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Examining performance of industrialized building system (IBS) implementation based on contractor satisfaction assessment

Construction industry is a main contributor to the development of the country. It is vital to ensure the performance of this industry meeting the minimum standards and client requirements. Several studies mainly in developed countries such as Australia, Unites States, and United Kingdom have demonstrated that satisfaction level among the construction players is critical particularly in terms of project performance. Satisfaction on project performance is significant to the players as failure to meet their needs may lead to project delays, cost overruns, poor quality, disputes and conflicts. Nowadays, in Malaysia, construction players are encouraged to shift from the conventional method of construction to Industrialized Building System (IBS). This method is also known as prefabrication has an ability to minimize on-site works and increase the building quality in a controlled environment. However, the take up rate of IBS in developing countries is still low as compared to developed countries. This is due to lack of technical knowledge, negative perceptions and unsatisfactory on its implementation among the contractors. A subjective performance measurement by measuring contractor satisfaction may help to improve their satisfaction level by providing a better understanding on the benefits of IBS. A broad range of satisfaction factors, as perceived by researchers and practitioners, was identified through comprehensive literatures. A questionnaire survey was carried out to examine the relative significance satisfaction factors for contractors in IBS implementation. The analysis showed that there are 36 factors have significant impacts in improving their performance in IBS implementation. Additionally, all significant factors have a correlation with eight performances of a contractor namely 1) cost performance, 2) time performance, 3) product performance, 4) design performance, 5) safety performance, 6) profitability, 7) business performance and 8) relationship performance. Further research will develop a systematic framework based on findings from this paper. It is expected that the framework can serve as a guide to develop appropriate guidelines that will aid the owners to make decisions in selecting appropriate contractors which able to complete proposed IBS project.
Impact of Implied Organizational Support on Organizational Commitment

The aim of this study is to enlighten the relationship between Implied Organizational Support (IOS) i.e. job satisfaction, locus of control and work autonomy and the organizational commitment (i.e. affective, normative and continuance commitment). Model testing is used to measure the data, and also supported by literature. The study shows that IOS is positively related with affective and normative commitment. Moreover the literature supports the direct relation between IOS (job satisfaction, locus of control & work autonomy) and organizational commitment. The study throws light on the significance of providing support to the employees in order to promote their commitment to the organization. Moreover the literature provides facts about the managerial intrusion intended to enhance IOS and reducing the negative effects of lack of IOS on employees affective commitment. In addition to take in to account other than three dimensions of organizational commitment, this study reveals job design factors and personality that can transform the relation between IOS and commitment. Key Words : IOS, job satisfaction, work autonomy, locus of control and organizational commitment.
Dependencies within the German Noun Phrase: Determiners and Adjectives

German adjectives in attributive position depend morphologically on two controllers: (I) they depend on their governing nouns for case, gender and number, and (II) their declension type (strong or weak) depends on the preceding determiner. For the dependency between the determiner and the adjective Mel'cuk (2006) proposes two solutions: government or agreement. The paper discusses these solutions and their implications on the correlations between morphological and syntactic dependency as proposed in Mel'cuk (2003). Additional material is shown, which demonstrates that the situation is more complex and calls for clear criteria for a part of speech 'determiner'.
Towards the Existence of Two Distinct Types of Emergent Behavior Relevant to Biological Systems

6 INTRODUCTION . 10 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND . 10 Philosophy . 10 Mathematics and Computation . 11 Biology . 12 EMERGENT BEHAVIOR . 14 CELLULAR AUTOMATA . 15 RANDOM WALKS . 16 HUMAN DERMAL FIBROBLASTS AND BACILLUS SUBTILIS . 17 CONTRIBUTION AND HYPOTHESIS . 18 MATERIALS AND METHODS . 21 HUMAN DERMAL FIBROBLAST EXPERIMENTS . 21 Cell Culture . 21 High, Medium, and Low Density Setup . 21 Plate Setup . 21 Imaging Strategy . 22 Control . 22 BACILLUS SUBTILIS EXPERIMENTS . 23 Cell Culture . 23 High, Medium, and Low Density Setup . 23 8 Plate Setup . 24 Imaging Strategy . 24 Control . 24 SIMULATION . 24 Cell.py, CellDefinitions.py, and Simulation.py . 25 run.py, generate_island. py, and analyze.py . 27 COVID-19 NOTES . 28 Human Dermal Fibroblast Experiments . 28 Bacillus Subtilis Experiments . 29 RESULTS . 30 HUMAN DERMAL FIBROBLAST EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS . 30 Morphological Changes . 30 Deterioration . 32 Migration . 32 BACILLUS SUBTILIS EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS . 33 SIMULATION RESULTS . 35 OVERALL AND INTERSECTIONAL RESULTS . 36 DISCUSSION . 38 EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS . 38 SIMULATION ANALYSIS . 39 OVERALL ANALYSIS . 42 SIGNIFICANCE . 43 FUTURE WORK . 44 REFERENCES . 46 APPENDIX A . 49 CELL.PY . 49 9 CELLDEFINITIONS.PY . 50 SIMULATION.PY . 54 RUN.PY . 56 GENERATE_ISLAND. PY . 61 ANALYZE.PY . 62
Validation of PRISM III ( Pediatric Risk of Mortality ) Scoring System in Predicting Risk of Mortality in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Many scoring systems have been used in various PICUs to predict mortality, also to compare functioning of different PICUs and assess their manner of resources consumption. Patient mortality is affected by many factors i.e. clinical condition of the patient, demographic profile and clinical characteristics of population, hospital management and organization, case mix and admission practices. It is desirable that these scoring systems should be independent of time and place. Therefore, there is a need of testing scoring systems in settings different from the one in which they were originally developed. PRISM scoring system was developed by Pollack et. al. based on physiological variables. This prospective analytical study was carried out to validate PRISM III scoring system in predicting mortality outcome in PICU of a tertiary care hospital in Jodhpur in year 2014. This study included 145 patients who met inclusion criteria. The final outcome was recorded as death or discharge. It was observed that mortality increased with increasing PRISM III score approaching almost 100% by PRISM III score of 19 and more. Length of stay in PICU increased with increasing PRISM III score upto score of 14 thereafter length of stay decreased gradually with increasing score. In this study the predictive value of PRISM III score was good in our PICU setup.
Critical behaviors of 3D black holes with a scalar hair

The principal focus of the present work concerns the critical behaviors of a class of three-dimensional (3D) black holes with a scalar field hair. Since the cosmological constant is viewed as a thermodynamic pressure and its conjugate quantity as a volume, we examine such properties in terms of two parameters B and a. The latters are related to the scalar field and the angular momentum, respectively. In particular, we give the equation of state predicting a critical universal number depending on the (B, a) moduli space. In the vanishing limit of the B parameter, we recover the usual perfect gas behavior appearing in the case of the non-rotating BTZ black hole. We point out that in a generic region of the (B, a) moduli space, the model behaves like a Van der Waals system.
Weber and the Sociology of Revolution

Weber wrote about the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 while they were in progress. Analytically, he held that revolution is a non-legitimate form of change, insofar as the source of legitimate power is the authority of military command in a community of fate organized for foreign war. He thus adumbrates some aspects of contemporary state-breakdown theory, in which revolution hinges upon geopolitical strain and fiscal crisis splitting elites. Yet Weber remained closer to classic Marxian theory of revolutionary interest groups mobilized from below. He broadened interest groups to include status groups as well as economic classes. His description gives leads for a theory of revolutionary process centered on alliances and splits, bandwagon effects and turning points, and the volatility of revolutionary ideas arising from the social organization of full-time political militants. Weber predicted structural change in Russia leading to bureaucratic dictatorship.
No False Negatives: Accepting All Useful Schedules in a Fast Serializable Many-Core System

Concurrency control is one of the most performance critical steps in modern many-core database systems. Achieving higher throughput on multi-socket servers is difficult and many concurrency control algorithms reduce the amount of accepted schedules in favor of transaction throughput or relax the isolation level which introduces unwanted anomalies. Both approaches lead to unexpected transaction behavior that is difficult to understand by the database users. We introduce a novel multi-version concurrency protocol that achieves high performance while reducing the number of aborted schedules to a minimum and providing the best isolation level. Our approach leverages the idea of a graph-based scheduler that uses the concept of conflict graphs. As conflict serializable histories can be represented by acyclic conflict graphs, our scheduler maintains the conflict graph and allows all transactions that keep the graph acyclic. All conflict serializable schedules can be accepted by such a graph-based algorithm due to the conflict graph theorem. Hence, only transaction schedules that truly violate the serializability constraints need to abort. Our developed approach is able to accept the useful intersection of commit order preserving conflict serializable (COCSR) and recoverable (RC) schedules which are the two most desirable classes in terms of correctness and user experience. We show experimentally that our graph-based scheduler has very competitive throughput in pure transactional workloads while providing fewer aborts and improved user experience. Our multi-version extension helps to efficiently perform long-running read transactions on the same up-to-date database. Moreover, our graph-based scheduler can outperform the competitors on mixed workloads.
Analysis of a Hybrid Suspended-Supported Photocatalytic Reactor for the Treatment of Wastewater Containing Benzothiazole and Aniline

In this work, a study of the main operating variables affecting TiO2/UV photocatalysis was carried out. The treatment of an industrial effluent containing aniline and benzothiazole from the manufacture of accelerants for vulcanization was performed in a TiO2-supported commercial photoreactor. The degradation of both contaminants was monitored by GC-MS analysis. The proposed experiments were able to properly identify the phenomenon of adsorption, as well as to improve the performance of the commercial photoreactor by adding small amounts of TiO2 in suspension. The removal performance, durability of the photocatalytic material, and energy costs were analysed. The results showed that the use of suspensions intensifies the degradation obtaining an improvement of 23.15% with respect to the use of the supported catalyst. For an aniline and benzothiazole solution, the best operating conditions were found at pH = 12.0, introducing 60.0 mg L−1 of suspended TiO2 together with the existing supported catalyst.
Annual modulation of seismicity along the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, CA

We analyze seismic data from the San Andreas Fault (SAF) near Parkfield, California, to test for annual modulation in seismicity rates. We use statistical analyses to show that seismicity is modulated with an annual period in the creeping section of the fault and a semiannual period in the locked section of the fault. Although the exact mechanism for seasonal triggering is undetermined, it appears that stresses associated with the hydrologic cycle are sufficient to fracture critically stressed rocks either through pore‐pressure diffusion or crustal loading/unloading. These results shed additional light on the state of stress along the SAF, indicating that hydrologically induced stress perturbations of ∼2 kPa may be sufficient to trigger earthquakes.
Scalar and higher even spin glueball masses from an anomalous modified holographic model

In this work, within an anomalous modified holographic softwall model, we calculate analytically the masses of the scalar glueball with its radial excitations and higher even glueball spin states, with , from a single mass equation. Using this approach we achieved a unified treatment for both scalar and high even spin glueballs masses. Furthermore, we also obtain the Regge trajectory associated with the pomeron compatible with other approaches.
Mycobacterium avium Complex in a Patient with AIDS

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Random Walks, Disconnection and Random Interlacements

This thesis is concerned with the disconnection of large graphs by trajectories of random walks and the model of random interlacements. The latter is a model for a random set of vertices in a transient graph and has recently been introduced by Sznitman. Our starting point is the disconnection of a discrete cylinder by a random walk, the most widely studied setup in this area. We consider a random walk on a discrete cylinder of the form (Z/NZ) × Z, d ≥ 3, with drift in one of the two Z-directions. The disconnection time is defined as the first time when the trajectory of the random walk disconnects the cylinder into two infinite connected components. We prove that for large N , when the size of the drift exceeds a threshold of 1/N, the disconnection time undergoes a phase transition from polynomial in N to exponential in a power of N . We then come to a related problem, where we study a random walk trajectory of length uN on a discrete torus (Z/NZ) in high dimension d. The set of vertices not visited by the random walk trajectory is referred to as the vacant set. We prove that for parameters u > 0 chosen small enough, some components of the vacant set consist only of segments of size logarithmic in N with probability tending to 1 as N tends to infinity. This resolves a question appearing in the work of Benjamini and Sznitman on the giant component of the vacant set. The remaining part of this work is devoted to the relation between the distributions of the trajectories of the random walks in these two problems and the model of random interlacements. We first consider the distribution of the configurations of vertices visited by the random walk on (Z/NZ) in the neighborhoods of finitely many distant points in the torus up to time uN, d ≥ 3. This distribution is shown to converge as N tends to infinity to the distribution of independent copies of the random interlacement at level u on Z. Finally, we prove a similar result for random walks on cylinders of the form GN × Z, where GN is a large finite connected weighted graph. We thereby generalize a result proved by Sznitman for GN the d ≥ 2-dimensional integer torus of large side length N to a large class of weighted graphs GN including large Euclidean boxes with reflecting boundary, Sierpinski graphs and trees.
Understanding Tipping Behaviour — An Economic Perspective

There are generally three explanations for tipping: social approval, equitable service exchange and other reasons. The combination and importance of these reasons differ between countries and cultures. In this study, three distinct questions were asked. What influences the frequency of the tipping decision? What influences the magnitude of the tip given? Who is likely to tip more than the norm? A survey among diners was conducted at one of South Africa's largest arts festivals. Using regression analyses, this paper aims to identify the factors that influence tipping behaviour in South Africa. While most previous research has focused on motivational and/or psychological reasons for tipping, this research contributes towards understanding tipping from an economic perspective. The results show that the frequency of tipping and its magnitude are a function of the ability to pay. However, socio-demographics play an important role, especially in the paying of the above-normal tip.
Search for low-scale gravity signatures in multi-jet final states with the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV

A search for evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model in final states with multiple high-transverse-momentum jets is performed using 20.3 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at √ s = 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No significant excess of events beyond Standard Model expectations is observed, and upper limits on the visible cross sections for non-Standard Model production of multi-jet final states are set. A wide variety of models for black hole and string ball production and decay are considered, and the upper limit on the cross section times acceptance is as low as 0.16 fb at the 95% confidence level. For these models, excluded regions are also given as function of the main model parameters.
Establishing Clinical Guidelines to Ensure Optimized Pulp Therapy Outcomes : Utilization of Biologically Based Data INSIDE

An often-asked question during our young years was, which came first, the chicken or the egg? For our profession, a similar academic question might be, which came first, direct or indirect pulp capping-save the pulp or save the tooth? Literature suggests that by removing severely decayed dentin our emerging dental profession of the 1700’s became more focused on treating mechanical carious pulp exposures than removal of soft cariously infected, affected dentin for so-called indirect capping, which came along later. This article attempts to briefly review the historical and scientific timeline of pulp therapy, attempting to separate fiction from published science. Hopewell Smith (1898) was one of our first colleagues to report on the unique capacity of the dental pulp to heal and provide a “bacteriometic” seal (Ruby 2000). Today’s literature continues to validate those data. And yet, our current literature still continues to debate the optimum clinical treatment of an exposed pulp. For example, many still think that calcium hydroxide (Ca[OH]2) is the only suitable agent for direct pulp capping-we shall examine that consideration in detail.
Production and Perception of Swedish Word Accents by Somali L 1 speakers

In this thesis, the production and perception of Swedish word accents by Somali L1 speakers is investigated. The Feature hypothesis, stating that it is easier to acquire a phonological feature in an L2 if the same phonological feature is used in the L1 will be the framework used. Somali is a language that also makes us of word accents. Therefore, the two languages are placed in the same level of the Tonal prominence hierarchy and the L2 acquisition of Swedish word accents by Somali L1 speakers is suitable to test. The production is tested by analyzing read speech, with elicited target words in focal position with either accent 1 or accent 2. The perception is tested with a discrimination test of the two word accents, and two different Swedish varieties are used: Central Swedish and South Swedish. Two groups are tested. One consists of Somali L1 speakers with Swedish L2 and one consists of speakers with both Somali and Swedish L1. The results show that the L2 group does make the distinction between A1 and A2 in the production test, but the result for the 2L1 group is less clear and can be interpreted as that they did not make use of the Swedish word accents. In the perception test, none of the two groups performed better than chance and had significantly lower scores than a Swedish L1 control group. The findings in this thesis confirm the Feature hypothesis in the production part, but contradict it in the perception part.
Dose-Dependent Neuroprotective Effect of Standardized Bee Venom Phospholipase A2 Against MPTP-Induced Parkinson’s Disease in Mice

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder characterized by the selective loss of dopaminergic neurons within the substantia nigra (SN). While the precise etiology of dopaminergic neuronal demise is elusive, multiple lines of evidence indicate that neuroinflammation is involved in the pathogenesis of PD. We have previously demonstrated that subcutaneous administration of bee venom (BV) phospholipase A2 (bvPLA2) suppresses dopaminergic neuronal cell death in a PD mouse model. In the present study, we established standardized methods for producing bvPLA2 agent isolated from crude BV at good manufacturing practice (GMP) facility. The therapeutic efficacy of purified bvPLA2 agent was examined in MPTP-induced PD mice. Importantly, administration of purified bvPLA2 in a dose-dependent manner reversed motor deficits in PD mice as well as inhibited loss of dopaminergic neurons within the SN of PD mice. The concentration-dependent action of standardized bvPLA2 appeared to be related to the induction of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs), which, in part, inhibits T helper 1 (Th1) and Th17 polarization and suppresses microglial activation in PD mice. Taken together, these results suggest that standardized bvPLA2 purified from BV shows a neuroprotective effect against PD and thus has a potential target for treatment of PD.
Tacrolimus troughs and genetic determinants of metabolism in kidney transplant recipients: A comparison of four ancestry groups

Tacrolimus trough and dose requirements vary dramatically between individuals of European and African American ancestry. These differences are less well described in other populations. We conducted an observational, prospective, multicenter study from which 2595 kidney transplant recipients of European, African, Native American, and Asian ancestry were studied for tacrolimus trough, doses, and genetic determinants of metabolism. We studied the well‐known variants and conducted a CYP3A4/5 gene‐wide analysis to identify new variants. Daily doses, and dose‐normalized troughs were significantly different between the four groups (P < .001). CYP3A5*3 (rs776746) was associated with higher dose‐normalized tacrolimus troughs in all groups but occurred at different allele frequencies and had differing effect sizes. The CYP3A5*6 (rs10264272) and *7 (rs413003343) variants were only present in African Americans. CYP3A4*22 (rs35599367) was not found in any of the Asian ancestry samples. We identified seven suggestive variants in the CYP3A4/5 genes associated with dose‐normalized troughs in Native Americans (P = 1.1 × 10−5‐8.8 × 10−6) and one suggestive variant in Asian Americans (P = 5.6 × 10−6). Tacrolimus daily doses and dose‐normalized troughs vary significantly among different ancestry groups. We identified potential new variants important in Asians and Native Americans. Studies with larger populations should be conducted to assess the importance of the identified suggestive variants.