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Insights into organisational capabilities that influence innovation and organisational competitiveness in SMEs (small and medium enterprises).

This thesis seeks to develop insights into the nature of organisational capabilities that influence organisational competitiveness and innovation amongst a selection of SMEs. An interpretivist approach was followed to understand the phenomena from the participants point perspective. Participants in the study were the key players in the selected organisations, and had the experience and knowledge base to help the author develop deep insights into the research subject. The emerging analysis shaped the theory which the study set out to generate. This thesis generates an understanding and insights into the role of leadership, organisational structure and culture and a company's relationships with stakeholders in making an SME company innovative and competitively sustainable.The influence of the role of leadership, the influence of organisational culture on performance and their relationships and collaborations within companies and with others towards competitiveness and innovation is explored in this study. However, the author felt that whilst previous research were interesting, they did not fully explain the nature of innovation and its relationship to the ability of a company to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. It is for this reason the author wished to put extant literature to one side and take a fresh look at innovation from the perspective of companies that had a successful innovative culture and had achieved sustainable growth through a strong track record of innovation.This research treats the innovation phenomena holistically and draws on the stories and views of company managers to develop insights into the true nature of a strong innovative culture and it relationships with sustainable competitive advantage from the perspective of the managers building the strategy and the culture of the company. The findings of this research are explained in the formulated theory which highlights the importance of creating innovative leadership, innovative structure and culture and innovative relationships and collaboration capabilities. These elements are linked by an open organisational mindset, effective internal and external relationships and proactive and supportive knowledge systems and resourcing to create a culture of innovation.
The Determinant of Internet Financial Reporting (IFR): Evidence from Go-Public Companies Listed in IDX

The purpose of this study is to see the Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) determinants listed on in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for the year 2017. The determinants measured by profitability, leverage, Listing and Auditor Reputation as the independent variables. IFR disclosure is measuring by index of Internet financial reporting Index (IFRI) developed by Chen (2000). The population in this research is all go public companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the year 2017. By 45 companies that meet the criteria of the research sample has been determined. The data analysis technique are using classical assumption test. Hypothesis testing is using multiple linear regression analysis with SPSS 23.0. The results of this study indicated that all dependent variable (Profitability, Leverage, Listing, and Auditor Reputation) has no significance effect on practice of disclosing Internet financial reporting by reason the nature of IFR and Management Cost. Keywords: Internet financial reporting, level of disclosure, profitability, leverage, listing, auditor reputation.
Acupuncture for the Treatment of Hot Flashes in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer

PURPOSE: To test the safety and efficacy of acupuncture in reducing hot flashes in men with advanced prostate cancer (CaP) undergoing androgen deprivation therapy. METHODS: A single-arm, pilot study was undertaken to evaluate acupuncture treatment for hot flashes experienced by CaP patients undergoing hormonal therapy. Sixteen advanced CaP patients undergoing androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) received standardized full body and auricular acupunc-ture 1x/week for 14 weeks. Patients were evaluated at 0, 7, 14, and an additional 14-wk follow-up (F/U) (28-wks). Safety was measured by monitoring for adverse events over the treatment period. Serum testosterone was measured at 0 and 14-wks. Quality of life (QOL) was measured by the hormone domain of the Expanded Prostate Index Composite (EPIC), at the 0, 7, 14, and 28-wks and patient reported hot flash frequency was assessed weekly. Safety endpoints were serum testosterone and analysis of adverse events. Efficacy endpoints were scores on the EPIC and the number of pa-tient reported hot flashes. RESULTS: 17 patients were enrolled and 15 completed the trial. Of 15 evaluable patients the median age was 68 ± 8.19. Serum analysis demonstrated no change in testosterone at baseline 9.5 ng/ml ± 8.9 vs. end-point 14 ± 8.78 (p = 0.101). No adverse events were reported. Data analysis of the EPIC demonstrated a trend toward improvement after 7 wks and a significant improvement following 14 wks of acupuncture (p = 0.01). Analysis of patient reported frequency showed a significant reduction in the number of hot flashes at 7-wk (6, p = 0.04), 14-wk (2.6, p = 0.001), and 28-wk F/U (3.2, p = 0.01) as compared to baseline 9.57 ± 3.98. CONCLUSIONS: The administration of acupuncture in men with advanced CaP appears to significantly decrease the frequency of hot flashes. No serious ad-verse events were noted and serum testosterone levels were unchanged from baseline suggesting that the mechanism of action of acupuncture for hot flash amelioration is not via increase in testosterone.
How Big Data Transforms Manufacturing Industry

This article describes an overview of what Big Data is and explains how it transforms the manufacturing industry. First, this article defines what Big Data means for the manufacturing industry. It explains four advantages about Big Data analytics and their benefits to manufacturing. Then, it describes about what ethical issues of Big Data are. Next, it discusses more deeply about the ethical issues of Big Data in manufacturing with both individual and organizational perspectives. Finally, this article sums up with some principles to show the ethical governance of the interests of Big Data stakeholders.
Evaluating the Use of Commercial Data to Improve Survey Estimates of Property Taxes

While commercial data sources offer promise to statistical agencies for use in production of official statistics, challenges can arise as the data are not collected for statistical purposes. This paper evaluates the use of 2008-2010 property tax data from CoreLogic, Inc. (CoreLogic), aggregated from county and township governments from around the country, to improve 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) estimates of property tax amounts for single-family homes. Particularly, the research evaluates the potential to use CoreLogic to reduce respondent burden, to study survey response error and to improve adjustments for survey nonresponse. The research found that the coverage of the CoreLogic data varies between counties as does the correspondence between ACS and CoreLogic property taxes. This geographic variation implies that different approaches toward using CoreLogic are needed in different areas of the country. Further, large differences between CoreLogic and ACS property taxes in certain counties seem to be due to conceptual differences between what is collected in the two data sources. The research examines three counties, Clark County, NV, Philadelphia County, PA and St. Louis County, MO, and compares how estimates would change with different approaches using the CoreLogic data. Mean county property tax estimates are highly sensitive to whether ACS or CoreLogic data are used to construct estimates. Using CoreLogic data in imputation modeling for nonresponse adjustment of ACS estimates modestly improves the predictive power of imputation models, although estimates of county property taxes and property taxes by mortgage status are not very sensitive to the imputation method.
Laser subepithelial keratomileusis: electron microscopy and visual outcomes of flap photorefractive keratectomy

Laser epithelial keratomileusis (LASEK) is a surgical technique that may be performed in patients with low myopia who are considering conventional photorefractive keratectomy (PRK), in patients with thin corneas, and in patients with professions or lifestyles that predispose them to trauma. Ethanol (18%) is applied for 25 seconds and a hinged epithelial flap is created. After laser ablation, the flap is repositioned over the ablated stroma. Our data showed that epithelial defects occurred in 63% eyes on Day 1. Postoperative pain was absent in 47%. Uncorrected visual acuity of 20/40 or better was achieved in all patients at 1 week. Data from several studies suggest that LASEK may reduce postoperative pain and corneal haze associated with PRK. LASEK offers the potential advantage of avoiding flap-related complications associated with laser in situ keratomileusis and decreasing postoperative pain and corneal scarring associated with PRK. Long-term studies are needed to confirm these potential advantages and to determine the safety, efficacy, and predictability of this surgical technique.
Management Quality and Innovation in Private Firms and the IPO Market Rewards to Innovative Activity

Using hand-collected data on top management team human capital (“management quality”) of a large sample of private firms, we analyze the effect of top management quality on pre-IPO innovativeness and the innovation strategies of these firms. We also analyze how management quality and pre-IPO innovation relate to these firms’ IPO characteristics. We hypothesize that firms with higher quality management teams invest in a greater proportion of long-term (innovative) projects, select better innovation projects, and manage innovation resources more efficiently, resulting in higher innovation productivity. We also hypothesize that such firms reap greater IPO market rewards. The evidence supports these hypotheses.
A systematic review of sustainable supplier management for analytical and behavioral decision making

The purpose of this paper is to examine the literature on sustainable supplier management, behavioral decision theory, and analytical decision support models. We conducted a systematic literature review. It was found current research that analyses sustainability-related SRM and decision models has employed theoretical lenses on risk management, stakeholders and corporate social responsibility. Moreover, studies combine more than one method for decision making, such as fuzzy and data envelopment analysis XXXVIII ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE ENGENHARIA DE PRODUCAO “A Engenharia de Produção e suas contribuições para o desenvolvimento do Brasil”
Digital maturity variables and their impact on the enterprise architecture layers

This study examines the variables of digital maturity of companies. The framework for enterprise architectures Archimate 3.0 is used to compare the variables. The vari¬ables are assigned to the six layers of architecture: Strategy, Business Environment, Applications, Technology, Physical and Implementation and Migration. On the basis of a literature overview, 15 “digital maturity models” with a total of 147 variables are analyzed. The databases Scopus, EBSCO – Business Source Premier and ProQuest are used for this purpose.The results of the work will help researchers and managers to identify which digitiza¬tion variables affect the different layers of the company. This enables researchers or managers to use the right model for a specific purpose or to create a new model from a combination of existing models for the entire company or just one architectural layer.On the basis of a more precise assessment of the digital maturity of a company, better actions can be derived. This work is important for companies, as the digitization of enterprises and markets changed similarly to the invention of the steam engine did. Websites, sensors, mobile devices, apps, etc. are combined into new digital products and services. The competitors in the market have to adapt. If this is not done, they will increasingly disappear.Finally, the authors suggests a conclusion about the current situation regarding the measurement of digital maturity in companies and show in which areas further studies could be carried out.
A Provably Efficient Algorithm for the k-Mismatch Average Common Substring Problem

Alignment-free sequence comparison methods are attracting persistent interest, driven by data-intensive applications in genome-wide molecular taxonomy and phylogenetic reconstruction. Among all the methods based on substring composition, the average common substring (ACS) measure admits a straightforward linear time sequence comparison algorithm, while yielding impressive results in multiple applications. An important direction of this research is to extend the approach to permit a bounded edit/hamming distance between substrings, so as to reflect more accurately the evolutionary process. To date, however, algorithms designed to incorporate k ≥ 1 mismatches have O(n(2)) worst-case time complexity, where n is the total length of the input sequences. On the other hand, accounting for mismatches has shown to lead to much improved classification, while heuristics can improve practical performance. In this article, we close the gap by presenting the first provably efficient algorithm for the k-mismatch average common string (ACSk) problem that takes O(n) space and O(n log(k) n) time in the worst case for any constant k. Our method extends the generalized suffix tree model to incorporate a carefully selected bounded set of perturbed suffixes, and can be applied to other complex approximate sequence matching problems.
Poly[(μ2-2-aminopyrimidine-κ2 N 1:N 3)di-μ2-chlorido-mercury(II)]

The title compound, [HgCl2(C4H5N3)]n, features a two-dimensional network parallel to (001) that is based on an HgII atom octahedrally coordinated by four μ2-Cl atoms and two μ2-2-aminopyrimidine (apym) ligands in trans positions, yielding a distorted HgCl4N2 octahedron. The coordination network can be described as an uninodal 4-connected net with the sql topology. The HgII ion lies on a site of -1 symmetry and the apym ligand lies on sites of m symmetry with the mirror plane perpendicular to the pyrimidine plane and passing through the NH2 group N atom. This polymeric structure is stabilized by N—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds and columnar π–π stacking of pyrimidine rings, with a centroid–centroid distance of 3.832 (2) Å.
On the Difficulty of Marketing Food and Drink Products to Men and/or Women

In recent years, food and drink marketers have become increasingly interested in the question of whether there are any meaningful sex/gender differences in the world of taste/flavour perception. However, it turns out that while there are a large number of individual differences in the experience of food/drink, few, if any, fall neatly along sex/gender lines. As such, the marketers of food and drink need to tread very carefully when it comes to marketing food or beverage products specifically at men, or more usually, women. All too often, the brands entering this space soon find their attempts branded crass and/or sexist. Adopting a stealthy or implicit gender-based product development strategy is therefore perhaps more likely to succeed than the explicit targeting of food/beverage-related products in what is undoubtedly a highly-politicized area. That said, the one area where the public appear willing to accept products that are explicitly targeted at men or women is in the case of nutritional foods/supplements.
Integrating Services in the Economic Fitness Approach

Economic Complexity is a set of network-based and algorithmic methods for the study of economic development and competitiveness. In this framework, Economic Fitness is an innovative approach that improves the mathematical and conceptual scheme. For convenience, these methods were originally conceived on trade in goods. This paper extends the Economic Fitness methodology to include a trade in services element to yield a universal matrix of world trade and thus provide a more complete picture of a country's development and global competitiveness. The paper applies two algorithms to the universal trade in goods and services matrix to contrast country competitiveness and change in complexity and diversification when services are added to the traditional goods-only matrix. The results show that (i) the competitiveness of many countries was previously over- or underestimated, that is, many countries gain or lose positions in the ranking of economic fitness when services trade is considered alongside goods; and (ii) complex services tend to cluster with complex manufacturing, suggesting a common capabilities structure. These findings show how developing complex services aids diversification strategies for developing countries.
Complete Genome Sequence of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Strain SO3 (Sequence Type 302) Isolated from a Baby with Meningitis in Mexico

ABSTRACT The complete genome of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain SO3 (sequence type 302), isolated from a fatal meningitis infection in Mexico, was determined using PacBio technology. The chromosome hosts six complete prophages and is predicted to harbor 51 genomic islands, including 13 pathogenicity islands (SPIs). It carries the Salmonella virulence plasmid (pSTV).
Comparison of Asthma Control Criteria: Importance of Spirometry

Aims. To compare the measurements of asthma control using Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) Asthma Management Consensus Summary and Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines composite indices with and without spirometry. Methods. Asthma control parameters were extracted from electronic medical records (EMRs) of patients ≥6 years old at two primary care sites. Asthma control ratings calculated according to CTS and GINA criteria were compared. Results. Data were available from 113 visits by 93 patients, aged 6–85 years (38.7 ± 24.8; mean ± SD). The proportion of visits at which individuals’ asthma was completely controlled was 22.1% for CTS symptoms only and 9.7% for CTS with spirometry (p < .01); and 17.7% versus 14.1% for GINA symptoms only versus symptoms with spirometry (p = .125). Conclusions. Asthma control ratings using GINA and CTS criteria are discordant in more than half of the patients deemed “in control” by at least one scale. Differences in the spirometry criterion threshold are primarily responsible for this discordance. Failure to include spirometry as part of the control index consistently overestimates asthma control and may underestimate future risk of exacerbations.
Union Reform, Performance Pay, and New Teacher Supply: Evidence from Wisconsin's Act 10

This study examines the impact of performance pay on teacher selection. I exploit a shift toward performance pay in Wisconsin induced by the enactment of Act 10, which gave school districts autonomy to redesign their compensation schemes. Following the law, half of Wisconsin school districts eliminated salary schedules and started negotiating pay with individual teachers based on performance. Comparing the quantity of teaching degrees in Wisconsin institutions before and after Act 10, and relative to those in similar states, I find that Act 10 led to a 20 percent increase in teaching degrees. This effect was entirely driven by selective universities.
GRAMICIDIN AS AN EXAMPLE OF A SINGLE‐FILING IONIC CHANNEL *

The cationic channel formed by the uncharged polypeptide backbone of the gramicidin A dimer is a simple and well characterizable prototype for the less easily studied types of ion-selective channels of the cell membrane. Excitable membranes are known to contain several types of ionic channels, each of which has come to be recogmzed’ to be a macromolecular pore capable of passing millions of ions per second and yet narrow enough to exhibit some selectivity as to the charge and size of the ions allowed to pass as well as to show signs of “singlefiling*’. ’-3 A number of important conceptions about the general properties of channels have been confirmed by experimental findings in gramicidin A and by the theory that is developing to account for For example, recent findings on gramicidin channels indicate that such channels are able to contain several interacting permeant ions simultaneo~sly‘*’~. ~ and are also SQ narrow that ions and water molecules are not permitted to pass each other? t.28*29 This supports the current view as to the likelihood of such behavior in the Na+ and K+ channels of The findings, in roughly chronological sequence, for excitable membranes and for gramicidin, are: single-filing flux coupling,20*2t concentrationdependent permeability ratio^. ^-^^ block in mixture of cations’. ’% and coupling between ion-flux and water flu^. ^*^ The conductanceconcentration behavior for the gramicidin channel in single salts also indicates the existence of at least two classes of sites with different binding constants for the group la cations: t % Here we will provide further evidence for multiple occupancy from the changes in shape that occur in the current-voltage relationshp of single gramicidin channels when the ionic concentration is changed. Finally, although the highly selective H+ permeation of the gramicidin channel has long been k n ~ w n : * ~ * ~ new, and surprising, data on the H+ permeation properties of the gramicidin channel, which we will present here, indicate that this channel may provide a much more %*
Specifying agent communication languages

The goal of standardisation in open agent systems is to facilitate interoperability between heterogenous agents. This has been the motivation for developing a standard Agent Communication Language (ACL). Experience has shown that developers will adopt their own solutions when the standard ACL does not fit their needs, resulting in a dialect which is not understood in open systems. We contend that there is a need for a standard way of specifying semantics rather than a standard ACL. Our solution is to develop a specification language for ACLs which will allow developers to create their own languages in a standard way. In particular this thesis describes: • A computational model for multi-agent systems which can represent the observable social states of the system including the mental attitudes expressed through communication. • An agent communication framework which allows agent communication to be given a high level declarative semantics which is grounded in the computational model and hence verifiable in open systems. • A specification language for ACLs which allows an ACL to be written and given a semantics in terms of observable social states. • The use of an existing model checking algorithm to verify compliance with an ACL and to verify properties of protocols. • The application of the theory developed to some common scenarios; in particular, to verify game theoretic properties for a protocol. The type of ACL specification language presented here could form the basis of a standard, leading to interoperability in open systems. By providing a standard mapping between an ACL specification and the semantics it defines for an ACL, we make it possible for designers (or ultimately agents themselves) to share their specifications and to understand foreign ACLs.