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Social return on investment for community-based alcohol consumption control program during Buddhist Lent

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the cost and benefit of a community-based alcohol consumption control program during the Buddhist Lent (BL) period in terms of social return on investment (SROI). Design/methodology/approach The research team evaluated the program in four selected villages from four regions using standard SROI. Relevant stakeholders were involved in the evaluation design and program impact map construction. Data, including costs, were collected from literatures, official documents, stakeholder interviews and focus group discussions. Alcohol abstinence and related data during and after the 2015 BL period were gathered from a survey questionnaire. The SROI ratio presented the social benefits compared against the total social investment. Findings The program was effective in producing a greater social value (2.7–5.9 times) than the cost of investment in every village. Cost savings from alcohol consumption constituted a major proportion of the program’s value. Originality/value The community-based alcohol consumption control program during BL can provide value for investment. Information from this study can be used by policy makers in their decision to continue or scale up the program. The SROI approach mainly relies on stakeholders that may present a bias; however, further study such as social cost-benefit analysis could provide additional insights.
DONOR BRAIN DEATH REDUCES SURVIVAL AFTER TRANSPLANTATION IN RAT LIVERS PRESERVED FOR 20 HR1

Background. Eighty percent of donor organs come from donors who have suffered brain trauma (brain-dead donors). This unphysiological state alters the hemodynamic and hormonal status of the organ donor. This can cause organ injury, which has been suggested to alter the immunological or inflammatory status of the organ after transplantation, and may lead to increased sensitivity of the organ to preservation/transplantation injury. In this study we asked the question: does brain death cause injury to the liver that decreases successful liver preservation? Methods. The rat liver transplant model was used to compare survival in rats receiving a liver from a brain-dead donor versus a non-brain-dead donor. Brain death was induced by inflation of a cranially placed balloon catheter. The rats were maintained normotensive with fluid infusion for 6 hr. The livers were flushed with University of Wisconsin (UW) solution and immediately transplanted or cold stored for 20 hr before transplantation. Results. Recipient survival with immediately transplanted livers or those stored for 20 hr was 100% with livers from non-brain-dead donors. However, survival decreased when livers were procured from brain-dead donors. Survival was 75% (6/8) when storage time was 0 hr and 20% (2/10) when the liver was cold stored for 20 hr before transplantation. Conclusion. This study shows that brain death induces alterations in the donor liver that make it more sensitive to preservation/reperfusion injury than livers from donors without brain death. The mechanism of injury to the liver caused by brain death is not known. Because most livers used clinically for transplantation come from brain-dead donors, it is possible that poor function of these livers is due to the intrinsic condition of the donor organ, more than the quality of the preservation. Methods to treat the brain-dead donor to improve the quality of the liver may be needed to allow better preservation of the organ and to give better outcome after liver transplantation.
Modelisation tridimensionnelle du transport d'un traceur en milieu poreux heterogene. Evaluation des theories stochastiques

Cette these aborde la modelisation tridimensionnelle du transport d'un traceur en milieu poreux heterogene par la methode de marche au hasard. Tout au long de ce travail de recherche, l'accent a ete mis sur les points qui peuvent faire la difference entre une modelisation precise et une modelisation approximative. L'ecoulement a ete simule par un modele fonde sur les elements finis mixtes hybrides. Une etude comparative entre ce modele et un modele fonde sur les differences finies (modflow) a montre la nette superiorite des elements finis mixtes hybrides. D'autre part, la marche au hasard etant une methode particulaire, une comparaison entre plusieurs methodes d'interpolation des vitesses et du calcul du deplacement convectif des particules a ete effectuee et a montre que la methode de pollock, qui consiste en integration semi-analytique du deplacement convectif, etait la plus adaptee. Dans ce travail, nous avons egalement apporte une solution au probleme d'accumulation des particules dans les zones a faible dispersion. Les methodes deja existantes se sont averees erronees. Apres la validation du modele par la simulation d'une experience de pollution par chlorure de sodium en milieu heterogene et qui a montre des resultats tres satisfaisants, nous avons procede a une evaluation des theories stochastiques de la dispersion en milieu isotrope, par des simulations numeriques sur un domaine de grandes dimensions, dont le champ de permeabilite a ete genere par la methode des bandes tournantes
The Effect of Human Resources Management to an Organizational Control Process

This study focused on the concept of human resources management to an organizational control process. The major objective of the study is to evaluate the concept of human resources management to an organizational control process in the Enugu state ministry of gender affairs. The researcher used questionnaires to collect the pertinent data from the staffs of the ministry. Analysis of data was performed which involved converting responses into frequencies and percentages. Hypotheses were also tested using the chi-square and research questions answered. The study found that there is no human resources department in the ministry; the ministry’s workforce is not properly motivated and the level of organizational control system in the ministry is relatively poor. Keywords: - human resource management, control, manager, employees, planning, organization.
Minimally buffered deflection routing with in-order delivery in a torus

Bufferless deflection routing is a serious alternative to wormhole flow control and packet switching. It is based on the principle of deflecting a flit to a non-optimal route instead of buffering it, when two flits compete for the same link. The major weakness of deflection is the exploding number of misrouted flits at high network Load, which increases the duration of flits within the network and requires to reassemble the flits at the receiver. These deflections can be reduced significantly by adding a small side buffer instead of always deflecting flits. In the presented approach, the side buffer is complemented by a restricted deflection policy that preserves the flit order: x-y-routing in an unidirectional 2D-torus ensures that collisions are impossible, as long as a flit is transported in the same direction. Only at the transition from x-to y-direction, collisions may happen and are avoided by controlled in-order deflection in x-direction. In-order delivery not only simplifies the arbitration logic, but avoids costly mechanisms for livelock-prevention and reassembly of flits at the receiver.
When Does Market Share Matter? New Empirical Generalizations from a Meta-Analysis of the Market Share–Performance Relationship

The impact of market share on financial firm performance is one of the most widely studied relationships in marketing strategy research. However, since the meta-analysis by Szymanski, Bharadwaj, and Varadarajan (1993), substantial environmental (e.g., digitization) and methodological (e.g., accounting for endogeneity) developments have occurred. The current work presents an updated and extended meta-analysis based on all available 863 elasticities drawn from 89 studies and provides the following new empirical generalizations: (1) The average raw market share–financial performance elasticity is . 132, which is substantially lower than the effectiveness of other intermediate marketing metrics. This result challenges a widely used strategy that solely focuses on increasing market share. (2) Elasticities differ significantly between contextual settings. For example, they are lower for business-to-business firms than for business-to-consumer firms, for service firms than for manufacturing firms, and for U.S. markets than for emerging and Western European markets. The authors also observe differences between countries with respect to a general time trend (e.g., lower elasticities in recent times for Western European markets) and recessionary periods (e.g., lower elasticities in the United States, higher elasticities in non-Western economies).
Information Systems Service Quality, Zone of Tolerance, and User Satisfaction

Information system service quality has been a very important theme in both IS practice and research. User service expectations affect perceived service quality and user satisfaction. The objectives of this research are to i to explore the relationship between perceived IS service quality and user satisfaction across the three regions of zone of tolerance ZOT and ii to validate the associations between service expectations adequate service and desired service and service performance. The analysis of the data obtained from 193 IS users revealed a positive and significant association between perceived service quality and user satisfaction across the service zones and service dimensions with stronger associations in the acceptable service zone and weaker associations in the inadequate and superior service zones. Thus, the results demonstrate that the relationship between IS service quality and user satisfaction is affected by ZOT. It is found that the desired service expectation measure is more strongly related to service performance compared to the adequate service expectation measure. It is also observed that irrespective of the ZOT, the service dimension that contributes most to service performance is assurance. Tangibles have the widest ZOT and assurance has the narrowest ZOT compared to most other service dimensions. The author discusses the implications of the present study for both research and practice.
Firms’ Dynamic Capabilities: A Case of Indonesian Telecommunication Company

Based on the concept of dynamic capabilities that were introduced by Teece & Pisano, this research aimed to analyze how did the dynamic capability condition in Company A. This research used a descriptive qualitative method of secondary data from annual report 2013 to 2017 and article in the website. It is found that Company A possesses a dynamically fluctuate dynamic capabilities through their ability to absorptive capability, adaptive capability, and innovative capability. The implementation of dynamic capabilities in Company A depend on top management board member to develop the company’s general strategic move and by this able to maintain the dynamic capability, and Telecommunication company should be able to nurture the whole organizations’ environment which supports the proliferation of this capability to all the members inside. In short, the benefit of this research will give learning point for the business player or practical to deal with the dynamic situation by using a dynamic capabilities perspective.
Intermanual differences in performing a visuoconstructional task.

OBJECTIVE To examine intermanual differences in performing a clinical, visuoconstructional task. While many examiners have their hemiparetic patients complete visuospatial tasks with their nondominant hand, normative data have only been available based on dominant hand performance. This study sought to determine normal differences in intermanual visuoconstructional performance. DESIGN A group of individuals with no history of neurologic disorder completed a visuoconstruction task with their dominant and nondominant hands. Intermanual differences were compared. SETTING General metropolitan community. PARTICIPANTS Forty-four individuals with no history of psychiatric, neurologic, visual, or motor impairment. Mean age was 29 years. Mean education level was 16 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Free-drawn clock drawings. RESULTS The intermanual difference was not significant (t(43) = 1.95, p = . 06). Ninety-three percent scored within normal limits with their nondominant hand. CONCLUSIONS Use of the nondominant hand for clock drawing appears to be a reasonable alternative for those who are unable to use their dominant hand.
Immunization against Recurrent Otitis Media

An octavalent vaccine containing purithe verbal intelligence of the child so afIied pneumococcal polysaccharide, types flicted. Whatever we can do to prevent 1, 3, 6, 7, 14, 18, 19, 23, was administhe recurrent attacks should affect the tered subcutaneously to 60 infants 2-19 child favorably as a functioning member months of age whose clinical histories of society. were closely followed for an additional The incidence of otitis media and the year. Of 34 children who had no previdistribution of the various causative orous history of otitis media and who were ganisms was studied in a series of 267 immunized at ages 2-5 months, ten expatients by Coffey;' He reported that perienced vaccine type pneumococcal the 6-12 month age group had the highotitis during the observation period as est incidence of pneumococcal otitis compared to five of eight age-matched media. Furthermore, the 12-18-month saline injected subjects. In a second group had the next highest incidence of group of 26 older children (immunized otitis media in general when compared at 6-19 months), whose clinical histories to any other 6-month-age interval. We showed a range of from 0-7 prior bouts have noted a similar incidence of otitis of otitis of mixed etiologies, only one media. child suffered a breakthrough episode of vaccine type otitis media. The differWe define otitis media as does Coffey' ence in incidence of vaccine type otitis as the presence of middle ear fluid inamong the two groups of vaccinees was stead of middle ear air as determined by significant at p = . 02. The elicitation examination with the pneumatic otoof apparent protection against type-spescope. This definition of necessity incific pneumococcal otitis media as demeludes acute otitis media, recurrent acute onstrated in the older vaccinees suggests otitis media, serous otitis media, and that a definitive efficacy trial in that chronic otitis media. In the 70% of inage group is justified. stances of otitis media that we aspirate we always culture for bacteria and we Otitis media as an isolated occurrence can further define the etiology of that once in a lifetime would be of little or particular bout of otitis media as due to no significance to the child if adequately the pneumococcus, H. influenzae, or treated with antibiotics. However, the other less frequently occurring organisms. recurrent nature of the disease in the majority of instances in infants and todRecurrent otitis media is of the same bacterial etiology as acute otitis media. dlers makes otitis media the largest single The majority of cases with a proven eticause of morbidity with possible permaology are due to the pneumococcus. We nent sequelae in children. It is generally noted that the natural history of children accepted by workers in the otitis field with the "otitis prone condition'> frethat recurrent bouts of decreased hearing quently includes a pneumococcal initial associated with otitis media can lead to episode. Therefore, it seemed reasonable permanent impairment or lowering of that a vaccine effective against the pneu-
Characterization of Vibrio fluvialis-Like Strains Implicated in Limp Lobster Disease

ABSTRACT Studies were undertaken to characterize and determine the pathogenic mechanisms involved in a newly described systemic disease in Homarus americanus (American lobster) caused by a Vibrio fluvialis-like microorganism. Nineteen isolates were obtained from eight of nine lobsters sampled. Biochemically, the isolates resembled V. fluvialis, and the isolates grew optimally at 20°C; none could grow at temperatures above 23°C. The type strain (1AMA) displayed a thermal reduction time (D value) of 5.77 min at 37°C. All of the isolates required at least 1% NaCl for growth. Collectively, the data suggest that these isolates may embody a new biotype. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis of the isolates revealed five closely related subgroups. Some isolates produced a sheep hemagglutinin that was neither an outer membrane protein nor a metalloprotease. Several isolates possessed capsules. The isolates were highly susceptible to a variety of antibiotics tested. However, six isolates were resistant to erythromycin. Seventeen isolates harbored plasmids. Lobster challenge studies revealed that the 50% lethal dose of a plasmid-positive strain was 100-fold lower than that of a plasmid-negative strain, suggesting that the plasmid may enhance the pathogenicity of these microorganisms in lobsters. Microorganisms that were recovered from experimentally infected lobsters exhibited biochemical and PFGE profiles that were indistinguishable from those of the challenge strain. Tissue affinity studies demonstrated that the challenge microorganisms accumulated in heart and midgut tissues as well as in the hemolymph. Culture supernatants and polymyxin B lysates of the strains caused elongation of CHO cells in tissue culture, suggesting the presence of a hitherto unknown enterotoxin. Both plasmid-positive and plasmid-negative strains caused significant dose-related intestinal fluid accumulations in suckling mice. Absence of viable organisms in the intestinal contents of mice suggests that these microorganisms cause diarrhea in mice by intoxication rather than by an infectious process. Further, these results support the thermal reduction data at 37°C and suggest that the mechanism(s) that led to fluid accumulation in mice differs from the disease process observed in lobsters by requiring neither the persistence of viable microorganisms nor the presence of plasmids. In summary, results of lobster studies satisfy Koch's postulates at the organismal and molecular levels; the findings support the hypothesis that these V. fluvialis-like organisms were responsible for the originally described systemic disease, which is now called limp lobster disease.
Modélisation et résolution de problèmes liés à l'exploitation d'infrastructures ferroviaires

Cette these s'interesse a la planification de l'exploitation d'infrastructures ferroviaires a l'echelle d'un nœud ou d'une gare. Pour determiner une strategie d'offre, il est important de disposer d'outils d'evaluation de la capacite des infrastructures. Cela permet de situer les limites d'un reseau, et d'etudier l'impact de modifications. Dans ce cadre, la faisabilite d'une grille horaire, son optimisation vis-a-vis de criteres comme le nombre de trains (saturation), et l'evaluation de la stabilite sont considerees. Nous proposons une modelisation lineaire multiobjectif de ce probleme. Le niveau de detail considere est suffisamment fin pour obtenir des grilles horaires realisables dans la pratique sur les infrastructures etudiees. En outre, elle presente deux structures correspondant a des problemes d'optimisation classiques appeles plus court chemin et set packing. Si le premier est facile a resoudre, le second est connu comme NP-difficile. Nous proposons differents algorithmes de pre-traitements, et de resolution approchee (basee sur la metaheuristique GRASP), pour ce probleme. Une premiere extension de cette heuristique au cas biobjectif est presentee. Les experimentations numeriques, menees sur des instances correspondant au nœud de Pierrefitte-Gonesse, ou generees aleatoirement, montrent l'efficacite de ces algorithmes. L'integration de ces travaux dans un logiciel dedie aux etudes de capacite d'infrastructures ferroviaires (projet RECIFE, en collaboration avec la SNCF) est decrite.
Do it right the first time: advice for cornea authors.

Cornea, the journal of the Cornea Society, now receives more than 20 submissions each week from authors wishing to publish their work. Although the past backlog of papers that previously slowed publication in the journal has been reduced, the large number of submissions has required that we keep the acceptance rate low, at about 30%. The following are some suggestions to increase the likelihood of acceptance of your papers and to speed their publication:
Computing Betweenness Centrality for Small World Networks on a GPU

Although a graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized device tailored primarily for compute-intensive, highly dataparallel computations; significant acceleration can be achieved on memory-intensive graph algorithms as well. In this work, we investigate the performance of a graph algorithm for computing vertex betweenness centrality for small world networks on 2 NVIDIA Tesla and Fermi GPUs and compare it to a parallel open source implementation on an Intel multicore CPU. For the test instances considered the betweenness computation on GPU was accelerated by as much as 19.68× compared to single thread CPU performance and more than 2× compared to multithread CPU performance using 16 OpenMP threads. Introduction Network analysis is an active area of research with applications in variety of domains such as social networks, protein interaction networks, computer security and disease spread. These real-world networks though highly unrelated display common features such as a small diameter, power law degree distribution and community structure, or in other words a small world topology. They are often very large in size with number of vertices and edges varying from millions to billions. These graphs are sparse and their analysis tends to be highly memory intensive. They have a large memory footprint, and a significant number of noncontiguous memory accesses to global data structures with low degree of spatial and temporal locality. Compared to other workloads most graph algorithms have little computation to hide latency to memory access. Betweenness centrality is a key metric that is used to identify important actors in a network. It is a popular graph analysis technique based on shortest path enumeration. For a graph with vertices and edges, the betweenness centrality of vertex is defined as,
Searching for Key Factors in Enterprise Bankrupt Prediction: A Case Study in Slovak Republic

Abstract The issue of enterprise in bankrupt or financial health as a whole is still very actual topic not only in Slovakia but also in abroad. Works dealing with the enterprise in bankruptcy have already appeared in the 1930s of the 20th century. Bankrupt of enterprise affect all subject in relationship with this enterprise. Financial experts were looking for the ways for enterprise bankrupt prediction. This article is based on the searching for key factors that could indicate the enterprise in bankrupt in Slovak conditions. This article tries to work with financial variables from the area of financial health assessment of enterprise and works with the sample of Slovak enterprises. This sample includes 8,522 financial statements of enterprises in 2016. According to several relevant decisions rules, for example, the value of equity or equity debt ratio, enterprises are divided into two categories – bankrupt enterprises and creditworthy enterprises. Subsequently, this article tries to find statistically significant financial variables that could indicate involving enterprises in these two categories and works with several statistical methods for searching significant relationship between variables and the tightness of relations between them. As a main statistical method, Pearson´s correlation coefficient is used, which is supported by correlation matrices. In addition, it is necessary to test an existence of outliers in the sample of enterprises. Existence of outliers is tested by the Grubbs test of outliers.