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Multi-Dimensional Assessment of a Bavarian and Czech University: A Case Study of Sustainability Implementation

Evaluating the effectiveness of sustainability implementation at Higher Education Institutions is still challenging, due to less multi-dimensional approaches. Purpose is to present a new assessment - Sustainable Maturity model (SuMa model) for evaluating the implementation of sustainability at two universities in a border region with different maturity profiles through an internationally designed case study. Therefore, internal documents were analyzed, and interviews were conducted. The pilot implementation of this model showed that it can also be used internationally to evaluate the current state of sustainability implementation. As the assessment results prove, the critical point is effectiveness of strategy implementation and communication. Also, a lack of common understanding of sustainability still exists. The case study shows that the cultural and historical differences that exist in rural areas matters for implementing sustainability. The new SuMa assessment-model is a very suitable tool that delivers relevant indicators for measurable and comparable results over time and, above all, helps and supports the implementation of sustainability across all activities in the higher education landscape. It thus offers the possibility of being a standardized tool used worldwide. Keywords: Higher Education Institutions; Sustainability; Strategy Implementation; Assessment
Facile Solution Process of VO2 Film with Mesh Morphology for Enhanced Thermochromic Performance

The fabrication and applications of VO2 film continue to be of considerable interest due to their good thermochromic performance for smart windows. However, low visible transmittance (Tlum) and solar modulation efficiency (∆Tsol) impede the application of VO2 film, and they are difficult to improve simultaneously. Here, a facile zinc solution process was employed to control the surface structure of dense VO2 film and the processed VO2 film showed enhanced visible transmittance and solar modulation efficiency, which were increased by 7.5% and 9.5%, respectively, compared with unprocessed VO2 film. This process facilitated the growth of layered basic zinc acetate (LBZA) nanosheets to form mesh morphology on the surface of VO2 film, where LBZA nanosheets enhance the visible transmittance as an anti-reflection film. The mesh morphology also strengthened the solar modulation efficiency with small caves between nanosheets by multiplying the times of reflection. By increasing the zinc concentration from 0.05 mol/L to 0.20 mol/L, there were more LBZA nanosheets on the surface of the VO2 film, leading to an increase in the solar/near-infrared modulation efficiency. Therefore, this work revealed the relationship between the solution process, surface structure, and optical properties, and thus can provide a new method to prepare VO2 composite film with desirable performance for applications in smart windows.
Determinants for Building information modeling adoption in Facilities Management in South Africa: An application of the UTAUT model

Based on the diversity of the informational needs of an organisation, various information technology systems are introduced and used to support a wide range of Facilities Management (FM) information. The adoption of BIM in FM offers an opportunity for facilities managers to add value to the facilities planning, maintenance, occupation and operations management. Effective adoption of BIM in FM would require better knowledge of relevant and influential factors, which hitherto have not been explored adequately in emerging economy contexts such as South Africa. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and evaluate the determinants for adopting BIM for FM practice, using South Africa as context and the UTAUT model as a theoretical framework for examining determinants of BIM adoption in FM. Relevant literature review was complemented, and a survey strategy was used for data collection through the development of a questionnaire instrument. The results demonstrate a strong relationship between Performance Expectancy and Behavioural Intention, indicating the influence of organisations and senior management on BIM adoption in FM and that Attitude has a significant effect on Use Behaviour. The findings align with the UTAUT model and add to the body of practical reference BIM adoption in FM.
Ecological footprint and biocapacity analysis of upper Cisadane Watershed

The Ecological footprint/EF is used as a tool to measure human consumption of the resource when compared they ability to regenerate. EF measures how much bio-productivity (BC) areas are needed by the population for sustainable resource production activities that are used to meet the needs and absorb the resulting waste. If EF over then BC, overshoot will be happened. Overshoot usually occurs short term but if continuously increasing will cause environmental degradation. Cisadane watershed became study area because it was part of government program to minimize environmental degradation. The purpose of this study was determining the condition of the upstream Cisadane watershed, whether the ecology is surplus or deficit. The result of study explained that upstream Cisadane watershed was ecology deficit from 2016-2020.
Learned Multiagent Real-Time Guidance with Applications to Quadrotor Runway Inspection

Aircraft runways are periodically inspected for debris and damage. Instead of having pilots coordinate the motion of the quadrotors manually or hand-crafting the desired quadrotor behavior into a guidance law, this paper reports the use of deep reinforcement learning to learn a closed-loop multiagent real-time guidance strategy for quadrotors to autonomously perform such inspections. This yields a significant reduction in engineering effort while enabling highly-flexible real-time performance. The runway is discretized into a number of rectangular tiles, which must all be visited for the runway to be considered inspected. The guidance system reported here calculates a desired acceleration in real time for the quadrotor(s) to track in order to complete the task. This paper first develops the guidance technique, trains it in simulation, and evaluates it experimentally using an indoor quadrotor laboratory. This process is then repeated for an outdoor setting on a real runway, where the proposed guidance strategy is compared to a handcrafted strategy and applied to a multiquadrotor scenario where the quadrotors must learn to coordinate their behavior and be resilient to the failure of one quadrotor mid-experiment. Multiagent, fault-tolerant, learned behavior is successfully demonstrated through outdoor quadrotor flights. Additional simulations and experiments demonstrate the technique is viable in a swarm with additional quadrotors, on a variety of runway shapes and with increased discretization of the runway. This work shows how modern learning-based techniques can: 1) reduce the engineering effort required to design complex guidance systems and 2) be implemented on real hardware in a representative outdoor environment.
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1School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia; 2School of Science, Psychology and Sport, Federation University, Ballarat, Melbourne, Australia; 3Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia Purpose: The study assessed the association between medication beliefs and adherence in Middle Eastern refugees and migrants in Australia, and also examined differences between the two groups regarding beliefs and adherence to medication. Patients and Methods: A total of 319 Middle Eastern refugees and migrants with hypertension were approached via various social groups in Australia and asked to complete Arabic versions of the Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire (BMQ) and the Medication Adherence Questionnaire. BMQ scores (necessity and concerns scales) were classified as “accepting”, “indifferent”, “ambivalent” or “skeptical”. Multiple mediation modelling was applied to examine the role of necessity and concerns scales as mediators between migration status and medication adherence. Results: There were significant associations between medication adherence and medication beliefs scores (necessity and concerns scales) (p=0.0001). Necessity and concern were mediators in the relationship between migration status and medication adherence. Significant differences were found between refugees and migrants for medication adherence and medication beliefs. Refugees were likely to have less necessity, and more concern beliefs than migrants, and were also less likely to adhere to medications. Almost 30% of refugees could be classified as skeptical and 40% as ambivalent. In contrast, 50% of migrants had accepting beliefs, and around 35% held ambivalent beliefs. Refugees and migrants with “accepting” beliefs reported the highest adherence to medication and those holding “skeptical” beliefs reported the lowest adherence. Conclusion: Medication beliefs are potentially modifiable and are reasonable targets for clinical interventions designed to improve medication adherence. Understanding these beliefs and the likely differences between refugees and migrants is crucial to provide specific and targeted advice to each group independently in order to improve medication adherence and overall health.
ANALISIS PENGARUH LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP, INFORMATION SHARING, TRUST, DAN PROCESS INTEGRATION , TERHADAP KINERJA SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (Studi Pada Industri Knalpot di Purbalingga)

The development of Indonesia's economy cannot be separated from that spread through regions in Indonesia. Purbalingga as one of the districts in Central Java has a potential and growing industrial sector. One of them is the exhaust industry in Pesayangan. The exhaust industry in Purbalingga has huge assets and total production. Like other industries, the exhaust industry in Purbalingga also has problems such as lack of capital funds , product distribution, and supply of raw materials for production. These problems include into supply chain management. Furthermore, the aim this study is to examine the influence of long-term relationship, information sharing, trust, and process integration on supply chain management performance. The population of this study is the company of exhaust industry in Purbalingga which amounts to 148. This research will use a sample of 100 respondents by questionnaires, where the data obtained will be analyzed which covers validity test, reliability test, classical assumption test, multiple regression test, t test, F test and coefficient of determination test The test results show that the indicators in this study are valid and reliable. The most influential variables are long-term relationship ( 0,286 ), then trust (0,208) , process integration (0,176) , and information sharing (0,169). These results show that all independent variables have a positive and significant influence on the dependent variable supply chain management performance.
Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Fuscheriides baugilensis sp. nov. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Haptorida) from South Korea "2279

The morphology and molecular phylogeny of a new haptorid ciliate, Fuscheriides baugilensis sp. nov., discovered in a temporary pond in South Korea, were investigated. The new species is characterized by its small body size (30–55 × 15–20 μm in vivo), oblong to rod-shaped extrusomes in the oral bulge and cytoplasm, 14–16 somatic kineties, two dorsal brush rows, and single subapical ciliary condensation. The phylogenetic analyses based on the 18S rRNA gene sequences show that the family Fuscheriidae is paraphyletic and the species belong to the genera Fuscheriides and Pseudofuscheria cluster together in the same subclade, while Fuscheria is in a different subclade, suggesting that the subapical ciliary condensation characterizing the two former genera has a higher taxonomic value than the shape of extrusomes for genera separation.
Conditional Capital Surplus and Shortfall across Resource Firms

This study examines the conditional capital surplus and shortfall dynamics of renewable and nonrenewable resource firms. To this end, this study uses the systemic risk index by Brownlees and Engle (2017) and considers two conditional systemic events, namely, the stock market crash and the commodity price crash. The results indicate that companies in the resource sector tended to have conditional capital shortfalls before 2000 and conditional capital surpluses after 2000 owing to the boom of the commodity sector stock prices and the careful capital management adopted by these companies. The analysis using the panel vector autoregressive model indicates that commodity price, geopolitical, and economic policy uncertainties have a positive impact on the conditional capital shortfall. These uncertainties have also been proven to increase the conditional failure probability of firms in the sample. Lastly, the analysis of performance shows that conditional capital shortfall positively affects market returns, reflecting a high-risk, high-return trade-off for this sector.
PROSTATIC CARCINOMA: CORRELATION OF GLEASON’S SCORE WITH SERUM PSA LEVELS

Gleason’s scoring system is recommended by World Health Organisation (WHO), is a unique histopathological method for grading prostate cancer based solely on tumour architecture. Majority of urologist and radiotherapist base their therapeutic/management decisions on this scoring system. It correlates well with extra prostatic extension, seminal vesicle invasion and regional lymph node metastasis. Gleason’s score of 7 or more behave worse than tumours with Gleason’s score of 6 or less. Gleason designed this system to accommodate the fact that carcinoma of the prostate has different patterns of growth, that each range from well differentiated to poorly differentiated, and that usually more than one pattern coexists in any prostate gland. Grading is of particular importance in prostatic cancer, because grade and stage are the best prognostic predictors.
Optimisation de la production d’érythritol chez la levure non-conventionnelle Yarrowia lipolytica

Erythritol is a four-carbon sugar alcohol synthesized by osmophilic yeasts, such as Yarrowia lipolytica, in response to osmotic stress. This metabolite has application as food additive due to its sweetening properties. Although Y. lipolytica can produce erythritol at a high level from glycerol, it is also able to consume it as carbon source. This ability negatively affects erythritol productivity and represents a serious drawback for the development of an efficient erythritol production process. In this study, we have isolated by insertion mutagenesis a Y. lipolytica mutant unable to grow on erythritol. Genomic characterization of the latter highlighted that the mutant phenotype is directly related to the disruption of the YALI0F01606g gene. Several experimental evidences suggested that the identified gene, renamed EYK1, encodes an erythrulose kinase. The mutant strain showed an enhanced capacity to produce erythritol as compared to the wild-type strain. Moreover, in specific experimental conditions, it is also able to convert erythritol to erythrulose, another compound of biotechnological interest.
Research on Composite Drag Reduction Characteristics of Biomimetic Microstructural Surface

The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of the bionic microstructure surface on flow field structure of the slab. The motivation behind this study is to investigate the effect of the bionic microstructure parameters including the height and intersection angle of microstructure in order to improve the drag reduction characters. The numerical simulation is performed on the bionic microstructure model of the V-shaped and serrated bionic microstructures using the RNG k-ε model. The drag reduction rates of two bionic microstructures under different dimensionless sizes are ob13.79 tained. The drag reduction efficiency is up to 8.76% when the dimensionless height of microstructure h is at and the intersection angle 40  = for V-shaped microstructure. In addition, combined with wall temperature control of drag reduction technology, the influence of wall temperature on the drag reduction effect is also analyzed. Compared with the flow field structure of the surface boundary layer of the smooth plate, the wall microstructure divides the surface boundary layer into two parts: the bottom and the tip. The average velocity profile is moved up and the thickness of the linear bottom layer is increased. A large number of "quiet" fluids are gathered at the bottom of the surface boundary layer. In addition, the existence of wall microstructure can weaken the momentum exchange in the boundary layer and restrain the spreading vortex motion of the fluid in the near-wall region. The "secondary vortex pair" on both sides of the tip of the microstructures can effectively limit the lateral pulsation of fluid So as to achieve a good drag reduction effect.
Manufacturing Value-Added (MVA) Share Development in Ethiopia: Causes and Determinants

Industrialization is not only a prerequisite for increasing an economy’s competitiveness and living standards, but it is also required for developing economies to catch up to more developed. However, Ethiopia’s average performance over the last five decades has been rather unsatisfactory, with MVA accounting for 5.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The overarching goal of this article is to investigate the fundamental reasons why manufacturing has historically played such a minor role in Ethiopia’s economy. It has also looked into the determinants factors that influence MVA. The study reviewed both theoretical and empirical literature. It used tables and figures to conduct descriptive, and the residual of the approximate Cobb-Douglas production function for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) analyses. To estimate determinant factors, the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) model was used for time series data. The study identified key reasons and determinants that limit MVA share: volatile political environments, the tendency of major fabrication subsectors to decline, TFP remaining small and stagnant, and others. According to the empirical study, in the long run, GDP per capita and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) variables have shown a significant positive association, whereas the real exchange rate index has a negative correlation with MVA. While, in the short run, the later variables, and manufacturing imports have a positive significant impact. The findings have policy implications such as proper policy design and stable implementation, avoiding premature deindustrialization, improving low TFP, attracting large-scale FDI, and increasing GDP per capita income, among other things.
Applying attitude-behaviour models to mitigate insider cyber threats

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Shape-aware Stroke Segmentation for Calligraphic Characters

A stroke is the minimal unit of a character. The stroke extraction and classification of calligraphy characters are helpful to the digital use of characters. However, the existing instance segmentation methods have the problems of excessive segmentation and dependence on additional character encoding information. In this paper, we propose a novel supervised stroke segmentation method based on the information of stroke categories, which can apply stably to a variety of fonts. Extensive visual and quantitative experiments have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of our method. The results and statistical data show that the proposed method is superior to existing methods in stroke segmentation.
Predicting of Postoperative Mortality in Cases of Abdominal Sepsis for Two Surgical Strategies Using a New Mathematical Model: Two Centers Review of a 10 Years’ Experience with the Same Diagnostic and Tactical Approaches to the Treatment

Background: To determine the prediction of mortality and to develop a mathematical model of abdominal sepsis designed to predict early mortality in severe patients, to be able to select patients for individual surgical treatment that have ongoing infection and require re-laparotomy. Methods: It study was based on data from comparing known severity scores for two surgical strategies in 231 patients admitted for sepsis or septic shock. In these patients the severity of the condition was assessed at admission and after 72 hours in accordance with the objectives of the study, including objective laboratory parameters and known severity rating scores. Results: One operation was performed in 67.5% of patients; in 20.8% of patients were performed re-laparotomy or re-laparoscopy 'on demand'; in 11.7% of patients surgical interventions were performed according to the 'program'. It well-known scores have shown the ability to predict early mortality: APACHE II scores (AUC 0.939) and SOFA (AUC 0.826). But of all patients who needed re-laparotomy/re-laparoscopy in 28.1% of the control patients identified with these scoring systems had negative results on re-laparotomy, although they had good and excellent AUC values for the APACHE II and SOFA scores. A mathematical model was developed for the early prediction of mortality, taking into account the preliminary values of systolic blood pressure (AUC 0.961), perfusion pressure of the abdominal cavity (AUC 0.893), C-reactive protein level (AUC 0.85) and lactate level (AUC 0.867). The results of this comparison in the whole sample gave a high accuracy of classification by groups: survivors-90.2%, non-survivors-81%, the overall accuracy was 87.6%. Conclusion: The severity scoring systems (APACHE II, SOFA), which were used to predict the overall outcome in patients with complicated intra-abdominal disease, did not provide an objective basis for patient stratification when performing re-debridement of the abdominal cavity for abdominal sepsis. A new mathematical model is proposed for calculating the probability of postoperative complications and death, depending on the initial severity of the patient's condition. There is also a need to further develop more specific tools to assist clinicians in the daily follow-up and screening of these patients after an initial emergency laparotomy.