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The Application of Self-Determination Theory on the Opportunities and Challenges for Blended e-Learning in Motivating Egyptian Logistics Learners

Nowadays, there is a movement towards a Blended e-Learning (BL) method, consisting of a mixture of virtual learning and Traditional Face-to-Face Learning (TF2FL) methods. BL is the integrated mixture of multiple methods of learning and the blending of virtual and physical resources (Kilkelly, 2009). This present study investigates the learners’ perspective of the opportunities and challenges of BL according to the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) framework of Deci and Ryan (1985). It also categorises the opportunities and challenges for using BL in Logistics Education in Egyptian Higher Education. Therefore, it explores the SDT framework approach among intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and amotivation in relation to the Basic Psychological Human Innate Needs: autonomy, relatedness and competence. A case study methodology was adopted incorporating quantitative data collection by means of a self-administered questionnaire from learners who were studying at the three Colleges of International Transport and Logistics at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Egypt. Six hundred and sixteen undergraduate respondents were drawn from three branches in Greater Cairo, Alexandria, and Port Said. The study data analysis used SPSS and AMOS. It suggests that the three Colleges of International Transport and Logistics at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport should pay more attention to intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and amotivation in relation to autonomy, relatedness and competence in the virtual learning environment, especially in BL.
The Kyoto Protocol: Economic Effects of Energy Prices on Northern Plains Dryland Grain Production

This study examined possible economic impacts on Northern Plains grain producers of policies that could be undertaken by the United States to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The paper begins with a discussion of the potential effects of the Kyoto Protocol on prices of energy and inputs used in agricultural production. The next section describes the data and econometric models that were used to develop a field-scale, stochastic simulation model of the crop production system typical of the Northern Plains. This model is based on econometric production models estimated with a spatially referenced, statistically representative sample of farmers in Montana. The simulation analysis shows that the impacts of higher energy prices would tend to discourage the use of fallow, raise variable costs of production by 3 to 13%, and reduce net returns above variable cost by 6 to 18% in the case of spring wheat grown on fallow. Under the higher cost scenarios assumed in an analysis conducted by the Farm Bureau, production costs for spring wheat on fallow would increase by 15 to 27% and net returns would decline by 15 to 24%.
FHDI: An R Package for Fractional Hot Deck Imputation

Fractional hot deck imputation (FHDI), proposed by Kalton and Kish (1984) and investigated by Kim and Fuller (2004), is a tool for handling item nonresponse in survey sampling. In FHDI, each missing item is filled with multiple observed values yielding a single completed data set for subsequent analyses. An R package FHDI is developed to perform FHDI and also the fully efficient fractional imputation (FEFI) method of (Fuller and Kim, 2005) to impute multivariate missing data with arbitrary missing patterns. FHDI substitutes missing items with a few observed values jointly obtained from a set of donors whereas the FEFI uses all the possible donors. This paper introduces FHDI as a tool for implementing the multivariate version of fractional hot deck imputation discussed in Im et al. (2015) as well as FEFI. For variance estimation of FHDI and FEFI, the Jackknife method is implemented, and replicated weights are provided as a part of the output.
The limits of resumption in Welsh wh-dependencies

This chapter considers the analysis of gap and resumptive wh -dependencies, especially relative clauses, in Welsh. It is argued that, despite first appearances, all wh- dependencies formed on unembedded direct-object positions (and some embedded ones), including the direct object of an aspectual periphrasis, involve movement and a gap rather than a resumptive pronoun. The clitic found in these structures is analysed as a reflex of the movement operation itself, with clitics appearing in positions from which wh -movement has taken place. The presence of a clitic is therefore not diagnostic of resumption. This conclusion is then integrated into a more general analysis of Welsh wh-dependencies, in which the gap strategy is argued to be more widely available in other contexts too. It is shown that Welsh manifests more extensive successive-cyclic effects than generally acknowledged. A formal analysis is developed in which the various successive-cyclic effects are accounted for within a movement-based approach. Successive-cyclic movement in Welsh is mediated by escape hatches in SpecCP and SpecvP, but the absence of equivalent escape hatches at the DP or PP levels results in the resumption strategy occurring in those environments. This approach is then extended to cases where resumptive pronouns appear to have gap-like syntactic properties, leading to a ‘mixed’ analysis of resumptive relatives generally (base-generation of a resumptive pronoun with movement of a wh-operator from the specifier of the phrase triggering resumption).
Providing a sustainable living environment in not-for-profit retirement villages: a case study in Australia

Purpose As a viable housing option for older people, retirement villages need to provide a sustainable living environment that satisfies their residents’ needs in terms of affordability, life-style and environmental friendliness. This is, however, a significant challenge for not-for-profit developers owing to the high upfront costs involved in using sustainable practices. The purpose of this paper is to identify the sustainable features and practices adopted in not-for-profit retirement villages. Design/methodology/approach Due to the lack of quantitative historical data, a case study approach was adopted to identify the sustainable features and practices used in a not-for-profit retirement village in Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Data were collected based on interviews, direct observation and documentation, and collected data were analysed by using content analysis. Findings The research findings indicate that, similar to private developers, not-for-profit developers also have the capability to .
The Effects of Variability of the Mathematical Equations and Project Categorizations on Forecasting S-Curves at Construction Industry

Cash flow forecasting is an indispensable tool for construction companies, and is essential for the survival of any contractor at all stages of the work. The time available for a detailed pre-tender cash flow forecast is often limited. Therefore, contractors require simpler and quicker techniques which would enable them to forecast cash flow with reasonable accuracy. Forecasting S-curves in construction in developing countries like Iran in compare with developed countries has many difficulties. It is because of uncertainty and unknown situation in nature of construction industry of these countries. Based on knowledge of authors there is a little attempt for cash flow forecasting in construction industry of Iran. As a result authors produced An S-curve equation for construction project from historical data which has reasonable accuracy. A sample of 20 completed projects was collected and classified in to the three different groups. In order to model S-curves for each group, a simple and reliable method of S curve fitting has been used. S-curves were fitted into each group by using different techniques. Errors incurred when fitting these curves were measured and compared with those associates in fitting individual projects. At the end, accuracy of each model has been calculated and an equation has been proposed to forecast S-curves.
Studies on the neurotrophic factor Manf and the pleiotropic factor Lin-28 during Drosophila development

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 1 DROSOPHILA AS A MODEL SYSTEM 1 NEUROBIOLOGY: THE STUDY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 1 NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS IN VERTEBRATES AND THEIR CLASSIFICATION 2 NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS IN INVERTEBRATES 7 Drosophila Neurotrophins (DNTs) 7 Drosophila MANF (DmMANF) 8 Glia 9 Microglia –The macrophages of the vertebrate nervous system 9 IMMUNITY IN DROSOPHILA 10 Cellular immune response 11 Humoral immune response 12 Immunity in the Drosophila brain 14 AUTOPHAGY 14 OOGENESIS 15 LIN-28 AND LET-7 16 AIMS OF THE STUDY 19 MATERIALS AND METHODS 20 TABLE 1. METHODS 20 TABLE 2. FLY STRAINS 21 TABLE 3. ANTIBODIES 23 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 24 DMMANF EXPRESSION IN THE ADULT CNS (III-IV) 24 DmMANF expression in the adult non-neuronal tissues (III) 24 DmMANF in vivo functional studies with focus to the dopaminergic system (IV). 25 DmMANF overexpression does not affect the dopaminergic system (IV) 25 DmMANF is not required in a cell autonomous fashion for the survival and differentiation of the main cell types of the brain (IV) 26
Mesoscale Modeling of Dynamic Fracture of Ceramic Materials

The dynamic propagation and branching of a mode I crack in polycrystalline brittle materials like ce- ramics are investigated numerically using a 2-D explicit grain-based cohesive/volumetric finite element scheme. The granular microstructure of the ceramics is taken into account and the crack is restricted to propagate along the grain boundaries. Special emphasis is placed on study- ing the effect of grain size and cohesive parameters on the crack branching instability.
Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions: A Piece of the Natural Resource Curse Puzzle

We combine the resource curse literature with the literature on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to investigate two hypotheses, namely (i) natural resources wealth: countries with a comparative advantage in natural resources attract more M&As in natural resource intensive sectors and (ii) natural resources dependency: countries with a high natural resources dependency attract fewer M&As in all sectors. Using the Thomson dataset we test these hypotheses for a sample of 49 African and Latin American countries in the period 1988 - 2007. To test these hypotheses we disaggregate the data in sectors intensive and not intensive in natural resources. We emphasize the distinction between resource dependency and wealth. Both hypotheses were confirmed by our findings. Thus, resource dependency has a “crowding out” effect on M&As in all sectors, and natural resources wealth has a "crowding in" effect on M&As in sectors intensive in natural resources.
Murray, Paul and West, Graeme and Marshall, Stephen and McArthur, Stephen (2013) Automated image stitching for enhanced visual inspections of nuclear power stations. In: 10th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Machinery Failure Prevention Technologies

In the UK, visual inspection of the fuel channels of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations forms an integral part of understanding the health of the reactor cores. During a statutory outage, video footage of the inside of selected fuel channels is recorded. Features of interest and anomalies are manually identified by an expert who extracts frames from the video to create a composite image for the feature of interest. This is a laborious and time consuming process which can be costly to station operators who must produce these images before returning the station to service. This paper describes an automatic technique capable of generating a 2D image of the entire internal bore of the channel. The technique uses the position of the camera coupled with advanced image processing techniques to generate a high-resolution image of the whole channel. This allows surface details to be viewed in relation to each other, and the rest of the channel, while facilitating a direct comparison of any anomalies over time. In addition, the time taken by this automated technique to produce a full core image is a fraction of that taken to manually stitch an image for a much smaller area.
Three-level space vector PWM in low index modulation region avoiding narrow pulse problem

A detailed mechanism of generation of narrow gating pulses in conventional nearest three-level vector (NTV) space vector PWM invertors is described and new nonnearest three and four vector (N/sup 2/TV and N/sup 2/FV) selection laws are suggested to avoid such narrow pulse problems. The experimental verifications for the suggested algorithms are also presented. <<ETX>>
Rewarding tax compliance: taxpayers' attitudes and beliefs

In a society the tax climate is determined by the interaction between taxpayers and tax authorities. In a ‘service and client’ climate, taxpayers do not expect authorities to automatically suspect them of being tax evaders. Evidence suggests that recognising good tax behaviour with strategies of rewards has a positive effect on voluntary tax compliance. Principles derived from the cognitive evaluation theory predict that when feelings of competence are affirmed and this is accompanied by a sense of autonomy it can enhance the intrinsic motivation for an action. The present research surveyed the attitudes and beliefs of taxpayers involved in small business on being rewarded for tax compliance. Results were corroborated with the principles of the cognitive evaluation theory and it was found that that the principles of the theory are applicable to rewarding tax compliance behaviour.
Title Classification of Malicious Web Pages through a J 48 Decision Tree , aNaïve Bayes , a RBF Network and a Random Forest Classifier forWebSpam Detection Permalink

Web spam is a negative practice carried out by spammers to produce fake search engines results for improving rank position of their Web pages. It is available on arena of World Wide Web (WWW) in different forms and lacks a consistent definition. The search engines are struggling to eliminate spam pages through machine learning (ML) detectors. Mostly, search engines measure the quality of websites by using different factors (signals) such as, number of visitors, body text, anchor text, back link and forward link etc. information and, and spammers try to induce these signals into their desired pages to subvert ranking function of search engines. This study compares the detection efficiency of different ML classifiers trained and tested on WebSpam UK2007 data set. The results of our study show that random forest has achieve higher score than other well-known classifiers.
Prevalence of Work Related Wound and the Associated Risk Factors in Cart Horses in Bishoftu Town, Central Ethiopia

A cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2016 to April 2017 with the objectives to estimate the prevalence of work related wound and the associated risk factors in 400 randomly selected carthorses in Bishoftu town, Central Ethiopia. The findings revealed high overall wound prevalence of 42.5%. Age, body condition scores, harness type, and work load were the major risk factors associated with occurrence of wound in the study area. Older horses were found to be highly affected by wound than young and adults and the difference was statistically significant ( p < 0.05). Likewise, poor body conditioned animals were at greater risk of developing wound than good body conditioned animals. There was significant association between horse handling and prevalence of wound where horses managed by beating were at higher risk of developing wound than those managed by soothing voices (OR =3.291, 95% CI = (2.160-5.014)). Furthermore, wound prevalence was significantly associated with harnessing type. Horses with plastic harnesses were almost three times at greater risk of developing wound (OR=3.116, 95% CI= (2.038-4.764)) than those with leather harness. Also the distribution of wound on the affected animals shown significant differences ( p < 0.05), in which higher proportion (41%) of wound was observed at the back and withers of affected animals whereas lower proportion (7%) was observed on the abdominal area. In general, the present study revealed high overall prevalence of wound in cart horses in the study area that require a comprehensive equine health, management and welfare promotion program so as to enhance the efficient utilization in these animals and also to improved the community’s livelihood. Keywords: Cart horse, Wound, Risk factors, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
Tunable H-Shaped Microstrip Antenna with Dual Feeding

The design of a frequency reconfigurable dual-band H-shaped microstrip antenna fed by two coaxial probes is presented. Each probe excites one of the two fundamental modes of the antenna which are linearly polarized and orthogonal to each other. The antenna is symmetrically loaded with four varactor diodes to simultaneously tune these two modes. Simulation results show that the tunable range of the first mode is between 1.69 and 2.19 GHz (1.3 : 1 tuning ratio), whereas it is between 1.94 and 2.72 GHz (1.4 : 1 tuning ratio) for the second mode. In the range between 1.94 and 2.19 GHz, the radiation of the proposed antenna can be switched between two orthogonal linear polarizations by a simple adjustment to the capacitance of the varactor diodes. The proposed antenna achieves a good performance in terms of port-to-port isolation, directivity, and cross-polarization.
Solution of extraordinary differential equations with physical reasoning by obtaining modal reaction series

Mathematical modeling of many engineering and physics problem leads to extraordinary differential equations like Nonlinear, Delayed, and Fractional Order. An effective method is required to analyze the mathematical model which provides solutions conforming to physical reality. A Fractional Differential Equation (FDE), where the leading differential operator is Riemann-Liouvelli (RL) type requires fractional order initial states which are sometimes hard to physically relate. Therefore, we must be able to solve these extraordinary systems, in space, time, frequency, area, volume, with physical reality conserved. Extra Ordinary Differential equation Systems and its solution, with Physical Principle, of action-reaction and equivalent mathematical decomposition method, are obtained as an aid for Physicists and Engineers to tackle the process dynamics with ease. This reactions-chain generates internal modes from zeroth mode reaction to first mode second mode and to infinite modes; instantaneously in parallel time or space-scales; and the sum of all these modes gives entire system reaction. This modal reaction as explained by physics theory exactly matches the principle of Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM). Fractional Differential Equation (FDE) with Riemann-Liouvelli formulation linear and non-linear is solved as per ADM. In this formulation of FDE by RL method it is found that there is no need to worry about the fractional initial states; instead one can use integer order initial states (the conventional ones) to arrive at solution of FDE. This new finding too is highlighted in this paper-along with several other problems to give physical insight to the solution of extraordinary differential equation systems. This way one gets insight to Physics of General Differential Equation Systems-and its solution-by Physical Principle and equivalent mathematical decomposition method. This facilitates ease in modeling.
An Investigation of the Relationship between Resistance and Thickness of Deposited Nickel Thin Film Resistors

The main purpose of this study is finding the relationship between resistance and thickness of deposited Nickel Thin Film Resistors. It was found that the Sheet Resistance, Rs, is inversely proportional to the thickness of the film on the substrate. It was also observed that when the film thickness is greater than 50 nm, films behave like ordinary resistors. In other words in bulk, films obey Ohm's law if other physical quantities remain constant.
A new gypsy-like retroelement family in Vitis vinifera

As a major part of most plant genomes, retrotransposons are distributed throughout the plant genome ubiquitously with high copy number and extensive heterogeneity. Various retrotransposon families with distinct structures differ in their distribution and roles among divergent plant species, due to unforeseen transposition activities. We had performed in silico analysis of the Vitis vinifera 'Pinot Noir' genome to search for gypsy type retroelements homologues to the one identified in Pinus radiata (IFG7) and P. pinaster (PpRT1) and in Quercus suber (Corky). We intended to see the existence and structure of gypsy-like retroelements homologues in the Vitis genome as well as the existence of integration site preference. From all data and to perform a deeper analysis we chose 36 complete sequences copies in the Vitis genome. We used three genetic distance corrections, additional to p-distance to estimate retroelements insertion time and reverse transcriptase, integrase and LTR (Long Terminal Repeat) sequences to establish a phylogeny and to see the contributions of different regions according to the evolutionary rates. We found three elements with identical LTRs and two old elements that revealed recent and very old insertions as well as insertions inside other retroelements. Additionally, we found no preference for the integration site as shown by the different target site repeat for each element.
An Eclectic Professional Development Proposal for English Language Teachers

This article reports a mixed-method research project aimed at improving the practices of public sector English teachers in Cali (Colombia) through a professional development program. At the diagnostic stage surveys, documentary analysis, and a focus group yielded the teachers’ profile and professional needs. The action phase measured the program’s impact via surveys, evaluation formats, a focus group, researchers’ journal, and documentary analysis. Findings revealed that an eclectic approach tailored to the participants’ needs and interests and a practice-reflection-theory cycle improved the teachers’ quality.
From Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden DRUG-RELATED PROBLEMS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON DRUG-DRUG INTERACTIONS

The aim of this thesis was to address some aspects of drug related problems with special regard to drug-drug interactions. In paper 1 we aimed to describe the scenario and frequency of drug-related problems (DRPs) in in-patients and to determine whether a pharmacotherapeutic advisory intervention aiming at reducing DRPs could affect rates of re-hospitalisation and / or death within 6 months. A total of 299 DRPs among 71% (106/150) of the patients were found, who had not previously been identified in the usual care. Thirty-five per cent (106/299) of DRPs in 39% (58/150) of the patients were judged to be of such importance that advice was given to the physician in charge. The proportion of re-hospitalisation and death in the intervention group was 49% (73/150) compared to 46% (69/150) in the control group (Risk ratio: 1.06, 95% confidence interval: 0.84 to 1.32, P=0.64). In conclusion, drug-related problems were common. The impact of drugrelated problems on hard endpoints such as re-hospitalisation and death may however be overestimated. It is of importance to clarify if and in what way drug-related problems are