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Business system: sustainable development and anticipatory systems thinking

The existence and development of humankind depends a lot upon a co-ordinated operation of all areas and levels of human activity. However, in either theory or practice we found no model of operation, which would offer a harmonized and target oriented development. A possible solution is offered by sustainable development, which tries to define and carry out common goals of humankind with a holistic harmonization of humans’ activities at all levels of their living and behaviour. Companies belong to central institutions of the modern society and essentially co–create the sustainability of society. Companies endeavour (e.g. by simulation and planning) to prepare models of their goals and ways concerning their internal and external environment. On the basis of systems approach, we can define companies as business systems, which can best survive in a log-run on the basis of sustainable development. This business system’s effort can also be supported by the application of the anticipatory systems thinking, which can improve its planning methods, if it is holistic, understood as a future oriented mental activity made of its methodological approach, techniques, and modes of work. Its characteristics have a direct impact on holism of the definition of goals, on the orientation of operation, and hence on the achievement of the business system’s results.
nfluence of rootstock on pistachio ( Pistacia vera L . cv Kerman ) water elations

Selecting the rootstock in pistachio orchards is one of the most critical decisions, mainly in conditions of water scarcity. However, there are a few works that report the response of pistachio to water stress according to rootstock. Nowadays, UCB-I is one of the most important rootstock around the world. However, its commercial availability and high prices favour the selection of Pistacia terebinthus L. or Pistacia atlantica Desf. in some regions. The aim of this work is to study the water relations of these three rootstocks using cv Kerman as scion. Thirty pots, in the second year after budding, were subjected to a 28-days water stress period in outdoor conditions. Irrigation was stopped in the water stress treatments during all the 28 days period. The vegetative response was characterised at the end of the experiment. The diameter of the rootstock and scion, number of leaves and the percentage of leaves, trunk and root were measured. Along the experiment water relations parameters such as midday water potential and midday leaf conductance was measured. In order to compare the effect of rootstock and water stress pressureCB-I volume curves were measured before and after the water stress period. Data of vegetative growth suggest that UCB-I was the rootstock less affected for water stress, because these data were not clearly affected. However, water relations parameters suggest that P. atlantica was the most resistant to water stress conditions, according to the results derivate from the pressure-volume curves. Possible mechanisms of are di response to water stress
Effect of temperature and storage time on the quality of eggs from commercial laying hens

The study aimed at assessing the quality of commercial laying hen eggs stored under different temperatures and storage periods. 440 eggs were collected soon after laying by DeKalb White laying hens. All eggs were identified, weighed, and randomly distributed in trays, being 200 stored at room temperature (25.8 ± 0.9 °C), 200 other placed in trays under refrigeration (7.0 ± 0.4 °C), and the the other 40 eggs were used to carry out the evaluation on the first day. The trial design was completely randomized 2x11, scheme factorial, with two temperatures and 11 storage periods (one, three, six, nine, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, and 30 days), with 20 repetitions. The assessed variables were and egg weight loss, specific gravity, Haugh unit, albumen and yolk pH, yolk color, and percentage of shell, albumen, and yolk. The values of egg weight loss, specific gravity, Haugh unit, albumen and yolk pH, yolk color, and percentage of albumen and yolk were significantly influenced (P<0.05) by the storage temperature and period. The different storage temperatures and periods did not influence the percentage of shell in the eggs. It can be concluded that the eggs maintain excellent quality when stored for up to three days after laying, maintain a high-quality standard for up to six days of storage at room temperature, and maintain excellent quality when stored under refrigeration for up to 30 days.
MHz Electromagnetic Fields Ameliorate A β Pathology in Alzheimer ’ s Disease Mice

The involvement of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) in the neurodegenerative disease, especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD), has received wide consideration, however, outcomes from several researches have not shown consistency. In this study, we determined whether RF-EMF influenced AD pathology in vivo using Tg-5xFAD mice as a model of AD-like amyloid β (Aβ) pathology. The transgenic (Tg)-5xFAD and wild type (WT) mice were chronically exposed to RF-EMF for 8 months (1950 MHz, SAR 5W/kg, 2 hrs/day, 5 days/week). Notably, chronic RFEMF exposure significantly reduced not only Aβ plaques, APP, and APP carboxyl-terminal fragments (CTFs) in whole brain including hippocampus and entorhinal cortex but also the ratio of Aβ42 and Aβ40 peptide in the hippocampus of Tg-5xFAD mice. We also found that parenchymal expression of β-amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1(BACE1) and neuroinflammation were inhibited by RF-EMF exposure in Tg-5xFAD. In addition, RF-EMF was shown to rescue memory impairment in Tg-5xFAD. Moreover, gene profiling from microarray data using hippocampus of WT and Tg5xFAD following RF-EMF exposure revealed that 5 genes (Tshz2, Gm12695, St3gal1, Isx and Tll1), which are involved in Aβ, are significantly altered inTg-5xFAD mice, exhibiting different responses to RF-EMF in WT or Tg-5xFAD mice; RF-EMF exposure in WT mice showed similar patterns to control Tg-5xFAD mice, however, RF-EMF exposure in Tg5xFAD mice showed opposite expression patterns. These findings indicate that chronic RF-EMF exposure directly affects Aβ pathology in AD but not in normal brain. Therefore, RF-EMF has preventive effects against AD-like pathology in advanced AD mice with a high expression of Aβ, which suggests that RF-EMF can have a beneficial influence on AD.
Production of Output and Ideas : Efficiency and Growth Patterns in the US

This paper examines efficiency and growth patterns in the production of output and ideas in the US. We employ frontier techniques and jointly estimate the production of output and the production of ideas. We find states to be particularly efficient in the use of their inputs in the production of output process, whereas there is more waste in the use of innovation resources to produce new knowledge. Our results do not lend support to the common perception that richer (more innovative) states are more efficient than less richer (less innovative) states for every dollar spent. Furthermore, an efficient in producing knowledge state is not necessarily efficient in producing goods and services. Finally, a consistent finding is that input accumulation is an important source of growth both for output and for the knowledge.
The Difficulty of Learning Ticket to Ride

Ticket to Ride is a very popular, award-winning board-game where you try to score the most points while building a railway spanning cities in America. For a computer to learn to play this game is very difficult due to the vast state-action space. This project will explain why featurizing your state, and implementing curriculum learning can help agents learn as state-action spaces grow too large for traditional learning methods to be effective.
Iraqi Phosphate Deposits : Geology and Industrial Applications p 25 50 25 GEOLOGY OF THE PHOSPHORITE DEPOSITS OF IRAQ

Phosphorite deposits of Late Cretaceous and Paleogene age are well known in the Iraqi Western Desert. They are part of the regional phosphorite belt of the Tethys which is best developed in North Africa and East Mediterranean countries and is considered to include the largest marine upwelling-type deposits in the world. The phosphorites of Iraq, as with the other deposits of this belt, are marine sedimentary stratiform deposits, granular in texture, associated with limestone, shale, chert and occasionally sandstone. The phosphorite beds may reach several meters in thickness, and show common features of hardgrounds and bioturbation. Silicification is common in these deposits. They were deposited in several cycles of phosphogenesis, extended from Maastrichtian to Middle Eocene. Most of the Iraqi phosphorite deposits, except those in the Nukhaib area, were laid down west of the Horan High, in successive episodes, culminated in the Paleocene. The phosphate components consist mostly of coated grains (cortoids and ooids), uncoated grains (peloids) and to a lesser extent phosphoclasts (mostly bones) and coprolites. The cementing material is commonly calcite; occasionally silicified. The only phosphate mineral identified is francolite. The P2O5 content of the Iraqi deposits is generally in the range of (18 – 25) %, but typically (20 – 22) %; the main diluent is calcite cement. The phosphorites, as with most upwelling marine deposits, are relatively enriched in F, U, Cd, Sr, Y and REE, which are associated with the phosphate phase. The indicated phosphate resources of Iraq were estimated by about 10 billion metric tones, which put Iraq the second after Morocco in that respect. These resources are divided among several deposits; most of which are bordering the northern and western rims of the Ga'ara Depression. They are: Akashat, Swab, Hirri, Marbat, Dwaima, H3 and Ethna. The bulk of the phosphate resources is found in the Paleocene Akashat Formation. The H3 deposit includes parts of the Late Cretaceous sequence (Digma Formation), whereas the Ethna deposit is merely of Middle Eocene age (Ratga Formation). Among the Iraqi deposits, only Akashat has been developed and exploited since the early eighties of the past century. ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 1 Scientific researcher, Czech Geological Survey, Prague, Czech Republic (former director of Iraq Geological Survey), e-mail: albassam703@gmail.com Geology of the Phosphorite Deposits of Iraq Khaldoun S. Al-Bassam 26 تيروفسوفلا بساور ةيجولويج قارعلا يف
econstor Make Your Publications Visible . A Service of zbw

This paper combines an economic experiment with survey data to investigate determinants of trust and trustworthiness in the Dutch society. We contrast the inferences which can be made on the trust propensity using stated and revealed measures and we test for participation bias in our experiment. We find that middle aged and educated individuals trust relatively more but are relatively less trustworthy. The effect of age and religion on trust is shown to depend heavily on whether experimental or survey trust measures are used. We find no evidence of participation bias in any experimental decisions. JEL Codes: Z13, C90, C10
Buprenorphine-naloxone versus methadone maintenance therapy: A randomised double-blind trial with opioid-dependent patients

This is the fi rst randomised study comparing buprenorphine-naloxone with methadone for maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. A 17-week, double-blind, double-dummy trial of daily dosing compared buprenorphine-naloxone (8/2 mg and 16/4 mg) with methadone (45 mg and 90 mg) in 268 participants. The percentage of opioid-free urine samples over time did not differ by drug or dosage. The percentage of patients with ≥12 consecutive opioid-negative urine samples did not differ by drug and was signifi cantly greater for patients receiving higher doses of either agent. Induction success, compliance, nonopioid drug use, retention and Addiction Severity Index scores did not differ among groups. Buprenorphine-naloxone is a viable alternative to methadone in clinical practice.
Value Loss in Allocation Systems with Provider Guarantees

Many operational settings share the following three features: (i) a centralized planning system allocates tasks to workers or service providers, (ii) the providers generate value by completing the tasks, and (iii) the completion of tasks influences the providers’ welfare. In such cases, the planning system’s allocations often entail trade-offs between the service providers’ welfare and the total value that is generated (or that accrues to the system itself), and concern arises that allocations that are good under one metric may perform poorly under the other. We propose a broad framework for quantifying the magnitude of value losses when allocations are restricted to satisfy certain desirable guarantees to the service providers. We consider a general class of guarantees that includes many considerations of practical interest arising (e.g., in the design of sustainable two-sided markets) in workforce welfare and compensation, or in sourcing and payments in supply chains, among other application domains. We derive tight bounds on the relative value loss and show that this loss is limited for any restriction included in our general class. Our analysis shows that when many providers are present, the largest losses are driven by fairness considerations, whereas when few providers are present, they are driven by the heterogeneity in the providers’ effectiveness to generate value; when providers are perfectly homogenous, the losses never exceed 50%. We study additional loss drivers and find that less variability in the value of jobs and a more balanced supply-demand ratio may lead to larger losses. Lastly, we demonstrate numerically using both real-world and synthetic data that the loss can be small in several cases of practical interest. This paper was accepted by Chung Piaw Teo, optimization.
Nuclear oncology : diagnosis and therapy

Brand-new book from Drs. Khalkhali, Maublant, and Goldsmith reports on everything that is currently understood about the role of nuclear medicine in cancer detection, diagnosis, and therapy! This one-of-a-kind reference on the largest subset of nuclear medicine looks at the value of using functional imaging studies to detect and diagnose cancer. It offers both an overview (radiopharmaceuticals, instrumentation, side effects, etc.) and an anatomic perspective to help you skillfully evaluate, diagnose and treat a full spectrum of lesions.Nuclear Oncology also recognises the increasing value of PET in oncologic practice, and each chapter guides you through the latest applications
Fishery, population dynamics and stock structure of frigate tuna Auxis thazard (Lacepede, 1800) exploited from Indian waters

Auxis thazard, commonly known as frigate tuna represents an important group of coastal tuna species occurring in the Indian waters. The species is landed all along the Indian coastline and the major landing is along the south-west coast with Kerala contributing the most. The species is exploited by a variety of gears viz., drift gill nets, shore seines, ring seines and hooks and lines. Though there is recent information on the fishery and the exploitation status of Auxis thazard from Tuticorin (Kasim, 2002; Abdussamad et al., 2005) and Veraval (Ghosh et al., 2010), studies on the catch, population characteristics and stock estimates covering the entire coasts of India are lacking after the work of Silas et al. (1985) and James et al. (1993). These studies date back to two decades, after which there has been a change in the fishing pattern of coastal tunas throughout the country. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to provide an insight into the fishery, population dynamics and stock structure of A. thazard exploited from Indian waters
THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Employee engagement and Organizational justice has been emerged as the hottest topic on the discussion boards for many years in Human resource management, organizational behavior and organizational psychology. Recently, its’ have been interesting subject for academicians and business practitioners due to the increasing importance. Additionally, according to Social Exchange Theories, when individuals received economic and socioemotional resources from their organization, they feel obliged to respond in kind and repay the organization. The aim of this study is to test whether there is mediating effect of organizational justice between the relationship of economic performance and employee engagement. Data was collected from 200 employees of 13 Islamic banks in Malaysia that consist of 55.5% male and 44.5% female. Their ages are ranging from 20 to 50 years old from Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia to professional qualification of academic background that appointed as clerk, executive and top management team. Their minimum duration of services from 6 months to over than 20 years with the salary that range from RM1,500 per month to RM10,000 per month. The statistical tool of Structural Equation ModelAMOS 2.0 was used in analysing the data. The results indicated that there is mediating effect of organizational justice between the relationship between economic performance and employee engagement. The key findings of this study suggest that the organisations and managers need to understand the changing factors of engagement as well as the demographic factors of their employees. So that, the potential effectiveness of corporate reputation adoption, the selection of strategies and the development of employees may be conducted more effectively.
University of Liege Modeling of aerodynamic forces in flapping flight with the Unsteady Vortex Lattice Method

This thesis concerns the extensive study and comparison of two approaches commonly used to compute the aerodynamic forces with the unsteady vortex lattice method. The first approach was introduced by Katz and Plotkin and is based on Bernoulli’s equations, the second approach was based Joukowski’s equations for the computation of forces. This report is divided in two main sections: the study of one wing undergoing simple movements (steady, pure harmonic pitching and pure harmonic plunging) and the study of two separate wings undergoing a combination of flapping and pitching such as seen in avian flight. For the simple test cases, the results obtained with both methods of computation were first compared to an analytical solution for a (quasi) 2D case. Then the comparison of both methods was made for finite wings. For the 3D problem a convergence study was done with respect to the chordwise discretisation of the airfoils. This section showed that for all the cases, the two methods give almost the same answer and therefore they could be considered as equivalent. The convergence study realised for finite wings showed however that Joukowski’s method converges quicker than Katz’s for symmetric airfoils, but it is the other way around when it comes to cambered airfoils. The study of the flapping and pitching motion is based on the work of N. Abdul Razak in [2]. The influence of pitch leading was extensively studied as this phenomenon presents a flow attached at all time, so these kinematics are well suited for the vortex lattice method. Both pure flapping and pitch lagging were also discussed but more briefly. For pitch leading, the study showed that in general both methods give the same results for the drag and the lift. Moreover, the UVLM solutions were very close to the experimental ones, especially for the drag. The convergence showed a small advantage for the Katz method for the coarser meshes, but in the end both methods appear to reach convergence for the same discretisation.
Somatic Tumors Arising in Ovarian Teratomas-Experience from an Oncology Center in South India

Background: Teratomas constitute 95% of ovarian germ cell tumors. Though somatic neoplasms have been reported to arise in teratomas,very few studies had attempted to analyze the incidence and associated risk factors. Methods: We report the incidence of teratomas and the somatic neoplasms arising from them, over a 5 year period from January 2013 to December 2017,by analyzing the cases treated in our institute, which is an oncology center in South India.147 teratomas were encountered, of which,13 were immature teratomas.9 cases had somatic tumors arising in them, of which 2 were neuroectodermal tumors(one astrocytoma, one oligodendroglia) and 7 were carcinomas(5 squamous cell carcinomas,1 thyroid carcinoma and 1 mucoepidermoid carcinoma). We also attempted to study the associated risk factors. Conclusions: All the carcinomas developed in women above 45 years; with tumor size more than 10cm and solid area more than 2cm.Hence we suggest that teratomas with these risk factors need to be thoroughly sampled to exclude associated carcinomas.
Issues for Study in Exercise Psychology : Toward the Quantification of Exercise Prescriptions for Enhancing Mental Health

In recent years, a number of researchers have claimed that vigorous exercise and physical activity have positive effcts on mental health in both clinical and nonclinical populations. This positive relationship between exercise and psychological benefits is well established ; on the other hand, people will not reap psychological benefits if they fail to regularly engage in exercise. The purpose of this paper is to review studies that investigate the psychological benefits of exercise and to explore avenues for future research to allow for effective exercise prescription. The theories of "Flow" (Chikzsentomihalyi, 1975), "Optimal level of arousal", (Landers, 1980), and "Self-determination" (Deci and Ryan, 1985) are reviewed, because "pleasantness," "optimal stress", and "self-determination" appear to enhance exercise adherence and psychological benefits of exercise. These theories were employed to detemine an optimal exercise intensity, and the significance of expressing the optimal intensity in terms of subjective exercise intensity is described. Finally, in order to enhance exercise adherence and exercise-induced psychological benefits, a new approach is advocated, Comfortable Self-Established Pace (CSEP), as a way for detemining optimal exercise intensity. Results of investigations using this approach are discussed, and the possibility for the use of CSEP for exercise prescriptions is explored.
Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality & the Changing Structure of Political Conflict

Using post-electoral surveys from France, Britain and the US, this paper documents a striking long-run evolution in the structure of political cleavages. In the 1950s-1960s, the vote for left-wing (socialist-labour-democratic) parties was associated with lower education and lower income voters. It has gradually become associated with higher education voters, giving rise to a “multiple-elite” party system in the 2000s-2010s: high-education elites now vote for the “left”, while high-income/high-wealth elites still vote for the “right” (though less and less so). I argue that this can contribute to explain rising inequality and the lack of democratic response to it, as well as the rise of “populism”. I also discuss the origins of this evolution (rise of globalization/migration cleavage, and/or educational expansion per se) as well as future prospects: “multiple-elite” stabilization; complete realignment of the party system along a “globalists” (high-education, high-income) vs “nativists” (low-education, low-income) cleavage; return to class-based redistributive conflict (either from an internationalist or nativist perspective). Two main lessons emerge. First, with multi-dimensional inequality, multiple political equilibria and bifurcations can occur. Next, without a strong egalitarian-internationalist platform, it is difficult to unite low-education, low-income voters from all origins within the same party.