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The mediating role of innovation culture on the relationship between Six Sigma and organisational performance in Dubai police force

Purpose This study aims to empirically examine the relationship between Six Sigma and organisational performance of the Dubai Police Force (DPF). Moreover, this study further explores the role of innovation culture as a mediating variable between this relationship. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect research data. The population of the study was composed of head section officers of the DPF. A total of 388 questionnaires were distributed amongst respondents in which 252 of them were returned. Structural equation modelling was performed to test the hypothesised model. Findings Central findings confirmed the effect of Six Sigma and innovation culture on organisational performance. Additionally, innovation culture was found to partially mediate the effects of Six Sigma on organisational performance. Practical implications Findings from this study may enlighten managers, practitioners and academicians on the importance of using Six Sigma in the policing field. This study advocates taking into account preparing appropriate culture when implementing Six Sigma projects given its role in facilitating the implementation of these projects and achieving success. Six Sigma with innovation culture provides a key opportunity for the creation of uniqueness and has the potential to significantly influence organisational performance. Originality/value This study adds to the current knowledge on the role of Six Sigma on organisational performance of police agencies. This study is the first to provide empirical evidence on the mediating role of innovation culture on the relationship between Six Sigma and organisational performance in policing context.
A Late Eocene‐Oligocene Through‐Flowing River Between the Upper Yangtze and South China Sea

We test the hypothesis of a major Paleogene river draining the SE Tibetan Plateau and the central modern Yangtze Basin that then flowed south to the South China Sea. We test this model using U‐Pb dated detrital zircon grains preserved in Paleogene sedimentary rocks in northern Vietnam and SW China. We applied a series of statistical tests to compare the U‐Pb age spectra of the rocks in order to highlight differences and similarities between them and with potential source bedrocks. Monte Carlo mixing models imply that erosion was dominantly derived from the Indochina and Songpan‐Garzê Blocks and to a lesser extent the Yangtze Craton. Some of the zircon populations indicate local erosion and sedimentation, but others show close similarity both within northern Vietnam, as well as more widely in the Eocene Jianchuan, Paleocene‐Oligocene Simao, and Oligocene‐Miocene Yuanjiang basins of China. The presence of younger (<200 Ma) zircons from the Qamdo Block of Tibet is less easily explicable in terms of recycling by erosion of older sedimentary rocks and implies a regional drainage linking SE Tibet and the South China Sea in the Late Eocene‐Oligocene. Detrital zircons from offshore in the South China Sea showed initial local erosion, but with a connection to a river stretching to SE Tibet in the Late Oligocene. A change from regional to local sources in the Early Miocene in the Yuanjiang Basin indicates the timing of disruption of the old drainage driven by regional plateau uplift.
Impacts of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on the Relationship of the Spring Arctic Oscillation and the Following East Asian Summer Monsoon

Previous studies indicated that spring Arctic Oscillation (AO) can influence the following East Asian summer monsoon (EASM). This study reveals that the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) has a pronounced modulation of the spring AO–EASM connection. Spring AO has a close relation with the EASM during the negative AMO (−AMO) phase. However, during the positive AMO (+AMO) phase, the spring AO–EASM connection is weak. During the −AMO phase, a marked dipole atmospheric anomaly pattern (with an anticyclonic anomaly over the midlatitudes and a cyclonic anomaly over the subtropics) and a pronounced tripole sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly pattern is formed in the North Pacific during positive spring AO years. The cyclonic anomaly, SST, and precipitation anomalies over the subtropical western North Pacific (WNP) maintain and propagate southwestward in the following summer via a positive air–sea feedback, which further impacts the EASM variation. During the +AMO phase, the Pacific center of the spring AO (i.e., the anticyclonic anomaly over the midlatitudes) is weak. As such, the cyclonic anomaly cannot be induced over the subtropical WNP by the spring AO via wave–mean flow interaction. Hence, the spring AO–EASM connection disappears during the +AMO phase. The AMO impacts the Pacific center of the spring AO via modulating the Aleutian low intensity and North Pacific storm track intensity. The observed AMO modulation of the spring AO–EASM connection and Pacific center of the spring AO can be captured by the long historical simulation in a coupled global climate model.
How To Build Behavioral Intention On Start Up Business Of Mobile Application

Indonesia is the big market for Internet of things because of bonus demography. The gap phenomenon that the low increasing of internet for business transaction user in Indonesia, only 3.63 % of world internet users. Because of internet of things is the new concept in Indonesia, this study aims to analyze and evaluate the behavioral intention users of business application. The research method is quantitative approach and survey method by questioners user disbursement. The number of user respondents are 248 respondents. The researcher use product quality to measure of behavioral intention. Perceived value and customer satisfaction as mediating variables. With t table 1.960 as standard, the research result showed that the positively affect are Product quality on mobile application to behavioral intention (2.339), perceived value to behavioral intention (2.085), perceived value to satisfaction (3.347), product quality on mobile application to behavioral intention (2.087). The negatively affect are product quality on mobile application to perceived value (0.422) and product quality product quality to satisfaction (0.23).
High-field nonlinear properties and characteristics of domain wall motion in Fe2O3 doped PMnS-PZN-PZT ceramics

Abstract High-field nonlinear dielectric and piezoelectric properties of Fe2O3 doped PMnS-PZN-PZT high-power piezoelectric ceramics are investigated. Rayleigh analysis reveals the presence of contributions from lossless reversible domain wall motion and the associated decoupling of nonlinearity and losses. This behavior is attributed to the orderly distribution of defect pinning centers. With the increase in temperature, the high-field nonlinearity becomes more pronounced. It is suggested that the depinning of domain walls arising from the randomization of defect pinning centers is responsible for this enhancement of high-field nonlinearity at the elevated temperatures.
Real Time Multiple Face Recognition: A Deep Learning Approach

Though a lot of research has already been done in the field of Face Recognition, one amongst the remaining challenges is recognizing multiple faces in weird conditions in a large group size. A robust face recognition system has been developed which detects faces in multiple, occluded, posed images obtained under low illumination conditions. The detector is a trained 34 layered Residual Network which obtains an accuracy of 98.4% on Visual Geometry Group Dataset [1]. A hybrid model has been proposed by combining the Residual Network detector with the novel approach of face embedding using triplet loss function [2] for recognition. The numerical and graphical results attached in the report depict the effectiveness of the proposed model for a variety of conditions. A 22 layered Inception Network has been trained for feature extraction and it achieves an accuracy of 99.5% on Labeled Faces in the Wild Dataset [3]. To achieve a similar accuracy on real life scenarios different methods like dimensionality reduction and data augmentation have been implemented. A mobile application has also been developed which utilizes the above described hybrid model for identification of people present in a large group. This application outweighs the fingerprint biometric in terms of speed, cost and group size.
Informatics as a fundamental discipline for the 21st century

I M A G E B Y S Z A S Z -F A B I A N I L K A E R I K A of the digital economy. These systems need to be fundamentally transformed and modernized. In January 2018, a Digital Education Action Plan, which set out a number of priorities, was published by the EU. The most relevant priority for our initiative is “Developing relevant digital competences and skills for the digital transformation,” and the Plan suggests one way to implement this is to “Bring coding classes to all schools in Europe. ” This is important, but more is needed, as we will explain in this article. ACM Europe and Informatics Europe. ACM Europe (europe.acm.org) was established in 2008, and Informatics Europe (www.informatics-europe. org) in 2006. From the early days, the two organizations have collaborated on educational matters; through this liaison, they are seen to project to the wider community a single message about aspects of informatics education. In 2013, the two groups set up and funded a Committee on European Computing Education (CECE) to undertake a study that would capture the state of informatics education across the administrative units of Europe (generally, these units are the countries, but within Germany, for instance, there are 14 different administrative units with autonomy regarding education). The CECE study paralleled the highly influential U.S. study Running on Empty that had drawn attention to the state of computer science education in the U.S. The CECE study gathered data from 55 administrative units (countries, nations, and regions) of Europe (plus Israel) with autonomous educational systems through the use of questionnaires and a wide network of reliable contacts and official sources. The report on that work was published in 2017. The three themes of informatics, digital literacy, and teacher training provided the framework for the study. Informatics was
LockDoc: Trace-Based Analysis of Locking in the Linux Kernel

For fine-grained synchronization of application and kernel threads, the Linux kernel provides a multitude of different locking mechanisms that are being used on various individually locked data structures. Understanding which locks are required in which order for a particular member variable of a kernel data structure has become truly difficult, even for Linux-kernel experts themselves. In this paper we introduce LockDoc -- an approach that, based on the analysis of execution traces of an instrumented Linux kernel, automatically deduces the most likely locking rule for all members of arbitrary kernel data structures. From these locking rules, LockDoc generates documentation that supports kernel developers and helps avoiding concurrency bugs. Additionally, the (very limited) existing documentation can be verified, and locking-rule violations -- potential bugs in the kernel code -- can be found. Our results include generated locking rules for previously predominantly undocumented member variables of 11 different Linux-kernel data structures. Manually inspecting the scarce source-code documentation for five of these data structures reveals that only 53 percent of the variables with a documented locking rule are actually consistently accessed with the required locks held. This indicates possible documentation or synchronization bugs in the Linux kernel, of which one has already been confirmed by kernel experts.
Integrating Health Literacy and Cultural Competency Concepts Across the Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum

Objective. To determine the longitudinal impact of integrating health literacy and cultural competency content throughout the professional pharmacy curriculum and the impact of additional changes made to the curriculum based on the results of a longitudinal analysis. Methods. Health literacy and cultural competency concepts were integrated throughout a four-year professional pharmacy curriculum. A cohort of students were assessed using health literacy and cultural competency survey instruments at baseline, the end of the fall semester of the first professional (P1) year, and the end of each subsequent academic year. From the four-year assessment, a need for additional reinforcement in the spring P1 semester was identified, so a health literacy activity was incorporated into an introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) for two cohorts of students. The outcomes were compared to those of a single cohort of students who had completed their P1 year prior to integration of the additional content. A health literacy survey instrument was given at the beginning and after completion of the semester to assess change. Preceptors also completed a brief survey. Results. Curricular integration improved health literacy and cultural competency attitudes and self-perceived ability in P1 students, as assessed by the instruments. However, declines in students’ health literacy and cultural competency were identified when the students were retested in the spring semester. After implementing the health literacy IPPE activity, the health literacy scores of P1 students in the two subsequent years improved. Preceptors also gave positive feedback on the utility of this activity. Conclusion. Integrating health literacy and cultural competency content throughout the curriculum resulted in improvement in students’ scores in these areas from the first to the fourth professional year, but when there were no integrated activities, scores dropped. Implementing additional activities improved student-perceived HL skills. Thus, it may be important to ensure there is inclusion of content in each semester of the curriculum to maximize effects.
Capturing and Comparing Objectively and Subjectively Determined Decision Models in User Information Satisfaction Judgment Formation

Information systems researchers have long relied on human judgment and decision-making (e.g., survey responses) while obtaining measures of constructs of interest. How people utilize external information in arriving at judgments is not entirely understood. Moreover, it is unclear if people can tell us what information they utilize, as well as how they weight that information, in arriving at a particular evaluative judgment. This paper reports the results of a research study designed to demonstrate techniques to objectively and subjectively determine decision strategies in an IS setting with a construct well known to IS researchers, user information satisfaction (UIS). Policy capturing was used to objectively determine a unique decision model (i.e., a linear combination) for each of our subjects. A second method was employed to subjectively determine each subject's decision model. We then compare the two to determine if our subjects could accurately specify which UIS attributes they utilize in assessing satisfaction.
Revealing High-Frequency Trading Provision of Liquidity with Visualization

Liquidity is crucial for successful financial markets. It ensures that all investors are able to buy and sell assets quickly at a fair price. High Frequency Traders (HFTs) utilize sophisticated algorithms operating with extreme speed and are frequently cited as liquidity providers. The objective of this paper is to investigate the liquidity provision of a number of HFTs to determine their effects on aggregate marketplace liquidity. We consider a large data set collected from the Australian Securities Exchange throughout 2013, providing a near complete picture of all trading activity. Our method is to consider temporal bar charts, association scatterplots, faceted plots and network diagrams to provide visualizations that yield both novel and conventional insights into how HFTs are operating in the market, specifically with respect to liquidity provision. Consistent with HFTs avoiding adverse selection, our results show that on aggregate, HFTs often consume rather than provide liquidity. Furthermore, liquidity consumption often occurs very quickly over intra-millisecond time periods. We conclude that HFTs are not exclusively focused on liquidity provision.
Rectifying Transformation Networks for Transformation-Invariant Representations with Power Law

SUMMARY This letter proposes a representation learning framework of convolutional neural networks (Convnets) that aims to rectify and improve the feature representations learned by existing transformation-invariant methods. The existing methods usually encode feature representations invariant to a wide range of spatial transformations by augmenting input images or transforming intermediate layers. Unfortunately, simply transforming the intermediate feature maps may lead to unpredictable representations that are ine ﬀ ective in describing the transformed features of the inputs. The reason is that the operations of convolution and geometric transformation are not exchangeable in most cases and so exchanging the two operations will yield the transformation error. The error may potentially harm the performance of the classiﬁcation networks. Motivated by the fractal statistics of natural images, this letter proposes a rectifying transformation operator to minimize the error. The proposed method is differentiable and can be inserted into the convolutional architecture without making any modiﬁcation to the optimization algorithm. We show that the rectiﬁed feature representations result in better classiﬁcation performance on two benchmarks.
CoPart: Coordinated Partitioning of Last-Level Cache and Memory Bandwidth for Fairness-Aware Workload Consolidation on Commodity Servers

Workload consolidation is a widely-used technique to maximize server resource utilization in cloud and datacenter computing. Recent commodity CPUs support last-level cache (LLC) and memory bandwidth partitioning functionalities that can be used to ensure the fairness of the consolidated workloads. While prior work has proposed a variety of resource partitioning techniques, it still remains unexplored to characterize the impact of LLC and memory bandwidth partitioning on the fairness of the consolidated workloads and investigate system software support to dynamically control LLC and memory bandwidth partitioning in a coordinated manner. To bridge this gap, we present an in-depth performance and fairness characterization of LLC and memory bandwidth partitioning. Guided by the characterization results, we propose CoPart, coordinated partitioning of LLC and memory bandwidth for fairness-aware workload consolidation on commodity servers. CoPart dynamically analyzes the characteristics of the consolidated applications and allocates the LLC and memory bandwidth across the applications in a coordinated manner to improve the overall fairness. Our quantitative evaluation shows that CoPart significantly improves the fairness of the consolidated applications (e.g., 57.3% higher fairness on average than the resource allocation policy that equally allocates the resources to the consolidated applications), robustly provides high fairness across various application and system configurations, and incurs small performance overhead.
Uso das tecnologias de informação e comunicação em saúde pelos enfermeiros brasileiros

Objetivo: analisar o uso das tecnologias da informacao e comunicacao em saude pelos enfermeiros brasileiros, a partir dos indicadores publicados nos relatorios TIC Saude. Metodos: estudo de dados secundarios, obtidos atraves da base de dados TIC Saude. Foram selecionadas sete variaveis relacionadas entre si. Resultados: nao houve significativas variacoes sobre o impacto do uso de computador ou internet durante o trabalho, a maior parte dos profissionais reportou que nao houve aumento nem diminuicao de sua carga de trabalho. No entanto, ao longo dos anos os enfermeiros percebem impactos positivos com relacao ao uso ou implantacao de sistemas eletronicos. Conclusao: Os indicadores demonstram que o uso das tecnologias de informacao e comunicacao tem evoluido nas instituicoes de saude brasileiras, do ponto de vista dos enfermeiros. Sob este vies, cumprem o seu papel, ja que servem de referencia para aplicacao de melhorias e criacao de estrategias nos estabelecimentos de saude.
Influencia de los programas de educación financiera sobre el comportamiento de los jóvenes: una revisión de literatura

Due to the evident need to educate economically and financially to the population, strategies and programs have been implemented in different parts of the world, that allow developing the financial knowledge and behavior of young people. However, few studies allow us to extract significant evaluations of the impact of these programs on the transformation of the habits and behaviors of young people in financial matters. Therefore, this article seeks to recognize the dynamics of publication of these studies, as well as to identify, through the results of the different investigations, the main financial behaviors that young people manage to change through financial education programs implemented in educational institutions globally. The results of this research reveal that, in effect, the implementation of these programs generates positive changes in some of the financial behaviors of young people, mainly on their saving behavior and planning for retirement. The development of this behavior allows young people to make assertive financial decisions, thus improving their quality of life and that of their families.
Understanding Future Leaders: How Are Personal Values of Generations Y and Z Tailored to Leadership in Industry 4.0?

This study combines two main challenges for organizations today, as it examines the alignment between personal values of future leaders and the values needed in the Industry 4.0 workplace. Based on the movement of the organizational environment toward a more multidisciplinary, open, collaborative and multicultural environment, we presuppose that the Industry 4.0 workplace requires a more benevolent, universally oriented and generally self-transcended leaders. Drawing upon Schwartz’s value theory, we examine the impact of Generations Y and Z’s personal values on their leadership inclination. The results from the survey of 371 young participants from Generations Y and Z reveal that self-enhancement (i.e., power and achievement), openness to change and conservation values most significantly affect leadership inclination. Meanwhile, benevolence, universalism and general self-transcendence values—cornerstones of the Industry 4.0 workplace—show negative effects on leadership inclination in the frame of the Industry 4.0 workplace. This indicates a poor fit between the values of future leaders and the values of the Industry 4.0 workplace. These findings have significant implications for human resource management in future organizations and contribute to the understanding of future leaders. In addition, the findings can help organizations to manage sustainable workings in an Industry 4.0 environment.