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Trick, Lana M., Jeannine Guindon, and Lori A. Vallis. "Short Article: Sequential Tapping Interferes Selectively with Multiple-Object Tracking: Do Finger-Tapping and Tracking Share a Common Resource?" Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 59, no. 7 (July 2006): 1188–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210600673990.
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Myung, Jeannie, Susanna Loeb, and Eileen Horng. "Tapping the Principal Pipeline." Educational Administration Quarterly 47, no. 5 (April 21, 2011): 695–727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013161x11406112.
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Purpose: In light of the difficulty many districts face finding quality principal candidates, this article explores an informal recruitment mechanism of teachers to become principals, which the authors call tapping. The authors assess the extent to which current teachers are being approached by school leaders to consider leadership and whether this tapping prompts these teachers to consider pursuing leadership positions. Research Design: This study uses survey and administrative data on teachers and principals from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools from the 2007–2008 school year. The authors describe the extent to which principals tap teachers to become school leaders. They use multiple regression with and without school fixed effects to model which teachers are most likely to be tapped and which principals are most likely to tap teachers. They also estimate the extent to which tapping is effective at motivating teachers to become school leaders. Findings: A vast majority of principals report having been tapped by their own principal when they were teachers. The authors find that principals tend to tap teachers who feel better equipped to take on the principalship and who have more school-level leadership experience, but they also disproportionately tap teachers who are male and share their ethnicity. Conclusions: The findings provide evidence that principals are capable of effectively identifying and encouraging teachers with strong leadership potential to enter the principal pipeline, although additional training and a succession management plan may help ensure that teachers are selected based on clear leadership competencies.
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Singha, Radhika. "Finding Labor from India for the War in Iraq: The Jail Porter and Labor Corps, 1916–1920." Comparative Studies in Society and History 49, no. 2 (April 2007): 412–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417507000540.
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In the bleak spring of 1916, a military note expostulated about the slowness with which the Government of India was finding coolies and porters for British forces in Mesopotamia. At first, labor could be obtained only from tribals of the Santhal Parganas and Chota Nagpur and by tapping Indian jails: “Could there possibly have been a greater opportunity for India with millions of men not usable as soldiers, to take a larger share in the war, or even a larger share in helping its own Indian Army? From all accounts India was burning to get such a chance, yet what happened? The honour of India was upheld first by aborigines and then by convicts.”
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Popov, Oleg, Sergey Tretyakov, and Anatoliy Novoselov. "TO THE METHOD OF ESTABLISHING THE INTENSITY ISOLATION OF TERPENTINE DURING ITS PREPARATIONIN DRIED PINE." Forestry Engineering Journal 11, no. 4 (January 31, 2022): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.34220/issn.2222-7962/2021.4/2.
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An experimental open-type tapping was carried out in pine stands located in the Sokolsky district of the Vologda region. The objects of study are represented by plantations located on the sites, passed in 1972 by hydrotechnical reclamation, as well as similar forests after continuous thinning. The dominant species in the tree layer is pine, the share of spruce and birch does not reach 10%. The release of turpentine was studied in pine forests on a mesotrophic peat deposit. The tapping was carried out using the ascending method of applying the substrates. The main attention was paid to improving the method for determining the resin productivity of Scots pine. In the course of the study, the following tasks were solved: 1) four permanent test plots were laid in drained pine plantations, in addition, continuous thinning was performed on two sites; 2) for research purposes, an experimental double-sided harvesting of pine turpentine was carried out on each trial plot; 3) the influence of hydrotechnical reclamation and thinning on the amount of released pine turpentine has been determined; 4) specifying coefficients have been developed for the mathematical calculation (forecast) of turpentine yield with a 50% trunk load with tapping cuts. Based on the results of the study, a number of correction factors have been proposed to determine the resin productivity of pines, taking into account their taxation diameter, since the mathematical calculation of the turpentine yield under a trunk load with tapping cuts of 50% carr is often overestimated. The positive effect of hydrotechnical reclamation on the increase in the breast height diameter of pine was confirmed. The average yield of pine resin is about 22% higher, relative to the stand without silvicultural care, in a drained pine forest after silvicultural maintenance
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Putrada, Aji Gautama, and Maman Abdurohman. "Increasing the Security of RFID-based Classroom Attendance System with Shamir Secret Share." International Journal on Information and Communication Technology (IJoICT) 6, no. 1 (June 20, 2020): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.21108/ijoict.2020.61.480.
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<p>This paper proposes an attendance system for increasing the security based on Shamir Secret Share algorithm. The use of RFID devices for classroom attendance is still vulnerable to certain attacks. Students usually make use of existing loopholes for prohibited things, such as forged attendance. Shamir Secret Share is a security method based on the Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) concept. The SMC guarantees not only the confidentiality of external attacks but also of each member in the secure system. In the attendance scenario using Shamir Secret Share, a student and a lecturer must do tapping at the same time; otherwise, the secret that opens the lock for attendance at that class will not be opened. To realize this system, this paper uses two RFID modules, each of which is connected to one nodeMCU microcontroller. Both systems are connected to a database where the Shamir Shared Secret calculation is performed. Some experiment has been implemented for proving the concept. The result shows that some scenarios of fraud in RFID based attendance can be prevented.</p>
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Lipinski, Teri A. "The role of vocational counseling for the American Indian student." Rural Special Education Quarterly 10, no. 1 (June 1989): 31–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/875687058901000105.
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American Indian students have been neglected over the years in educational settings more apparently than other minority groups. Problems resulting from poor basic skills and motivation have placed them at a disadvantage when competing with other people for employment. Moreover, the values conflict between Indian and dominant European-American culture has created acculturation difficulties. Persons knowledgeable regarding the particular problems of Indians are greatly needed in educational and counseling situations to move toward a more fulfilling future for the Indian people. Tapping into the special capabilities of the Indian people can enhance the quality of living for all who share this earth.
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Albaar, Nurjana, Hamidin Rasulu, Janiah Husen, and Angela Wulansari. "Sosialization of Chitosan as Natural Preservation for Palm Tree’s (Arenga pinnata Merr.) Sap in Akelamo, Central Oba." Altifani Journal: International Journal of Community Engagement 2, no. 2 (July 20, 2022): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.32502/altifani.v2i2.4610.
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Palm tree’s (Arenga pinnata Merr.) sap is the main ingredient for palm sugar. Palm tree’s sap is obtained by tapping the male flowers of palm tree. The sap is rich in sugar thus it is easy to be fermented. Palm farmers in Akelamo Village use soap as a preservation agent to prevent fermentation during the taping and loading period before the sap is cooked. Soap is a non-food product which is unsafe to be used in food product. Based on this fact, the community service program was designed to educate and share information about the danger of non-food preservation agent in food product, and also introduce chitosan as potential natural preservation to prevent fermentation process on palm tree’s sap among the palm farmers in Akelamo Village. There were four activities that had been done, such as discourse about food preservation and chitosan as natural preservation agent, workshop about how to apply chitosan to prevent fermentation during palm tree tapping, workshop about how to make palm sugar, and interactive dialogue with palm farmers. All the activities were done succesfully. The farmers were actively participated in every activity during the program.
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Gelman, Caroline, and Nancy Giunta. "TAPPING NATURAL NETWORKS TO ADDRESS DEMENTIA IN A LATINO COMMUNITY." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S583—S584. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2165.
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Abstract The need for health education regarding Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), specifically designed for Latinos, has been well-documented. Many Latino older adults and their families delay seeking formal help for ADRD symptoms due to lack of information and access to culturally sensitive services. This paper presents preliminary findings of community-based participatory research to develop El Barrio SHARE, a culturally-tailored intervention tapping natural helpers (NHs) to address a need identified by community members in East Harlem, NY. It trains people who often interact with elders in the course of their work (e.g., hairdressers, bodega clerks), and are well-positioned to observe and detect ADRD-related problems and potentially link elders to relevant services. Findings from a process evaluation developing the 10-module NH training suggest that (a) participants seek information that debunks myths and stigma surrounding ADRD, and (b) the need for culturally-tailored, participant-centered interventions in marginalized communities is critical.
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Gaurav, Kumar. "Anaerobic Digestion of Biomass for production of Biogas: Progress and Advantages." International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technology 6, no. 5 (May 16, 2020): 108–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.46501/ijmtst060519.
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A major share of world’s primary energy requirement is dependent on fossil fuels which is not only a non renewable source of energy and on the verge of extinction but also associated with serious environmental concerns. To combat these issues, alternative renewable energy sources are required. Certain examples of renewable energy sources are solar energy, wind energy, hydro and thermal energy, biofuels etc. Biomass is one such alternative which is freely and abundantly available. It is mainly the agricultural waste and vegetable waste which are perishable and create a lot of nuisance. Tapping this biomass for energy production will be beneficial in two ways; it will be an excellent source of energy generation and it will also help in waste management for environment protection. Energy generation from Biomass can take place either chemically or thermo-chemically. In the present paper advantages of anaerobic digestion of biomass are discussed for biogas production.
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Ainun Jariyah, Nur. "PERANAN PENDAPATAN DARI PENYADAPAN GETAH PINUS MERKUSII TERHADAP PENDAPATAN RUMAH TANGGA; STUDI KASUS DI DESA BURAT, RPH GEBANG, BKPH PURWOREJO KPH KEDU SELATAN, JAWA TENGAH." Jurnal Penelitian Sosial dan Ekonomi Kehutanan 2, no. 3 (September 30, 2005): 269–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.20886/jpsek.2005.2.3.269-277.
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Gelman, Caroline, and Nancy Giunta. "MOBILIZING NETWORKS TO ADDRESS DEMENTIA IN A LATINO COMMUNITY." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S746—S747. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2735.
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Abstract Many Latino older adults delay seeking help for symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Dementia (ADRD) due to substantial barriers to services. Community-based Natural helpers (NHs) can increase health-related knowledge and can serve as full partners in health education and promotion. This paper presents the process and product of the first phase of a community-based participatory research study to develop a culturally-tailored intervention increasing knowledge about ADRD and services in East Harlem, NY. We describe the results of the initial survey and development of El Barrio SHARE, an intervention that recruits and trains community residents to provide information and referrals about dementia, tapping into natural community networks of people (hairdressers, bodega clerks, mail carriers) who interact with and have longstanding relationships with older adults in the course of their work. NHs are well-positioned to observe and detect problems, and can link elders to relevant, culturally-sensitive resources, accessible support, and treatment.
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Keskinkilic, E. "New trends in basic oxygen furnace dephosphorization." Journal of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Metallurgy 56, no. 1 (2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jmmb190504045k.
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Except for special grades of steel where it is used as an alloying element, phosphorus is regarded as an impurity that must be removed. Considering the conventional integrated iron and steelmaking, there are primarily two processes for phosphorus removal. The first is a hot metal dephosphorization (DeP) process that is applied to a blast furnace for hot metal before the steelmaking process. The second is the basic oxygen furnace steelmaking (BOS), a unique method primarily used for steelmaking, with the exception of stainless steels. Hot metal phosphorus content has a direct impact on BOS. An increase of phosphorus in hot metal is mainly related to the use of high P2O5 containing iron ores. In the current literature review, new trends of phosphorus removal in converter steelmaking are outlined. The double-slag practice was reported to be successful when hot metal P content was larger than 0.100%. It was indicated that the tapping temperature was critical for the production of low-phosphorus grades for which maximum allowable P content was 0.007% and that high tapping temperatures should be avoided. The tap-to-tap time for the double-slag process was slightly longer than the conventional converter steelmaking. It was further reported that the double-slag practice would be more economical than an establishment of a separate hot metal dephosphorization unit, if low-phosphorus grades did not have a significant share in the product mix of a steelmaking company. Endpoint phosphorus prediction was one of the important recent trends of converter steelmaking. A mixed injection of CO2-O2 to a basic oxygen furnace was applied to enhance dephosphorization, and promising results were reported. Unfortunately, a successful process for recycling of BOS dephosphorization slag has not been reported yet.
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Somadi, Somadi. "PENERAPAN ANALISIS SWOT DALAM UPAYA PENGEMBANGAN USAHA PENYADAPAN POHON AREN DI DESA WANGUNSARI." Competitive 13, no. 1 (December 27, 2018): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.36618/competitive.v13i1.343.
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Gula tebu menjadi isu sentral nasional saat ini. Hal ini disebabkan karena tingginya permintaan, namun penawaran terbatas. Gula aren yang merupakan hasil penyadapan dari pohon aren menjadi alternatif untuk memenuhi tingginya permintaan gula tebu. Desa Wangunsari merupakan daerah penghasil gula aren, namun penyadap memiliki berbagai permasalahan dalam pengembangan usaha sehingga berimplikasi terhadap rendahnya tingkat kesejahteraan penyadap. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mengetahui faktor-faktor yang menghambat dalam pengembangan usaha, dan merumuskan strategi pengembangan usaha penyadapan pohon aren di Desa Wangunsari. Teknik pengumpulan data pada penelitian ini menggunakan teknik observasi dan wawancara dengan metode penarikan sampel menggunakan judgement sampling dan teknik analisis data menggunakan analisis SWOT.
Berdasarkan hasil analisis bahwa faktor-faktor yang menghambat usaha penyadapan pohon aren di Desa Wangunsari yakni kemasan, produksi, standarisasi produk, manajemen usaha, pendidikan penyadap, tempat produksi, teknologi pengolahan, saluran penjualan, bahan bakar, modal, bencana alam, infrastruktur, angkutan umum, aksebilitas menuju pasar, persaingan usaha, pendatang baru, daya tawar pembeli dan pemasok serta produk subtitusi. Sedangkan strategi pengembangan usaha meliputi perbaikan kualitas, kemasan, standarisasi dan pengembangan produk, tempat produksi, saluran penjualan, manajemen usaha, tekonologi pengolahan, optimalisasi bahan baku, perluasan pangsa pasar, peningkatan promosi, penambahan asset, efisiensi produksi, kerjasama dengan mitra, peninjauan harga jual, dan pembenahan sumberdaya perusahaan.
Sugar cane becomes the current national central issue. This is caused by high demand but the supply is limited. Palm sugar that is the result of tapping of palm trees into an alternative to meet the high demand for sugar cane. Wangunsari village is a sugar palm producing area, but tappers have various problems in business development so that it implies the low level of welfare tappers. This study aims to analyze and determine the factors that hinder business development, and formulate strategies for the development of palm tree tapping business in Wangunsari Village. Data collection techniques in this study using observation techniques and interviews with sampling methods using judgment sampling and data analysis techniques using SWOT analysis. Based on the analysis, the factors that hinder the palm tree tapping business in Wangunsari Village are packaging, production, product standardization, business management, education of tappers, production site, processing technology, sales channel, fuel, capital, natural disaster, infrastructure, general, accessibility to markets, business competition, new entrants, bargaining power of buyers and suppliers and substitution products. While the business development strategy includes quality improvement, packaging, standardization and product development, production place, sales channel, business management, processing technology, raw material optimization, market share expansion, promotion promotion, asset addition, production efficiency, cooperation with partners, selling, and improving the company's resources
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Ebersbach, Georg, Milan R. Dimitrijevic, and Werner Poewe. "Influence of Concurrent Tasks on Gait: A Dual-Task Approach." Perceptual and Motor Skills 81, no. 1 (August 1995): 107–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1995.81.1.107.
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We studied the effect of concurrent tasks on motor control of gait with dual-task methodology. Ten healthy subjects were instructed to perform different cognitive and motor tasks during gait on a conductive walkway. Footswitch signals were recorded and stride time and double-support time were calculated. It was assumed that the former reflects gait-patterning mechanisms and the latter relates to balance control. Statistical analysis showed an increase in double-support time when a memory-retention task (digit-span) and a fine motor task (buttoning) were executed simultaneously during gait. During gait performance of the cognitive task declined compared to baseline conditions. Attentional demand of concurrent cognitive and motor tasks appeared to force subjects to modulate their gait strategy to ensure control of balance. Stride time was consistent across task conditions except when subjects performed fast finger-tapping during gait. Then all but one subject showed a decrease in stride time and an increase in stride-frequency that was repeatable on retest. Since different rhythmic movements are likely to share common neurobiological networks, we assumed that the modulation of stride-frequency was due to structural interference.
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Vercelloni, Julie, Jon Peppinck, Edgar Santos-Fernandez, Miles McBain, Grace Heron, Tanya Dodgen, Erin E. Peterson, and Kerrie Mengersen. "Connecting virtual reality and ecology: a new tool to run seamless immersive experiments in R." PeerJ Computer Science 7 (June 1, 2021): e544. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.544.
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Virtual reality (VR) technology is an emerging tool that is supporting the connection between conservation research and public engagement with environmental issues. The use of VR in ecology consists of interviewing diverse groups of people while they are immersed within a virtual ecosystem to produce better information than more traditional surveys. However, at present, the relatively high level of expertise in specific programming languages and disjoint pathways required to run VR experiments hinder their wider application in ecology and other sciences. We present R2VR, a package for implementing and performing VR experiments in R with the aim of easing the learning curve for applied scientists including ecologists. The package provides functions for rendering VR scenes on web browsers with A-Frame that can be viewed by multiple users on smartphones, laptops, and VR headsets. It also provides instructions on how to retrieve answers from an online database in R. Three published ecological case studies are used to illustrate the R2VR workflow, and show how to run a VR experiments and collect the resulting datasets. By tapping into the popularity of R among ecologists, the R2VR package creates new opportunities to address the complex challenges associated with conservation, improve scientific knowledge, and promote new ways to share better understanding of environmental issues. The package could also be used in other fields outside of ecology.
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Gao, Jing, Wenjun Sun, and Xin Sui. "Research on Default Prediction for Credit Card Users Based on XGBoost-LSTM Model." Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 2021 (December 16, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5080472.
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The credit card business has become an indispensable financial service for commercial banks. With the development of credit card business, commercial banks have achieved outstanding results in maintaining existing customers, tapping potential customers, and market share. During credit card operations, massive amounts of data in multiple dimensions—including basic customer information; billing, installment, and repayment information; transaction flows; and overdue records—are generated. Compared with preloan and postloan links, user default prediction of the on-loan link has a huge scale of data, which makes it difficult to identify signs of risk. With the recent growing maturity and practicality of technologies such as big data analysis and artificial intelligence, it has become possible to further mine and analyze massive amounts of transaction data. This study mined and analyzed the transaction flow data that best reflected customer behavior. XGBoost, which is widely used in financial classification models, and Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM), which is widely used in time-series information, were selected for comparative research. The accuracy of the XGBoost model depends on the degree of expertise in feature extraction, while the LSTM algorithm can achieve higher accuracy without feature extraction. The resulting XGBoost-LSTM model showed good classification performance in default prediction. The results of this study can provide a reference for the application of deep learning algorithms in the field of finance.
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Siler, Todd. "Pointing your way to success through metaphorming." Journal of Business Strategy 31, no. 4 (July 6, 2010): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02756661011055186.
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PurposeOur innovation work involves unlocking the potential of individuals, teams, groups and organizations by tapping peoples' creativity and critical thinking powers through a process called Metaphorming. This paper describes how Metaphorming works to continually inspire innovative thinking. Facilitators guide participants in making and exploring symbolic models that show and describe their ideas, plans, and goals, while pointing out possibilities for achieving them.Design/methodology/approachBased on our work with businesses as diverse as building supplies, computers, consumer packaging goods, energy, environmental studies, finance, government, healthcare, insurance, lawyers & law enforcement, telecommunications, and technology‐oriented venture capital organizations, we've found that every business can benefit from all‐purpose creativity and communication tools. They help improve human communication by fostering understanding. The tools our company provides include facilitated, hands‐on workshops that incorporate arts‐based and science‐based innovation techniques to help organizations realize their goals as they “learn by doing.”FindingsThis article relates some of the tangible results our clients gained from using our tools and methods to catalyze innovations, generate new products, and develop new business solutions.Originality/valueMetaphorming offers the next generation of brainstorming tools for all aspects of business development. It enables everyone to freely create and communicate ideas, utilizing the versatile, dynamic, symbolic models they make; essentially, they “show‐n‐tell‐n‐share” their stories in effective, memorable and productive ways.
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Anthony, Balu. "Growth of urban farm employment in Tamil Nadu." International Journal of Social Economics 45, no. 1 (January 8, 2018): 82–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-09-2016-0254.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the structure of employment in the most urbanized state in India during the period 1983-2010. The paper also analyses the determinants of growth of farm employment in urban areas in the state of Tamil Nadu. Design/methodology/approach The paper compares trends in employment in Tamil Nadu with that of the country as a whole. In order to see whether there is evidence of Lewisian labor transfer, the study examines labor transfer between sectors and percentage distribution of workers in the rural and urban areas. Findings The paper finds that employment in the entire non-agricultural sector slowed down in 2009-2010 compared to 2004-05 in Tamil Nadu. The share of employment in primary sector in urban areas increased more sharply, experiencing slow economic transformation in the post-reform years. The analysis reveals that rapid rural-urban transformation could be one reason for more people in the primary sector in urban areas. Research limitations/implications Studying the employment structure at the district level, for which analyzing the district-level data collected and published by state’s Bureau of Economics and Statistics is required, would be helpful to discern a deeper influence of urbanization on structure of employment. Practical implications The results suggest that the issue needs further examination with analysis of the district-level data. Policy reforms should, therefore, be suitably oriented toward tapping the employment potential of both unorganized and organized segments in manufacturing, trade and services sectors. It is also necessary to ensure robust economic growth that creates decent jobs for all young educated people in the state. Originality/value The study explains the domination of farm employment in urban Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is considered to be the most urbanized state in India. The reason for an increase in the share of primary sector employment in urban areas of Tamil Nadu is due to high urbanization in the post-reform periods.
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Gazdar, Achraf, Lotfi Hidri, Belgacem Ben Youssef, and Meriam Kefi. "Minimizing the In-Cloud Bandwidth for On-Demand Reactive and Proactive Streaming Applications." Applied Sciences 11, no. 23 (November 28, 2021): 11267. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app112311267.
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Video streaming services are one of the most resource-consuming applications on the Internet. Thus, minimizing the consumed resources at runtime in general and the server/network bandwidth in particular are still challenging for researchers. Currently, most streaming techniques used on the Internet open one stream per client request, which makes the consumed bandwidth increases linearly. Hence, many broadcasting/streaming protocols have been proposed in the literature to minimize the streaming bandwidth. These protocols can be divided into two main categories, namely, reactive and proactive broadcasting protocols. While the first category is recommended for streaming unpopular videos, the second category is recommended for streaming popular videos. In this context, in this paper we propose an enhanced version of the reactive protocol Slotted Stream Tapping (SST) called Share All SST (SASST), which we prove to further reduce the streaming bandwidth with regard to SST. We also propose a new proactive protocol named the New Optimal Proactive Protocol (NOPP) based on an optimal scheduling of video segments on streaming-channel. SASST and NOPP are to be used in cloud and CDN (content delivery network) networks where the IP multicast or multicast HTTP on QUIC could be enabled, as their key principle is to allow the sharing of ongoing streams among clients requesting the same video content. Thus, clients and servers are often services running on virtual machines or in containers belonging to the same cloud or CDN infrastructure.
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Malik, Muhammad Hussain, and Attiya Yasmin. "Instability of Federal Government Revenues and Expenditures in Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 26, no. 4 (December 1, 1987): 501–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v26i4pp.501-511.
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As in many other countries, in Pakistan too, the government provides a number of social goods and services. For this purpose, the government has to spend huge amounts of money every year. Federal government expenditures in real terms have grown at an annual average rate of 8.84 percent during the past fifteen years. Also, the share of the federal government expenditures in GNP has increased from 20.93 percent in 1971-72 to 25.19 percent in 1985-86. The main component of the federal government expenditures is of the recurrent type and is devoted to defence, civil administration, debt servicing, health, education, roads, and other such services. At present, the level of social goods and services provided by the government is not considered satisfactory. Moreover, public demand for them is on the increase due to an increasing population growth rate and rising standards of living in the country. The government needs resources to meet the public demands for its goods and services and to fulfill the development requirements of the country. For this purpose, the government generates revenue through various taxes and tapping other revenue sources. It is important that these taxes and other revenue sources yield a stable revenue over time. If there are large year to year fluctuations in revenue, it becomes very difficult for the government to meet its inflexible obligations and to implement development plans. Stability of revenues, therefore, becomes very important for fiscal management and development planning.
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Manian, Farrin A. "The Case for Writing Critical Thinking Reports as a Teaching Strategy on Today’s Hospital Wards." Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development 7 (January 2020): 238212052094887. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120520948879.
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I review some of the challenges in teaching medical students and housestaff on today’s hospital medicine wards, including increasingly limited time for dedicated teaching. Tapping into the extensive literature of “writing to learn” or “writing-across-the curriculum” in non-medical educational settings ranging from elementary school to college classes, I urge consideration of writing concise critical thinking reports (CTRs) by medical students and housestaff in response to questions raised during patient rounds as a means of enhancing their ward-based learning experience. Several potential reasons for writing CTRs are offered: (1) Nurtures curiosity; (2) Demands self-directed search for and encoding of new knowledge; (3) Emphasizes metacognition and conceptualization crucial to meaningful learning; (4) Provides opportunity for learners to teach and share newly-assimilated material with a broader web-based audience; (5) Encourages the concept of narrow but more in-depth learning related to a specific clinically relevant subject matter; (6) Nudges learners toward clear and succinct writing as an important general skill to develop in their everyday professional activities, including electronic medical record documentation; and (7) Reduces work-related burnout. Barriers to writing CTRs, including lack of general appreciation for explanatory writing as a potential teaching strategy in medical education and allowing sufficient time for medical students and housestaff to engage in this activity among other competing demands, are discussed. Writing CTRs is a potentially powerful pedagogical tool in ward-based learning that deserves consideration and formal evaluation by properly designed studies.
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Smilie, Yvonne. "Tapping into global talent." Early Years Educator 21, no. 3 (July 2, 2019): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2019.21.3.50.
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Abhilash, Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil. "Restoring the Unrestored: Strategies for Restoring Global Land during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UN-DER)." Land 10, no. 2 (February 17, 2021): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10020201.
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Restoring the health of degraded land is critical for overall human development as land is a vital life-supporting system, directly or indirectly influencing the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs). However, more than 33% of the global land is degraded and thereby affecting the livelihood of billions of people worldwide. Realizing this fact, the 73rd session of the UN Assembly has formally adopted a resolution to celebrate 2021–2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UN-DER), for preventing, halting, and reversing degradation of ecosystems worldwide. While this move is historic and beneficial for both people and the planet, restoration of degraded land at different scales and levels requires a paradigm shift in existing restoration approaches, fueled by the application of applied science to citizen/community-based science, and tapping of indigenous and local knowledge to advanced technological breakthroughs. In addition, there is a need of strong political will and positive behavioral changes to strengthen restoration initiatives at the grassroot level and involvement of people from all walks of life (i.e., from politicians to peasants and social workers to scientists) are essential for achieving the targets of the UN-DER. Similarly, financing restoration on the ground by the collective contribution of individuals (crowd funding) and institutions (institutional funding) are critical for maintaining the momentum. Private companies can earmark lion-share of their corporate social responsibility fund (CSR fund) exclusively for restoration. The adoption of suitable bioeconomy models is crucial for maintaining the perpetuity of the restoration by exploring co-benefits, and also for ensuring stakeholder involvements during and after the restoration. This review underpins various challenges and plausible solutions to avoid, reduce, and reverse global land degradation as envisioned during the UN-DER, while fulfilling the objectives of other ongoing initiatives like the Bonn Challenge and the UN-SDGs.
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Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. "Refugee Youth Leverage Social, Physical, and Digital Information to Enact Information Literacy." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 12, no. 4 (December 30, 2017): 253. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8th4w.
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Lloyd, A., & Wilkinson, J. (2017). Tapping into the information landscape: Refugee youth enactment of information literacy in everyday spaces. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000617709058
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Objective – To describe the ways in which refugee youth use everyday information to support their learning.
Design – Photo voice technique, a process by which the population under consideration is provided with cameras and asked to visually document an aspect of their experience.
Setting – Social agency in New South Wales, Australia
Subjects – Fifteen 16-25 year old refugees resettled from South Sudan or Afghanistan
Methods – Three workshops were conducted. In the first, participants learned how to use the cameras and the protocols for participation. Between the first and second workshops, participants took several photographs of places, sources and types of information that were personally meaningful. In the second workshop, participants were first split into small groups to share and discuss the five images that they selected as their most important information sources and later reconvened as a large group in which participants again shared and discussed their images. In the third and final workshop, the authors shared their findings and analysis with the participants and invited discussion. The authors analyzed both photos and group transcripts from the workshops using Charmaz’s constant comparative method.
Main Results – Refugee youth use digital, vernacular, meditational, and visual literacies in everyday settings in to order to understand and create their new information landscapes. Information literacy enactment is agile and responsive to context.
Conclusion – Engaging with digital, vernacular, and visual information in a variety of contexts is central to how young refugees (re)form their information landscapes.
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Staniszewski, Paweł, Maciej Bilek, Wojciech Szwerc, Robert Tomusiak, Paweł Osiak, Ryszard Kocjan, and Tadeusz Moskalik. "The effect of tree age, daily sap volume and date of sap collection on the content of minerals and heavy metals in silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) tree sap." PLOS ONE 15, no. 12 (December 29, 2020): e0244435. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244435.
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The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the age of trees, daily sap volume as well as the term of tapping birch sap collected in the forest environment on the content of selected minerals (zinc, copper and manganese) and heavy metals (lead, nickel, chromium and cadmium). The study was performed on material taken from two stands (aged 34 and 84 years) in a moist broadleaved forest habitat with a dominant share of silver birch (Betula pendula Roth). The research results confirmed the presence of both nutritional essential minerals and hazardous heavy metals in the birch sap. At the same time, the content of minerals and heavy metals was found to be very variable and the differences between their concentrations, recorded on the same day of collecting in several trees of the same age group, can be even several dozen times higher. Depending on the examined elements, the factors influencing their content vary. The age of the trees determines only the manganese content; daily sap volume significantly affects the content of manganese and copper, and date of collection differentiates the content of zinc, lead, nickel and cadmium. The results may be interesting in the context of developing procedures for collecting birch sap for the purpose of obtaining raw material with beneficial nutritional values and a high level of health safety. For this reason, our recommendation for guaranteeing the health safety and high nutritional value of birch sap is to combine batches of raw material taken from as many trees as possible, and at the same time to publicize the fact that collecting birch sap from just one single tree may result in a raw material that is both dangerous and has no nutritional benefits.
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Shankar, Nitin, and Fatima Beena. "INDIAN IT FIRMS CREATING MANAGEMENT CODES FOR FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK." Indian Journal of Finance and Banking 5, no. 2 (April 8, 2021): 115–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.46281/ijfb.v5i2.1067.
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Purpose: India has been a preferred I.T. service sourcing nation globally and has been registering high growth. India has a significant pie of the global sourcing market, accounting for nearly 55 % share. It covers significant global through its more than one thousand centres spread across continents. With a year-on-year growth of 6.1%, India’s I.T. and ITES industry will increase to the U.S. $ 350 million by 2025. The extensive expanse of geographical coverage also translates into foreign exchange risk; hence foreign exchange risk management becomes an important strategy. The current study attempts to assess the impact of foreign exchange risk management on the Indian sector over 2007-2017; the period includes the 2008 financial crisis taken up in the current study.
Design/Methodology/ Approach: We analyzed the Indian I.T. companies listed on the BSE Ltd on their exposure, approach, and management towards foreign exchange risk. We investigated their annual reports from 2007 -2017 to understand their exposure and the adopted external foreign exchange risk management techniques. We further assessed the impact of these foreign exchange risk management techniques on the firm’s value.
Findings: The impact of foreign exchange risk management was significant on small-cap I.T. companies for the study period. Though for the during the 2008 crisis term, it was found to be insignificant.
Practical/Implications: Foreign exchange risk management is crucial for Indian I.T. companies indulging in cross-border trade. The current study incorporates external methods of managing foreign exchange risk management; hence even if the impact were found to be insignificant for Mid Cap and some Large-cap companies, they would be practicing internal hedging methods, which puts a strong case tapping trillion-dollar business through a fully functional competitive International Financial Centre.
Originality/Value: Our paper contributes to the literature on Foreign exchange risk management by Indian I.T. companies, which contributes handsomely to India’s GDP and Foreign exchange reserve.
JEL Classification Codes: F31, G32.
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Kozak, Liudmyla, and Olesia Fedoruk. "GREEN TREND OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND BUSINESS INITIATIVES FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMY AT THE GLOBAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS." AUTOMOBILE ROADS AND ROAD CONSTRUCTION, no. 111 (June 2022): 298–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.33744/0365-8171-2022-111-298-309.
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The article examines the content and features of the green economy. The principles of sustainable development and the formation of a green economy are analyzed. The scientific foundations of ensuring sustainable development and the green trend of structural changes are substantiated. Business initiatives related to the sustainable development of the economy at the global and national levels have been studied. The basic principles of the implementation of the green economy model in Ukraine have been formed. The goal of the green growth policy is to create added value with little loss to the environment, as well as conditions for innovation and investment capable of tapping into new sources of economic growth. The tool of the green economy is the implementation of reforms aimed at introducing the most effective principles, mechanisms and models of management of socio-economic processes in the countries of the world. At the same time, the practical implementation of the model of sustainable development, which provides an integral combination of economic efficiency, social justice, resource balance and eco-safety, should become an unconditional imperative of society. Sustainable development involves the synergy of three components – economic, social and environmental. The concept of the green economy is designed to ensure a more harmonious coordination between these components, primarily due to resource and energy efficiency, as well as the participation of the business sector. The identification and active implementation of Ukraine's innovative development priorities in the green format should contribute to strengthening the image of Ukraine at the global and European levels as a country with significant scientific and educational potential, capable of creating high-tech products. The success of Ukraine's innovation policy on the global market should be determined not only by the amount of investment it receives from outside, but also from internal sources for the development of high-tech production, the dynamics of the growth of the export share, and the increase in the interest of foreign companies and highly qualified specialists to cooperate with Ukrainian enterprises.
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Riyanto, Slamet, Wahyu Andayani, and Hilma Nadhifa. "Dampak Perubahan Pemanfaatan Hutan Lindung di RPH Mangunan terhadap Pendapatan Penyadap Getah Pinus." Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan 14, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jik.57465.
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Sejak tahun 2015 Balai Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan Yogyakarta mengehentikan kegiatan pemanfaatan hutan dalam bentuk penyadapan getah pinus di kawasan hutan lindung yang secara adminitrasi pengelolaan hutan berada di Resort Pengelolaan Hutan Mangunan Bagian Daerah Hutan Bantul-Kulonprogo. Bentuk pemanfaatan hutan lindung selanjutnya dialihkan menjadi pemanfaatan hutan untuk wisata alam dan jasa lingkungan. Perubahan bentuk pemanfaatan ini mempengaruhi penghidupan ekonomi bagi rumah tangga penyadap getah pinus yang telah memiliki ketergantungan sumber pendapatan terhadap kegiatan pemanfaatan tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan tingkat pendapatan rumah tangga penyadap getah pinus serta kontribusi sumber pendapatan dari sumberdaya hutan terhadap pendapatan total rumah tangga. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan survei dengan melibatkan 56 responden dari 69 penyadap getah pinus yang berdomisili di tiga desa yaitu Desa Munthuk, Desa Mangunan dan Desa Terong. Pengumpulan data melalui wawancara secara mendalam, observasi dan pemanfaatan data sekunder. Data dianalisis secara deskriftif-kuantitatif untuk memberikan penjelasan perubahan atau perbandingan aktivitas, tingkat dan kontribusi sumber pendapatan dari hutan dengan adanya perubahan pemanfaatan hutan. Temuan-temuan dari penelitian ini adalah: (1) Hanya sebagian dari penyadap getah pinus (35 responden) yang dapat beralih aktivitasnya menjadi pekerja hutan wisata, (2)Rata-rata tingkat pendapatan bagi penyadap yang tidak dapat beralih menjadi pekerja atau pengelola wisata sebelum dan sesudah adanya perubahan pemanfaatan berturut-turut sebesar Rp 16.033.062/tahun dan Rp 13.320.967/tahun, (3)Rata-rata tingkat pendapatan bagi penyadap yang dapat beralih menjadi pekerja atau pengelola wisata sebelum dan sesudah adanya perubahan pemanfaatan berturut turut sebesar Rp 12.076.329/tahun dan Rp 29.809.157/tahun, (4) Kegiatan penyadapan berkontribusi sebesar 23% dan pendapatan dari aktivitas di kegiatan wisata hutan pinus berkontribusi sebesar 62% terhadap pendapatan total tahunan. The Impact of Change in Protected Forest Utilization in RPH Mangunan on Income of Pine Sap TapperAbstractSince 2015 the Balai Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan Yogyakarta has stopped the activity of utilizing pine sap tapping in protected forest areas which administratively located at Resort Pengelolaan Hutan Mangunan, Bagian Daerah Hutan Bantul Kulon Progo. Forest Utilization was then shifted into recreational forest. The change in forest utilization affected the livelihood of pine sap tapper households that already have dependence on a source of income based on these utilization activities. This study aims to compare the source diversity and level of household income of pine sap tappers as well as the share of income from forest resources to total income due to the change in forest utilization. This study used a survey involving 56 respondents from 69 pine sap tappers domiciled in three villages namely Munthuk, Mangunan and Terong Village. Data collection through in-depth interviews, observations and use of secondary data. The data were analyzed in a descriptive quantitative approach to provide an explanation of comparisons of activities, levels and contributions of sources of income from the forest due to changes in forest utilization. The important findings of this study are: (1) Only a portion of pine sap tappers (35 respondents) can switch their activities to workers in recrational forest (2) Average level of household income for tappers who cannot shift to workers in recreational forest are Rp 16033,062 /year and Rp. 13,320,967 /year, (3)Meanwhile, for tappers who can switch to workers in recreational forest are Rp. 12,076,329 / year and Rp. 29,809,157/year respectively for before and after changes in forest utilization(4) Income from tapping activitiy contributed 23% and income from activities in pine recreational forest contributed 62% to total annual income.
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Raj, Keerthan, and P. S. Aithal. "Cockroach Theory of Organizational Sustainability and Scalability - Detailed Study on Evidence Based on BOP Approach." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 12, no. 1 (August 1, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v12.n1.p1.
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<p>The question of survival and sustenance are at the very foundation of every individual or organization. There are various factors that are essential for growth and sustenance of companies. There has been many research studies undertaken to gauge the success factors or to breakdown the components and study success in detail. Especially so, it gains even more importance when companies are serving the markets where consumers have very low incomes and have several unmet needs. Companies serving the base of the pyramid markets need relatively unique strategies and value propositions for success. The base of pyramid came into forefront when management thinkers C K Prahalad and Staurt L. Hart, formulated the “Bottom of the Pyramid” theory in a 2002 article about how businesses can help the poor while still able to make a profit. They noted that there was little competition among the millions of the poor, who essentially live in a world of non consumption. Through low prices, new business models and innovative products, and inclusive value creation corporations along with the help of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and local governments, could make money and do good for the larger cause by tapping this underserved market. It has been the belief of many that BOP consumers are typically characterized by several unmet needs, it could range from food, sanitation, transport, communication, and connectivity. It is also interesting to note that in several BOP markets where are overlapping needs not necessarily following the need hierarchy. Information and communication technology businesses have been able to occupy a larger share of the BOP consumer’s wallet than even basic needs such as sanitation or electricity. What then prompts these consumers and how can businesses reach out to these segments in a phased successful manner. This paper develops the concept, postulates, explanations, theoretical model, and business case based proof on Cockroach Theory of Organizational sustainability and scalability by considering BOP business companies performance evidence. The study also discusses the applicability of this theory and its frameworks on companies and their business models focusing on BOP sectors along with the limitations.</p>
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Masurel, Quentin, Paul Morley, Nicolas Thébaud, and Helen McFarlane. "Gold Deposits of the ~15-Moz Ahafo South Camp, Sefwi Granite-Greenstone Belt, Ghana: Insights into the Anatomy of an Orogenic Gold Plumbing System." Economic Geology 116, no. 6 (September 1, 2021): 1329–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4829.
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Abstract The ~15-Moz Ahafo South gold camp is located in southwest Ghana, the world’s premier Paleoproterozoic gold subprovince. Major orogenic gold deposits in the camp include Subika, Apensu, Awonsu, and Amoma. These deposits occur along an ~15-km strike length of the Kenyase-Yamfo shear zone, a major tectonostratigraphic boundary juxtaposing metamorphosed volcano-plutonic rocks of the Sefwi belt against metamorphosed volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Sunyani-Comoé basin. In this study, we document the geologic setting, structural geometry, and rheological architecture of the Ahafo South gold deposits based on the integration of field mapping, diamond drill core logging, 3-D geologic modeling, and the geologic interpretation of aeromagnetic data. At the camp scale, the Awonsu, Apensu, and Amoma deposits lie along strike from one another and share similar hanging-wall plutonic rocks and footwall volcano-sedimentary rocks. In contrast, the Subika gold deposit is hosted entirely in hanging-wall plutonic rocks. Steeper-dipping segments (e.g., Apensu, Awonsu, Subika) and right-hand flexures (e.g., Amoma, Apensu) in the Kenyase-Yamfo shear zone and subsidiary structures appear to have represented sites of enhanced damage and fluid flux (i.e., restraining bends). All gold deposits occur within structural domains bounded by discontinuous, low-displacement, sinistral N-striking tear faults oblique to the orogen-parallel Kenyase-Yamfo shear zone. At the deposit scale, ore-related hydrothermal alteration is zoned, with distal chlorite-sericite grading into proximal silica-albite-Fe-carbonate mineral assemblages. Alteration halos are restricted to narrow selvages around quartz-carbonate vein arrays in multiple stacked ore shoots at Subika, whereas these halos extend 30 to 100 m away from the ore zones at Apensu and Awonsu. There is a clear spatial association between shallow-dipping mafic dikes, mafic chonoliths, shear zones, and economic gold mineralization. The abundance of mafic dikes and chonoliths within intermediate to felsic hanging-wall plutonic host rocks provided rheological heterogeneity that favored the formation of enhanced fracture permeability, promoting the tapping of ore fluid(s). Our interpretation is that these stacked shallow-dipping mafic dike arrays also acted as aquitards, impeding upward fluid flow within the wider intrusive rock mass until a failure threshold was episodically reached due to fluid overpressure, resulting in transient fracture-controlled upward propagation of the ore-fluid(s). Our results indicate that high-grade ore shoots at Ahafo South form part of vertically extensive fluid conduit systems that are primarily controlled by the rheological architecture of the rock mass.
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Al-Kadi, Alaa, and Samir Chatterjee. "Tapping the Wisdom of Crowd Phenomenon in Healthcare Social Networks." International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking 8, no. 3 (July 2012): 42–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jbdcn.2012070103.
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Online social networks are increasing in popularity. Among teens, they are fast becoming synonymous with being online, i.e., using the Internet (Lenhart et al., 2011). As online social networks became widespread, it is found that people are using it for various purposes including work, leisure, entertainment, as well as healthcare. In this paper, the authors share their viewpoint and insights on the use of online social networks for healthcare related purposes which are sometimes also referred to as Health 2.0, or as Health Social Networks (HSNs). The authors examine the potential of HSNs in empowering patients and health information seekers towards wellbeing and healthy living. They also discuss the various potential uses of HSNs by healthcare providers and healthcare organizations. A three-dimensional framework is developed by analyzing 37 best-known commercial HSN sites to help categorize HSNs that can aide in their design process. More importantly, we provide an in-depth discussion on the future role of social networks within Healthcare.
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Ongera, Faith Kwamboka, and Fredrick Ndede. "Shariah Banking and Financial Performance of Selected Commercial Banks in Kenya." International Journal of Current Aspects 3, no. VI (November 8, 2019): 50–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.35942/ijcab.v3ivi.78.
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Financial performance is important among banking institutions. The ability to reinvest earnings and aggressively compete for the market share in the business environment is determined by the level of profits. In recent past, Kenyan commercial banks financial performance has declined due to a number of factors ranging from decline in PAT, interest capping, increased competition and rise in non-performing loans. This has created a need for income diversification where commercial banks are diversifying into shariah banking so as to attract investors with an interest in shariah compliant products and services. The main research objective was to investigate shariah compliant banking effects on the selected Kenyan commercial banks in terms of financial performance. The independent variables employed in the study were liquidity, efficiency and asset quality as determinants of financial performance of commercial bank. There are major gaps in the financial performance literature regarding shariah compliant banking. Minimal research studies have been carried on financial performance comparison between commercial and shariah compliant banks in Kenya. In order to achieve the research objectives, descriptive research approach was employed in the study. A census study was carried out; secondary data from relevant central bank data will be used. The population was the four commercial banks operating shariah banking in Kenya. Secondary data from 2013 to 2017 was obtained from the central bank website and the audited financial statements of the selected licensed commercial banks operating shariah banking in Kenya. Data analysis was achieved through use of descriptive, correlation and regression methods. Data was processed through Statistical Package for Social Science software (SPSS). Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential analysis and presented using charts and tables. Ratio analysis and trend analysis was used in the study. The study aimed at using the framework of innovation diffusion theory to suggest a model for adoption of shariah banking in the Kenyan banking industry, modern portfolio theory to explain the importance of diversified portfolio in the Banking Sector and Agency Theory. The study found commercial banks’ performance was as a result of that Shariah banking ratio then by liquidity ratio, efficiency ratio, asset ratio, and finally bank size. Bank size had a ratio of 0.0128, expense management ratio 0.0131, efficiency ratio 0.0024, Asset quality 0.0006, liquidity ratio 0.0120 and sharia banking ratio was 0.0025. It was revealed by the research that commercial banks’ adoption of shariah banking positively influenced their financial performance. This research recommends that same studies to be carried out in Africa’s Eastern part to compare since shariah banking’ concentration is on the Asian and West Africa countries. The research recommends that commercial banks management take advantage of its existing branch networks to open shariah banking alongside its core business in tapping the potential new clientele.
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Ho, Chen-En. "TAPPING INTO INTERPRETING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION TO ENGAGE IN TARGETED TRANSLATION PRACTICE." CURRENT TRENDS IN TRANSLATION TEACHING AND LEARNING E 7 (December 28, 2020): 39–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.51287/cttl_e_2020_3_chen-en_ho.pdf.
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Translation and interpreting are different in many aspects. For the former, the source and target text remain available and communication between participants happens asynchronously; the latter demands immediate interaction and speech signals are fast fading. The two activities and their respective contexts, including working conditions, are also dissimilar in the professional world. A quick glance may leave an impression that entirely different training is in order. However, translation and interpreting as a profession also share tremendous similarities — the European Master’s Translation competence framework adequately applies to interpreting. This action research study aimed to motivate beginning interpreting students to overcome challenges in interpreting practice via translation activities. A two-stage translation workshop was designed, and the results show that students became more engaged in the workshop when the authenticity of the tasks and the relevance between translation practice and interpreting performance were elucidated. Keywords: motivation, situated translation, simulated training, project-based learning, entrepreneurship, action research
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Feder, Judy. "Who Is Winning in Energy Transition?" Journal of Petroleum Technology 73, no. 06 (June 1, 2021): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0621-0034-jpt.
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We talk about “the energy transition” as if it were some type of unified, global event. Instead, numerous approaches to energy transitions are taking place in parallel, with all of the “players” moving at different paces, in different directions, and with different guiding philosophies. Which companies are best positioned to survive and thrive, and why? This article takes a look at what several top energy research and business intelligence firms are saying. What a Difference a Year Makes Prior to 2020—in fact, as recently as the 2014 bust that followed the shale boom—the oil and gas industry weathered downturns by “tightening their belts” and “doing more with less” in the form of cutting capital expenditures and costs, tapping credit lines, and improving operational efficiency. Adopting advanced digitalization and cognitive technologies as integral parts of the supply chain from 2015 to 2019 led to significant performance improvements as companies dealt with “shale shock.” Then, in 2020, a strange thing happened. Just as disruptive technologies like electric vehicles and solar photovoltaic and new batteries were gaining traction and decarbonization and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues were rising to the top of global social and policy agendas, COVID-19 left companies with almost nothing to squeeze from their supply chains, and budget cuts had a direct impact on operational performance and short-term operational plans. To stabilize their returns, many oil and gas companies revised and reshaped their portfolios and business strategies around decarbonization and alternative energy sources. The result: The investment in efforts toward effecting energy transition surpassed $500 billion for the first time in early 2021 ($501.3 billion, a 9% increase over 2019, according to BloombergNEF) despite the economic disruption caused by COVID-19. According to Wood Mackenzie, carbon emissions and carbon intensity are now key metrics in any project’s final investment decision. And, Rystad Energy said that greenhouse-gas emissions are declining faster than what is outlined in many conventional models regarded as aggressive scenarios. In Rystad’s model, electrification levels will reach 80% by 2050. A Look at the Playing Field: Energy Transition Pillars In a February 2021 webinar, Rystad discussed what leading exploration and production (E&P) companies are doing to keep up with the energy transition and stay investable in the rapidly changing market environment. The consulting firm researched the top 25 E&P companies based on their oil and gas production in 2020 and analyzed how they approach various market criteria in “three pillars of energy transition in the E&P sector” that the firm regards as key distinguishers and important indicators of potential success (Fig. 1). The research excludes national oil companies (NOCs) except for those with international activity (INOCs). Rystad says these 25 companies are responsible for almost 40% of global hydrocarbon production and the same share of global E&P investments and believes the trends within this peer group are representative on a global scale.
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Lin, Lin, and Krystal A. Barber. "Tapping into the Potential of Student Engagement with Universal Design for Learning in Pedagogical Courses." Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning 14, no. 2 (July 5, 2022): 114–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.14305/jn.19440413.2022.14.2.04.
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This paper outlines instructional strategies and course projects that demonstrate multiple means of engagement, representation, action, and expression, the essential principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The authors first share specific practices and examples related to each of the essential principles of UDL. Next, three projects are presented to demonstrate how these principles, along with technological tools, can be infused into pedagogical courses to prepare preservice elementary teachers in inclusive, online learning environments. This paper explores how teaching strategies and online tools were chosen with purpose, to promote positive learning outcomes and to prepare preservice teachers for the blended and distance learning environments they will likely encounter as they enter into the teaching profession.
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Hiyama, Tamejiro. "Preface." Pure and Applied Chemistry 77, no. 7 (January 1, 2005): iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac20057707iv.
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Organic synthesis has long played a pivotal role in the chemical sciences. It is therefore unsurprising and appropriate that the International Conferences on Organic Synthesis (ICOS) continue to thrive. This series was initiated by IUPAC in 1976 and has since featured biennially as one of the core events of the Union. What is surprising is that 22 years have elapsed since an ICOS event was last hosted by Japan. On that occasion, ICOS-4 was held in 1982 at Shinjuku, Tokyo, and was acclaimed as a great success. The latest event (ICOS-15), in Nagoya, Japan on 1ñ6 August 2004, offered an opportunity to match or surpass the impact of its predecessoróa challenge that was taken up enthusiastically under the leadership of Profs. Minoru Isobe (Nagoya University) and Hisashi Yamamoto (now at the University of Chicago) as Conference co-Chairs. Almost 1000 participants converged on Nagoya from all parts of the world. A noticeably high level of participation by delegates from East Asia in relation to those from North America and Europe attested to the growing capacity of this region to contribute to research at the forefront of this area of the chemical sciences. The scientific program of the Conference embraced all aspects of modern synthetic organic chemistry, inter alia, the invention of selective synthetic methods, asymmetric synthesis, total synthesis of natural products, design and synthesis of artificial agents for pharmaceutical and agricultural uses, and molecular assembly and materials based on molecular function. This topical breadth was also captured in a poster program, which was handsomely supported by no less than 466 displays on every conceivable facet of the subject. Overall, it is evident that organic synthesis has expanded its boundaries increasingly toward biological and material sciences, in response to the new challenges arising from rapid progress in molecular biology and applied physics during recent years.A lecture program comprising 10 plenary and 20 invited presentations, in addition to the Thieme/IUPAC award lecture and two Nagoya medal lectures, contributed to a truly exciting Conference experience, and the 21 speakers who kindly agreed to contribute papers based upon their presentations have made it possible to capture some of the excitement in this issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The Nagoya Gold Medallist, J. F. Stoddart, used the occasion to share an absorbing and very personal perspective on molecular assembly and materials, a theme on which M. Fujita also disclosed new insights and developments. The perennial theme of total synthesis of natural products, provided scope for presentation of highly creative accomplishments by S. Ley, J. Cossy, Y. Langlois, R. Pilli, and S. Kozmin on a variety of challenging targets. Such advances in the total synthesis of biologically active natural products having extremely complex structures, often necessitate development of novel synthetic methods, and H. Overkleeft, P. Chiu, V. Nair, T.-P. Loh, S. Martin, T.-Y. Luh, E. Juaristi, and M. Catellani did justice to this theme with presentations on a variety of extremely elegant and sophisticated new developments in methodology, based upon organometallic catalysts and/or reagents. Finally, the broad theme of asymmetric synthesis using organometallic complexes with chiral ligands or chiral organocatalysts was developed in conjunction with combinatorial methodology, which is shown to be highly effective in optimizing catalytic systems. Those who contributed to the topic of asymmetric synthesis are K. Ding, A. Charette, S. H. Kang, A. Berkessel, and K. Maruoka, the recipient of the Nagoya Silver Medal.What is the future of organic synthesis? The invention of unprecedented drugs and materials has enriched and expanded the horizons of the human experience in formerly unimagined ways, and owes much to the ever increasing ingenuity of organic synthesis, and recognition and attainment of new synthetic targets. The impact of organic synthesis on cognate disciplines and on general advancement of science and technology is definitely enormous and will be further strengthened by future challenges and opportunities. Thus, it is hoped that younger generations will be inspired to participate in tapping this rich potential, in the cause of advancing science and contributing to the enrichment of future life. These aspirations may yield incalculable rewards. Such progress will certainly be reflected in the scientific program of the next Conference in the ICOS series, which will take place in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico on 11ñ15 June 2006, under the chairmanship of Dr. Eusebio Juaristi, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico.Tamejiro HiyamaConference EditorDepartment of Material ChemistryKyoto University, Kyoto, Japan *An issue of reviews and research papers based on lectures presented at the 15th International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS-15), held in Nagoya, Japan, 1-6 August 2004, on the theme of organic synthesis. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 1087-1296.
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Anobile, Giovanni, Roberto Arrighi, Irene Togoli, and David Charles Burr. "A shared numerical representation for action and perception." eLife 5 (August 9, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.16161.
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Humans and other species have perceptual mechanisms dedicated to estimating approximate quantity: a sense of number. Here we show a clear interaction between self-produced actions and the perceived numerosity of subsequent visual stimuli. A short period of rapid finger-tapping (without sensory feedback) caused subjects to underestimate the number of visual stimuli presented near the tapping region; and a period of slow tapping caused overestimation. The distortions occurred both for stimuli presented sequentially (series of flashes) and simultaneously (clouds of dots); both for magnitude estimation and forced-choice comparison. The adaptation was spatially selective, primarily in external, real-world coordinates. Our results sit well with studies reporting links between perception and action, showing that vision and action share mechanisms that encode numbers: a generalized number sense, which estimates the number of self-generated as well as external events.
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Yamashita, Masatoshi, Chie Ohsawa, Maki Suzuki, Xia Guo, Makiko Sadakata, Yuki Otsuka, Kohei Asano, Nobuhito Abe, and Kaoru Sekiyama. "Neural Advantages of Older Musicians Involve the Cerebellum: Implications for Healthy Aging Through Lifelong Musical Instrument Training." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 15 (January 5, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.784026.
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This study compared 30 older musicians and 30 age-matched non-musicians to investigate the association between lifelong musical instrument training and age-related cognitive decline and brain atrophy (musicians: mean age 70.8 years, musical experience 52.7 years; non-musicians: mean age 71.4 years, no or less than 3 years of musical experience). Although previous research has demonstrated that young musicians have larger gray matter volume (GMV) in the auditory-motor cortices and cerebellum than non-musicians, little is known about older musicians. Music imagery in young musicians is also known to share a neural underpinning [the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and cerebellum] with music performance. Thus, we hypothesized that older musicians would show superiority to non-musicians in some of the abovementioned brain regions. Behavioral performance, GMV, and brain activity, including functional connectivity (FC) during melodic working memory (MWM) tasks, were evaluated in both groups. Behaviorally, musicians exhibited a much higher tapping speed than non-musicians, and tapping speed was correlated with executive function in musicians. Structural analyses revealed larger GMVs in both sides of the cerebellum of musicians, and importantly, this was maintained until very old age. Task-related FC analyses revealed that musicians possessed greater cerebellar-hippocampal FC, which was correlated with tapping speed. Furthermore, musicians showed higher activation in the SMG during MWM tasks; this was correlated with earlier commencement of instrumental training. These results indicate advantages or heightened coupling in brain regions associated with music performance and imagery in musicians. We suggest that lifelong instrumental training highly predicts the structural maintenance of the cerebellum and related cognitive maintenance in old age.
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Ghatak, Maitreesh, and Thierry Verdier. "Inequality and identity salience." Indian Economic Review, March 9, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41775-023-00164-1.
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AbstractThis paper provides a simple model of identity salience that is applied to the phenomenon of the recent rise in right-wing populism in the Western world. Trade and capital flows, skill-biased technological change, and migration have led to declining employment and wages in these economies and a parallel rise in economic and cultural populism, tapping into nativist sentiments. We argue that when long-term income stagnation for most of the population and decline for some go together with high rates of income growth at the very top, one has zero-sum economics and that naturally raises the possibility of using various kinds of social identities to claim a bigger share of a fixed sized pie. We show that in ethnically or racially polarized societies this naturally leads to the salience of social identities that enable majority ethnic groups to vote for policies that exclude minority groups so that they get a greater share of a dwindling surplus. In contrast, in more ethnically and racially homogeneous societies, this would instead lead to the demand for more pro-redistribution policies that involve greater provision of public goods.
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Andrews, J. Craig, Kristen L. Walker, Richard G. Netemeyer, and Jeremy Kees. "EXPRESS: Helping Youth Navigate Privacy Protection: Developing and Testing the Children’s Online Privacy Scale (COPS)." Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, March 8, 2023, 074391562311652. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07439156231165250.
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As children and teen internet use has reached record highs, the protection of their online privacy is a pressing issue for parents, consumer groups, social media firms, and federal, state, and international agencies. Even with strategies to help children protect their personal information, questions remain as to what children really know about the risks of interacting online. Thus far, much of the online privacy research has relied on subjective measures about adult beliefs and attitudes, which may not be predictive of children’s online privacy behaviors. To address these issues, the authors develop and test a “Children’s Online Privacy Scale” (COPS) tapping different content domains of objective knowledge about online privacy for children and young teens (ages 6-15). Based on our conceptualization, evidence is offered in two pretests and four studies supporting the scale’s structure, reliability, and validity relationships with online privacy education, age categories, personality traits, intent to share personal information online, and online privacy behaviors. Implications for child and young teen online privacy policy are offered.
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Oeberst, Aileen, and Roland Imhoff. "Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases." Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 17, 2023, 174569162211481. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17456916221148147.
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One of the essential insights from psychological research is that people’s information processing is often biased. By now, a number of different biases have been identified and empirically demonstrated. Unfortunately, however, these biases have often been examined in separate lines of research, thereby precluding the recognition of shared principles. Here we argue that several—so far mostly unrelated—biases (e.g., bias blind spot, hostile media bias, egocentric/ethnocentric bias, outcome bias) can be traced back to the combination of a fundamental prior belief and humans’ tendency toward belief-consistent information processing. What varies between different biases is essentially the specific belief that guides information processing. More importantly, we propose that different biases even share the same underlying belief and differ only in the specific outcome of information processing that is assessed (i.e., the dependent variable), thus tapping into different manifestations of the same latent information processing. In other words, we propose for discussion a model that suffices to explain several different biases. We thereby suggest a more parsimonious approach compared with current theoretical explanations of these biases. We also generate novel hypotheses that follow directly from the integrative nature of our perspective.
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Mohapatra, Soumya, Sendhil R., and Akshith Sai Pabba. "Analysis of Dairy Value Chains in Organized Sectors of Haryana: A Chain Wide Learning Approach." Indian Journal of Extension Education, 2022, 96–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.48165/ijee.2022.58420.
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Despite the fact that India is the highest milk producer in the world, dynamic production and consumption pattern of milk furnishes immense scope for analyzing the existing dairy value chains in the country. Value chain analysis is important to understand the prevailing market situation, interrelationships among the core actors, their market participation and issues & challenges involved in the value chain. Main objective of the study is to analyze the value chains of milk in organized dairy sector comprising of co-operative and private dairies of Haryana. Chain wide learning method was employed to analyze the detailed value chain of milk considering the stakeholders from input suppliers to consumers for improving the performance of value chain. The empirical evidences indicated that procurement, chilling and processing costs were higher in the co-operative dairy than the private dairy plant. However, the co-operative plant realized higher producers’ share in consumers’ price (76.16%) than the private dairy plant (75.15%) with a higher degree of marketing efficiency (3.20). Therefore, attention must be given the mobilize large number of farmers towards organized dairy sector by providing modern technologies and training facilities to strengthen the value chain management practices for tapping the commercial potential of Indian dairy sector.
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Elrod, James K., and John L. Fortenberry. "Advertising in health and medicine: using mass media to communicate with patients." BMC Health Services Research 20, S1 (September 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05599-3.
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Abstract Background Advertising—a marketing communications method involving the paid use of mass media to deliver messages to desired audiences—represents one of the most common and effective avenues for engaging current and prospective patients. Although late to proliferate in the health services industry due to tradition, the medium of communication is now firmly established and routinely deployed by health and medical organizations far and wide. Despite widespread use, healthcare providers must take opportunities, when and where possible, to stay abreast of the latest details concerning advertising and its associated applications, increasing the likelihood of successful audience engagements. Discussion Maintaining an awareness of current developments in health services advertising can be facilitated by acquiring operational perspectives and practices from peer institutions. Most any healthcare provider can benefit from experiential views as they can shape and hone advertising approaches. Gaining such insights can be difficult, given competitive sensitivities, but occasionally healthcare institutions are compelled to share knowledge in published accounts, with this particular article following suit. Specifically, insights and experiences from Willis-Knighton Health System’s extensive and historic use of advertising are shared, bolstering the experiential accounts available in the literature and supplying operational guidance for health and medical providers. Conclusions Advertising, if well devised and deployed, offers healthcare providers opportunities to dramatically improve their fortunes by successfully engaging current and prospective patients, hastening exchange and building vital market share. In pursuit of advertising excellence, health and medical establishments can bolster associated endeavors by tapping into the experiences of other healthcare providers, permitting insights which might potentially be incorporated into communicative pathways. This account sheds light on the advertising operations of a major health system, supplying food for thought for the advancement of advertising acumen.
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Colbran, Richard, Robyn Ramsden, Michael Edwards, Emer O'Callaghan, and Dave Karlson. "Beyond the workforce training pipeline: embracing the meandering stream of “whole of life” and career to strengthen the retention of health professionals rurally." Journal of Integrated Care ahead-of-print, ahead-of-print (December 1, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-04-2020-0022.
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PurposeWhile Australia has continued to invest in polices and strategies aimed at improving rural health service provision, many communities still confront a disproportionate share of the rural workforce shortage. The NSW Rural Doctors Network (RDN) contributes its perspectives about the importance of a whole of life career and the meandering stream concept to support the retention of health professionals rurally. We unpack these concepts and examine how they bring to light a new and useful approach to addressing rural workforce challenges and potentially contribute to building a stronger integrated care approach.Design/methodology/approachThe approach used involved tapping into RDN's 30-years of experience in recruitment and retention of remote and rural health professionals, combined with insights from relevant existing and emerging evidence.FindingsWe suggest that reframing retention to consider a life stage approach to career will guide more effective targeting of rural health policies, workforce planning, collaborative approaches and allocation of incentives. We posit that an understanding and acceptance of modern lifestyles and career pathways, and a celebration of career commitment to serving rural communities, is necessary for successful recruitment and retention of Australia's future rural health workforce beyond the training pipeline.Originality/valueWe outline and visually represent RDN's meandering stream approach to building and retaining a capable rural health workforce through addressing life cycle and workforce level needs. This perspective paper draws on RDN's direct experience in the field.
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Kavalieratos, Dio, Sarah M. Sullivan, and Rachel Hess. "Abstract 213: Engaging Cardiology Patients Via Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes: A Usability Assessment." Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 7, suppl_1 (July 2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/circoutcomes.7.suppl_1.213.
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Background: The use of electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) in clinical practice is a powerful method of engaging the patient voice to help design, assess, and improve the healthcare we provide. Understanding how well patients interact with technology underlies our ability to engage patients to share their experiences regarding health, illness, and treatment using computers. To date, little is known regarding patients’ perceptions of ePROs in clinical practice; the literature is even thinner regarding patients’ experiences with ePROs in the cardiology setting. Methods: In 2012, we implemented an ePRO collection system throughout the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) Heart and Vascular Institute; sites included both community and academic cardiology practices. Patients use tablet computers to complete various symptom and quality-of-life assessments, which are seamlessly integrated into the electronic medical record. In this study, patients completed a short usability assessment at the conclusion of their ePRO survey. We assessed five types of trouble using the system: visibility, item comprehension, physical limitations, tapping, and other. Patients’ clinical and demographic data were abstracted from the electronic medical record, and matched to their ePRO assessments .We conducted univariate and bivariate statistics to describe the sample, as well as to identify associations between patient characteristics and patient-reported difficulty using the ePRO system. Results: From 01-August-2012 to 15-August-2013, 2,728 cardiology outpatients completed ePRO questionnaires. The average patient was a 63-year-old White male with a Charlson comorbidity score of 1. Eighty-two percent (n=2,247) of patients reported no difficulty using the ePRO system; of the 481 patients reporting any difficulty, 47% (n=221) found the tablet unresponsive to tapping, and 14% (n=66) of patients reported issues with item comprehension. Patients ≥65 years old and patients with rheumatoid disease were more likely to report difficulty (p<0.0001 and p=0.056, respectively) using the ePRO system. Patients who reported difficulty with the tablets were likelier to have reported worse health at the time of interview than a year prior (p=0.002), and were likelier to report both poorer physical and mental health than those patients without difficulty (p<0.001 and p<0.001, respectively). Conclusions: We have implemented a usable system to collect ePROs in cardiology patients across a variety of clinical settings. Although only a minority of patients reported difficulty with the system, future research is needed to facilitate maximal patient engagement with this method of data collection.
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Cheng, Justin, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec, David Liben-Nowell, Bogdan State, Karthik Subbian, and Lada Adamic. "Do Diffusion Protocols Govern Cascade Growth?" Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 12, no. 1 (June 15, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.15023.
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Large cascades can develop in online social networks as people share information with one another. Though simple reshare cascades have been studied extensively, the full range of cascading behaviors on social media is much more diverse. Here we study how diffusion protocols, or the social exchanges that enable information transmission, affect cascade growth, analogous to the way communication protocols define how information is transmitted from one point to another. Studying 98 of the largest information cascades on Facebook, we find a wide range of diffusion protocols - from cascading reshares of images, which use a simple protocol of tapping a single button for propagation, to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, whose diffusion protocol involved individuals creating and posting a video, and then nominating specific others to do the same. We find recurring classes of diffusion protocols, and identify two key counterbalancing factors in the construction of these protocols, with implications for a cascade's growth: the effort required to participate in the cascade, and the social cost of staying on the sidelines. Protocols requiring greater individual effort slow down a cascade's propagation, while those imposing a greater social cost of not participating increase the cascade's adoption likelihood. The predictability of transmission also varies with protocol. But regardless of mechanism, the cascades in our analysis all have a similar reproduction number (≈1.8), meaning that lower rates of exposure can be offset with higher per-exposure rates of adoption. Last, we show how a cascade's structure can not only differentiate these protocols, but also be modeled through branching processes. Together, these findings provide a framework for understanding how a wide variety of information cascades can achieve substantial adoption across a network.
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Xu, Shan, Chang Xu, Sarah McIntyre, Håkan Olausson, and Gregory J. Gerling. "3D Visual Tracking to Quantify Physical Contact Interactions in Human-to-Human Touch." Frontiers in Physiology 13 (June 9, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.841938.
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Across a plethora of social situations, we touch others in natural and intuitive ways to share thoughts and emotions, such as tapping to get one’s attention or caressing to soothe one’s anxiety. A deeper understanding of these human-to-human interactions will require, in part, the precise measurement of skin-to-skin physical contact. Among prior efforts, each measurement approach exhibits certain constraints, e.g., motion trackers do not capture the precise shape of skin surfaces, while pressure sensors impede skin-to-skin contact. In contrast, this work develops an interference-free 3D visual tracking system using a depth camera to measure the contact attributes between the bare hand of a toucher and the forearm of a receiver. The toucher’s hand is tracked as a posed and positioned mesh by fitting a hand model to detected 3D hand joints, whereas a receiver’s forearm is extracted as a 3D surface updated upon repeated skin contact. Based on a contact model involving point clouds, the spatiotemporal changes of hand-to-forearm contact are decomposed as six, high-resolution, time-series contact attributes, i.e., contact area, indentation depth, absolute velocity, and three orthogonal velocity components, together with contact duration. To examine the system’s capabilities and limitations, two types of experiments were performed. First, to evaluate its ability to discern human touches, one person delivered cued social messages, e.g., happiness, anger, sympathy, to another person using their preferred gestures. The results indicated that messages and gestures, as well as the identities of the touchers, were readily discerned from their contact attributes. Second, the system’s spatiotemporal accuracy was validated against measurements from independent devices, including an electromagnetic motion tracker, sensorized pressure mat, and laser displacement sensor. While validated here in the context of social communication, this system is extendable to human touch interactions such as maternal care of infants and massage therapy.
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Mwandayi, Canisius. "Implications of the imago Dei (Gn 1:26) on gender equality and agrarian land reform in Zimbabwe." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 78, no. 2 (December 8, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v78i2.7688.
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The creation of humanity (Gn 1:26–2:25) marks the climatic point of the creation process because after it, God is said to have rested. A clear marker that humans are the epitome of creation is the fact that they were created in God’s image (Gn 1:26). Unlike animals, humans have the capacity to think, act with free will, exert self-control and also have a conscience. These distinctive characteristics earn humanity not only dominion over creation (Gn 1:28), but also the care towards the created order. The fact of having been created in God’s image, imago Dei, or to be godlike, is therefore associated with certain rights and responsibilities over creation. Further, being created in God’s image implies that human life itself is sacred and thus should not be terminated in any way, either by the individual themself or by any other person(s) (Gn 9:6). Given that human life is so sacred, such a rationale is invoked in the absolute prohibition on murder. Above all, being created in God’s image connotes gender equality – ‘male and female he created them’ (Gn 1:27b). In view of the land reform exercise in Zimbabwe, so much has happened, but the big question which remains is whether women have received a fair share in the land redistribution exercise. Making a womanist contextual reading of Genesis 1:26, this article seeks to reflect on the Zimbabwean land reform exercise, challenging the lack of gender inclusion in the redistribution exercise.Contribution: Given that women theology is that of liberation, empowerment and affirmation, this research makes a unique contribution to women theologies as it pushes for women’s empowerment through fair land redistribution. By tapping into the implications of having been created in God’s image, the research has successfully argued that the current situation, whereby gender gaps in land ownership are still quite large, needs to be addressed as stewardship over creation was given to both men and women.
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Sember, Vedrana, Gregor Jurak, Gregor Starc, and Shawnda A. Morrison. "Can Primary School Mathematics Performance Be Predicted by Longitudinal Changes in Physical Fitness and Activity Indicators?" Frontiers in Psychology 13 (February 8, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.796838.
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ObjectiveTo determine to what extent physical fitness indicators and/or moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) may account for final mathematics academic performance (APmath) awarded at the end of primary school.MethodsSchool-aged youth were sampled in a repeated-measures, longitudinal design in Grade 6 (∼11 years), and again in Grade 9 (∼14 years). The youth (N = 231, 111 girls) completed a fitness test battery consisting of: flamingo balance test, standing long jump, backward obstacle course, plate tapping, sit ups, sit and reach, handgrip, and 20-m shuttle run. APmath scores were obtained for all children at the end of Grade 5, end of Grade 8, and end of Grade 9 (their final year of primary school). In a sub-sample of Grade 6 youth (N = 50, 29 girls), MVPA was measured objectively via SenseWear Pro Armbands (MVPAOB) for seven consecutive days, with measurements repeated in Grade 9.ResultsMath scores decreased from Grade 6 to 9 for both boys and girls (95%CI: −0.89 to −0.53, p < 0.001). MVPAOB was reduced by ∼45.7 min (−33%) from Grade 6 to 9 (p < 0.01). Significant main and interaction effects are noted for each fitness indicator (p < 0.05). A backward stepwise multiple regression analysis determined significant shared variance in final APmath grade to the change scores from Grade 6 to Grade 9 in: ΔAPmath, Δbackward obstacle course, Δsit and reach, and Δsit-ups [R2 = 0.494, F(4,180) = 43.67, p < 0.0001]. A second regression was performed only for the youth who completed MVPAOB measurements. In this sub-sample, MVPAOB did not significantly contribute to the model.ConclusionLongitudinal changes in youth fitness and their delta change in APmath score accounted for 49.4% of the variance in the final math grade awarded at the end of Grade 9. Aerobic power, upper body strength, and muscular endurance share more common variance to final math grade in boys, whereas whole-body coordination was the more relevant index in girls; this finding suggests that future research exploring the relationship of AP and PF should not be limited to cardiorespiratory fitness, instead encompassing muscular and neuro-muscular components of PF.
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Sudan, Falendra Kumar. "Tapping talents in India through diasporas network: Opportunities and challenges." Economic Journal of Development Issues, December 11, 2012, 15–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ejdi.v13i0.7195.
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India had a strong cultural emphasis on education both at private and government level. Since 1990s, government spending on education has been growing at 12% a year, of which roughly a fifth goes towards higher education. By 2030, share of skilled labour in working population will be just 6.2% compared to 14% for world as a whole and 40% in high income countries. While India has made rapid strides in expanding higher education systems, she still faces a number of challenges in terms of effectively utilizing existing supply of talent as well as increasing it sufficiently to meet demands of rapidly growing economy. How to leverage expertise and knowledge of Diasporas for benefit of India is main issue the paper addresses and emphasizes beginning of a new agenda of promoting policy reform and institutional innovation in collaboration with Diasporas networks, which can be crucial bridges between policy, technological and managerial expertise and local scenarios. The public policy reform, educational innovations and promotion of a knowledge-based private sector are few areas where Diasporas members could team up with local governments and external funding agencies to tap Indian talents and promote equitable development.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ejdi.v13i0.7195 Economic Journal of Development Issues Vol.13 & 14 2011, pp.15-33