme: "healing hearts and communities." We describe lessons learned in anticipation of the fourth annual conference to be held on 3-4 October 2023. Description of the third annual event, conference planning team reflection, and attendee evaluation responses. The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance launched WHPCD in 2005 as an annual unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care globally. Since 2020, the conference has attracted an increasing number of attendees from around the world. Two primary aims continue to guide the event: community building and wisdom sharing. Fifty-two interprofessional palliative care experts, advocates, patients, and caregivers provided 13 unique interactive sessions. Four hundred and fifty-eight multidisciplinary registrants from at least 17 countries joined the program. Free registration for colleagues in low- and middle-income countries, students and trainees, and individuals experiencing financial hardship remains a cornerstone of inclusion and equitable access to the event. The US WHPCD celebration provides a virtual platform that offers opportunities for scientific dissemination and collective reflection on hospice and palliative care delivery amid significant local and global changes in clinical practice, research, policy and advocacy, and population health. We remain committed to ensuring an internationally relevant, culturally diverse, and multidisciplinary agenda that will continue to draw increased participation worldwide during future annual events.

The engagement of academic libraries in open science: A systematic review

Open science is reshaping the environment of scholarly communication. In this context, academic libraries are beginning to redefine or expand their functions and role. Using a systematic review and meta-synthesis approach, this study analyses 65 literature related to the engagement of academic libraries in open science. The results show that the existing research mainly focuses on four aspects of open science: open access, research data management, open educational resources, and citizen science. Based on these themes, academic libraries have implemented a range of practical activities, playing the roles of open science service providers, advocates or educators, policy makers, publishers or knowledge producers, etc. At the same time, however, academic libraries are facing a number of challenges caused by inadequate security of internal resources and insufficient support from the external environment.

Habits and Holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology by Ezra Sullivan, O.P

Reviewed by: Habits and Holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology by Ezra Sullivan, O.P Craig Steven Titus Habits and Holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology. By Ezra Sullivan, O.P. Foreword by Wojciech Giertych, O.P. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2021. Pp. xxxii + 575. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8132-3329-1. Habits and Holiness is about the human basis for divinely inspired change and flourishing in a person and among friends. In this impressive work of integration, Ezra Sullivan, O.P., addresses the meaning of the ongoing change involved in the acquisition of habitual readiness to flourish. He argues that the moral habits are the most important capacities that underlie good moral action and growth in holiness and that resist evil acts and vices. Placing the neurological, biological, empirical, and psychological sciences in service of philosophical and theological sources, he employs a method and a philosophical anthropology that focus on a multidimensional and teleological understanding of habits and holiness. The book is divided into three parts, each of which focuses on one aspect of the importance of habits in the quest of holiness in the Christian life. The first part is devoted to the biological bases of the habits and dispositions that serve the human acquisition of both virtues and vices. Sullivan calls upon the different disciplines involved in biopsychology to address the behavioral momentum of human habits, using the analysis of what he calls the habit loop (an antecedent trigger or cue, the behavior itself, and a consequent reward) to help understand the foundation of voluntary action according to reason. Sullivan calls these aspects of dispositions “subterranean habits” because they underlie the involuntary (i.e., prerational and preaffective) aspects of universal human nature and particular individual nature (second nature). He presents an extensive study of human nature, dispositions, and instincts, including the cogitative power, which has a special role in prerational cognition and higher-order perceptions. He builds upon Thomas Aquinas’s thought and the distinction between general human nature, which is common to all, and a person’s individual nature, which is a particular expression of human nature. This distinction gives a further basis to account for individuality, diversity, and the providential order. The second part of the book considers habits in the context of a Thomistic approach to freedom and habituation. Habits are distinguished as positive (virtues) or negative (vices). According to the nature of their objects, habits are also distinguished as acquired virtues (both intellectual and moral), or as supernatural, infused, and theological virtues. Of special interest for the spiritual life are the promptings involved in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These gifts are often ignored or neglected in contemporary theology. They are, however, an important part of Aquinas’s doctrine of dispositions, which interact with the theological and infused virtues. The third part of the book focuses on how habits can be changed, formed, and even “hacked.” Sullivan proposes a model that builds upon self-knowledge [End Page 350] and the input of scientific, philosophical, psychological, ethical, and theological sources. He evaluates techniques for acquiring, developing, and correcting habits. He also discusses how habits become deformed. Of notable interest is his treatment of the habits that serve the virtues of faith, hope, and charity. This approach to habit, virtue, and grace also demonstrates how merit is salient to formed and deformed habits. A full consideration of personal cooperation with habitual grace and with sanctifying grace and the merits of Christ leads to an understanding of how human merit influences human participation in the life of grace. Grace and merit involve work on oneself that is social, that demands friendship for developing habits, and that prepares one to flourish. The most original contribution of Sullivan’s work is its integrative approach. The book provides an engagement of contemporary psychology and personality theory with Aquinas’s classic understanding of the person (i.e., the soul). Sullivan uses the multiple conceptual lenses of philosophical ethics, moral practice, and moral theology, as well as the empirical, biological, and psychological sciences. This method serves better to support and even to refine some of Aquinas’s philosophical anthropology and moral...

Investigating the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villages

BackgroundSettlement in a village and being native is one of the special conditions for choosing to be a health care worker as they must be accessible day and night and provide people with health services when needed. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting health care workers’ intention to remain in villages covered by Jundishapur University, Ahvaz, Iran. MethodsThis is a cross-sectional study in 2019. The total number of health workers working at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Iran was 1034, amongst whom 280 individuals participated in this study. The data collection tool was a questionnaire consisted of two parts, in the first part of which there were 11 questions on personal information of the participants. In the second part, a total of six measures (physical, social, educational and cultural, occupational, welfare, personal and family) were used to examine the factors affecting the health workers’ intention to remain in rural areas. ResultsThe results of this study showed that the current residence of 55% of the health workers was villages while 45% of them lived in urban areas. The results indicated that there was a significant relationship between physical, social, educational and cultural, occupational, welfare, personal and family factors and the health workers’ intention to remain in rural areas. Besides, female HCWs were more affected by personal and family factors compared to the male participants. ConclusionIncreasing the quality and paying more attention to physical, social, educational and cultural, occupational, welfare, personal and family factors can cause health workers to remain longer in rural areas.

Cover, Content, and Editorial Note from Pengabdianmu J Pengabdian Masyarakat Vol. 8 No. 2 March 2023

Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb.
 Dear reader, PengabdianMu: Jurnal Ilmiah Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat re-published on Volume 8 Issue 2 March 2023. The publication of PengabdianMu: Jurnal Ilmiah Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat certainly participates in disseminating the results of community services in science and technology development conducted by lecturers and researchers, especially from UMPR and other universities.
 This edition contains 21 articles on Education, Social and Political, Agriculture, and Health Science topics. Editorial boards are fully aware that there is still room for improvement in this edition; hence with all humility, willing to accept constructive suggestions and feedback for improvements to the publication for the next editions.
 The editorial board would like to thank the University, all editors and reviewers, and contributors of the scientific articles who have provided the repertoire in this issue. We hope that all parties, especially the contributors of the articles, could re-participate the publication's success in the next edition on May 2023.
 
 Wassalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb.

The impact of science and technology services on agricultural income of rural household: An investigation based on the three northeastern provinces of China

Science and technology services (STS) are requirement for sustainable agricultural development and are hypothesized to be crucial for raising rural households' income. However, evidence regarding the impact of STS on rural household income has primarily been limited to qualitative research, with limited quantitative research conducted to date, resulting in a lack of clear consensus. This study uses survey data from rural households in poor rural counties in the three northeastern provinces of China to examine the mechanism behind the impact, heterogeneity, and asymmetry of STS on rural households' agricultural income. Our results show that STS has income-promotion effect, which is enhanced with income level. All subdimensions of STS examined have promotional effects, including technical training, industrial demonstration, information services, and organizational drive; moreover, technical training and information services have the greatest and least impacts, respectively. These effects are more pronounced among rural households with young, male and highly educated householder, poor, have received STS for longer periods or adopted green production techniques. These effects are attained through improved agricultural production efficiency, capabilities to adopt new technologies, endogenous motivation, and lowered costs. The findings have important implications for scholars and policymakers in terms of enhancing effectiveness of STS for disadvantaged groups.

On the building of efficient self-adaptable health data science services by using dynamic patterns

Health data science systems are becoming key for supporting healthcare decision-making processes. However, these systems should achieve continuous data processing and adapt their behavior to changes arising in real scenarios. Nevertheless, building this type of self-adaptable systems is not trivial, as it requires integrating data analytics and artificial intelligence with cloud computing tools and security and fault tolerance applications. This produces delays in the processing of data, affecting the information delivery in decision-making processes. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a method to build self-adaptable data science services by using dynamic patterns. This method includes two models: a construction model and a coupling model. The construction model is based on dynamic parallel patterns to create, at design time, in-memory processing structures including as many applications as needed to meet the non-functional requirements (NFRs), such as security and fault tolerance, established by healthcare organizations without affecting the efficiency of a data science system. In turn, the coupling model converts the in-memory processing structures into software blocks that are coupled with the I/O interfaces of data science systems to support the automatic and transparent continuous management of data for facing changes in the incoming workload during execution time. A prototype was implemented to create self-adaptable health data science systems including in-memory processing structures for managing spirometry studies, tomography images, and electrocardiograms. The performance evaluation showed that the dynamic patterns significantly reduced the response time required to prepare contents with NFR characteristics in comparison with solutions from the state-of-the-art such as Nextflow and Makeflow.

KESESUAIAN GAYA VISUALISASI ANTROPOMORFISME DALAM DESAIN BIOPHILIC UNTUK MEDIA ANAK USIA PRASEKOLAH

This research is motivated by preschoolers' need for appropriate visualizations of living things in media. Although naturally, human's sense of biophilia encourages children's interest and interactions with nature, these interactions, conducted routinely and of quality, are now a privilege that only a few have. In this condition, media with anthropomorphic visualizations of living things is often used as a complementary method of honing children's real intelligence from a young age. However, view's regarding its effectiveness is still debated. Because of this, through an integrative literature review regarding the psychological development of preschoolers, anthropomorphic visualizations, and the human's sense of biophilia, the researcher attempts to analyze the potential of anthropomorphic visualizations in preschoolers' media for nature education from each field's point of view. Design practitioners and subsequent researchers may benefit from this research as a basis for appropriate anthropomorphic visualizations in children's media applications. The literature review process utilizes features from several online scientific article research portals or services. This process begins with determining selection based on keywords, titles and abstracts, complete articles, and gradual analysis based on input from each field, as well as the integrative analysis between fields. Results show that the effectiveness of nature education with anthropomorphic visualizations on the development of naturalist intelligence in preschool-age children cannot be generalized. The impact of visualization styles is adjustable depending on design goals, such as emotional attachment or scientific knowledge.
 Keywords: anthropomorphism, biophilia, children's media, preschool, visualization

Measuring the Knowledge and Behaviors of University Students Toward Rational Use of Herbal Supplement Products in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Objective: This study was planned to measure the knowledge and behavior of university students toward the rational use of herbal supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Methods: It was carried out with students from Üsküdar University Faculty of Health Sciences and Health Services Vocational School. The study used a descriptive design and was completed with 640 students who volunteered to participate in the study. The data were collected by using a questionnaire including questions about students’ rational use of herbal supplements according to their gender, faculty, the status of having had COVID-19 viral infection, and the status of having received education on pharmacology and medicinal plant products. Counts, mean scores, and percentage values were used in the evaluation of the data.
 Results: It was found that 15.5% of the participants were from the Faculty of Health Sciences and their mean age was 20.8±2.84 years and that 84.5% were from the Health Vocational School and their mean age was 21.42±3.87 years. The rate of having had COVID-19 viral infection among students was 22.7%, having received pharmacology education was 75.5%, and having received education on medicinal plant products was 46.3%.
 Conclusion: It was found that the pharmacology and medicinal plant products education received by the students studying health significantly affected the rational use of herbal supplements and that students should be given more education on phytotherapy.

Educational Training for Students' Self-Efficacy in Learning Science and Mathematics

This service is carried out by MTsS Safinatussalamah Al-Munawarah, Lhokseumawe City. The priority issue of partners (Safinatussalamah Al-Munawarah) is in terms of learning. In this case, in partner schools, students have not fully self-efficacy in learning mathematics and science. This is due to the lack of motivation in the form of educating students on the importance of self-efficacy abilities. The purpose of implementing the activities in this lecturer service program can be detailed as follows: a) To provide education to all students on the importance of having self-efficacy skills, especially in learning mathematics and science. b) Provide opportunities for all students to be able to explore the potential that exists within students. c) Train and improve students' caring attitudes, empathy for educational conditions, and provide practical scientific services and environmental knowledge assistance. The implementation method is a field survey and training method by determining partner problems, based on the results of a situation analysis on partners that has been carried out through a preliminary survey. The results of the service stated that students began to have a sense of independence in managing themselves after understanding the concept of self-efficacy. This is indicated by the acquisition of the highest percentage of the questionnaire score of 0.52. Or by 52% and in the very high category.

The use of diagnostic parameters of agricultural equipment of aic leading to a decrease in the number of failes

The purpose is to clarify the diagnostic parameters of agricultural machinery. The analysis of science and practice of technical service of MTP since 1925 is carried out. The most widely used indicator of the state of the elements and aggregates of the MTP in the agroindustrial complex is the permissible value of the diagnostic parameter, and the limit value is secondary. And clarifying their rank is relevant. The main optimum for technical service standards is the minimum of total investment costs, known in the agroindustrial complex since the 30s and developed by V. M. Mikhlin. But only the permissible parameters are justifi ed by it. It is abstract, laborious, not correct, practically not implemented, given only to gradual parametric failures, and real failures are beyond attention. The infl uence of permissible parameters on reliability, technical resource is overestimated. Organoleptic diagnosis, which is relevant in the absence of diagnostic tools, is beyond attention. The resource diagnostic parameters have been clarifi ed: nominal, current, limit values, and permissible values are secondary, relevant only for regulated parameters. The condition of equality of technical service costs with the cost of a new or repaired analogue is suitable for justifying the limit values of the resource parameters. And the standards of regulated parameters should be set constructively.

A framework for the entrenchment of intellectual property (IP) information services in Zimbabwe's university libraries

The study investigates the current status of Intellectual Property (IP) information services in Zimbabwe's university libraries. The study employed a quantitative approach. An online questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 69 library professionals employed at 20 university libraries which are full members of the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC). Findings show that the current focus of the surveyed institutions is on providing scientific research support services (18); disseminating/sharing university research output (14); and copyright activities (12). More specialised IP information services such as IP education and training, patent information services, IP consulting services, IP online service platforms, and web-based IP information services are largely unavailable in Zimbabwean university libraries. Results reveal that the underlying challenge in the development of IP information services in Zimbabwe's university libraries is insufficient IP knowledge among academic librarians, which is exacerbated by inadequate IP management frameworks in university institutions. The study proposes a framework for the entrenchment of IP information services in Zimbabwe's university libraries.