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ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION IN PUBLIC LEVEL FOUR HOSPITALS IN NAKURU COUNTY, KENYA

This study analyzed some of the factors influencing strategic plan implementation in public level four hospitals in Nakuru County Kenya. The influences of strategic plan implementation were conceptualized in terms of organizational structure, communication systems, resource allocation and human resource management. The study was based on two theories namely; Neo-Taylorism Theory and Stakeholder Theory of Management and used a descriptive research design to evaluate and describe the relationships between the dependent and independent variables. A pilot study was done at Evans Sunrise Hospital using five questionnaires to test and enhance the reliability and validity of the research instrument. A Cronbach’s alpha with threshold α = 0.78 was considered appropriate for the study. The researcher used structured questionnaires to collect data from all 86 heads of departments in all the 7 public level four hospitals in Nakuru County. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the findings and the results presented using frequency tables and in prose. The study revealed strong and positive correlation between each of the explanatory and the explained variables. In particular, the study findings revealed strong, positive and statistically significant relationship between the independent variables (Organizational Structure, Communication System, Resource Allocation and Human Resources Management) and the dependent variable (Strategic Plan Implementation) in Public Level Four Hospitals in Nakuru County, Kenya. In conclusion, the study established that organizational structure, an enabling communication system and appropriate resource allocation are key to strategy execution in the entire public health sector and provision of quality healthcare. The study thus recommended more reinforced organizational structure within public hospitals with enhanced resources allocation and further suggested the creation of a more enabling communication environment to enable the stakeholders collaborate towards attaining the set standards more effectively. Keywords: organizational structure, communication systems, resource allocation, human resource management
Modal identification of structures from ambient vibration, free vibration, and seismic response data via a subspace approach

This work presents a unified procedure for determining the natural frequencies, modal damping ratios and modal shapes of a structure from its ambient vibration, free vibration and earthquake response data. To evaluate the coefficient matrices of a state‐space model, the proposed procedure applies a subspace approach cooperating with an instrumental variable concept. The dynamic characteristics of a structure are determined from the coefficient matrices. The feasibility of the procedure is demonstrated through processing an in situ ambient vibration measurement of a five‐storey steel frame, an impulse response measurement of a three‐span continuous bridge, and simulated earthquake responses of five‐storey steel frames from shaking table tests. The excellent agreement of the results obtained herein with those published previously confirms the feasibility of the present procedure. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Packaging and shelf life of high fibre high protein coconut-oat snack (Pembungkusan dan penyimpanan snek kelapa-oat berserat dan berprotein tinggi)

Freshly processed coconut-oat snack was packed in two types of packaging material. The unprinted pouches of 12.5 cm x 11.5 cm were made of OPP/PP with thickness of 20 ∝:40 ∝ and OPP/Al/PP with thickness of 20 ∝:7 ∝:50 ∝ . Each pouch was filled with four pieces of snack of approximately 40 g of total weight and was heat-sealed. Samples were stored at 28 ± 5 °C with relative humidity of 70–80%. Shelf life studies and quality changes during storage were determined by using organoleptic, chemical analysis, microbiological tests and sorption isotherm methods. The OPP/Al/PP was suitable to be used for storage of coconut-oat snack for 6 months compared to OPP/PP, which could only keep the product for less than 4 months.
Microgravity Liquid-Gas Two-Phase Flow: Review of Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer Correlations and Guidelines for Equipment Operability

In this report we have catalogued the flow regimes observed in microgravity, summarized correlations for the pressure drop and rate of heat transfer that are commonly used, and discuss the validation of a few correlations from available experimental results. Two-phase flow through some specific components such as bends, tees, filters and pumps are discussed from a physical perspective to guide the designer on how reduced gravity might affect their performance. Phase separation in zero gravity is addressed through the behavior and basic design concepts for devices based on passive centrifugal action, capillary forces, gas extraction through a membrane installed in a channel wall and the use of a syringe with a perforated piston to remove bubbles from small liquid volumes. We address the common instabilities that develop in flow loops owing exclusively to the two-phase nature of the flow, e.g., Ledinegg instability and concentration waves. Finally we briefly review flow metering and gauging; two-phase flow through porous media, where pressure drop and flow regime map correlations in zero-g are a current research topic; and basic operation principles of heat pipes and capillary pumped loops. NASA/TM—2019-220147 1 Microgravity Liquid-Gas Two-Phase Flow: Review of Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer Correlations and Guidelines for Equipment Operability R. Balasubramaniam Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Enrique Ramé Universities Space Research Association Glenn Research Center Cleveland, Ohio 44135 Brian J. Motil National Aeronautics and Space Administration Glenn Research Center Cleveland, Ohio 44135
Simultaneous reductions in emissions of black carbon and co-emitted species will weaken the aerosol net cooling effect

Abstract. Black carbon (BC), a distinct type of carbonaceous material formed from the incomplete combustion of fossil and biomass based fuels under certain conditions, can interact with solar radiation and clouds through its strong light-absorption ability, thereby warming the Earth's climate system. Some studies have even suggested that global warming could be slowed down in the short term by eliminating BC emission due to its short lifetime. In this study, we estimate the influence of removing some sources of BC and other co-emitted species on the aerosol radiative effect by using an aerosol–climate atmosphere-only model BCC_AGCM2.0. 1_CUACE/Aero with prescribed sea surface temperature and sea ice cover, in combination with the aerosol emissions from the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) scenarios. We find that the global annual mean aerosol net cooling effect at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) will be enhanced by 0.12 W m−2 compared with recent past year 2000 levels if the emissions of only BC are reduced to the level projected for 2100 based on the RCP2.6 scenario. This will be beneficial~for the mitigation of global warming. However, both aerosol negative direct and indirect radiative effects are weakened when BC and its co-emitted species (sulfur dioxide and organic carbon) are simultaneously reduced. Relative to year 2000 levels, the global annual mean aerosol net cooling effect at the TOA will be weakened by 1.7–2.0 W m−2 if the emissions of all these aerosols are decreased to the levels projected for 2100 in different ways based on the RCP2.6, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5 scenarios. Because there are no effective ways to remove the BC exclusively without influencing the other co-emitted components, our results therefore indicate that a reduction in BC emission can lead to an unexpected warming on the Earth's climate system in the future.
Technical note: Simple and robust removal of sun glint for mapping shallow‐water benthos

Specular reflection of solar radiation on non‐flat water surfaces is a serious confounding factor for benthic remote sensing in shallow‐water environments. This problem was recently overcome by Hochberg et al., who provided an effective method for the removal of ‘sun glint’ from remotely sensed images by utilization of the brightness in a near‐infrared (NIR) band. Application of the technique was shown to give an increase in the accuracy of benthic habitat classification. However, as presented, the method is sensitive to outlier pixels, requires a time‐consuming masking of land and cloud, and is not formulated in a manner leading to ease of implementation. We present a revised version of the method, which is more robust, does not require masking and can be implemented very simply. The practical approach described here will hopefully expedite the routine adoption of this effective and simple technique throughout the aquatic remote sensing community.
Attenuation of serum laminin concentrations upon treatment of chronic hepatitis

Objectives: The aim of this work was to determine the serum laminin level cutoff point for predicting liver fi brosis highlighting its diagnostic value and determining the effect of treatment on serum laminin concentrations. Methods: Serum laminin concentrations in chronic hepatitis patients (n=62) and controls (n=20) were compared by ELISA and stages of fiwere assessed according to the modifi ed Knodell score system. Results: Mean serum laminin concentration in patients (91.9 ± 20.9 ng/ml) was greater than controls (46.2 ± 10.2 ng/ml; p <0.001). Serum concentrations of laminin in all stages of hepatic fi brosis were signifi cantly higher than those of healthy controls (p <0.05). A cutoff point of 52ng laminin/ml of serum was obtained for the discrimination of various stages of liver fi brosis showing a good sensitivity (96.8%) and specifi city (80%). After 6 months of treatment, a gradual decrease in serum laminin concentrations were observed, however the level was still higher than that of the healthy group (p<0.05). Conclusions: Our fi ndings suggest that the serum laminin concentration is a useful noninvasive marker of liver fi brosis and shows a strong positive correlation with different stages of the disease.
Evaluation of Existing Environmental Protection Policies and Practices vis-à-vis Sustainable Water Resources Development in Didessa Sub-basin , West Ethiopia

In the effort to alleviate poverty and bring about sustainable development, Ethiopia is on the move to optimally utilize its natural resources, and hence the country has launched many water resources development projects aiming at the intensification of agricultural production and hydropower development. The Didessa Sub-basin is one of such watersheds where a number of large water management projects have been planned. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental impact assessment (EIA) practices against the country’s existing environmental protection and water resources management legislations, with an emphasis on Arjo-Didessa Dam and Reservoir Project. Documents on environmental protection and water resources management legislations, EIA report of the project and data on land use/cover and soils of the dam and reservoir area were considered for the study. The existence of EIA legislations and institutions would create the impression that the government is determined to national and global environmental concerns. Due to the project, about 98.6 km2 of land with grasslands and riverine forest cover, and fertile soils with convenient land slope will be inundated by water. Besides, the role the community played in the project planning and EIA study was found to be inadequate. Although water withdrawal due to Arjo-Didessa Irrigation Project (about 19.75% of the mean annual stream flow at the dam site) is within the desired range of sustainable water resources development; and the mean annual instream flow requirements of 0.9 billion cubic meters (BCM) is fully delivered, the study has shown that some of the important decision making parameters of EIA like environmental flows assessment, dam-break analysis, environmental costs, and economic analysis, were bypassed, as observed from the EIA report of Arjo-Didessa Dam and Reservoir Project, although these are demanded by the environmental protection legislations. Nat. Env. & Poll. Tech. Website: www.neptjournal. com Received: 02-09-2015 Accepted: 08-10-2015
Mehlich No. 3 Soil Test - The Western Australian Experience

Agriculture is an integral component of the Western Australian economy and contributed 14% of the state’s export earnings in 2003. In order to provide a sustainable industry, farming practices that have been handed down from generation to generation may no longer be sustainable. “Smart farming” is the way of the future. With the advent of new technologies coupled with routine soil testing, farmers can more accurately evaluate the production potential of their land. Routine soil testing covers a limited range of tests and the number of samples analysed is usually based on price. Western Australian soils are among the oldest in the world and are generally nutrient deficient. With greater demand being placed profit and securing a financially viable future, coupled with increasing deficiencies of nutrients as soil reserves become depleted, it is inevitable that farmers will need to do more comprehensive soil testing. An alternative soil test that has been used widely throughout the world for many years has been calibrated for Western Australian soil types. As most traditional soil tests are based on extracting either one or a small group of nutrients, the ability to test for an extended range of nutrients requires multiple individual tests at high cost to farmers. As will be discussed in this paper, the Mehlich No. 3 soil test provides a rapid and cost effective soil test for measuring up to 13 nutrients (B, Ca, Co, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, P, Na, S and Zn) simultaneously. In order to calibrate the Mehlich No. 3 soil test, a representative set of 173 soil samples from the archives of the soil survey of WA were used. Results obtained from the Mehlich No. 3 soil test were highly correlated with traditional “single” element tests. The Mehlich No. 3 test was also capable of measuring concentrations of toxic metals such as cadmium and nickel and further work is planned to extend the range of elements to include aluminum, lead, selenium and arsenic.
DETERMINANTS OF NEWS CONTENT

While there is a large body of research on news values and news selection, most research does not clearly distinguish between the concept of news and news selection, on the one hand, and news values and criteria of newsworthiness on the other. These concepts are often treated as synonymous. This is problematic, as there may be many other factors aside from news values or criteria of newsworthiness that determine what becomes news, and as there may be differences between what journalists think should be, and actually is, important when deciding what's news. Against this background, this study investigates what Swedish journalists think is, and should be, important event properties when deciding what's news, and whether there are differences across journalists working for different kinds of media and depending on whether they work with online publishing. The results show that there are significant differences between the perceived normative and actual importance of investigated event properties when deciding what's news.
Analyse descriptive des expériences vécues par les réfugiées victimes de violence en temps de guerre

Meme si les femmes se retrouvent rarement sur la ligne de front en temps de guerre, elles en subissent neanmoins les consequences de facon disproportionnee, comme c’est le cas dans plusieurs autres spheres de la vie contemporaine. Celles qui ont connu la guerre sont nombreuses a avoir subi la torture ou ete temoins d’actes de torture ou de meurtre infliges a des proches et a des amis. Le recours au viol ainsi qu’a d’autres formes de torture sexuelle est un fait atteste par de nombreux temoignages. Les femmes forcees de fuir leur foyer et leur pays se voient souvent obligees de se separer de leur conjoint, de leurs enfants et des autres membres de leur famille. Le nombre de refugies et de deplaces ne cesse de croitre en raison de l’ampleur meme des conflits dans le monde : on estime que les femmes en representent plus de la moitie. La presente etude avait pour but de decrire l’experience de refugiees qui ont ete victimes de violence dans le cadre d’une guerre. Huit themes se degagent des donnees recueillies : la transformation d’une vie a jamais; de nouvelles conceptions de la normalite; un sentiment de peur permanent; la perte d’identite; l’impression de vivre a cheval entre les cultures; la place de la femme au Canada; le sentiment de porter un lourd fardeau le role central des enfants; l’indifference des intervenants de la sante. Les auteures examinent les implications de l’etude pour la recherche et la pratique, soulignant les limites des approches individualisees suivies en Occident.
A HEURISTIC-BASED APPROACH TO AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACT PERSONALIZED ATTACK GRAPH RELATED CONCEPTS FROM VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTIONS Submitted by

A HEURISTIC-BASED APPROACH TO AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACT PERSONALIZED ATTACK GRAPH RELATED CONCEPTS FROM VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTIONS Computer users are not safe, be it at home or in public places. Public networks are more often administered by trained individuals who attempt to fortify those networks using strong administrative skills, state-of-the-art security tools and meticulous vigilance. This is, however, not true for home computer users. Being largely untrained they are often the most likely targets of cyber attacks. These attacks are often executed in cleverly interleaved sequences leading to the eventual goal of the attacker. The Personalized Attack Graphs (PAG) introduced by Ubranska et al. [24, 25, 32] can leverage the interplay of system configurations, attacker and user actions to represent a cleverly interleaved sequence of attacks on a single system. An instance of the PAG can be generated manually by observing system configurations of a computer and collating them with possible security threats which can exploit existing system vulnerabilities and/or misconfigurations. However, the amount of manual labor involved in creating and periodically updating the PAG can be very high. As a result, attempt should be made to automate the process of generating the PAG. Information required to generate these graphs are available on the Internet in the form of vulnerability descriptions. This information is, however, almost always written in natural language and lacks any form of structure. In this thesis, we propose an unsupervised heuristic-based approach which parses vulnerability descriptions and extracts instances of PAG related concepts like system configurations, attacker and user actions. Extracted concepts can then be interleaved to generate the Personalized Attack Graph.
Air Stagnations for China (1985–2014): Climatological MeanFeatures and Trends

Air stagnation is an important meteorological measurement for unfavourable air pollution conditions, but little is known about it in China. We conducted a comprehensive investigation of air stagnation in China, based on sounding and surface observations of 81 stations, from January 1985 to December 2014. The stagnation criteria were revised to be topographically dependent for the great physical diversity in this country.
Fluorine-, yttrium- and lanthanide-rich cerianite-(Ce) from carbonatitic rocks of the Kerimasi volcano and surrounding explosion craters, Gregory Rift, northern Tanzania

Abstract Cerianite-(Ce), ideally CeO2, occurs as rounded grains up to 5 μm across in a block of highly altered calcite carbonatite lava from the Kerimasi volcano, and as euhedral crystals up to 200 μm across in carbonatite-derived eluvial deposits in the Kisete and Loluni explosion craters in the Gregory Rift, northern Tanzania. X-ray powder diffraction data (a = 5.434(5) Å ) and Raman spectroscopy (minor vibration modes at 184 and 571 cm-1 in addition to a strong signal at 449 cm-1) suggest the presence of essential amounts of large cations and oxygen vacancies in the Kisete material. Microprobe analyses reveal that the mineral contains both light and heavy trivalent rare earth elements (REE) (7.9-15.5 wt.% LREE2O3 and 4.9-9.7 wt.% HREE2O3), and that it is enriched in yttrium (7.1-14.5 wt.% Y2O3) and fluorine (2.2-3.5 wt.%). Single-crystal structure refinement of the mineral confirms a fluorite-type structure with a cation anion distance of 2.3471(6) Å. The cerianite-(Ce) is considered to be a late-stage secondary mineral in the carbonatitic rocks.
Sickness behavior in lactating dairy cows 1

The periparturient period or “transition” phase (generally accepted as the period beginning 3 weeks prior to calving and ending 3 weeks following calving) is one of the critical points in dairy production where risks to animal welfare are highest (von Keyserlingk et al. 2009; Proudfoot et al., 2012; Sepúlveda-Varas et al., 2014). During the transition period, cows face a number of stressors including diet changes and social regroupings, and the physical, hormonal and physiological changes associated with calving and the onset of lactation. One of the main challenges for transition dairy cows is a sudden increase in nutrient requirements to support the onset of lactation at a time when dry matter intake lags behind (Drackley, 1999).