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Evaluating Service Quality Of Ethiopian Shipping And Logistics Services Enterprise

The aim of this paper is to evaluating the service quality of Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Service Enterprise. The study has incorporated both primary and secondary data. Moreover, this study used both qualitative and quantitative research methods as a primary source of data. Quantitative data was collected through questionnaires from 282 respondents. The research participants were selected through a non probability judgmental sampling technique. The study incorporated both descriptive and inferential statistics for analyzing the collected data from respondents. The results are presented in both tables and figures. The outcomes of this study show that the multimodal transportation service rendered by Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise is still expected to go a long way to improve the quality of its service to improve the service experience of its customers. Furthermore, the study revealed that the enterprise has got a relatively higher score in reliability dimensions while the service cost competitiveness and trade assistance dimension got below average score. Based on the findings, it’s been recommended that the enterprise should develop key performance indicators to measure if service is performed as promised, use real time cargo track & tracing system, develop a continuous self-development program, open a special desk which handles the enquiries of customers with special needs, prepare a convenient customer waiting area, increase the types of trade assistance it provides and cover more ports with adequate frequency.
FACTORS AFFECTING ZAKAT PAYMENT THROUGH INSTITUTION OF AMIL: MUZAKKI’S PERSPECTIVES ANALYSIS (CASE STUDY OF BADAN AMIL ZAKAT NASIONAL [BAZNAS])

As the third pillar of Islam, zakat has an important role from both social and economic perspectives. Socially, zakat can build brotherhood and sense of belonging among Muslims. Beside purifies the wealth, zakat also can reduce the social gap between the have and the have not. Zakat empirically can alleviate the poverty as well as generate prosperity of the ummah which was realized during the Golden Age of Umar bin Abdul Azis Caliph. At that period, zakat was controlled, collected, and disbursed by trustable and professional amil officers. In Indonesia, the potential of zakat is promising. This condition is indicated by reaching 3.4 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that equals to 217 trillion Rupiahs (BAZNAS and FEM, 2011). Unfortunately, the realization of the zakat collection is still far behind its potential. In 2010, zakat collection was only 1.5 trillion Rupiahs or less than 1 percent from the expectation. This fact shows that the awareness to pay zakat through institutions in Indonesia is still poor. Therefore, this paper attempts to analyze the factors that determine muzakki to pay zakat through the Institutions by taking case study of Badan Amil Zakat Nasional (BAZNAS), as the National Zakat Board in Indonesia. One hundred respondents from zakat payers through BAZNAS and one hundred respondents from non-institution zakat payers have been selected as the sample of the research. The respondents have been deeply interviewed on December 2009 to February 2010. The samples were determined using purposive convenience sampling (non probability sampling). Descriptive statistics, IPA (Importance Performance Analysis) and CSI (Customer Satisfaction Index) methods have been used as analytical methods.
Signal Interpretation from Low-dosage Acquisition

Summary Objectives: This paper focuses on how we could analyze and interpret filtered back-projection reconstructed signals from low-dose computed tomographic (CT) imaging systems. There exists a growing imbalance between dosage reduction and effective signal interpretation. At the same time, low-dose applications are undergoing alarming growth. Methods: This paper interprets filtered back-projection images in low-dose CT systems and details the possible properties of the artifacts. The interpretation leads to design of a new multi-image filtered back-projection approach that allows artifacts to be effectively identified across multiple images. We use this approach as a building block to propose a new reconstruction method that enables effective artifacts reduction and efficient implementation. Results: Experiments with both clinical and simulated low-dose images demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed approach. Conclusions: This study discusses a new FBP-based reconstruction approach based on signal interpretation from low-dosage acquisition. This method uses multiple filtered back-projection images from projection subsets to provide clues for distinguishing underlying clinical structure from artifacts. A framework is derived for effective signal interpretation and artifacts reduction. It requires no hardware change and a minimum amount of extra software support compared with current CT systems. Clinical and simulated low-dose CT scans demonstrated effectiveness of the proposed method.
Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors Predicted from Laboratory Animals

Abstract Carnes, B. A. , Grahn, D. and Hoel, D. Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors Predicted from Laboratory Animals. Radiat. Res. 160, 159–167 (2003). Exposure, pathology and mortality data for mice, dogs and humans were examined to determine whether accurate interspecies predictions of radiation-induced mortality could be achieved. The analyses revealed that (1) days of life lost per unit dose can be estimated for a species even without information on radiation effects in that species, and (2) accurate predictions of age-specific radiation-induced mortality in beagles and the atomic bomb survivors can be obtained from a dose–response model for comparably exposed mice. These findings illustrate the value of comparative mortality analyses and the relevance of animal data to the study of human health effects.
Escherichia coli heat shock promoters toward their pplication as stress probes

The mechanism of heat shock response of Escherichia coli can be explored to program novel biological functions. In this study, the strongest heat shock promoters were identified by microarray experiments conducted at different temperatures (37 ◦C and 45 ◦C, 5 min). The promoters of the genes ibpA, dnaK and fxsA were selected and validated by RT-qPCR. These promoters were used to construct and characterize stress probes using green fluorescence protein (GFP). Cellular stress levels were evaluated in experiments conducted at different shock temperatures during several exposure times. It was concluded that
Multi-query Path Planning for an Unmanned Fixed-Wing Aircraft

Path planning for fixed-wing aircraft in obstacle rich environments requires the consideration of the motion constraints of the aircraft. Most existing motion planning algorithms for systems with dynamics are single query planners, which leads to a large computation overhead if multiple path planning problems are solved. This paper presents a roadmap-based multi-query path planner which generates feasible paths for a simplified dynamics model of a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft. Due to the multi-query property multiple path queries can be solved efficiently once the roadmap is constructed. Quasi-random Hammersley sets are used to place samples in a four dimensional configuration space to account for the motion constraints of the aircraft, which is modeled by the superposition of a Dubins vehicle in the horizontal plane and a double integrator with state and input constraint in the vertical plane. The optimization of roadmap parameters and post-processing of paths are discussed in detail. Simulation results show the applicability of the suggested planner.
PRIORITIZATION OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES USING AHP

The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated approach that prioritizes performance measures and critical success factors toward strategic objectives of a firm. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to prioritize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Result Indicators (KRIs) as well as Critical Success Factors (CSFs) in the frame of a single hierarchy.
The doer effect of failure and recovery in multi-agent cases: service supply chain perspective

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the doer effect of service failure (SF), good prior experience (GPE) and recovery on overall customer satisfaction and repurchase intentions for multi-agents in tourism service supply chain (TSSC). It specifically focuses on internal and external failure and recovery. Design/methodology/approach The study employs a 2×2×3 between-subjects experimental design with 12 diverse scenarios. It aims to examine the main effects of GPE and the interaction effects of SF and recovery on overall customer satisfaction and repurchase intentions. Findings The main findings show that consumers do not show favorable behavioral outcomes when they have GPE with an affiliated party. Results of the experiments demonstrate that for hotels, there is no interaction effect between failure and recovery regarding overall customer satisfaction and repurchase intentions; however, for travel agencies, an interaction effect has been found. This indicates that an internal failure (by travel agency) should be recovered internally to increase the behavioral outcomes for travel agency. However, if there is an external failure (by hotel) then the essential thing is providing a recovery. Originality/value Although the service literature covers failure and recovery in diverse contexts, these concepts are rarely studied from a multi-agent perspective in the service supply chain literature. In such a chain, a failure by a different party may remain unresolved, and this may create a positive effect on another party, if they provide recovery for the failure. This means that the doer of the failure and/or recovery (the party responsible from the failure and/or recovery) may have an impact on behavioral outcomes. However, previous literature has neglected to focus on the important issue of which entity/party performs the failure and/or recovery, and the effect on behavioral outcomes. By focusing on a principal-agent relationship in a TSSC, the study aims to address this research gap.
Examining the Synergistic Effects of Two Transdiagnostic Vulnerability Factors in Relation to Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms and Disorders Among Latinos in a Community Health Care Setting

Latinos are one of the fastest growing racial/ethnic population in the United States yet they experience a substantial amount of mental health disparities, such as anxiety and depression, compared with non-Hispanic Whites. The current study examined the interactive effects of rumination and mindful attention on anxiety and depression symptoms among economically disadvantaged Latinos. Participants consisted of 391 Latinos (86.7% female; Mage = 38.8 years [SD = 11.4]; 95.3% first language Spanish) who attended a community-based primary health care clinic. Results provided support for an interaction effect of rumination with mindful attention in relation to depressive, suicidal, social anxiety, and anxious arousal symptoms as well as number of mood and anxiety disorders. The pattern of findings was consistent across each of these continuous dependent measures such that the highest levels of each affective variable were found for those with a combination of higher rumination and lower mindful attention. Unexpectedly, there was no interaction in relation to the dichotomous outcome of presence of any mood/anxiety diagnosis.
The Impact of Entrepreneurial Motivation on Small Business Performance in Iraq

The small business has become the backbone of industrialization not only in Iraq but globally, as the sector is regarding as a green field for investment not only to the rich but also the poor. It gives a firsthand job opportunity and provides a stable career lifestyle to the most common citizen in any country. The `objective of the study is to examine the impact of entrepreneurial motivation on small business performance in Iraq. The study was conducted using a sample of 300 small business owners in the nine Baghdad Provinces. The data was obtained using a selfadministered questionnaire and using probability random sampling technique. The data obtained were analysed using statistical package of SPSS version 23 window for regression and correlation analysis. The result indicates that there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurial motivation and small business performance in Iraq, this shows entrepreneurial motivation influence on business performance and this motivate the entrepreneurs to be innovative and creative in their business activities. Furthermore, the paper suggested that more entrepreneurial factors should be employed in the future studies.
Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) metrics: a novel method of measuring police performance during encounters with people in crisis

Police officers frequently respond to mentally ill individuals in crisis states. Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training is designed to help officers manage these challenging situations. Our objective was to develop a set of metrics for measuring police performance during encounters with people suffering from mental illness or in crisis, thus facilitating evaluation of CIT training. We employed a two-phase research design to develop the CIT metrics: first, we convened a diverse panel of experts in a “Reverse Concept Mapping” focus group to establish the measurable elements of police performance in CIT encounters, as well as the relative difficulty of those encounters. Second, we used Thurstone scaling to assign interval-level scores to each resulting difficulty and performance indicator by surveying hundreds of police officers and mental health professionals. The outcome of this process was a set of CIT metrics with 90 difficulty indicators and 112 performance indicators, that can be used for measuring police performance while controlling for situational difficulty. We also produced a “Quick Sheet Performance Metrics” comprised of the most important performance statements that can be applied in real time. The CIT metrics provide a way to empirically measure the effectiveness of CIT training, as well as informing CIT training development. Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) metrics: a novel method of measuring police performance during encounters with people in crisis Lois James1* and Stephen James2 1Washington State University College of Nursing, Spokane, WA, USA 2Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Spokane, WA, USA Correspondence to: Lois James, Assistant Professor, Washington State University College of Nursing P.O. Box 1495, Spokane, Spokane, WA, USA; Tel: 509-3247442; E-mail: lois_james@wsu.edu
Fields and Forests in Flames: Vegetation Smoke and Human Health

People have lived for tens of thousands of years in the presence of smoke from fires. That long period of adaptation tends to allow healthy younger adults in today’s environments to be generally resistant to serious adverse health effects from smoke from sources such as wildfires, prescribed forest burns, agricultural field burns, and peat bog fires, says Wayne Cascio, director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Public Health Division. But a high percentage of people aren’t young, healthy adults. In the United States, nearly half the population suffers from at least one chronic illness,1 potentially placing them at risk for adverse effects from exposure to fire smoke. Children and older adults also are considered more vulnerable to smoke’s effects.2 The limited health research that’s been done on smoke from large-scale fires has provided some refinements to these general categories of vulnerable people, and new information occasionally emerges. There also has been a trickle of information identifying the toxic substances that characterize smoke from various kinds of fires, and pinning down the specific body systems that are vulnerable and the pathways through which damage occurs. But much remains unknown about the varying toxicity of emissions from different types of vegetation fires and the vulnerability of specific groups of people, although a good deal of research has examined the adverse health effects of smoke related to heating and cooking with wood.3 Filling these voids is essential, Cascio says. “It is critically important to define who is at highest risk so that individual and community-based intervention strategies can be developed to specifically mitigate the health risks associated with smoke exposure,” he says. “The goal, of course, is to provide education or intervention to the most sensitive individuals in the most cost-effective way without needlessly worrying or interfering with the daily activities of [others]. ” Such information can also help organizations and individuals who deal with fire threats as they work to integrate health concerns with many other factors, such as land management practices and programs, cultural mores, political influences, and funding.
Contribution à l'étude de micromuscles artificiels activables par pression osmotique et implantables en milieu biologique

Ce travail est une contribution au developpement de micromuscles artificiels reposant sur une voie innovante de production, au sein du corps humain, d'energie mecanique a partir de l'energie chimique par processus osmotique. La recherche a un caractere generique, les applications biomedicales potentielles etant nombreuses ; elle s'appuie sur un cas concret de conception d'une structure a membrane semi-permeable gonflable (joint osmotique) destine a eliminer les endofuites se produisant frequemment au niveau des endoprotheses pour anevrisme de l��aorte abdominale. Apres l’expose du phenomene d’osmose et de l’application envisagee, l’etude se decompose en deux parties. La premiere partie porte sur la caracterisation osmo-mecanique du systeme osmotique eau/membrane d’acetate de cellulose/saccharose. Des dispositifs experimentaux originaux ont ete mis en place. Dans le domaine d’utilisation envisage, la membrane presente un comportement mecanique principalement elasto-plastique et sa permeabilite depend fortement de son etat de deformation. Dans la seconde partie, un modele numerique de la zone de contact entre le collet de l’anevrisme et l’endoprothese munie d’un joint gonflable est mis en place. La modelisation du joint membranaire s’appuie sur les resultats de la premiere partie. Les comportements mecaniques de l'endoprothese et de l’aorte sont modelises sur la base de resultats de la litterature respectivement par une simple loi isotrope elastique lineaire et un potentiel hyperelastique isotrope en serie de Rivlin. Une etude parametrique permet alors de souligner la faisabilite de cette endoprothese et l’influence de quelques parametres de conception sur ses performances
Opsonization of encapsulated Staphylococcus aureus: the role of specific antibody and complement.

Previous studies of encapsulated Staphylococcus aureus have shown that the opsonins of normal, nonimmune human serum (complement factor C3 and IgG) bind beneath the capsule, i.e., on the cell wall, and when bound at this site these opsonins are not effective in promoting phagocytosis of the bacteria by polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN). In this investigation immune antibody was added to human serum to effect opsonization of encapsulated S. aureus. Opsonization was assessed by quantitating the uptake of 3H-labeled staphylococci by human PMN, and the amount of C3 fixation to bacteria was measured in a quantitative fluorescent immunoassay. Low levels of immune antibody (IgG) effectively opsonized encapsulated S. aureus when added to fresh but not to heated serum; phagocytosis of the staphylococci was mediated via pronase-sensitive membrane receptors (presumably C3b receptors) of PMN. Experiments with C2-, C3-, or C5-deficient human sera revealed that C3 was required for opsonization and that activation of C3 was mediated via the alternative complement pathway. Encapsulated S. aureus bound significantly less C3 than unencapsulated strains in diluted normal serum; addition of immune antibody, however, increased C3 fixation 4.7-fold (p less than 0.005). Immunoelectron microscopy localized C3 throughout the capsule as well as on the staphylococcal cell wall when bacteria had been opsonized in human serum with immune antibody. Without immune antibody, C3 binding was restricted to the cell wall. At approximately 10-fold higher levels of immune antibody, opsonization and phagocytosis of encapsulated S. aureus was independent of complement and pronase-sensitive receptors on PMN. These studies show that, in addition to immune antibody, the alternative pathway of complement plays an important role in the opsonization of encapsulated S. aureus strains and suggest that complement may be crucial to the in vivo clearance of these organisms.
Pharmaceutical Role Expansion and Developments in Pharmacist-Physician Communication

Expanded clinical pharmacist professional roles in the team-based patient-centered medical home (PCMH) primary care environment require cooperative and collaborative relationships among pharmacists and primary care physicians (PCPs), but many PCPs have not previously worked in such a direct fashion with pharmacists. Additional roles, including formulary control, add further elements of complexity to the clinical pharmacist–PCP relationship that are not well described. Our objective was to characterize the nature of clinical pharmacist–PCP interprofessional collaboration across seven federally funded hospitals and associated primary care clinics, following pharmacist placement in primary care clinics and incorporation of expanded pharmacist roles. In-depth and semistructured interviews were conducted with 25 practicing clinical pharmacists and 17 PCPs. Qualitative thematic analysis revealed three major themes: (1) the complexities of electronic communication (particularly electronic nonformulary requests) as contributing to interprofessional tensions or misunderstandings for both groups, (2) the navigation of new roles and traditional hierarchy, with pharmacists using indirect communication to prevent PCP defensiveness to recommendations, and (3) a preference for onsite colocation for enhanced communication and professional relationships. Clinical pharmacists’ indirect communication practices may hold important implications for patient safety in the context of medication use, and it is important to foster effective communication skills and an environment where all team members across hierarchies can feel comfortable speaking up to reduce error when problems are suspected. Also, the lack of institutional communication about managing drug formulary issues and related electronic nonformulary request processes was apparent in this study and merits further attention for both researchers and practitioners.
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial Results from Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging

This special issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters is dedicated to presenting initial results from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) that are primarily, but not exclusively, based on multiband imaging data obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The survey covers roughly 320 arcmin2 in the ACS F435W, F606W, F814W, and F850LP bands, divided into two well-studied fields. Existing deep observations from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and ground-based facilities are supplemented with new, deep imaging in the optical and near-infrared from the European Southern Observatory and from the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Deep observations with the Space Infrared Telescope Facility are scheduled. Reduced data from all facilities are being released worldwide within 3-6 months of acquisition. Together, this data set provides two deep reference fields for studies of distant normal and active galaxies, supernovae, and faint stars in our own Galaxy. This Letter serves to outline the survey strategy and describe the specific data that have been used in the accompanying letters, summarizing the reduction procedures and sensitivity limits.