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Corporate social responsibility for construction contractors: a China study

Purpose Corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice and research regarding construction contractors are comparatively limited. The purpose of this research is to identify a series of CSR issues that reflect the major components of CSR, and to determine the perceived importance of these factors in the context of construction contractors. Design/methodology/approach A CSR indicator framework was developed based on stakeholder theory. CSR stakeholders and their corresponding CSR performance issues in construction contractors are classified into two levels, i.e. project level and organizational level. This is followed by a questionnaire survey to investigate the perceptions on relative importance of CSR issues of four key stakeholders in typical construction projects in China, i.e. construction contractors, clients, design and engineering consultancy and supervision firms. Findings The study highlighted a number of factors, e.g. “quality and safety of construction”, “occupational health and safety” and “supplier/partner relationship” were highly regarded; however, their relative importance varied according to the type of responding organization. Research limitations/implications The findings indicated the major concerns of the different parties in construction projects, thereby providing a pathway for construction contractors to improve their CSR practice. Originality/value The priorities of various stakeholders described in this paper provide a useful reference for construction contractors in the selection and adoption of criteria for CSR performance. A better understanding of perceived priorities of CSR factors from different participating parties also serves useful inputs to construction contractors in their stakeholder management process.
INNOVATIVE MECHANICAL STRUCTURE FOR HOSPITAL BED FOLDING USING A SINGLE ACTUATOR

Abstract : The paper present an innovative concept of a hospital bed which use a single drive to transform the bed into a chair. The bed concept fits into the concept of smart care and tries to address the increasingly complex needs of patients who are in a convalescent period. The hospital bed is smart, allowing the patient to choose a more ergonomic and comfortable position, The transformation of the bed to chair can be done with the patient on the bed. Once transformed into a chair it can pivot around a vertical axis to give the patient the opportunity to get up on any part of the bed. Pivoting also offers the possibility to perform recovery exercises from a sitting position and to socialize with other patients. Key words: CAD, ergonomics, smart equipment,
Motivators and desired company values of wood products industry employees: Investigating generational differences

Production employees are an important component of the wood product industry's workforce, and yet little research has been conducted to provide a glimpse of what will make them more satisfied and motivated. Past research indicates that motivated employees lead to increased firm performance and productivity, but it is also thought that all persons are not motivated by the same factors. Our project therefore proposed to investigate whether the motivators and preferred company values of wood industry production employees can be segmented based on their membership in a specific age group. Our results indicate that motivators do differ by age, but that preferred values are generally homogeneous. An example is young employees being less motivated by a vacation policy than middle-aged and older employees. Good pay was reported as the most important motivator for all employees, followed by steady employment. Respondents also indicated that their ideal employer would most strongly value secure employment while being fair. Managers can use these results to make changes in such areas as recruiting, communication, and job design.
Design and analysis of UWB band pass filter

To realize a band pass filter (BPF) in ultra-wide band (UWB) communications, a device using a ring resonator with a stub is investigated. A new proposal is made to control the frequency of the attenuation poles using both the ring and the stub impedance. A five stage wide-band BPF is fabricated in this manner. Its center frequency and bandwidth are calculated based on the ring resonator model. The circuit conditions for obtaining two attenuation poles at either side of the pass band are given, together with a method for controlling them.
Optimizing channel cross section in irrigation area using improved cat swarm optimization algorithm

This research aimed to design the channel cross section with low water loss in irrigation areas. The traditional methods and models are based on explicit equations which neglect seepage and evaporation losses with low accuracy. To rectify this problem, in this research, an improved cat swarm optimization (ICSO) was obtained by adding exponential inertia weight coefficient and mutation to enhance the efficiency of conventional cat swarm optimization (CSO). Finally, the Fifth main channel of Jiangdong Irrigation area in Heilongjiang Province was taken as a study area to test the ability of ICSO. Comparing to the original design, the reduction of water loss was 20% with low flow errors. Furthermore, the ICSO was compared with genetic algorithm (GA), the particle swarm optimization (PSO) and cat swarm algorithm (CSO) to verify the effectiveness in the channel section optimization. The results are satisfactory and the method can be used for reliable design of artificial open channels. Keywords: cat swarm optimization (COS), exponential inertia weight coefficient, adoptive mutation operation, water loss, cross section, open channel DOI: 10.3965/j.ijabe. 20160905.2531 Citation: Liu D, Hu Y X, Fu Q, Imran K M, Cui S, Zhao Y M. Optimizing channel cross section in irrigation area using improved cat swarm optimization algorithm. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2016; 9(5): 76－82.
Perancangan Dan Implementasi Gateway Redundancy Untuk Peningkatan Reliabilitas Jaringan Menggunakan Protokol CARP

Abstrak Reliabilitas suatu jaringan Internet merupakan hal yang harus dibutuhkan untuk menunjang fungsinya sebagai komponen sistem informasi. Reliabilitas jaringan mengacu pada ketersediaan layanan koneksi Client ke Internet dengan mengabaikan media penghubung seperti hub , NIC , serta kondisi jaringan diatas router ISP . Secara umum, reliabilitas dapat didefinisikan sebagai daya tahan suatu sistem terhadap kegagalan kerja Pada saat terjadi kegagalan layanan dari suatu ISP , peralihan koneksi ke ISP beckup dilakukan secara manual oleh administrator jaringan. Hal tersebut dapat menimbulkan kegagalan koneksi yang berdampak pada reliabilitas jaringan Internet, bila peralihan tidak terjadi secara cepat akan terjadi router ISP. Oleh karena itu, dibutuhkan suatu Perancangan dan implementasi gateway redudancy untuk peningkatan rehabilitasi jaringan menggunakan protokol CARP . Dengan adanya Perancangan dan implementasi gateway redudancy untuk peningkatan reliabilitas jaringan menggunakan protokol CARP dapat mengatasi kegagalan layanan suatu jaringan internet Kata Kunci : CARP , G ateway , ISP , Jaringan Internet , Reliabilitasi , router . The reliability of a network the Internet is something that must be required to support its function as a component of the information system. Reliability refers to the availability of the service network client connection to the Internet by connecting media ignore such as Hub, NIC, and the condition of the network over the ISP router. In general, the reliability can be defined as the resistance of a system to fail action In the event of a service failure of an ISP, the ISP connection to the transition beckup done manually by the network administrator. It can cause connection failures that impact on the reliability of the Internet network, if the transition does not happen quickly will happen ISP router. Therefore, it takes a design and implementation of gateway redundancy to increase network rehabilitation using CARP protocol. With the design and implementation of gateway redundancy to increase network rehabilitation protocol using CARP can overcome the failure of an Internet network services Keywords: CARP, Gateway, ISP, Internet Network, Reliabilitasi, router
The Effect of Frequency of Chart Review on the Sensitivity of Nosocomial Infection Surveillance in General Surgery

Abstract Objective: To assess the sensitivity of different frequencies of nosocomial infection surveillance (NIS) in general surgery. Design: Data obtained with a prospective daily NIS are compared with those of hypothetical cross-sectional studies carried out with different frequencies (from one weekly visit up to one visit every other day). Setting: General surgery services at three hospitals. Main Outcome Measure: Sensitivity in the detection of nosocomial infection (overall and stratified by site), compared to a gold standard of prospective surveillance of every patient's complete medical record daily from the first day after surgery until discharge and once more after discharge. Patients: 5,859 patients. Results: 837 nosocomial infections were detected by the gold standard (58.8% were surgical-site infections [SSI]). The sensitivity of weekly NIS for all infections was 74.5% (95% confidence interval [CI95], 71.4%-77.5%) and varied from 65.1% (CI95, 56.2%-73.3%) for urinary tract infection to 83.3% (CI95, 62.6%-95.3%) for respiratory tract infection; it was 76.4% (CI95, 72.4%-80.1%) for SSI. As expected, sensitivity increased with the frequency of NIS. Performing NIS every 4 days improved sensitivity significantly, to 82.3% (CI95, 79.5%-84.8%) for all infections and 83.3% (CI95, 79.7%-86.5%) for SSI. One visit every other day increased the sensitivity for all infections by another 4.9%, mainly due to increased detection of urinary tract and other less severe infections. Conclusions: The sensitivity of two visits a week exceeded that of one weekly visit by approximately 8%, and one visit every other day added another 5% increase. Results varied according to duration of infection and postdischarge hospital stay.
Electrothermal modeling and simulation with SIMPLORER

Modern circuit simulators for power electronics have implemented electrothermal models of power semiconductors in their libraries. For successful simulation, interaction between electrical behaviour and self-heating effects cannot be neglected. SIMPLORER simulator is between the first that have implemented electrothermal models of power semiconductors at device level. In this paper validation of SIMPLORER's power MOSFET electrothermal model is performed. As a temperature sensor during measurement TEMPFET was used, resulting with good agreement of simulation and measurement results.
Unsupervised Multi-Document Summarization

Today, vast amounts of textual information are available at any given time. Automatic summaries can help deal with this and allow the reader to focus on the most important information. To automatically summarize a text, current systems often rely on supervised machine learning techniques trained on large datasets. The practical adaptation of these systems proves to be an issue, as many domains only have small datasets to work with. This thesis investigates how well an unsupervised summarization system can work on small multi-document datasets. The multi-document aspect is in contrast to other current systems, as they oftentimes focus on single-document summarization. Therefore, a system that combines extractive and abstractive techniques is proposed. At ﬁrst, it extractively summarizes each document and then it generates an abstractive summary of all documents by fusing similar sentences. The system has been evaluated on multiple datasets using the quality aspects deﬁned by Grusky et al. [29]. Based on the experiments, the ﬁndings suggest that unsupervised systems can compete with supervised systems in generating summaries and the abstractiveness of a system negatively correlates with the information contained in a summary. Given that the information content is the most important aspect of a summary, extractive systems outperformed the proposed system. The thesis is aimed at readers who are interested in current research in NLP and who want to deepen their knowledge in automated summarization.
Pulsed Eddy Current Technology: Characterizing Material Loss with Gap and Lift-off Variations

Abstract. Ownership costs of operational aircraft have increased steadily over the years. One of the major cost drivers is structural deterioration due to corrosion. Beyond the economics, finding and characterizing corrosion is essential for the continued airworthiness of aircraft fleets. To this end, the pulsed eddy current technique holds the potential of becoming the primary means of detecting corrosion in multilayered structures. Its wide-band frequency spectrum allows the determination of a large number of parameters, such as defect size and location. Pulsed eddy current is still considered an experimental nondestructive technique because of realistic inspection problems (e.g., probe tilting, protrusion of rivets, and thickness variations in adhesive and paint) have not been addressed in the past. Recent advances change this situation and allow pulsed eddy current to be a credible field technique.
Accessing commercial cloud resources within the European Helix Nebula cloud marketplace

Helix Nebula - the Science Cloud Initiative - is a public-private partnership between Europe's leading scientific research organisations and European IT cloud providers. CERN contributed to this initiative by providing a flagship use case: the workloads from the ATLAS experiment. Aiming to gain experience in managing and monitoring large-scale deployments, as well as in benchmarking the cloud resources, a sizable Monte Carlo production was performed using the Helix Nebula platform. This contribution describes the Helix Nebula initiative and summarizes the experience and the lessons learned from deploying ATLAS experiment application within large cloud setups involving several commercial providers.
Haemoglobin status to determine nutritional anaemia and its association with breakfast skipping and BMI among nursing undergraduates of Farasan Island, KSA

Abstract The present study was conducted to determine nutritional anaemia using haemoglobin levels of female nursing undergraduates studying at Farasan Island with the purpose to intervene at a point, before the potential problems become serious later in life. In total, 130 apparently healthy, female students of Department of Nursing were recruited by a random sampling method to collect information on socio-demographic, lifestyle and anthropogenic characteristics, and dietary habits including breakfast skipping. Haemoglobin content was estimated using Sahli's Haemoglobinometer and observations were interpreted as per WHO's criteria for anaemia. Body mass index (BMI) was recorded using a digital weighing machine. Correlation between haemoglobin concentration, breakfast skipping and body mass index of study participants was assessed by Pearson's correlation. Data analyses were done using Origin software. Overall, 51⋅6 % (n = 67) students were all together anaemic with 28⋅5 % (n = 37) had mild anaemia, 15⋅4 % (n = 20) moderate and 7⋅69 % (n = 10) had severe anaemia. Of these, 20⋅8 % (n = 27) were underweight, 63⋅8 % (n = 83) normal weight and 15⋅4 % (n = 20) were above normal weight (over weight and obese). The Hb content showed a positive correlation with the BMI and exhibited an increasing trend with increase in the BMI among study participants (P < 0⋅05). Questionnaire analyses revealed that the majority (96⋅9 %, n = 126) of students were taking junk food as bulk of their meal. A strong negative correlation was recorded between Hb contents and breakfast skipping tendencies (r = −0⋅987, P < 0⋅05). Findings of the present study are of high significance for public health professionals and educators to prioritise actions that could motivate these future nurses to adapt healthy lifestyles to strategically combat nutritional anaemia.
Development characteristics of football coaches in Australia and Malaysia

Sport coaches play a crucial role in contributing to individual and team performance. Unlike the scientific study of athlete development, scant attention has been paid to the intricacies of coach development across the full spectrum of coaching levels. In the current research the defining stage development characteristics of A, B and C license soccer (hereafter referred to as football) coaches in Australia and Malaysia, were interviewed about their development journey, especially dating back to their first involvement in football through to the present.
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras (BWCs) on Response-to-Resistance in a Large Metropolitan Police Department

ABSTRACT The current study provides a statistically rigorous program evaluation of the impact of police body-worn cameras (BWCs) on police response-to-resistance (e.g., use of force). Results indicate that BWC officers’ mean frequency of response-to-resistance decreased by 8.4% from the 12 months pre-BWC implementation to the 12 months post-BWC implementation compared with a 3.4% increase observed for the matched sample of non-BWC officers. Police departments should consider adopting BWCs alongside other strategies to reduce police response-to-resistance, and to improve transparency and accountability. Study limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.
Exploring 100 years of transboundary An historical analysis of diplomacy and cooperation. Exploring 100 Years of Finnish Transboundary Water Interactions With Russia: An Historical Analysis of Diplomacy and Cooperation

: This study combines the strengths of historical studies and analytical approaches on transboundary water interactions to establish an historical process perspective on transboundary waters. The study analytically separates transboundary water cooperation, water diplomacy, and their broader political setting, and analyses their interplay over a long period of time. The paper presents a detailed case study on the development and transformation of Finnish-Russian transboundary water interactions over the last 100 years, with an emphasis on Finland and its relationship with the Soviet Union/Russia after World War II. The setting remains relatively understudied despite its intriguing characteristics and its importance to the pioneering of water cooperation arrangements such as reciprocal compensation mechanisms. Using four distinct time periods, the study scrutinises how water diplomacy actors, institutional developments, broader political environs, and historical occurrences have ultimately led to the current cooperative setting. The findings emphasise the role played by societal trends in steering politics and water diplomacy as well as in the crafting of transboundary water cooperation. They also indicate how establishing an institutional basis for cooperation requires both political commitment and technical expertise, often over a very long period of time. The findings demonstrate how the institutions of cooperation, once they emerged, resulted in a rather self-governing operating body for everyday transboundary interaction, replacing water diplomacy as the dominant means of interaction in the studied context. Analysing historical trajectories helps to critically investigate our current discourses and practices and to understand the impact that broader societal trends have on transboundary water interactions. The study applies literary study methodologies to look at changes in the discourses of water diplomacy and cooperation in longitudinal materials and to see how they link with more general historical trajectories within the bilateral relations between Finland and the Soviet Union/Russia. The key research materials can be divided into two main categories: primary documents (bilateral agreements, official meeting minutes and decisions, working team reports, discharge rules, the Watercourses Commission’s website, introductory leaflets, and histories); and secondary documents (previous studies, reports, books, and other documentary materials).
Landscape plant material, size, and design sophistication increase perceived home value

Abstract Little consumer research is available to help landscape design and installation businesses develop service marketing strategies. We investigated the effect of three components of a landscape design on the perceived value of a home. This information would be useful in marketing lawn and landscape services to prospective clients. Our objective was to provide a consumer perspective on the value of the components in a ‘good’ landscape and determine which attributes of a landscape consumers valued most. Using conjoint design, 1323 volunteer participants in seven states viewed 16 photographs that depicted the front of a landscaped residence. Landscapes were constructed using various levels of three attributes: plant material type, design sophistication, and plant size. Results showed that the relative importance increased from plant material type to plant size to design sophistication. Across all seven markets, study participants perceived that home value increased from 5% to 11% for homes with a good .
Research on Temperature Field and Stress Field of Prefabricate Block Electric Furnace Roof

This paper establishes the CAD/CAE model of high aluminum brick furnace cover and a precast furnace cover (casting three block, eight block, twelve block) based on a 30t electric furnace roof real model of a steel factory and simulates the temperature and stress field of the firebrick roof and prefabricate block roof with ANSYS. The calculation results have indicated that the contact stress between furnace cover and precast block will affect the performance of the furnace cover and the furnace cover which is assembled by three pieces of casting precast block obtains lower stress levels has a longer service life, providing a quantitative reference for selection of casting scheme. Copyright © 2013 IFSA.
Polyphenolic Profile, Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Nociceptive Activities of Some African Medicinal Plants

The aim of the present study was to investigate the polyphenolic profile and the anti-inflammatory and anti-nociceptive activities of four traditionally used medicinal plants from Burkina Faso: Parkia biglobosa, Detarium microcarpum, Vitellaria paradoxa and Sclerocarya birrea. The analysis of the main phenolic compounds was performed by the HPLC-UV-MS method. The anti-inflammatory effect of the aqueous bark extracts was investigated by the λ-carrageenan-induced rat paw edema test. The anti-nociceptive activity was evaluated by the Randall–Selitto test under inflammatory conditions. Seven phenolic acids (gallic, protocatechuic, gentisic, vanillic, p-coumaric, ferulic, and syringic acids), and three flavonoids (catechin, epicatechin, and quercitrin) were identified in the plant samples. High contents of gallic acid were determined in the D. microcarpum, P. biglobosa and S. birrea extracts (190–300 mg/100 g), and V. paradoxa extract was the richest in epicatechin (173.86 mg/100 g). The λ-carrageenan-induced inflammation was significantly reduced (p < 0.001) by the P. biglobosa and D. microcarpum extracts (400 mg/kg p.o.). Under the inflammatory conditions, a significant anti-nociceptive activity (p < 0.001) was obtained after 2–3 h from the induction of inflammation. The effects of the tested extracts could be related to the presence of polyphenols and could be useful in the management of certain inflammatory diseases.