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The role of potassium solubilizing bacteria (KSB) inoculations on grain yield, dry matter remobilization and translocation in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Abstract This experiment was carried out in both pot and field conditions to assess the effects of three native potassium solubilizing bacteria (KSB: including Pantoea agglomerans, Rahnella aquatilis and Pseudomonas orientalis which were isolated from paddy fields) on grain yield (GY), dry matter remobilization (DMR) and translocation (DMT), dry matter translocation efficiency (DME) and contribution of pre-anthesis assimilates (CA) from the leaves and leaves plus stem to the grain in rice (Oryza sativa L). The results indicated that the KSBs significantly increased GY around 20–38% in the pot and 20–52% in the field, especially when half of the recommended potassium fertilizer was applied (K2So4, 44% K2O) as compared to the control. Results also showed that the KSB inoculations and chemical fertilizers had a significant effect on DMR, DMT, DME and CA. In conclusion, these KSBs can be utilized as bio-inoculants for half reduction of K chemical fertilizer consumption in rice production systems.
Assessing the Impact of Service Quality Dimensions on Customer Satisfaction in Commercial Banks of Mauritius

Abstract In today’s hyper competitive banking arena, banking institutions are focusing on improving service quality. Providing excellent quality of service is important in creating and sustaining competitive advantage in the banking industry of Mauritius due to intense competition between local and international banks. Hence, the paper explores the impact of Service Quality (SQ) Dimensions on customer satisfaction. Using the SERVQUAL model, the paper seeks to examine the impacts of reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy and tangible aspects on customer satisfaction in banks of Mauritius. A sample of 200 banking customers was randomly selected and data were analyzed through SPSS version 22. The SERVQUAL model has been found as reliable factors and appropriate tool to measure, evaluate, support, and improve the quality of services in banking industry. Results indicated that all five service quality factors have significantly positively influenced customer satisfaction in banks. Regression analysis was also conducted and depicted that empathy is a significant predictor of customer satisfaction among the five SQ dimensions.
Entrepreneurial activity, education and training

The purpose of our paper is to prove, that people, who participated in formal and/or informal entrepreneurial education and training, were more likely to be self-confident regarding own skills and knowledge needed for entrepreneurship as well were more likely to express low levels of fear of failure, which further had an impact on the likelihood to start with the entrepreneurial activity. The fact that the formal and informal entrepreneurial education and training is perceived as very important source of entrepreneurial knowledge and skills is an important information for policy makers and educators. The curricula especially at the tertiary level should, regarding our results, include especially direct experience in the real business environment. The use of experience-based real-life methods and cases is crucial to develop entrepreneurial skills and abilities. Therefore in order to integrate entrepreneurship across the curriculum, the use of action-oriented teaching approaches should be necessary.
PENGARUH INOVASI DAN KUALITAS PRODUK TERHADAP KINERJA BISNIS USAHA KECIL MENENGAH MAKANAN SIAP SAJI Dâ€™BESTO

This study aims to explain the influence of innovation and product quality to the business performance of UKM Mini Resto D'Besto in address Setia Mekar, SetiaÂ Mekar subdistrict, Tambun â€“ Bekasi. Either partiially or simultaneously (together). In this study, the population and the sample is a consumer of these UKMÂ totaling 60 responden.Dengan using quantitative research and sampling techniques were used, namely, probability sampling and simple random sampling. Thus the second hypothesis on research which states that the Innovation and Quality Products variables are variables which equally affect the business performance is proven and can be accepted. This suggests that consumers would be interested in buying Chicken D'Besto if innovation and good quality of products offered. Â Keywords: Innovation, Product Quality, Business Performance
The moral duty to reduce the risk of child sexual abuse

Abstract Child sexual abuse and paedophilia are ethically loaded public health issues. This paper looks at whether there are any specific moral duties related to paedophilia. I argue that the moral duty not to commit child sex abuse is universal and that the duty to reduce the individual risk of child sex abuse is specific to paedophiles. A paedophile is a person who is sexually attracted to children. Some paedophiles commit child sex abuse offences, but others are able to refrain from doing so and have the rational capacity to take adequate preventive measures. The risk of committing child sex abuse and the ability to reduce that risk are a moral duty pertaining specifically to paedophiles. I further argue that society has a moral duty to help paedophiles to fulfil that duty. Unfortunately, societies rarely provide such opportunities and hence fail in their moral duty towards paedophiles and children.
Yvonne Cronin of the Opposition Group Communities for Responsible Engagement With

Please note: Changes made as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing, formatting and page numbers may not be reflected in this version. For the definitive version of this publication, please refer to the published source. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite this paper. 1 Introduction A post-carbon world of energy security, affordability and environmental sustainability has long been part of discourses about a better future 2013). For advocates of wind energy development, this provokes an unnecessary obstacle course of planning processes that must be negotiated in proposing new windfarms (Hadwin, 2009). For those opposed to such developments, planning is seen at best as an uncomfortable ally in helping them articulate objections (Cowell, 2007), and more commonly as an arena where unfair accusations of NIMBYism proliferate (Devine-Wright, T wind power (Ellis, et al., 2009), ranging from perceptions of planning as a bureaucratic barrier to the renewables sector, to the inability of planning policy to effectively balance environmental trade-offs, such as promoting renewables that may negatively impact on ecological resources (habitats and wildlife). However, for Ellis et al. (2009) a more important acceptance and how this is (mis)understood in the policy domain. Tackling the array of contentious issues associated with windfarm developments has often rested on the assumption that will generate consensus and thereby resolve dispute (Barry, et al., 2008). Despite criticism of this view (Owens, et al., 2004), the generation of such information in planning practice remains inured to linear-rational models of knowledge production y virtue of their internal 2 merits (Adelle, et al., 2012). This disregards the variety of ways in which the world is interpreted and knowledge claims about reality are produced (Devine-may be handicapped by a blinkered epistemological commitment to an inherited bias in modes of knowledge generation. This poses the question as to how planning problem can be better understood. We endeavour to explore one possible response to this by investigating the ways different knowledges and knowledge holders seek to accumulate authority over the This is achieved by examining how agents to contentious wind energy debates may strive to mobilise interpretations of reality wherein they are advantageously positioned as credible sources of knowledge. Specifically, we examine how attention to the discursive constitution of reality can provide greater insight into how facts are established, and as a corollary, how agents are authoritatively positioned to legitimately pronounce upon the ways …
Assessment of Some Water Quality Characteristics and Bacterial Contamination in Water, Sediments and Some Fish species of El-Manzala Lake

Water plays a vital role in the proper functioning of earth ecosystem and also essential for fish life. In autumn season, 2016, three different regions from El-Manzla Lake (El-Boughaz, Domiette and El-Ganka) were selected to determine their water quality and bacterial contaminations. Water, sediment and fish samples were collected from four different sites of each region. The selected regions are exposing to direct and indirect industrial, municipal wastewater and agricultural drainage disposals. The results showed that El-Ganka region had significantly (P<0.05) highest nitrogenous compounds (NH3-N, NO2 & NO3), total nitrogen, total and available phosphorus and Chlorophyll a followed by Domiette and then El-Boughaz. While had the significantly (P<0.05) lowest pH and secchi disk (SD). Water exchange between the Mediterranean Sea and the lake led to significant increase values (P<0.05) in its salinity and conductivity at the El-Boughaz region. Also, some bacteriological characteristics (Bacterial count, coliform and some pathogens) in water, sediment and some fish organs (skin, muscle & gills) of Oreochromis niloticus and Clarias gariepinus were determined. Total bacterial count, coliform group, fecal coliform and Vibrio cholera recoded higher values in sediment than in water. Total bacterial count and coliform group in the muscle of the two investigated fish species had lower values than skin and gills, while fecal coliform and vibrio were not detected. Gills recorded higher values than those Assessment of Some Water Quality Characteristics and Bacterial Contamination in Water, Sediments and Some Fish species of El-Manzala Lake 56 in the skin. Muscles of Clarias gariepinus recorded higher levels in all bacterial parameters than the Oreochromis niloticus in contrast the skin and gills. On base of the present study, it could be concluded that Manzala' lake water resources need more attention to be protected for aquaculture purposes and sustainable development through the detection of aquatic biological agents and possible control of water quality.
Evaluation of homocystein and asymmetric dimethyl arginine levels in patients with coronary slow flow phenomenon

Background Previous studies have demonstrated that homocysteine and asymmetric dimethyl arginine (ADMA) levels were strongly associated with cardiovascular diseases including coronary artery disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of plasma homocysteine and ADMA levels in the pathogenesis of coronary slow flow (CSF) phenomenon. Methods Twenty-three patients with CSF and 25 controls with normal coronary flow were included in this study. The quantitative measurement of coronary blood flow was performed using the thrombolysis in myocardial infarction frame count method. Plasma homocysteine and ADMA levels were determined using enzymatic assays from venous blood samples. Results The patients with CSF had significantly higher plasma homocysteine levels than controls (16.2 ± 7.6 vs. 12.2 ± 2.2 μM/L; p = 0.023). The uric acid levels were significantly higher in CSF group than controls (5.4 ± 1.1 vs. 4.6 ± 0.9 mg/dl; p = 0.011). Plasma ADMA levels were also higher in the CSF group; however, this was not statistically significant (0.6 ± 0.1 vs. 0.5 ± 0.2 μM/L; p = 0.475). Conclusions Increased homocysteine and uric acid levels may play an important role in the pathogenesis of CSF. Further large scale studies are required to determine the relationship between ADMA levels and CSF.
The role of hurtful and healing messages on eating disorder symptomology and recovery

This study analyzed how clinically diagnosed women with eating disorders described the hurtful messages from parents, siblings, and peers that triggered eating disorder symptomology as well as the healing messages that assisted with coping and recovery. Three themes overlapping across all groups were revealed for hurtful messages: 1) critical, 2) social modeling, and 3) direct comparison. Our findings show that fathers, siblings, and peers similarly used teasing. Other points of distinction were uncovered for fathers: aggressive messages and denial of eating disorder. Competition with female siblings and friends was also a triggering factor for young females with eating disorders. Four distinct categories of healing messages were identified: 1) emotional, 2) instrumental, 3) informational, and 4) appraisal. Point of distinction for friends’ and siblings’ healing messages was absence of negative comments about weight and appearance. Results were able to encapsulate both helpful/supportive and hurtful/unsupportive messages, and these findings will be helpful for treatment centers who may incorporate them in recovery programs.
ISDSR+: Improving the Security and Availability of Secure Routing Protocol

In ad hoc networks that allow devices to dynamically configure networks via wireless communication, a secure routing protocol is a technology that guarantees the validity of routing with the use of cryptographic authentication. The secure DSR with ID-based sequential aggregate signatures (ISDSR) is a recently introduced secure routing protocol with “cryptographically compact chain,” where each device signs both the routing information and signatures generated by the previous device without increasing the size of signatures and the ID information propagated via packets can be utilized as a public key. However, ISDSR requires communication with a centralized key generation center (KGC), and thus a new device may experience difficulties in joining the protocol. Moreover, the implementation results of ISDSR have not been presented. In this work, we present ISDSR+, a new secure routing protocol without a centralized KGC that uses distributed key generation and the conventional features of ISDSR. ISDSR+ relies on a novel signature scheme where any node can receive a secret key as long as the number of available KGCs is more than a certain threshold. In other words, even if several KGCs are unavailable, the remaining available KGCs can still provide secret keys. We furthermore show promising results of ISDSR+ via a prototype implementation on Raspberry Pis. The results show the computational time of 0.1 s for both the secret key generation and the round trip time (RTT) of routing information under reasonable settings. The RTT of ISDSR+ is better than that of a naive secure routing protocol with RSA signatures.
How do education and training policies determine customer satisfaction and hotels’ performance?

The purpose of this manuscript is to investigate the effect of education and training policies, applicable to hotel employees, on customer satisfaction, HRM performance and perceived financial performance. Based on an extensive literature review, the authors conducted a primary research, using a structured questionnaire which was distributed to the HR managers of hotels. The research proved the positive correlation between education- training policies and customer satisfaction, partially by strengthening the loyalty of HR. The adoption of appropriate educational methods significantly enhances the HRM performance and improves the overall economic performance of hotels. The prerequisite for the successful implementation of education- training policies are the effective training needs analysis and the formulation of appropriate training objectives. The manuscript contributes to the theoretical and empirical knowledge of the importance of education and training policies in the hospitality industry by reaching scientific conclusions and making recommendations to the hotel managers. It can also work as a basis for future research which will focus on connecting business strategies with education- training policies.
Human Capacity Building for the Knowledge Economy: Creating Globally Distributed Web-Based Learning Environments for Advanced Graduate Studies in International Affairs

This paper presents the initial findings from a three-year pilot study of a distantindependent educational initiative between two universities in the United States and two in South Africa. The primary research questions in this phase of the project have been, “To what degree can a suite of commercially-available web-technologies be used to successfully create a globally-distributed, synchronous, collaborative, learning environment for advanced post graduate studies between South Africa and the United States? ” and “What pedagogical and administrative models best suit this distributed Learning environment? ” Subsidiary research questions explored issues relevant to the impact of four critical factors on the development of complex cross-national virtual teams within this learning environment. These four factors are: (1) level of humaninteraction/computer-interaction mix (Hi/Ci); (2) existence of a collaborative learning community; (3) trust, culture and ideology; and (4) degree of technology mixture. In order to answer these questions, we have studied the Global Graduate Seminar on Globalization and the Information Society (Globalization Seminar), which is an advanced, interdisciplinary, post-graduate seminar addressing questions of international regime formation for the emerging Global Information Infrastructure and Global Information Society, and involving a diverse group of graduate students at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); the American University (Washington, D.C.), the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa); and the University of Fort Hare (Alice, South Africa). This educational initiative has been successfully piloted from 1999-2001 through funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Alliance for Community Technology, and the University of Michigan School of Information. Primary data for the study are drawn from seminar participants, who are required to complete an 80question evaluation survey including 25 open-ended and 55 closed-ended questions. The data are analyzed through qualitative and quantitative techniques. Thick-narrative case studies have been produced for each seminar and virtual team. Data from each year are compared/contrasted with that of previous years and similar studies. This paper also presents directions for future research, which consists of a two-year cross-sectional study to begin generalizing the findings from this pilot phase.
A Survey on Metric of Software Cognitive Complexity for OO design

In modern era, the biggest challenge facing the software industry is the upcoming of new technologies. So, the software engineers are gearing up themselves to meet and manage change in large software system. Also they find it difficult to deal with software cognitive complexities. In the last few years many metrics were proposed to measure the cognitive complexity of software. This paper aims at a comprehensive survey of the metric of software cognitive complexity. Some classic and efficient software cognitive complexity metrics, such as Class Complexity (CC), Weighted Class Complexity (WCC), Extended Weighted Class Complexity (EWCC), Class Complexity due to Inheritance (CCI) and Average Complexity of a program due to Inheritance (ACI), are discussed and analyzed. The comparison and the relationship of these metrics of software complexity are also presented. Keywords—Software Metrics, Software Complexity, Cognitive Informatics, Cognitive Complexity, Software measurement
Stima del peso all’età di svezzamento e capacità materna

Weaning weight at 120 day for Chianina, Marchigiana and Romagnola breeds, and at 180 days for Maremmana and Podolica has been calculated from field data of weight or hearth girths. Heritability estimates for calculated weaning weights at 120 days ranged from 0.12 to 0.21, whilst estimates for 180 days weight were higher. When a maternal effect was included in the model, it resulted negatively correlated to direct additive and the heritabilities of the latter raised. We suggest that the inclusion in the Cow Selection Index of the maternal effect on calculated weaning weight could be useful, and also that maternal effect on average daily gain of young bulls entering to the performance station should be investigated.
PENGARUH MODEL PEMBELAJARAN INKUIRI TERBIMBING BERBASIS PENILAIAN AUTENTIK TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR SISWA

Selection of learning model is influential on the success of student learning. The guided inquiry learning model is one of the student-centered learning models and emphasizes the learning process of students in finding concepts. The guided inquiry learning model based on authentic assessment makes learning activities meaningful and enables improving student learning outcomes as the student's per-stage development can be measured. This research is an experimental research using posttest-only control design. Population in this research is all students of class XI IPA SMA Negeri 1 Pabelan . The samples in this study were taken with saturated sampling . C lass XI IPA 1 as experiment class and class XI IPA 2 as control class. Data collection methods used are interview, documentation test and observation methods . This study begins treatment and ends posttest. Based on the result of research, the mean value of posttest of cognitive domain for experimental class is 80,28 and control class equal to 76,60. This concludes that the cognitive class experimental mean of the experimental class is better than the control class proved by t-test, that mean of the experimental cognitive learning outcomes differ significantly with the control class. Psychomotor and affective domain results with very good criteria in the experiment class more than the control class. Based on the analysis of research results can be obtained conclusion that the guided inquiry model based on authentic assessment has a positive effect on student learning outcomes.
Imitation as a Learning Strategy during Sibling Teaching

ABSTRACT The sibling relationship represents a unique bond characterized by a high degree of closeness and intimacy, which fosters teaching and learning. Two studies investigated associations between sibling-directed teaching, imitation as a learning strategy, and learner involvement during a semi-structured, video-taped construction task. Study 1 also examined associations with the teacher’s Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities; Study 2 focused on associations with birth order and sibling relationship quality. In both studies, siblings ranged from preschool-age to the cusp of middle childhood (Study 1 n = 61; Study 2 n = 72). Findings across both studies indicated that learners engaged in significantly more nonverbal than verbal imitation and imitation was predominately immediate and not deferred. Teachers responded to both verbal and nonverbal learner imitation positively, corrected, or did not respond. In Study 1, learner task involvement was predicted by learner age and nonverbal imitation, while teaching strategies that were positively related to the teacher’s ToM abilities were associated with learner imitation. In Study 2, younger siblings’ reports of a positive sibling relationship were significantly associated with learner imitation. Birth order differences were only evident for younger (but not older) sibling learner imitation and task involvement. Findings are discussed in light of relationships and social constructivist theories of development.