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Hermann von Helmholtz’s Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty: A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature

Introduction A. Mechanism between the Classical and the Modern I. The Concept of Mechanism 1. What is Meant by 'Mechanism'? 2. On the Concept of Classical Mechanics II. Mechanism as a Classical Philosophy of Nature 1. The Classical Concept of Science 2. Two Instances of the Legitimation of Classical Mechanism a) Galileo's Scientism b) Descartes' Metaphysics and his Concept of Hypothesis III. The Three Lines of Traditions of Mechanism 1. Materialist Mechanism (Boyle and Huygens) 2. Dualist Mechanism (Newton and Boscovich) 3. Dynamic Mechanism (Leibniz and Kant) IV. Contours of a Modern Philosophy of Nature 1. Hypotheticity as a Characteristic of the Modern Conception of Science 2. Interpretation of Nature as World-View B. Helmholtz's Mechanism at the Dawn of Modernity I. Helmholtz as Educator, Natural Scientist, and Research Strategist II. Helmholtz's Classical Mechanism 1. The Mechanistic Programmatic of 1847 a) The Grounding of Dual Mechanism b) The Energetic Heuristic of Mechanism 2. Mechanics as Foundation of Geometry 3. Helmholtz's Classical Conception of Science and Nature a) His Conception of Science Until the End of the Eighteen Sixties b) His Classical Mechanistic Conception of Nature III. The Hypothesization of Helmholtz's Mechanism 1. Helmholtz's Conception of Science Since the Beginning of the Eighteen Seventies 2. Helmholtz's Model-Theoretical Mechanism. Mechanistic Analogies and Mathematical Unification IV. Conditions and Causes of the Change in Helmholtz's Conception of Nature and Science Bibliography Index
Accountability via Financial Disclosures

Social economy sector (SES) organizations are dependent on their funders and, similar to non-profit organizations, are vulnerable to the risk of mission drift as well as to concerns about the extent to which they are accountable for their fund flows. This chapter explores the general public's perceptions of the relative importance of specific financial disclosures which the public believes SES organizations should publish as part of their provision of accountability. Using a survey questionnaire administered to a sample of 400 Australian individuals, the chapter observes that the public perceives financial disclosures relating to sources of funds, mission-related expenses, and the financial sustainability of SES organizations as important. It is recommended that SES organizations cater to the general public's information needs as a way of improving their accountability, reducing information asymmetry, and eventually increasing general trust and confidence in their operations.
Relationship between long time scales and the static free-energy in the Hopfield model

The Glauber dynamics of the Hopﬁeld model at low storage level is considered. We analytically derive the spectrum of relaxation times for large system sizes. The longest time scales are gathered in families, each family being in one to one correspondence with a stationary (not necessarily stable) point of the static mean-ﬁeld free-energy. Inside a family, the time scales are given by the reciprocals (of the absolute values) of the eigenvalues of the free-energy Hessian matrix.
Gromit An In-Memory Graph Database

This work presents the implementation of an in-memory graph database management system called Gromit. This graph database represents large and complex networks using labelled property graphs, and encodes semantic information in property lists of the vertices and edges. Gromit uses a vertex-edge graph model and represent both vertices and edges as entities of the graph. Edges are stored in a doubly linked list manner in main memory. We implement breadth-first traversal and depth-first traversal to retrieve data for queries. This database supports concurrency and implements locking mechanisms for transaction management. We deploy two benchmark suites from social network domain to evaluate our implementation. These are GDBench and LDBC.
Improving the Management Process through IT&C for Increasing the Customer Satisfaction Level in Health Care Sector

In order to become Client-oriented, an organization needs to improve each service and to align the business processes with its customer satisfaction strategy. Customer oriented means to place the client satisfaction at the core of the business decisions. To be customer-oriented means that you need to focus on customers’ needs and align them with the company strategy and objectives in order to satisfy clients. According to (Anderson et al., 1997) Customer satisfaction has been one of the top tools for a successful business. Customer satisfaction is defined as an overall evaluation based on the total purchase and consumption experience with the good or service over time. The evolution of Information Technology is accelerating at a very fast pace, organizations need to adopt new methods and already existent information technologies to improve their services, and become a customer oriented company. Business transformation management is a change management strategy, that align the employees, business processes and Information technology with vision and business strategy. Business transformation is the process or results of changing from one state or condition to another. It can be caused by internal or external factors, but the result is a shift in how the organization relates to its wider economic environment. In this article we will try to improve the customer satisfaction level by improving business decision making processes using the mathematical algorithms supported by information and communications technology. In our research we will use the quantitative and qualitative methods and will be applying fuzzy assets in healthcare business services, also using a case study for the Bucharest public health system.
Real Time Implementation of Variable Step Size Based P&O MPPT for PV Systems Based on dSPACE

Nowadays Solar energy is an important energy source due to the energy crisis and environment pollution. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm improves the utilization efficiency of a photovoltaic systems. In this paper an improved P&O MPPT algorithm is developed and simulated using MATLAB / SIMULINK to control the DC/DC buck converter. The obtained simulink model is also verified using dspace tool. Both the simulated and experimental results are validated by also comparing them with conventional MPPT methods. The performance measures show the increase in the efficiency of PV system by the proposed model. Full Text: PDF DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.11591/ijpeds.v7. i3.pp915-925
MOTIVE AND OBSTACLES IN MAKING A DECISION AS EARLY ADOPTERS OF PSAK NO. 71 FOR IMPAIRMENT PROVISION OF LOANS (STUDY CASE IN INDONESIA BANKING INDUSTRY)

IFRS 9 has converged into PSAK No. 71 and became effective on January 1, 2020 where early implementation is permitted. Changing in accounting standards might have caused controversy. However, there are bank in Indonesia had implemented before PSAK No. 71 effectived (early adopters). This study aims to determine the motive of early adopters of PSAK No.71, the obstacles they faced and the impact especially through loan impairment. By using study case method in Indonesia banking industry and then collect data using semi structured interviews and content analysis. DiMaggio and Powell (1983) explained that institutional theory emphasizes institutional patterns formed because the influence of policy from inside and outside the company (symbolic carriers). Therefore, the motive behind the institutions and actors (material carriers) decision to become early adopters will be revealed. In this case, we found that early adopters are mostly the bank with ownership as foreign bank and mixed bank (as subsidiary). Also, the primary motive of the bank when decide to early adopt are based on following their holding that mandatory to implement IFRS 9. This could create a good external reporting because the accounting standard between holding company and its branch or subsidiary will be similar. Keywords: Banking, Financial Instrument, Early Adopters, Institutional Theory, PSAK No. 71
The Potential of Tourism for Benefiting Individual Short-term and Long-term Wellbeing: A Character-strength-based Exploration

This Event is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact scholarworks@library.umass. edu. Zhang, Ye; Gao, Jie; and Ricci, Peter, "The Potential of Tourism for Benefiting Individual Short-term and Long-term Wellbeing: A Character-strength-based Exploration" (2019). Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally. 33. https://scholarworks.umass. edu/ttra/2019/research_papers/33 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac. uk
Study of Problems in the Development of Non-profit Organizations in Urban Communities

With the continuous advancement of construction of urban communities and the continuous development of the needs of community residents in China, non-profit organizations in various urban communities have developed rapidly and have increasingly played an important role in social and economic life. At present, the development of non-profit organizations in urban communities is still faced with many problems, such as difficulty in raising funds, lack of incentives that results in low enthusiasm for volunteering and low participation of community residents, etc. It is urgent and practical significance to study, analyze and solve the problems faced by non-profit organizations in urban communities. That article focuses on the analysis and discussion of the problems facing the development of non-profit organizations in urban communities, and proposes countermeasures to solve the problems.
Health Needs of the Polish Society and the Willingness to Pay for Health Services

Health needs of every person are growing constantly. Attempts to improve social well-being in relation to health needs use the results of cross-sectional studies combined with local data at the individual level. Popularisation of GIS tools has enabled monitoring of various system dysfunctions and thus contributes to the identification of actual health needs, thereby improving the quality of healthcare via, for example, adjusting health policies and changing the goals of public health. GIS can be used for mapping health needs that have been specified by the Ministry of Health. However, as evidenced by research and observed in numerous opinions, it is possible to extend these analyses in terms of regional/local factors, taking into account households’ preferences. The analyses within the research aim were conducted mostly for the level of Polish subregions. The data was collected on the basis of reports from the Local Data Bank of the Central Statistical Office and the Council for Social Monitoring – Social Diagnosis. Spatial statistics and econometric tools were applied, focusing the research attention on patterns of spatial distribution of variables; for that purpose, spatial autocorrelation measures and cluster analysis were adopted.
An Empirical Study on Employee Engagement at National Cement Share Company in Dire Dawa Administration, Ethiopia

Employee engagement is a persistent, positive, affective-motivational state of fulfillment in employees that is characterized by high levels of activation and pleasure. In engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally during role performances. An “engaged employee” is one who is fully involved in, and enthusiastic about his or her work, and thus will act in a way that furthers their organization’s interests. Engaged employees have much smoother relationship with their superiors compared to the disengaged ones. They are more focused on company’s profitability rather than their own personal goals. These employees show a great degree of organizational citizenship. It is only an engaged employee who is intellectually and emotionally bound with the organization, feels passionately about its goals and is committed towards its values. In times of diminishing loyalty, employee engagement is a powerful retention strategy. This research article focuses on the physical, emotional and cognitive engagement levels of employees. The various contributing factors of higher engagement are also analyzed in this research paper. It also discusses the employee engagement at National Cement Share Company in Dire Dawa Administration, Ethiopia and the relationship between employee engagement and productivity. Further, appropriate strategies are suggested for engaging employees the most. Keywords: Career, Care, Competence, Commitment, Effective Communication, Empowerment, Involvement and Organizational Citizenship, National Cement Share Company Dire Dawa DOI : 10.7176/EJBM/11-10-01 Publication date : April 30 th 2019
Spatial Price Transmission and Trade in the European Dairy Sector

There exists a large literature on spatial price transmission in agro-food sectors, but research on milk sector is relatively limited. In addition, we cannot generalize the results of these studies due to their diversity in terms of methodology, periods and countries. The aim of the paper is precisely to generalize, or at least broaden the evidence on horizontal price transmission in European Union dairy market. We employ two stages approach. First, we test whether Law of One Price exists among European Union member states. Second, we try to explain our findings based on gravity model framework in a binary choice setting. Our results are in line with theoretical expectations: the volume of milk traded and Eurozone membership positively, the geographical distance negatively affects the probability of perfect price transmission. In addition, we show that horizontal price transmission is dependent on political group variables (New Member States versus Old Member States).
Financial Inequality among Firms: Globalization and the Concentration of Money and Success in European Football

Football has an enormous following in Europe with more than 100 million fans in the big five European markets alone and numerous more across the continent. It is also insightful from an economics point of view. At the core, it represents a market in which all firms compete domestically and a small subset of them sells its products and services on an international market as well. Furthermore, football is characterized by workers of different skill level, the best of which are highly mobile across countries. In the present study, we examine two features of this market. Using a novel data set, we first document the large and increasing financial inequality among European football clubs. Subsequently, we show how strongly the inequality in financial means correlates with clubs' performance and results.
Sales of Nutritionally Improved Foods Outpace Traditional Counterparts

A s evidence grows about the role of diet in long-term health, consumers show increasing interest in improving the healthfulness of their diets. Consumers report that they are changing what they eat and the ways they prepare foods. According to a 1995 annual survey by the Food Marketing Institute, 63 percent of respondents reported they were eating more fruits and vegetables, 34 percent reported eating less fats and oils, and 43 percent reported eating less meat to ensure their diet was healthy. A recent study by USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) confirms that consumers are interested in nutrition and changing the types of foods they purchase. According to the study using data on food items that are scanned at the checkout registers, supermarket sales of nutritionally improved foods grew faster than sales of their regular counterparts in U.S. supermarkets between 1989 and 1993---despite their usually costing more than regular versions.
Distributed Meta-Programming (extended abstract)

Distributed meta-programming (DMP), which allows code to be generated and distributed at run-time, has already become a common practice. However, code generation currently often relies on rather ad hoc approaches that represent code as plain text. making DMP notoriously error-prone. This unfortunate situation is further exacerbated due to issues such as mobility (of code) and locality and heterogeneity (of resources), which complicate testing and debugging drastically. In this paper, we study distributed meta-programming from a type-theoretic perspective, presenting a language to facilitate the construction of programs that may generate and distribute code at run-time. The approach we take makes use of a form of typeful code representation developed in a previous study on metaprogramming, and it guarantees statically that only well-typed code (according to some chosen type discipline) can be constructed at run-time and sent to proper locations for execution. We also mention a prototype implementation in support of the practicality of our approach to DMP, providing a solid proof of concept.
Modelação de Risco Operacional

x | P a g e Abstract Aggravated by its disruptive impact, Risk is no longer detached from nowadays organizational concern. However such preoccupation is no longer restricted to its impact on finance and economics; the risk underpinning the operations, the Operational Risk, has gained major interest in recent times. Along with it arose a growing need to translate its idiosyncrasies onto visual operational risk models. This work addresses the joint problematic of Operational Risk and Modelling in a business process context. First of all, the mainstream risk-oriented currents, their synergies, and the core concepts involved are elicited. Secondly, the unified KYE meta-model is used as a working basis for the definition of the semantics and syntax of the concepts. After that a Language Extension Meta-Process is used on BPMN, and tested for reusable and extensible concepts, culminating in a group of notational extensions. Then the entire approach is modelled and tested in a case study and via a European Investment Fund validation meeting. Finally the proposed extensions are formalized using BPMN’s specification format.
Moderating Role of Demographics on the Relationship between Customer Relationship Management and Satisfaction of Commercial Banks’ Account Holders in Kenya

Customer relationship management (CRM) in the banking sector is concerned with maintenance and optimization of long lasting valuable relationships with customers. Globally, CRM has been applied in the banking sector to enhance customer satisfaction which increases competitiveness, customer retention, loyalty and profitability. The greatest challenge in the banking industry is maintaining relationships with customers of different age sets, gender and income levels which impact negatively on customer satisfaction and performance. The objective of this study was to establish the moderating effect of demographics (age, gender, income level) on the relationship between CRM and satisfaction of commercial banks account holders in Kenya. The target population was 28,324,334 account holders from commercial banks in Kenya out of which a sample of 400 respondents was used. The study used both descriptive and explanatory research design. Primary data was collected using multi-stage sampling technique. For data analysis, stepwise multiple linear regression was used. This study established a significant and positive moderating relationship explaining; age (R2 =56.9%), gender (R2 =62.3%) and income level (54.6%) variation in satisfaction of account holders. This study concluded that age, gender and income have a positive and statistically significant moderating effect on the relationship between CRM and satisfaction of account holders in Kenya. Based on the findings, this study recommends that commercial banks should develop CRM strategies that minimize account holder dissatisfaction and maximize satisfaction with their services based on age, gender and income level. The study further suggests that similar studies be carried out in other service industries to further validate the study proposition.
Commercial Fishers’ Perspectives on Revitalizing the Fishing Industry in Coastal Georgia

Competition from imported seafood, low product prices, increasing operation costs, and other socio-economic factors are negatively affecting coastal Georgia’s commercial fishing industry. Fishers’ local ecological knowledge (LEK) is extensive and gives them unique perspectives into the problems the industry is facing. Their perspectives differ from those of biologists or policymakers, making them useful for implementing good management policies that not only consider the scientific knowledge of a fishery, but the human aspect as well. This thesis used conducted semi-structured and card-sorting interviews with commercial Georgia fishermen in two fishing communities to learn about the problems they face and their unique insights into potential solutions. Overall, they perceived imports and shrimp (or product) price to be the most severe problems, and marketing to be the most helpful solution. Despite the problems they face, fishers that remain in Georgia’s commercial fishing industry have proven to be extremely resilient, indicating that the future of Georgia’s commercial fishing industry could have a long and successful future. Thesis Mentor: ________________________ Dr. Jennifer Sweeney Tookes Honors Director: _______________________ Dr. Steven Engel April 2019 Department of Sociology and Anthropology University Honors Program Georgia Southern University
Critical Care Tower: Improving the Healthcare of Children for the Future

The Children’s Hospital Costa Rica Foundation (CHCRF), the organization for which we worked, is raising more than $22 million to fund the construction and equipment for the new Critical Care Tower in the Hospital Nacional de Niños in Costa Rica. A Critical Care Tower is necessary because currently, the Hospital Nacional de Niños is overcrowded and lacks crucial equipment. The goal of this project was to assist the CHCRF in improving the quality and quantity of healthcare provided to children. Our objectives were to prepare a list of potential funders; write a business case, which will serve as a blueprint for brochures; make recommendations for the brochure, which included devising methods of breaking down the Tower’s total cost; and defining the social implications of improved health care as a result of the new Critical Care Tower.