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GeoICT uniformity in flexibility : analysis of the influence of geoICT coordination on the cooperation between public organisations with geoICT.

textabstractThis chapter begins with an empirical case where various public sector organisations in the Netherlands have cooperated with a particular type of technology, geoICT, since 1996. Throughout this document, GeoICT refers to the collection of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based systems allowing the study of natural and man-made phenomena with an explicit bearing in space (de By, 2004:15). Specific to ‘geo-’ICT is that it creates and manipulates ‘geospatial data. ’ Similarly to other types of ICT, it has only partly affected the four spheres of government: policy, politics, public organisation, citizens (Zouridis and Thaens, 2005). However ‘Geo-’ICT has the potential to influence the public organisation beyond the operational core of public administration (ibid.). Section 1.2 begins from this assumption and presents the case. Section 1.3 follows with a conceptual analysis of this case, to derive a set of basic research questions. Section 1.4 formulates these research questions. Section 1.5 explains the approach with which these research questions are addressed. Section 1.6 describes the position of this research in relation to three research domains: geo-information science, public administration and organisational science. Section 1.7 provides a summary of the section and its relation to the subsequent chapters.
Proceedings of the 2 nd NanoWorld Conference in Boston ( NWC-2017 ) . Part III : Featured Presentations

Benefitting from the continuous innovations in semiconductor materials and device fabricating techniques, ultraviolet (UV) photodetectors have been successfully used in advanced communications, flame detection, air purification, ozone sensing and leak detection in the past few decades. Up to now, various sophisticated techniques, such as metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), pulsed laser deposition (PLD), atomic layer deposition (ALD), and magnetron sputtering have been developing rapidly, which has provided vast opportunities for thin-film based materials, especially GaN, and GaAs based photodetectors, to be successfully commercialized. However, fabricating photodetectors focusing on the aforementioned techniques usually requires high operating costs, which will hamper further scale-up production of such photo electric devices. Therefore, it is of great importance to explore novel and facile techniques for fabricating high-performance photodetectors with low cost. Nowadays, nanoscience, nanofabrication technologies and versatile materials have sparked a new vision of UV photodetectors, which move toward higher precision, lower energy consumption and greater miniaturization. Recently, our group developed several novel photodetectors based on various low-dimensional nanostructure materials by using several simple and low cost bottom-up approaches. It is expected that this novel kind of UV photodetectors with smart, intelligent and multifunctional design will benefit daily life and the well-being of society in the near future. NanoWorld Journal
A STUDY ON EMPLOYEE FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED SERVICE SECTOR COMPANIES

At the forefront, the modern HR professionals have a job that every employee performs to the best of their abilities by identifying a role that is best suited for them. This matching of jobs and people to facilitate excellence in performance can be achieved through competency mapping. Objectives of the study, To examine the employee Functional competencies on employee performance in selected service sector companies. Methodology of the study, the study has used primary data as well as secondary data. A secondary data of literature of the competencies assessment on employees undertaken in order to perepare background note. Primary data were collected through interview schedule Method. The population of this study is the employees who engaged selected service sector industries in Chennai. Suggested this study, this refers to the amount of effort theorganization devotes for developing human resource. Such evaluations refer to evaluation of the organization or organizational unit by respondents in respect of individuals and organizations in its environment with which it interacts. Suppliers, customers, stockholders, enforcement agencies and the general public would fall under this category.Conclude this Study, it takes strong efforts from the management to improve the employees work motivation through improvements on the necessities of life, physical, social and family. ________________________________________________________________________
Determinants of Satisfaction, Trust, and Loyalty of Indonesian E-Commerce Customer

This study aimed to investigate the antecedents of online customer satisfaction and online customer trust in Indonesia toward a particular e-commerce website. This study also analyzes the effect of online customer satisfaction and customer trust as key factors influencing online customer loyalty. A quantitative approach has been employed. The gathered data obtained using online questionnaire with itemized rating scale resulting in 443 respondents. For the purpose of data analysis, Structured Equation Model (SEM) method has been adopted. This study found that user interface quality, information quality, customer service, and security and privacy have a positive significant impact on online customer satisfaction and online customer trust. This study also found that online customer satisfaction and online customer satisfaction influencing online customer loyalty significantly in Indonesia. This study suggests that Indonesian online merchant can win the loyalty of online customer by focusing their strategies on the satisfaction and trust of Indonesian online customers.
SPECIAL ISSUE Innovation and Sustainability of Agri-Food System in the Mediterranean Area

Demand for animal products is expected to increase due to human population growth, resulting in a need for increased production. At the same time, climate change poses a major threat to the viability and sustainability of livestock production systems. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the sustainability of dairy cattle farms belonging to three farming systems (rainfed, irrigated, and mixed) at the northeast zone of Tunisia using the IDEA method (version 3). Collected data of 102 farms were subjected to an analysis of variance using the GLM procedure of SAS software (version 9.4). Results showed that the socio-territorial scale was the limiting factor for all systems and that the irrigated system had the lowest scores of agro-ecological and socio-territorial scales, compared to the other ones, but it recorded the highest score for the economic scale. The best agro-ecological and socio-territorial scores characterized the mixed system. However, it had the lowest score on the economic scale. Finally, the rain-fed system was exhibited medium performances of the three scales. It was concluded a difference between the three farm systems, but there was no disassociation between the three sustainability dimensions; thus, improvements should proceed across all scales simultaneously.
Evaluation the Biosorption Properties of Three Bacillus Strains for Cu

Introduction Heavy metal contamination has always been an environmental problem since the introduction of mine and certain petrochemical, refinery, pulp and paper, fertilizer, steel, textile, plastic, and ceramic industries. The most prevalent reported contaminations are due to zinc, chromium, Cu, lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel, cobalt and iron in the wastewater of such industries. Excessive amounts of heavy metals in soil, groundwater and food chains due to inappropriate management of wastewater can have detrimental impact on several organisms in ecosystems including humans, plants and animals leading to the accumulation of heavy metals in the living tissues. The copper ions are the main metal pollutant in the wide range of industries. Copper accumulation in the liver, brain, stomach, heart and skin can cause certain disorders and tissue damages. There are various physico-chemical strategies such as precipitation, electrochemical destruction, uptake by activated carbon, coagulation, membrane technology, chromatogeraphy etc., to remove the metal ions in industries. However, the use of above methods is limited owing to some disadvantages including the production of toxic compounds, remaining unfavorable color and the nonselective uptake of metal ions. Alternatively, biological strategies can be used for bioremediation. Both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, algea, and fungi are common microorganisms having potential abilities to remove heavy metals from the environment. Compared to other methods, microbial treatment is cheaper, much simpler, more accessible and causes regeneration of bioabsorbents leading to more efficient removal of heavy metals. Both dead and live microorganisms have been applied for bioabsorption. Dead microorganisms are preferred over the live ones because obviously there is no need for nutrients nor adverse toxic effects on biomass. Bacterial cell wall is the first component that comes into contact with the metal ions. Metal ions can be adsorbed onto or penetrate into the cell wall structure. Since the ion uptake by dead and inactive cells happen extracellulary, functional chemical groups of cell wall play a Abstract
Learning a cross-domain embedding space of vocal and mixed audio with a structure-preserving triplet loss

Recent advances of music source separation have achieved high quality of vocal isolation from mix audio. This has paved the way for various applications in the area of music informational retrieval (MIR). In this paper, we pro-pose a method to learn a cross-domain embedding space between isolated vocal and mixed audio for vocal-centric MIR tasks, leveraging a pre-trained music source separation model. Learning the cross-domain embedding was previously attempted with a triplet-based similarity model where vocal and mixed audio are encoded by two different convolutional neural networks. We improve the approach with a structure-preserving triplet loss that exploits not only cross-domain similarity between vocal and mixed audio but also intra-domain similarity within vocal tracks or mix tracks. We learn vocal embedding using a large-scaled dataset and evaluate it in singer identiﬁcation and query-by-singer tasks. In addition, we use the vocal embedding for vocal-based music tagging and artist classi-ﬁcation in transfer learning settings. We show that the proposed model signiﬁcantly improves the previous cross-domain embedding model, particularly when the two embedding spaces from isolated vocals and mixed audio are concatenated.
CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING USING VISUAL INSPECTION WITH ACETIC ACID AND IODINE (VIA/VILI) BY A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

INTRODUCTION Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, with the highest burden in in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) where it is the second most common cancer in women[1-4]. Nearly 90% of the estimated 570,000 new cases and 311,000 deaths in 2018 occurredin LMICs [12]. Cervical cancer is a largely preventable, but remains a major cause of cancer ABSTRACT Background:Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, with the highest burden in in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) where it is the second most common cancer in women.Nearly 90% of the estimated 570,000 new cases and 311,000 deaths in 2018 occurredin LMICs. Aim/Objective: The objective of the program was to promote cervical cancer awareness and early detection strategies including the introduction of Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) and Iodine (VILI) as screening tools among our women. Method:This was a cross – sectional study a reflective analysis of the VIA/VILI result of 101 women who participated in a cervical cancer awareness and screening community outreach organised by Preventive Health Care Initiative, a nongovernmental organization in Rivers State, Nigeria. A structured survey form was administered to all the women who consented to screening (after explanation of the procedure). The data was coded and analysis was performed in simple statistical method. Results:The age range of women screened was between 19 and 73years with a mean age of 39years and 82 (81%) were within the reproductive age. Sixty six (65%) of the women had tertiary education while thirty and three of them had secondary and primary education respectively, only two women had no formal education. Majority of the women 56 (55%) were married while 35 (32%) were single and 10 (9%) were widows. The average age of participants at first sexual exposure was 20 years with 25 (23%) commencing sexual activity before 18 years. Forty one (37%) of the women were grand multiparous, only eighteen (16%) claimed never to have been pregnant. There were 15 (15%) VIA /VILI positive cases and 3 (2.7%) were clinically suspicious of invasive cervical cancer. Conclusion:The study revealed that there were 15 (15%) VIA /VILI positive cases and 3 (2.7%) were clinically suspicious of invasive cervical cancer. In addition, the study revealed the average age at coitarche was20 years.
Frontal Skull-Base Meningioma: Its Management and Outcome

Objective: To analyze the clinical manifestations, diagnostic evaluation and the functional outcome of surgery of anterior skull base meningioma. Material and method: It is a prospective hospital based study on 22 patients who were admitted and diagnosed to be a case of anterior skull base meningioma and have completed at least three months of follow-up after surgery. Result: Anterior skull base meningioma is commonly seen in the female population with a female to male ratio of 1.75:1. Maximum incidence was found in the age group of 40 to 50 years of age. Visual impairment was the most common (59.1%) mode of presentation. Due to the involvement of the other cranial nerves of anterior cranial fossa, diplopia (22.7%), ocular paresis (22.7%), papilledema (50%), optic atrophy (31.8%), Foster Kennedy Syndrome (13.6%), anosmia (22.7%) are common findings. Due to the mass effect, headache (54.5%), mental changes (27.3%), seizure (22.7%) are also commonly found. Computerized tomography scanning was useful for defining the osseous anatomy while MR imaging and MR angiography defined the relationship of the tumor to the optic nerves and chiasm as well as the other intracranial neurovascular structures. Conclusion: Thus early diagnosis is desirable for successful treatment with a better chance of good postoperative outcome.
A Case Control Study to Determine the Frequency and Severity of Vitamin D Insufficiency in People with Type 2 Diabetes

Aim: The aim of the study to assess the prevalence and severity of vitamin D deficiency in type 2 DM. Methods: A case-control study was conducted in the Department of General Medicine, Lord Buddha Koshi Medical College and Hospital, Saharsa, Bihar, India, for 15 months. Total 220 participants were including in the study out of which 110 healthy people were include as case (Group A) and 110 type 2 diabetic patients as controls (Group B). Routine laboratory Investigations like CBC, FBS, RBS, PP2BS, HbA1C, blood urea, serum creatinine, lipid profile, urine albumin and Vitamin D3 levels were done by standard methods in central laboratory of Institute. Results: The mean age of group A (case) was 51.88±11.36 years while that of group B (control) was 49.92±11.26 years. Total 115 males and 105 females were enrolled in study. 64.55% of group A were male and 35.45% female. Group B (control) had 59.10% males and 40.90 female. Prevalence of low vitamin D level in healthy population was only 22.73 % in my study, while prevalence was 86.36 % in Diabetic group. Among diabetic patients having abnormal Vitamin D level, majority (66.36%) were having insufficiency, only 22% were having overt vitamin D deficiency in Diabetic patients. In patients with controlled diabetes as per HbA1C criteria, the prevalence of sufficient, Insufficient and Deficient Vitamin D was 20.41%, 69.39% and 16.33% respectively, where in patients with uncontrolled diabetes it was 8.20%, 68.85% and 22.95% respectively. More number of diabetic patients with uncontrolled status (22.95%) was having overt vitamin D deficiency in comparison to controlled status (16.33%). There is a significant association between the maintenance of euglycemia and severity of Vitamin D level in diabetic patients, as the p value is less than 0.05. Hypertension was most common co-morbidity found in diabetic group (18.18%) followed by ischemic heart disease (4.54%). Conclusion: We concluded that the control of diabetic status is mandatory in order to prevent vitamin D deficiency.
Wire bonded 3D coils render air core microtransformers competitive

We present a novel wafer-level fabrication method for 3D solenoidal microtransformers using an automatic wire bonder for chip-scale, very high frequency regime applications. Using standard microelectromechanical systems fabrication processes for the manufacturing of supporting structures, together with ultra-fast wire bonding for the fabrication of solenoids, enables the flexible and repeatable fabrication, at high throughput, of high performance air core microtransformers. The primary and secondary solenoids are wound one on top of the other in the lateral direction, using a 25 µm thick insulated wire. Besides commonly available gold wire, we also introduce insulated copper wire to our coil winding process. The influence of copper on the transformer properties is explored and compared to gold. A simulation model based on the solenoids’ wire bonding trajectories has been defined using the FastHenry software to accurately predict and optimize the transformer's inductive properties. The transformer chips are encapsulated in polydimethylsiloxane in order to protect the coils from environmental influences and mechanical damage. Meanwhile, the effect of the increase in the internal capacitance of the chips as a result of the encapsulation is analyzed. A fabricated transformer with 20 windings in both the primary and the secondary coils, and a footprint of 1 mm2, yields an inductance of 490 nH, a maximum efficiency of 68%, and a coupling factor of 94%. The repeatability of the coil winding process was investigated by comparing the data of 25 identically processed devices. Finally, the microtransformers are benchmarked to underline the potential of the technology in rendering air core transformers competitive.
Motor Competence across 6- to 10-year Old Children: A Cross- sectional Study in 1811 Elementary School Students

J Health Sci Educ Vol 3(3): 1-6 Motor Competence across 6to 10-year Old Children: A Crosssectional Study in 1811 Elementary School Students Greier K, Drenowatz C, Ruedl G, Kirschner W, Lackner C, Feurstein-Zerlauth V, Kroell K and Greier C Department of Sport Science, University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Division of Physical Education, Private University of Education (KPH-ES), Stams, Austria Division of Physical Education, University of Education Upper Austria (PHOOE), Linz, Austria Division of Physical Education, University of Education Tyrol (PHT), Innsbruck, Austria Division of Physical Education, University of Education Vorarlberg (PHV), Feldkirch, Austria
Our experience in comparative evaluation of dexmedetomidine and ketamine for epidural analgesia in lower limb orthopedic surgeries

Introduction: The combined spinal epidural anesthesia (CSE) plays a unique role in management of perioperative analgesia. It is associated with early postoperative mobilization and rehabilitation with minimally associated pain and discomfort, which is the most desirable feature in modern surgery. We designed this study for comparative evaluation of dexmedetomidine and ketamine for epidural analgesia in lower limb orthopedic surgeries in patients operated under CSE. Materials and Methods: The study included 50 patients divided into two groups (25 each). Group D: Patient received bolus dose of dexmedetomidine 1 μg/kg after spinal anesthesia followed by bupivacaine 0.125% with dexmedetomidine 1 μg/ml epidurally using 240 ml elastomeric pump at 5ml/ hr till 48 hours. Group K: Patient received bolus dose of ketamine 0.5 mg/kg after spinal anesthesia followed bupivacaine 0.125% with ketamine 0.5mg/ml epidurally using elastomeric pump at 5ml/hr till 48 hours. Results: There was no significant difference between the two groups (p>0.05) in terms of highest sensory level achieved and time for complete motor block. The patients in both the groups were hemodynamicaly stable throughout the study. The duration of analgesia was longer with dexmedetomidine however, none of the patients in both the groups required rescue analgesic. The time to regression of sensory level to L5 in Group D was found to be 594 ± 63.04 minutes as compared to 362.4 ± 45.76 minutes in Group K (p<.001) while, the time to regression of motor block to Bromage scale 1 in Group D was 488.4 ± 42.88 minutes whereas, in Group K it was 303.6 ± 36.04 minutes (p<0.001). The incidence of sedation, nausea, vomiting and other side effects were comparable. Conclusion: We conclude that continuous epidural infusion with dexmedetomidine and ketamine effectively reduced the postoperative rescue analgesics requirements and provided good patient satisfaction in patients undergoing lower limb orthopedic surgery.
Influence of African American Engineering Student Perceptions of Campus Climate on Graduation Rates

African American undergraduate engineering student perceptions of institutional and personal/social campus climate factors were investigated to determine how these perceptions influence academic performance and institutional graduation rates. Data collection was accomplished through use of a quantitative and qualitative survey instrument administered to a national sample of subjects. The research discovered wide variation in individual institutional African American graduation rates and differences in rates among groups of institutions categorized by their academic selectivity or their designation as a Historically Black College and University. Students at institutions in the higher of the academic selectivity categories had higher graduation rates. However, students enrolled in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities category had more favorable perceptions of their college experience and had higher grades than students attending other institutions. After controlling for institution category, higher graduation rates were associated with students' lower perceptions of racism and discrimination and with students' greater institutional commitment.
Designing Usable Marine Interfaces: Some Issues and Constraints

Although there have been improvements to the interface design of marine systems, there are still calls for increased usability as designers are blamed for systems that users find difficult to operate. This paper examines some of the issues and constraints that the designer faces when attempting to design a usable interface. The approach to designing that the developer may take is considered as well as more practical issues such as the limitations of using design principles. The importance of domain and context knowledge is stressed as well as other issues such as safety and culture. The paper concludes that design is a complex compromise but user involvement throughout the lifecycle can improve the ease of using marine systems.