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Co-Opetition Symmetry and Firm Performance: A Study of Sports Goods Industry

The purpose of this paper is to examine the co-opetition and firm performance relationship through the mediating role of innovation and moderating role of trust”. This is broadly acknowledging that symmetry of co-opetition (i.e., simultaneous competition and cooperation) is achieving core advantage when firms engage in such co-opetitive relationship. Further, it is hypothesized that co-opetition has a positive influence and firm performance. The sector selected for this study is sports goods industry where requirements of co-petition are just not a requirement but also a necessity as small businesses with limited assets need heavy resources to perform internationally. Therefore, required attention was given to the effect of co-opetition on firm performance. The sample size were 415 and survey questionnaires distributed to respondents representing sports goods industry using a simple random sampling technique. The only 361 responses were useable for analysis other 54 questionnaires did not receive or not in condition to use them. The finding of this study indicated that co-opetition through innovation has a significant effect on firm performance. Furthermore, this study also verifies that the influence of trust on co-opetition and performance relationship reveals some important nuances that indicate this relationship either strong or weak. The implication of this study investigation offers that the practitioners and managers contain “optimal level” of coopetition with their competitors, which always increases firm performance. Where as “too little” and “too much” intensity of co-opetition distrust between rivals and ultimately decreases firm performance. “Finally, this study is one of the initial studies that investigating the role of innovation and trust on co-opetition and performance relationship in sports goods industry”.
Lethality of single, binary and ternary combinations of rice husk ash, groundnut pod shell ash and Eugenia aromatica Baill powder to adults of Callosobruchus species attacking stored grain legumes

The study investigated the lethality of powders made from rice husk ash, dry flower buds of Eugenia aromatica (L.) Baill. and groundnut pod shell ash, to adults of C allosobruchus maculatus Fabricius and C. chinensis Linnaeus at 25 ° C and 65% relative humidity. The powders were tested singly, and in binary, and ternary combinations at the dosages of 0.05, 0.1 and 0.2 g/10 g of grain in glass Petri dishes. The powder combinations were mixed in equal proportions. There was a control involving no powder. Adult mortality of 20 individuals was observed 24, 48 and 72 h post treatment. Data analysis indicated significant differences among treatment means. Adult mortality increased with increase in dosage of powders and period of exposure. When applied singly the three insecticidal powders showed decreasing lethality to the adults beetles in this order E. aromatica > rice husk ash > groundnut pod shell ash. In the binary and ternary combinations with equal proportion of materials, the less toxic powders were significantly enhanced in lethality. The use of the binary and ternary combinations may be favoured for use in mitigating Callosobruchus damage to stored grain legumes for reasons of affordability, sustainability and durability. study lethality of of pod ash and aromatica Baill dry flower bud powder to adults of the two attacking legumes
Detection of Subclinical Left Ventricular Dysfunction by Speckle Tracking Echo in Patients with Sepsis

Background: Assessment of LV functions with M-mode or 2-dimensional echocardiography can be performed in the parasternal long- and short-axis views by placing the calipers perpendicular to the ventricular long axis. Current speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) techniques require the acquisition of standard parasternal and apical images. The aim of this work was to detect the efficacy of STE to evaluate subclinical LV dysfunction in patients with sepsis. Methods: This case control study was carried out on 80 subjects. Subjects were divided into two equal group: group (I): diagnosed with sepsis or septic shock and group (II): normal individuals. Then group I was subdivided into two subgroups: subgroup I: 25 patients with septic shock and subgroup II:15 patients with sepsis. All patients were subjected to laboratory investigations (CRP, white blood cells, d-dimer, serum ferritin, platelets, bilirubin and creatinine), ECG, Echocardiography and STE. Results: PASP, LVEDV and LVESV were insignificantly different between septic shock and sepsis groups. A4C, A3C, A2C and GLS were significantly higher in septic shock group compared to sepsis and normal groups (P value < 0.05). Conclusions: Speckle-tracking echocardiography can detect early subclinical LV systolic dysfunction via the LV GLS, compared with conventional echocardiographic parameters in patients with septic shock.
Aspects of F-theory GUTs

We explicitly construct an SO(10) GUT using a global description of the geometry and find two interesting properties: first, at the point of expected E7 enhancement where the Yukawa interaction is generated, we see that there are not enough irreducible compo- nents in the resolved singular fiber to yield an E7 structure; second, upon constructing the G-flux for this GUT, we see that it is not possible, in general, to satisfy the quan- tization condition. This leads to a set of extra conditions on the geometry to allow for the required quantization. We then look at an E7 GUT using a similar construction.
Faculty of Languages and Translation English Department Arabic-English Code-Switching among KKU Students on Social Media “Twitter” By

Code-switching is one of the apparent linguistic phenomena in bilingual or multilingual communication. This study investigated the occurrence of CS between Arabic and English languages among KKU students on social media, particularly Twitter. It sought to find out the frequent types and reasons for CS that appeared on KKU students‟ Twitter accounts. The study was conducted using quantitative and qualitative methods. The primary data of this study was collected to explore the occurrence and the types of CS by taking screenshots of 300 tweets from Twitter accounts of 20 KKU students. The secondary data of this study was responses to an online questionnaire in order to examine the reasons for CS. The findings of this study proved that Arabic-English CS occurred among KKU students on Twitter. Also, it showed that the most frequent type of CS was intra-sentential CS. In addition, it was found that the most frequent reason that motivated KKU students to CS was the reason for talking about a particular topic. The current study provided significant information about using CS among KKU students on Twitter. It also encouraged to conduct further researches in this field, especially among Arab universities. CS on Twitter among KKU students II
THE INFLUENCE OF SERVICE QUALITY AND CORPORATE IMAGE OF ROYAL BRUNEI AIRLINES: A PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE APPROACH

The hospitality and tourism industries have become the pivotal industries that contribute to the growth of the nation's economy. However, fewer studies pay attention to the aviation industry where this industry has faced a lot of challenges and crises in the past decade. Hence, this study aims to examine the effects of service quality on the corporate image of Royal Brunei Airlines. The study utilized the SERVQUAL model to guide the study. A quantitative (survey) research design was employed using a total of 178 completed questionnaires obtained from the customers of Royal Brunei Airlines through purposive sampling. The data were then analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling through Smart-PLS 3.2. 7. The results revealed that three (3) dimension of SERVQUAL (assurance, responsiveness, tangibles) has a positive and significant relationship with corporate image. However, empathy and reliability were found not significant to corporate image. Conclusion, implications, and suggestions for future study were also discussed. ____________________________________
Marketing Destinations Through Image Repair and Tourist Identity: An evaluation study of Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) In Egypt

The increasing competition between destinations has led (DMOs) to innovate new marketing techniques so as to attract tourists and get their satisfaction and loyalty. Image plays a crucial role in tourist travel intention to a destination as it affects destination choices. The concepts of destination image repair and tourist identity are closely interrelated. Moreover, they affect destination marketing in the global competition. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the retrospective efforts of (DMOs) in marketing the Egyptian destination through repairing destination’s image and confirming its tourist identity. A quantitative analysis is employed based on 250 questionnaires distributed among employees working for (DMOs) in the Egyptian destination. The study emphasized that marketing the Egyptian destination depends on the commonality role between destination image repair and its tourism identity confirmation. On the other hand, there is a deficiency in marketing efforts exploited by (DMOs) in Egypt, which in turn, leads to the lateness of tourism recovery in Egypt. Tourism marketers in the Egyptian destination should realize the importance of embedding the connotation of destination image repair and tourist identity confirmation in marketing destinations and affecting tourist’s travel behavior. This paper suggests executable recommendations proposed for (DMOs’) decision makers in Egypt to market the Egyptian destination through destination image repair and confirming the Egyptian destination identity.
Embeddings models for Buddhist Sanskrit

The paper presents novel resources and experiments for Buddhist Sanskrit, broadly defined here including all the varieties of Sanskrit in which Buddhist texts have been transmitted. We release a novel corpus of Buddhist texts, a novel corpus of general Sanskrit and word similarity and word analogy datasets for intrinsic evaluation of Buddhist Sanskrit embeddings models. We compare the performance of word2vec and fastText static embeddings models, with default and optimized parameter settings, as well as contextual models BERT and GPT-2, with different training regimes (including a transfer learning approach using the general Sanskrit corpus) and different embeddings construction regimes (given the encoder layers). The results show that for semantic similarity the fastText embeddings yield the best results, while for word analogy tasks BERT embeddings work the best. We also show that for contextual models the optimal layer combination for embedding construction is task dependant, and that pretraining the contextual embeddings models on a reference corpus of general Sanskrit is beneficial, which is a promising finding for future development of embeddings for less-resourced languages and domains.
Existence and uniqueness results to a fractional q-difference coupled system with integral boundary conditions via topological degree theory

This paper aims to highlight existence and uniqueness results for a coupled system of nonlinear fractional q-difference subject to nonlinear more general four-point boundary conditions are treated. Our analysis relies on two approaches, the topological degree for condensing maps via a priori estimate method and the Banach contraction principle fixed point theorem. Finally, Two examples illustrating the effectiveness of the theoretical results are presented.
How Can the Podcast Creative Industry Encourage Indonesia’s Economic Recovery during the Covid-19 Pandemic?

This study aims to explore the potential of the podcast industry for Indonesia's national economic recovery. The data used in this study are secondary data obtained from video podcasts published by 11 Indonesian podcasters and online newspapers published by the Indonesian press. Data analysis was carried out using visual content analysis and discourse analysis methods. The results of this study indicate that podcasts can be a solution for Indonesia's national economic recovery during this Covid-19 pandemic and beyond because the number of podcast viewers is increasing every year. Another finding in this study is the good prospects of the podcast industry in the future; podcaster income comes from ads, endorsements, and youtube adsense; The most popular podcast genres in Indonesia are comedy, horror, adult, and health. This study is expected to be an input for the Indonesian government to move the digital-based creative economy sector for the recovery of Indonesia's national economy.
Neurotoxic effects of manganese chloride on the occipital cortex of adult wistar rats

Manganese (Mn) is the twelveth most abundant element on the earth. It is an essential trace metal that is required for a specific amount of enzymes required for normal cellular functions. Manganese deficiency and intoxication are associated with adverse metabolic and neuropsychiatric effects in humans. This study investigated the effect of manganese chloride on occipital cortex of adult Wistar rats. Thirty-six (36) healthy adult Wistar rats of both sexes weighing between 120 – 200 g were separated into four groups; A, B, C and D. The Wistar rats were subjected to different doses of manganese chloride. The wistar rats in Group A were regarded as the Control which received only feed and distilled water daily for 29 days. Manganese chloride was administered at 10mg/kg, 20mg/kg and 30mg/kg orally to Group B, C and D respectively. The animals were sacrificed on day 30 th of the treatment by cervical dislocation. The brain was harvested, weighed with a sensitive weighing balance, Part of the brain was removed and homogenized for biochemical analysis for MDA (Malondialdehyde), NO (Nitric Oxide) and SDH (Succinate dehydrogenase) and the remaining parts were fixed in 10% formol calcium and was processed for histological analysis using H & E staining method. The result showed that the mean body weights of the Wistar rats reduced significantly (P<0.05) in group B , C and D manganese chloride treated group compared with Group A . The brain weights in group B, C and D shows insignificant increase (P>0.05) when compared with group A (control group). The biochemical analysis result showed significant increase (P<0.05) in MDA (Malondialdehyde), NO (Nitric Oxide) and SDH( Succinate dehydrogenase) in the brain of manganese chloride treated groups compared to Control. The histological analysis indicated that occipital cortex shows observable degenerative changes in the occipital cortex characterized by peripheral and central degenerative changes, clustered pyknotic pyramidal and granule neurons that appear with fragmented cytoplasm and condensed nuclei in the manganese chloride treated compared with normal histoarchitecture of occipital cortex in the control. The study concluded that Manganese Chloride treatment has adversely affected the occipital cortical tissue in the treated rats which may affect the occipital cortical functions.
The Study Exploration towards Side Friction Influences by traffic performance measures on roads

Side friction factors are characterized as every one of those activities identified with the exercises occurring by the sides of the road and infrequently inside the road, which meddle with the movement flow on the voyaged way. They incorporate however not restricted to people on foot, bikes, non-motorized vehicles, parked and stopping vehicles. The individual friction factors through relapse examination were weighted and joined into one unit of measure of friction called 'FRIC'. The impact of "FRIC" on speed-flow bends was broke down. The outcomes demonstrated huge effect on speed for both road sorts. Effect on limit was recognized on two-path two-way roads while field information on four-path two-way roads did not permit this. In the microanalysis approach, impact of individual side friction factors on speed was broke down. The outcomes demonstrated that on two-path two-way roads, every single examined element displayed measurably noteworthy effect on speed, while on four-path two-way roads, just a single component demonstrated the same. Advance suggestions were made that these outcomes ought to be connected to define administration programs looking to breaking point levels of side friction on high portability urban arterial streets avenues with a specific end goal to enhance activity security and operation proficiency.
#2022-010 The productive role of social policy

This paper assesses the productive role of social policy. It analyses the effect that participating in social policy programmes has on business performance of enterprises in Cartagena, Colombia. To investigate these effects, we employ an instrumental variable analysis to account for the potential endogeneity of participation. Exploiting the existence of a partially complied eligibility rule for Participation in the poverty reduction programme we are able to identify the effect on several enterprise indicators. The paper contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship policies in developing countries from the social policy perspective. It sheds light on the effects and potential mechanisms that the participation on social policy schemes has on the entrepreneurial activity of household enterprises. The results show that complier participating entrepreneurs are more credit-oriented and work more hours per day. No statistically significant effect is found on profit measures. These findings point to the need to understand the dynamics between household and enterprises to a deeper level and to evaluate the effects of having a social policy scheme in place to prevent this drain.
Introducing Frege to Fillmore: A FrameNet Dataset that Captures both Sense and Reference

This article presents the first output of the Dutch FrameNet annotation tool, which facilitates both referential- and frame annotations of language-independent corpora. On the referential level, the tool links in-text mentions to structured data, grounding the text in the real world. On the frame level, those same mentions are annotated with respect to their semantic sense. This way of annotating not only generates a rich linguistic dataset that is grounded in real-world event instances, but also guides the annotators in frame identification, resulting in high inter-annotator-agreement and consistent annotations across documents and at discourse level, exceeding traditional sentence level annotations of frame elements. Moreover, the annotation tool features a dynamic lexical lookup that increases the development of a cross-domain FrameNet lexicon.
Vibration and Sound Radiation Analysis of Vehicle Powertrain Systems with Right-Angle Geared Drive

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OPTICS, LASERS, AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS FORMATION OF PERIODIC STRUCTURES ON THE SOLID SURFACE UNDER LASER IRRADIATION

Advances in the development of technologies aimed at the production of periodic structures on the surface of semiconductors, metals, and insulators have been reviewed. Particular attention was paid to the formation of periodic structures under laser irradiation. The results of both theoretical calculations and experimental researches of the phenomenon concerned are presented.
Understanding Situationality Using the Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving Method in the Company Democracy Model to Increase Employee Engagement and Knowledge Contribution

This paper integrates the concepts of critical thinking and change-making by introducing the problem-solving Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Method in the Company Democracy Model. The concept of situationality, as presented in the Company Democracy Model (CDM), is further supported in this paper with the KT problem-solving methods to identify the core nature of a speciﬁc situational concern that supports people’s critical thinking. The paper deﬁnes and analyses the KT methods’ situational concerns, categorized into ﬁve areas: understanding a situation, deviation cause, alternatives selection, risk reduction, and chance enhancement. Identifying the core nature of a speciﬁc situational concern helps to ﬁnd a thinking approach that leads to an idea that is transformed into an innovative process, product, or service. The paper uses the Aristotelian golden mean to effectively balance this employee performance and iden-tity imbalances that feed the development of corrective actions and impact behavioral change.
Conflict Research Centre (CRC) Reconciling the carrot and the stick: An intellectual history of integrative bargaining in 20 th century American organizational relations

The Working Paper Series aims to facilitate the dissemination of new research findings and work in progress by CRC researchers and associates. The papers are intended to stimulate discussion of new research in the field of conflict studies by scholars, practitioners and policymakers. The CRC Working Papers are available to download free of charge through the CRC website. The views expressed in the CRC Working Papers are those of the author(s), and do not represent those of the CRC or Saint Paul University. Comments on the Working Papers the author(s).
Brain Breaks Improve Student Behavior and Focus Brain Breaks Improve Student Behavior and Focus

The purpose of this action research project was to determine the impact of brain breaks, or physical activity breaks, when implemented as a transition to learning centers in the preschool classroom. Learning centers consist of small group time, one-on-one time with the teacher, and whole group time where important preschool state standards are taught. The study was conducted over five weeks in two preschool classrooms. One classroom was designated as the control group, and the other classroom as the treatment group. Data was collected to determine if brain breaks had an impact on student focus and behavior. After five weeks of intervention, students in the treatment group displayed a decrease in instances of off-task behavior. It was concluded that brain breaks do improve student focus and behavior. The study found that as the research went on and brain breaks became a normal part of the routine for the students in the treatment group, they engaged in more on-task behaviors and less off-task behaviors.